Alchemy

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*"Travel to a dimension where maps are filled with useful herbs. Collect different herbs from different types of maps, and use Alchemy to create powerful potions to strengthen your Trimps. Clearing **Z155** with this Challenge active will grant an additional 400% of all Radon earned up until that point, and will return the world to normal. You can repeat this challenge! **Complete this Challenge once to unlock the ability to create a brand new type of map that should greatly aid your Alchemy.**"*

## Rules

During this challenge, an Alchemy tab will be added, allowing you to craft (purchase) brews and potions.

These brews and potions require alchemical components, which are found when running maps at or above current world level. Each component comes from a specific map biome, or from the Farmlands biome (in which case the zone number determines the available component). See this table for details:

The number of herbs dropped depends on the zone number (1.14x per zone) and map level (1.25x per map level above world), with the Farmlands biome granting an additional +50% bonus on top.

An AutoCraft target number may be set for each brew/potion on the Alchemy tab.

## Farmlands

Once unlocked, the Farmlands biome may be selected for maps. It grants 100% extra loot in universe 2 (does not stack with Decay Garden loot bonus) and 50% extra herbs in **Alchemy** runs. It mimics Mountains on zone 6, Forest on zone 7, Sea on zone 8, Depths on zone 9, Gardens on zone 10, and continues in this pattern going forward. Note that this pattern is based on current zone # and not map level.

Once unlocked, the Farmlands biome may be selected in any portal, in either universe.

## Strategy

Your first run of Alchemy should be a quick push run to unlock Farmlands for your subsequent Alch runs. The only potions you need are Potions of Finding and Potions of Strength; everything else can be ignored. You can also try and get the "Mad Scientist" feat during this run - buy 10 Gaseous Brews and do a void map at the end of z155, after you've finished all your mapping & metal farming.

A small number of Herby Brews will help boost the number of herbs you find, which in turn can help you make more of the other brews and potions (at the cost of making enemies stronger).

Gaseous Brews are key to boosting Radon gains, so you want as many of those as you can reasonably make, for runs focusing on Radon acquisition. They do make the enemies harder to fight, so you may want to make some Potions of Strength and/or Potions of the Void to avoid slowness in the end of the run. Potion farming for these potions should be done at zones 152, 154 and 155 using Farmlands maps for maximum herb gain (since herb gain scales faster from map level than zone level).

Potions of Finding may be used in runs focusing on runetrinket farming, or metal farming for Antennae. Getting a few at z100 can prove useful for upping one's runetrinket gain, especially before one has many levels in Observation.

## Trivia

**Alchemy** was introduced in patch 5.5.

Completing a zone 155 Void Map with 10 Gaseous Brews and 0 Potions of the Void earns the Mad Scientist achievement.