Introduction

Alchemy is an important profession/life skill in Black Desert. It is used to create MP potions, elixirs, crystal sockets, alchemy stones, etc.

Check our Recipes list for Alchemy

High Alchemy skill can be quite profitable and is a great way to make money whilst AFK. All you really need to start, is a Alchemy Tool and a house to put it in. A basic Alchemy Tool can be bought from an Alchemist for 5,000 silver, crafted using a Tool Workshop or bought from the Central Market.

After you have acquired a alchemy tool and placed it in your house, you can interact with it by pressing the R button to open the alchemy window. Here you can select ingredients or a recipe from the list highlighted in blue. The recipe list will not tell you the ingredients for items you have not prepared before.

When you prepare some items (such as elixirs), you have a chance of earning a higher item grade. Higher item grades will give you a better stats.

There are 5 item grades (lowest to highest):

• White
• Green
• Blue
• Yellow
• Orange

All items in our Alchemy recipes list are green grade items with green grade buff stats. The highest grade you can currently craft with Alchemy is blue grade.

You may also occasionally receive “trash” items, which can be exchanged for other alchemy ingredients, contribution EXP, alchemy EXP, or silver.

Alchemy Tools

Ideally you want to use Advanced Alchemy Tools for the alchemy time reduction and because of it’s high durability but this is really one of the biggest bottlenecks when it comes to alchemy because it’s even harder to make than the Advanced Cooking Utensil and can only be made in a Level 4 Tool Workshop (currently the only one is in Glish). You may have a hard time buying this off the marketplace and should make them yourself if  you can. The other alternative is to use the Intermediate Alchemy Tool which has less durability but does not give the alchemy time reduction.

The base Alchemy Tool and the Balenos Traditonal Alchemy Tool can be bought from a general goods vendor for the prices listed below.

Item Name	Durability	Effect	Cost to buy	Workshop	Workshop Recipe
Alchemy Tool	100		5,000	Level 2 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x18 Melted Iron Shard x10 Black Stone Powder x3
Balenos Traditional Alchemy Tool	500	Alchemy time +5 sec	50,000	Level 2 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x10 Melted Iron Shard x12 Black Stone Powder x12
Intermediate Alchemy Tool	500			Level 3 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x40 Log x25 Melted Iron Shard x20 Black Stone Powder x10
Serendia Traditional Alchemy Tool	1250	Alchemy time +6 sec		Level 3 Tool Workshop	Rough Stone x20 Log x15 Melted Iron Shard x20 Black Stone Powder x20
Advanced Alchemy Tool	900	Alchemy time -1 sec		Level 4 Tool Workshop (Glish only)	Polished Stone x30 Usable Scantling x15 Melted Iron Shard x24 Black Stone Powder x20
Calpheon Traditional Alchemy Tool	2000	Alchemy time +7 sec		Level 4 Tool Workshop (Glish only)	Polished Stone x15 Maple Plywood x8 Melted Iron Shard x30 Black Stone Powder x30

Alchemy Gear

When doing alchemy you really want to achieve the fastest possible alchemy time for your convienence. This is done using a combination of various buffs but it is much harder to achieve than with cooking because the Alchemy tool is harder to obtain.

You want to prioritise the alchemy mastery over the alchemy time, unless you really don’t have a lot of time to spend doing alchemy. Unlike with Cooking, the Alchemy Mastery clothes do give an Alchemy time reduction, but the reduction only compares to the Silver Embroidered Alchemist’s Clothes when they are at high enhancements. For example, you need +7 Loggia Clothes to even get any time reductions, and you need PEN Loggia Clothes for the -4 second reduction.

Ideally, to get 1 second alchemy time, you would want to use: Pearl store costume (-2s), Advanced Alchemy Tool (-1s), Mastery Clothing if possible or +3 Silver Embroidered Alchemist’s Clothes (-4s), Sharp Alchemy Stone of Life (-1.4s) and Seafood Cron Meal (-0.6s). If you don’t have the pearl store costume you can use the Verdure Cron Elixir instead for -1 second and a +4 Silver Embroidered Alchemist’s Clothes or high enhanced manos clothing.

	Item Name	Alchemy time	How to obtain
	Teff Bread	-0.3 sec	Cooking (Beginner Lv.6) Recipe for one: Teff Flour x5, Mineral Water x3, Leavening Agent x2, Salt x2
	Teff Sandwich	-0.5 sec	Cooking (Professional Lv.1) Recipe for one: Teff Bread x1, Freekeh Snake Stew x1, Grilled Scorpion x1, Red Sauce x3
	Seafood Cron Meal	-0.6 sec	Processing window (L) > Simple Cooking Recipe for one: Balenos Meal x3, Calpheon Meal x3, Margoria Seafood Meal x1, Ancient Cron Spice x1
	Alchemy Stone of Life	-0.5 to -2 sec depending on alchemy stone	Alchemy (Skilled 5) Recipe for one: Shining Powder x8, Blood of the Sinner x5, Powder of Time x6, Pure Powdered Reagent x9, Clear Liquid Reagent x9
	Life Spirit Stone	-1.1 sec	Dropped from monsters in Kamaslyvia region
	Verdure Draught	-1 sec	Processing window (L) > Simple Cooking Worker’s Elixir x3, Elixir of Swiftness x3, Elixir of Time x3, Tears of the Falling Moon x1
	Silver Embroidered Alchemist’s Clothes (up to +5 enhancement)	-1 to -7 sec depending on enhancement	Costume Mill (Level 1) Wool x10, Powder of Darkness x10, Black Stone Powder x15
	Loggia Alchemist’s Clothes (up to +20 enhancement)	-1 to -4 sec depending on enhancement	Sold by Camellia Loggia and Zaaira for 1 million silver
	Gorgath Alchemist’s Clothes (up to +20 enhancement)	-1 to -5 sec depending on enhancement	Sold by Geranoa and Zaaira for 10 million silver
	Manos Alchemist’s Clothes (up to +20 enhancement)	-1 to -7 sec depending on enhancement	Processing window (L) > Manufacture Pure Gold Crystal x200, Manos Stone x5, Essense of Perfection x20, Enlightend One’s Cotton Fabric x15
	Pavilla Costume Set	-2 sec	Pearl Store (F3) > Apparel > Costume (2,200 pearls)

How to start Alchemy production

To mass produce a recipe, you simply go to your Alchemy Tool in your house and press “R” to use it. Right-click your ingredients and make sure you enter ingredients for 1 result. (Entering more will consume all of your ingredients and only give you 1 result.

Next click “Batch Production”.

Click “Yes” then enter the amount you wish to make. You can click “Maximum quantity” or press “F” to create as many as possible. Then click “OK” and you will automatically make as many as you have ingredients or energy for.

Imperial Alchemy Boxes

Imperial Alchemy boxes must be crafted by opening your processing window (L) then selecting Imperial Alchemy. The amount of boxes you can hand in each day depends on your current Contribution Points and is shared for both alchemy and cooking.

To calculate how many you can hand in, divide your total contribution points by 2. So if you have 300 contibution points, you can hand in up to 150 boxes per day.

Imperial Alchemy boxes weigh 50 LT each and you cannot sell the boxes if you are overweight. The amount of silver listed in the rewards is a base silver reward and will increase depending on your alchemy mastery level, which is why you should wear alchemy mastery clothing when handing in these boxes and popping a Seafood Cron Meal or Savory Steak to boost your mastery if needed. More information about mastery is listed further in the guide.

Your daily turn-in limit resets with your servers daily reset. (You need to swap channels or log out/in to refresh daily turn-in limit.) The NPCs current limit resets every three hours. You can view the next reset on our website in the navigation bar and also set an alarm to be notified when the daily, or NPC limit resets

I highly recommend taking a look at this Google Sheet or Velia Inn which shows you the best boxes to make for profit. Prices are based on the EU market but you can make a copy of the sheet and change it to NA on the “Ello” tab.

You choose ONE item to pack into a box. For example, if you are making the Apprentice Alchemy Box you only need Elixir of Life x12 OR Elixir of Energy x12. You don’t need all the items listed those are just alternatives you can use!!! You can also use the procs of the items. For example, you can use Storng Ressurection Elixir, which is the proc of Ressurection Elixir and you only need 1/3 of the amount listed. So you can use Strong Ressurection Elixir x7 instead of Ressurection Elixir x21

After crafting your alchey box, you can hand them in at an Imperial Alchemy NPC at one of the locations show below (click tabs for each location):

• Heidel
• Calpheon
• Olvia
• Altinova
• Valencia
• Duvencrune
• Grana

Heidel

Calpheon

Olvia

Altinova

Valencia

Duvencrune

Grana

Alchemy Stones

You can equip one Alchemy Stone in your equipment slot, to give you a buff which will last for 3 minutes (Life Alchemy Stones last 10 minutes). It can also be reused automatically every 3 minutes, giving you a permanent buff.

There are 3 types of Alchemy Stones

• Destruction – Buff: attack, accuracy, ignore resistances, attack speed, cast speed
• Protection – Buff: damage reduction, evasion, maximum health, resistances
• Life – Buff: reduced cooking/alchemy craft time, processing success rate, weight limit increase, gathering, fishing, gathering drop rate

How to create an Alchemy Stone

Players with alchemy at apprentice level 1 or above can now try and upgrade all versions of alchemy stones.

The recipe to create an Alchemy Stone is:

Shining Powder x9, Blood of the Sinner x6, Clear Liquid Reagent x10, Pure Powdered Reagent x10, Powder of Time x7

Place the ingredients into your Alchemist Tool.

You won’t create an Alchemy Stone every time, sometimes you may fail and get a broken Alchemy Stone which can be sold to a merchant for 5,000 silver. Higher Alchemy level will increase your chances of being successful.

You can view the chances of creating each stone below based on Alchemy level:

Leveling & Grades/Rarity

You can level your Alchemy Stone to increase the level, grade/rarity, or both. In turn increasing the buff stats.

Item grade/rarity (lowest to highest):

• White
• Green
• Blue
• Yellow
• Orange

Below is a table of each level and the buffs it has.

Icon	Level	Destruction buffs	Protection buffs	Life buffs
	Imperfect	Attack +2, Accuracy +1, Ignore Resistances +1%, Attack Speed +1%, Cast Speed +1%	Damage Reduction +2, Evasion +1, Maximum Health +50, Resistances +1%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -5%, Processing Success Rate 5%, Weight Limit Increase +10LT, Gathering +1, Fishing +1, Gathering Drop Rate +3%
	Rough	Attack +3, Accuracy +2, Ignore Resistances +2%, Attack Speed +2%, Cast Speed +2%	Damage Reduction +3, Evasion +2, Maximum Health +70, Resistances +2%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -7%, Processing Success Rate 7%, Weight Limit Increase +20LT, Gathering +1, Fishing +1, Gathering Drop Rate +5%
	Polished	Attack +4, Accuracy +3, Ignore Resistances +3%, Attack Speed +3%, Cast Speed +3%	Damage Reduction +4, Evasion +3, Maximum Health +90, Resistances +3%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -9%, Processing Success Rate 9%, Weight Limit Increase +30LT, Gathering +1, Fishing +1, Gathering Drop Rate +7%
	Sturdy	Attack +6, Accuracy +4, Ignore Resistances +4%, Attack Speed +4%, Cast Speed +4%	Damage Reduction +6, Evasion +4, Maximum Health +110, Resistances +4%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -11%, Processing Success Rate 11%, Weight Limit Increase +40LT, Gathering +2, Fishing +2, Gathering Drop Rate +10%
	Sharp	Attack +8, Accuracy +6, Ignore Resistances +5%, Attack Speed +5%, Cast Speed +5%	Damage Reduction +8, Evasion +6, Maximum Health +140, Resistances +5%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -14%, Processing Success Rate 14%, Weight Limit Increase +50LT, Gathering +2, Fishing +2, Gathering Drop Rate +13%
	Resplendent	Attack +10, Accuracy +8, Ignore Resistances +6%, Attack Speed +6%, Cast Speed +6%	Damage Reduction +10, Evasion +8, Maximum Health +170, Resistances +6%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -17%, Processing Success Rate 17%, Weight Limit Increase +60LT, Gathering +2, Fishing +2, Gathering Drop Rate +16%
	Splendid	Attack +13, Accuracy +11, Ignore Resistances +8%, Attack Speed +8%, Cast Speed +8%	Damage Reduction +13, Evasion +11, Maximum Health +210, Resistances +7%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -20%, Processing Success Rate 20%, Weight Limit Increase +80LT, Gathering +3, Fishing +3, Gathering Drop Rate +20%
	Shining	Attack +16, Accuracy +14, Ignore Resistances +10%, Attack Speed +10%, Cast Speed +10%	Damage Reduction +16, Evasion +14, Maximum Health +250, Resistances +8%	Reduced Cooking/Alchemy Craft Time -25%, Processing Success Rate 25%, Weight Limit Increase +100LT, Gathering +3, Fishing +3, Gathering Drop Rate +25%

To level your Alchemy Stone you must put extra materials into it to convert to EXP. Open your inventory then click the Alchemy tab at the bottom to open the menu. You then need to select the Polishing option and put the material in the top slot and your Alchemy Stone in the bottom slot. Next press “Polishing“.

Below you can see which materials you can convert to EXP

When your Alchemy Stone EXP is between 80-150% you can attempt to level your stone (higher EXP has a higher chance to be successful). Select the Growth tab in your Alchemy Stone menu, place a Blackstone (weapon) in the top slot and your stone in the bottom slot. Next press “Growth”.

Repairing Durability

To repair the durability again open your inventory then go to the Alchemy Stone menu by clicking the tab at the bottom. Click the Recharge tab at the top of the menu and add the materials in the top slot and the stone in the bottom slot. Next click “Recharge”.

As you use your Alchemy Stone, the durability will decrease. You can repair Alchemy Stones using the following materials:

Repairs 1 durability

• Clear Liquid Reagent
• Pure Powdered Reagent

Repairs 4 durability

• Clown’s Blood
• Legendary Beast’s Blood
• Sinner’s Blood
• Tyrant’s Blood
• Wise Man’s Blood

Repairs 10 durability

• Oil of Corruption
• Oil of Fortitude
• Oil of Regeneration
• Oil of Tranquility
• Oil of Storms

Alchemy Mastery

For a full look into life skill masteries I recommend taking a look at our guide which explains how to get all the gear and how many points each piece gives.

Higher Alchemy Mastery has the following benefits:

• You will receive more profit for Imperial Alchemy Delivery (up to 46%).
• The chance to obtain the maximum amount of results per recipe will increase up to 50% (e.g. if you get 1 to 4 results when creating a certain elixir, the chance to get 4 will increase)
• The chance to get extra byproducts will increase
  • Regular Byproducts: up to 3.57% drop rate
    
  • Special Byproducts: up to 1.92% drop rate
    
  • Rare Byproducts: up to 0.23% drop rate
    

	Alchemy Mastery Byproduct	Description
	Melted Gold Shard
	Ancient Spirit Dust	used to craft Caphras Stones
	Clear Liquid Reagent	Alchemy ingredient
	Pure Powder Reagent	Alchemy ingredient
	Metal Solvent	Alchemy ingredient
	Gem Polisher	Alchemy ingredient
	Broken Alchemy Stone Shard
	Oil of Regeneration	Alchemy ingredient
	Oil of Storms	Alchemy ingredient
	Oil of Fortitude	Alchemy ingredient
	Oil of Corruption	Alchemy ingredient
	Oil of Tranquility	Alchemy ingredient
	Gold Bar 1G	100,000 Silver
	Black Stone (Weapon)
	Black Stone (Armor)
	Destruction Spirit Stone	Alchemy Stone
	Guardian Spirit Stone	Alchemy Stone
	Life Spirit Stone	Alchemy Stone
	Wheat Flour	Cooking Ingredient
	Deep Frying Oil	Cooking Ingredient
	Sharp Black Crystal Shard
	Cron Stone
	Gold Bar 10G	1,000,000 Silver
	Tenacious Origin of Life	ingredient for Flawless Spirit Stone
	Rough Opulent Crystal	ingredient for Flawless Spirit Stone
	Memory Fragment
	Gold Ingot
	Caphras Stone
	Sturdy Alchemy Stone of Destruction	Alchemy Stone
	Sturdy Alchemy Stone of Protection	Alchemy Stone
	Sturdy Alchemy Stone of Life	Alchemy Stone
	Gold Bar 1,000G	100,000,000 Silver
	Golden Backpack	5,000,000 Silver
	Yona’s Fragment
	Reagent of Harmonious Spirits	used to craft new Spirit Stones (mentioned below)

New Spirit Stones (Alchemy Stones) can be crafted when your Alchemy Mastery is over 500 points. The chance of getting a higher grade increases as your Alchemy Mastery increases. New alchemy recipes have also been added to create the materials needed for the new spirit stones.