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Mystic Alchemy Legacy

A reimagining of brewing in Minecraft with a focus on experimentation for 1.12.2 Minecraft

Description

This is an 1.12.2 port of Mithion's Mystic Alchemy mod.

See the original mod description at Mystic Alchemy.

The mod adda an alternative way to perform alchemy.

Ingredients are brewed inside a Cauldron instead of using the Brewing Stand.

Ingredients

Ingrediens are the brewing items you are familiar with from vanilla brewing, and more. A configurable list of items are now alchemical reagents. They can be thrown into the cauldron when the cauldron has boiling water.

Getting Started

You'll need to make four things to get started:

1.) A crucible, which is where your potions are brewed.
2.) A spoon to stir your potions
3.) A sampling kit to check your potions
4.) Some potion bottles

Setting up your brewing space

All you need is the crucible with a heat source underneath it. Valid heat sources are lava (fastest heating), fire, and campfires (slowest heating).

It's recommended to use a lectern with a book on it for your notes, or something similar.

Brewing a potion

To brew a potion, first put water in the crucible and wait for it to boil.

When it starts to smoke, stir it with the spoon (right click) or your potion will burn away along with any ingredients.

Once boiling, toss in ingredients. You'll need to experiment to see what is accepted and what is rejected. A rejected ingredient will be tossed back out of the crucible.

When you get an effect to magnitude 1 or more, the liquid will change color over 5 seconds to be a blend of all effects that are over magnitude 1.

During this transition time, the crucible will reject all ingredients, bouncing them out.

Effects

As mentioned before, ingredients have multiple effects both good and bad. These effects are registered in terms of magnitude. The calculation is simple:

1 magnitude == 1 potion level

An example ingredient might have instant healing at 0.4, but poison at 0.5. So if you add 2 of them, you will get a potion of poison I (healing 0.8 and poison 1.0). If you add 3, you'll get Healing I and Poison I.

How to get around this is to find multiple ingredients that have the effects you want and combine them so those magnitudes go over 1 without pushing the other magnitudes.

The maximum magnitude is 5. The maximum number of effects with magnitude > 1 you can have in a potion is 4 (you can have as many below 1 as you want).

Splash and lingering potions are supported, and can be created.

Testing

Using a sampling kit on the crucible will tell you what is currently in it. These will be crucial in learning what ingredients do what.

Changing the Mod

All ingredient recipes are configured in MysticAlchem.cfg, so recipes can be rebalanced easily

For the latest news, updates and discussion about the mod, join my official Discord server !

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