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Potions & the Alchemist

Potions are single-use bottles that grant a powerful timed effect. Brew them from Flesh and mob components at the Alchemist, then drink one right before a big mining or combat push to make it count.

How Potions Work #

Every potion carries a rarity and, when drunk, applies a matching player effect for a set duration. Right-click a bottle in your hand to drink it, which consumes one from the stack and starts (or extends) the effect. Track what's currently ticking down with your active effects at any time.

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Drinking the same potion again adds its duration onto the time you have left. It does not stack the strength. Drinking a stronger version instead upgrades the effect and resets the timer. A weaker potion can't be drunk while a higher-tier one is active (it would be wasted).
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Potions are items, so they are never lost to any reset: not a Seconds reset, a Chrono Dust reset, a Time Leap, an Intelligence Generator, or an Era reset. A bottle you brewed today will still be waiting in your inventory after any of them. The effect is timed, of course, but the bottle keeps until you drink it.

The Alchemist #

The Alchemist is an NPC in The Origin. Talk to them to open the brewing shop, where each potion is bought with Flesh and components dropped by custom mobs. The higher-tier brews also cost lower potions as ingredients, so the shop doubles as an upgrade path: turn a stack of Strength Potions into a Rampage Potion, or Gatherer Potions into a Fortune Potion.

PotionRarityBrewed from
Potion of Strength Rare 1,000 Flesh
Rampage Potion Epic 2× Potion of Strength + 1 Undead Core + 500 Flesh
Gatherer Potion Epic 2 Undead Core + 8 Chronite
Fortune Potion Epic 3× Gatherer Potion + 2 Gemstone Core + 64 Chronite

Undead Core drops from the Undead Miner in the Iron Mine; Gemstone Core drops from the Gemstone Guardian in the Diamond Mine; Chronite is mined in the Diamond Mine. The Arcane Potion below isn't on the Alchemist's brewing menu. It comes from elsewhere in the world.

Every Potion & Its Effect #

Five potions, each granting a different timed effect. Values below are the base brew:

PotionEffectDurationRarity
Arcane Potion Arcane Blessing: Intelligence is +10% more effective at boosting your resource generation 15 min Rare
Potion of Strength Potion of Strength: +5 🗡 10 min Rare
Rampage Potion Rampage: +0.5% 🗡 per mob you kill, up to +200% 🗡 20 min Epic
Gatherer Potion Gatherer: ×1.25 to all resource fortunes 15 min Epic
Fortune Potion Fortune: ×1.35 to all resource fortunes plus +10 ⭐ Loot Luck 20 min Epic
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The Rampage Potion can't be re-drunk while it's already active. Its 🗡 bonus climbs as you rack up mob kills, capping at +200% 🗡, so let a run finish before starting a fresh one.

Some stronger versions of these potions can exist (a "Potion of Strength II", for example, applies the effect at a higher strength). Each strength is its own item: a stronger bottle can't pay the shop cost of the base one, and drinking it while the base effect is active upgrades you instead of stacking.

Which to Drink, and When #

Effects are timed, so the trick is to line a potion up with the activity it helps. Don't drink one and then wander off.

Before a mining session
Pop a Gatherer or Fortune Potion. Both multiply your resource fortunes (how much every ore and resource yields), and Fortune throws in ⭐ Loot Luck on top for better drops.
Before a combat push
Drink a Potion of Strength for flat 🗡, or a Rampage Potion when you're about to farm a lot of mobs. Every kill ramps its 🗡 higher, up to +200% 🗡.
While pushing Intelligence
The Arcane Potion makes your Intelligence more effective, so it's best drunk when Intelligence is actively multiplying your gains.
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Because a repeat drink just adds time, you can top an effect up mid-session with a second bottle instead of waiting for it to run out and losing your rhythm.

Potions are one layer of a much larger boost stack. See also Artifacts, Relics, Accessories, Charms, and Runes. New to boosts in general? /guide opens this wiki, and the Stats page lists every effect in one place.