Alchemist
The Alchemist is a character found in the beginning of the game.
Story
You first meet the Alchemist in his underground chamber. After completing multiple quests for him on the starting island, you fly a dragon to the Eastern Island. You then complete more quests for him (listed below), and eventually end up either fighting the Old One with him or letting him fight alone (if you let him fight alone he will die). After being defeated, the Old One sends a signal which eventually leads to the Bombardment. There is no Bombardment in the demo.
After the bombardment, the NPCs of the Starting Island will go into the Alchemist's cave. He will then give you the Wyrm Pen and Laboratory Blueprints if he is still alive.
The player can now invite the Alchemist onto the Mobile Lab, to aid as a researcher and to add Focus Gems, Alter Gems, Blood Gems, Spirit Gems, and Evolution Shards to the list of researchable items.
The Alchemist is male, as confirmed by dialogue from the Exiled and the enemy leader who refer to him as a “hooded man” who dug up some of the magic secrets left behind on Unoiks 428c. He is hated by most of Them for doing this, except the Exiled who admires him.
After you activate the Forge and the Synthesizer on Eastern Island and take the Alchemist’s advice to “take a break in the purple chamber”, a dialogue cutscene plays where the Alchemist explains he and three colleagues came to do research ten years ago, before They bombed Earth. The four humans’ base was likely the “research bay” (the Mechanic’s own words) on east Divider Island where the Advanced Lab and Warehouse stand to this day. The old ones discovered that humans, a species which the Exiled had said was no threat, were now invading the old ones’ homeworld and were likely to uncover knowledge which could lead to the old ones’ defeat. The Alchemist’s three fellow researchers were killed, and the Alchemist himself went into hiding. Although infamous, he managed to avoid detection up until the Old One sends a signal to the rest of her kind that humans have not been eradicated from Unoiks 428c after all. The Alchemist is so notorious and so hated by Them that even several enemy-species NPCs who have never met him (the Exiled may have only heard about him and not seen him) know him as “that horrible hooded man” or alternatively “a purple hooded figure... studying magic” who dug away at the secrets of their homeworld.
If you save his life, the Alchemist can have two happy endings: solitude in the Starting Island’s bedrock cave to continue his research undisturbed, or living aboard the Mobile Lab to research science and magic with The Mirrows.
Quests
| Quest | Requirements | Prerequisites | Reward | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Materials | 1 Dragonblood | Build Hut | Lab
60 Exp |
The lab is used to craft potions |
| Wyrm Pen | 2 Wyrms | Magic Materials, Build Market or Build Dock |
Wyrm Pen
250 Exp |
The wyrm pen can farm multiple kinds of animals, but is not connected to the barn. |
| Hatch Dragons | 5 Baby dragons | Baby Dragon | Adult Dragon
80 Exp |
You won't get this quest if you killed the dragon |
| Magical Axe | 1 Rusty Axe, 1 Fire Tusk | Rusty Axe | Ancient Axe Recipe
Ancient Axe 80 Exp |
You get the fire tusks by killing the fire boars |
| Wyrm Hive | Find the Wyrm Hive, 1 Spirit Gem | Raise an Adult Dragon/ Hatch Dragons | Spirit Goggles
250 Exp |
You have to take a spirit gem found in a chest in the cave.
The Spirit goggles lets you see hidden magic |
| Spirit Power | Activate the Forge and the Synthesizer | Wyrm Hive | 250 Exp | |
| Wyrm Research | 1 Wyrm, 1 Fire Tusk, and 1 Icy Fur | Spirit Power | 1 Alter Gem
250 Exp |
Allows you to turn dragons or wyrms into equipment with alter gems. |
| Magical Energy / Spikes | Talk to the Old One and defeat it | Wyrm Research, Mine to the second layer of the island | 500 Exp | Currently leads to demo
magic ending |
| Study Magic | 1 Evolution Gem, go to the Elder Dragon's island | Magical Energy | 750 Exp | |
| Mecha Dragon | 1 Mecha Dragon | Study Magic, obtain a Mecha Wyrm Helm | 1000 Exp | Can also be given by the Mirrows |
| Mecha Dragon Ship | Evolve a Mecha Dragon Ship | Repair Escort Ship, Evolve Dragon Ship, obtain a Mecha Dragon | 4000 Exp | Can also be given by the Mirrows |
| Secret Potion | 1 Ink, 1 Blood Gem, 1 Alter Gem, 1 Dragonblood | Build Hut | 1 Brilliant Potion, the recipe for Brilliant Potion is added to the Lab, 100 Exp | This quest is given only on April 1st. |
Notes
The Alchemist, if still alive, will auto collect from all wyrm pens on the first island and will periodically add focus gems to the synthesizer (if active).