Are you using alchemy ?

[Normal Paradox]

I'm asking because that's probably the feature i'm using the least and to be honest, lot's of pills and elixir are lackluster to say the least. Also some ingredient are so expensive and hard to find that a lot of the recipe are not doable.
So i would like to know if you are using alchemy and to do what with it cuz outside of fixing/body pills, healing pills, laxative and the sun pill i have yet to use any of the others.

[MerlinTheGameWizard]

Fasting pills, and then there are a few other recipes that are alright, the main boon from it is when you have the Alchemist perks that boost yield or whatever the perk was because I think it lets you make more pills for same price if I remember correct. Also theres a energy restoring pill thats nice for one of the types of cultivators. A lot of the recipes in the game are costy and don't seem worth it, but some of them are meant for when you are living in abundance of spiritual materials, so that you can Qi stack your followers.

[lPaladinl]

If you do Physical Cultivators you really want stamina pills as soon as they can eat them. Stamina is one of the slowest mechanics in the game for Cultivators to build up. They're relatively easy to make but Physical Cultivators are typically limited on how high of a tier an item can be for them to eat it.

You can condense Spirit Stones into shards which is important for Qi restoration. I'm not sure if it's effective for trade like Spirit Stones are, if they are then it helps save space.

You have a ton of options like Forming Pills which help speed up Cultivation.

Eventually there's elixirs that extend lifespan a ton and are critical for some laws which require sacrifices to lifespan to complete.

They are pretty expensive with rare ingredients but you get better access over time as you can send out more cultivators and have more options to hunt resources. You also have to unlock the stronger recipes.

[MerlinTheGameWizard]

^^^ what they said, also note that you can look into the different spiritual "special" plants, and figure out what they need to grow, and prepare zones for them, and set up your own growth of them to help keep churning out the higher end pills. Note that it's probably better to use them yourself or use them to help a sect if you won't be able to plant them for 100+ days.

[Normal Paradox]

For the life type pills i just buy them at other sects since i have good rep and it cost me only 500 spirit stones for a life pill or a vitata pill.
For the spirit tree i have all 5 of them but it's so damn slow, i only got the chance to harvest the wood one so far.
I think some pills should be boosted, like the samsara pill which boost cultivation speed (30%) for 24h but cost a divine jade (which i have a hard time finding). Compared to that you can buy (for around 1000 spirit stone) or "farm" a Bear demon's fur which give a passive +30% cultivation speed AND -100 lowest temp tolerance.
I don't know, maybe i'll use alchemy a lot when i'll get looded with fruits and stuff but right now i really don't find it worth it.

[Chronie]

Originally posted by Normal Paradox:

I'm asking because that's probably the feature i'm using the least and to be honest, lot's of pills and elixir are lackluster to say the least. Also some ingredient are so expensive and hard to find that a lot of the recipe are not doable.
So i would like to know if you are using alchemy and to do what with it cuz outside of fixing/body pills, healing pills, laxative and the sun pill i have yet to use any of the others.

Yes I tend to use everything at one point or another.
Most recipes offer a niche benefit like the euphoria pills however there is a use for every single pill in the game.
Common uses
- Boosting stats for Gold core breakthrough
- Emergency/Rapid Qi restoration
- Money
If they require spirit root items however you are often better off looking for some other method to obtain them

The most important statistic on your alchemist is the alchemy yield this allows you to multiply almost every single recipe output. This can be boosted to about 5 or 6 times normal amount with a little effort. The elixirs from ancient beasts are not affected.

One of my favorite recipes is the Sun Pill I take
100 spirit stones -> 6 Spirit crystals
1 Earth flux + 1 Spirit crystal -> 6 Sun pills worth well over 1000 spirit stones.
This makes alchemy very profitable later on if not buying the basic ingredients. This recipe allows me to easily flood the market and buy all the resources I need.

Check the Codex in game I have left notes on some of the uses I have found for the alchemy.