Unfortunately most information you will find online regarding the alchemy stone recipe is wrong. The ingredient amounts you will find in many discussions and articles will only make you lose a good amount of rare resources, and scare you away from one of the most profitable BDO activities (if it does scare you, better look up at afk processing, or afk horse training for the braver ones).

Let’s dive into alchemy stones further, explaining in (understandable) detail everything that you should know, whether you are looking to make a few good ones for your characters, or become rich in the process.

Alchemy Stone Recipe

All right, the most important thing first. The recipe!

These are the materials you are going to need for each craft attempt:

10 x Shining Powder

3 x Sinner’s Blood

5 x Powder of Time

10 x Pure Powder Reagent

10 x Clear Liquid Reagent

Let’s start from the easiest one, to the hardest.

Clear Liquid Reagent & Pure Powder Reagent Clear Liquid Reagent &Pure Powder Reagent

If you’ve already started leveling Alchemy on your character, then most probably you already have a big stock of Clear Liquid Reagents & Pure Powder Reagents in your storage.

So many, that you will realize you won’t need any more for a few dozen alchemy stone craft attempts – which you are not going to get easy, or cheap.

If this is not the case, and you are a new Alchemist, then read on:

You don’t want to start crafting alchemy stones with a low Alchemy level, as a) you can’t, and b) it’s a huge waste of money.

Luckily for you, the best way to level alchemy up to Skilled 10, is by crafting Clear Liquid Reagents and Pure Powder Reagents.

Clear Liquid Reagent Recipe:

1 x Wild Grass or 1 x Weeds (gather bushes & herbs)

or (gather bushes & herbs) 1 x Sunrise Herb (gather from nodes listed below)

(gather from nodes listed below) 1 x Salt (buy from cooking merchant)

(buy from cooking merchant) 1 x Purified Water (read recipe below)

Sunrise Herb Nodes:

Balenos – Velia – Cron Castle Site 1

Balenos – Velia – Serendia – Heidel – Balenos Forest 1

Serendia – Heidel – Valencia – Ancado Inner Harbor / Valencia / Arehaza – Gavinya Coastal Cliff 1

Valencia – Ancado Inner Harbor / Valencia / Arehaza – Drieghan – Drieghan – Gervish Mountains 1

Pure Powder Reagent Recipe:

1 x Wild Grass or 1 x Weeds (gather bushes & herbs)

or (gather bushes & herbs) 1 x Silver Azalea (gather from nodes listed below)

(gather from nodes listed below) 1 x Sugar (buy from cooking merchant)

(buy from cooking merchant) 1 x Purified Water (read recipe below)

Silver Azalea Nodes:

Serendia – Heidel – Northern Plain of Serendia 2

Serendia – Heidel – Serendia – Heidel – Lynch Farm Ruins 1

Wild Grass & Weeds AboutWild Grass &Weeds

You can gather these while gathering bushes, thickets, wild herbs etc. in the wild (bare-handed or with hoe).

There used to be a misconception about Weeds, that they are a “trash-vendor” item, but this is not the case. They are actually extremely helpful, since they can substitute Wild Grass in almost all recipes, and they are far easier to farm.

Purified Water How to MakePurified Water

Buy Empty Bottle from Material Vendor, and right-click it while standing on a river (the Heidel fountain works too). You will gather Bottle of River Water, which you can then Processing -> Filter to Purified Water.

Powder of Time Powder of Time

Again, an “easy” material, since there’s a total of 6 gathering nodes that produce Powder of Time, and it’s a good idea to use a Human Worker on them, preferably Skilled at least.

You won’t need more than one node for your alchemy stone needs (well, you can even not get one at all), but there are various uses for Powder of Time, so you should check the recipes and decide for yourself the amount you will need.

Powder of Time Nodes:

Serendia – Glish – Glish Swamp 2

Serendia – Glish – Calpheon – Epheria – Quint Hill 2

Calpheon – Epheria – Mediah – Tarif – Omar Lava Cave 2

Mediah – Tarif – Mediah – Tarif – Abandoned Iron Mine 2

Mediah – Tarif – Mediah – Tarif – Ancient Fissure 2

Mediah – Tarif – Kamasylvia – Old Wisdom Tree – Holo Forest 1

Sinner’s Blood Sinner’s Blood

Sinner’s Blood is a bit more tricky to make, but nevertheless a very good recipe to level Alchemy from Professional 1 and onward.

Sinner’s Blood Recipe:

1 x Bloody Tree Knot (gather from nodes listed below)

(gather from nodes listed below) 1 x Powder of Flame (gather from nodes listed below)

(gather from nodes listed below) 1 x Clear Liquid Reagent (read recipe above)

(read recipe above) 2 x Blood Group 2 (filter blood group 2 gathering areas in the BDO map)

You will need to gather a lot of bloods from the 2nd group (deer, sheep, pig, waragon & ox) which is the easy part. Clear Liquid Reagents, you already got ’em.

Hopefully, Bloody Tree Knots, and Powder of Flame can be gathered from many nodes.

Bloody Tree Knot Nodes:

Calpheon – Trent – Treant Forest 1

Calpheon – Trent – Mediah – Tarif – Elric Shrine 2

Mediah – Tarif – Mediah – Tarif – Stonetail Wasteland 1

Powder of Flame Nodes:

Balenos – Velia – Imp Cave 1

Balenos – Velia – Balenos – Velia – Imp Cave 2

Balenos – Velia – Balenos – Velia – Coastal Cave 1

Balenos – Velia – Balenos – Velia – Forest of Seclusion 1

Balenos – Velia – Serendia – Heidel – Northern Heidel Quarry 1

Serendia – Heidel – Mediah – Tarif / Altinova – Mediah Shore 1

Mediah – Tarif / Altinova – Valencia – Altinova / Sand Grain Bazaar – Pujiya Cannon 1

Valencia – Altinova / Sand Grain Bazaar – Valencia – Sand Grain Bazaar – Crescent Shrine 2

Valencia – Sand Grain Bazaar – Valencia – Ancado Inner Harbor / Valencia / Arehaza – Gavinya Great Crater 1

Valencia – Ancado Inner Harbor / Valencia / Arehaza – Valencia – Ancado Inner Harbor / Valencia / Arehaza – Gavinya Volcano Zone 1

Shining Powder Shining Powder

And here comes the hardest, grindy-est part.

Everything else is a piece of cake compared to this one. The only good news I can give you, is that if you will be AFK-Alchemy-ing a lot, you will slowly amass them.

You see, it’s one of the “special drops” you get out of making Alchemy recipes (like the byproducts from Cooking of Farming), but this one is even more special, because it only drops from certain recipes of a higher lifeskill level.

Farming Shining Powder & Drop Rates

So as you guessed, there is no way around it, you have to AFK (as well as active-gather) long hours if you’re planning to invest on alchemy stones.

There is no “best” recipe to make in order to farm Shining Powder, so you might as well do your research beforehand.

You could look into potions that you can turn into alchemy boxes with Imperial Alchemy, then sell for a nice sum of NPC gold, high-price elixirs or high-level ingredients needed for crafting, or even stock up your characters with some strong buffs for the long-term.

All these items have a (0.042%) chance of dropping Shining Powder:

It is suggested that you focus on bloods and oils, since you can use them for recharging / polishing your stones later on. Oils are expensive to make however, so not the most viable option. It’s better to stick with bloods.

Putting It All Together – Crafting the Alchemy Stone

The most important thing you should be aware of before crafting, is the drop rates i.e. what you will expect to get.

After various sources and personal experiments, it seems that you get an even drop rate of:



25% Broken

25% Destruction

25% Protection

25% Life

So it might take a few attempts to get the one you’re after, and of course most probably its quality isn’t going to be.. outstanding!

Alchemy Stone Levels & Grades

Alchemy stones can be upgraded from Level 1 through Level 8, and they come in 4 different rarities (grades).

When upgrading a stone through Growth, you have a chance to upgrade its level, grade, or both.

Take a look at the table below, in order to familiarize yourself with the available options, and set your goals accordingly.

Level & Grades Destruction Protection Life Imperfect White All AP +2 All Damage Reduction +2 Alchemy / Cooking Time -0.5 sec Processing Success Rate +5% Green All Accuracy +2 All Evasion +2 Weight Limit +15LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +1% Max HP +50 Gathering / Fishing +1 Yellow Attack Speed +1% All Resistance +1% Gathering Item Drop Rate +3% Casting Speed +1% Rough White All AP +3 All Damage Reduction +3 Alchemy / Cooking Time -0.7 sec Processing Success Rate +7% Green All Accuracy +4 All Evasion +4 Weight Limit +30LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +2% Max HP +70 Gathering / Fishing +1 Yellow Attack Speed +2% All Resistance +2% Gathering Item Drop Rate +5% Casting Speed +2% Polished White All AP +4 All Damage Reduction +4 Alchemy / Cooking Time -0.9 sec Processing Success Rate +9% Green All Accuracy +6 All Evasion +6 Weight Limit +45LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +3% Max HP +90 Gathering / Fishing +1 Yellow Attack Speed +3% All Resistance +3% Gathering Item Drop Rate +7% Casting Speed +3% Sturdy White All AP +6 All Damage Reduction +6 Alchemy / Cooking Time -1.1 sec Processing Success Rate +11% Green All Accuracy +8 All Evasion +8 Weight Limit +60LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +4% Max HP +110 Gathering / Fishing +2 Yellow Attack Speed +4% All Resistance +4% Gathering Item Drop Rate +10% Casting Speed +4% Sharp White All AP +8 All Damage Reduction +8 Alchemy / Cooking Time -1.4 sec Processing Success Rate +14% Green All Accuracy +10 All Evasion +10 Weight Limit +75LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +5% Max HP +140 Gathering / Fishing +2 Yellow Attack Speed +5% All Resistance +5% Gathering Item Drop Rate +13% Casting Speed +5% Resplendent White All AP +10 All Damage Reduction +10 Alchemy / Cooking Time -1.7 sec Processing Success Rate +17% Green All Accuracy +12 All Evasion +12 Weight Limit +90LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +6% Max HP +170 Gathering / Fishing +2 Yellow Attack Speed +6% All Resistance +6% Gathering Item Drop Rate +16% Casting Speed +6% Splendid White All AP +13 All Damage Reduction +13 Alchemy / Cooking Time -2 sec Processing Success Rate +20% Green All Accuracy +14 All Evasion +14 Weight Limit +105LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +8% Max HP +210 Gathering / Fishing +3 Yellow Attack Speed +8% All Resistance +7% Gathering Item Drop Rate +20% Casting Speed +8% Shining White All AP +16 All Damage Reduction +16 Alchemy / Cooking Time -2.5 sec Processing Success Rate +25% Green All Accuracy +16 All Evasion +16 Weight Limit +120LT Blue Ignore All Resistance +10% Max HP +250 Gathering / Fishing +3 Yellow Attack Speed +10% All Resistance +8% Gathering Item Drop Rate +25% Casting Speed +10%

It’s definitely worth noting, that as of 29/11/2018, not even a single Splendid stone has been sold through the marketplace, while only 1 Shining Alchemy Stone of Protection has been sold for 1.3 billion silver.

Alchemy Stone Maintenance

There is a special interface for managing your alchemy stones, and you can find it on the bottom of your inventory.

Let’s see how each different function works.

Recharge – Repair Alchemy Stone

Alchemy stones provide their bonuses only when equipped, and activated.

You activate it by pressing U, and there is a cooldown for which it will provide its benefits. You can check a box in your inventory, to make the alchemy stone automatically renew the cooldown, when it finishes.

Each use, will cost 1 durability for the stone, which you can recover with the Recharge function.

These are the items that will let you recharge your stone, and the recharge amount they provide:

Item Charge Clear Liquid Reagent 1 Pure Powder Reagent 1 Clown’s Blood 4 Legendary Beast’s Blood 4 Sinner’s Blood 4 Tyrant’s Blood 4 Wise Man’s Blood 4 Mystical Spirit Powder 4 Vell’s Fine Powder 8 Oil of Corruption 10 Oil of Fortitude 10 Oil of Regeneration 10 Oil of Storms 10 Oil of Tranquility 10

Polishing – Raise Alchemy Stone XP

In the second window, you can Polish your alchemy stone, therefore raising its XP (max 150%), and its chances of upgrading through Growth.

Each stone type requires a different set of materials in order to raise its XP, specifically:

Destruction (offensive) stones use Ingots and Crystals .

(offensive) stones use and . Protection (defensive) stones use Plywoods .

(defensive) stones use . Life (lifeskill) stones use High & Special Quality Crops, Mushrooms etc.

You can check how much XP each item provides on the table below:

Alchemy Stone Type Polishing Item Polishing XP Alchemy Stone Type

Data mining by incendar.com

Many people argue that the most profitable Growth attempts are made at 80% XP, since it’s the lowest amount where you can have an actual attempt.

However, that statement would need a ton of data as a backup, to prove that in the long term it’s a better investment.

I personally always go for the max chance, with 150% XP.

Growth – Level Alchemy Stone Grade & Color

The table below is the only liable data-mining that currently exists on Alchemy Stones, once more an amazing work from Incendar.

All the values are based on 150% XP Growth attempts.

Color Color Upgrade Grade Upgrade Double Upgrade Total Chance Downgrade Chance Destroy Chance Imperfect White 7.50% 15.00% 2.50% 25.00% Green 4.08% 14.40% 2.40% 20.88% Blue 2.30% 13.80% 1.38% 17.48% Yellow 13.20% 13.20% Rough White 6.00% 12.00% 2.00% 20.00% Green 3.23% 11.40% 1.90% 16.53% Blue (Life & Protection) 1.80% 10.80% 1.08% 13.68% Blue (Destruction) 1.25% 7.50% 0.75% 9.50% Yellow (Life & Protection) 10.20% 10.20% Yellow (Destruction) 6.00% 6.00% Polished Green 2.38% 8.40% 1.40% 12.18% Blue (Life & Protection) 1.30% 7.80% 0.78% 9.88% Blue (Destruction) 0.80% 4.80% 0.48% 6.08% Yellow (Life & Protection) 7.20% 7.20% Yellow (Destruction) 3.60% 3.60% Sturdy Green 1.53% 5.40% 0.90% 7.83% 50.00% Blue 0.80% 4.80% 0.48% 6.08% 50.00% Yellow 4.20% 4.20% 50.00% Sharp Green 0.85% 3.00% 0.50% 4.35% 60.00% Blue 0.50% 3.00% 0.30% 3.80% 60.00% Yellow 3.00% 3.00% 60.00% Resplendent Green 0.85% 3.00% 0.50% 4.35% 70.00% Blue 0.50% 3.00% 0.30% 3.80% 70.00% Yellow 3.00% 3.00% 70.00% Splendid Green 0.85% 3.00% 0.50% 4.35% 80.00% Blue 0.50% 3.00% 0.30% 3.80% 80.00% Yellow 3.00% 3.00% 80.00%

Data mining by incendar.com

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