Connect a wallet that holds at least one Alchemists' Guild potion. Every potion you hold powers your Lair.
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The Motes you earn keep boosting production even after you spend them, so Ascending often pays.
Click the cauldron to brew Essence. Spend Essence on Buildings that produce Essence automatically. Grow bigger. Repeat.
Anyone can brew in the Lair as a guest. Connect a wallet holding Alchemists' Guild potions and every potion you hold powers it: each adds its tier's bonus to its school's speciality (see NFT Bonuses below). Buy, sell or trade them on OpenSea and your Lair follows.
In The Crucible, burn three identical potions (same school and tier) to grow a Homunculus of that school and tier. A Homunculus gives five times its potion's bonus and still counts toward every set.
Twenty tiers of automated producers, Apprentice to the Philosopher's Stone. Each produces Essence per second; cost grows 15% per copy owned. Each row also has that building's Mastery button — eleven ×2 upgrades unlocking at 1, 5, 25 … 500 owned.
Every 10, 25, 50, 100 … 500 owned earns a ★ Milestone: that building gains +10% output (stacking).
One-time discoveries: stir upgrades, ×2 to all production or all stirs, synergies (a building gains output for every copy of the one below it) and Golden Potion luck. The tab lists what you can buy now and what's coming next.
Endless rites with no level cap — production, stir power, cheaper buildings, more Golden Potions, more motes per Ascension. Each level costs more than the last, so there's always something to save for. Rites reset when you Ascend.
Spend Aether Motes from Ascension in the Skill Tree. Start with the Heart of the Guild in the centre; learning a skill lights up the skills connected to it. Merchant's License (1 mote, next to the centre) unlocks ×10 / ×100 / MAX quick-buy.
When your run flattens, Ascend from the Skill Tree. Your Essence, Buildings, Research and Rites reset — but you gain permanent Aether Motes to spend in the Skill Tree. The motes you earn also boost all production — even after you spend them — until your next Grand Vintage: 25 motes ×2, 500 motes ×5.5, a million ×200.
Formula: motes earned ≈ cube root of (this run's essence ÷ 1M). First mote at 1M essence in a run. Each Vintage you brew enriches the brew: Aether then takes 100× more essence to distil (1M → 100M → 10B…), while your production doubles.
Every path in the Skill Tree has three gold-rimmed Unique skills that change how you play: a familiar that stirs for you, critical stirs, auto-buying, runs that start with buildings, and more. The first on each path is only three steps from the Heart — pick one as your first goal.
The goal of every run. Track it in the Grand Vintage panel on the main screen and hit Brew the Vintage once it fills. Each Vintage:
First Vintage: 250 Aether Motes · 1M essence this run. Every Vintage brewed raises the next one's requirements (×10 motes, ×1000 essence). Vintage & Legacy skills in the Skill Tree reduce them.
Occasionally a folded parchment will appear in the scene. Clicking it opens a short scenario with three choices. Each choice gives a different small permanent effect. There's no wrong answer — but the choice you make is locked. Your Guild is shaped by the answers you give.
Buy the Open Ear mote to make Whispers arrive more often. There are 15 to hear.
88 milestones for essence, clicks, buildings, ascensions, goldens caught, Whispers, Vintages and potion holdings. Every unlock:
Random spawns in the scene every 25–120 seconds. Click one for a chance at:
The Golden Eye mote upgrade makes them spawn more often.
Stir five times within a second to start a combo. Longer streaks scale your per-click yield up to +200% at 100 stirs. The combo fades after 0.8s of inactivity.
Every potion adds a tier bonus (T1: +1% up to T6: +40%). But each school buffs a different subsystem — so a balanced collection wins broadly while a specialised collection wins deeply.
Set bonuses stack on top of all schools:
The Collection tab shows exactly which schools you have depth in.
Come back later — the Guild keeps brewing. Offline production runs at 60% efficiency for up to 8 hours. Dreaming Guild mote upgrade boosts offline efficiency.