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Alchemy Factory Recipes

Gold Dust recipe

Makes Gold Dust in the Advanced Athanor

Tier IX

The Gold Dust recipe (tier 9) turns 1 Silver Powder, 1 Volcanic Ash and 18 Quicksilver into 1 Gold Dust in the Advanced Athanor every 8 s with a 10% success chance (failed crafts give Impure Gold Dust and Crude Gold Dust) — 0.75 per minute per machine. The Advanced Athanor draws 360 heat per second while running. It is unlocked by the Gold Dust research at Tier IX. Gold Dust has 1 other recipe.

Time per batch
8 s
Output per machine per minute
0.75/min
Heat per second while running
360/s
Unlocked at Alchemy Level
Level IX

Recipe

Advanced Athanor

8 s per craft· 7.5 crafts/min per machine

Tier VIII

Inputs

  • 1 ×Silver Powder7.5 per minute0.13 per second1 per craft
  • 1 ×Volcanic Ash7.5 per minute0.13 per second1 per craft
  • 18 ×Quicksilver135 per minute2.25 per second18 per craft

Outputs

  • 1 ×Gold Dust10% chance0.75 per minute0.01 per second0.1 per craft
  • 1 ×Impure Gold DustOn fail30% chance2.25 per minute0.04 per second0.3 per craft
  • 1 ×Crude Gold DustOn fail60% chance4.5 per minute0.08 per second0.6 per craft
Show rates
Plan
  • Catalyst-capableIn an Advanced Athanor, catalysts adjust the outcome and each craft uses 1,000 catalyst charges. Rates shown are without a catalyst.

Machines that run it

1 machine
MachineSpeedTimeOutputHeat
Advanced AthanorSpeed×1Time8 sOutput0.75/minHeat360/s

Rates are for one machine at base speed, without research upgrades.

Ingredients and where they come from

Other Gold Dust recipes

1 recipe

Unlocked by

  • ResearchGold DustCosts 5g · 414 research pointsTier IX

Change history

  1. v0.5.4467Patch note2 Jun 2026
    • “Reworked all Advanced Athanor recipes: Silver Powder, Obsidian, Lapis Lazuli and Gold Dust”

Patch-note lines are quoted from the official notes. Exact data changes are tracked from v1.0.4962.

Generated from the v1.0.4962 game files. Rates assume base machine speed without research upgrades.

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