Transmutation

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Transmutation converts items into other items through timed recipes. It runs inside your Refinery, and is unlocked by the Transmutation Research node.

How it works

• Commit the input items for a recipe, wait for it to finish, then claim the output.
• It needs an active Refinery Module. Speed grows with your Refinery Modules and the Transmutation Speed upgrade (see Speed).
• Transmutation makes no heat and ignores the Refinery's operating mode.
• Recipes cost only their input items, no Salvage. Conversions can lose value, so compare inputs and outputs before committing.

Speed

Transmutation works through a recipe at a steady pace, measured in BC of item worth per minute. Each conversion needs work equal to the worth of its inputs plus the worth of its outputs. Boost recipes need three times that. Outputs finish one at a time as the work completes, so a long batch can be claimed in parts.

Your pace is set by two things:

• Refinery Modules. Each unpaused Module adds 1 point, plus 0.2 for every level, so a level 15 Module adds 4. Modules count strongest first, and each further Module counts 5% less than the one before it. Pausing Modules for Salvage also slows Transmutation.
• Transmutation Speed upgrade. Without it, you run at 5% of full speed. The tiers raise this to 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100%.

At full speed every point gives 2 million BC of work per minute.

Work per day (24 hours)

Refinery Modules	No upgrade	Tier 1	Tier 3	Tier 5
5 at level 1	0.78 billion	3.1 billion	9.4 billion	15.6 billion
5 at level 15	2.6 billion	10.4 billion	31.3 billion	52.1 billion
15 at level 15	6.2 billion	24.7 billion	74.2 billion	123.7 billion
30 at level 15	9 billion	36.2 billion	108.6 billion	181 billion

A day of nonstop Transmutation

How much you burn in a day depends on the recipe, since outputs count toward the work too. Your "BC transmuted" stat counts only the worth of the inputs used up. With Transmutation Speed at tier 5 and the Refinery running all day:

Recipe	Work per conversion	5 Modules at level 15	30 Modules at level 15
4 Green → 1 Amber Gemerald	1.5 billion	34 conversions: 136 Green into 34 Amber, 34 billion BC transmuted	120 conversions: 480 Green into 120 Amber, 120 billion BC transmuted
3 Red → 2 Purple Gemerald	4.5 billion	11 conversions: 33 Red into 22 Purple, 33 billion BC transmuted	40 conversions: 120 Red into 80 Purple, 120 billion BC transmuted
1 of each colour → 1 Pluperfect Gemerald	3.25 billion	16 conversions, 40 billion BC transmuted	55 conversions, 137.5 billion BC transmuted
240 minute to 480 minute Personal Boost	36 billion	1 conversion, 7 billion BC transmuted	5 conversions, 35 billion BC transmuted

Without the upgrade everything runs 20 times slower: one Green to Amber conversion takes almost 14 hours with 5 level 15 Modules.

Recipe groups

Group	What it does
Gemeralds up and down	Combine lower Gemeralds into higher ones (up to Pluperfect), or split them back down
Action boosts	Upscale high-tier Personal Boost items, or convert between actions. Uses Pluperfect Gemeralds
Pet and farm boosts	Upgrade pet and farm boost items

Boost recipes take three times as long as Gemerald recipes.

Queue

With the Transmutation Queue Research node and the matching upgrade, you can line up several recipes to run back to back. Later steps can use the output of earlier ones.

Guide: Relay Research and Transmutation

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