Alembic

An Alembic is a device that processes raw materials. It can be mined with a pickaxe.

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Alembic

The Alembic will require a number of items to distillate Mercury. It now has the following properties:

A water level higher than 1
- Water bucket adds 8 water levels
- Water bottle or any potion will add 4 water levels
At least 1 Cinnabar Dust present in the Alembic
- Alembic can hold a maximum of 64 cinnabar
Requires the user to hold a Glass bottle to obtain the Mercury Bottle
Will constantly produce more mercury if there is water and cinnabar present in the Alembic and if the chunk containing the Alembic is loaded
Will display smoke particles and use a different texture when distilling

Obtaining Mercury Bottles

To obtain one mercury bottle, the user will need to following:

Add water to the Alembic. This is achieved by right clicking with a Water Bucket or Water Bottle on the Alembic
Add Cinnabar Dust to the Alembic. This is achieved by right clicking with cinnabar on the Alembic. This will consume the entire item stack.
Once these requirements are met, the Alembic will start distilling. The player must wait 10 seconds before the Alembic produces enough Mercury for one bottle
1. When enough mercury has been produced to fill one bottle, the Alembic will produce a bubbling noise. It will continue to distill mercury until either water or cinnabar runs out.
When the Alembic has produced enough mercury for one bottle, the player must hold a Glass Bottle and right click on the Alembic. This will use up the Glass Bottle and place a Mercury Bottle in the player's inventory.

Retrieving unused Cinnabar Dust/Stored Mercury Bottles

The player can retrieve any unused Cinnabar Dust by sneaking and right clicking on the Alembic with an empty hand
The player can also retrieve unused Cinnabar Dust by breaking the Alembic with a pickaxe. This will drop the remaining cinnabar along with any ready made mercury bottles.

In the 1.14.4 versions, breaking an Alembic with stored Cinnabar Dust, then placing it back down will delete the stored Cinnabar Dust. Therefore the user should keep notes of how much cinnabar dust is left if they wish to conserve their cinnabar dust supply


Figure 1 - The default "Off" state of the 1.14.4 Alembic model. This will show if the Alembic does not contain enough materials to distillate.	Figure 2 - The "On" state of the 1.14.4 Alembic model. This state will display if the Alemic is currently in the process of distilling mercury.