Want to make clothes that burn you? Weapons you can only use once because they exploded? Make a hammer that spams the chat log every time you bonk an imp? Or maybe you want to avoid all of that. Either way, start here.

Introduction

First of all, what are item tags?

Some items in the game have modifiers called tags that can change your weapons and armor properties through alchemy. Some useful, some less so. Some tags also have a grist type attached to it, so you may need a specific grist to alchemitize a tagged object. It is a good indicator that whatever your making does indeed have the tag you wanted.

A few tags are not completely implemented, meaning they do not have any effects yet. However, the tags may still be needed to create specific items, so they are not completely useless. These will be marked in the guide as “recipe only.”

This guide will aim to explain what each of these tags do, and what base objects have these tags for your alchemy experimentation. At the end I’ll try to explain alchemy in as plain as terms as possible and as well and how to get the item you’re going for.

Tags and Items

N/A means it does nothing, or there’s no account for what it does in that category. That said if someone wants to test out an N/A, say, explosive clothing, let me know what happens.

Tag	Grist(s)	Weapon Modifier	Clothing Modifier	Item(s)
Bouncy	Smokey Quartz	Knockback	Jump Boost	Pogo
Rocket	N/A	+ Attack Speed	+ Movement Speed	Firework Rocket, Model Rocket
Piercing	Alexandrite	Attacks Go Through Enemies (Ranged)	N/A	Rapier, Nails, Needles
Explosive	Uranium	Explode and Destroyed After Hit (Melee), Explosive Projectiles (Ranged)	N/A	Bomb
Scatter	Turquoise	Multiple Projectiles (Ranged)	N/A	Shotgun
Lightning	Cobalt, Alexandrite	Chain Damage	Damage Attacker on Hit	Battery
Burning	Garnet	Burns Enemies	Burns Wearer	Candle
Cold	Onyx	Slows Enemies	N/A	Ice Cube
Poison	Sard	Poisons Enemies	N/A	Rat Poison
Electronic	Cobalt	Sends Chat Message on Hit	Option to Enter Build Mode Anytime	Laptop, PDA
Fragile	Saccharite	Break After Hit	Breaks After Being Hit	Fine China, Egg
Menacing	Shale	N/A	Provoke Enemies	Vile Smut
Light	Amethyst	+ Attack Speed, – Damage	N/A	Note
Metallic	N/A	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Trumpet
Radioactive	Saccharite, Sard	Irradiates Enemies	Irradiates Wearer	Piece of Uranium
Magic	N/A	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Fake Arms, Magician Hat
Crockercorp	N/A	N/A	Ads Appear on Screen	Baking Mix
Dersite	N/A	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Somberro, Vantablack Shoes, Dersite Mask
Smoky	N/A	Emits Smoke on Ground	Wearer Emits Smoke	Smoke Pellets
Heavy	N/A	+ Damage, – Attack Speed	N/A	Sassacre’s, Stand Fan
Volatile	N/A	Result of Too Many Combinations	N/A	N/A
Grimdark	N/A	+ Item Stats	+ Item Stats	Grimoire
Trickster	Zillium	Randomly Hits or Ejects Weapon	Slide Randomly	Warhammer of Zillyhoo
$hitty	Artefact	Negative Damage	Negative Defense	SBAHJ Poster
Nerf	N/A	– Damage	N/A	Stunt Sword, Nerf Rifle
Nautical	N/A	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Crab, Deep Sea Helmet
Spiky	Alexandrite, Saccharite	N/A	Damages Attacker on Hit	???
Glorious	Ruby	Increased Recycle Value	N/A	???
Seeking	Cobalt	Auto Aims at Nearest Enemy (Ranged)	N/A	???
Nuclear	Saccharite, Uranium, Sard	Explodes and Irradiates Everyone in AOE	N/A	???
Regenerative	Garnet, Uranium	Regenerates Fragile and Explosive Items When They Are Destroyed	<–	???
Consumable	N/A	Consume to Restore Health(*)	<–	Cake, Cookies, Apple Juice, (Most Food Items)
Colored	N/A	Changes to User’s Color if Applicable	<–	Bandana, Cape, (Most Clothing)

(*) Unless the Consumable tag is combined with a damaging tag, such as Radioactive. You will take damage if you eat it.

Tags and Items 2 (Aspects)

Tag	Grist(s)	Weapon Modifier	Clothing Modifier	Item(s)
Timey	Garnet	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Apple Juice, Time Dress
Breathy	Turquoise	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Breath Dress
Doomy	Sard	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Dead Bird, Dead Cat, Doom Dress
Bloody	Alexandrite	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Blood Dress
Hearty	Ruby	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Heart Glasses, Heart Dress
Spacey	Uranium	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Frog, Space Dress
Mindy	Cobalt	N/A	Regenerate Wearer’s VIM	Tab, Mind Dress
Lighty	Saccharite	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Lamp, Firefly, Light Dress
Voidy	Onyx	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Void Dress
Ragey	Shale	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Faygo, Rage Dress
Hopey	Amethyst	Recipe Use Only	N/A	Hope Dress
Lifey	Smokey Quartz	N/A	Regenerates Wearer’s Health	Cake, Life Dress

 

Recipes

While tags may add effects to your items, they are not the only thing to consider when you start combining things. A few unique recipes call for items that may not even have tags, but will result in an item that does or is in general powerful. The most notable of these recipes are straight from the comic itself. Experimenting is part of the fun!

Alchemy – An Explanation

It can be a little hard to understand what is going on right of the bat, and some explanations given are on the basis that you remember every mechanic from the comic. I’ll try my best to explain this process in simpler terms to help those struggling to grasp it (like I was).

The process can be put into two categories, || and &&. For the sake of clarity, I will refer to || as the One Card Method and && as the Two Card Method.

To begin with, it does not matter what item you decide to punch your things onto, or the item you place in the left slot in the Punch Designix. For this reason I would advise to grab some generic objects from your printer, that’s next to your computer, as your punch victim. This will save you from losing potentially useful things such as your main weapon, your clothes, or items that have tags you wish to pass on. Once something is punched it cannot be removed from the card ever again.

One Card Method or ||

This is fairly straightforward, you place your punch item in the left slot, then you place one of the two things you’d like to mix on the right. Once you punch it, remove the right hand item from the machine. Next, you’ll want to place the other item, whatever you’d want to mix with what you had just removed, and repeat the process. You will now have a double punched card. To finish up take your double punched card and Cruxite to the Totem Lathe to see a silhouette of what you made. If you’re happy with what you see, go ahead and alchemitize it. If you would rather have the other object as the base, use the same ingredients in the Two Card Method.

Two Card Method or &&

This follows a similar process to the previous method, but with a twist. You’ll have two punch victims this time. Punch your first item in card one, take them out of the Punch Designix and punch your next item in a separate card. Take those two cards to your Totem Lathe and voila, you made a new thing. Make sure to check the silhouette. Use the other method if you want the other object as the base.

The exception to this alternate base strategy is when the recipe is a pre-existing one, creating a set item, and not procedurally generated one.

A Few Things of Note

One Card Method or || has a better chance of transferring tags onto items. If your initial combination results in a non weapon or clothing kind and you really want the tags, I would recommend making that item anyway, and then combining that new item with your weapon or clothes. So far that has worked for me.

Two Card Method or && may increase the base stats at a higher rate, at the cost of not always getting the tags, but it needs more testing before I can say for sure. The tags that do transfer have to be on both items.

You can make alchemy even more complicated by using a card that you double punched in a Two Card Method. I have no idea what happens, especially if you try to mix in a third object in there, so go ham and start creating chaos.

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