# VIII-ALCHEMY With dozens of inhabited and uninhabited worlds, Arcadia boasts thousands of unique items, ranging from strange mushrooms and weird animals to peculiar artifacts and colorful insects.

Overview of the material section of the Arcadex, enabling players to visualize items they have discovered.

It is up to each player to collect as many materials as they can using various strategies to bring them to the Alchemy Lab. There, the Alchemist, a strange savant possessing the technology to mix materials, can attempt to create something both unique and powerful! The concept behind Alchemy is both simple and exciting: the first player who manages to identify a working combination automatically patents it. The recipe then becomes public, and other players can use it. However, they must pay a 12.5% royalty fee to the owner of the patent. Patents are NFTs that can be transferred, sold, or bought by other players. But before crafting Isotonics, players must gather materials, which are stored inside a particular device called the 'Arcadex' --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://nbmofficialwiki.gitbook.io/nbm-shadow-depths/overview/nft-battle-miners-official-wiki/viii-alchemy.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.