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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:az-~~Alchembrie_6162~~Alchembrie 6162.png\|link=Awkward Zombie\|frame\|Alchemy with ''[[The Elder Scrolls ~~Four~~IV: Oblivion\|Oblivion]]'']] In a video game with an [[Item Crafting]] system, everything that can be created can be made by two items combined in a relatively simple fashion. No matter how complicated something is to make, sticking the right two pieces of [[Vendor Trash]] into an oven will produce it. Need a [[BFG]]? Just glue a tiny hammer to a hollow tube, and you're ready to go! Forget your [[Love Interest]]'s birthday? Pop an egg and a bag of sugar (still in bag, mind you) into the oven, and you'll have a delicious and moist cake! Line 11: Not to be confused with [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == [[Action Adventure]] == * In ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[The Wind Waker]]'', a potion maker can make any of his wares from a single type of Chu jelly, though he needs several units for a full batch. Possibly justified as it he might be simply distilling or refining the jelly in some way. In ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', you can drink the jelly straight for the same effects. Line 29: * [[Team Fortress 2]] has a large crafting system where one can take unwanted items and smelt them into scrap metal, which then gets combined into reclaimed and refined metal, which then can be made into [[Nice Hat\|the game's ultimate goal]]. Specific recipes also exist to craft specific other items and weapons without having to wait for the random drop system to give them to you. == [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game\|MMORPG]]s == ~~== [[MMORPG\|MMORPGs]] ==~~ * In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', you can make food, drinks, equipment and even living creatures by combining two items. This is parodied with a few things, such as the item Dry Noodles being able to be almost any kind of pasta (cooks to make lasagna, spaghetti, ravioli, ect). Supertinkering requires three items but is otherwise the same. The Pasta Crafting is justified by the fact that you are a pasta specialized magic user. Line 44: However it is a bit of a head-scratcher that almost every crafting profession requires copious amounts of odd ingredients, but '''none''' of the alchemy recipes require ''water'' to mix the herbs in. Add two dry herbs in a flask and poof! A drinkable solution. *** Shush, they'll hear you. * Averted in ''[[~~Eve~~EVE Online]]''. Even the simplest manufactured items are just that - manufactured. You get the minerals (from mining, the player market, refining etc.), a blueprint and bake them in a production slot. This may take anywhere from a second to a few weeks, in the case of supercapital ships. Also, the capital ships and T2/T3 ships need more components - which have to be built from minerals, reverse engineered from ancient relics (well... ancient AI spaceships you destroyed and tried to analyze a bit) and some parts can only be bought on the NPC market (which works very differently from most [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game\|MMOs]] - while the supply itself is infinite, it comes in a steady pace. And the more there is in a station, the cheaper it is. And every station in the galaxy is covered by some PC merchant who buys them when the price is right...). Not to mention the research you have to do upfront to even be able to produce it (in the case of T2/T3 ships) and in some cases to actually make profit (production time and efficiency research). And did I mention the skills you need to build the advanced ships? And you can't rush it either - they train in real-time, just like all the other skills in the game. All in all, if you start a carrier as an industrialist, you still may never ever get to make a single mothership. And a single mothership sold can easily yield you enough in-game money to play the game for ten years without having to pay the subscription. * You rarely get to see what you're ''actually'' making in ''[[City of Heroes]]'', some of the recipes are... odd... Some examples: ** Inanimate Carbon Rod + Boresight + Shiny Ring = Piston Boots! Line 55: == [[Puzzle Game]] == * In a similar vein, the entirety of ''The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary'' is based around collecting various items (such as ABC gum) and mixing them all together in a giant magical cauldron so that you don't have to spend the rest of your life forced to solve math puzzles while trapped inside the body of a troll doll. * The Android App game "Alchemy" is nothing but this trope. You start with nothing but the four classical ~~elements -- earth~~elements—earth, air, fire, and ~~water -- and~~water—and by combining them, you can make anything from mud, to people, to continents. On a similar note, the games ''Doodle God'' and ''Doodle Devil'' for the [[IOS Games\|iOS.]] Line 65: Once you know a scroll or spellbook, you can write more copies with a magic marker on a blank scroll or spellbook. On the other hand, magic markers are [[Commonplace Rare\|hard to come by]] and often have to be wished for. == [[Role -Playing Game]] == * In ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'', you "invent" things (most of which have long since been invented) by taking pictures of random stuff, and combining them for inspiration. Then, you need a certain number of several raw materials to make it, and there you go! * In ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'', there are only six ingredients (meat, seafood, eggs/dairy, fruit, vegetable, grain), but with just two of them, you can make anything. You can also cook items like shark fin soup or cheese pizza with one ingredient. Line 83: * Averted in ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]:'' a basic potion can be made with just two ingredients and a mortar, but complex potions can be made with four ingredients, mortar, retort, alembic and calcinator. ''[[The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall\|Daggerfall]]'' evades the question altogether by only allowing people who belong to a Temple to bring ingredients to a potion-maker. But in ''[[Oblivion]]'', once you get that 100 Alchemy (not that hard), all you technically need is ''one'' ingredient and a mortar. [[Just Add Water]] indeed. * Though making potions from one ingredient is only slightly better then simply eating the ingredient. * Could be played straight, could be averted, depending on your point of view, with the in-game scrolls and notes that when read contain alchemical recipes: Every single one, without exception has "one flask of water" or some equivalent in the list somewhere. 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