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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!
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* [[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.
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* 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.
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== [[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
** On a similar note, the games ''Doodle God'' and ''Doodle Devil'' for the [[IOS Games|iOS.]]
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* 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.
*** 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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