Alchemy Shop

The loop that pays

Crop, machine, counter, order. Workshop level spends that money on more counters, more machines, and new recipes.

Hand-stirring is the slow path. Bone Nail's own line is that the machines are the job, and a fed workshop beats a manual alchemist.

Which counter

Crops, potions, and curiosities use different counters. Stock on the wrong one does not sell.

Keep alchemy ingredients off the sales counter. Players already lost herbs they needed because the shelf sold them.

Orders

Fill whatever the board is paying, even if it is weeds. First-weekend reviews saw a junk order beat a blue potion by a wide margin. Take the money.

Faction favor adds a second kind of order and lets non-humans into the shop. That is the mid-game raise, after ordinary orders are routine.

Alchemy, short version

Each ingredient has an elemental number at the top left. The sum is your alchemy value. Inside the safe range you get a product. Over the range, a failure pays alchemical sediment.

Full steps and the herb set are on the sediment guide. Do not look for sediment in a successful craft.

Copper

Reviews name copper as the early stopper, and signboards spend it too. If the upgrade is unaffordable, check copper before you grind another gold order.

No copper costs are published. Skip the sign until a machine is running.

Restock

You set shelf counts by hand. There is no 25 / 50 / max button in the build those reviews describe, and no exclude-from-shelf toggle. Leave catalyst herbs in the bag.