Hytale Alchemist’s Workbench potions and how to unlock them

The Alchemist’s Workbench sits at the center of potion brewing in Hytale. It is where you turn plants, monster parts, and rare essences into combat buffs, healing, morphs, and throwable explosives. To get the most out of exploration and combat, it helps to know exactly what the bench can make and how to unlock its higher-tier recipes.

How to unlock and craft the Alchemist’s Workbench

The Alchemist’s Workbench is not available at the start of a save. It sits behind a Workbench upgrade and a mid-game material check.

Step 1: Upgrade your basic Workbench to Workbench Tier 2. This requires 30 Copper Ingot, 20 Iron Ingot, and 20 Linen Scraps. You upgrade the Workbench directly rather than crafting a separate item.

Step 2: Gather the materials for the Alchemist’s Workbench recipe. You need 20x any Stone, 5x Gold Ingot, 10x Venom Sac, and 10x Bone Fragments.

Step 3: Use the Tier 2 Workbench to craft the Alchemist’s Workbench. Place it in your base like any other crafting table and interact with it to open the potion list.

Stones are mined or picked up from the world. Gold Ore appears in caves (especially in desert regions), on mountain tops, and in ruin chests, then gets smelted into Gold Ingots in a Furnace. Venom Sacs drop from poisonous creatures such as spiders and snake species. Bone Fragments come from undead and Trork enemies, including Skeletons and Trork Guards.

Alchemist’s Workbench tiers and what Tier 2 adds

The bench itself can be upgraded once it is placed. That upgrade unlocks stronger versions of the basic resource potions.

Step 1: Interact with the Alchemist’s Workbench and use its upgrade option to push it to Tier 2. The interface shows the exact requirements, but the key point is that you do this at the bench, not at the Workbench.

Step 2: After upgrading, scroll through the combat potion category. Greater Health Potion, Greater Stamina Potion, and Greater Energy Potion become craftable entries, each consuming the corresponding lesser potion as an ingredient.

Tier 1 and Tier 2 share the same physical block in the world. Upgrading simply extends the recipe list; it does not change how you interact with the station.

Combat potions (healing, stamina, and energy)

Combat potions are designed to keep you fighting longer, either by restoring health or feeding the stamina and weapon energy systems. Every combat potion uses Empty Potion Bottles as a base, then adds plants, mushrooms, or essence.

Antidote is the only status-cleansing potion in this set. It clears poison and briefly hardens you against new stacks, which is especially useful in caves full of venomous enemies. The health, stamina, and energy potions share a simple pattern: tier-one recipes directly use wild plants and mushrooms, while tier-two recipes convert their lesser counterparts into upgraded versions with extra material costs.

Miscellaneous morphing potions

The Alchemist’s Workbench also unlocks morphing potions that temporarily transform your character into different animals. These are situational tools rather than raw stat boosts, but they open up playful ways to traverse or role-play.

Every morphing potion shares the same core structure: Empty Potion Bottle plus a large amount of Essence of Life, then one thematic catalyst item that determines the animal form. The transformations are temporary. When a morph’s duration ends, your character reverts automatically with no extra input and without permanently changing your model.

Cheese for the mouse potion comes from cooking “Any Milk Bucket” (except Mosshorn Milk) on a Chef’s Stove. That stove is itself crafted at a Workbench and uses Copper Ingots, Stones, and Tree Trunks as inputs, so morphing potions pull you into other parts of the crafting tree instead of sitting in isolation.

Bomb potions and Popberry Bombs

The Alchemist’s Workbench handles at least one throwable explosive recipe in the early access build. These use berry-based mixtures and powders instead of traditional ore-heavy bombs.

Popberry Bombs are thrown rather than drunk. They are built entirely from foraged and dropped materials instead of metal, making them an accessible way to add burst damage while you are still climbing the ore ladder. Boom Powder is the main gating ingredient here; once you have a steady supply, berries and fiber are easy to farm.

Where key Alchemist’s Workbench ingredients come from

Many potion recipes call for materials that you will also see in other mid- to late-game systems. Having a clear picture of where they appear helps you plan mining routes and combat targets.

Many of these items already have roles in armor, weapons, and higher-tier workbenches such as the Arcanist’s Workbench. The Alchemist’s Workbench leans into those same ecosystems, so you rarely grind a resource solely for a single potion recipe.

Alchemist’s Workbench vs. other workbenches

Hytale splits crafting into several specialized stations instead of a single omnipotent table. The Alchemist’s Workbench fits into that system as the dedicated potion and bomb station.

This separation is why the Alchemist’s Workbench recipe is loaded with progression materials like Gold Ingot, Venom Sac, and Bone Fragments. It ensures that by the time you can build a potion lab, you have already dug into caves, fought poisonous mobs, and engaged with the furnace and armor loops.

Once the Alchemist’s Workbench is in place and upgraded, every expedition becomes easier to plan. Antidotes cover poison-heavy biomes, stamina and energy potions smooth out long fights, morphing flasks give you odd little movement and role‑play tricks, and Popberry Bombs reward anyone who prefers to solve problems by throwing berries that explode. Building the bench early in a world and keeping a small stock of each potion type ready turns Hytale’s harsher regions into manageable, if still dangerous, playgrounds.