Formulation Bench
The Formulation Bench is where alchemy results and raw materials are mixed into things you use elsewhere: candles and incense for the church, urns of ashes for the graveyard, embalming solutions for corpses, fertilizers for the garden, and a handful of story and late-game mixtures. Despite all that, it comes with a church technology, Church Lighting I (5 red, 10 green, 5 blue). It costs 4 Wooden Planks, 4 Bronze Details and 1 Polished Bronze, and it is built indoors: in the tower laboratory or in the writing room under your house.
| For | What it makes | Technology |
|---|---|---|
| The church | Simple, Pretty and Magnificent Candles; Simple and Fancy Incense | Church Lighting I–III, Church Smells I–II |
| The graveyard | Urn with Ashes I and II | Columbariums I–II |
| Corpses and zombies | Solution for Corpses, Solution for Zombies and the two Injections; Teeth from skulls; Organ Improver upgrades | Embalming I and III, Reanimation Liquid, Skull and Teeth, Practical Potions |
| The garden | Six fertilizers from Peat and a growth elixir or Dream Dust | Fertilizers I–IV |
| Other | Paper glop, Dynamite, Charged hypno-device, gold from a Philosopher Stone | Paper Press, Dynamite, a quest, Alchemy, Advanced |
Build cost
The cost depends on where it is built.
| Where | Build cost | Demolishing returns |
|---|---|---|
| — |  Wooden Plank ×4 | Wooden Plank ×2 |
| — | Wooden Plank ×4 | Wooden Plank ×4 |
Crafted here (36)
| Ingredients | Outputs | Mastery | Duration | Tech points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Beeswax ×3  Flax Thread ×1 |  3 | 5 | 12 | |
| Beeswax ×2 Flax Thread ×1 | 1 | 3 | 11 | |
| Beeswax ×4 Flax Thread ×1 | 4 | 8 | 13 | |
 Peat ×2  Dream Dust ×1 |  Crop Boosting Fertilizer I × 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Peat ×2 |  Farming Fertilizer I × 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Peat ×4 |  Farming Fertilizer II × 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) | 3 | 4 | 4 |
| Peat ×8 |  Farming Fertilizer III × 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Peat ×2 |  Headstart Fertilizer I × 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Peat ×4 |  Headstart Fertilizer II × 1 ( Compost Chemist +1 ) | 3 | 4 | 4 |
 Alcohol ×1 |  Dynamite ×1 | 5 | 8 | 12 |
Alcohol ×1  Preservative ×1 |  Solution for Zombies ★–★★★ ×1 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
Alcohol ×1 Preservative ×1  Comet's Tail ×1 |  Injection for Zombies ★–★★★ ×1 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
 Melted Fat ×1 Preservative ×1 |  Solution for Corpses ★–★★★ ×1 | 6 | 8 | 11 |
| Melted Fat ×1 Preservative ×1 Comet's Tail ×1 |  Injection for Corpses ★–★★★ ×1 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
 Hypno-device ×1  Faith ×1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |
Melted Fat ×1  Fragrance ×1 Dream Dust ×1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | |
| Melted Fat ×1 Fragrance ×1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | |
 Bones any quality ×1 | Bones ★★★  3 1 ×1 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
 Brain any quality ×1 |  Brain ★★★ 31 ×1 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
 Guts any quality ×1 |  Guts ★★★ 3 ×1 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
 Heart any quality ×1 |  Heart ★★★ 31 ×1 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
 Skin any quality ×1 | Skin ★★★ 3 ×1 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
 Skull any quality ×1 | Skull ★★★ 32 ×1 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| Bones any quality ×1 | Bones ★★★ 13 ×1 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| Brain any quality ×1 | Brain ★★★ 3 ×1 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
| Guts any quality ×1 | Guts ★★★ 13 ×1 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
| Heart any quality ×1 | Heart ★★★ 3 ×1 | 7 | 8 | 13 |
| Skin any quality ×1 | Skin ★★★ 13 ×1 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
| Skull any quality ×1 | Skull ★★★ 3 ×1 | 5 | 6 | 12 |
 Water ×1  Flax ×12 |  Paper glop ×3 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
Water ×1  Wheat ×12 | Paper glop ×1 | 2 | 6 | 11 |
 Iron Ingot ×1 |  Golden ingot ×1 | 8 | 12 | 13 |
 Iron Ore ×1 | 6 | 8 | 12 | |
| Skull any quality ×1 |  Tooth ×1 | 1 | 4 | 11 |
 Ash ×3  Clay Urn ×1 | 2 | 4 | 11 | |
| Ash ×3 Clay Urn ×1 | 5 | 4 | 33 |
Notes
- It is an Anatomy bench. Every recipe here is checked against Anatomy mastery, including the candles and the fertilizers.
- The embalming solutions have star quality. Each is an 8- or 12-step job at Anatomy 6 or 8, and the stars decide how strong the solution is. A zombie working the bench never fails a step, so a zombie makes them at three stars whatever the requirement, as long as it has at least 1 Anatomy. A surgical or alchemist’s kit in its hand gives that. This is worked out from the game code and has not been checked in play.
- The Alchemist perk adds a chance of a second one to candles, incense, fertilizers, solutions, Dynamite and the hypno-device: from 80% for the Simple Candle down to 40% for the best candle, the Fancy Incense and the solutions, 50% for the rest. For all but Dynamite the chance goes by whoever works the bench, so a zombie only gets it once it has learned the Dead alchemist talent, which counts as the Alchemist perk.
- Mastery runs from Anatomy 1 (Simple Candle, Simple Incense, Tooth) to 8 (the Injections and turning an Iron Ingot into gold).
- Dismantling it returns 2 Wooden Planks, 2 Bronze Details and 1 Polished Bronze.