Study Table

The Study Table is where you research items. Studying an item pays a large amount of tech points at once, from 10 to 150, and reveals its alchemy runes. An ingredient has to be studied before it can go into the Laboratory, so the table is the gate to alchemy. The only Study Table stands in the tower laboratory; you cannot build another.

Studying an item

1. Pick an item from your backpack. Only items you have not studied yet are listed.
2. The window shows what the study costs: Science, and for some items also Faith. Science is kept inside the table; Faith is taken from your backpack and storage.
3. Press Study and work at the table. The item stays in your backpack; only the Science and Faith are used up.
4. When it finishes, the tech points pop out and a window shows the item’s runes.

Each item can be studied only once. All organs of one kind (every skin, every heart) count as one item, and so do the quality versions of a crop.

Science

Science comes only from decomposing paper and science kits on this table, which does use them up: Clean Paper gives 1, Science Kit I 30 and Science Kit II 60.

At first that means one sheet of paper and one Science Kit I, both in the chest in the tower laboratory: 31 Science until you can make more. Making paper and kits waits on Writing Supplies, and until then only a town stall sells them. Spend them this way:

• Water and Blood first, 1 Science each. Albert wants Dream Dust, and those two make it.
• After that, most items give about 10 tech points per Science: a Short Log or a Board, for example, gives 10 red for 1 Science. Some give more, such as Wheat (20 green for 1) or Dream Dust itself (50 blue for 5), and some much less: Beer gives 40 points for 10 Science. Each item page on this wiki lists what studying it costs and pays.