The Alchemy Bench is the most underused efficiency tool in Teyvat. It converts idle materials into the ones you actually need, banks Resin that would otherwise overflow, and turns three junk artifacts into a set you want. Here is everything it does, plus the recipes and the limits.
Every major city has an Alchemy Bench: Mondstadt’s sits below the waypoint next to Timaeus, Liyue Harbor’s is beside the waypoint, Inazuma City’s is by the bridge on the way to the Adventurers’ Guild, and Sumeru City, Fontaine, Natlan and the Dragonspine camp each have one.
The convenient option is building your own in the Serenitea Pot: finish every task in “Adepti Mirror: Part III” to get the blueprint, spend 20 White Iron Chunks, and place it next to your teleport point.
Crafting combines lower-tier materials into higher-tier ones and also produces potions, fish bait and some quest items. Mora costs vary a lot by category:
| Category | Mora cost |
|---|---|
| Character & weapon enhancement material | 2☆ 25 · 3☆ 50 · 4☆ 125 |
| Weapon ascension material | 3☆ 125 · 4☆ 350 · 5☆ 1,075 |
| Talent material | 3☆ 175 · 4☆ 550 |
| Character ascension gem | 3☆ 300 · 4☆ 900 · 5☆ 2,700 |
| Potion | 100 |
| Fish bait | Free |
Some characters have a Utility Passive that affects crafting. Switch the active character in the bottom-right of the crafting screen to use them:
| Category | Character | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Character & weapon enhancement material | Sucrose | 10% chance of double output |
| Character & weapon enhancement material | Dori | 25% chance to refund part of the materials |
| Weapon ascension material | Mona | 25% chance to refund part of the materials |
| Weapon ascension material | Albedo, Kamisato Ayaka, Alhaitham, Wriothesley | 10% chance of double output |
| Talent material | Xingqiu | 25% chance to refund part of the materials |
| Talent material | Eula, Layla | 10% chance of double output |
| Talent material | Yae Miko | 25% chance of an extra random talent material from the same region |
| Potion | Lisa | 20% chance to refund part of the materials |
The bigger the batch, the better the expected value — craft hundreds of materials at once rather than trickling them through one at a time.
Conversion exists to fix uneven drops. Two different consumables handle two different problems:
Dust of Azoth consumption scales with material rarity:
| Gem tier | Recipe | Dust of Azoth |
|---|---|---|
| Sliver (2☆) | 2 slivers → 1 target sliver | 1 |
| Fragment (3☆) | 1 fragment → 1 target fragment | 3 |
| Chunk (4☆) | 1 chunk → 1 target chunk | 9 |
| Gemstone (5☆) | 1 gemstone → 1 target gemstone | 27 |
Two things to remember. First, sliver conversion runs at 2:1 and loses value, so start at Fragment tier or above. Second, Dust of Azoth comes from the Stardust Exchange in Paimon’s Bargains at 5 Stardust for 10 Dust, capped at 100 packs (1,000 Dust) per month with a 2,000 inventory limit — buy only what you need rather than clearing the shelf.
At Adventure Rank 45 a new tab with a triangle icon appears on the crafting bench:
Before you trade in, lock the pieces worth keeping: elemental damage goblets, CRIT Rate/CRIT DMG circlets and Elemental Mastery sands, goblets and circlets. Otherwise auto-fill will happily eat them. Note also that some newer sets (Golden Troupe, Marechaussee Hunter, Nymph’s Dream and others) are still not available from the Strongbox, so they must be farmed directly.
Condensed Resin is the most-used recipe on the bench and the only way to save Resin that is about to overflow.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Blueprint | Reach Liyue Reputation Level 3 and claim “Instructions: Condensed Resin” (or buy it from the blacksmith in Mondstadt and Liyue). Use it from the Precious Items tab to unlock the recipe permanently. |
| Recipe | 60 Original Resin + 1 Crystal Core + 100 Mora = 1 Condensed Resin |
| Cap | 5 held at once (that is 300 Original Resin banked). Event-granted Resin does not count against the cap. |
| Where it works | Ley Line Blossoms (Blossoms of Wealth and Revelation) and Petrified Trees in domains — three reward sets per use |
| Where it fails | Trounce Blossoms for weekly and normal bosses, and most Resin-costing events unless stated |
| Other rules | Use grants 300 Adventure EXP. Crafting counts toward the Battle Pass “use Original Resin” mission; spending it does not. |
One easily missed detail: the “Bounty of the Earth” achievement tracks 800 Ley Line Blossom claims, and Condensed Resin only adds 1 to the counter rather than 3.
The bottleneck for Condensed Resin was never Resin — it is Crystal Cores, which only come from catching Crystalflies in the open world. Reliable clusters:
Spawn density is higher at early morning and dusk in-game. Grab a lap while running dailies and three minutes will net you a dozen. Do not wait until your Resin is about to cap to discover you have none left.
No. The Imaginarium Theater, weekly bosses and normal world bosses do not accept Condensed Resin.
Not really. A 5-star gem synthesis at 2,700 Mora is the priciest recipe on the bench, which is trivial next to leveling equipment.
Some of them, and the list changes with updates. Sets such as Golden Troupe, Marechaussee Hunter and Nymph’s Dream are still excluded and must be farmed from their domains.
The bench is not about what it can make — it is about converting what you have into the one piece you are missing. Craft Condensed Resin before Resin caps, swap in a bonus character when synthesizing materials, and feed junk artifacts into the Strongbox after every AR45 domain run. Those three habits take under a minute a day and save a noticeable amount of Resin and Mora over a month.
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