User blog comment:Scooter8pie/Alchemy and the Brown Mob/@comment-4583259-20111114070057/@comment-4583259-20111114192044

Oh thanks, I found your comment now!

I think you should find out which stuff gets completely vaporized (disappears). My theory is that if it's really really close to the Brown Mob, it gets alchemized, and if it's a bit further away it just disappears. The reason I say that is that I had 7 layers of gold and 2 layers of aluminum on top. A bunch of my aluminum layers were blown away but I didn't get any Molybdenum...

Oh wait, I used refined aluminum. I guess maybe I got Titanium ore and didn't notice.

Anyway, someone should set up something where the brown mob is inside a little cube of Aluminum, with a layer of Gold around the aluminum and a layer of Gravel around the gold (and so on with maybe 2 more layers). Then see which blocks vanish entirely and which ones get alchemized.