Alchemy

In Lunacraft, Alchemy is the process of transmuting one Material into another (eg. transmuting Gold Ore into Silver Ore); however, this will only happen to a few blocks per explosion. To achieve this, you will need the Brown Mob's explosion on any block that can be transmuted.

You will occasionally notice a new material appear in your inventory, even though you have not actively collected it. This is likely the result of your explosive encounter with a Brown Mob. Below is a list of known transmutations. There may be a pattern for determining what a material will transmute into, based on the block type values in the Items list. A material will usually transmute into the material with the next higher block type value.

Some materials are only obtainable through Alchemy. Here is a list:
 * Topsoil
 * Unknown
 * Glass
 * Silver Ore
 * Carbon
 * Molybdenum Ore
 * Shale Gravel
 * Snow
 * Phosphate
 * Quartz Ore
 * Zircon Ore

See the blog post Alchemy and the Brown Mob for a reliable method of transmuting materials in Creative mode.