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.