ALCHEMISTSmine · workshop · the Cauldron · rules

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Mine ingredients with real proof of work. Refine. Assemble the ritual.

Every minute the mine issues a new challenge. The best hash of the minute from your address becomes a random ingredient: 40 types, 5 tiers. The furnace refines, the crucible rerolls, the ritual table seals items for the summoning. Every payment in ETH flows into the Cauldron.

1 · Mineone submit per minute per address
2 · Furnacerefine one tier up
3 · Crucible10 → 5, a chance of a higher tier
4 · Ritualitems from 5 ingredients
5 · Cauldronether gathers for the ritual

Mine in your browser stopped

the fire is out

The fire burns with your hashrate and the brew brightens as the best hash of the minute climbs to the bar. A find rises as a sealed vial and waits on the rack; what is inside is only known at the reveal.

plays a scripted minute in the scene, nothing is mined and nothing is signed
my hashrate–
best this minute–
rounds 0 · submits 0 · skips 0 · minted 0 · spent 0 ETH

latest loot

signer

A session wallet that lives in this browser signs the submits, so nothing pops up every minute. Fund it with a little ETH, mine, then move the loot to your main wallet whenever you like.

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send ETH to it on Robinhood Chain from any wallet or exchange, or fund it from the connected wallet below

Keep only what you are ready to spend in it. The key is stored in this browser only; export it if you want to keep it.

limits

The limits apply to whichever wallet signs, session or your own. 0 means no limit. Mining stops on its own when a limit is reached, the prima materia runs out or the mine is paused. The margin covers a price step between the quote and the block; the contract refunds the excess.

power

Every thread is one CPU core. Start with half of your cores if you want to keep using the computer.

Mine

session
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submit price–
threshold this minute–
farm multiplier–
network pressure–
threshold corridor30 … 43 bits
prima materia left–
halvings at 50 / 25 / 12.5 %

unlocked rarities

My finds to reveal: –

Every submit reveals the find before it. If the last one is still sealed (you stopped mining, or you run the standalone miner from another machine), reveal it here by hand.

my ingredients–
my furnaces–
crafts to reveal: –

how to join

  1. Pick who signs: your own wallet (nothing is deposited, you confirm each submit) or the session wallet (fund it with a little ETH once, then no pop-ups). Funding the session wallet is optional.
  2. Press Start mining: CPU works everywhere, WebGPU uses your card. Set limits if you want a cap on price or spend.
  3. Loot lands in the wallet that mined it. From the session wallet, Move loot to my wallet sends everything to your main wallet in one click.

The network …

network hashrate–
difficulty–
finds this window–
miners, last hour–
finds, last 24 h–
your odds–
hashrate · 24 h
difficulty · 24 h

rarities open as the season goes on

latest finds

    No wallet connected. You are looking at the session wallet that lives in this browser. Connect your wallet to see what it holds and to craft with it.

    Inventory empty

    Connect a wallet to see your ingredients, potions, items, keys and furnaces.

    Workshop …

    No wallet connected. The workshop is showing the session wallet, which holds nothing until it mines. Connect your wallet to craft with the items it holds.

    The workshop uses the items of the wallet chosen here and that wallet signs every craft. Connect your wallet to work as it; move loot between the two with the button in the inventory.

    Potion of Purification

    Two herbs of one tier brew into one potion of that tier. Every refining attempt burns one potion. Brewing is instant, nothing to reveal.

    Furnace

    A furnace is built from ingredients of its own tier. Its tier caps the tier of ingredients you can refine in it, and a furnace hotter than the ingredient adds a success bonus. One firing per cooldown.

    Refining

    Ingredients of one type and tier plus a potion of that tier go into a furnace; on success one ingredient of the next tier comes out. The result is sealed until the next minute.

    Crucible

    Ten ingredients of one tier melt into fewer random ones of the same tier. Choosing an output category costs a few pieces. Each piece rolls for a tier up, and there is a risk of a tier down at high tiers. Sealed until the next minute.

    Ritual table

    Five ingredients by the recipe of the item are sealed into a ritual item: of their tier, or, when tiers are mixed, of the tier of one of them drawn at the reveal. A small chance of one tier higher, and a roll for a mythic key bound to the item kind. Sealed until the next minute.

    The soul

    The closing rite of the opening act. Eight ritual items on eight pedestals are sealed into a soul: five required, three enhancers, a mythic key in the slot of its kind. Sealing is free. The soul carries the Cauldron's stream until the alchemist is summoned from it, by the weight of its rank: Apprentice 1, Adept 4, Master 16, Magister 64, Archmage 256, a named soul 512; the first hundred of every rank from Adept up weigh up to twice as much. There will never be more than 21 Archmages and 21 named souls.

    Apprentice
    soul #1 if sealed now

    The stream

    Every hour the Kettle pours steam into the stream; every soul claims its share by weight, any hour it likes. Claims open at the hundredth soul; until then the steam waits in the Kettle and then drips hour by hour.

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    How to mine

    One process per card, up to 32 addresses on it. Your keys stay with you: the card only ever sees public addresses. Starting submit price 0.00002 ETH, gas about 210k per submit with reveal (about 0.00001 ETH at today's fees).

    alchemists-miner --net robinhood --box "ssh -p PORT root@HOST ./hb-miner-linux-x64" --miners-file miners.txt

    The Cauldron treasury

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    All ether from submits boils in the Kettle. Every hour 40 % of it thickens here, in the Cauldron, for the ritual of the Philosopher's Stone, and 60 % rises as steam: a quarter of the steam in the Kettle drips to the souls each hour, split by weight. The mine, the workshop and the souls are the opening act; every line of it leads to the ritual. What the ritual asks for, and what the Stone is, is not written anywhere yet.

    60 % stream40 % brew

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