In Genshin Impact, the Alchemical Breakthrough is the main event of update 4.5, where you will have to grow ingredients, cook and sell potions to increase the store's revenue. You will be able to play several mini-games and earn the funds necessary to expand the scale of the trading post.
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In this guide, we will tell you how to start this event, complete all its tests and quests, and also get stones origin, pestilence and a unique 4-star polearm Dialogue of the Desert Sages.
How to start the “Alchemical Breakthrough” event
The event starts on March 14, 2024 at 10:00 server time, and ends on April 1 at 03:59. To take part in it, you first have to meet several conditions, namely:
- Reach at least adventure rank 20.
- Complete the story mission called “Song of Dragon Freedom.”
- Complete the Archon quest “Masquerade of the Guilty”, which is the fifth chapter of the fourth volume of the main story (optional).
- Complete the quest of the Legends of Eola “The waves will not return to sea” from the chain “Sea Foam” (optional).
It is not necessary to complete the last two quests, but they will allow you to delve deeper into the plot of the event. If you decide not to complete them, then simply use the quick start option and get to the starting point of the festival by completing the starting task of the event on the corresponding page.
Walkthrough the “Alchemical Breakthrough” event
The event's storyline includes four tasks that open sequentially and gradually. Below we will indicate their names and provide links to articles with walkthroughs.
Miracle potions
The traveler meets Lisa in Mondstadt, who is preparing to open a potions store. The main character offers her his help, eventually becoming the manager of a trading store. A detailed walkthrough of the quest is presented in our separate guide. As a reward for completing it, you will receive 40 primogems, 40 thousand mora and 4 hero books.
Achievement in craft
After opening the alchemical potions store, the Traveler and Paimon did a great job of expanding it, so now they are lying around from fatigue. They will need to talk to Lisa and Freda. A detailed walkthrough of the quest is presented in our separate guide. As a reward for completing it, you will receive 20 thousand mora, 2 adventurer experience and 2 wanderer experience.
Foreign Markets
Apparently, the success of the store was able to attract merchants from other kingdoms. You will need to communicate with them. A detailed walkthrough of the quest is presented in our separate guide. As a reward for completing it, you will receive 20 thousand mora, 2 adventurer experience and 2 wanderer experience.
Good job
The Traveler and Paimon have achieved incredible success in creating and selling elixirs, so they decide to celebrate this event. A detailed walkthrough of the quest is presented in our separate guide. As a reward for completing it, you will receive 30 primogems, 20 thousand mora, the decorative item “Skilled Cauldron: Potions Abundant”, 2 adventurer experience and 2 wanderer experience.
Guide to the tests of the “Alchemical Breakthrough” event
Growing ingredients
The first stage in the production of your elixirs. Each cultivation zone is designed to grow specific ingredients. Ripening lasts for a number of trading cycles, after which the plants can be harvested. Then, by default, the cultivation area will begin to grow the previously selected ingredients. If the destination is changed, the cultivation progress will be lost.
As your alchemy level increases, more ingredients can be unlocked. You can also spend money on expanding your cultivation area and growing more plants. Don't forget to research ingredients to consume them and gain the experience required to level up materials.
Funds can be used to purchase special alchemical fertilizers that can speed up the ripening of ingredients and collect them immediately after planting. In this case, the amount of costs will depend on the number of trading cycles that remain before the ingredients mature.
Potion Making
The second stage involves placing the ingredients in the cauldron, and it is necessary to try to cover the largest area to increase mixability transmutation. By bringing it to 100%, you can complete the process and receive the potion. The level, class and effectiveness of elixirs, and, consequently, their cost will also depend on your actions.
Selling potions
The final stage, in which you will need to put the created potions up for sale, while copies with the same properties cannot be put on the shelves at the same time. It is necessary to carefully study the market, because the better the effects and composition of the elixirs correspond to demand, the higher your sales will be.
You will be assisted in recording properties that meet demand by Payon, which updates its records every trading cycle. You will also be able to check your sales results at the end of the cycle in your financial report.
Character locations in the Alchemical Breakthrough event
As with other similar events, you will be able to find different heroes in various parts of Teyvat to listen to their new dialogues. We'll show you their exact locations in a separate guide.
Alchemical Breakthrough Event Rewards
How to Earn Funds
This is a special event currency, for which you will need to grow ingredients, create potions and sell them based on market demand. Then you can use them to buy new work tools and decorative items.
We add that for completing different stages of mini-games you will receive additional rewards in the form of source stones, pestilence and upgrade materials. In total, you can earn about 1000 primogems.
How to get Dialogue of the Desert Sages
To unlock a new epic polearm and awakening materials for it called “Spiritualized Earth”, you will need to increase the income of your store. You will receive the spear with 50,000 funds, and to fully awaken it you will need to earn 1 million.
