Boric Alchemy is a Vintage Story mod by MrBadWithNames. Boric Alchemy expands Vintage Story with chemistry-focused recipes, materials, colored light experiments, and practical alchemical uses for everyday resources.
Why this mod is worth installing
Choose this mod if you want a grounded alternative to fantasy potion systems and enjoy turning familiar resources into useful, unusual, or decorative chemical products.
What Boric Alchemy adds
Boric Alchemy treats alchemy as applied chemistry rather than magic. Its recipes connect materials already present in Vintage Story, including borax and strong acids, to create new reactions and products with a practical or deliberately eccentric purpose.
The mod also explores the visual side of chemistry through colored light. Boric acid is a central example: reacting borax with a strong acid produces a substance associated with a distinctive green flame, turning a chemical process into something players can observe and use in their builds.
Its broader design fills gaps between survival systems, crafting, decoration, food, fuel, woodworking, and technology. The result is a collection of grounded additions that can make workshops, kitchens, basements, roofs, tools, and other parts of a settlement feel more interconnected.
Where to download Boric Alchemy
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.