funny wrote:

Kat wrote:

Could you elaborate more? I think I may be missing something and I'm not quite understanding your issue. What recipes are you using, what alchemy do you have and how big are the rank jumps?

Basically, any metals that have their ore version (iron, copper, tin, aluminum) will always return ores as result of compounding metal + rock (it's as if the ores have a rock sub-base)

If this is true, this means that any recipes (under rank ~10) that goes something like "metal (iron ores/weapons/plates/etc) + rock (marbles, obsidian, granite, basalt, etc) = anything non-ore" are incorrect.

I've been using superior alchemy though, jumps doesnt matter, whether i go from 3 ranks above the ore's rank or under the ore's rank, i'd always get either ores or common stones. I've tried metal + rock about 15 times total and the result is always ore (or common stone if the rock rank is too low, like for example aluminum plate + shale)

I never usually bothered with trying to compound ores or anything else, but it seems to be this way, unless these people managed to get weird compounds or somehow didn't place the correct materials in place.
I tried for some while with the bluestone just out of curiosity and both of those recipes are incorrect, but I'm not the forum genius, I just usually delete obvious things and move on, I'm not entirely sure how to confirm, etc. compounds.