Phase 3: the tower lab and Melted Fat
Why the lab comes before the battle: the barricades need oiled planks, and oil means Melted Fat.
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From your basement you can reach Albert, the Plague Doctor, and his alchemy lab in the Abandoned Tower. The lab is where you build the Distillation Cube — and early on, that cube is the only source of Melted Fat. The barricades Herbert needs in Phase 4 are built from oiled planks, which need that fat. So the lab comes first.
Checklist
| Step | What it takes |
|---|---|
| Clear the basement blockage | Bronze Detail x3, Wooden Plank x3, Pickaxe, Building 3. |
| Open the tower door | The Secret combination and the Inquisitor’s medallion. |
| Learn Alchemy, Basic | Let Albert in and ask about Dream Dust. |
| Build the Distillation Cube | Alchemy, Distillation; Wooden Plank x2, Bronze Detail x2, Brick x12. |
| Make Melted Fat | Fat from autopsies, Clay Plates, Fuel. |
| Show Albert a Dream Dust | One Dream Dust (he only checks it). |
| Open the resurrection room | Bronze Detail x1, Melted Fat x1. |
| Repair the power switch | Bronze Detail x1, Wooden Plank x2, Building 3. |
Reaching the tower
- In your basement, clear the blockage towards the doctor with 3 Bronze Details + 3 Wooden Planks (Pickaxe, Building 3). This locked underground room isn’t the lab itself.
- Speak to the doctor through his door; he hands over the Secret combination.
- Go upstairs and outside to the Abandoned Tower. At its locked entrance choose Open the door, carrying the combination and your Inquisitor’s medallion (by hand, Building 1).
- Once inside, lift the hatch so the Plague Doctor can come up, then choose Dream Dust.. That conversation teaches Alchemy, Basic, adds 10 Albert reputation and opens Sweet Dreams. A Study Table, a Laboratory I and a Flask shelf are already in the room.
The Distillation Cube and Melted Fat
- Research Alchemy, Distillation (5 red, 5 green). From the lab’s building desk, place the Distillation Cube: Wooden Plank x2, Bronze Detail x2, Brick x12, finished with a Hammer at Building 2.
- Get Fat from autopsies: put a body on the autopsy table, select the fat, confirm and finish the job, then pick it up. Bodies differ — not every one has everything.
- In the cube: Fat x1 + Clay Plate x2 + Fuel x20 → Melted Fat x4 (Anatomy 1). Make the plates on the potter’s wheel as before.
Sweet Dreams
- Every mix uses one alchemy flask per result. Make them with Glass and Glass Blowing: in the furnace, Sand x3 + Fuel x10 → Glass x3, then Glass x2 + Fuel x10 → 2 flasks (Smithing 2). Dig Sand with a shovel (Building 3) west of Riverside or southeast of the Vineyard.
- Dream Dust needs one green and one blue rune; the simple single-ingredient options are Ash or Peat. Research the ingredient first so it appears in the mixing menu. Ash is only sold (Apothecary); for Peat, research Fertilizers I (10 green) and build a Compost Pile in the garden (Board x2, Stick x12).
- Bring one Dream Dust to Albert and choose Check the Dream Dust. You get 10 reputation with Albert, a Story I and Alchemist’s Clothes; this also starts Chasing Fairy Lights. Follow him down through the hatch to his underground lab.
- Sleep. Next morning Larry points you to a sealed room near the morgue: open the Resurrection Room with Bronze Detail x1 + Melted Fat x1 (by hand, Building 1). Open the chest inside and close it before leaving — its notes name the Necronomicon.
- Repair the room’s power switch with Bronze Detail x1 + Wooden Plank x2 (Building 3). That reveals Reanimation (30 red, 10 green, 10 blue; needs Alchemy, Distillation and Skull and Teeth), which unlocks the Resurrection Table I and the Bronze Zombie Collar.