Idleon Alchemy Guide – Prisma Tier List & Best Bubbles

Last Updated on May 26, 2026 by Samuel Franklin

Alchemy is the most important Idleon skill with bubbles, vials and sigils that boost every element of gameplay dramatically. If you’re lacking damage, resource gain or other game progression there is a solution in the World 2 cauldron. This alchemy guide includes a Prisma bubble tier list for advanced Idleon players alongside alchemy basics, tips and overall bubbles to focus on for beginners.

Table of Contents:
– Prisma Bubbles Tier List
– Alchemy Basics: Brewing, Liquid, Vials and Pay 2 Win
– Best Alchemy Bubbles To Focus

Alchemy Prisma Bubbles Tier List

These are the best Prisma Bubbles and as they are limited should be spent carefully for maximum utility. I recommend the below tier list order with some considerations noted based on your account specifics or progress:

Bubble (Tier Rating)	Effect	Notes
Laaarrrryyyy (S Tier)	Chance to upgrade alchemy bubbles twice	Double this bubble to power up all future alchemy bubble levels. This will turn every resource or atom level into +3 or +4 to multiply your alchemy gains rapidly.
Codfrey Rulz Ok (S Tier)	+% Gallery Bonus Multi	A key boost to World 7 gallery as there are many strong nametags and trophies.
Warriors Rule (S Tier)	Multiples orange passive bubbles	Improves the effect of orange bubbles for a great return on Prisma investment. Prioritise Warrior and Mage first as this will help boost your key samples (ores and logs) for atom generation.
Mage Is Best (S Tier)	Multiples purple passive bubbles	As noted above.
Multiorange (S Tier)	Increases bonus of particular orange bubbles	Similar to Warriors Rule above this improves several key bubbles particularly for increased resource sample sizes.
Severapurple (S Tier)	Increases bonus of particular purple bubbles	As noted above.
Diamond Chef (A Tier)	Faster meal and fire kitchen speeds for every meal at level 11+	Significantly reduces the time taken to level meals, this is more powerful for newer accounts while established accounts will be relying on No Meal Left Behind to increase meal level instead.
Carpenter (A Tier)	+% Build Speed per Construction level	This bubble is a key source of build speed in World 3 Construction and will notably reduce the time needed for buildings, towers and shrines which can be a massive time block otherwise.
Tachyon Bubble (A Tier)	+% Extra Tachyons for Arcane Cultist	The Arcane Cultist is the hardest masterclass to push currently so this will reduce the time required.
Startue EXP (A Tier)	Statue EXP bar resets to above 0 after level up	Reducing the amount of statues needed for each level can save hundreds of thousands of statues. This can either reduce the time needed to farm statue levels or reach even higher statue levels that have a range of important account boosts.
Archer or Bust (A Tier)	Multiples green passive bubbles	As noted above a useful broad boost but lower priority than Warrior and Mage equivalent bubbles.
Premigreen (A Tier)	Increases bonus of particular green bubbles	As noted above a useful broad boost but lower priority than Warrior and Mage equivalent bubbles.
Kattle Da Goat (B Tier)	+% More Kattlekruk bubbles per day	Primarily for the faster main stat bubble boosts but there are many bubbles boosted by this mechanic when unlocked. The stat bubbles are not linear after 50k so the effectiveness reduces after this point.
Shimmeron (B Tier)	+% Gold Food effect	Gold food has many useful boosts including AFK and drop rate. This increase is small though compared to the World 4 meal when ribboned.
Double Pagey (B Tier)	+% Multi Page chance (works AFK)	Increases Spelunking efficiency to farm scrolls faster for stamps, vials or spelunking lore page gains.
Spapunkie (B Tier)	+% Spelunking Efficiency	As noted above.
Slabi Strength (B Tier)	+0 Base STR per 100 items found, shown on The Slab!	At high Slab item levels this is a notable base STR boost which is then multiplied by % modifiers. This is a useful prisma for Divine Knight money farming (Penny of Strength) or Blood Berserker Green Mushroom farming (Charred Skulls).
Tome Strength (B Tier)	+% STR for every 2000 Tome Completion Points over 5000.	As noted above this does rely on a strong foundation of tome points.
Dust Bubble (C Tier)	+% Extra Dust for Wind Walker	The Wind Walker isn’t as difficult to push compared to the Arcane Cultist but still has powerful account bonuses to progress.
Bone Bubble (C Tier)	+% Extra Bones for Death Bringer	The easiest masterclass this is the lowest priority bubble of this type but does still help push the Death Bringer faster and reach higher levels on the powerful account boosts.
Roid Ragin (C Tier)	+ Total STR	In late game Idleon the total stat bubbles can be pushed to high levels (10,000+). These can provide huge amount of stat once you reach this point although before this is not worthwhile.
Stable Jenius (C Tier)	+ Total WIS	As noted above.
Swift Steppin (C Tier)	+ Total AGI	As noted above.
Stronk Tools (D Tier)	Pickaxes and fishing rods give more skilling power	Boosts skilling tool power which has limited sources to empower your 3D printer samples further.
Le Brain Tools (D Tier)	Hachets and worship skulls give more skilling power	As noted above.
Hearty Diggy (D Tier)	+% Mining efficiency per power 10 Max HP	Another notable alchemy bubble for large percentage boost to your 3D printer samples.
Hocus Choppus (D Tier)	+% Chopping efficiency per power 10 Max MP	As noted above.

Alchemy Basics – Brewing, Liquid, Vials and Pay 2 Win

Alchemy has four different UI tabs that perform different functions:

• Brewing: The core page with four coloured cauldrons where resources and alchemy liquid are spent to level up bubbles for account wide boosts. Characters can be assigned to these cauldrons to improve several cauldron specific stats.
• Liquid: Generates liquid from four cauldrons that can be assigned characters to generate liquid faster. Also includes an alchemy liquid shop with different items.
• Vials: Vials are unlocked by dropping specific resources on the World 2 cauldron for passive boosts and upgraded by depositing thousands, millions and eventually a billion of each resource to increase the bonus.
• Pay 2 Win: Spend money to improve the speed of various alchemy mechanics. This tab also has Sigils where you can assign characters to unlock account bonuses based on time spent.

Alchemy Basics – Brewing Tips

Brewing is the heart of alchemy where new bubbles are unlocked. Each coloured cauldron has a brewing currency that is earned by having players assigned to that colour cauldron (maximum two characters per cauldron by default). When your first unlock alchemy in World 2 make sure all of your current characters (and future characters) open the alchemy UI in town at least once to start earning alchemy experience.

Alternatively this coloured currency can also be exchanged for cauldron specific boosts (max level 170):

• Speed: Generates cauldron brew currency faster
• Luck: Extra chance to unlock new bubbles
• Cost: Reduces cost to upgrade bubbles
• 2X Extra: Chance for double brew boost levels

I recommend focusing on speed and 2X chance initially as this makes future cauldron upgrades quicker while luck and cost are important later in alchemy progression.

Unlock New Bubbles: The best way to unlock bubbles is to use the Shaman class with Bubble Breakthrough talent. Unlock new bubbles to match your current world progression, if you unlock a new bubble but do not recognise the resource it uses it is probably for the next world. Once you reach this point focus on unlocking bubbles for other cauldrons, liquid generation or upgrading the above cauldron boosts instead.

Small and Large Bubbles: Most bubbles are small passive bubbles that are always active although there are several larger bubbles that must be equipped on specific characters to take effect. Characters start with one slot initially with a second available from the World 1 stamp NPC bribes and the last one from World 4 Breeding by defeating round 100. The Sheepie Companion makes large bubbles passive so they are active all the time although Big P in the Yellow Cauldron is bugged so it should still be manually equipped.

Cheaper Bubbles With Each Class: From World 3 players will have the resources to upgrade Orange, Green and Pruple Bargain bubbles that lower the cost of bubbles in that cauldron. As these bubbles are boosted by the second bubble in each cauldron there is an often overlooked bonus that lowers these costs even more when on the appropriate class. This means if you upgrade orange bubbles with your Warriors, green bubbles with Archers and purple bubbles with Mages players can save millions of resources while progressing alchemy. There is no boost to Yellow bubbles though as there is no second bubble multiplier in that cauldron.

Cranium Cooking: This Shaman talent is crucial to generating coloured cauldron currency and liquid as it can provide days of progression within minutes. Use this talent daily in the Colosseum initially to maximise alchemy progression and eventually with class progression you can repeatedly use this talent (known as Cranium Cooking Farming) for huge boosts.

No Bubble Left Behind: A useful mechanic that automatically increases the levels the lowest of your alchemy bubbles every day you login if they are above level 1. This is unlocked through the World 4 Laboratory, the limited event shop or by purchasing the Sacred Methods Pack from the Gem Shop and can be boosted by the Atom Collider (W3).

Atom levels (Boron): Available in World 3 through the Atom Collider this provides a daily budget to upgrade any bubble with atoms instead of the specific bubble resource if the cost is above 100M. This is critical to pushing the highest level of alchemy bubbles particularly for difficult to generate resources. To maximise Boron while levelling it spend any of your daily allocation before levelling Boron at the Atom Collider as this will also refresh the daily budget. Some later game alchemy bubbles that use unique skill resources cannot be levelled with Boron.

Prismatic Bubbles (Prisma): A prestige style mechanic purchased from the Limited Time Gem Shop or unlocked when your Shaman advances to the Arcane Cultist class that doubles the bonus of a particular bubble.

Alchemy Basics – Liquid Tips

The Liquid tab provides the fuel for alchemy with 4 different liquid types (Water Drops, Liquid N2, Trench H2O and Toxic Mercury) unlocked at alchemy level 1, 20, 35 and 80 respectively that are spent on bubbles, vials, the alchemy liquid shop or upgrading liquid cauldrons. These cauldrons generate liquid automatically and do not need characters assigned although they can be assigned to increase the generation rate.

Liquid Investment: I recommend investing liquid into rate initially as this is a significant bottleneck in World 2 and then increase the cap so it can keep up with your daily bubble upgrade needs from Boron. Like the Brewing tab Cranium Cooking plays a critical role here and combines with Liquidvestment from the World 3 Equinox Valley and Viaduct of the Gods from the World 4 Laboratory to alter the mechanics of liquid generation.

Alchemy Liquid Shop: For initial purchases I recommend the star book (Tick Tock) as soon as practical as this gives AFK gains and then focusing on Distilled Water or Dense Water as a large number are needed for World 2 and World 3 crafting. After this focus on Bargain Tag to level the hardest alchemy bubbles that use worship souls, trapping critters or refinery salt to get them over 100M cost for Boron levels. After these focus areas the shop is the only source of particular skilling obols and you can make daily gem/balloon purchases for extra progression.

Alchemy Basics – Vials Tips

Like many Idleon mechanics vials provide a small boost initially but grow in time as you max them and gain access to different multipliers. Try to unlock new vials daily as there is a daily limit to attempts and some vials are as low as a 1% chance to unlock. All vials are detailed here on the wiki.

Vial Upgrades: I recommend upgrading all vials when it is not a significant time investment to reach the next level as these increase Shaman damage for every green or higher vial and there is a World 4 mechanic in The Rift (Vial Mastery) that increases effects based on each maxed vial. Do not invest significant game time into vials early on as eventually acquiring the necessary skill resources or monster drops will take very little time as your account grows.

Unlock More Vial Chances: Vials chances and epic gamer moments (rerolls your chance if it fails) are purchased from the Pay 2 Win tab for money and can help increase the pace you unlock vials. By quickly dropping resources on the cauldron from your inventory players can even exceed their daily vial attempts as each roll takes time for the animation to complete.

Alchemy Basics – Pay 2 Win / Sigil Tips

The Pay 2 Win tab is a place to spend money for various alchemy increases and I recommend purchasing upgrades when they are relatively cheap as money is better spent on the Upgrade Vault for overall account progress initially. Focus your purchases on either colour cauldrons, liquid cauldrons or vials based on where you currently feel stuck as you will max them all eventually.

Sigils are unlocked from the World 4 Laboratory for various small account boosts and level up by assigning characters to research them. Sigils should only be your focus after maxing all coloured cauldrons and making a significant investment in your liquid cauldrons as these are significantly more useful than Sigil bonuses.

Best Alchemy Bubbles To Focus

All alchemy bubbles contribute something to your account so every bubble should be levelled. This also allows No Bubble Left Behind to increase the level of difficult bubbles as it targets the lowest level bubbles. However, there are particular bubbles that have a dramatic impact to damage, provide unique utility or empower your resource collection to help you level alchemy bubbles faster.

The majority of alchemy bubbles have a maximum bonus amount so levels beyond a point have no effect although some are linear so more levels are always stronger. The below are my recommended best alchemy bubbles to focus on and includes value thresholds to aim for (50%, 75%, 90%, 95% and 99%). Use this information to increase all important bubbles to 50%, then 75%, then 90% and so on to balance your alchemy progression efficiently and I recommend focusing on anything related to gaining materials (chopping, mining, fishing or catching) first as this makes future alchemy progress easier.

Best Orange Bubbles

Bubble	Effect	Material	50%	75%	90%	95%	99%
Roid Ragin	+ Total STR (linear bubble up to 50k)	Oak Logs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Warriors Rule	Multiples orange passive bubbles	Spore Cap	50	150	450	950	4,950
Hearty Diggy	+% Mining efficiency per power 10 Max HP	Jungle Logs	100	300	900	1,900	9,900
Wyoming Blood	Multi-ore chance (linear bubble – capped at 300% or 600% with a World 5 mechanic)	Fly	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sploosh Sploosh	Multi fish chance (linear bubble – capped at 300% or 600% with a World 5 mechanic)	Hermit Can	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Stronk Tools	Pickaxes and fishing rods give more skilling power	Platinum Ore	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
FMJ	+% more equipment defence and +1 base defence per class level (linear bubble)	Fruitfly	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Call Me Bob	+% Construction EXP (linear bubble)	Moustache Comb	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carpenter	+% Build Speed per Construction level	Explosive Salts	50	150	450	950	4,950
Multiorange	Increases bonus of particular orange bubbles	Half Eaten Donut	30	90	270	570	2,970
Dream of Ironfish	+% Mining and fishing AFK gains	Tangled Cords	30	90	270	570	2,970
Shimmeron	+% Gold Food effect	PVC Piple	40	120	360	760	3,960
Slabi Orefish	+ Mining and fishing power per 100 items found	Oozie Soul	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Endgame Eff I	+ Mining and fishing power for every 10 class levels above 500	Stacked Rice Cake	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Double Pagey	+% Multi Page chance (works AFK)	Equinox Flesh	130	390	1,170	2,470	12,870
Bone Bubble	+% Extra Bones for Death Bringer	Litterbug	500	1,500	4,500	9,500	49,500

Best Green Bubbles

Bubble	Effect	Material	50%	75%	90%	95%	99%
Swift Steppin	+ Total AGI (linear bubble up to 50k)	Copper Ore	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Archer or Bust	Multiples green passive bubbles	Spore Cap	50	150	450	950	4,950
Hammer Hammer	Produce +1 anvil items and increases production speed (linear bubble)	Iron Ore	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Sanic Tools	Catching nets give more skilling power	Slime Sludge	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
Bug2	Multi-bug chance (linear bubble – capped at 300% or 600% with a World 5 mechanic)	Sentient Cereal	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Shaquracy	Secondary stat gives more accuracy (linear bubble)	Bloach	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Premigreen	Increases bonus of particular green bubbles	Dung Beat	30	90	270	570	2,970
Fly in Mind	+% Catching AFK gains	Worker Bee	40	120	360	760	3,960
Slabo Critterbug	+ Catching power per 100 items found	Maple Logs	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Endgame Eff II	+ Catching power for every 10 class levels above 500	Daisy	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Spapunkie	+% Spelunking Efficiency	Doodlefins	150	450	1,350	2,850	14,850
Dust Bubble	+% Extra Dust for Wind Walker	Deepsea Soul	500	1,500	4,500	9,500	49,500

Best Purple Bubbles

Bubble	Effect	Material	50%	75%	90%	95%	99%
Stable Jenius	+ Total WIS (linear bubble up to 50k)	Bleach Logs	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mage Is Best	Multiples purple passive bubbles	Spore Cap	50	150	450	950	4,950
Hocus Choppus	+% Chopping efficiency per power 10 Max MP	Trusty Nails	100	300	900	1,900	9,900
Molto Loggo	Multi-log chance (linear bubble – capped at 300% or 600% with a World 5 mechanic)	Iron Bar	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Le Brain Tools	Hatchets and worship skulls give more skilling power	Sentient Cereal	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
Cookin Roadkill	Cranium Cooking lasts longer, gives more progress and lower cooldown. Also Alchemy EXP	Potty Rolls	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
Call Me Pope	Increased worship charge rate	Crabbo	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
Severapurple	Increases bonus of particular purple bubbles	Void Ore	30	90	270	570	2,970
Tree Sleeper	+% Chopping AFK gains	Squishy Soul	40	120	360	760	3,960
Slabe Logsoul	+ Chopping and worship power per 100 items found	Scarab	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Pious At Heart	+% Divinity EXP Gain	Toxic Bay Inc Normal Treasure (Sailing)	100	300	900	1,900	9,900
Endgame Eff ILI	+ Chopping and worship power for every 10 class levels above 500	Summoning Green Essence	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Deep Depth	+% Chance to find the rope in Spelunking Delves	Prehistrium Ore	200	600	1,800	3,800	19,800
Tachyon Bubble	+% Extra Tachyons for Arcane Cultist	Pufferflesh	500	1,500	4,500	9,500	49,500

Best Yellow Bubbles

Bubble	Effect	Material	50%	75%	90%	95%	99%
Lotto Skills	+ Total LUK (linear bubble up to 50k)	Thread	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Droppin Loads	+% Drop Rate	Goldfish	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
Startue EXP	Statue EXP bar resets to above 0 after level up	Pocket Sand	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Prowesessary	Increases Prowess bonus for ever skill (lowers the efficiency needed for multiple resources)	Potty Rolls	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Undeveloped Costs	Reduces material costs of all alchemy bubbles	Jellyfish	70	210	630	1,330	6,930
Grind Time	+% Class EXP (Linear)	Water Droplets & Liquid Nitrogen	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Laaarrrryyyy	Chance to upgrade alchemy bubbles twice	Dementia Ore	100	300	900	1,900	9,900
Sample It	+% Sample size	Dune Soul	40	120	360	760	3,960
Mr Massacre	+% Multikill per damage tier	Spontaneity Salts	50	150	450	950	4,950
Diamond Chef	Faster meal and fire kitchen speeds for every meal at level 11+	Beach Docks Spice	13	39	117	247	1,287
Big P	Higher Divinity bonuses	Safari Island Normal Treasure (Sailing)	60	180	540	1,140	5,940
Kattle Da Goat	+% More Kattlekruk bubbles per day	Spelunking Item (RustBelt_03)	300	900	2,700	5,700	29,700
Codfrey Rulz Ok	+% Gallery Bonus Multi	Spelunking Item (Chucklemire)	500	1,500	4,500	9,500	49,500

Written by

Samuel Franklin

Samuel Franklin is the founder and lead editor of the Games Finder team and enjoys video games across all genres and platforms.

Idleon has secured its place as one of Sam’s favourite games due to its nostalgic MapleStory vibes and the ability to play while working on Games Finder reviews, articles and guides. He also enjoys the optimisation challenge of the various game mechanics introduced in each new world that provide new opportunities to maximise his damage and printer output. With thousands of hours played Sam is regularly pushing the highest levels of Idleon content as he looks to make small percentage account gains while sharing his experience with other players.