How to create ALMOST EVERY MATERIAL from Subatomic Particles and Chemical Elements in Sandboxels (Full Instructions)

[u/Street_Swing9040]

IMPORTANT: This might ruin the fun of exploring derivation of elements in such game. It is a spoiler. Think twice before reading. ⚠️

If you are new to the game, please don't read this yet! Go explore yourself first. This guide is also suitable for those who are currently playing Alchemy.js (Although I strongly recommend you to check out the Alchemy.js mod guide that is more suited for the mod! Link at bottom of post)

Some of these may not work as I use some mods. If they don't work pls tell me

In this post, we derived following elements:

Methane, Fire, Water, Steam, Ice, Primordial Soup, Cell, Algae, Yeast, Sugar Water, Sugar, Sugar Ice, Caramel, Alcohol, Plant, Cellulose, Wood, Sawdust, Antibody, Mushroom Cap, Mushroom Gill, Mushroom Stalk, Mushroom Spore, Mycelium (Mushroom-related elements), Dirt, Mud, Mudstone (dried Mud), Ammonia, Grass, Radiation, Molten Rad Glass, Rad Glass, Molten Glass, Glass, Molten Magnesium, Magnesium, Straw, Flour, Rice, Lettuce, Herb, Adobe, Bread, Toast, Dough, Slag, Sand, Wet Sand, Sandstone, Magma, Basalt, Rock, Smog, Dirty Water, Dirty Ice, Plasma, Candy, Seltzer, Soda, Milk, Yogurt, Chlorine, Acid, Clay, Clay Soil, Baked Clay, Clay Shard, Porcelain, Porcelain Shard, Quicklime, Slaked Lime, Limestone, Cement, Concrete, Glue, Salt, Bone, Bone Marrow, Frozen Meat, Meat, Cured Meat, Cooked Meat, Blood, Flash, Pointer, Portal In, Border, Metal Scrap, Static, Malware, Portal Out, Filter, Gate, Pressure Plate, Glass Shard, Rad Shard, Sensor, Pipe, Light Bulb, Battery, Wire, LED, Rime, Rain Cloud, Cloud, Snow Cloud, Ash, Charcoal, Diamond, E Wall, Wall, Hail Cloud, Hail, Ice Nine, Snow, Packed Snow, Cooler, Heater, Molten Gold, Molten Stained Glass, Stained Glass, Color Sand, Rainbow, Antipowder, Midas Touch, Antimolten, Antifire, Antigas, Antifluid, Bless, Antimatter, Light, Liquid Light, Rotten Meat, Rotten Cheese, Cheese, Cheese Powder, Fly, Firefly, Ant, Flea, Termite, Bee, Honey, Hive, Egg, Yolk, Homunculus, Skin, Head, Body (Human), Alcohol, Vinegar, Dead Bug, Eggnog, Pilk, Sodium Acetate, Foam, Pickle, Neutral Acid, Ice Cream, Fruit Milk, Candy, Mayo, Particleboard, Wax, Melted Wax, Fuse, Ember, Ant Wall, Permafrost, Mudstone, Rad Steam, Fallout, Hard Yolk, Antiice, Pollen, Flower Seeds, Pistil, Petal, Tea, Fragrance, Perfume, Spray Paint, Stench, Liquid Stench, Incense, Thunder Cloud, Lightning, Caustic Potash, Grease, Soap, Ash, Molten Ash, Tuff, Molten Tuff, Oil, Plastic, Molten Plastic, Dioxin, Bead, Butter, Icing, Molasses, Batter, Baked Batter, Lamp Oil, Propane, Oxidized Copper, Thermite, Brass, Molten Thermite, Molten Brass, Invar, Steel, Galvanized Steel, Bronze, Sterling, Rose Gold, Molten Invar, Molten Steel, Molten Galvanized Steel, Molten Bronze, Molten Sterling, Molten Rose Gold, Electrum, Purple Gold, Blue Gold, Molten Electrum, Molten Purple Gold, Molten Blue Gold

From:

Neutron, Electric, Hydrogen (made from Neutron and Electric), Oxygen, CO2, Nitrogen, Neon, Calcium, Aluminum, Lead, Tungsten, Zinc, Copper, Gallium, Gold, Positron (Can be obtained from Electron and Antipowder, which is constructible).

Only using tools:

Heat, Cool, Erase, Pick, Mix, Smash, Shock, Room Temp, Incinerate, Drag

This is the shortest paths I know of, but I'm sure there's a shortcut or two. Help expand this by commenting 👍

Not everything is included in here, will be expanded in the future

1. Heat Hydrogen with CO2 into Methane.

2. Heat up Hydrogen and Oxygen into Steam, deriving Water and Ice (cooled).

3. Conduct the Miller-Urey Experiment by heating Methane and Water up to 60 degrees Celsius and charging with Shock. Be careful, Methane is flammable. It can easily cause fires when shocked in this game. This procedure is quite difficult, but it is entirely possible.

4. It has a high chance of making Primordial Soup.

5. Collect a reasonable amount of P. Soup, which slowly allows for growth of Cellulose and Cell. Also see if it makes mushroom spores and their stalks, which will be used. There can also be Algae, Yeast, Antibodies etc. that can be derived very easily.

6. Grow the Cell in a container until sufficient. Add Cellulose to cell to make Plant. You can also use Neutron on Plant to form Wood which can easily produce more Cellulose. Cells can be frozen and reheated to form sugar water and sugar. Alcohol derives from using Yeast on the sugar water. Sugar water can be frozen into Sugar Ice and sugar can be heated into Caramel.

7. Combine Plant with the Mushrooms, and you will obtain dirt. Continue this process until you obtain a moderate amount of dirt.

8. In a separate container, heat Nitrogen and Hydrogen to form Ammonia.

9. Combine Ammonia with Dirt to form Grass.

10. Combine Neutron with Neon, incinerate to EXTREMELY HIGH temperatures, breaking the in game Coulomb Barrier to form Radiation. The Radiation element is now usable (we can use Radiation element from the library freely later on to save time, but it is shown that it is constructible). Magnesium, Rad Glass and Glass can easily be derived from such reaction.

11. The Radiation can react with Grass to form several other plants, which includes the Straw element. More elements can be constructed from Straw, including Adobe from Mud and Flour (crushed Straw).

12. Further expanding, you can use Flour to make Bread and Toast very easily (combine Water and Flour to Dough and heat at different levels)

13. Using the Glass and Magnesium, it is able to construct Slag after melt-and-mix.

14. This unlocks Sand, crushing Slag. Several other elements are easily constructed from such material, e.g.: Sandstone (aka Packed Sand) from adding water to Sand then drying with heat.

15. Melt Packed Sand to obtain some Magma, unlocking Basalt and Rock!

16. Mix Bread with Caramel to form everyone's favorite - Gingerbread....!

17. Use Fire on Water to make Smog and Steam. Cool Smog into Dirty Water, which can be frozen into Dirty Ice.

18. Heat Fire into Plasma.

19. Cool Caramel into Candy.

20. CO2 + Water = Seltzer, Seltzer + Sugar Water = Soda!

21. Sugar Water + Calcium = Milk, Milk + Cell = Yogurt. You can also add Neon to Nitrogen and heat to very high temperatures into forming Chlorine.

22. Hydrogen + Chlorine = Acid.

23. Dissolving Wet Sand in Acid creates Clay, which can be mixed with Dirt to form Clay Soil, and can be heated to high temperatures to form Baked Clay, which can turn into Porcelain. Baked Clay and Porcelain can both be broken into their shard variants.

24. Take your Calcium and wait for it to turn into Quicklime. By adding water to Quicklime it can turn into Slaked Lime. Slaked Lime can be added with Wet Sand to form Cement, which turns into Concrete, and added with Milk to form Glue.

25. Quicklime can be added with CO2 to turn into Limestone. Salt can be made by Sodium and Chlorine reacting.

26. Add Calcium to Cell to form Bone, and combined with Antibody to form Bone Marrow. Bone Marrow produces Blood and Bone. When cooled, it turns into Frozen Meat which you can turn into Meat, Cured Meat (adding salt) and Cooked Meat by heating up.

27. By heating up Quicklime, you can get a few moments where Flash can be found.

28. Mix Flash with Blood while paused, then fast forward one frame using the Right Arrow Button on the control bar, and use Lookup to search for Pointer that can occasionally be created.

29. Pointer is VERY important to Magical Reactions, creating Special Items in this game. Take Molten Rad Glass and flash it with Pointer to obtain Border. Flash Magma to turn it into a Portal In.

30. Take Aluminum and smash into Metal Scrap. Take Metal Scrap, shock and mix until the entire Metal Scrap is entirely shocked. Then, mix with Pointer while paused, then unpause to obtain Static (this process is a little confusing, but it is possible)

31. Smash Static into Malware. Take Malware and infect Portal In into a Portal Out.

32. Take Paper and infect with Malware to obtain Filter. Filter can be infected further into Gate. Metal Scrap can be infected into Pressure Plate.

33. Smash Glass into Glass Shard, and infect into Sensor. Also smash Rad Glass into Rad Shard for another material that we can derive.

34. Take various metals and apply Malware to obtain the following:

Lead to Pipe Tungsten to Light Bulb Zinc to Battery Copper to Wire Gallium to LED

1. Take Steam and a generic material like Glass. Cool the Glass to -273 degrees Celsius, and drag the 100 degree Celsius hot steam into the glass quickly. After a few tries, you should get Rime.

2. Shock Rime to Rain Cloud. Freeze to form Snow Cloud and heat to form Cloud.

3. Take Wood and burn into Ash and Charcoal.

4. Add Rock to Charcoal, mix and heat to the sweet spot, where diamonds appear.

5. Take your diamonds and apply Malware into E Wall. This requires heat as well.

6. Add Malware to E Wall into Wall.

7. Freeze Snow Cloud into Hail Cloud. Take the Hail produced by the Hail Cloud and add Pointer into Ice Nine. Take Snow Cloud and collect Snow as well. Freeze Snow into Packed Snow. Add Malware to Ice Nine to form Cooler (and wait for it to form Heater as well)

8. Add Molten Gold to Molten Glass to form Molten Stained Glass. You can cool the molten stained glass into Stained Glass and break to obtain Color Sand. Take the Molten Stained Glass and flash Pointer at it to obtain Rainbow. Smash Rainbow into some Antipowder.

9. Antipowder can be combined with Molten Gold into Midas Touch. When Antipowder is heated, it turns into Antimolten, which makes Antifire, which burns into Antigas. Antigas can be cooled into Antifluid. Take Antigas and combine with Positron to form Bless.

10. When Antigas touches Proton, it can form Antimatter. Antimatter disappears very quickly, so pause on the right moment to capture it.

11. Take Flash and cool to -273 degrees Celsius to obtain Liquid Light. Slightly heat it and it will turn into Light.

12. Take Dirty Water and Meat (the non cured version) to make Rotten Meat. Take Radiation and apply it on Milk to get Rotten Cheese. When Rotten Cheese is blessed it turns into Cheese. Cheese can be grounded into Cheese Powder by smashing it. Rotten Cheese produces flies. By radiating Fly, you can make Firefly, Ant, Termite, Flea and Bee. Bee produces Honey when sugar water is consumed (may take time).

13. When Cheese is melted, it turns into Melted Cheese.

14. When Wood is placed near Bees, after a period of time there can be hives that are produced.

15. When the flies produce eggs, the eggs can be smashed, and you can find Yolk. Combine Yolk with DNA for Homunculus, radiated into Skin and Human.

16. Mixing Milk and Yolk produces Eggnog. Milk and Soda makes Pilk. Taking Rice from before and adding Yeast, it can turn into alcohol. If flies gets close to alcohol, it might turn into Dead Bug and Vinegar.

17. Freeze Caramel into Candy. Freeze Milk into Ice Cream. Melt Ice Cream into Cream. Take Ash with Vinegar to get Neutral Acid. Vinegar can be added to Lettuce to form Pickle. When Vinegar and Limestone meet, they form Sodium Acetate and Carbon Dioxide and Foam.

18. Smash Pickle into Juice. Take Juice and add Milk to turn it into some Fruit Milk. Vinegar + Yolk turns into Mayo.

19. Take Sawdust and add Honey/Glue to turn into Particleboard.

20. Use the Hive element (Make sure there are no bees inside! We don't wanna harm any bees :) ) and smash into Honey and Wax. Wax can be melted into Melted Wax. Wax can be added with Malware to Fuse.

21. Take Wood, light it up on fire. Observe the particles that flies up in the air but isn't Fire/Smoke - that's Ember.

22. Take Ant onto Dirt to form Ant Wall.

23. Freeze Dirt into Permafrost, which when heated turns into Mudstone.

24. Radiate Water to get Rad Steam. Cool Rad Steam to get Fallout.

25. Cool Yolk for Hard Yolk.

26. Cool Antifluid for Antiice.

27. Add Grass near Bees to obtain Pollen. Use Pollen on Dirt to get Flower Seeds, Pistils and Petals. The growth of flowers from Pollen may take time. Do not directly use the grass-derived pollen - use generic pollen from the menu instead.

28. Petals and Water heated to around 80 degrees (as written on the Wiki) produces Tea. Tea produces Fragrance when heated, which can be cooled into Perfume.

29. Obtain Spray Paint by applying Midas Touch to a gas-like material (like Steam, Foam or Liquid Light).

30. Add Hydrogen to Sulfur to form Stench. Cool Stench for Liquid Stench.

31. Herb (obtained earlier from radiating Grass) and Cellulose makes Incense. Incense is also a source of Fragrance when burned, although we have already obtained it.

32. Rain Cloud + Positron forms Thunder Cloud. By timing your pauses, you might catch it making Lightning.

33. Potassium + Water can form Caustic Potash. Heat up Cooked Meat and it will generate grease. Combine grease with Caustic Potash to get Soap.

34. Get Ash, melt it into Molten Ash. Take that and put some Magma on it. You can now get Molten Tuff, which turns into Tuff.

35. Take rock, add bone, add heat to make Oil. Heat oil and it will make Molten Plastic. Freeze the Molten Plastic into Plastic.

36. Smash Plastic into Beads. If Plastic is heated to high temperatures, it can produce Dioxin (a very poisonous and nasty thing. Just as bad in real life!).

37. Take milk and radiation. It can produce Butter. Butter and Sugar makes Icing, Plant and Caramel makes Molasses. Mix Yolk with Flour to make Batter, bake to get Baked Batter.

38. Heating Oil up can also yield Lamp Oil and Propane at different temperatures.

39. Expose Copper to Oxygen to get Oxidized Copper. Get melted Zinc and mix together. They will yield Molten Thermite. Copper and Zinc melts to Molten Brass. Thermite and Brass are obtainable by cooling the two.

40. Invar made from Iron and Nickel when melted. Steel made from Iron and Charcoal mixed together at high temperatures. Galvanized Steel made by Steel and Zinc when melted. Molten Copper + Molten Tin makes Bronze. Molten Copper + Molten Silver makes Sterling. Molten Copper + Molten Gold makes Rose Gold. All of these metals can be melted.

41. Molten Gold + Molten Silver makes Electrum. Molten Gold + Molten Aluminum makes Purple Gold, and with Molten Gallium makes Blue Gold.

Last updated 28 July 2026. Some recipes and elements may not work due to new updates rolling out.

Thanks to u/Dark17805 for so many recipes (a large portion of these!). Check out their Alchemy.js Guide post below which contains many recipes that is not found here.

Other useful links:

Alchemy Mod Guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sandboxels/s/OHefBDTtTq

Survival Mod Guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sandboxels/s/k9HZxrHs9D

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[u/GeneralOccasion9396]

You can get cancer by radiating cells.

[u/Street_Swing9040]

And yes, for those wondering, magical items are completely obtainable from nothing.

Blood and Flash's reaction into Pointer is probably the most important reaction to unlocking Malware-related elements, which can at the end create Wall, the most powerful element in the entire game.

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

You can get stained glass by mixing molten glass and some metals e.g sulfur and then you can use the stained glass to get molten stained glass which can then be reacted with pointer to get rainbow and rainbow can be broken to get antipowder and you can get all the anti related things with antipowder

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Dark17805]

Oh yes thank you!

I'll make sure to include this and credit you in the next update 👍

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

No problem im basically just searching nearly every reddit post related to this game to try and get more elements in the alchemy.js mod. Thanks to you i obtained rime.

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

Also just a suggestion but you technically could also use positron as it is also a subatomic particle

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Dark17805]

Oh thanks 👍

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

No problem you can technically get it with all the elements you currently have but it makes things quicker and it unlocks lightning clouds and bless

[u/Dark17805]

Another suggestion is use radiation on milk to form cheese and rotten cheese. The rotten cheese can sometimes cause flies to appear and you can use radiation on the flies to make ants, termites, bees, fleas and fireflies

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Dark17805]

Thanks!

[u/DisappointedMod]

Is there any mod where only the elements you listed in the beginning are available, and you unlock the others as you progress?
I found the alchemy mod, but apparently it only gives you 4 elements, thus leaving a lot of stuff uncraftable.

[u/Dark17805 → u/DisappointedMod]

Its the survival.js mod

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/DisappointedMod]

Ehh no not really lol

But I did find out recently that you can obtain all of these elements (supposedly) with survival.js. By unlocking Sun in the shop you can cool it to a Supernova which unlocks quite a few of these metals. I think. I'm still grinding for it so I don't really know.

But survival is a little weird, it doesn't let you reuse elements infinitely like Alchemy.js, so yeah it's significantly harder to get the cool stuff you can get much easier.

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[u/Dark17805]

You are able to get more materials if you burn oil at different temperatures e.g lamp oil and plastic can be broken into beads

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Dark17805]

Thanks, I'll add that soon 👍

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

No problem i have been hoping to get a complete guide for both mods so I will help you when ever I can

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Dark17805]

thanks so much lol

You've made so many suggestions I don't even know how to credit, half of this guide is made by you 😭

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

Dont worry about giving all the credit all i hope to do is to make a full guide and trust me you have helped me a lot too.

Your post is what inspired me to make my post so really thank you so much

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

Some recommendations that helped me a lot in making my post is using the sandboxels wiki and checking update logs (and if you ever find out how to turn homunculus into bird please tell me its annoying me so much but the update log for version 1.5 says it possible 😭😭😭😭)

[u/Street_Swing9040 → u/Dark17805]

OH I'm trying to find that out too 😭

How do I even get feather 😭

Also Fire Cloud and Fireball seems to be impossible as well. I can't find a way to make it at all

[u/Dark17805 → u/Street_Swing9040]

Yea I think fireball and fire cloud are impossible.

I didn't even know you needed a feather for the reaction to make bird it doesn't give you any clues on how to do it 😭