
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering
Like Alchemy, but More Tangible!
The Codex of Alchemical Engineering is a puzzle game about programming “manipulators” to move, transmute, and bind alchemical “atoms” into complex compounds.
A few notes about the game:
- After completing a level, your progress is saved so long as your Flash “cookies” aren’t deleted. Your design, however, is not; if you want to keep your design, you must go to the Save screen and save the text shown there (I keep my solutions in a text file on my desktop). You can reload a saved design by pasting the design code into the Load window and pressing the load button.
- The music playing is Evan’s “Rever… Peut-etre…”, which you can find here on jamendo.com.
Requires: Flash
Play The Codex of Alchemical Engineering

The Magnum Opus Challenge
With Fifteen Levels Inspired by Players
If you haven’t beaten The Codex of Alchemical Engineering, you probably shouldn’t play this yet – it’s much harder!
Requires: Flash

103 Comments
Love this game! So much so that I wonder if I can change the shift and ctrl key bindings. I can play the game on my htc merge but the physical keyboard doesn’t have those keys. Is there a solution?
Thanks,
Chris
can someone please help with lvl 8? i have the solution aaaaaalmost but my secondary salt production is too fast for the rest of the machine! anything would be appreciated.
here is my code for now.
c,5,11;t,5,9;t,1,9;t,3,7;
c,1,11;b,7,10;b,1,1;
m,4,5,0,2,cddloruuw;
m,1,7,90,1,cl1orwwww;
m,7,7,180,3,cl1doruww;
m,5,7,180,1,wwwwlcr1o;
m,8,7,90,2,cld1lorru;
m,11,5,180,2,wwwwwwwwwwwwwwcrjw;
m,11,10,90,2,cdr2uolww;
m,5,13,180,1,cr2uuoddl;
m,1,13,270,3,ddrcl1uuo;
m,1,5,0,1,clu1uoddr;
m,3,3,90,1,ouucddwww;
m,4,1,0,1,22orc2rrr;
woops sorry for that
b,6,9;b,10,6;
t,13,2;t,11,2;
c,3,11;
c,11,11;
t,13,4;t,13,6;
m,3,9,90,3,clorcddluourwww;
m,7,6,90,2,wwcwwwwwww1lorw;
m,11,4,90,1,wwjwwwwwwwwwclloll;
m,11,9,90,3,cddlluourrwwwww;
m,11,0,90,1,cr1uodl;
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