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Chants of Sennaar Laboratories Guide — Numbers, Gold, Silver and Transmutation
Released game / standard Steam edition guide · Updated 2026-10-13
Turn tableware into a silver ingot and supply it with gold to the transmutation device. Read numbers as thousands, hundreds, tens and units.
Galleries, numbers and materials
Meanings, devices and actions are described in original prose rather than reproducing glyph images.
| Place / target | Action | Check / caution |
|---|---|---|
| Monster in the Galleries | Escape into light and throw a stone at the cart as a distraction | Finally, move the cart and close the large door with the lever. |
| Activate the elevator | Leftmost blue button → lever → leftmost dial → third blue button from the left → rightmost dial | Restart the input if the order is wrong. |
| Library | Read the exhibits, books and note by the green hat | The hat’s code is 5039. |
| Dining room | Check the meal bell and clock before entering | Take the silver tableware. |
| Smelting | Set the valve horizontally and place tableware in the top | Use the lever to raise it into the orange band; press the blue button while inside the band. |
| Gold section | Take the gold ingot | Also take the card from the third locker on the left. |
| Silver mine | Use the card to enter and help the Alchemist in the cart | Obtain the lighter; also inspect the terminal and text farther in. |
| Third laboratory | Turn on the light and enter 5039 | Read the recipe on the blackboard. |
Transmutation recipe
Meanings, devices and actions are described in original prose rather than reproducing glyph images.
| Place / target | Action | Check / caution |
|---|---|---|
| Gold | 1405 | Select the material, set its amount with the weights and confirm. |
| Silver | 0812 | Keep the leading zero in the correct place value. |
| Carbon | 0046 | Do not add copper to the recipe. |
| Output | Blue button on the machine to the right | Discard a mistake with red; use the completed key at the exit. |
Read the number’s place values
Of the four sections, upper-left is thousands, upper-right hundreds, lower-left tens and lower-right units. Do not mistake a complete number glyph for a single digit; read the hat note as 5039.
No complete weight-position diagram or recovery sequence from every incorrect input state is included. Recheck the material and amount before trying again.
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