How many elements are in Little Alchemy?

The final original-game library contains 580 standard elements. The old live URL says 540 because it was written during an earlier version. This canonical page corrects the count without repeating the obsolete number in the route.

Little Alchemy completion count
CountMeaning
4Starting elements: air, earth, fire and water
580Standard library completion
9Hidden bonus elements outside the standard counter

All 580 Little Alchemy elements and recipes

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580 elements

A

air

  • Basic element
  • ocean + plant
  • plant + sea
  • plant + water

ant

  • grass + wild animal
  • sugar + wild animal
  • metal + tool
  • steel + tool

ash

  • energy + volcano
  • human + Moon
  • human + rocket
  • human + space
  • human + space station
  • Antarctica + atmosphere
  • Antarctica + sky
  • Antarctica + Sun

axe

  • blade + wood

B

  • bread + human
  • dough + human
  • flour + human
  • baker + house
  • bread + house
  • gold + house
  • house + money
  • house + safe
  • cow + house
  • hay + house
  • house + livestock

bat

  • bird + mouse
  • mouse + sky

bbq

  • campfire + garden
  • campfire + meat
  • ocean + sand
  • sand + sea
  • sand + water
  • dam + wild animal
  • wild animal + wood

bee

  • flower + wild animal
  • alcohol + wheat
  • air + egg
  • air + life
  • egg + sky
  • life + sky
  • blade + electricity
  • blade + glass
  • snow + snow
  • snow + storm
  • snow + wind
  • corpse + time
  • paper + story
  • paper + wood
  • clay + fire
  • clay + Sun
  • fire + mud
  • mud + Sun
  • metal + river
  • river + steel
  • river + wood

bus

  • car + car
  • energy + milk
  • milk + pressure

C

  • desert + plant
  • plant + sand
  • candle + dough
  • desert + horse
  • desert + livestock
  • desert + wild animal
  • fire + wax
  • thread + wax
  • castle + gunpowder
  • gunpowder + pirate ship
  • fabric + hero

car

  • metal + wheel
  • snowman + Sun
  • snowman + vegetable
  • fabric + mountain goat
  • mountain goat + scissors
  • mountain goat + thread
  • mountain goat + tool
  • mountain goat + wool

cat

  • milk + wild animal
  • campfire + witch
  • fireplace + witch
  • metal + witch
  • steel + witch
  • metal + rope
  • rope + steel
  • bird + farmer
  • bird + livestock
  • egg + livestock
  • brick + fireplace
  • brick + smoke
  • fireplace + house
  • skyscraper + skyscraper
  • village + village
  • electricity + time
  • time + tool
  • time + wheel
  • plant + pressure
  • snowman + Sun
  • electricity + nerd
  • nerd + tool
  • nerd + wire
  • blade + paper
  • paper + scissors
  • Grim reaper + human
  • gun + human

cow

  • grass + livestock
  • pencil + rainbow
  • rainbow + wax
  • bird + field
  • bird + scarecrow
  • gold + monarch
  • metal + monarch

D

dam

  • beaver + river
  • beaver + tree
  • beaver + wood
  • river + wall

day

  • night + Sun
  • night + time
  • sky + Sun
  • Sun + time
  • cactus + sand
  • sand + sand

dew

  • fog + grass
  • grass + water
  • coal + pressure
  • coal + time

dog

  • bone + wolf
  • human + wild animal
  • leather + wood
  • alcohol + human
  • beer + human
  • human + wine
  • carbon dioxide + cold
  • carbon dioxide + ice
  • bird + lake
  • bird + pond
  • bird + water
  • duckling + time
  • beach + wind
  • desert + wind
  • sand + wind
  • air + earth
  • day + vampire
  • Sun + vampire

E

egg

  • bird + bird
  • life + stone
  • lizard + lizard
  • turtle + turtle
  • energy + metal
  • light + solar cell
  • solar cell + Sun
  • wind + wind turbine
  • computer + letter
  • Internet + letter
  • air + fire
  • plant + Sun

F

  • castle + story
  • dragon + story
  • knight + story
  • monarch + story
  • barn + farmer
  • farmer + house
  • field + human
  • human + pitchfork
  • human + plant
  • earth + farmer
  • earth + tool
  • Basic element
  • carbon dioxide + fire
  • carbon dioxide + metal
  • carbon dioxide + pressure
  • firetruck + human
  • fire + human
  • brick + campfire
  • campfire + house
  • campfire + wall
  • hard roe + time
  • rain + rain
  • rain + time
  • stone + wheat
  • waterwheel + wheat
  • wheat + windmill
  • airplane + squirrel
  • bird + squirrel
  • sky + squirrel
  • squirrel + wind

fog

  • cloud + earth
  • dinosaur + earth
  • dinosaur + stone
  • dinosaur + time

fox

  • chicken + wild animal
  • cold + electricity
  • cold + metal
  • ice + metal
  • pond + wild animal
  • farmer + tree
  • Sun + tree

G

  • flower + flower
  • grass + house
  • grass + plant
  • plant + plant
  • castle + night
  • graveyard + night
  • chimney + Santa
  • christmas stocking + Santa
  • christmas tree + Santa
  • cookie + Santa
  • fireplace + Santa
  • electricity + sand
  • fire + sand
  • glass + glass
  • glass + metal
  • livestock + mountain
  • metal + rainbow
  • metal + Sun
  • coffin + earth
  • corpse + earth
  • gravestone + gravestone
  • grave + grave

gun

  • bullet + metal

H

  • cloud + ice
  • ice + rain
  • ice + storm

ham

  • meat + smoke
  • egg + ocean
  • egg + pond
  • egg + sea
  • egg + water
  • fish + fish
  • angel + music

hay

  • farmer + grass
  • grass + scythe
  • grass + Sun
  • fence + leaf
  • fence + plant
  • leaf + sickness
  • plant + sickness
  • dragon + knight
  • horse + river
  • horse + water
  • bee + beehive
  • bee + flower
  • earth + sky
  • ocean + sky
  • sea + sky
  • ambulance + house
  • doctor + house
  • house + sickness
  • brick + human
  • brick + tool
  • human + wood
  • wall + wall
  • dog + ice
  • dog + snow

I

ice

  • cold + water
  • Antarctica + ocean
  • Antarctica + sea
  • ice + ocean
  • ice + sea
  • human + light bulb
  • light bulb + nerd
  • house + ice
  • house + snow
  • computer + computer
  • computer + web
  • computer + wire
  • ocean + volcano
  • sea + volcano

ivy

  • plant + wall

J

jam

  • juice + sugar
  • human + lightsaber
  • knight + lightsaber
  • meat + salt
  • meat + Sun
  • fruit + pressure
  • fruit + water

K

  • paper + sky
  • paper + wind

L

  • dam + river
  • pond + water
  • light bulb + metal
  • cow + rope
  • horse + rope
  • energy + swamp
  • love + time
  • electricity + flashlight
  • electricity + light bulb
  • beach + light
  • house + light
  • light + ocean
  • light + sea
  • electricity + sword
  • energy + sword
  • light + sword
  • cat + wild animal
  • farmer + life
  • farmer + wild animal
  • human + wild animal
  • human + human

M

map

  • earth + paper
  • planet + rust
  • blade + livestock
  • butcher + cow
  • butcher + livestock
  • butcher + pig
  • cow + tool
  • pig + tool
  • atmosphere + meteoroid
  • meteoroid + sky
  • cow + farmer
  • cow + human
  • castle + human
  • crown + human
  • Excalibur + human
  • cheese + sky
  • sky + stone
  • algae + stone
  • plant + stone
  • butterfly + Moon
  • butterfly + night
  • cheese + wild animal

mud

  • earth + water
  • flute + human
  • human + sound

N

  • ocean + unicorn
  • sea + unicorn
  • unicorn + water
  • hay + metal
  • metal + thread
  • glasses + human
  • bird + hay
  • bird + tree
  • egg + hay
  • day + time
  • Moon + sky
  • Moon + time

nut

  • squirrel + tree

O

  • desert + palm
  • desert + tree
  • desert + water
  • sea + sea
  • sea + water

oil

  • pressure + sunflower
  • clay + oil
  • fire + oil
  • glass + oil
  • oil + pottery
  • oil + rope
  • field + fruit tree
  • fruit tree + fruit tree

owl

  • bird + night
  • bird + wizard
  • carbon dioxide + plant
  • plant + Sun
  • electricity + oxygen
  • oxygen + oxygen

P

  • pencil + water
  • rainbow + water
  • beach + tree
  • isle + tree
  • bird + horse
  • bird + unicorn
  • horse + sky
  • charcoal + wood
  • coal + wood
  • bird + ice
  • bird + snow
  • ice + wild animal
  • alcohol + flower
  • alcohol + rose
  • flower + steam
  • flower + water
  • rose + steam
  • rose + water
  • beach + sandwich
  • grass + sandwich

pie

  • dough + fruit

pig

  • livestock + mud
  • bird + city
  • bird + letter
  • bird + statue
  • airplane + human
  • human + seaplane
  • tobacco + wood
  • pirate ship + sailor
  • sailor + sword
  • life + ocean
  • life + sea
  • life + water
  • garden + water
  • clay + fire
  • clay + tool
  • clay + wheel
  • flamethrower + snowman
  • ice + Sun
  • snowman + Sun
  • fire + vegetable
  • light + vegetable
  • desert + grave
  • desert + stone

Q

R

  • air + water
  • cloud + water

rat

  • pirate ship + wild animal
  • sailboat + wild animal
  • baker + paper
  • flour + paper
  • livestock + Santa
  • Santa + wild animal
  • diamond + gold
  • diamond + metal
  • mountain + rain
  • mountain + water
  • armor + life
  • life + metal
  • life + steel
  • robot + vacuum cleaner
  • thread + thread
  • flower + love
  • love + plant
  • castle + time
  • house + time
  • air + metal
  • air + steel
  • metal + oxygen
  • oxygen + steel

rv

  • car + house

S

  • gold + metal
  • gold + steel
  • metal + money
  • money + steel
  • boat + human
  • human + sailboat
  • fire + ocean
  • fire + sea
  • ocean + Sun
  • sea + Sun
  • air + stone
  • stone + wind
  • energy + sand
  • hurricane + sand
  • sand + storm
  • bacon + bread
  • bread + cheese
  • bread + ham
  • christmas tree + human
  • blade + doctor
  • blade + hospital
  • dune + wild animal
  • sand + wild animal
  • blade + grass
  • blade + wheat

sea

  • water + water
  • beach + bird
  • bird + ocean
  • bird + sea
  • fish + horse
  • horse + ocean
  • horse + sea
  • airplane + ocean
  • airplane + sea
  • airplane + water
  • boat + sickness
  • ocean + sickness
  • sailboat + sickness
  • sea + sickness
  • sickness + steamboat
  • blood + ocean
  • blood + sea
  • ocean + wild animal
  • sea + wild animal
  • cloud + livestock
  • bacteria + human
  • human + rain
  • human + sickness

sky

  • air + cloud
  • cart + snow
  • snow + wagon
  • time + wild animal
  • city + fog
  • fog + smoke
  • wild animal + wire
  • cold + rain
  • cold + steam
  • christmas tree + glass
  • crystal ball + snow
  • glass + snow
  • glass + snowman
  • carrot + snow
  • carrot + snowball
  • human + snow
  • snowball + snowball
  • carbon dioxide + juice
  • carbon dioxide + water
  • Moon + star
  • sky + star
  • star + Sun
  • night + sky
  • night + telescope
  • fish + star
  • ocean + star
  • sea + star
  • human + medusa
  • stone + tool
  • bbq + meat
  • cow + fire
  • energy + water
  • fire + water
  • boat + steam engine
  • steam engine + water
  • cloud + electricity
  • cloud + energy
  • energy + fruit
  • energy + juice
  • fire + juice

Sun

  • fire + sky
  • caviar + seaweed
  • fish + seaweed
  • grass + mud
  • mud + plant
  • blade + metal
  • blade + steel

T

  • armor + car
  • car + gun
  • electricity + gun

tea

  • leaf + water
  • glass + sky
  • glass + space
  • glass + star
  • fabric + house
  • fabric + wood
  • cotton + tool
  • wheel + wool
  • Moon + ocean
  • Moon + sea
  • bread + fire
  • fire + sandwich
  • human + metal
  • metal + steam engine
  • steam engine + steel
  • steam engine + wagon
  • steam engine + wheel
  • earthquake + ocean
  • earthquake + sea

U

UFO

  • airplane + alien
  • alien + rocket
  • double rainbow! + horse
  • double rainbow! + life
  • horse + rainbow
  • life + rainbow

V

  • blood + human
  • human + vampire
  • flower + pottery
  • plant + pottery
  • air + wine
  • oxygen + wine
  • time + wine
  • earth + lava
  • fire + mountain
  • lava + mountain

W

  • brick + brick
  • wizard + wood
  • ocean + wind
  • sea + wind

wax

  • bee + beehive

web

  • spider + thread
  • farmer + field
  • farmer + plant
  • air + energy
  • air + pressure
  • alcohol + fruit
  • electricity + metal
  • broom + human
  • broom + wizard
  • dog + forest
  • dog + wild animal
  • Moon + wild animal
  • scissors + sheep
  • sheep + tool

X

  • bone + light
  • light + skeleton

Y

yak

  • cow + mountain

Z

  • corpse + life
  • human + zombie

Fast paths to the most useful elements

Life

water + earth = mud; water + air = rain; rain + earth = plant; mud + plant = swamp; air + fire = energy; swamp + energy = life.

Human

Complete the life chain, then combine earth + life.

Time

earth + fire = lava; air + lava = stone; air + stone = sand; fire + sand = glass; sand + glass = time.

Wood

metal + human = tool; plant + time = tree; tool + tree = wood.

All nine hidden gems

Little Alchemy hidden elements
Hidden elementRecipe
Astronaut Ice Creamastronaut + ice cream
Dogedog + internet or dog + computer
Keyboard Catcat + music
Nessiestory + lake
Ninja Turtleturtle + ninja
TARDIStime + space
The DoctorTARDIS + doctor
The One Ringvolcano + ring
Yetistory + mountain or mountain range

Why a combination may not work

  • You are using a Little Alchemy 2 recipe in the original game.
  • One prerequisite has not been created in the current save.
  • The item is a final element and has no further combinations.
  • A hidden gem disappeared after the session and needs to be remade.
  • Browser storage was cleared, which can remove local progress.

Frequently asked questions

Does Little Alchemy have 540 or 580 elements?

The final original game has 580 standard elements. 540 was an earlier update count.

How do you make life?

Make swamp from mud + plant, make energy from air + fire, then combine swamp + energy.

Do Little Alchemy 2 recipes work in the first game?

Not always. The sequel changed many recipes, including energy and life.

Sources

Primary sources are preferred for current availability and product features. Older walkthrough details are labeled and cross-checked where possible.