A dollar-sign-in-a-capsule buried above the High Alchemist's Arena. Attributed to Petri, like the eyes.
UnsolvedBuried beneath the snow above the High Alchemist's Arena. Community-named the 'alchemy symbol' or 'dollar symbol'.
It predates the arena, boss, and tech egg: it existed in early access when the biome was the old 'twisty passages', was briefly removed, then re-added.
Every developer denies knowledge of it except Petri, so it is attributed to him (as are the eyes).
Present in the old 'twisty passages' biome, removed for a couple updates, then re-added long before the arena existed.
A dollar sign inside a capsule with what may be the alchemic symbol for Aqua Vitae underneath; the whole glyph also resembles a down arrow. 📷 Full photo
Filling the basins with whiskey, Midas, precursor, gold nuggets, gold powder, helium, and lively concoction produced no reaction. No material-interaction triggers exist here (unlike orb rooms).
The inverted triangle with a horizontal line is the alchemical sign for Earth; players read the '$' as the gold biome that sits above/near it. The Essence of Water (also an inverted triangle) likewise sits near a gold biome.
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The most common community reading: the '$' plus down-arrow simply flags the gold biome / Essence of Earth below it, a directional label rather than an interactive puzzle. Source: u/RoseAndLorelei, u/demonly48
The Aqua Vitae symbol may call for whiskey, the strongest in-game spirit (closest to ethanol). Tests so far have failed, but the material set may be incomplete.
The '$' may derive from the alchemic S-over-T (the brazen serpent / Rod of Asclepius).
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