Compounding: Select Ingredients, a pentagon reads the mixture

About this game

Developer: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Publisher: KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Cel-shaded & anime · Screen type: Trade / Economy

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What to study

The second half of compounding, and the more original screen: ingredient quantities are tuned against a pentagon chart whose five vertices carry elemental glyphs, so the quality of a medicine is a shape you steer, not a percentage you maximise. The Total Added budget (0 of 10) makes every addition a trade against the others, and the screen refuses to proceed until each required ingredient appears at least once, the rule is printed on the face of the screen, in red, where the mistake happens. It is the Atelier synthesis idea translated into Maomao's idiom: balance as diagnosis. As with the recipe screen, the announcement trailer's 'Compounding' ribbon and caption are burned into the lower edge by the trailer edit and are disclosed here rather than hidden. Frame at about 0:46 in the Announcement Trailer video (Steam), a pipeline scene-change survivor (candidates/v0_0019.png at 45.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

side-panel stat-panel data-overlay portrait-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Chart Button prompts

Screen inventory

• header: the job, 'Make Medicinal Tea', and a Total Added counter, 0 / 10, that frames ingredient choice as a budget, not a checklist
• ingredient rows as ink-brush strokes with round item icons and quantities: Poria (highlighted), Tea Leaves, Honey, each row a single tap-to-add material
• the pentagon: a five-vertex chart (tree, flame, crystal, grain, water glyphs) plotting the mixture's balance live, the current blend drawn as a thin yellow sliver, the recipe's target shape is spatial, not numeric
• Maomao stands at right with eyes closed, thinking; the warning 'Add at least one of each ingredient!' and a Begin Compounding prompt gate the exit; controller prompts (Select / Auto-Add Ingredients / Back / Confirm) run along the bottom

Top 3 colors

#1b1b19 25%#522f19 22%#8b9b75 16%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD., The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother screenshot: The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother - Announcement Trailer video (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD..

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: pipeline scene-change frame (candidates/v0_0019.png, 45.5s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native), settled crafting screen, ingredient rows, pentagon chart and prompts sharp and legible; the trailer's burned-in ribbon/caption at the lower edge is disclosed in the study note

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