Process of shifty-making is of big help-use. First, be taking five need-not materia, yes? Melty-mix this one, mixy-melt that one, squeeze and squash, then bigeyes! Five need-not are reborn as one shiny-new!
What kind of materia is reborn? Such knowings do not rattle Mutamix's braincase. Maybe new materia is worth much jinglyshine; maybe it is even more scrappyjunk than five before. Shifty-making is exciting chance-game, yes?
System
Mutamix will perform materia transmutation for you at any time, free of charge. Bring the goblin five pieces of unwanted materia, and he will transform them into a single new piece to use as you see fit.
That said, materia transmutation remains an inexact science. As for what manner of materia will emerge each time Mutamix works his wonders, not even the goblin genius himself can say.
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Uplander wants to remove materia? Uplander need but wedgy-pry it off. If uplander is lucky, materia not become bittybits!
System
If you wish to remove materia from an item, highlight its icon and select Retrieve Materia. There is a chance that the materia will be salvaged.
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Airyself lives in objects. When full of airyself, object changes to stonyshine, name of materia.
Biography
Mutamix is an elderly goblin who arrived in Thanalan near the end of the Sixth Astral Era. He has since toiled to impart upon the realm his boundless knowledge of materia—an enigmatic substance best described as the crystallized aetherial essence of a well-worn piece of equipment.
In the past, he belonged to the fraternity of goblin scholars known as the Illuminati; however, he found himself at odds with their secretive ways, and left the group claiming that science might only evolve through diversity of thought.
For many a twelvemoon, he wandered the realm upon the Cauldron, his makeshift furnace of prodigious size mounted upon a raptor-drawn carriage. At present, he has settled in the wilds of Thanalan at a camp his followers have come to call the Bonfire. Here, he continues his research alongside his loyal disciples.