You convert raw materials into products of the same material. For example, you can fabricate a wooden bridge from a clump of trees, a rope from a patch of hemp, and clothes from flax or wool.
Choose raw materials that you can see within range. You can fabricate a Large or smaller object (contained within a 10-foot cube, or eight connected 5-foot cubes), given a sufficient quantity of raw material. If you are working with metal, stone, or another mineral substance, however, the fabricated object can be no larger than Medium (contained within a single 5-foot cube). The quality of objects made by the spell is commensurate with the quality of the raw materials.
Creatures or magic items can’t be created or transmuted by this spell. You also can’t use it to create items that ordinarily require a high degree of craftsmanship, such as jewelry, weapons, glass, or armor, unless you have proficiency with the type of artisan’s tools used to craft such objects.
I'd say yes, you could turn the door into bars, or little figurines maybe
Not to be pedantic, but chemical changes are physical changes, just on an extremely small scale.
How might this interact with a Transmutation Wizard's Minor Alchemy trait? Could one spend 8 hours, yes an edge case, to convert a large mass of stone or metal to wood and then have another use Fabricate to shape the resulting material?
Always goes back to the "DM makes the rules" when there's no RAW or RAI on the spells specifics.
As a player -
1. Talk to the DM, what are you trying to achieve - are you planning to abuse the spell?
2. Test the waters slowly to give precedent and weight to the argument for a yes to "coal to diamond" question. Build character knowledge and credential so that your character isn't pulling carbon to diamond idea out from his/her ass. Water to Ice, Ice to steam. Water to oxygen and hydrogen, creating bronze from tin and copper and the reverse. making pure metal element ingots from unrefined ores. Wood to charcoal, charcoal to coal etc. etc. Also make sure to check the libraries and archives to see what level of transmutation had been achieved in the world you are playing in.
As a DM you can go many ways about it - if this is allowed you can:
1. Let it go ahead but balance the game to match the level of abuse the players are using this spell for.
2. Make a dick move and lower the price of diamonds by over production from other casters with the same idea - forcing the players to create a mountain of diamonds for use as spell components.
3. Explain that the caster must first obtain the knowledge of the possibility of converting carbon to diamonds. After all, the Wish spell can make anything happen but only if you are able to even imagine it being possible in the first place.
4. Divine intervention - your choice of God of order, trade, magic, nature etc. intervening on the spell
5. Best described as "an anomaly is created in the matrix"- unnoticeable at first but becomes more apparent with each abuse of the spell - the effects are yours to dream up. Example - the residue energy expended to force the arrangement of the atoms to a specific arrangement is stored away only to give devastating and often explosive side effects later down the track.
no, you could not as a steel door is not a raw material but in fact a worked item... To keep things from going amuck you need to be strict about what is and isn't a raw material. Make some things take some time and creativity.. Once a stone has been worked and placed, it is no longer a raw material.. So you can't just convert a castle wall into a bridge, or fabricate a tunnel into and out of a city wall.. Looted weapons may or may not be raw materials... IMHO they are...turn swords into plows... ya know.. used leather armor is a raw material imho too.. Up to the DM though and how much of a Dcik he wants to be...
If you had the appropriate tool proficiency to see or manipulate protons, neutrons and electrons... like Tool proficiency "electron microscope" good luck with that imo.
Could you forge coins? yes, if you already had the skill to make them, you could then make them in bulk and from ingots.
I would not allow the transmutations of Fabricate, (or Stone Shape,) to create wealth. First, rules as written, there are no canonical tools that can do that work. Second, that seems to be against the general nature of D&D - PCs are supposed to get rich by adventuring rather than crafting. The latter is, of course, just my opinion, not RAW.
I would also not allow transmutations that are not described or strongly implied in the spell description when there are other canonical means. Transmute Rock, for example, is 5th level, and the result is soft stone, so my PCs cannot Fabricate mud into stone, be it soft or hard. Similarly, they cannot Fabricate ingredients into a potion.
Edit - I searched D&D Beyond and do not find "alchemical tools". The artificer class does describe Alchemist's Supplies, and has an Alchemist specialist subclass that uses them. It also lists the spells for that subclass, and none of them transmute low value materials into valuable coins or jewels. Also, The Candlekeep Mysteries sourcebook does mention The Book of Inner Alchemy, but I don't own that sourcebook.
Don't forget Gentle Repose, because mending takes a minute to cast, so it would take you out of the time limit of Revivify.
Wait... So a stone wall, where stone has simply been cut, stacked and "glued" together isn't a raw material but leather armour, which is an animal's skin that goes through various processes, is? Lol... That's not consistent at all.
Regular plants don't count as creatures, so you can use this spell on them.
I would assume that tanning hides would be covered with this spell? i.e. you killed a wolf, skinned it and then use the spell to make wolf skin cloak out of it?
Some say this spell is not strong. Those people are wrong.
If you have Proficiency with Smith tools you can make Plate armor for a fraction of it’s cost. And if nobody in the party can use it effectively, you can sell it for BIG STONKS.
I wonder if this spell can turn regular stone into molten stone.
What about living creatures ???
"Fabricate can't make diamonds out of thin air!"
Oh no?
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/06/diamonds-from-the-air
And if you do the chemistry math, given the amounts of carbon in a carat of diamond, converted for CO2, and how much CO2 you can fit in a given volume, you can make a *lot* of diamond within the spells range.
Granted, Fabricate requires you to "see" your raw materials, and air is invisible to at least human eyes. But we have magic like See Invisibility, or just plain old mundane smoke to make the medium visible.
While I like the creative solution here, do you really want to play in a D&D game where you can just make diamonds out of thin air? Doesn't that stretch the absurdities of this game a little too far? Also, we must remember the amount of material used must fit in a 10x10foot cube and I'm not sure if the article addresses how much CO2 gas they have in a given space or how they got it there. Like, I'm not sure if room air CO2 is so concentrated. Maybe a D&D mage could pull it off if they had a machine that concentrated CO2 like the researches the article probably did. IDK, I didn't read the whole article. Does See Invisibility let you see Air or CO2 gas? Wouldn't that just blind you more? Wouldn't diamonds made from smoke be impure because smoke is more than just carbon? Isn't CO2 more than just carbon?
Although, following this line of thought, I can imagine some alternate version of Athas where magic like froze the planet by taking all the CO2 out of the atmosphere. Like, some Shinra level greed enabled by shifty D&D spell logic. "Sure any mage can make diamonds out of thin air as long as they know this spell." Now everyone hates magic because it screwed up the atmosphere and paper is gone but we still have ropes with knots or something like that. We don't even have diamonds in the world anymore because they were consumed by resurrection magic essentially removing CO2 from the prime material plane. There's some sort of meta-commentary about the circle of life that was refuted by those hyper-privileged enough to afford such diamond-from-air luxuries which led to the ultimate death of the planet and everything on it. Ironically the only hope is to use spelljammers to reach viable asteroids for carbon mining operations, but you need a magic-user to operate a spelljammer which leads to heated disagreement and open hostility being the only sources of warmth in an world of otherwise gelid doom.... I could go on, but I really need to study.
This is also a hilarious way to escape from chains or manacles. Turn every link into a spoon, or just turn the whole thing into one big spoon.
Pinning this here so I can find it again. Tiny Servant/Fabricate applications: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/85938-tiny-servant-fabricate-applications