If you have two different ingredients that have the same effect then a recipe will automatically unlock next time you visit an alchemy lab .Īlso, if you have a good sneak then you can steal ingredients from someone. One or more of its properties will be revealed. If you have one or more ingredient in your inventory and all its effects are unknown then simply consume it. Potions you mix with beneficial effects have an additional 25% greater magnitude.Įating an ingredient reveals first two effects.Īll negative effects are removed from created potions, and all positive effects are removed from created poisons. Fortify Carry Weight will boost the weight you can carry in some amount depending on the strength of the potion/enchantment. Two ingredients are gathered from plants. Poisons applied to weapons last for twice as many hits. Potions you mix that restore Health, Magicka or Stamina are 25% more powerful. Potions and poisons you make are 20% stronger. These are the Perks available in the Alchemy perks tree. This is a fast and easy way to clean out a store's entire selection of ingredients, which you can then use to make more potions! Since merchants have a limited supply of funds, it is often easier to buy a few needed items, then sell some potions to replenish your gold. If you plan to make alchemy a major part of your experience, keeping a number of these potions on hand is an excellent way to introduce your own 'barter' system. A nearly useless concoction, it sells for a tidy sum while the ingredients are plentiful in the wild and cheap in the stores. One excellent and easy money-maker is to combine Blue Mountain Flower and Blue Butterfly Wing for a poison that prevents magicka regeneration and fortifies conjuration.
You can experiment on your own, but a good rule of thumb is that the more effects a potion has, the higher the value. This makes them almost as easy to part with as they are to create. Hence, some incredibly lucrative potions/poisons are often completely useless in any practical sense. One very excellent, yet incidental, aspect of creating potions is that their monetary value has no correlation to their functional value. For instance, you can create a potion that restores your health for 23 points but also poisons you for 3 points of damage per second for 10 seconds. It’s important to consider how your third element will interact with the first two, because you can easily create a potion whose secondary effect completely negates the first.
You can also add a third reagent to the mix to modify the potion, and its impact will be determined by whether or not it shares any traits with the base materials. The materials’ common traits will determine the nature of the resulting potion. You can make any number of variant potions with the same name and basic properties with a wide array of materials the important thing is that the materials are compatible. They are exclusively applied to your weapons, which then pass the effect onto foes when you attack them.The trick to alchemizing potions is to find two ingredients with a common trait. This next list of Skyrim Alchemy Recipes creates Poisons that can be used to inflict various debuffs on your enemies. Poisons Created via Alchemy Weak Aversion To Magic. Some of these potions are suited to combat, while others are useful in other more specialised situations like Sneaking or Enchanting. Potions created through Alchemy Potion of Minor Healing.Įach of the following Skyrim Alchemy Recipes provides the player with a buff to help them in different situations. It doesn’t matter what combination you choose. To craft any of these, all you have to do is combine at least two of the ingredients listed at an Alchemy Lab. These are divided into two categories Potions and Poisons. We will now move onto the actual Skyrim Alchemy Recipes. Additional properties can be discovered by investing points in the Experimenter perk in the Alchemy skill tree.
You can discover these either by brewing potions at an Alchemy Lab using ingredients with the same effects, or by eating the item directly from your inventory to discover its first effect. If you’re short on money, you can always create a bunch of gold with the Transmute Spell.Įach ingredient has four different effects, some of which are also shared by other items. If players don’t want to waste their time searching for these ingredients, they can also purchase them from Alchemists found in most major settlements in the game. Some of these are easy to find, while others are much rarer. What are Alchemy Ingredients in Skyrim Alchemy Lab.Īlchemy ingredients can be found all over the map of Skyrim.