The following books provide a permanent one-time increase to the Dragonborn's Alchemy skill.

Eating a raw ingredient and learning a new effect.

One can make a large number of potions each time the plants regrow. There are 18 plots available to grow these plants with both a garden and a greenhouse, yielding three ingredients each.

With Hearthfire one can grow alchemy ingredients in their homestead.

More valuable potions increase Alchemy skill faster. The following actions raise the Alchemy skill: It also allows the Dragonborn to breathe underwater. The resulting potion regenerates health and magicka faster. The most valuable potion known to date requires Hearthfire, and can be brewed at an Alchemy Lab by mixing garlic, nordic barnacle, and salmon roe. (A poison in a pink bottle will be 20% less effective, while a beneficial potion in a green bottle will be 20% less effective.) Mixing effects will reduce the effectiveness of individual potions and poisons, depending on whether the beneficial effect or poison is dominant.

Using a potion involves simply selecting it from the inventory, while poisons are applied to weapons such as a sword or a bow by equipping the weapon to be poisoned and then selecting a poison to apply to it. The Alchemy perk Purity removes this possibility for potions crafted in the future. In fact, some craftable poisons can benefit the enemy, and some craftable potions can harm the Dragonborn. The value of a potion is derived from the number of effects and their magnitude, regardless of the utility of the potion. This can lead to some confusion when finding a potion to consume from the inventory. Unlike found potions, which can have alternate names and usually only one effect, brewed potions always have one consistent name, regardless of the number of effects contained. Damage Health, Slow, Paralyze, Weakness to Fire, and Lingering Damage Magicka are common examples of a poison's effects.Ī brewed potion always has a name describing its dominant effect. Potions can also increase the magnitude of spells cast and skills like One-Handed or Smithing, or alter the Dragonborn with Invisibility. Examples include those that increase the maximum of (' Fortify'), regenerate over time, or instantly replenish stats like Stamina, Magicka, or Health. In typical parlance, potions affect the Dragonborn. Potions and poisons are items produced as a result of brewing at an Alchemy Lab. For a list of potions and their effects, see Potions (Skyrim). When all or part of the chosen ingredients fail to create an effect, attempting to combine the same ingredients again will darken the names of ingredients which were previously proven to produce nothing with the first ingredient selected. Each of those open a sub-menu which lists only ingredients that share that effect. Below that is a list of all known effects on all ingredients in the inventory. At the top is 'Ingredients', which opens a sub-menu which lists all the ingredients currently in the inventory. HF When interacting with an Alchemy Lab, the Dragonborn will see a menu. However, some of these recipes are inaccurate.Īlchemy Table concept art For a list of locations, see Alchemy Lab (Skyrim).īrewing potions requires an Alchemy Lab, which can be found in various locations throughout Skyrim, such as alchemy supply shops, private studies, some inns, court wizards' quarters, and can be purchased for owned homes. Recipes list ingredients that share a given effect which helps limit the experimentation required to find the effects of each ingredient. Recipes For a list of recipes, see Books (Skyrim)/Recipes.Īll alchemy merchants have recipes for sale in their shops. With perks, all four effects can be found by eating a single ingredient.

All ingredient effects are temporary, and only Jarrin Root is potentially fatal if eaten, making experimenting quite safe. The first effect can also be revealed by 'eating' the ingredient, which immediately causes the effect on the Dragonborn after consumption. Those shared effects will then be revealed permanently for those ingredients in the future, and one or more relevant potions will be available in the Alchemy Lab menu screen for convenience. Each effect is labeled 'unknown' until the Dragonborn uses an Alchemy Lab to combine ingredients that share one or more effects. Ingredients are used to create potions that have specific effects. For a list of ingredients and their uses, see Ingredients (Skyrim). Nirnroot is an ingredient with many uses. Bosmer, Breton, Khajiit, and Dunmer gain a +5 boost to Alchemy at the start of the game.

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