Choose your poison 0.2.0

The player is given a series of books that tell you what ingredients are needed to achieve a given alchemical effect, and where to find specific ingredients.

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Players are provided with 13 books for strategic alchemical foraging.

Volumes 1-7 list all alchemical actions and their ingredients.

Volumes 8-13 list all the ingredients and tell you where to find them.

The zEdit patch changes the book's text to accommodate changes made by other mods.

summary

Vanilla Alchemy draws players inexorably into a boring gameplay style where you harvest every ingredient you find whether you actually want it or not, so there's no need to actually learn to find and identify specific ingredients. Pick Your Poison changes that by providing an in-game crafting guide that supports strategic and thoughtful alchemical foraging. These 13 volume sets are added to your inventory, letting you know what ingredients are needed for any given effect, where to find them, and what they look like. None of this tells you the four alchemical powers of each ingredient - so no cheating!

The first 8 volumes list all the ingredients, divided into 8 categories, telling you where to find them and what they look like. 1: Animal area

Volume 2: Fish

roll. 3: Flora

roll. 4: flower

roll. 5: Fungi

Volume 6: Insects

Volume 7: Miscellaneous Notes

Volume 8: Supernatural

The remaining 5 volumes list all alchemical effects and which ingredients provide them:

roll. 9: Defense: Mage & Rogue

roll. 10: Fortification: Warriors and Miscellaneous

roll. 11: Treatment and Resistance

roll. 12: Poison

Volume 13: Weakness and Manipulation

Example

Let's say you're playing an assassin and want to stock up on some health-damaging poison. Your first step is to open "Choose Poisons, Volume 12: Poisons", whose first item deals with health-destroying poisons and tells you the ingredients you need:

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Fauna: Falmer ears, curved tail, small antlers, troll fat,

Fish: Betty River,

Flora: crimson nigan, ninnroot,

Flowers: Dead Bell, Nightshade, Poison Bloom, Red Mountain Flower,

Fungus: urinal stool,

Supernatural: cysts, human flesh, human hearts, empty salt

The ingredients are divided into categories corresponding to "Poison" volumes 1-8. Let's say you decide to find some stools first. So now you open "Pick Your Poison, Volume 5: Fungi" and look for the pee stool:

Imp Stool

Stout cream steamed into a steam cap with a yellow dome. Found in caves throughout Skyrim.

With this, you can now explore the caves and look for yellow mushrooms.

Install

Require

none

Install

There are two ways to install this mod. By default, these books describe vanilla's ingredients and effects, and their titles are abbreviated to fit nicely into the narrow vanilla user interface. If you're happy with this, use method 1. If you use a mod or extension UI that changes the composition (such as SkyUI), you can use method 2 to run a patch to modify the books accordingly. Using either method, the books will be added to your inventory when you start a new game or load an existing save.

Method 1- Vanilla ingredients and shorter book titles.

Download and install the mod. Activate esp in load order. Finish!

Method 2- Modify the ingredients and/or make the title longer.

Note that this method will not work if you are using MO1 as your module manager, as MO1 cannot launch zEdit (MO2 is fine and recommended).

Patches currently working on ingredient change modules:

Alchemy, potions and food adjustments

A complete alchemy and cooking overhaul (although some ingredient instructions are missing - too many!)

• Install the module and activate esp in the loading sequence.

• Install zEdit.

• Add patches to zEdit-

Open zEdit.

-The button in the upper right corner looks like 3 small cubes, clicking it will display a list of currently installed patches.

• Click to install new patches. Navigate to PYP patches: wherever you installed the mod, it's in a folder called "zEdit patches". Install it and click the button to re …