Alchemy and Cooking Overhaul

This mod is a complete overhaul of the alchemy and cooking systems. It is intended to provide a balanced, consistent experience in all aspects of alchemy and cooking, from harvesting and gathering ingredients to high-level potion and food creation.

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Alchemy is probably the most complex skill system in Skyrim, and has the potential to be a beautifully detailed crafting system. Unfortunately, it's also plagued by inconsistency, imbalance, and poor design choices that often reduce skill to an easy way to stack gold quickly. This mode aims to change that, to balance and enhance the inherent complexity of the system and bring more versatility and fun to the alchemist's craft.

alchemy

All aspects of Alchemy have been redesigned for greater balance and consistency.

Fixed a bug in Skyrim related to harvestable objects, including plant respawn bugs.

Option to set the duration of restoration potions and damaging poisons to 1, 5 or 10 seconds.

All potions have been renamed so that they naturally progress from strongest to weakest.

Potions created by players will be named to better reflect their power and effects.

Player-created potions are identical in power, cost, and name to ready-made potions in the game.

Impure potions no longer provide a means to get rich quickly.

Adds 16 new alchemical effects that can be generated from ingredients and found as ready-made potions.

Grenades and persistent weapon coatings open up new combat strategies and play styles.

The new portable alchemy workstation enables potion creation anywhere.

Craft salves and poultice that can be used in bandages as an alternative to healing spells and potions.

Extract weaker potions to create stronger versions.

Over 100 new legend-friendly ingredients have been incorporated into the world.

51 new creatures have been added: 21 moths and butterflies, 11 dragonflies and 19 species of pond fish.

Plant and animal harvest amounts have been adjusted for greater realism and less boring gameplay.

Hearthfire's gardening features have been updated to include missing vanilla plants as well as many newly added ingredients.

Featuring high-quality meshes and textures from some of the best models and artists in the community.

Harvest blood and other powerful alchemical ingredients from fallen enemies. Vampires can use blood to create unique blood potions.

cooking

Meat can be harvested from almost all animals and creatures and used in new cooking recipes.

More than 100 new foods have been added.

All food effects have been changed to use extended duration 'boost' effects.

Large food and drinks are now automatically divided into smaller portions.

Cooking recipes have been redesigned for better balance and greater realism.

As you create food, you will gain cooking experience and improve your cooking skills.

Improving your cooking skills will allow you to acquire more complex recipes and increase the intensity of the food you consume.

A completely optional and very lightweight hunger and fatigue system is included for those who don't want to use a separate requirements module.

Alcoholic beverages now lead to drunk driving with increasingly severe penalties.

Cannibalistic recipe options for fans of Namira.

special thanks

This mod was a huge undertaking and I was lucky enough to have some incredible help creating it.

My special thanks to Tascani, Teabag86 and Excinerus for all their work and help. Without their help, hard work and inspiration this mod would not be possible. I would also like to give special thanks to Impulseman45, SparrowPrince, gooball60, theregisteredone, wiseman303 and Kelmych for providing additional custom resources for this project.

Tascani built the bombs used in CACO. The smooth and efficient operation of this system is everything he does. He also works on balancing, brainstorming, and many other technical aspects of the mod.

Teabag86 helps brainstorm and test ideas, modify the grid, create spreadsheets …