potion mixer

Allows you to combine multiple types of low-level poisons and potions into a single high-level potion in a cooking pot.

If you're like me, you tend to forget to use or completely ignore many low-level potions during the course of a game, and you still encounter this throughout the gaming world once a really good potion is discovered or crafted. Whether it's from enemy loot, dungeon chests, or scattered places, most players tend to accumulate a lot of low-level potions, and if you don't plan on using 5 of them at once, their effects will be weak and they will be of no use to you. This mod allows you to combine these lower level potions into higher level potions when cooking pots or spitting, making those previously less than useful potions and poisons useful again when you use your alchemy skills to combine them into more potent potions.

At lower Alchemy skill levels, the crafting recipes available will be inefficient because you need more low-level components to create high-level results. As you level up your skill with this mix, as well as normal alchemical pursuits, the higher your alchemy skill is raised, the fewer low-level potions and poisons you'll need to create higher-level versions, as low-level and inefficient recipes are replaced by more powerful and in some cases powerful recipes - if your skill level is high enough, you can sometimes end up with results that are even more powerful than what you'd expect from the components in the combo. All the various cooking equipment (pots and spittoons) have been modified to grant alchemy skills when creating items at the corresponding crafting station, so just some basic low-dose potion mixing is all you need to start raising your skill level to a useful level.

All recipes must meet conditions that require you to have a certain number of low-level potions before they appear in the crafting list. This reduces spam in the menu so when crafting, you don't have too many scrolling possibilities, as only recipes you've made or are close to qualifying (taking into account skill level and crafting elements in the checklist) will show up in the available list. New recipes also take your alchemy skills into account when getting more potent recipes, and higher level potions with stronger effects tend to have higher requirements for "skilled" recipes.

For example, an advanced recipe for paralyzing poison requires more alchemy to appear than a simple potion to restore stamina, as the paralyzing effect is generally considered to be more powerful and useful than restoring stamina. The exact requirements vary by effect, generally most effects start at Alchemy skill level 40 for the more potent recipes available, moderately powerful effects require 50 or even 60 skill, and the most powerful effects and combinations require around 80 Alchemy skill. You can create high level poisons and potions with high efficiency.

This mod adds over 400 new recipes for various potions and poison effects, here are some example mixtures:

Damage Health -04 (Skilled)

1 damage HP 01

1 damage life 03

Required: Alchemy 40 or higher

Enhanced destruction-03

1Enhanced destruction 01

1Fortress Destruction02

Required: Alchemy 39 or lower

Enhanced endurance recovery -05 (skilled)

1 Strengthen endurance regeneration 01

1 Strengthen endurance regeneration 03

Required: Alchemy 60 or higher

Stealth-03 (Proficient)

2 invisible 01

Required: Alchemy 40 or higher

Paralysis-04

1paralysis02

1paralysis03

Required: Alchemy 49 or lower

Resistance Cream-02

3 anti-frost 01

Requirements: No alchemy skills required

Covered Poison Effects

Poison-(15)

harm health

damage magic

Damage magic restored

damage endurance

damage stamina recovery

fear

crazy

Continuous damage to health

continuous damage magic

Lasting Damage Stamina

paralysis

Weak fire

Weakening cream

Weakness to magic

Weak and feeble

Potions - (27)

Strengthen transformation

Strengthen barter trade

Enhanced handling weight

Strengthen Summon

Enhanced destruction

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