Alchemy

What you need

• A mortar and pestle (mortar and pestle). Sold by alchemists.
• Empty bottles (empty bottle), one a potion. Sold by alchemists.
• Reagents: each potion asks for its own (in the table below).

Making a potion

1. Carry the mortar, empty bottles and the reagents in your backpack.
2. Double-click the mortar. The list of potions you can make right now opens: only those your Alchemy skill allows and whose materials you carry appear, and each line says what it uses.
3. Choose one. If it works, the potion goes to your backpack; if you carry too much weight, it falls at your feet.

If it fails, the mixture is spoiled: you lose some of the reagents, but not the bottle. The hardest potions fail often even with the skill at its top (100).

Using potions

• Drinking: double-click the potion. The empty bottle goes back to your backpack and makes another potion.
• One effect at a time: a new potion takes away the previous one's effect. If you have a dexterity potion on and drink a strength one, you lose the extra dexterity.
• Each potion's strength varies: drinking it gives you between half and all of what was put into it, so the table gives a range.
• Explosion: double-click and choose where to throw it; it counts three, two, one and bursts there.
• Shrink Potion: it has to be in your backpack. Double-click and choose an animal of yours: it turns into a figurine. Double-click the figurine and the animal comes back.
• Poison: drinking it does nothing.
• Cure: drunk while poisoned. Whether it cures is a matter of luck: the stronger the potion against the poison, the likelier; if it fails, the poison stays.

The potions

The skill each one asks for, what it uses besides the bottle, and what it does.