I'm in a process of making rather large alchemy overhaul, but I'm struggling with 2 things.

The first one is giving poison effects to potions/ casting poison effect when player drinks a potion, I'm pretty sure that is not possible by using only CK and that it requires scripting, and since I don't have any scripting experience yet I would be grateful if you can point me to relevant tutorial / explain how to do it

The other problem I'm having is checking if player is poisoned and how many poisons he has active so I can create perks which affect him while poisoned.

I know these are probably trivial things but I'm caught in so much stuff now I don't have hours to browse for hours to find the answer, so thanks for any input

bump. I have another question, and that is is it possible to create new crafting categories (like sIron, sDaedric or sFood in game constants) which will display on crafting menu, or do I have to use/alter existing ones?

Do potion effects work by keywords? If they do, then http://www.creationkit.com/HasEffectKeyword_-_ObjectReference could help you to determine whether or not the player is currently poisoned.

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Yes they do, I was looking for that, thank you

bump. I have another question, and that is is it possible to create new crafting categories (like sIron, sDaedric or sFood in game constants) which will display on crafting menu, or do I have to use/alter existing ones?