I have an idea for alchemy mod which I don't want to disclose too much information about but I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do any of the things I want to do. I looked over the creation kit tutorials but they are almost all about creating an area or characters but I'm not looking for any of that.

How can I add additional qualities to ingredients?

How can I use more than three ingredients to make a potion?

How can i change the prices on potions made by the user?

What does "ingredient value" affect? (It's not the price)

I don't expect someone to spell out everything for me but perhaps there Is there some tutorial out there which can shed light on some of these questions? Will I need to use papyrus? Do I need to use a different editor?

Adding Additional Quantities - What do you mean?

More than 3 Ingredients: I don't know (I don't think you can ... certainly not easily, as far as I know ...)

Prices: I assume you mean the base price a vendor will pay the PC for them (and the PC pays to a merchant for it)? In the Object Window > Magic > Potion > Untick Auto-Calculate, enter a Value

Ingredient Value: Is the base price a merchant will pay the PC for that ingredient (or the PC pays to a merchant for it)

Qualities not Quantities, the properties I believe is what he means, what the ingredients do

Normally it's only my typing that's rubbish ... today it's my reading too!

Ingredients Qualities: Object Window > Items > Ingredient

I actually think I read it wrong at first too, it didn't make sense to me right away either

There are two different values for an ingredient. There is one that you described "Ingredient Value: Is the base price a merchant will pay the PC for that ingredient (or the PC pays to a merchant for it)" and there is a different one on the same screen. I noticed that is the "cost" of each effect type added together... this is getting confusing without being able to show you what i mean. There is a little checkbox that says "auto-calculate." The value I'm referring to is the one that you can change if you uncheck that box. if under the object window i go to items>ingredients and double click any ingredient the window pops up that I'm referring to. Under the 4 effects is an "auto-calculate" and "ingredient value". What does ingredient value affect?

I intentionally was sounding vague when i said "quality" because I don't want to give away the idea i have for my Alchemy mod haha. What i mean is to add another value to it like weight or price. I want to give a rating to each ingredient, not add a fifth spell effect.

Cost is the "number" in the Ingredients table of Results (which is a stupid name for it) that each ingredient is capable of giving. I THINK that is the cost in magika when you get that result from using that ingredient in a potion craft (I said think, so don't go quoting me)

The Value (that you can alter if you uncheck auto-calculate), is the value (price) you pay a merchant for that ingredient


And (I THINK) that ingredients are already weighted ... If this is what you mean:

Potions work in reverse.

Ingredients have Possible Results. Those Possible Results have a magnitude.

When you create a potion - I THINK - it uses the sum of the magnitudes of the ingredients that you put into the craft and the highest value (across the 3 ingredients) is what potion gets made.


AND, a bottle of potion has weight (as in, how heavy it is for the player to carry). And a Potion has a price (what the merchant will pay the PC for it, or the PC will have to pay a merchant to get it)


(If any of that made sense, I'll be amazed!)

"When you create a potion - I THINK - it uses the sum of the magnitudes of the ingredients that you put into the craft and the highest value (across the 3 ingredients) is what potion gets made." I believe you are correct, from what I have seen. It disregards the magnitude of the ingredients with lower magnitudes completely, which i think is dumb. I want to alter that.

I'm not sure what you meant by "I THINK that is the cost in magika when you get that result from using that ingredient in a potion craft (I said think, so don't go quoting me)" It costs magicka to make potions?

I have no idea where the scripts (if they are scripts) for potion creation are. I expected them to be recipes, but - for whatever reason - they are created differently than other crafted items.


I'd have to check - in game - on the Cost thing.

I think I remember it effecting something, when you craft a potion; but like I say, don't quote me it was magika.

I did just have another thought: When you eat an ingredient it damages your health (or staimna, I can't remember which). Is Cost the amount that an eating an ingredient damages you?

Whatever, I don't think cost has anything to do with "value" (or gold etc)

Does anyone know where the scripts are for potion creation? Or help pointing to where i can change how potions are made?