If you drink two potions with the same effect, on the most powerful is applied, so wait for one potion to wear off before drinking the next.Īs you discover ingredients with matching effects, the Alchemy Lab menu will remember the matches for future use. To use a potion, activate it in your inventory to drink it. To use a poison, activate it in your inventory and apply it to your equipped weapon. Potions may have weaker harmful effects, and poisons may have weaker beneficial effects - it all depends on the effects of the ingredients you used. The resulting item is a potion if its strongest effect is beneficial, and a poison if its strongest effect is harmful. If none of their effects match, crafting fails and you lose the ingredients. If the ingredients share at least one effect, you succeed: you get the resulting potion or poison and learn all of the effects that matched. To learn other effects, experiment with it.Īt an Alchemy Lab, you can combine any two or three ingredients and attempt to make a potion with them. You can learn the first effect of any ingredient by selecting it in your inventory and eating it. It is a skill that is used to create poisons and potions from various ingredients, such as food and plants at Alchemy labs, which can be found throughout the world, including Army Camps, Forts and Dungeons.Īll ingredients have four effects. Alchemy is one of the eighteen skills that are available in Skyrim.

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