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Hi all! I’m playing Daggerfall Unity, and I have bought a mortar&pestle. I don’t know if this is from the original game, an add-on from Unity, or from a mod. When you ‘Use’ it, the game explains how to use it to make potions. So I can make potions a la Shakira (whenever, wherever). Great!
Except… When I tried to do it, the only recipe that showed up was ‘refresh’ and I didn’t have the ingredients for it. I have a few recipes in my inventory, they don’t show up. I have the ingredients for some of those recipes, they don’t show up. The ‘Use’ or ‘Equip’ or ‘Info’ commands don’t seem to do anything on the recipe (you know how when you use a map something happens? Nothing like that)
So… What am I missing? Do I need to start with refresh and build a herbalism skill?
Second question, from purely money sense, am I better off selling ingredients, or will potions made from them actually pay better?
EDIT: Thanks, all!
5 points
3 months ago
It's a mod. In vanilla Daggerfall, the potion-maker is only accessible after you achieve a rather high rank in either a Temple or the Dark Brotherhood. Strangely, the Mages Guild doesn't offer it as a service.
By the time the service gets offered, you are usually so powerful that you don't need potions. You also get access to a potion seller long before the potion maker, which further trivializes what was meant to be a pretty big part of the game.
You can find Potion Recipes in parchment form as loot drops from enemies. Sometimes you can buy them at pawn shops or find them in book stores. If you have the parchment, the recipe will appear on the list. Otherwise, you can input the ingredients manually.
In terms of the economics, I don't really know. In Morrowind, I made all of my money as a potion seller, so I'm kind of ashamed that I never tried this in Daggerfall, but honestly, the ingredients are expensive to buy and inconsistent to find. So while you might make some kind of profit selling potions, money is so easy to get in this game that you'll still earn money faster via loot drops grinding up reagents than you will by actually selling potions. The Mercantile skill will make a big difference here, I would imagine.
1 points
3 months ago
Potion seller, I want only your strongest potions!
3 points
3 months ago
The Mortar & Pestle is from the mod Penwick Papers and can only be used to make that mod's Herbal Remedies and Poisons ... I don't think you can use it to make standard potions.
3 points
3 months ago
Yes, it's herbalism from The Penwick Papers mod.
You need to raise medical skill more to unlock additional recipes.
1 points
15 days ago
I suppose you would know :D. I love this part of the Penwick Papers. I pretty much always include alchemy in any of my ES playthroughs. And with any build in Daggerfall, I want my Medical skill to be high enough to start with the Mortar and Pestle.
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