Alchemy - Morrowind Mechanics
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- In this part of my Morrowind Mechanics video series we thoroughly cover every facet of using the alchemy skill. Includes details on eating raw ingredients, formulae used when mixing potions, where to find high quality alchemy tools, and more!
Timestamps:
Consuming raw ingredients (wortcraft) 0:28
--- Effect proc chance formula 0:49
------ Fatigue modifier 1:20
------ Effect magnitude/duration formulae 1:28
--- Water breathing tip 2:32
Ingredient effect visibility 3:07
Mixing potions (basics) 3:41
--- Handy restore HP recipe 4:26
--- Potion weight 4:48
--- "Poisons" or harmful potions 4:59
--- Potion creation formulae 5:21
------ Success chance formula 5:28
------ Alchemy equipment/apparatus functions 6:13
--------- Skooma pipes 7:02
--------- Equipment formulae & modifiers 7:15
--------- Equipment quality tiers 7:57
Equipment locations 8:44
Daisy chaining potions or "super potions" 9:58
--- Easy ingredients via vendors 10:38
--- Game crash warning 11:45
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Dagoth Ur and the Tribunal didn't need the Heart of Lorkhan to achieve godhood. They could have just brewed and consumed several hundred smoothies made from pulped yams and leather.
Akulakhan wasn't created to be a weapon of war, it was created to mix really big potions
I love the username lol Fargoth Ur
Or booze.
Maybe it tastes bad.
For anyone coming to this in 2020+, an ALEMBIC also actually decreases the weight of your created potion. So a must have if you plan on carrying many of them.
MCP patches this.
thank you i was like some of mine are 1.0 and when i used that they became either .0 of .3
Have you seen Tolfdir's alembic?.....neither has he lololol!
A shame you can’t throw harmful potions at enemies like alchemical stun grenades
For an "invincibility potion" mix Wickwheat, Marshmerrow, Scrib Jerky, and Hound Meat. Restores health and fatigue, fortifies fatigue, and allows Detect Enchantment. I drew my inspiration for this from the "A Dance in Fire" series. I call it Rotmeth in the book's honor.
I shall try this, thanks for the tip.
That's cool. Reading books in Marrowind is such a satisfying experience 😌
Another great ingredient to consume raw is corcbulb. Well, if you're at a high level and engage the Tribunal Dark Brotherhood. Their 10 seconds paralysis is striking really hard. Having those 0.1 weight cure paralysis ingredients might help alot. :)
That's a good point, thank you! Hearting your comment to signal boost it
How you manage to eat a potion to cure paralysis while paralyzed always went a bit over my head. There was even an in-game NPC who had a quest about this, where he couldn't move.
@@SeriouslyDinosaur because you're The Nerevarine!
Super late, I know, but I have a regular supply of corkbulb to eat raw whenever I get paralyzed, same with Violet Coprinus and Luminus Russula so I can water breathe/walk without spending magicka. :)
Another vendor for fortify intelligence potions is in the imperial shrine in sadrith mora.
Just teleport to the mages guild, go down one flight of stairs and through the door. The vendor is on the left.
It's much easier to reach and I pass through there when exiting the building the mages guild is in anyway.
Imperial Shrine, Wolverine Hall
One of the most powerful potions you can create in Morrowind is also fairly simple, since it uses common ingredients. A concoction of Saltrice, Corkbulb, Stoneflower, and Crabmeat will restore health, restore fatigue, fortify Magica, and give you a lightning shield.
I don't believe it's possible to get the holy trifecta of restoring Health, Magica, and Fatigue in a single potion, but a strong alternative is Scrib Jerky, Hound Meat, Comberry, and Daedra Heart. Together, they restore Magica, restore fatigue, fortify fatigue, and give you a reflect effect as a bonus.
These videos are fascinating. I probably put almost 800 hours into Morrowind as a kid. Playing and replaying it over and over again. I even got into using the construction kit after I felt I had done everything.
I never put any consideration into all the math going on in the background.
Yeah, I get what you mean. I think it's sort of indicative of when Morrowind came out. The internet wasn't as readily accessible to people and there were few (or zero) communities that ever thought to dig into the inner workings of a single player RPG. There were even fewer places for people to post those findings if they even wanted to. Probably the most widespread thing of this ilk was strategy guides or magazine articles.
There's an imperial vendor in the Wolverine Hall branch of the Imperial Cult that sells Ash Yams and Bloat for intelligence potions. If you buy a bunch from him, and then sell them back his permanent stock increases.
Also, he sells the ingredients for Fortify Willpower potions. So, you can give yourself the edge when casting those god tier spells on whatever you come across.
This is the same for all vendors that stock items
Awesome stuff man its so cool to see people still making videos in detail about this awesome game
Haha, thank you for the kind words. Similarly, I'm pretty happy that people are still interested in learning about Morrowind.
Lyle Shnub without a doubt. I come from heavy , HEAVY oblivion play since it came out 11 years ago and its my favorite game of all time but I had to play through morrowind just to see what it is like and am enjoying it so thoroughly !
Oh yeah, I totally need to try to get back into Oblivion one of these days. I came to it pretty late since when it came out I didn't have a console and my computer was barely able to even run World of Warcraft, haha.
2020 anyone
It was this exact video that I watched that introduced me to this wonderful channel. Thanks for your breakdown of Morrowind mechanics, and the incredible entertainment!
Fatigue affects the chance of alchemical ingredients having an effect on you when consumed raw. It's like, you're so tired that your taste buds don't work. A connoisseur can't properly enjoy food like this.
An option for buying out large quantities of ingredients is to, incrementally, buy out and sell back all the stock a re-stocking merchant has in his inventory. After each sale, he re-stocks the whole ammount, making it possible to buy as many as you like in one go. Also, the increased inventory stays, so you can come back and buy those 500 marshmarrow and whickwheat again when you need to. :)
I.e. The merchant has a stock of 10, you sell him 40 more then buy back all 50. Now, when he re-stocks, he gets another 50 pieces. You can keep increasing the stock to your heart's contempt.
its amazing how much hard work you put in these vids, thanks so much!
Thank you for the kind words!
Me personally I like to enchant my armor with effects that increase my chance to evade attacks to the point where most enemies can't even hit my character as long as I maintain high fatigue
Thanks so much! I didn't feel smart enough to work on Alchemy and now I want to try! Thanks for the pep talk with easy knowledge!
I don't think he mentioned it because it's kind of inconsequential, but the weight of a potion you brew is going to be equal to the mean weight of all the ingredients put in it rounded down; i.e., the sum of the weights of all ingredients divided by the number of ingredients, rounded down. For example, a "Restore Magicka" potion made from a comberry and a daedra's heart will have a weight of (0.1+1.0)/2=1.1/2=0.55-->0.5
Haha, it was so inconsequential that I forgot to include it in the video. Still, it could be useful to someone, or at least some fun trivia. Hearting your comment to signal boost it! Thanks!
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best guides ever, hands down, undisputed champion! ive watched 3 hours of guides then i found you
Love this series bro, keep up the good work!
In caldera you can go into the traders, walk up to the shopkeeper so he faces you (turn him away from shelves) then wait for the guard to walk away. on the shelf there will be a ring of aversion that you can steal along with other valuable magical items that you can use the ring to steal, or you know...just buy the ring. go back to the alchemist in balmora and use the ring to steal the grandmaster mortar and pestle (you can only take one item per charge). Not only do you have the mortar and pestle but the ring can be used to steal any item in game but is buggy with containers and people will usually see you. Hope this helped anyone still playing. look at my reply if you need money to buy the ring.
If for some reason you dont have the money to buy the ring theres away to make 500$ or more right at the start. while in the office at the start you can steal a 300$ plate and drop it. the guard will talk to you put you can pick the plate back up with no issues. take the flin on the table before entering the cortyard. take the ring from the barrel once out side. give the ring to the woodelf to be on good terms with the trader (buy and haggle what you need and sell plate) talk to the nord up stairs and accept his side quest. once you complete this you can either not talk to him and pocket an extra 300$ gold and all the items (health ring included) or turn it in giving you 100$ and all the items. by this point you should 500$. theres also a dead man with 300$ on his body just outside the starting town (bring weapon to kill hostile animals). NOTE: this is all based on memory and if i got some numbers wrong please correct me for anyone else reading
Lol if you hide behind the pillar you can steal the mortar and pestle without any enchanted item or spell. Always one of the first things i do on a playthrough
You can join the mag s guild and steal a complete master set of alchemy gear in Caldera.
First play through of Morrowind 2022. Happy New Year
Thank you for making this video, for game development/review purposes, it is very useful.
You know, I've been thinking of what to do for my second every playthrough of Morrowind. Hmmm...this gives me ideas...
Great series man, you're making my Morrowind experience less confusing than it would be if I was playing in 2002 XD
Thanks my N’wah
If I remember correctly, potions with negative effects can be dragged-and-dropped over your weapons or arrows/bolts to imbue them with those effects. So you can have poisoned dagger or you can drain Fatigue from your enemies, or even attribute like strength rendering them overloaded and unable to move.
not in base game.
it works like that in Oblivion and I wouldn't be surprised if such mod exists for Morrowind (either mod or as a base game feature feature in open Morrowind)
:) Learn the alchemy by eating comberrys, diamionds,raw glass & scrap iron
Nice tutorial on alchemy, I did learn quite a few things here. I have had my intelligence fortified into the lower billions before and also there is a certain limit of fortify intelligence that will make it go into a negative balance instead. I'm thinking it's somewhere in the upper billions, fortify speed potions become useless at this point cause it will crash your game if you make one with even much lower amount of intelligence. It can also really mess up your maximum magicka score if you're not careful.
Haha, I never even considered that you could boost intelligence so high that it rolls back around to a negative value
had this in Skyrim too, Bethesda probably left it in intentionally, 'serves you right' kinda thing
theres a movie based on the alchemy exploits in this game, its called limitless.
You should make a Morrowind Modding Guide if you have interest in it, Modding is probably one of the most popular subjects revolving around these games especially for people trying to get invested in Morrowind. I dont need the video per say but id be interested in watching a video on it and show it to people wanting to learn about modding this game.
I watch this and have to question my build which I thought was unstopable even after 150 hours of play, there is always something new to learn it seems.
What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive?
@@Pyxis10 hahahahahah!
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I'm not rly a morrowind player I remember briefly messing around in it as a child, when my cool older german uncle gamer man sat me down and told me to play it, he was heavily into the game and wanted / wished for me to share in the pleasure of this game, he was left disappointed though cos I had no idea what i was doing and could not progress, and he couldnt help me out cos i dont speak freakin german and he didnt speak my native language lol, now almost 2 decades later i discover these vids and got a bit of nostalgia, and somehow they're interesting despite im not rly a morrowind player
This guide was very helpful and comprehensive. Thank you!
Although, I was kinda of bummed when I went to Caldera to find 2 NPCs standing at the table :( They never left, all night. I must have installed a mod that changed that :(
Thanks so much for the kind words!
Yeah, that definitely sounds like a mod. I know one of the regular NPCs in the mages guild will sometimes be in that room. Yet even he regularly patrols back down the steps and into the main lobby.
Do you have Morrowind Rebirth? That mod moves the alchemist to the same floor as the alchemy equipment :(
@@LyleShnub There is a bug in-game where the NPC's will keep moving inside their cells and changing their original locations, i.e. a silt strider operator might fall off his platform etc.. You can correct that by typing the Reset Actors (ra) command in the console. If this doesn't help, it's a mod issue then.
Do y'all have any more... Netch leathers?
I did some science, and I found out that, at least with negative potions, nothing reduces the price of the potion. I combined rubies and emeralds, and I did only the Mortar and Pestle, then with the Alembic, then the Calcinator, then the Retort, and then I did with everything, and without the Alembic, and without the Calcinator. At least, I think that's how I did it; the value never changed. And, I do believe the Calcinator reduces potion weight, too. I might be wrong though.]
Even with Violet Coprinus and Luminous Russula, removing the Alembic and allowing it to have the poison effect does nothing to the value.
Yeah, I think mileage is gonna vary when it comes to potion gold values, what with some mods making alterations to the process. Nonetheless, I think this could totally prove useful to someone. Hearting your comment here to signal boost it, thanks!
Ah, yes! The squid has done it again!
the beauty of morrowind. it's almost limitless.
i just have made some health potions for fun, now i drink one and have health regeneration during combat.
now infinite intelligence...
There's a certain joy in game systems that allow you to break them so spectacularly
Is it not similar to the potion / enchant loop in skyrim
Most op skill in game
It kinda pisses me off that this is still the best TES game. They really dumbed everything down after this. That is what happens when you target the largest demographic possible; everything gets oversimplified.
Your on a road you can casually out run anything if your in good shape and you know not in a tin suit.
It’s especially silly because there is a way to design an RPG that is accessible enough for scrubs to enjoy but deep enough to feel like an actual rpg. Most modern games are RPGs in name only.
The problem for me is that theyre going more action rpg but the combat is still the same as oblivion combat. Like either be a good rpg or a good action game lol
I found a full set of masters equipment in Shal on Mages Guild quest to kill a necromancer.
what mods are you using in this vid? graphics look so damn good
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That must be how the falling wizard created the Scrolls of Icarian Flight.
Potion of Massershot.
"My potions are too strong for you, traveller."
I know there are ways to completely break alchemy with the Fortify INT potions, but I'm trying to avoid that.
My question is... After making a bunch of potions, how should I decide what potions should I sell v keep?
I regularly stack Intelligence potions up into the millions and have no issues with crashing. Maybe that's because I tend to run a very vanilla playthrough but I've never had to limit myself to a mere 50,000 intelligence score.
Yeah, I think it's very likely that the number may vary depending depending on hardware and mods
Actually, by using harmful potions you can do something good
I've recently discovered an artifact, I don't remember how it's called, that decreases/increases your highest and lowest attributes respectively, I just drank some potions that drain attributes to manipulate them, so I could increase my luck by 20, at cost of 4 levels of one attribute by maxing it out again with 5x multiplier, instead of leveling luck 20 levels by 1 point
The Bitter Cup Artifact, found in Ald Redaynia way up north in Sheogorad region (West of Dagon Fel). It is part of a Thieve's Guild quest, so maybe look it up on the UESP wiki if you are doing that faction and also want to keep the cup for yourself.
Is it possible to reprocess a potion? as in you made one with a calcinator, and then you got an alembic, can you know use the alembic to drop the negative applied by the calcinator (supposing there is one) and does that count the same way the original did (2x toward mastery)? Because if you can do that, you could also use the retort and that would reduce the amount of raw material to a third of what it would take to achieve mastery if you were only using the retort , right? hmmmm. Great series btw.
******edit******way to wishful of thinking actually pretty limiting in regards to control over the process but it did make me 20k in about 15 mins. Took longer to find the vendors with the type of money to buy the pots than it did to make them .
That's a pretty good idea, especially considering how you can find spoiled potions in the world that come with negative effects. Though unfortunately you can't do anything like that.
Lyle Shnub hey thanks for the response. Just finished finding that out for my self actually, materials arent really an issue price goes down as you buy, i was paying 38 gold for bloat/netch and the pots easily made me 20k fast. Was harder to find the vendors with serious money. Who else has a lot of money that will buy my pots ? Im using Creeper and the Potion lady in balmora but even after taking there money and all the money from the npc's around with way less im back stocked for days. Having to rest 24 hrs unneccesarily isnt a deal breaker but it would be helpful to have another big payer like creeper.
There's a drunk mudcrab merchant that has the most gold of any vendor in the game. He's kind of out in the wilderness and it can be a pain to haul items to him. I'd recommend checking his page on uesp or the wiki to find his exact location, or if you prefer video format I included him in my mercantile video ;)
Peace, he said.
It will be fine, he said.
My character: *REEEEEEEEEEEE!!!*
Wow, you got some pretty mods
So wait, using a GM calcinator and retort just adds 6 to the magnitude and duration? A flat 6? Like if the magnitude were a 5, it'd become 11, and if the magnitude were 5,000 it'd become 5,006?
In 2002 me and my friend at school decided to find all the ingredients we could in Morrowind we would compare our findings at school lol. Brings back such good memories
Who even makes fortify intelligence potions? They suck, since they always weigh more than 0.1!
Mix Corkbulb Root + Corprus Weepings (both can be found in Wolverine Hall at Sadrith Mora) to get (restore health)+(fortify luck) 0.1 weight potion!
And with enough luck you are invincible (can't be hit, and resisting all harmful magic), always successful in whatever you do (alchemy, lockpicking, pickpocket, enchanting, any magic you can cast, sneaking, hitting with any weapon), and get to make all the overpowered potions you want!
i tried to make a potion (no negative ffects) using all the 4 aparatus, then i tried it without the alembic, well is kinda weird cuz the final potion this time have some few more seconds of duration. bug or any confusing mechanic who no one cares haha.
so whats better master or grandmaster?
11:50 I didn’t listen and went to 1 million intelligence made more fortify potions for the rest of the attributes and took one step went flying across the map and broke it.
Playing OpenMW right now and my int is over 1,000,000 and no signs of the game crashing. Want to find out how far it can go?
That's probably because OpenMW is superior to the original game engine
Intelligence also affects your maximum magic so having high intelligence will let you cast more spells before you run out of magic
11:04 It's not "free money" if you're working to earn it. You're getting the money for doing alchemy.
Wtf skooma pipes can act as Alchemy tools?! Have I even played Morrowind? 🤣
There is some way (maybe mods or morrowind code patch options) that allows me to consume multiple ingredients, or multiple potions, by just clicking on the entire pile, selecting the total number and then use at once? Just like Skyrim or Oblivion? It's strange I have to do it everytime just one item consumed! No way? In 2018? Nobody modified that? Strange. Do you know anything about it?
I know that there's quite a few optional features that make changes and additions to alchemy in the Morrowind Code Patch. I don't think any of them let you drink multiple potions at once, though. What you could do, though, is if you have multiple of the same exact potion (they stack together) you can bind the stack of potions to a hotkey. Should let you use them way quicker than dragging and clicking.
Lyle Shnub How do I do it?
Oh perhaps I understood. You mean pressing F1 to create the keyboard shortcut (1, 2 or whatever)
Glad to hear you got it figured out! Sorry for the delayed response. Got busy the other day
Lyle Shnub Don't worry. Thank you instead for the first reply :)
Thanks for the info, great video.
But you're not getting your ring back.
how to become god
You could spend a lifetime searching out ancient and forbidden lore, or you could just drink this potion over here.
I accidently ate a piece of a bloat while daisy chaining and got a fucking 4 hour magicka debuff i cannot figure out how the fuck to get rid of . Is there a way or am i just done with morrowind ....i have no fucking idea how long 4 hrs is in game time but its not affected by sleeping .
Hahaha, that's a pretty incredible problem to have. Now I think that you should be able to remove it by using a dispel spell effect. Mind you that dispel will also remove temporary positive effects when it succeeds, but it should take way less time to create more potions than waiting out the debuff. Using a temple or cult altar might cleanse you of just the negative effects, but I can't say that I've ever tried it on temporary effects since they usually fade away quickly. Could be worth trying though
Has anyone ever seen Tolfdir's alembic?.....Neither has he! Muhhaha muhahahaha
Skyrim quest!
8:56 unnecessary. steal the master tier and grandmaster tier alchemy gear from the alchemist in balmora they are all sitting in the crate farthest away from her. use a invisibility potion. also, those gear you showed should have been gaurded. there should be a guy standing directly next to them. not sure why hes not there on yours.
I've never seen an NPC standing guard there. Maybe you have a mod that adds one?
no thats how its supposed to be. it was always that way. one of the bald guys stands up there at the top of the tower at all times. hes an alchemist trainer with like 75 in alchemy.
Re the alchemist in balmora i am a level 1 mage and bought the telekinesis spell which allows anything in range to be grabbed, just be out of sight of the alchemist and guard
@@FingerinUrDaughter That guy who guards the master set there is added in by MPP.
@@PooFaceMcButt dunno what the fuck "mpp" is, but seeing as its EXACTLY what i used to do when i owned the game on Xbox, and i just continued doing it to this very day AND i run morrowind without any mods aside from texture/shader replacers, i doubt you have any idea what youre on about.
i'm here for free money
Duude! Say "SPOILER," before you tell me where the Grandmaster stuff is. I want to discover it on my own
Ahh, hahaha, I'm sorry. I usually follow a general rule of thumb for when I decide what is/isn't a spoiler. Basically I consider it a spoiler if I'm revealing something related to a story arc or a unique item that's only available in one or two specific locations and has lore/plot relevance. For what it's worth, you can actually buy the grandmaster equipment from some vendors and find it in other places. I just point out this location since they're all together as a set here.
I don't mind you revealing it, just tell me ahead of time. What level were you when you first saw a Grandmaster alembic? Most are well along.
bigfish92672 Sure, I get where you're coming from. I'll try to remember to do a brief warning or preamble in future guides before I reveal where top tier equipment is.
The game is nearly 20 years old! You don't need a damn Spoiler alert, N'wah!!!
@@soulrebel6309 thinks she knows what every gamer wants and desires