Vintage Story Mod Spotlight: Alchemy Mod

So here’s something pretty cool from the alchemy mod a potion that lets you glow in the dark yes Hey welcome back everybody this is shino and we’re going to do a mod spotlight i think this is something i’m going to do on some of these mods my modded to the max series i’m really really enjoying it it’s a lot of fun and i’ve been getting

A lot of good feedback and a lot of good questions too and i thought well you know what really a lot of these mods haven’t been spotlighted so let’s do that okay as a service to the community let’s do some mod spotlight so we’re going to be looking at the

Alchemy mod it’s been a lot of fun i had fun playing with it and i’ve got a lot of people commenting about it so let’s talk about the alchemy mod first uh this came out from uh this is created by llama 3013 and it came out

April of 2021 so we’ve had it for about a year it is updated for all versions of 116 including version 116.4 and what this mod does is it adds some it adds potions that will help enhance the player you have archer’s flask fighters flash healing oil which is like a region

Hunters delight looters delight which is one of my favorites uh miner’s flask which is also a really nice one to have the potent oil purging brew and then something to help with hunters uh the predator pheromones and also the scent mask you also have the sprinter’s flats

Vitality fast and then the recall flask which uses which will allow you to go back to a starting will teleport to a position and then the glow flask because let’s face it who doesn’t want to glow in the dark right so a lot of cool things that you can get

From this mod and these come at different strengths that last for different periods of time and different abilities so if we go in uh if you’ve loaded the mod up you will see in your survival handbook you have do have an alchemy guide to potion making

And it has a lot of really good information on there and it actually walks you through the steps of here’s the first thing you’re going to need to do now you need to do this now you need to do this real easy to understand well done doesn’t take up a whole lot of

Space in the handbook which is perfect so you can click on the list of potions at the bottom and you can see a list of all the craftable potions that you can get from this it has them all listed out and you’re gonna see that there’s also

Two different types you have an edible uh which is you know just a a carrying one that you don’t need a flask or anything for just a bunch of herbs and then you’ve got where you can make them a little bit stronger and put them into liquid form to carry with you as

Well and these are nice because while these are a one-time hit you can have multiple uses on each flask so it gives you something that you can carry around with you so let’s take a look at looter’s delight i was talking about this one in my video look at that so

When it’s used 60 more forage amount 60 more gears 90 percent more uh vessel content 60 more on wild crops and that lasts for 600 seconds that’s that’s 10 minutes of of doing some uh searching and looking for stuff that’s pretty good i mean that’s a pretty big bonus for you

So definitely something nice to have now we’re going to be looking at a couple of these but i’m going to go through the example of making the fighters flask as we go through this one and if you look at it’s a 90 percent increase to

Melee damage for 10 minutes so that is a very nice one to think about having with you so let’s get started on this so if we go back into the alchemy guide you’ll see hey the first thing you need you need flasks and there’s different types

Of flasks that you can make now you can make one that is fired by using clay or you can use the ones where you’re using quartz so if you have a lot of quartz laying around you can just go through these if you don’t have a lot of of clay

You might want to think about using these but you can use any type of the quartz that you have so if i click on this green one here you’ll see it’s made with the olivine so any of those crystals that you can find here’s one that’s made with the amethyst and really pretty

Here’s one made with the smoky quartz so you can go through a whole bunch if you like having a little bit of vibrance in your world that you know you don’t want you don’t want to have all the subdued colors you want to add a little bit this

Might be a good thing to do also for uh just aesthetics building having something like that all right and if we go back after we’ve got those and it tells you you need to make a mortar and pestle now i’ve made the mortar and pestle they are over here

And if we hit eight you can see pretty simple this is something that you can do pretty early on with just a knife the other one does take uh having a chisel uh to get to it so you got to be at least into the copper age before you can

Make the stone one but you know the durability um this is going to last four times more than the more than the wooden one but the wood one’s pretty cheap so i i’ve never had i’ve never even considered going into the stone one but you do have that option there now these

Do not stack or these do not place in the world without the addition of a mod uh so if you want to get a mod that will allow you to stack those or place them someplace those would be great pieces to have in your kitchen so the first thing

We need to make is our basic potion so if we go down we take a look at it we’re going to need one of those mushrooms a horsetail and our mortar and pestle so we’re going to open this up we’re going to put our mortar and pestle in

We’re going to put some of these mushrooms in we’re not going to make all of them let’s just do one and we’re going to put in our horsetail and that’s how you make the basic potion base from the basic potion base is the beginning for everything everything

You’re going to do is going to require that basic potion of base so if we take a look at it we can see that this is the ingredient for making the potion tea for making the liquid ones but it’s also the one for making the edible potions so if we want to make

Say the fighter one that i was just talking about we would do we would take some of the lupine and some of the cow uh the cow parsley and we turn that into a fighter’s flask weak base and then if we combine those two together in our inventory grid we get

The edible potion herb that’s going to give us the melee damage so if you look this is for two minutes it’s going to give us a plus 30 percent increase to melee damage if we use it so and then to use this you just simply just

Munch on it just like it was a normal and then you’ll see in your effect windows that you or you’ll see in your info log that you’re getting an effect from the potion so when you go to make your basic potion base you are going to need a barrel and gonna need water

Inside that barrel now the smallest amount that you can make would be two liters if you were to take a look at the potion recipes for making the tea you can see that you’re gonna need one basic potion base to every two liters of water so the smallest amount that you’re

Gonna make is two uh if you’re gonna make a full barrel you’re gonna need 25 of the basic potion bases uh 10 seems to be a good number making 10 liters at a time seems to be a pretty good number so what i’m going to do is i’m going to put 5 in

There and there you go it’s an instant as soon as you put it in there you get that instant uh so there’s no ceiling on it so once you have your potion teammate now you’re going to want to make the drinkable version of your potion you’re

Going to have to make that potion base again now this time where where when we made the potion t it was uh one potion base to two liters of water this is a one to one and if you have 10 liters of potion tea then you’re

Going to need 10 of the potions to go into it so and we’re going to add in 10 of each one of the flowers that we need for the potion 10 of those and 10 of those and that’ll give us our 10 fighters flask the weak base

Okay this is the weak one where the one we ate was a weak version of it what we’re making now is going to be the medium version so we’re going to put those 10 in and seal it and it’s going to take 24 hours for that to finish making

So that is how you create the drinkable potions i already have 10 of those over here or 20 liters here and so now to get these out of that’s where you use your fast your flasks for so we’re going to take a look at each one of these

And so if you look i now have 19.75 so that was 0.25 is what that one got and we look at this one and we have 0.5 and the large one holds one liter so with these three now these are we can either leave these just like this maybe store them uh on

Shelves whatever you know just to have them around or we can carry them with us and so if i’m carrying the one liter one if i need to take the potion i did and now i can look at it and you see i have 0.75 so you’re getting four

Uses out of that large one to take with you so you’re getting 0.25 at a time so that’s a single use there that’s a double use and then you can use that one four times so that is how you make those potions now to make the stronger potion if you wanted to get

To the point that you wanted to have the strongest potion you’re gonna have to do some cuttings of these flowers and doing some drying so let me take these shears and to do your cuttings you just put your shears in with whatever flour you want to get cut

And we’ll put five in there so you see that’s going to get me five raw cuttings of the lupine uh white so i’m gonna take those and for these to dry they have to be in open air storage so you can see right now it’s drying uh in my

Uh inventory but if i were to put it back into the chest you’ll see that the drying will stop and these are perishable so you can’t let them sit around too long whenever you’re getting ready to use them so now we don’t want to walk around carrying

A bunch of cut flowers in our pockets waiting for them to dry so what they have in the game is a drying rack and herb rack and we can take it we can put these and this will give us the same effect as if it’s sitting in our inventory

And we can store these up on top There we go and you can see in the tool tip it’s telling you you know it’ll dry in one point two days so that is you can let those dry in your inventory you can go about not have to worry about having to carry around a bunch of posies in your pockets

Once these are dried into the dried cuttings then you can use these to cook them into a cooked cutting and then that’s how what you use to make your strong uh base okay so once you’ve got the other potions made if you want to make the strong potions it’s going to take a

Little bit of extracurricular activity outside of the mod um you’re going to have to get into distilling uh because you’re gonna need aquavita uh which is double dec double distilled alcohol so you have to make an alcohol first usually you do that through uh you know through the fruit press and making a

Wine or you can use the ale and i did it just using ale so that’s mixing water and any of the flowers and letting them brew inside there i think it was 12 days i think it had to go uh 12 day night cycles um to to get

The the ale and then once you’re done with that you got to go into the distillery you need to make the boiler you need to make the condenser put the ale in the boiler put a bucket down here yadda yadda it’ll turn that into rye whiskey

And then you put the rye whiskey back into the boiler and out comes the aquavita now i’m i’m not gonna go through that process i’m not gonna show it i may do a video on distilling i don’t know but there’s a really there’s some good videos out there on distilling

Uh if you haven’t seen any yet i’ll link to one at the end of this video that was done by mrs shanton um on her channel when she was going through it and it’s a great tutorial so i’ll leave it up to her to describe the process

Um but anyway so once you have your aqua vida uh then to make the strong potion you’re gonna need again the aqua vida placed inside there and then it’s going to require do i have it yep and then you’re going to need the strong base for the fighters flask and again that’s

Just this is where you’re using your cooked cuttings uh to make this you use your cooked cuttings okay um and so that’s what i’ve done i’ve used the cook cuttings now i did a little bit of experimenting you know i wanted to see so i actually put some

Cuttings i wanted to see you know could you cut them could you cook them in a clay oven the answer is no you can’t so you have to in a fire pit uh and interesting it it actually i put in three i put an entire stack of

The cuttings and i put in three logs just to see how much it would yield and it yield three cuttings so it’s kind of an expensive recipe as far as the time it takes to cook so keep that in mind when you go to do this you might you

Might want to make sure that you’ve got those resources available um so again you put in the the strong base in there with the aquavita and then you seal it and you’ll get 24 hours later and so there we go we’ve got the 10 liters of the strong fighters flask

So i’ll grab a potion bottle and voila there we go so now we’ve got the strong and if we take a look at the stats on it i think we got to do that back in the in the guide so strong fighters flask when potion is used plus 90 melee damage

And lasts for 600 seconds so 10 minutes with 90 increase in melee damage so not bad it tastes kind of minty too all right folks that’s gonna do it for this mod spotlight again this has been a spotlight on alchemy by a llama 3013 it is available for 116.4 right now

I have been showing this on 116.1 and i’ll be making the upgrade here soon anyways thanks for watching and we’ll see you next time take care