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Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an open world action role-playing video game and the fifth main installment in The Elder Scrolls series. The game has been released for several platforms by Bethesda Game Studios. This version is for the Microsoft Xbox One and a Special Edition. The Special Edition is a remastered version with enhanced graphics. Shop The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition Best Buy Exclusive Dragonborn Bundle PlayStation 4 at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Price Match Guarantee.

Skill: Alchemy
Specialization:
Stealth

Alchemy is the art of brewing potions and poisons by combining ingredients with matching effects, using an Alchemy Lab. Initially, you don't know the effects of ingredients and must discover them by eating ingredients, reading recipes, or brewing them into potions.

Some NPCs (notably alchemists) may offer you basic recipes while conversing. Perks in this skill allow discovering more effects by eating; increase the effectiveness of created potions and poisons; remove the positive effects from poisons and the negative effects from potions; and allow you to gather twice as many ingredients from plants. The alchemy skill tree has 9 perks, requiring 15 perk points to fill. Each level in the alchemy skill increases the effectiveness of crafted potions and poisons by 0.5% for +50% effectiveness at level 100 compared to level 0.

  • 3Skill Usage
    • 3.2Tips
  • 4Skill Increases
    • 4.5Gaining Skill XP
  • 8External Resources

Summary[edit]

In-game Description: An alchemist can create magical potions and deadly poisons.

Alchemy is a useful complement to any character style. The most basic potions restore Health, Magicka or Stamina, while poisons cause weapons to inflict greater damage. With a more thorough understanding of the ingredients, you can brew formulas which produce the effects of many magic spells and enchantments. While many potions are available for sale, knowledge of alchemy gives you more flexible, and potentially more powerful, potions than can be bought. Unlike in previous Elder Scrolls games, you cannot carry around alchemy apparatus and make potions on demand, but may only do this at an Alchemy Lab.

Skill Perks[edit]

Alchemist
Physician
Benefactor
Experimenter
Purity
Poisoner
Concentrated Poison
Green Thumb
Snakeblood
PerkRankDescriptionIDSkill Req.Perk Req.
Alchemist1Potions and poisons you make are 20% stronger.000be127
2Potions and poisons you make are 40% stronger.000c07ca20 Alchemy
3Potions and poisons you make are 60% stronger.000c07cb40 Alchemy
4Potions and poisons you make are 80% stronger.000c07cc60 Alchemy
5Potions and poisons you make are twice as strong.000c07cd80 Alchemy
PhysicianPotions you mix that restore Health, Magicka or Stamina are 25% more powerful.0005821520 AlchemyAlchemist
BenefactorPotions you mix with beneficial effects have an additional 25% greater magnitude.0005821630 AlchemyPhysician
Experimenter1Eating an ingredient reveals first two effects.0005821850 AlchemyBenefactor
2Eating an ingredient reveals first three effects.00105f2a70 Alchemy
3Eating an ingredient reveals all its effects.00105f2b90 Alchemy
PoisonerPoisons you mix are 25% more effective.0005821730 AlchemyPhysician
Concentrated PoisonPoisons applied to weapons last for twice as many hits.00105f2f60 AlchemyPoisoner
Green ThumbTwo ingredients are gathered from plants.00105f2e70 AlchemyConcentrated Poison
Snakeblood50% resistance to all poisons.00105f2c80 AlchemyExperimenter or Concentrated Poison
PurityAll negative effects are removed from created potions, and all positive effects are removed from created poisons.0005821d100 AlchemySnakeblood
Green thumbs also get extra ingredients from crops, egg nests, barnacle clusters, and other objects, but not from creatures, passive creatures, nirnroot plants, or Hearthfire planters (see bugs).
Prior to Patch 1.9, the prerequisite perk for Purity was only Experimenter, even though the perk tree indicated Snakeblood was needed.
  • This bug is fixed by version 1.9.26.0.8 of the Official Skyrim Patch.

Skill Usage[edit]

An alchemy lab

Alchemy can only be performed at designated alchemy labs.

To create a potion (or poison) you must combine two or three ingredients which share a magical effect. If the shared effect is a beneficial one (e.g., Restore Health), you create a potion; if the shared effect is a negative one (e.g., Damage Health), you create a poison. Multiple-effect potions can be created if the combined ingredients have more than one effect in common. A list of some useful craftable potions is provided at Useful Potions.

Each ingredient has a total of four available effects. Eating the ingredient always allows you to discover an ingredient's first effect; the Experimenter perk causes additional effects to be discovered when you consume an ingredient. Additional effects can be discovered by experimenting to see what ingredient combinations successfully yield potions. When an ingredient is selected, it will grey out all other ingredients where a combination has previously been attempted and failed. Unlike in Oblivion, your Alchemy level does not affect which effects you can discover or use. When an effect has been identified, the effect will be listed in the Alchemy menu screen, allowing you to sort ingredients by effect.

Your Alchemy skill level, Alchemy perks, and Fortify Alchemy enchantments determine the strength of any potions or poisons that you create (see Alchemy Effects for details). In turn, mixing potions/poisons leads to Alchemy skill increases. The effects of multiple Fortify Skill potions generally do not stack; if you already have a Fortify Enchanting potion in your system, there is no benefit to drinking another. The exception to this rule is Fortify Restoration potions; since Restoration governs all Skills, a Fortify Restoration potion will reinforce any Fortify potion if drunk together.

Formula[edit]

Result = fAlchemyIngredientInitMult x BaseMag x SkillMult x Alchemist Perk[1.0 to 2.0] x Benefactor Perk[1.25] x Physician Perk[1.25] x Poisoner Perk[1.25] x Sum of Enchantments[1.0+] x Seeker of Shadows[1.1]

  • fAlchemyIngredientInitMult: 4
  • fAlchemySkillFactor: 1.5
  • BaseMag:Alchemy effect base magnitude
  • SkillMult: 1 + (fAlchemySkillFactor - 1) x Skill / 100

If result < 0, then result = BaseMag

Tips[edit]

Identifying Effects[edit]

  • You can try various recipes found in-game, or you can simply mix ingredients together randomly. A more effective strategy is to notice commonalities between ingredients. Those that grow near each other often have similar effects (such as Purple Mountain Flower + Thistle, or Lavender + Red Mountain Flower + Tundra Cotton). Insects that feed on flowers often have the same effects. Similarities between names (such as, 'Frost' and 'Snow') also provide a hint. Placement of ingredients in kitchens and display shelves usually indicate they combine with nearby ingredients.
  • The Experimenter perk allows you to discover more effects each time you eat an ingredient.
    • The 1.9 patch and the Dragonborn add-on both have features that let you clear a Perk Tree and reinvest those perks in other places. So you can get as many perks as you want in Experimenter, eat one of each ingredient, and then clear the Alchemy tree to put those perks elsewhere, giving you all the benefits of this perk without having to waste the 6 perk points it would take to get all the effects.
  • The lists below are sets of potion recipes that will efficiently reveal all four effects of every ingredient. Each list has a title with the ingredients it includes; the division is between ingredients from the base game and those added in the official add-ons. There is no assumption that you have identified any effects, even the first one. None of them contain Mort FleshCC, the ingredient added by Plague of the Dead.
Base Game and Official Add-On Ingredients (73 Potions, 218 Ingredients)
  1. Abecean Longfin + Ash Hopper Jelly + Butterfly Wing
  2. Abecean Longfin + Human Flesh + Small Antlers
  3. Ancestor Moth Wing + Blue Butterfly Wing + Chaurus Hunter Antennae
  4. Ash Creep Cluster + Ashen Grass Pod + Beehive Husk
  5. Ash Creep Cluster + Butterfly Wing + Luna Moth Wing
  6. Ash Creep Cluster + Cyrodilic Spadetail + Small Pearl
  7. Ash Hopper Jelly + Honeycomb + Pearl
  8. Ashen Grass Pod + Cyrodilic Spadetail + Namira's Rot
  9. Ashen Grass Pod + Hagraven Feathers + Spider Egg
  10. Bear Claws + Blue Mountain Flower + Rock Warbler Egg
  11. Bear Claws + Falmer Ear + Pine Thrush Egg
  12. Bee + Deathbell + Trama Root
  13. Bee + Fly Amanita + Honeycomb
  14. Beehive Husk + Felsaad Tern Feathers + Wisp Wrappings
  15. Beehive Husk + Skeever Tail + Slaughterfish Egg
  16. Bleeding Crown + Boar Tusk + Lavender
  17. Bleeding Crown + Chaurus Eggs + Ice Wraith Teeth
  18. Blisterwort + Boar Tusk + Giant's Toe
  19. Blisterwort + Butterfly Wing + Spriggan Sap
  20. Blue Dartwing + Imp Stool + Swamp Fungal Pod
  21. Blue Dartwing + Namira's Rot + Nordic Barnacle
  22. Blue Mountain Flower + Frost Salts + Moon Sugar
  23. Blue Mountain Flower + Hagraven Feathers + Human Heart
  24. Boar Tusk + Fly Amanita + Slaughterfish Scales
  25. Bone Meal + Cyrodilic Spadetail + Skeever Tail
  26. Bone Meal + Lavender + Spawn Ash
  27. Briar Heart + Human Flesh + Tundra Cotton
  28. Burnt Spriggan Wood + Grass Pod + Juniper Berries
  29. Burnt Spriggan Wood + Poison Bloom + River Betty
  30. Burnt Spriggan Wood + Snowberries + Spriggan Sap
  31. Butterfly Wing + Dragon's Tongue + Fly Amanita
  32. Butterfly Wing + Human Heart + Small Antlers
  33. Canis Root + Deathbell + Imp Stool
  34. Canis Root + Hanging Moss + Spider Egg
  35. Charred Skeever Hide + Felsaad Tern Feathers + Mudcrab Chitin
  36. Chaurus Eggs + Garlic + Luna Moth Wing
  37. Chicken's Egg + Hawk's Egg + Nightshade
  38. Creep Cluster + Giant's Toe + Rock Warbler Egg
  39. Creep Cluster + Mora Tapinella + Scaly Pholiota
  40. Crimson Nirnroot + Nirnroot + Void Salts
  41. Daedra Heart + Eye of Sabre Cat + Silverside Perch
  42. Daedra Heart + Poison Bloom + Trama Root
  43. Deathbell + Giant Lichen + Pearl
  44. Dragon's Tongue + Hawk Beak + Scaly Pholiota
  45. Dwarven Oil + Jazbay Grapes + Taproot
  46. Ectoplasm + Nightshade + Red Mountain Flower
  47. Elves Ear + Fire Salts + Moon Sugar
  48. Elves Ear + Juniper Berries + Skeever Tail
  49. Emperor Parasol Moss + Falmer Ear + Troll Fat
  50. Emperor Parasol Moss + Histcarp + Nordic Barnacle
  51. Frost Mirriam + Powdered Mammoth Tusk + Silverside Perch
  52. Frost Mirriam + Scathecraw + Skeever Tail
  53. Garlic + Salt Pile + Yellow Mountain Flower
  54. Giant Lichen + Jazbay Grapes + Void Salts
  55. Gleamblossom + Juniper Berries + Powdered Mammoth Tusk
  56. Gleamblossom + Netch Jelly + Wisp Wrappings
  57. Glow Dust + Glowing Mushroom + Hanging Moss
  58. Glowing Mushroom + Pine Thrush Egg + Sabre Cat Tooth
  59. Grass Pod + Ice Wraith Teeth + White Cap
  60. Grass Pod + Sabre Cat Tooth + Thistle Branch
  61. Hagraven Claw + Purple Mountain Flower + Spawn Ash
  62. Hagraven Claw + Torchbug Thorax + Tundra Cotton
  63. Hawk Beak + Mudcrab Chitin + Snowberries
  64. Hawk Feathers + Luna Moth Wing + Vampire Dust
  65. Hawk Feathers + Purple Mountain Flower + Small Pearl
  66. Histcarp + Large Antlers + Salmon Roe
  67. Imp Stool + Mora Tapinella + Skeever Tail
  68. Large Antlers + Salt Pile + Torchbug Thorax
  69. Orange Dartwing + Red Mountain Flower + Vampire Dust
  70. Orange Dartwing + Slaughterfish Egg + Torchbug Thorax
  71. Salmon Roe + Taproot
  72. Scathecraw + Slaughterfish Scales + Thistle Branch
  73. Swamp Fungal Pod + Wheat + Yellow Mountain Flower
List of needed ingredients:
5 of each

Butterfly Wing, Skeever Tail

3 of each

Ash Creep Cluster, Ashen Grass Pod, Beehive Husk, Blue Mountain Flower, Boar Tusk, Burnt Spriggan Wood, Cyrodilic Spadetail, Deathbell, Fly Amanita, Grass Pod, Imp Stool, Juniper Berries, Luna Moth Wing, Torchbug Thorax

2 of each

Abecean Longfin, Ash Hopper Jelly, Bear Claws, Bee, Bleeding Crown, Blisterwort, Blue Dartwing, Bone Meal, Canis Root, Chaurus Eggs, Creep Cluster, Daedra Heart, Dragon's Tongue, Elves Ear, Emperor Parasol Moss, Falmer Ear, Felsaad Tern Feathers, Frost Mirriam, Garlic, Giant Lichen, Giant's Toe, Gleamblossom, Glowing Mushroom, Hagraven Claw, Hagraven Feathers, Hanging Moss, Hawk Beak, Hawk Feathers, Histcarp, Honeycomb, Human Flesh, Human Heart, Ice Wraith Teeth, Jazbay Grapes, Large Antlers, Lavender, Moon Sugar, Mora Tapinella, Mudcrab Chitin, Namira's Rot, Nightshade, Nordic Barnacle, Orange Dartwing, Pearl, Pine Thrush Egg, Poison Bloom, Powdered Mammoth Tusk, Purple Mountain Flower, Red Mountain Flower, Rock Warbler Egg, Sabre Cat Tooth, Salmon Roe, Salt Pile, Scaly Pholiota, Scathecraw, Silverside Perch, Slaughterfish Egg, Slaughterfish Scales, Small Antlers, Small Pearl, Snowberries, Spawn Ash, Spider Egg, Spriggan Sap, Swamp Fungal Pod, Taproot, Thistle Branch, Trama Root, Tundra Cotton, Vampire Dust, Void Salts, Wisp Wrappings, Yellow Mountain Flower

1 of each

Ancestor Moth Wing, Blue Butterfly Wing, Briar Heart, Charred Skeever Hide, Chaurus Hunter Antennae, Chicken's Egg, Crimson Nirnroot, Dwarven Oil, Ectoplasm, Eye of Sabre Cat, Fire Salts, Frost Salts, Glow Dust, Hawk's Egg, Netch Jelly, Nirnroot, River Betty, Troll Fat, Wheat, White Cap

Base Game Ingredients (65 Potions, 193 Ingredients)
  1. Abecean Longfin + Bleeding Crown + Powdered Mammoth Tusk
  2. Abecean Longfin + Cyrodilic Spadetail + Giant's Toe
  3. Abecean Longfin + Human Flesh + White Cap
  4. Bear Claws + Eye of Sabre Cat + Hanging Moss
  5. Bee + Bone Meal + Fly Amanita
  6. Bee + Histcarp + Void Salts
  7. Beehive Husk + Ectoplasm + Grass Pod
  8. Beehive Husk + Hawk Feathers + Small Pearl
  9. Berit's Ashes + Bone Meal
  10. Bleeding Crown + Jazbay Grapes + Tundra Cotton
  11. Blisterwort + Blue Butterfly Wing + Spriggan Sap
  12. Blisterwort + Butterfly Wing + Hagraven Feathers
  13. Blue Butterfly Wing + Blue Mountain Flower + Wheat
  14. Blue Dartwing + Daedra Heart + Nordic Barnacle
  15. Blue Dartwing + Pine Thrush Egg + Spider Egg
  16. Bone Meal + Crimson Nirnroot + Lavender
  17. Briar Heart + Hagraven Claw + Tundra Cotton
  18. Briar Heart + Hawk Beak + Pearl
  19. Briar Heart + Purple Mountain Flower + Swamp Fungal Pod
  20. Butterfly Wing + Dragon's Tongue + Small Antlers
  21. Canis Root + Imp Stool + Rock Warbler Egg
  22. Canis Root + Namira's Rot + Spider Egg
  23. Charred Skeever Hide + Mudcrab Chitin + Swamp Fungal Pod
  24. Chaurus Eggs + Eye of Sabre Cat + Giant Lichen
  25. Chaurus Eggs + Garlic + Luna Moth Wing
  26. Chicken's Egg + Juniper Berries + Nordic Barnacle
  27. Chicken's Egg + Nightshade + Wisp Wrappings
  28. Creep Cluster + Dwarven Oil + Taproot
  29. Creep Cluster + Ice Wraith Teeth + Juniper Berries
  30. Creep Cluster + Mora Tapinella + Scaly Pholiota
  31. Crimson Nirnroot + Nirnroot + Void Salts
  32. Cyrodilic Spadetail + Jazbay Grapes + Salt Pile
  33. Cyrodilic Spadetail + Powdered Mammoth Tusk + Small Pearl
  34. Daedra Heart + Juniper Berries + Namira's Rot
  35. Deathbell + Salt Pile + Small Antlers
  36. Deathbell + Thistle Branch
  37. Dragon's Tongue + Dwarven Oil + Fly Amanita
  38. Dwarven Oil + Garlic + Slaughterfish Egg
  39. Ectoplasm + Red Mountain Flower + White Cap
  40. Elves Ear + Fire Salts + Juniper Berries
  41. Eye of Sabre Cat + Rock Warbler Egg + Torchbug Thorax
  42. Falmer Ear + Fly Amanita + Troll Fat
  43. Falmer Ear + Human Heart + Spider Egg
  44. Fire Salts + Frost Salts + Moon Sugar
  45. Frost Mirriam + Grass Pod + Spriggan Sap
  46. Frost Mirriam + Purple Mountain Flower + Silverside Perch
  47. Frost Salts + Giant Lichen + Hagraven Feathers
  48. Giant's Toe + Glow Dust + Glowing Mushroom
  49. Giant's Toe + River Betty + Skeever Tail
  50. Glow Dust + Human Heart + Nightshade
  51. Glowing Mushroom + Pine Thrush Egg + Sabre Cat Tooth
  52. Grass Pod + Large Antlers + River Betty
  53. Hagraven Claw + Snowberries + Swamp Fungal Pod
  54. Hawk Beak + Small Pearl + Wisp Wrappings
  55. Hawk Feathers + Luna Moth Wing + Vampire Dust
  56. Histcarp + Juniper Berries + Nordic Barnacle
  57. Honeycomb + Silverside Perch + Skeever Tail
  58. Honeycomb + Slaughterfish Scales + Thistle Branch
  59. Human Flesh + Imp Stool + Mora Tapinella
  60. Ice Wraith Teeth + Vampire Dust + White Cap
  61. Jarrin Root + Crimson Nirnroot + Human Heart
  62. Large Antlers + Torchbug Thorax + Wheat
  63. Lavender + Orange Dartwing + Slaughterfish Egg
  64. Mudcrab Chitin + Snowberries + Thistle Branch
  65. Orange Dartwing + Sabre Cat Tooth + Slaughterfish Scales
List of needed ingredients:
5 of each

Juniper Berries

3 of each

Abecean Longfin, Bone Meal, Briar Heart, Creep Cluster, Crimson Nirnroot, Cyrodilic Spadetail, Dwarven Oil, Eye of Sabre Cat, Fly Amanita, Giant's Toe, Grass Pod, Human Heart, Nordic Barnacle, Small Pearl, Spider Egg, Swamp Fungal Pod, Thistle Branch, White Cap

2 of each

Bee, Beehive Husk, Bleeding Crown, Blisterwort, Blue Butterfly Wing, Blue Dartwing, Butterfly Wing, Canis Root, Chaurus Eggs, Chicken's Egg, Daedra Heart, Deathbell, Dragon's Tongue, Ectoplasm, Falmer Ear, Fire Salts, Frost Mirriam, Frost Salts, Garlic, Giant Lichen, Glow Dust, Glowing Mushroom, Hagraven Claw, Hagraven Feathers, Hawk Beak, Hawk Feathers, Histcarp, Honeycomb, Human Flesh, Ice Wraith Teeth, Imp Stool, Jazbay Grapes, Large Antlers, Lavender, Luna Moth Wing, Mora Tapinella, Mudcrab Chitin, Namira's Rot, Nightshade, Orange Dartwing, Pine Thrush Egg, Powdered Mammoth Tusk, Purple Mountain Flower, River Betty, Rock Warbler Egg, Sabre Cat Tooth, Salt Pile, Silverside Perch, Skeever Tail, Slaughterfish Egg, Slaughterfish Scales, Small Antlers, Snowberries, Spriggan Sap, Torchbug Thorax, Tundra Cotton, Vampire Dust, Void Salts, Wheat, Wisp Wrappings

1 of each

Bear Claws, Berit's Ashes, Blue Mountain Flower, Charred Skeever Hide, Elves Ear, Hanging Moss, Jarrin Root, Moon Sugar, Nirnroot, Pearl, Red Mountain Flower, Scaly Pholiota, Taproot, Troll Fat

Official Add-On Ingredients (18 Potions, 54 Ingredients)
  1. Ancestor Moth Wing + Ash Creep Cluster + Chaurus Hunter Antennae
  2. Ash Creep Cluster + Ashen Grass Pod + Beehive Husk
  3. Ash Creep Cluster + Felsaad Tern Feathers + Vampire Dust
  4. Ash Hopper Jelly + Elves Ear + Swamp Fungal Pod
  5. Ash Hopper Jelly + Felsaad Tern Feathers + Gleamblossom
  6. Ashen Grass Pod + Namira's Rot + Trama Root
  7. Boar Tusk + Falmer Ear + Yellow Mountain Flower
  8. Boar Tusk + Slaughterfish Scales + Torchbug Thorax
  9. Burnt Spriggan Wood + Chaurus Hunter Antennae + River Betty
  10. Burnt Spriggan Wood + Moon Sugar + Salmon Roe
  11. Chicken's Egg + Hawk's Egg + Salmon Roe
  12. Emperor Parasol Moss + Fly Amanita + Poison Bloom
  13. Emperor Parasol Moss + Gleamblossom + Netch Jelly
  14. Emperor Parasol Moss + Netch Jelly + Salmon Roe
  15. Frost Mirriam + Small Pearl + Yellow Mountain Flower
  16. Giant Lichen + Scathecraw + Slaughterfish Scales
  17. Netch Jelly + Poison Bloom + Trama Root
  18. Scathecraw + Snowberries + Spawn Ash
List of needed ingredients:
3 of each

Ash Creep Cluster, Emperor Parasol Moss, Netch Jelly, Salmon Roe

2 of each

Video pro com. Ash Hopper Jelly, Ashen Grass Pod, Boar Tusk, Burnt Spriggan Wood, Chaurus Hunter Antennae, Felsaad Tern Feathers, Gleamblossom, Poison Bloom, Scathecraw, Slaughterfish Scales, Trama Root, Yellow Mountain Flower

1 of each

Ancestor Moth Wing, Beehive Husk, Chicken's Egg, Elves Ear, Falmer Ear, Fly Amanita, Frost Mirriam, Giant Lichen, Hawk's Egg, Moon Sugar, Namira's Rot, River Betty, Small Pearl, Snowberries, Spawn Ash, Swamp Fungal Pod, Torchbug Thorax, Vampire Dust

Buying Many Ingredients Efficiently[edit]

The simplest way to get any vendor to restock is to save the game, attack the merchant, and then reload. This will reset both the merchant's inventory as well as their gold available.

If you prefer a method that doesn't rely on a glitch, ingredient shops replenish their stocks every 48 hours. Markarth is exactly 25.5 hours away from Riften, so fast traveling from Markarth to Riften will make sure you get into town during the same time you left plus 1.5 hours, a day later. Thus, you can create a 51-hour round trip circuit between the two cities if you have large amounts of materials to buy or sell. This will cut down on your waiting for shops to be open if you arrive after business hours.

Skill Increases[edit]

Character Creation[edit]

The following races have an initial skill bonus to Alchemy:

  • +5 bonus: Bosmer, Breton, Dunmer, Khajiit

Trainers[edit]

  • Lami in Morthal (Common)
  • Arcadia in Whiterun (Expert)
  • Milore IenthDB in Raven Rock (Expert)
  • Babette in the Dark Brotherhood Sanctuary (Master)

Skill Books[edit]

Free Skill Boosts[edit]

  • +1 Alchemy reward for completing the quest Rare Gifts by bringing the book Song of the Alchemists to Lami. Reading this skill book can also provide +1 Alchemy.
  • +1 Alchemy reward for completing the quest Dungeon Delving (Caves) by finding the Ring of Pure Mixtures for Frida in Dawnstar.
  • +1 Alchemy reward (as well as +1 to all other stealth skills) from Inge Six Fingers (Bards College) for completing the quest Finn's Lute.
  • +5 Alchemy reward (as well as +5 to all other stealth skills) by selecting 'The Path of Shadow' from the Oghma Infinium after completing the quest Discerning the Transmundane.

Gaining Skill XP[edit]

Tips[edit]

  • Alchemy experience gains are proportional to the gold cost of the potion being brewed. Details of the gold cost calculation are provided at Alchemy Effects.
  • Fortifying Alchemy apparel will increase the strength and thus the value of each potion. Obtaining four pieces—for the Hand, Head, Ring, and Amulet slots—will increase the effectiveness of alchemy training, whether by buying or enchanting your own.
  • The Alchemist, Physician, Benefactor and Poisoner perks all increase the value of potions, so get them as soon as they unlock while training.
  • The most expensive single effects (using standard ingredients) are Paralyze, Damage Magicka Regen, Invisibility, and Slow. Since the effect costs are additive, a potion with more effects will have a higher sell value than a potion with only one of these high-value effects.
  • At the start of your adventure in potion-making, it can be useful just to make what you can when you can. An easy way to start is to just buy every item except the most expensive (e.g., daedra hearts, frost salts, etc) from an alchemist, brew all the potions you can from the ingredients, and sell them back to the alchemist. This can be especially useful at Arcadia's Cauldron in Whiterun as you can then obtain alchemy training from Arcadia.
  • Fully clearing Frostflow Abyss during the Frostflow Abyss quest yields 96 Glowing Mushrooms, and at least 516 Chaurus Eggs with the expensive Invisibility effect, setting you up well for future brewing.

Potions[edit]

The following potions are calculated at a skill level of 15 with no perks and assumes no cost in obtaining the ingredients. It also excludes unique (single or low sample) ingredients, as they cannot be used over and over to train with.
  • (Base Game) Giant's toe is the single most valuable ingredient for training alchemy, as it has a 5.9 multiplier for any potion it is used to create that has a fortify health effect. The most expensive potions are:
With Giant's Toe:Blue Butterfly Wing + Blue Mountain Flower + Giant's ToethenBear Claws + Giant's Toe + Hanging Moss
Without Giant's Toe:Glow Dust + Glowing Mushroom + Hanging MossthenCreep Cluster + Large Antlers + River Betty
  • HF The Hearthfire add-on adds player homes with gardens and one with a fishery, allowing you to farm your own ingredients (though not all ingredients can be grown). The add-on also adds the most potion-valuable ingredient to the game, namely salmon roe (which is almost twice as valuable as the highest base game potion using any ingredient).
With Salmon Roe:Garlic + Nordic Barnacle + Salmon Roe, thenChicken's Egg + Nightshade + Salmon Roe
  • Using Windstad Manor you can farm histcarp and salmon in the fish hatchery (you must kill the salmon as they will not yield roe if you just catch them), and grow jazbay grapes in the garden. It is not quite as valuable a potion as the ones above, but it is the highest one that has ingredients that can be farmed (yielding a maximum of 7.5k gold per run). However, this is only the best way if you don't build a greenhouse at any of your houses.
  • Growing ingredients in the garden and greenhouse to make potions is a far more reliable source of alchemy experience and income than anything else available.
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Farming:Creep Cluster + Mora Tapinella + Scaly Pholiota
  • Overall, using the greenhouse and garden, creep cluster, mora tapinella, and scaly pholiota produce the highest experience/profits. With the greenhouse, thirteen plots should be assigned to mora tapinella and eight to each of the others. With just the garden, five plots should be assigned to mora tapinella, and three to each of the other two ingredients. This allows for 39 and 15 potions respectively, giving minimum profits of 15k and 5.8k gold respectively.
  • In the Special Edition there is a bug with creep cluster. (Actually there is a way around this bug that involves growing the creep cluster in the small single planters in the greenhouse. You can also grow them on the very ends of the large planters and gather them from there though targeting them is a bit harder. So you can still use this recipe.). Therefore dragon's tongue, fly amanita, and scaly pholiota become the most profitable combination. With the greenhouse, scaly pholiota should be assigned eight plots and the other two given ten plots each. With just the garden, three plots should be assigned to scaly pholiota and four to each of the other two ingredients. This allows for 40 and 15 potions respectively, giving minimum profits of 13k and 4.9k gold respectively.
  • DB The Dragonborn add-on adds one more valuable ingredient, boar tusks. It can be used to make potions roughly 33% more valuable than using giant's toe, but still less valuable than salmon roe, or using your garden to train.

Achievements[edit]

One achievement is related to Alchemy:

  • Artificer (10 points/Bronze) — Make a smithed item, an enchanted item, and a potion

Notes[edit]

  • Additional effects add to a potion's value regardless of whether the effect is negative or positive.
  • Dwarven Oil and Taproot have exactly the same effects so you can make a high value potion with just these two items.
    • If you have Dawnguard installed, then Ancestor Moth Wing, Blue Butterfly Wing, and Chaurus Hunter Antennae also share the same effects. With Hearthfire, another combination is possible with Chicken's Egg and Hawk's Egg.
  • Guards will talk about your Alchemy skill if it is level 30 or higher: 'Fancy yourself an alchemist, hmm? Never could get the hang of that.' and 'Hey, you mix potions, right? Can you brew me an ale?'
  • There are (according to preliminary calculations) 21974 distinct and efficient alchemy recipes possible in Skyrim only using the ingredients provided at the game's release on 11/11/11. 'Distinct' means order of ingredient listing is ignored. 'Efficient' means each ingredient contributes at least one effect the mixture would otherwise lack.
  • Note that the Purity perk will reduce your ability to earn money via Alchemy, since potions or poisons that mix positive and negative effects gain their value from all of their effects, and Purity removes the conflicting ones without any compensation.
  • There appear to be several unused Alchemy perks: Improved Remedy (00058219), Improved Virulity [sic](0005821A), and Catalyst (0005821B). Catalyst improves the magnitude of beneficial potions by 50%.

Bugs[edit]

  • Fortify Archery potions affect all types of weapons.
    • This bug is fixed by version 1.2 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
  • Fortify One-handed potions won't affect daggers.
    • This bug is fixed by version 1.2.1 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
  • Vampire players receive an additional 25% increase to the strength of any potion (when consumed) or enchantment (when equipped), if you have the Necromage perk. Therefore vampire characters with Necromage are able to reach higher potion strengths. (The added strength of the enchantment or potion will show up on your 'Active Effects' list when used.)
    • This bug is fixed by version 1.2.3 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
  • Hearthfire planters will not give double the ingredients with Green Thumb, despite the harvest notification indicating otherwise.

External Resources[edit]

Online Resources[edit]

  • Skyrim Alchemy Lab— online calculator including Dawnguard and Hearthfire ingredients, plus saveable recipe list
  • AlcheMoney Skyrim Alchemy Calculator (open source)
  • Darliandor's Alchemy Lab - Alchemy Laboratory Wizard - includes Dawnguard and Hearthfire ingredients (archive, original page no longer available)

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Farming:Creep Cluster + Mora Tapinella + Scaly Pholiota
  • Overall, using the greenhouse and garden, creep cluster, mora tapinella, and scaly pholiota produce the highest experience/profits. With the greenhouse, thirteen plots should be assigned to mora tapinella and eight to each of the others. With just the garden, five plots should be assigned to mora tapinella, and three to each of the other two ingredients. This allows for 39 and 15 potions respectively, giving minimum profits of 15k and 5.8k gold respectively.
  • In the Special Edition there is a bug with creep cluster. (Actually there is a way around this bug that involves growing the creep cluster in the small single planters in the greenhouse. You can also grow them on the very ends of the large planters and gather them from there though targeting them is a bit harder. So you can still use this recipe.). Therefore dragon's tongue, fly amanita, and scaly pholiota become the most profitable combination. With the greenhouse, scaly pholiota should be assigned eight plots and the other two given ten plots each. With just the garden, three plots should be assigned to scaly pholiota and four to each of the other two ingredients. This allows for 40 and 15 potions respectively, giving minimum profits of 13k and 4.9k gold respectively.
  • DB The Dragonborn add-on adds one more valuable ingredient, boar tusks. It can be used to make potions roughly 33% more valuable than using giant's toe, but still less valuable than salmon roe, or using your garden to train.

Achievements[edit]

One achievement is related to Alchemy:

  • Artificer (10 points/Bronze) — Make a smithed item, an enchanted item, and a potion

Notes[edit]

  • Additional effects add to a potion's value regardless of whether the effect is negative or positive.
  • Dwarven Oil and Taproot have exactly the same effects so you can make a high value potion with just these two items.
    • If you have Dawnguard installed, then Ancestor Moth Wing, Blue Butterfly Wing, and Chaurus Hunter Antennae also share the same effects. With Hearthfire, another combination is possible with Chicken's Egg and Hawk's Egg.
  • Guards will talk about your Alchemy skill if it is level 30 or higher: 'Fancy yourself an alchemist, hmm? Never could get the hang of that.' and 'Hey, you mix potions, right? Can you brew me an ale?'
  • There are (according to preliminary calculations) 21974 distinct and efficient alchemy recipes possible in Skyrim only using the ingredients provided at the game's release on 11/11/11. 'Distinct' means order of ingredient listing is ignored. 'Efficient' means each ingredient contributes at least one effect the mixture would otherwise lack.
  • Note that the Purity perk will reduce your ability to earn money via Alchemy, since potions or poisons that mix positive and negative effects gain their value from all of their effects, and Purity removes the conflicting ones without any compensation.
  • There appear to be several unused Alchemy perks: Improved Remedy (00058219), Improved Virulity [sic](0005821A), and Catalyst (0005821B). Catalyst improves the magnitude of beneficial potions by 50%.

Bugs[edit]

  • Fortify Archery potions affect all types of weapons.
    • This bug is fixed by version 1.2 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
  • Fortify One-handed potions won't affect daggers.
    • This bug is fixed by version 1.2.1 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
  • Vampire players receive an additional 25% increase to the strength of any potion (when consumed) or enchantment (when equipped), if you have the Necromage perk. Therefore vampire characters with Necromage are able to reach higher potion strengths. (The added strength of the enchantment or potion will show up on your 'Active Effects' list when used.)
    • This bug is fixed by version 1.2.3 of the Unofficial Skyrim Patch.
  • Hearthfire planters will not give double the ingredients with Green Thumb, despite the harvest notification indicating otherwise.

External Resources[edit]

Online Resources[edit]

  • Skyrim Alchemy Lab— online calculator including Dawnguard and Hearthfire ingredients, plus saveable recipe list
  • AlcheMoney Skyrim Alchemy Calculator (open source)
  • Darliandor's Alchemy Lab - Alchemy Laboratory Wizard - includes Dawnguard and Hearthfire ingredients (archive, original page no longer available)

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