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ESP: Better Potion Recipes (an Enchantments, Spells and Potions mod)

This mod adds recipes you can buy, which will let you make some of the rarest and best potions available in the vanilla game. The recipes randomly appear for sale by the many alchemists found throughout Skyrim. They're anywhere from 50% as expensive to twice as expensive as the normal recipes, which really isn't much more to pay, considering how good the potions are that you can make with them! To make it fun, the names of some of the recipes are a kind of riddle, so you'll have to guess what they do. For example, can you guess what the potion called Mages Gone Wild! does? Other recipes make a play on words to make it easier to remember the ingredients used to make the potions. So it's possible to guess what the ingredients are, so you don't have to buy the recipe! For instance, the poison recipe called Giant Killer Rats uses the ingredients Giant's Toe, Deathbell and Skeever Tail.


Like the mod? You might also like the other mods in the Better Improvements for Gameplay Collection.


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So the thing I hated about Alchemy was how difficult it was to discover really good potions and poisons. The vanilla game has few potion recipes you can purchase. Eating ingredients doesn't help you learn much, and randomly adding ingredients turns out to be a waste of resources and time. I ended up searching online, but then feeling like the game lost it's realism. I mean, the Dragonborn doesn't have access to the Internet. So how does he suddenly know how to make awesome potions with four or more effects, or know how to make potions worth more than 800 gold? That's why I made this mod, to give my character rare, valuable and useful potions without breaking immersion. Hope you find it as helpful as I do!



The mod adds 31 new potion and 9 new poison recipes, which were the best I could find online. These recipes are added to the random lists used to spawn them in the sales inventory for alchemist merchants your character encounters throughout Skyrim. The recipes might also be looted from dead actors, chests and such. The mod adds to the 20 potion and poison recipes you can already purchase, which triples the number available to buy. It doesn't add more recipes to the alchemists' sales inventories. It simply adds the new recipes to the existing lists of random recipes they use. So the mod is compatible with mods like Overstocked Merchants or other mods that increase or change the number of items merchants sell.



The following is a list of the recipes. The names are kinds of riddles, giving you clues as to what the potions made do, or what ingredients the recipes contain. Can you guess the kind of potion or ingredients used for each? (A list of the ingredients and purpose of each are listed in the discussion What the Potions Do and How to Make Them.

✓ Bloody Fish on Ice Poison
✓ Breton Bloodsucker
✓ Brynjolf's Real Elixir
✓ Bugs and Bosmers
✓ Bugs for Coin
✓ Cat Up a Tree
✓ Don't Hold Your Breath
✓ Falmer Survival
✓ Feed the Beast
✓ Field and Stream
✓ Flying Dragons and Trolls
✓ Giant Killer Rat Poison
✓ Golden Eggs
✓ Haggling Ravens and Forked Tongues
✓ Hammer Shrooms and Thumbs
✓ Hangman Bites the Dust Poison
✓ Heartbreak Overkill Poison
✓ Histskin in a Bottle
✓ Kynareth's Cure All
✓ Let's Make a Deal
✓ Mage Overpower Aid
✓ Mage Power Aid
✓ Mage Survival
✓ Mages Gone Wild Poison
✓ Nightmother's Nectar
✓ One-Handed Tomb Raider
✓ Pick It Up and Tear It Down
✓ Picker's Wet Dream
✓ Picking Ear Wax
✓ Resist the Elements
✓ Shooting Twigs and Berries
✓ Slow Boat to Oblivion Poison
✓ Some Like It Icy Hot
✓ Sound Mind and Body
✓ Spell Breaker
✓ Stop 'Em Dead Poison
✓ The Black Hand Poison
✓ The Witch Is Dead Poison
✓ Thunder Snow Remedy
✓ Wheat and Chaff



This mod is completely free. But it takes a lot of time, effort and expense to make it and mods like it. If you appreciate the fun they provide and want to give a little back, log into PayPal[www.paypal.com] and make a donation to sp0ckrates@outlook.com. No amount is too small to help! If you give a donation, let me know. If you want, ask me to add a feature to a mod or upload a mod to Nexus for you.



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To make sure this mod loads, after subscribing, launch Skyrim, wait for the launch screen to display a message that all mods finished synchronizing, then exit Skyrim to the desktop. Relaunch Skyrim. The mod should now be loaded.



There are no known bugs. Please report any you think you find. Mods changing the random list of potions available for merchants to sell might be incompatible.



There's no need to unsubscribe. After subscribing, you may easily disable the mod at anytime:

1. Start the Skyrim launcher
   
2. Wait for it to display a message that mods finished synchronizing
   
3. Select Data Files
   
4. Remove the checkmark next to this mod
   
5. Select OK and Play

See the Change Notes.