Crafting and Alchemy Guide

Ingredient shops and shared materials

Open Crafting from the radial menu

Crafting is available from the beginning of the game, in the lower-left part of the radial menu. Select a preparation, check its ingredients and make it before the encounter where you need it. Recipe books and the consumables they produce have separate entries below.

Coen’s form matters. Daytime healing items cannot be used as nighttime vampire healing, and the reverse also applies. Check the current form and the item’s description before spending ingredients. For the wider differences between forms, see day and night systems.

Read the day and night filters as use restrictions

The in-game Anytime, Day Only and Night Only filters group recipes by who can use the finished consumable. They do not require you to wait for that time of day before crafting. Day Only items are for Coen's human form, Night Only items are for his vampire form, and Anytime items work in either form.

Every recipe also has a limit on how many finished copies you can carry. The limit is 5 for 43 of the 44 recipes and 1 for the Razkovniche Elixir. When your inventory reaches that number, the game reports Crafting Limit Reached and will not make another copy even if you have the ingredients.

Use Amalgam to keep more time-based buffs active

Amalgam governs buffs from consumables whose duration is measured in time segments. Rank 1 allows a maximum of two of those buffs at the same time; rank 2 raises the maximum to three. The skill applies in both human and vampire form.

Both ranks require the Amalgam Manual and follow Herbal Remedies I. Each rank costs one skill point and one time segment. The skill description is limited to consumable buffs with time-segment durations, so do not use its two- or three-buff limit to judge instant healing or every other consumable effect.

Choose the effect your loadout needs

Healing, a larger health pool and faster regeneration solve different problems. Likewise, improving weapon damage does not describe the same effect as increasing claw damage or Witchcraft damage.

Minor, regular and Potent versions have different ingredient lists. Compare the version you can make with the benefit you need; a higher tier is not simply the previous potion plus one extra ingredient.

For example, Potent Powder of Sharp Mind uses two Globs of Likho’s Light, two Vials of Aether and one Mercurial Water. The ordinary powder uses Dust of Anachora and Weak Spirits instead of the Likho ingredient and Mercurial Water, so check which recipe you can supply.

Example: preparing Potent Keen Eye Potion

Potent Keen Eye Potion grants a large bonus to critical strike chance with weapons and claws. One craft requires Aetheric Essence × 1, Cave Fungus × 2, Wild Boar Kidney × 1 and Bear Liver × 1.

The regular Keen Eye Potion is not one of those ingredients. Its own recipe uses Mercurial Water, Chanterelle and Wild Boar Kidney. Both versions use the kidney, so account for that shared ingredient if you plan to craft both.

Open the Potent Keen Eye recipe book for its map location. For several planned crafts, add the consumables from their item pages to My journey, then use its materials view to combine quantities with your recorded supplies.

Find recipes for the supplies you have

Explore 44 recipes by effect, or find a use for an ingredient in your bag. Choose Use my supplies to see what you can make and what is one ingredient type away. Your quantities and recipe notes stay with your selected journey.