Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is rife with sim-y, medieval stuff. You’ll be able to whet your blades, forge horseshoes, throw some cube, do your laundry, wash your self in each trough in Czechia, and, after all, do alchemy.
In case you’re something like me, that final one is an issue. In my 75 hours in KCD2, I by no means as soon as managed to supply something apart from a ‘weak’ potion from my time on the alchemy bench. Even once I felt like I used to be following recipes to the letter and the nanosecond, Henry would grumble about screwing all of it up once I completed. Even the perks which explicitly stated they’d make the alchemy course of extra tolerant of errors did not assist. It obtained to the purpose that I believed that was the joke—alchemy is not actual, so after all it by no means works.
However no, I am simply dumb. Or, really, the sport is simply actually dangerous at explaining how alchemy works. I’ve now cracked how alchemy really works. I am even getting Robust Saviour Schnapps out of dried components. It is all to do with the sport’s bellows.
Principally, by no means use the bellows until you might be strictly instructed to. Regardless of the alchemy tutorial presenting the bellows as, in essence, a sooner technique to get one thing boiling, they’re really used to generate a special type of boiling totally: vigorous boiling.
Like me, I guess plenty of you will have been chucking your components within the pot after which bellowing the hell out of them to get them boiling sooner no matter whether or not the recipe requires vigorous boiling or not, solely turning your hourglass over as soon as it was good and bubbly. What try to be doing, it seems, is reducing the pot over the hearth after which merely ready for vapour to look. As soon as it does (you do not have to attend for the bubbles) flip your hourglass over. As soon as it is empty, that is one flip. Maintain the boiling going for as many turns because the recipe requires, and also you’re golden.
Or, you understand, to scale back these a number of paragraphs to 1 easy-to-digest sentence: do not use the bellows until the recipe requires vigorous boiling, and switch the hourglass when you see vapour.
And that, actually, is all there may be to it. After 75 hours of churning out horrible Saviour Schnapps, I simply made 4 sturdy ones with dried nettle and belladonna. The issue is the sport by no means actually explains that the bellows are their very own factor. As long as you do not use them once they aren’t crucial, all of it will get means simpler.