Skyrim:Alchemy Tutorial

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Learn the basics of potion making.
Quest Giver: Radiant
Location(s): Radiant
Reward: Potion of Restore Health
ID: TutorialAlchemy
 
Blisterwort and Wheat: Restore Health

Radiant Options[edit]

This is a radiant quest which you can receive from any of the following people.

QuestGiver QuestGiverHome
Arcadia Arcadia's Cauldron (Whiterun)
Orgnar Sleeping Giant Inn (Riverwood)
Zaria Grave Concoctions (Falkreath)

Quick Walkthrough[edit]

  1. Receive the potion recipe.
  2. Acquire one sample of wheat and one sample of blisterwort.
  3. Combine the ingredients at an alchemy lab to create a potion of Restore Health.

Detailed Walkthrough[edit]

The Recipe[edit]

Ask any of the quest givers if you can use the alchemy lab located in their shop or inn, as the case may be. They will all consent with the same reply, "Long as you clean up. You know how to use it right? Mix a couple of ingredients together, see what happens. A little Wheat and Blisterwort makes a healing potion, if you didn't know. We have plenty of ingredients for sale, too." As indicated, if you don't have these ingredients you can purchase them from the quest giver, or if you prefer to save yourself the gold, wheat can be found on many farms or randomly placed in barrels, and blisterwort mushrooms often grow in caves.

Crafting the Potion[edit]

Once your ingredients are collected, approach the alchemy lab and select the wheat and blisterwort from your list of ingredients. To make a potion, each ingredient must share an alchemical effect. If you've sampled blisterwort in the past, it will be listed under Damage Stamina, as that is its first effect. However, it also has a restore health effect. Confirm the crafting of the potion and finish the quest to receive a freshly brewed potion of Restore Health. After you have brewed the potion, the category of restore health will be added to the Alchemy menu.

Quest Stages[edit]

Alchemy Tutorial (TutorialAlchemy)
Stage Finishes Quest Journal Entry
10
Objective 10: Craft a potion
  • The following empty quest stages were omitted from the table: 20, 100.
Notes
  • Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Quest system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
  • Not all Journal Entries may appear in your journal; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the quest is done.
  • Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with quests that have multiple possible outcomes or quests where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
  • If an entry is marked as "Finishes Quest" it means the quest disappears from the Active Quest list, but you may still receive new entries for that quest.
  • On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the quest by entering setstage TutorialAlchemy stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) quest stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the quest using resetquest TutorialAlchemy.