Alchemy - Morrowind Mechanics

Dagoth Ur and the Tribunal didn't need the Heart of Lorkhan to achieve godhood. They could have just brewed and consumed several hundred smoothies made from pulped yams and leather.

For anyone coming to this in 2020+, an ALEMBIC also actually decreases the weight of your created potion. So a must have if you plan on carrying many of them.

For an "invincibility potion" mix Wickwheat, Marshmerrow, Scrib Jerky, and Hound Meat. Restores health and fatigue, fortifies fatigue, and allows Detect Enchantment. I drew my inspiration for this from the "A Dance in Fire" series. I call it Rotmeth in the book's honor.

A shame you can’t throw harmful potions at enemies like alchemical stun grenades

Another great ingredient to consume raw is corcbulb. Well, if you're at a high level and engage the Tribunal Dark Brotherhood. Their 10 seconds paralysis is striking really hard. Having those 0.1 weight cure paralysis ingredients might help alot. :)

Another vendor for fortify intelligence potions is in the imperial shrine in sadrith mora. Just teleport to the mages guild, go down one flight of stairs and through the door. The vendor is on the left. It's much easier to reach and I pass through there when exiting the building the mages guild is in anyway.

These videos are fascinating. I probably put almost 800 hours into Morrowind as a kid. Playing and replaying it over and over again. I even got into using the construction kit after I felt I had done everything. I never put any consideration into all the math going on in the background.

There's an imperial vendor in the Wolverine Hall branch of the Imperial Cult that sells Ash Yams and Bloat for intelligence potions. If you buy a bunch from him, and then sell them back his permanent stock increases. Also, he sells the ingredients for Fortify Willpower potions. So, you can give yourself the edge when casting those god tier spells on whatever you come across.

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One of the most powerful potions you can create in Morrowind is also fairly simple, since it uses common ingredients. A concoction of Saltrice, Corkbulb, Stoneflower, and Crabmeat will restore health, restore fatigue, fortify Magica, and give you a lightning shield. I don't believe it's possible to get the holy trifecta of restoring Health, Magica, and Fatigue in a single potion, but a strong alternative is Scrib Jerky, Hound Meat, Comberry, and Daedra Heart. Together, they restore Magica, restore fatigue, fortify fatigue, and give you a reflect effect as a bonus.

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It was this exact video that I watched that introduced me to this wonderful channel. Thanks for your breakdown of Morrowind mechanics, and the incredible entertainment!

An option for buying out large quantities of ingredients is to, incrementally, buy out and sell back all the stock a re-stocking merchant has in his inventory. After each sale, he re-stocks the whole ammount, making it possible to buy as many as you like in one go. Also, the increased inventory stays, so you can come back and buy those 500 marshmarrow and whickwheat again when you need to. :)

Me personally I like to enchant my armor with effects that increase my chance to evade attacks to the point where most enemies can't even hit my character as long as I maintain high fatigue

Fatigue affects the chance of alchemical ingredients having an effect on you when consumed raw. It's like, you're so tired that your taste buds don't work. A connoisseur can't properly enjoy food like this.

Thanks so much! I didn't feel smart enough to work on Alchemy and now I want to try! Thanks for the pep talk with easy knowledge!

I don't think he mentioned it because it's kind of inconsequential, but the weight of a potion you brew is going to be equal to the mean weight of all the ingredients put in it rounded down; i.e., the sum of the weights of all ingredients divided by the number of ingredients, rounded down. For example, a "Restore Magicka" potion made from a comberry and a daedra's heart will have a weight of (0.1+1.0)/2=1.1/2=0.55-->0.5

In caldera you can go into the traders, walk up to the shopkeeper so he faces you (turn him away from shelves) then wait for the guard to walk away. on the shelf there will be a ring of aversion that you can steal along with other valuable magical items that you can use the ring to steal, or you know...just buy the ring. go back to the alchemist in balmora and use the ring to steal the grandmaster mortar and pestle (you can only take one item per charge). Not only do you have the mortar and pestle but the ring can be used to steal any item in game but is buggy with containers and people will usually see you. Hope this helped anyone still playing. look at my reply if you need money to buy the ring.

You know, I've been thinking of what to do for my second every playthrough of Morrowind. Hmmm...this gives me ideas...

If I remember correctly, potions with negative effects can be dragged-and-dropped over your weapons or arrows/bolts to imbue them with those effects. So you can have poisoned dagger or you can drain Fatigue from your enemies, or even attribute like strength rendering them overloaded and unable to move.