Alchemy

Interesting fact: If you brush some dust off a corpse and grind it just a little finer... You get one of the most explosive substances known to man.

Alchemists in Ultima Online do not turn lead into gold; instead, they create magic potions. High level Alchemists can learn Glassblowing, and with Alchemy Recipes, craft 3 special potions and 1 decorative item.

As your skill improves you gain an Enhance Potions bonus of 1% for every 3.3 skill points achieved (30% at 99). This is on top of any bonus given by your equipment and hence not subject to your equipment cap (granting you a maximum benefit of 80%). Since Publish 73, the skill also ensures you always have an effective Enhance Potions value of at least your Alchemy skill divided by 2, regardless of your worn equipment.

Trained alchemists can identify the contents of Potion Kegs by removing a potion from them. Once checked in this way, the potion type becomes visible to all players.

Training

You will need dozens of empty Potion Kegs, hundreds of Mortar and Pestles, an Empty Bottle, and these reagents:

• 2,500 Black Pearl
• 2,500 Blood Moss
• 5,000 Mandrake Root
• 10,000 Ginseng
• 20,000 Garlic
• 14,000 Grave Dust

When you make your first potion, dump it into an empty Potion Keg located in your backpack by dropping the potion on it. Each subsequent potion of that kind made after that will automatically be added to that keg. Click Make Max on the specific potion's description page to make the Max number of potions automatically. Once the keg is full, your bottles will be filled as well. Grab a new empty keg, and dump the potions into the new keg, and keep filling kegs this way until you reach the next level of potions to make. Having a Crystal Ball of Knowledge will help you to achieve optimal skill gain.

• 0 - 30: Train at NPC Alchemist.
• 30 - 45: Agility Potion.
• 45 - 55: Strength Potion.
• 55 - 65: Greater Agility Potion.
• 65 - 75: Greater Strength Potion.
• 75 - 85: Greater Heal Potion.
• 85 - 95: Greater Cure Potion.
• 95 - 100: Greater Conflagration Potion.

For a power gaming technique to train this skill see Satyr Trick

Excess Greater Heal, Greater Cure, Greater Strength and Greater Poison potions have a market with players into Gardening as those potions are used with growing plants.

Craftables

Catogory	Picture	Potion	Ingredients (All potions require 1 Empty Bottle)	Min Required Skill	Success Chance	Recipe Required
Enhancement		Agility Potion	1 Blood Moss	15	100%	-
Enhancement		Greater Agility Potion	3 Blood Moss	35	100%	-
Healing and Curative		Barrab Hemolymph Concentrate	20 Ginseng 5 Plant Clippings 5 Myrmidex Eggsacs	51	95%	Yes
Enhancement		Barako Draft of Might	20 Spider’s Silk 10 Bottles of Liquor 5 Perfect Bananas	51	95%	Yes
Explosive		Black Powder	1 Charcoal 6 Saltpeter 1 Sulfurous Ash	65	70%	-
Ingredients		Bottle of Ichor	1 Darkglow Poison Potion 30 Spider’s Silk	90	20%	-
Ingredients		Color Fixative	1 Silver Serpent Venom	75	50%	-
Explosive		Conflagration Potion	5 Grave Dust	55	90%	-
Explosive		Greater Conflagration Potion	10 Grave Dust	70	60%	-
Explosive		Confusion Blast Potion	5 Pig Iron	50	100%	-
Explosive		Greater Confusion Blast Potion	10 Pig Iron	65	70%	-
Ingredients		Crystal Dust	4 Broken Crystal	75	50%	-
Ingredients		Crystal Granules	1 Shimmering Crystals	75	50%	-
Healing and Curative		Lesser Cure Potion	1 Garlic	0	100%	-
Healing and Curative		Cure Potion	3 Garlic	25	100%	-
Healing and Curative		Greater Cure Potion	6 Garlic	65	70%	-
Toxic		Darkglow Poison	5 Luminescent Fungi	65	70%	Yes
Healing and Curative		Elixir of Rebirth	1 Medusa Blood 3 Spider’s Silk	65	70%	-
Explosive		Lesser Explosion Potion	1 Sulfurous Ash	5	100%	-
Explosive		Explosion Potion	5 Sulfurous Ash	35	100%	-
Explosive		Greater Explosion Potion	10 Sulfurous Ash	65	70%	-
Explosive		Fuse Cord	1 A Ball of Yarn 1 Black Powder 1 Potash 1 Pitcher of Water	55	90%	-
Healing and Curative		Lesser Heal Potion	1 Ginseng	0	100%	-
Healing and Curative		Heal Potion	3 Ginseng	15	100%	-
Healing and Curative		Greater Heal Potion	7 Ginseng	55	90%	-
Strange Brew		Hovering Wisp	4 Captured Essence	75	50%	Yes
Enhancement		Invisibility Potion	4 Blood Moss 3 Nightshade	65	70%	Yes
Enhancement		Jukari Burn Poultice	20 Black Pearl 10 Vanilla 5 Lava Berry	51	95%	Yes
Enhancement		Kurak Ambusher’s Essence	20 Blood Moss 1 Blue Diamond 5 Tiger Pelts	51	95%	Yes
Explosive		Match Cord	1 A Ball of Yarn 1 Potash 1 Saltpeter 1 Pitcher of Water	25	100%	-
Strange Brew		Natural Dye	Color Fixative Plant Pigment	75	50%	-
Strange Brew		Nexus Core	5 Crushed Glass 5 Dark Sapphire 10 Mandrake Root 10 Spider’s Silk	90	20%	-
Enhancement		Night Sight (potion)	1 Spider’s Silk	0	100%	-
Toxic		Parasitic Poison	5 Parasitic Plant	65	70%	Yes
Ingredients		Plant Pigment	1 Plant Clippings	75	50%	-
Toxic		Lesser Poison Potion	1 Nightshade	0	100%	-
Toxic		Poison Potion	2 Nightshade	15	100%	-
Toxic		Greater Poison Potion	4 Nightshade	55	90%	-
Toxic		Deadly Poison Potion	8 Nightshade	90	20%	-
Ingredients		Potash	1 Board 1 Pitcher of Water	0	100%	-
Ingredients		Gold Dust	1000 Gold	90	33%	-
Healing and Curative		Refresh Potion	1 Black Pearl	15	100%	-
Healing and Curative		Greater Refreshment Potion	5 Black Pearl	25	100%	-
Enhancement		Sakkhra Prophylaxis Potion	20 Nightshade 10 Bottles of Wine 5 Blue Corn	51	95%	Yes
Toxic		Scouring Toxin	1 Toxic Venom Sac	75	50%	-
Strange Brew		Smoke Bomb	1 Eggs 3 Ginseng	90	33%	-
Ingredients		Softened Reeds	1 Scouring Toxin 2 Dry Reeds	75	100%	-
Enhancement		Strength Potion	2 Mandrake Root	25	100%	-
Enhancement		Greater Strength Potion	5 Mandrake Root	45	100%	-
Enhancement		Urali Trance Tonic	20 Mandrake Root 10 Sea Serpent or Dragon Scales 5 River Moss	51	95%	Yes
Ingredients		Vial of Vitriol	30 Nightshade 1 Parasitic Poison Potion	90	20%	-

See Also

• Gardening
• UO Stratics: Alchemy Essay
• Alchemy - Ultinma Online
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