Alchemy Balanced

WHITE GULL

In vanilla game, you can`t find White gull as loot, nor buy it from herbalist. You can only find recipe and craft it yourself. To craft White gull, you need Strong Alcohol, that you can`t find as loot, only buy it from inn keepers. You need White gull to craft alchemy substances and T3 potions. I wanted to replicate this for Dwarven spirit as well.

DWARVEN SPIRIT

After completing Wild Hunt story line, looting some of stuff, I collected 700+ Dwarven spirits. Knowing player only needs that much to craft T1 potions and concoctions, this is overkill. Alcohest the same. Further I haven`t crafted any Alcohol in my playthrough at all, except for White gull. To mitigate this and make Alchemy more fun I started examining loot_containers and loot_shops XML files. So I removed Dwarven spirit and Alcohest from loot and shop tables.

ALCOHOL

Now to craft potions you actually need to find recipes for alcohol and craft it during playthrough. Tweaked Alcohol recipes, demanding more herbs. Tweaked Alcohol prices and shop tables. Initially wanted to call this mod Alcohol Balanced. Found recipes so easy to edit, made more changes to T3 petards and Alchemical paste. Maybe add Recipe for Mandrake cordial using Cherry cordial and Mandrake root?

ALCOHOL STOCK

Now you will find more Temerian alcohol in Velen and White Orchard, Redanian alcohol in Oxenfurt and Redanian areas around Novigrad, lot of beer and Mahakam Spirit in Skellige. This was inspired from Proper Alchemy mod by QedrBlaster.

ALCOHOL PRICES

Alcohest 10 -> 65 Krones

Cherry Cordial 25 -> 28

Dwarven spirit 20 -> 100

Mahakam Spirit 8 -> 45

Mandrake cordial 45 -> 65

White Gull 100 -> 130

What you expected? Inflation.

BELL PEPPER

Changing alcohol prices in item_edibles XML means I can change something else. Found Bell pepper food, that in not available in loot nor shop tables. Now there are distinct Pepper and Bell pepper that both found as loot and available in shops. Call it modBellPepperFoodFix.

PETARDS

In vanilla Alchemists powder is more available, than iron ore. Now crafting recipes for T3 Petards demand Zerrikanian powder, instead of Alchemists powder. Zerrikanian powder is craftable from starting schematics. Alchemists powder was cut from loot tables, as well as shop tables, made it rare ingredient and now it is used to craft Alchemical paste.

ALCHEMICAL PASTE

Made it unavailable like White gull. You need Paste to craft T3 Oils. Now there are 2 recipes of Paste. One found as loot or sold from herbalists in Novigrad. Second found as loot or sold from herbalis