Craft Alchemical Bases

Description (by Partoutatix)

Originally made with wghost81's excellent Preparations in mind, I've since made my own Simple Alchemy Refill take on it which can be similarly complemented by this mod.

I really liked how Preparations' refill system works when set to refill individual alchemy items by using either a "Corresponding Base" or just the highest quality base.

However, I find there are still a couple of issues with the alchemy refilling system that could be improved upon:

(1) If a recipe calls for a low quality alchemical base, and you only have higher quality versions you're not allowed to use them for that recipe (unlike in TW1).

(2) If you use Preparations' "Corresponding Base" option to refill individual potions/bombs/oils then whenever you manage to upgrade a recipe you also significantly increase its refilling costs. It might feel like you gimped yourself by upgrading if you now struggle to find the higher quality base needed to refill your upgraded alchemy item. (No longer a problem with Simple Alchemy Refill)

(3) As you upgrade your recipes and their corresponding alchemical base refill requirements similarly increase, all the lower quality alchemical base items become useless. And you will still keep running into these now worthless lower quality alchemical base items.

Simple solution: multiple low-quality alchemical base ingredients can be converted to one medium-quality alchemical base and multiple medium-quality alchemical base ingredients can be converted to one high-quality alchemical base. Each alchemical base can also be converted to its inferior version.

By being able to convert higher quality alchemical bases to their lower quality versions you solve (1).

By being able to craft the rarer higher quality alchemical bases out of a number of their more common lower quality variants you solve (3) and significantly improve on (2).

Description (by DarkLord)

Adds recipes for crafting higher-quality alchemical bases from lower-quality ones and vice versa.

All new recipes are added automatically. Check the images to see them in game.

Potion/Decoction bases:

• []Dwarven Spirit x3 → Alcohest x1

  []Alcohest x1 → Dwarven Spirit x3

  []Alcohest x3 → White Gull x1

  []White Gull x1 → Alcohest x3

• []Saltpeter x3 → Stammelford's Dust x1

  []Stammelford's Dust x1 → Saltpeter x3

  []Stammelford's Dust x3 → Alchemists' Powder x1

  []Alchemists' Powder x1 → Stammelford's Dust x3