Extend Potion Duration
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🔍 Analysis
- 👍 4.8% endorsement rate — high engagement, a strong quality signal
- 🏆 #90 of 132 Tweaks mods in this game by downloads
📋 About This Mod
Basic version of the mod: Extend Potion Duration
Makes drinking more charges of an already-active potion add to the effect's duration instead of simply resetting it.
Example, in vanilla:
Drink 2x Blizzard => 1x Blizzard effect duration + 2x Blizzard toxicity cost.
Drink 2x Blizzard => 2x Blizzard effect duration + 2x Blizzard toxicity cost.
In the vanilla game if you drink a 1-minute potion and then quickly drink another charge of the same potion the effect's duration will be reset to 1 minute instead of being added up to 2 minutes. You will have wasted that extra charge/minute you drank, despite the extra toxicity cost being fully added/doubled.
With this mod the 1 minute gained from the new charge would accumulate with the duration you still had left from the previous charge thereby giving you 2 minutes of remaining potion effect.
This mod makes no arbitrary changes to potion or character skill definitions, and does not mess with the combat balance of alchemy. Toxicity cost per potion charge/effect duration is untouched so your buffs are limited by your toxicity bar just the same as in vanilla.
Makes food and drink buffs also able to have their buff durations interchangeably stack together.
Main version of the mod: Stack Potion Durations + Bonus:
Does everything the basic version of the mod - Extend Potion Duration - does, additionally:
[*]Stacking charges before combat will grant an additional bonus to their duration.
The more charges stacked together the greater that bonus will be. This is to acknowledge and allow playstyles where you want to prepare before combat, as is repeatedly implied to be the witcher's way in this roleplaying game's writing, in the mechanics of previous games in the series and in all the adjoining witcher media.
1x Basic Swallow =20s (vanilla duration)
2x Basic Swallow= 1m (would be 2 x 20s = 40 seconds with the basic version of the mod without the bonus)
3x Basic Swallow= 2m (1m)
4x Enhanced Swallow= 3m20s (1m20)
5x Superior Swallow= 5m (1m40)
3x Basic Tawny Owl/Black Blood = 3m (1m30)
4x Enhanced Tawny Owl/Black Blood = 7m (3m)
5x Superior Tawny Owl/Black Blood = 11m (5m)
3x Basic Golden Oriole = 5m40 (3m)
4x Enhanced Golden Oriole = 16m (8m)
5x Superior Golden Oriole = 30m (15m)
3x Basic Thunderbolt = 3m (1m30)
4x Enhanced Thunderbolt = 8m20s (4m)
5x Superior Thunderbolt = 14m (7m30)
Formula: Each time you stack potion charges outside of combat their durations get stacked/added together and an extra bonus also gets added equal to a single charge multiplied by the stack size, up to
Extend Potion Duration is a small tweak mod that changes how potion stacking works: instead of resetting the effect timer when you drink another charge, it adds the remaining duration to the new effect. With 535 endorsements and over 11,000 downloads, it's a community-approved quality-of-life improvement for players who want more efficient potion use.
✨ Key Features
📊 Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Community-approved with 535 endorsements and over 11,000 downloads.
- Solves a common annoyance: no more wasted potion time when you re-drink.
- Lightweight tweak that doesn't overhaul the game—just makes potions feel better.
⚠️ Cons
- Only affects potion duration stacking—no other features or options.
- May not be compatible with other mods that alter potion behavior or effects.
- No detailed documentation or installation instructions provided by the author.
For players who chug potions frequently and hate losing leftover duration when they reapply. If you're a completionist who likes to optimize every buff, this is a must-have. Skip if you want a full overhaul—this is a focused QoL tweak.
💡 Beginner Tips
- Check if the mod requires a specific mod loader (like Vortex or MO2) for your game—if not, just drop the files into your mod folder.
- If you're using other potion-related mods, test them together to ensure no conflicts.
- Since it's a tweak, it's safe to add mid-playthrough, but always keep a backup of your save just in case.
📊 Mod Details
- Game
- Witcher 3 Mods
- Author
- Bram and Partoutatix and 01DarkLord04
- Version
- 4.04.7
- Downloads
- 11,070
- Endorsements
- 535
- Category
- Tweaks
- Created
- 1/3/2019
- Updated
- 5/1/2024
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