Proper Alchemy

0. 2. 0 is here! Some rather major changes to refilling, a couple of small tweaks to shops, prices, bombs and oil icons, and beer restores health now!

DESCRIPTION

As it was with Witcher 2, Witcher 3 has a lot of alchemy related problems - some stuff is unbalanced, some not even works at all. The ultimate idea of this mod is to fix this and to rebalance alchemy without breaking the initial design with main directions being: 1) changing the refill system to be a bit more sophisticated while keeping charges for potions/bombs/oils; 2) tweaking different aspects of alchemy (bombs/skills/etc.) to be less OP or less useless.

REFILLING Only Alcohest refills potions and bombs now, and its recipe was changed so that you would be able to cover most of its production cost by just gathering herbs (you will need much more of them, though) rather than buying expensive base alcohol. Alcohest is no longer used as a base alcohol for any potions or decoctions. Base alcohol used for T2 and T3 potion creation is now far more expensive than in vanilla (that may require more balancing in the future). See below for details.

• []potions and bombs can now only be refilled with Alcohest []Alcohol bases are now as follows: T1 potions - Temerian Rye (was Dwarven Spirit) T2 potions - Dwarven Spirit (was Alcohest) T3 potions - White Gull (no changes) Concoctions - White Gull (was Alcohest) Substances - White Gull (no changes) []Alcohest's recipe: 1 empty bottle, 1 Temerian Rye, 1 Redanian Herbal, 5 Berbercane fruit, 4 Cortinarius, 4 Crow's Eye []Dwarven Spirit's recipe: 1 empty bottle, 1 Mahakam Spirit, 5 Pringrape, 5 Rangorin []White Gull's recipe: 1 empty bottle, 1 Mandrake Cordial, 1 Cherry Cordial, 1 Nilfgaardian Lemon, 5 Nostrix, 5 Green Mold

SHOPS AND LOOT

• []Alcohest and Dwarven Spirit can't be found in drop or containers any more, they are also removed from some of the shops (innkeepers, generic merchants, etc.) []Mahakam Spirit added to more shops

[]Alchemist Paste and Powder removed (as loot) from most of the common containers (crates, sacks, etc.). [*]Different regions and taverns now sell different alcohol (vodkas, beers, wines, etc): you will find more Temerian alcohol in Velen and White Orc