Bg3 Alchemy Guide Recipes Ingredients And More

How Alchemy Works in Baldur’s Gate 3

To open the Alchemy menu, press H on your keyboard, or click the righthand Alchemy icon at the top of the popup after bringing up the inventory of any companion in your current party. You can do this anytime, anywhere, as long as you’re not in combat. Next, click the Extract All Ingredients button at the bottom of the window. If the ingredients you have add up to a craftable item, it will appear in the menu on the left; click an item and the ingredients appear on the right. Click Craft Item and you’ll make it. You can filter the list by ticking the Filter Craftable Only box at the top-left of the Alchemy screen. However, some items use any type of an ingredient (for example, Any Salt), while others may need a specific kind (such as Salts of Rogue’s Morsel). This means it is possible to make one item, not realizing you may not be able to make another until you find more ingredients. 

Finding Recipes and Ingredients in BG3

Both recipes and ingredients can be found throughout the game, with a few recipes coming from books you’ll find on your travels, but most from when you gain an extract from ingredients. Ingredients can be found as loot from enemies but also found on plants you’ll see growing along the roads and in caves as you explore.  Any ingredients you pick up will automatically be stored in the Alchemy Pouch of the currently selected player. However, when you execute the Extract All Ingredients action, the game combines any character’s ingredients to make as many resources as possible. You need three of any single base ingredient to get an extract.

Baldur’s Gate 3 Alchemy Recipes List

This list is in no way exhaustive, so let us know if you find the full details for anything we haven’t covered in the comments below. 

Baldur’s Gate 3 Elixirs recipes

Baldur’s Gate 3 Potions recipes

Baldur’s Gate 3 Grenades recipes

Baldur’s Gate 3 Coatings recipes

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