How to craft Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3: Ingredients, recipes & more

In Baldur’s Gate 3, Potions can not only save your life but also grant boosts to your abilities and protection against the deadliest forces on the Sword Coast. So here’s a guide on how to craft Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3 with details about Ingredients, recipes, and where to find them.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is definitely full of interesting options and features to build your characters. Larian’s version of Dungeons and Dragons has a lot of classes, races, and more to build your own RPG adventure. However, it also has a lot of interesting mechanics, such as Item and Potion Crafting.

Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3 are a scarce and precious resource. Luckily, the Ingredients you need to craft them are easy to find if you know where to look. Recipes, on the other hand, are quite tricky to spot. So here’s all you need to know about the art of crafting Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3.

Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3 are single-use objects that cause immediate effects upon consumption. Your character will instantaneously get the effects of each Potion, and taking a Potion during combat phases is considered an Additional Action.

Potions come in various sizes, shapes, and can cause several effects. This includes healing, providing boosts to ability scores, or allowing you to speak to animals, for example, without requiring the Druid or Ranger Class Feature associated with that ability.

Potions are not the only thing you can craft in Baldur’s Gate 3. Alchemy crafting is a complex process that involves turning Ingredients into Reagents. Extraction is the process by which we craft Reagents in the Alchemy Crafting Menu.

Reagents are necessary elements to craft Poultices, Potions, Elixirs, Poisons, and Bombs. Depending on the recipes you have found previously, or even when acquiring certain Reagents, you will be able to craft many other useful things, like bombs and the incredibly useful Oil of Sharpness.

Reagents come in various forms: Ashes, Vitriols, Sublimates, Suspensions, Essences, and Salts. By extracting certain Reagents, there is a chance you might learn certain Potion recipes.

To craft Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3, you must first have the required Ingredients and Recipes. Then, follow these steps:

Remember that Reagents and ingredients are shared among Characters through the ‘Magic Pockets’ feature. However, crafted Potions and Items will always appear in the inventory of the character selected upon crafting the items.

Potion Ingredients are easily one of the most abundant resources in Baldur’s Gate 3. To be able to spot them easily, we recommend you always press the ‘Alt’ key to highlight plants, minerals, mushrooms, and contextual objects.

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Plants, mushrooms, and tree bark are abundant in open nature during exploration. Certain rare Ingredients will require a high Perception, Survival, or Nature roll to spot, so be sure you invest in those skills with some of your recurrent characters when exploring the Sword Coast. All Ingredients are stored in your Alchemy Pouch, so it doesn’t stack in your regular inventory.

Certain Reagents and Ingredients can only be found inside caves, dungeons, or even dropped from enemies. Minerals can also be found when exploring underground locations or ransacked from basements, alchemy laboratories, and evil wizards’ lairs.

Potion Ingredients, Reagents, and even Poisons and Potions can be bought from most NPC traders, so be sure to check their inventories if you are looking for a particular Ingredient that you are having a hard time finding.

Potion Recipes in Baldur’s Gate 3 can be found in three different ways. The first one is collecting Ingredients and passing an automatic ‘Nature,’ ‘Medicine,’ ‘Survival,’ or ‘Insight’ check. Most of your characters currently active in your party will pass this without issues.

The second way is to read everything that you find. Books, notes, letters, and such can be found all around the Sword Coast, Avernum, and the Underdark. So, be sure to read everything, and don’t only read it with your main character.

Use the Inventory menu to share every book and piece of information with your other characters. That way, others can add information and additional ‘Skill check’ chances to gain certain hidden knowledge.

The third way is to extract Ingredients and turn them into Reagents. Most of the Potion Recipes can be learned that way if the character that is crafting has enough Intelligence.

Potions in Baldur’s Gate 3 come in all forms and shapes, and here’s a list of all Potions and Alchemy Items you can find and craft during your adventures, with details on how to unlock their recipes:

Some of the Ingredients and recipe locations may be unknown or might differ due to the changes made with the launch version of Baldur’s Gate 3. We will keep this guide updated as more information comes to light.

In the meantime, we recommend you check out our other Baldur’s Gate 3 guides and articles:

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