How does Oblivion Remastered Alchemy work? This invaluable skill makes it easy to turn everyday materials into life-saving potions and potent poisons capable of debilitating enemies with the swing of your sword. Here’s how to get started with Alchemy, including how to level it up, find more ingredients, and even make money.
Have you just come across the required materials for Alchemy in the Oblivion Remastered sewers? Check out the best Oblivion class and Oblivion birthsign to set yourself up with the best background for your newfound profession. Our Oblivion Remastered leveling guide can also give you a headstart on slinging poisons and potions, too.
How to start Alchemy in Oblivion Remastered
You can start your adventures in alchemy before you even leave the sewers at the start of the game by looting the Mortar and Pestle from one of the mobs.
Oblivion Alchemy is used to craft potions and poisons — beverages to restore health and magicka, and vials of debilitating liquids to chug, throw, or apply to your weapons for extra damage.
Along with items like rat meat, cheese, and mushrooms, you’ll have everything you need to begin crafting creative concoctions before you even enter the open world.
How do I use Alchemy in Oblivion Remastered?
To use Alchemy in Oblivion, use the Mortar and Pestle from your inventory. Stay in range of Alchemy apparatus like a Retort, Calcinator, or Alembic to receive boosted positive effects and mitigate side effects when making your concoctions
Select up to four ingredients from the list to add, taking note of their revealed effects at the bottom. A potion can be crafted if two or more ingredients share the same effect. Once one appears using your materials, give it a name and hit the Create button.
How to level Alchemy in Oblivion Remastered
Leveling up Alchemy in Oblivion is straightforward. Crafting a potion with two or more ingredients awards five Alchemy XP. Consuming a raw item used in alchemy awards one-tenth of that at 0.5 XP.
Eating ingredients found on your travels is an easy way to passively increase your Alchemy level to 25 while easing the burden on your carry weight. This level milestone unlocks the means to make more efficient use of simple ingredients, letting you craft potions with virtually any consumable you come across.
At every 25th Alchemy level, you unlock the ability to identify another of the four possible properties of an ingredient. The more of these available to you, the more powerful the effects of your potions and poisons.
As you level through the Novice to Expert level ranges, upgraded equipment like the Pestle and Mortar become available from vendors and in dungeons. Once you reach the Master tier, scout out the highest quality tools from Conjurers and Necromancers in Echo Cave to make efficient use of your skills.
Where do I get more Alchemy ingredients?
Ingredients for Alchemy in Oblivion are freely available. Any consumable is compatible, though not necessarily with each other.
To keep costs low (or yourself out of jail), hitting up farms and allotments is the way to go. The produce growing in the patches can be swiped without incurring the wrath of the guards, a bounty, or even the disdain of the farmer. It’s a free country.
How do I make money with Alchemy in Oblivion Remastered?
Even if you’re not interested in potent potions and their effects, Alchemy is considered one of the best ways to make gold in Oblivion.
The potions you make can be sold for a decent chunk of coin, especially given the low (typically free) cost of materials. The final price of a potion is decided by your Alchemy level, your Pestle and Mortar, and Lady Luck (your Luck stat, specifically).
How to use potions and poisons in Oblivion Remastered
You can consume any beneficial potions made with Alchemy through the inventory menu.
To use poisons and potions with negative effects, simply click on them in your inventory. Confirm if you want to apply the relevant effect to your currently equipped weapon to apply the poison’s effects per hit.
How do I train Alchemy in Oblivion Remastered?
If you require Advanced Alchemy training, speak to either Ardaline at the Mages Guild in Bravia or Brotch Calus in Bruma.
Either one will suggest speaking to Sinderion in the basement of Skingrad’s West Weald Inn to advance your profession. You may have come across him as part of the Nirnroot quest. On top of being a well-stocked Alchemist vendor, he’s the Master Alchemist you need to visit to level Alchemy above 70.
Before he can teach you anything, Sinderion requires a bottle of Tamika Vintage 399 and a bottle of Surilie Brothers Vintage 399. You can find both in the Wine Cellar of Castle Skingrad, among many other places.
Now that you’re a bona fide alchemist, find out where to store items to ensure your collection of potions and poisons doesn’t weigh you down. Finally, check out the complete Oblivion Remastered quest list, and install the best Oblivion Remastered mods for an even easier time in Cyrodiil.
