Cooking Pot Alchemy

Immersion:

A skilled alchemist with the right tools can combine reagents into complex and nuanced potions and poisons with amazingly potent effects.

However, there’s no reason an idiot with a Cooking Pot shouldn’t be able to brew some of the more common ingredients into useful even if less powerful concoctions.


What this mod actually does:

Using the Cooking Pot the player can create standard minor restore healing, stamina, and magicka potions using any 2 of the 10 most common ingredients with the necessary effect (check the documentation for which ingredients were used and which were not).

Also using the Cooking Pot the player can boil down dilute versions of these standard potions into more concentrated versions for convenience (again check the documentation for how this works).


Why I made this mod:

I play without menu pause so I can’t search my inventory while in combat for the right restore potion and instead rely on favorites / hot keys.

Player made potions are impractical because they are mostly one-offs depending on the your Alchemy Skill, the ingredients used, how much Nazeem’s breath stinks that day, etc so they don’t stack.

Even the standard potions having several strengths don't stack efficiently and I hate spamming heals.

Finally if I’m honest I just can’t be bothered to properly learn Alchemy because it’s really involved and I find it tedious compared to killing things that look at me wrong.


Just be aware:

This mod does not use the Alchemy Skill in any way so it can’t my used to create or manipulate player made potions.

Along the same lines the Cooking Pot does not award experience like the Alchemy Station so using this mod won’t help you advance your Alchemy Skill (or any skill for that matter).

Please note I only used 10 ingredients per type but even still 150+ new recipes were added to the Cooking Pot which can make navigating without SKYUI filters a bit difficult.

As a minor spoiler using this mod does grant you the knowledge of certain ingredient’s effects but you must still learn their effects on your own to use them at the Alchemy Station.

Finally, because I’m lazy and didn’t want to load another .esp this mod also adds recipes to the Smelter to create Charcoal from Fire Wood and Steel Ingots from Charcoal + Iron Ingots.


Compatibility:

Shouldn’t cause any conflicts with anything I can think of since it only adds recipes to the Cooking Pot and Smelter.
 
I've used this mod through several play throughs without any problems but like with all mods take the normal precautions (hard save, install mod, hard save).
  
  
Thanks and such:
  
Thanks to Bethesda for creating a game to spend nearly a working year's worth of my life playing.

Thanks for Nexus for greatly helping Bethesda accomplish the above.

Thanks to DavidJCobb for making Simple Potions which is a great companion mod to this because it just feels right to use less fancy vials for these less fancy potions link --> https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/75477/

Finally thanks to anyone who uses this, Goodness forbid finds a error, and lets me know.

Good luck and have fun.