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.


CHANGES

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 Orchard taverns; Oxenfurt and Redanian areas around Novigrad will predominantly have Redanian alcohol, while Novigrad itself will have all of the alcohol but it will seriously depend on the tavern; Skellige will have lots of beer and Mahakam Spirit, but not a lot of wine and definitely none of your fruity Rivian kriek. Some vital alcohol (like Redanian Herbal) will be sold in most of the shops but may have far lesser quantities depending on the region.

PRICES

• Redanian Herbal: 13 (was 36)
• Alcohest: 65 (was 10)
• Temerian Rye: 25 (was 32)
• Mahakam Spirit: 45 (was 8)
• Dwarven Spirit: 100 (was 20)
• Mandrake Cordial 65 (was 45)
• Nilfgaardian Lemon: 32 (was 40)
• Cherry Cordial: 28 (was 25)

OILS

• all oils of all tiers now have 30 charges (was 20/40/60)
• bonus damage: 15%/25%/35% (was 10/25/50)
• new icons

BOMBS

• all bombs of all tiers now have 3 charges (was 2/3/4)
• changes to icons
• Samum. Duration: 8/10/12 sec (was 4/6/8).
• Dragon's Dream. Damage: 400/600/600+200 (was 300/400/400+20). Duration: 25/25/25 sec (was 15/30/30). Chance of applying the burning effect: 100%/100%/100% (was 0/50/50).
• Moon's Dust. Impact silver damage: 100/200/300 (was none). Duration: 25/45/∞ sec (was 20/40/∞).
• Dimeritium Bomb. Duration: 20/35/40 (was 15/30/30).
• Dancing Star. Impact fire damage: 100/250/400 (was 100/100/100). Fire duration: 6+2/6+2/6+2 sec (was 4+0.3/7+0.3/10+3). +X means that everyone who steps into the fire will receive an X seconds burning effect. DOT (fire on the ground): 10/20/30 (was 20/30/40).
• Grapeshot. Damage: 350/600/700 (was 350/600/600).
• Northern Wind. Duration: 5/6/7 sec (was 4/5/6). Added a slowdown effect that will last for 10 sec (all tiers) after the impact no matter the duration of freezing. Basically all tiers now give a 10 seconds slowdown but the higher the tier the more a target will spend completely frozen. 
• Devil's Puffball. Impact poison damage: none (was 100). Duration: 13/13/13 (was 10/30/30). DOT (poison cloud): 40/85/130 (was 30/60/90).

SKILLS
(all values are for maximum skill levels)

• Refreshment: heals for 15% (was 25%)
• Delayed Recovery: 76% toxicity (was 70%)
• Protective Coating: 20% damage resistance (although it will still say "25%" in the game)
• Steady Aim: 55% slow motion effect (was 45%)
• Frenzy: 45% slow motion effect for 1 second (was 36% for 0.9 sec)

MISC

• all beer and wine now restores health (beer is better).

ADDITIONAL INFO

FUTURE UPDATES
(yellow are the ones I need help with - mainly scripting)

1. create a standalone mod for icons
2. add Oil Sort Order support
3. add New Game+ support
4. make critical chance from Samum and bonus damage from Northern Wind work - right now it looks like they are broken (?)
5. create new custom abilities in effects.xml (e.g. 1 second slowdown to be used as bomb loop effects)
6. make refilling optional when meditating
7. make every alcohol (or other base) count for a full refill of only one item not all of them at once
8. make every potion use its base alcohol to refill - Dwarven Spirit/Alcohest/White Gull, and bombs - to use their own separate bases for that (saltpeter, etc)
9. import some icons (bombs and oils)
10. create two additional oil icons (right now there are 10 icons for 12 oils) and edit the blue bomb icons (Samum and Northern Wind) to be more distinguishable

EDITED FILES

• def_item_alchemy_oils.xml
• def_item_alchemy_petards.xml
• def_item_alchemy_recipes_alcohol.xml
• def_item_alchemy_recipes_mutagens.xml
• def_item_alchemy_recipes_potions.xml
• def_item_edibles.xml
• def_loot_containers.xml
• def_loot_shops.xml
• geralt_skills.xml
• effects.xml

New Game+ is not supported yet.
Considering that this mod is WIP feel free to comment on what you think should be changed. AND IF YOU FIND ANY BUGS OR EXPLOITS CREATED BY THIS MOD, PLEASE DON'T HESITATE TO REPORT THEM! THANKS!