I SUCK

[Levi Animator™]

i suck at making potions
i ran out of stuff 2 times and i needed to restart so thats why i call myself that i suck at this game

[Eagle]

Maybe you just need a little bit of help.

So all you basically need to do. Is take orders as they come. When you get a little extra of a flower that goes in one direction or another explore that direction with a bit of the other.
Use the water to help bring you back into the more center or as close to center as you can get on that potion. Higher level potions sell for more.

When you first start. Learn the basic potions get to where you need to be and stop.
Level 1 potions will work till you become better at using other ingredients to get you closer to center. Namely Mushrooms. Mushrooms are when you start to become more advanced from beyond a starter. You start to be able to get to the potion you want using a combo of Mushrooms and the normal 4 main ingredients.

You don't suck you are just likely using up all your ingredients looking for the other potions. Dont do that. Just take a customer and they say oh I want this potion or that potion use the ingredients and get to that potion and stop make the potion and sell it at level 1. Next time when you have more ingredients try to hone in closer to center on that potion and get a level 2. Use the water to your advantage by using it to bring you back to center without needing more ingredients. Before you use an ingredient go to the water and look at the arrow if the arrow points to a clear area of direction you need to go in. USE THE WATER.

Dont make every potion they ask for. If you know you cant reach it. Tell them to leave its gonna cost you in points to turn people away but the ingredients you save could in the long run allow for much stronger commonly asked for potions.

When the Herbalist comes in buy the common and Cheap ingredients stay away from the more expensive extravagent ones till you can afford it. DONT BUY TOO MANY OF SOMETHING YOU CANT PROPERLY USE YET.

When the Mushroom guy comes in buy some of his mushrooms and look the directions they go in and watch that price buy one or two and experiment. See if you can replace a common ingredient you are out of with a mushroom. Challenge yourself and see how close you can get to a potion with only mushrooms and only a few. USE THE WATER to a bit back if you need to.

AND DONT BE AFRAID TO GUIDE OVER TO A POTION THAT WASNT ASKED FOR if you cant make the one they asked for salvage the trip with one you can make even if its a cheap one. Someone will buy it eventually.

When you are mashing your ingredients dont mash them all the way everytime. Watch where the X is. You may not need to fully go the full amount.

Try some of these things and write back and let me know how youre doing.

[Levi Animator™]

You don't suck you are just likely using up all your ingredients looking for the other potions. Dont do that.
well the thing is that they ask for a firepotion but then i think WERE THE HELL DO I FIND IT then i began searching and then i found a new potion ant it was not a fire potion it was a lightning potion then i was like should i stop or should i keep searching?
i searched and again I FOUND ONE BUT WASNT A FIREPOTION

[Shau]

can't you simply send customers away and then sleep and grab some ingrediants from that tree?

[Levi Animator™]

well i want to keep my place popular?

[Eagle]

Originally posted by Levi550:

well i want to keep my place popular?

You will in time. At the start popularity isnt your goal. Youll gain the popularity you need eventually by selling. If you dont have it and or cant find it or see it and cant reach it, just take the hit and send em packin.

It wont do you any good to gain popularity if you have no potions to sell because you have to turn away even more customers due to running out of ingredients. Not to mention closing shop and starting another new game. Send em packin if you dont have it.

[Slimjack]

I have noticed that in the beginning if you haggle to much with lower level potions then you wont gain any popularity, but if you ignore that you will gain gold to buy mushrooms or other ingredients. THEN once you start making normal or Strong potions even if you haggle for a better price you will still gain popularity since the potion is much better then normal. So once you are making strong potions you will gain popularity with every sale with or without haggling. So as Eaglezero said, dont worry about your popularity at the start.

Also when it comes to exploring to get the newer potions, IDK if you know it but there are very faint dotted lines spidering out from the beginning spot. These lines go straight to a potion so this will give you an idea of were to travel to so you don't wander too much wasting resources looking for potions.

[Levi Animator™]

the thing is that i dont haggle anymore cuz i just lose points and also have no idea were the potions are on the map?

[tripbillie]

All the potions are in a certain radius of the starting point - there is no reason to go out to the edges unless you're just trying to get experience points. Necromancy is by far the hardest potion to get because it's surrounded by bones - you either have to find a thin place of bones or use gems. Libido and Acid are the furthest out from the starting point.

I always haggle with merchants. I could be wrong but I don't think haggling with merchants affects your popularity, and any money I can save with a merchant will let me buy more ingredients.

Keep working towards getting level 2 or 3 potions to sell, especially the healing, mana, sleep, poison, and harvest potions. Once you get those potions, save them in your recipes. When you have a little wiggle room, one person will pay more for a healing/sleep potion (I call that potion Nyquil).

Any little bit of money that you can gain or save will help towards being able to afford more ingredients.

Don't worry about popularity until you're trying to meet a requirement from the Alchemists Path.

[Nonbinary]

the ingredients give a good idea where to look for recipes. there are four basic flowers that go left, right, up, down, and they have a quick description of their element

left - fire
right - water
up - wind
down - earth

if you need a fire potion, search left
if you need a frost potion, search right
if you need a lightning potion, search up
if you need plant or rock (stone skin) related potions, search down

combining these elements give further ideas where to search. berserk, charm and libido, for example, are related to fire, but must be combined with some other element in order to find them. unlike libido, charm is seen as a devious potion of mind control, only bad rep customers ask for it. wind is related to power (because lightning, but in abstract sense here), and earth is related to "growth"...

tier one potions do not give popularity, tier two gives one popularity, and tier three gives two popularity stars, haggling has never had an effect on that for me. i haggle until the left side of the weightscale is touching the counter, then you cannot haggle to a better price

i found it useful to grind an ingredient until it goes beyond the potion you want to make on the map, and hover over the water pitcher now and then, it will show an arrow marker to the start position.
if the arrow marker aligns with the faded line of the recipe which also points to the start, you can pour the water in slowly until the potions make a tier three recipe. its much easier than trying to nail it with an ingredient and stirring alone. even if the ingredient you use goes too far because of its forced halfway path, you can stop stirring when its placement is correct and start pouring and then heat the brew. you dont have to finish stirring to complete the potion


rocks are very useful for passing through bones on the map

when used, the potion disappears and ignore everything in the path (also books) until the rock expires, so you can use these to reduce the overall cost of potions. rocks also come in variations that go left, right, up, down, and combinations of those, like up+left. they also make it way easier brewing tier three growth and lightning potions because you dont have to derail from going straight up or down

[Cunning Linguist]

Don't be discouraged, you're just still learning. So am I. Everyone has different levels of experience, and everybody's gonna start playing this game at a different time. Just remember to prioritize having fun. That's what life's all about, at the end of the day. The pursuit of happiness :)

[Shmider]

Originally posted by Levi550:

You don't suck you are just likely using up all your ingredients looking for the other potions. Dont do that.
well the thing is that they ask for a firepotion but then i think WERE THE HELL DO I FIND IT then i began searching and then i found a new potion ant it was not a fire potion it was a lightning potion then i was like should i stop or should i keep searching?
i searched and again I FOUND ONE BUT WASNT A FIREPOTION

Each cardinal direction is an element.

Up is air/lighting
left is fire
right is water/ice
down is earth

If they ask for a fire potion then immediately think left. Also, if you look closely at the map there's subtle lines that go from each potions location straight to the center. You can use that to find all the potions.

[creamcone]

Well, you don't need to restart if you run out of ingredients. You can always refuse every request and go to sleep, harvest the next day's plants and see what you can do with it.

[Nonbinary]

Originally posted by Hores Rooster:

Well, you don't need to restart if you run out of ingredients. You can always refuse every request and go to sleep, harvest the next day's plants and see what you can do with it.

that too, your popularity cant sink below 0, so there is no real consequence from this if you already dont have a lot of popularity accumulated. only thing is the rep, but some clients give you reputation from refusing so there is no inherent bad thing about what rep you got, and you are more likely to gain max +rep when you can complete all requests from my experience, no matter what your rep was before

[Levi Animator™]

but the thing is Performancer is that the loving or something meter goes down to -7 or even more

[creamcone]

Originally posted by Levi550:

but the thing is Performancer is that the loving or something meter goes down to -7 or even more

don't worry about that either. Being evil brings more assassins and bandits who need poison. And poison is cheap.