Looks like for alchemy there's a misleading aspect to boiling...

[Kai]

When you start and put the liquid in, pull the cauldron down onto the fire and let it start to a 'boil' level. So when it tells you to boil for X turns, you simply throw the ingredient in and turn it X times then pull the cauldron up to stop it from boiling.

The entire time I thought boiling = Hitting and spamming Q during the turns of the hourglass, but that actually 'overboil' the ingredient.

[GuNNuP]

yes, it's something that takes a little skill and it's not a button mashing videogame.

[Baron01]

Alchemy does not work as described in the game. It is sad to see same issue pop up in the sequel as the original had also massive issues with alchemy. I actually found it for myself that you can not use bellows to boil it faster but it took me a lot of tries, wasted materials and time.

[Winterwolf]

Originally posted by Baron01:

Alchemy does not work as described in the game. It is sad to see same issue pop up in the sequel as the original had also massive issues with alchemy. I actually found it for myself that you can not use bellows to boil it faster but it took me a lot of tries, wasted materials and time.

Dude, you are a life saver. I was loosing my mind why Henry always commented "I didn't boil [herb name] long enough. After I stopped using bellows, everything went smoothly.

[Markolh]

thanks for confirming what i was suspecting, though i expect there's a use case for the bellows then

[soul like that be capable of]

we are cooking jessie

[soul like that be capable of]

you only need to spam Q if u really need it hot . put it on fire it usually boil within few sec

[Kai]

The bellows speeds it up but I have no idea by how much.