How do you Alchemy?

[PsychicTanker]

Can someone explain the basics of alchemy to me because I am new to this game and I need potions.

[asd]

You combie 2 ingredients that have the same effect.. so if you want to make a healing potion, you need two ingredients with the "restrore health" effect. The higher your alchemy skill, the better potions you will make and you will see more effects when looking at ingredients, allowing you to make the most of your ingredients.
That's it basically. You only need a mortar and pestle, but the other stuff you can get for making potions helps you make better ones (reduce the negative effects, increase the positive effects etc...)

Intelligence and luck has an effect on your potions too, but the biggest factors are the quality of your mortar and your alchemy skill.

[JustRed]

Alchemy Basics

[sergykid]

i tried many ingredients and they say they have no effect on me. I actually know of an ingredient that gives me +10 attack, but it still has question marks on it. I need alchemy to have effects written on ingredients? Even if i discover them by using them

[SaltyPeanuts]

Honestly- alchemy basics are described in the game manual.
The fact that you're asking the question here means you didn't read it.

A small in-game tutorial is given by the Imperial Cult 'Lay Healer' in Ebonheart who makes you grab alchemy ingredients from the wild. If you explore all conversation paths with him then he will describe alchemy apparatus, and what common ingredients can be combined to make a health potion, etc.

[Axolotl]

Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet: http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Alchemy

[SaltyPeanuts]

I'll point out there's a difference between 'how do you do it the correct way', i.o.w. the way it was intended to be discovered in the game (through self-discovery, exploration, reading in-game books) vs linking to a wiki full of spoilers.

[✪TakeMeToYourDealer✪]

The higher your alchemy skill, the more effects you can identify from ingredients. '???' are effects you have not yet identified. It's pretty easy to level your alchemy up if you take literally all the ingredients you find, and keep at least a mortar and pestle on you. Then you can just throw a bunch of ♥♥♥♥ together and make loads of crappy potions. When you level up alchemy you'll be able to see more clearly what the ingredients do so you can create more complex potions, ie. under water breathing, magicka resist, etc. Higher levels also mean your potions are more potent, and have better effects for longer.

[✪TakeMeToYourDealer✪]

Oh, and you can also just eat every ingredient you find, but this is slower and some ingredients can cause nasty effects. The ones with nasty effects are good for making poisons you can apply to your weapons.

[Brandybuck]

Originally posted by ✪TakeMeToYourDealer✪:

The ones with nasty effects are good for making poisons you can apply to your weapons.

Nope. Can't apply poisons in Morrowind. You're thinking of either Oblivion or a mod. Crafting poisons is good for experience and selling, but that's it.

[elaek]

http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:The_Alchemist's_Formulary

^Where to find the in-game book that tells you how and where to alchemy

[Rithm Fluffderg]

The inability to use poisons in an offensive manner in Morrowind is a grave failing on the developer's part and one of the reasons why I sometimes prefer Oblivion and Skyrim over it.

Now granted, you can become an insane god in other ways without even relying on exploits, but it'd be really cool if I could combine "Weakness to Poison" spells with alchemy in order to inflict a deadly poison powerful enough to kill even an argonian.