crafting aqua vitalis for money (groschen) earn money without robbing

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i found means to earn money without having to resort to stealing. crafting aqua vitalis sells for a good amount and the ingredients are easy to collect.

i was annoid by having to steal from innocent people or be broke. once in a while stealing is funny, but for a steady income, i dislike it. i was searching for more constructive efforts like getting good at one craft and sell this to get by.
sadly, the only craft you can learn is alchemy.

i bought the recipe for around 600 at the rattay apothecary, i'm not sure, if you need it to craft. you don't have to be able to read it.
the marigold and dandelion can be found on the way from rattay to the miller.
one alchemy bench is behind the apothecary. (you can lockpick inside the shop, but the door around the building is open.)

recipe:
prepare the plants
add water to the cauldron
grind 1 marigold put it on the dish in front of you
add 2 dandelions to the cauldron and bellow 6 times
immediately add the grinded marigold to the cauldron
grab a phial and destill. bellow 2 times
this should result in 3 aqua vitalis

you can sell those for a good amount in rattay to the apothecary and the trader "Konrad Hagen" in the middle of the city, the butchers, grocery stores, taverns, bath boss.
the other vendors don't have much money, don't pay that well or don't take it.
but the best one is the miller in rattay with lots of money to get. you need to have done his initiating thieving quest to be able to trade with him stolen goods (he takes anything).

i thought, this is more rewarding, meaningful and to a certain extent relaxing

[wjpower2003]

Or you can just ride to the Skalitz west gate where there are always bandit skirmishes occurring, kill them, loot their corpses and make tons of money. Way more money than you will get brewing and a lot more fun.

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Originally posted by wjpower2003:

Or you can just ride to the Skalitz west gate where there are always bandit skirmishes occurring, kill them, loot their corpses and make tons of money. Way more money than you will get brewing and a lot more fun.

i'm getting tons of money now, to fulfill all my gear needs, lol. but killing bandits is fun too. just having a more relaxed approach.

[Philippe_at_bay]

As an alternative, if you can develop a (very) little skill with a bow, hunting deer and boar (rather than roe and rabbits) can bring you the industrial strength quantities of money that you'll eventually need to rebuild Prbyslabitz.

Hunting roe and deer is technically poaching, so avoid game keepers. Most of the places where you can find deer and boar are far enough away from where you can sell them to remove the stolen tag. You won't be able to hunt legally until you finish a slightly involved but fun quest in mid-game.

In case you were wondering, deer and boar are large slow-moving targets that are much easier to hit than roe and rabbits. The main problem with hunting them is that you'll quickly end up seriously overloaded and have trouble getting back on your horse. Learn to shoot a bow Cuman-style from horseback, and avoid ambushes when you're carrying so much raw meat you can barely move.

For the record, poaching is stealing. This is one of the things your mother warned you about in Skalitz before it was burned by the Cumans, and it's a good way to become gallows bait. However, at least you're stealing from the 1% (the Capon family, Sir Divish, or the Sasau monastery, depending on where you are) rather than some impoverished peasant. The king and/or the local lord owned the forest and everything running around in it. As an animal-lover I'm not too happy about slaughtering Bambi and Piglet, but fifteenth century Henry didn't have such scruples, and hunting a herd of deer in a forest from horseback can be quite exhilarating (and it just happens to be what they did back then for sport).

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Originally posted by Philippe_at_bay:

As an alternative, if you can develop a (very) little skill with a bow, hunting deer and boar (rather than roe and rabbits) can bring you the industrial strength quantities of money that you'll eventually need to rebuild Prbyslabitz.

thanks for the hint