When you combine ingredients at the alchemy table, the right side of the screen shows the potion that will be created from the ingredients.
Most of the combinations yield a "potion with unknown effects". But whenever I try to make such a potion, the creation fails.
Is it even possible to make those potions, and if yes, what determines the success of making one?
Best Answer
"potion with unknown effects" just means you don't know whether the combination will result in a valid potion or not, you can discover new potions by trial-and-error.
Each ingredient has four effects, you need to combine ingredients that contain a certain effect at least twice all together, that effect will be added to the effects of the resulting potion. So if you put two ingredients in a potion, only the effects that are present in both ingredients will be effects of the potion. If the ingredients have no effects in common, the result will be the failure to create any potion as you observed.
You can see the effects of an ingredient once you discovered it by creating a potion that used that effect.