Ok, so I have been having issues with my alchemy lab in the game Skyrim. I am trying to make potions of restore health, but it is making fortify health instead. I am using wheat and blue mountain flowers, which should have both effects, restore and fortify, and i'm under the restore health tab. Why does it keep doing this?
Why is the alchethe lab making the wrong potions
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Best Answer
The potion you are creating is named Fortify Health but it should have both Restore Health by X and Health increased by Y for 60 seconds
X & Y values depend on your alchemy level and/or buffs you have on at the time your create the potion.
See below as pulled from the Skyrim Wiki:
Both ingredients have Restore Health and Fortify Health as their traits.
Example: Alchemy skill of level 15 without any fortify alchemy should make you a Potion of Fortify Health with the following values:
The higher level alchemy skill + any Fortify alchemy buff will increase both 'health increased by' values and how much health is restored. There are plenty of Alchemy lab web applications out there, but here are a few: Alchemy Lab, Alchemy Calculator, Recipes Finder, etc
I also just fired up my Skyrim to verify this. Here is a screenshot of crafting that potion. See that is is named Fortity Health, but the potion does restore health as well (given the traits of both ingredients). At the time of this brew, my current Alchemy level is 47, no alchemy buffs, and I have not spent any skills in the Alchemy skill tree.
Last - if you are looking to create a potion of JUST restore health, use the following ingredients: