An Alchemist's bench is an object in Kingdom Come: Deliverance which you can use to do alchemy - making potions, and look at information about Herbs (if you can read). They are all owned by a different Herbalists, who sell ingredients and Recipes. These recipes are not required to create a potion, can be unlocked in the Herbarium by creating their associated potions.
Components[]
- Herbarium - two-part tome that lists all the herbs, Ingredients and potion Recipes required to do alchemy. Henry must learn to read for the text to be legible, but unlocking recipes by creating potions and Autobrew are still possible.
- Potion base Shelf - shelf holding the 4 different bases required for brewing potions: aqua (water), vinum (wine), oleum (oil), and spiritus (spirits).
- Ingredients Shelf - shelf holding three selected herbal (bagged) ingredients and one exotic (lower shelf) ingredient.
- Mortar - or Mortar and Pestle, apparatus for grinding herbs. Multiple herbs can be ground at once, depending on the recipe.
- Dish - vessel used for holding herbs from the Ingredients Shelf or herbs that have previously been ground in the Mortar & Pestle. Generally, it can be ignored.
- Sandglass - measures the time of a single burn cycle (approximately 10 seconds). With practice, it's use can be bypassed.
- Bellows - stokes the flames needed to heat the Cauldron and the Still. It takes 3 pulls on the bellows to get the fire hot. Each subsequent pull after that (while the fire is still hot) will count as a turn. (E.g. if a recipe requires you to boil an ingredient for 1 turn, you'll need to pull on the bellows 4 times, or 5 times for 2 turns. Quick successive pulls will work)
- Cauldron - vessel used for combining and heating all the ingredients for brewing a potion.
- Phial - vessel used for storing the final product of a brewing process either by collecting the fluid from the Cauldron or the Still.
- Still - heats fluids transferred from the Cauldron in order to create distilled vapors before collecting in a Phial.
Step-by-Step Guide[]
- The base must be poured into the cauldron first. Anything else but the bellows and the sandglass cannot be selected.
- Select your ingredients and herbs from your inventory to place them on the ingredient shelf according to your recipe.
- Put your ingredients in the cauldron, where appropriate.
- If the recipe demands it, grind them in the mortar and pestle. Multiple herbs can be selected into the mortar.
- Add them in the cauldron.
- Select the bellows to begin brewing. Use the sandglass to measure the burning cycle.
- Grab a phial.
- Distill the contents of the cauldron into the flask so that the end product would be poured into the phial, or can simply be poured directly from the cauldron.
Locations[]
There are eight Alchemist's benches in game.
- Rattay. Behind the Apothecary's shop, owned by the Apothecary.
- Sasau Monastery
- One belonging to Brother Nicodemus
- The other locked away in the Monastery, belonging to Brother Nevlas.
- North from Ledetchko, owned by the Herbalist of Ledetchko.
- West from Neuhof, owned by the Herbalist of Neuhof.
- North-west from Samopesh, owned by the Herbalist of Samopesh.
- North from Talmberg, owned by the Herbalist of Talmberg
- At Pribyslavitz (requires DLC From the Ashes)
Trivia[]
- The symbols of the four potion bases are based from the Hermetic symbols of alchemy; aqua symbolises water ( 🜄 ), vinium symbolises earth ( 🜃 ), oleum symbolises fire ( 🜂 ), and spiritus symbolises air ( 🜁 ).