Ultima Online Alchemy

For official shards · 36 potions and 19 other things · every figure sourced

Alchemy makes potions, dyes, black powder and a short list of things nothing else in the game can produce. This is every row uo.com publishes, with the minimum skill and the ingredients, plus the part that is easy to miss: the skill keeps working after the potion is made.

Open the potion calculator in the toolkit → — it works out what a potion actually heals or hits for at your own Alchemy and Enhance Potions.

What Alchemy adds after the potion is made

Three of these are published as exact ratios on uo.com’s Alchemy page, and they are the reason an alchemist’s explosion potion is not the same item as the one bought from a vendor:

Explosion potions — +1 damage for every 5 points of Alchemy.
Conflagration potions — +1 damage for every 13 points of Alchemy.
Invisibility potions — +1 second of duration for every 10 points of Alchemy.

Alchemy stops at 100. There is no Alchemy Power Scroll, so unlike a combat skill this one cannot be pushed to 120 — 100 is the ceiling, and it is the number to reckon these ratios against. At 100 that is 20 damage on top of an explosion potion’s published 20–40, 7 on a conflagration field, and 10 extra seconds of invisibility. uo.com also notes that an explosion potion cannot be used while you are frozen.

Enhance Potions, and why Alchemy is worth carrying on a drinker

Enhance Potions raises what a potion does when you drink it. uo.com caps the property from equipment at 50%. What decides whether the skill is worth the points is how Alchemy adds to that, and uo.com does not publish it. The effective figure is [!]

Effective EP = the higher of ( equipment EP, capped at 50 ) + ( Alchemy ÷ 3.3 ) and Alchemy ÷ 2 [!]

which reaches +30% from skill alone at 99 Alchemy [!], on top of a 50% suit — so a Greater Heal that heals 20–25 on its own is doing considerably more in the hand of an alchemist than in the hand of somebody who bought it.

[!] The durations of the Agility and Strength potions are not published on uo.com, which says only that they last a short time. No figure is given here because there is not one to give.

Healing and curative

Potion	Min skill	Ingredients	What it does
Lesser Heal	0	1 Ginseng	Heals 6-8
Heal	15	3 Ginseng	Heals 13-16
Greater Heal	55	7 Ginseng	Heals 20-25. Ten seconds before another will work
Lesser Cure	0	1 Garlic	Cures poison
Cure	25	3 Garlic	Cures poison
Greater Cure	65	6 Garlic	Cures poison
Refresh	15	1 Black Pearl	Restores 25% of your stamina
Total Refresh	25	5 Black Pearl	Restores all of your stamina
Elixir of Rebirth	65	1 Medusa Blood, 3 Spider's Silk	Resurrects a pet

Enhancement

Potion	Min skill	Ingredients	What it does
Agility	15	1 Blood Moss	+10 Dexterity
Greater Agility	35	3 Blood Moss	+20 Dexterity
Strength	25	2 Mandrake Root	+10 Strength
Greater Strength	45	5 Mandrake Root	+20 Strength
Nightsight	0	1 Spider's Silk	See in the dark until dawn
Invisibility	65	4 Blood Moss, 3 Nightshade	Twenty seconds invisible
Voidbane Elixir	75	1 Bottle, 1 Void Core, 1 Void Orb, 50 Daemon Blood	+200% damage against void-touched foes, for an hour

Toxic

Potion	Min skill	Ingredients	What it does
Lesser Poison	0	1 Nightshade	Loses 5-10% of hit points every 2 seconds
Poison	15	2 Nightshade	Loses 10-15% of hit points every 3 seconds
Greater Poison	55	4 Nightshade	Loses 15-20% of hit points every 4 seconds
Deadly Poison	90	8 Nightshade	Loses 25-35% of hit points every 5 seconds
Parasitic Poison	65	5 Parasitic Plant	Loses 25-35% of hit points every 5 seconds
Darkglow Poison	65	5 Luminescent Fungi	Loses 15-20% of hit points every 4 seconds

Explosive

Potion	Min skill	Ingredients	What it does
Lesser Explosion	5	1 Sulfurous Ash	5-10 area damage
Explosion	35	5 Sulfurous Ash	10-20 area damage
Greater Explosion	65	10 Sulfurous Ash	20-40 area damage
Conflagration	55	5 Grave Dust	A fire field doing 2-4
Greater Conflagration	70	10 Grave Dust	A fire field doing 4-8
Confusion Blast	50	5 Pig Iron	Confuses monsters
Greater Confusion Blast	65	10 Pig Iron	Confuses monsters

The Eodon potions

Six potions from the Valley of Eodon, all at 51 Alchemy, each needing a full bottle of reagents rather than a handful:

Potion	Min skill	Ingredients	What it does
Barrab Hemolymph Concentrate	51	1 Bottle, 20 Ginseng, 5 Plant Clippings, 5 Myrmidex Eggsacs	+100 hit point regeneration for 10 seconds, +10 Hit Point Increase for 5 minutes
Jukari Burn Poultice	51	1 Bottle, 20 Black Pearl, 10 Vanilla, 5 Lava Berry	+10% fire resist for 10 minutes, +10 Stamina Increase for 5 minutes
Kurak Ambusher's Essence	51	1 Bottle, 20 Blood Moss, 1 Blue Diamond, 5 Tiger Pelts	+200% damage against creatures inside the Myrmidex pits
Barako Draft of Might	51	1 Bottle, 20 Spider's Silk, 10 Bottles of Liquor, 5 Perfect Bananas	+10% physical resist for 10 minutes, +5% cold resist for 10 minutes
Urali Trance Tonic	51	1 Bottle, 20 Mandrake Root, 10 Sea Serpent or Dragon Scales, 5 River Moss	+10 mana a second for 10 seconds, +10 Mana Increase for 5 minutes
Sakkhra Prophylaxis Potion	51	1 Bottle, 20 Nightshade, 10 Bottles of Wine, 5 Blue Corn	+10 poison resist for 10 minutes, +5 energy resist for 10 minutes

Everything else Alchemy makes

Three of these are the reason a crafter carries the skill at all: Vial of Vitriol and Bottle of Ichor are imbuing ingredients that cannot be bought, and Smoke Bomb is what lets a ninja hide in combat.

Item	Min skill	Ingredients	What it is for
Smoke Bomb	90	1 Egg, 3 Ginseng	Lets a ninja hide while in combat
Black Powder	65	1 Charcoal, 6 Saltpeter, 1 Sulfurous Ash	Goes into fuse cord and powder charges
Potash	0	1 Board, plus heat and water	Goes into fuse cord
Fuse Cord	55	1 Ball of Yarn, 1 Black Powder, 1 Potash, 1 Water	Fires a ship's cannon
Barrel of Explosives	60	5 Fuse Cords, 5 Black Powder, 1 Crystalline Blackrock, 1 Reinforced Barrel	50 charges. Click it to make a pyroclastic bomb
Firecracker	55	1 Black Powder, 1 Fuse Cord, 5 Sulfurous Ash	A firework
Pinwheel	55	1 Black Powder, 1 Fuse Cord, 5 Sulfurous Ash	A firework
Wizard's Candle	55	1 Black Powder, 1 Fuse Cord, 5 Sulfurous Ash	A firework
Pack of Fireworks	55	5 Black Powder, 2 Fuse Cord, 5 Sulfurous Ash, 1 Crushed Glass	Fireworks
Bottle of Ichor	90	1 Darkglow Poison Potion, 30 Spider's Silk	An imbuing resource, for the night sight property
Vial of Vitriol	90	30 Nightshade, 1 Parasitic Poison Potion	An imbuing resource, for the elemental slayer property
Colour Fixative	75	1 Silver Serpent Venom	Goes into dyes
Plant Pigment	75	1 Plant Clippings	Made from plant clippings
Natural Dye	75	Colour Fixative, Plant Pigment	A dye made from decorative plants
Scouring Toxin	75	1 Toxic Venom Sac	Softens reeds
Crystal Dust	75	4 Broken Crystal	Part of a Gorgon Lens
Crystal Granules	75	1 Shimmering Crystal	Part of a Soulstone Fragment
Gold Dust	90	1000 Gold Coins	Goes into a Robe of Rite and a Radiant Vessel
Nexus Core	90	5 Crushed Glass, 5 Dark Sapphire, 10 Mandrake Root, 10 Spider's Silk	Part of the Exodus Altar
Hovering Wisp	75	4 Captured Essence	Decoration

Where these come from

uo.com’s Alchemy page for the three skill ratios and the equipment cap, and its Alchemy Potions page for every row above. uo.com does not publish the effective Enhance Potions formula, so it is unpublished and carries a [!]. Everything here is from uo.com or the game itself; anything uo.com does not publish is marked [!] as unpublished.

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