Homullus alchemy

[OromisElf]

Summary

Mods "Illuminated Alchemy Perk uses"

Purpose of change

Currently, the Illuminated Alchemy perk cycles through a couple recipes that do not exist, and then tells you that you know all recipes the perk allows you to learn.

Describe the solution

Introducing a recipe to make the "Imbuement of Parchment" (the transformation item for becoming a Homullus).
The tools for this are a mortar and pestle (to grind the ingredients) and a mirror (to create something in your image).
The ingredients are:

• 1 human blood
• 1 fae blood
• 1 life extension potion (also learned from alchemy perks)
• 5 homullus samples
• 55 faewild dust
• 55 scrap dreamdross

The idea is to have the human blood, the fae blood, the samples of the mutation tree, the faewild dust and the scrap dreamdross be the uniting ingredients all imbuements will share at the end. For Homullus I wanted the faewild dust and dreamdross to have "symmetric" numbers, so they have the 5 from the samples, but twice. The other imbuements will have different numbers for those - probably less. (5 also returns in the deduction skill, and spellcraft skill required, as well as the craft taking 55min).
And other than the life extension potion, the mirror will also change. For example to a source of fire for the imbuement of the flames. I don't know yet, what the life extension potion could be exchanged for, but it should be something you learned from alchemy.

(oh also: I added a description to the imbuement of parchment to reflect its creation method)

Describe alternatives you've considered

• wildly more and/or more difficult to acquire materials
• adding a talking doll either as ingredient or tool (that uses charges? 👀)
• less homullus samples required
• more homullus samples required
• adding a blood draw kit to the tools required to encourage the blood being your own
• not having the recipe require deduction 5, and spellcraft 5

Testing

started a game, got the perk, and crafted the recipe (it's currently guaranteed to get gotten, since it's the only recipe on that alchemy level)

[OromisElf]

This is a response to #69278

[SariusSkelrets]

If you use the life extension potion as an ingredient, it'll be a good idea to check if elder ginseng can be found in game

Looking at the json, it seems that the plant from which the elder ginseng can be harvested never spawns anywhere thus making elder ginseng impossible to get

[OromisElf]

If you use the life extension potion as an ingredient, it'll be a good idea to check if elder ginseng can be found in game

Looking at the json, it seems that the plant from which the elder ginseng can be harvested never spawns anywhere thus making elder ginseng impossible to get

as far as I understood, the plant you get it from, is a bear that you harvest, and it can spawn near ponds and other plant fey locations (I also only looked at json 😅 )