Alchemy is a Vintage Story mod by llama3013. Alchemy adds craftable potions that grant buffs, restore health, alter survival effects, and can be drunk, thrown, or applied to weapons.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod suits players who want a deeper herbal crafting loop and flexible consumables for combat, exploration, mining, and survival. It is also useful for groups, since some potions can be thrown at allies or enemies.
What Alchemy adds
Alchemy turns flowers and herbs gathered in the world into a multi-stage brewing system. Ingredients are processed with a mortar and pestle, then distilled into potion bases using increasingly advanced equipment; recipes can be checked in the in-game handbook by searching for “potion”.
The main combat and survival brews come in weak, medium, and strong versions. Depending on the recipe, they improve ranged accuracy and draw speed, increase melee or mining performance, speed up movement, raise maximum health, improve loot, or provide healing and regeneration effects.
Other flasks cover exploration and unusual utility: they can provide light, underwater breathing, warmth, reduced fall damage, wall climbing, flight in Creative mode, or a return to the player’s spawn point. Growth, shrinking, character reshaping, and temporary changes to hunger, stability, nutrition, or animal detection add further options.
Potions are not limited to drinking. Their effects can be delivered by throwing them at other characters or by coating weapons with suitable oils, including healing, stronger healing, and damage-over-time poison effects. Most tiered brews change effect strength rather than duration, while utility flasks use their own fixed duration.
Where to download Alchemy
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.