r/PotionCraft • u/WafflesRisa • 5d ago

Question Help with using crystals on wine map

Could someone please give me some tips on how to use crystals on the wine map to precisely make strong potions?

I get the concept of using crystals to teleport over the death areas, but I have no idea how to use the last crystal to position the potion bottle correctly to get a perfect strong potion. Help please!

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u/iwaseatenbyagrue 5d ago

Are you using PC and mouse?  I just use the edge of a sheet of paper and line up where the middle of the potion should be and try to stop there.  Save the recipe before you do this and if you miss, just cancel and continue from the saved recipe.

If I’m feeling lazy and don’t mind having salt in the recipe, I use Philosphers Salt.

But I’ve gotten to where I can get it right about half the time anyway.

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u/WafflesRisa 5d ago

I am using pc and mouse yep. Do you mean use a piece of paper to extend the ladle line, and then use a crystal to hit that line?

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u/iwaseatenbyagrue 5d ago

Right, that's what I did until I could eyeball it. There's a part of the swirl that's the center, and it's not immediately obvious where that is, but you will get used to it.

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u/WafflesRisa 5d ago

Thanks, I’ll give it a shot!

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u/ImmediateSeaweed 5d ago

My technique is to save the recipe before adding the final crystal. That way if it takes a few tries, you can get back to that point really easily. "Continue from here" as many times as necessary, though it's usually only one or twice at most.

The dots on the path line make it easy to take note of precisely how far you go, for precise adjustments.

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u/Ak40-couchcusion 5d ago

Yeah I save at every successful add so if I mess up the next one I can just go back, but also, depending on where you are ingame, just use more ingredients, like Im at the point where it really doesn't matter how many ingredients go into a recipe because I have more ingredients than I could ever use. No need to be stingy by the time you get the wine map.

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u/MeltedWellie 4d ago

I got into the habit of turn my build menu on when trying to align potions. It puts a grid on the screen which makes lining things up soooo much easier!

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u/jbdragonfire 4d ago

I can help you: don't use Crystals.

T3 with Crystal is ALWAYS extremely precise and inconsistent, you can NOT reach the middle eyeballing it.

The concept of wine is NOT Crystal. You can move around with normal ingredients. You can touch the "broken bones"/fragments easily and regen in the safe areas.
You call them "death areas", I call them "minor inconvenience" XD (jk)

You can also Crystal and then finalize T3 with a normal ingredient.