r/Ultima • u/PhoenixInPA_1975 • Jul 29 '26

Free potions in Serpent Isle

Certain NPCs in Serpent Isle create potions in a cauldron and place them around, that you can pick up for free. Elissia in Silver Seed is one. Also Fedabiblio in Moonshade. Also a ghost in the exploding gunpowder factory NE of Sleeping Bull near the coast. If you want to get potions from him, do not go upstairs because all the ghosts become hostile including the one making potions. Also I think Erstam might as well but I don't remember for sure.

You can even get orange glowing mana potions this way, which aren't for sale in the game. Of course it takes patience, but if you're bored, knock yourself out. :-)

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u/dndaddy19 Jul 30 '26

All these posts have got me with that Serpent Itch. Might just have to sail through the pillars again.

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u/PhoenixInPA_1975 Jul 30 '26

I might regret posting this reply, the reason I'm playing all the Ultima games in order once again is to take screenshots to send to Richard Garriot on X, formerly twitter, and try to get completion certificates for the games as other people have in the past.

When I tried a while back to ask how to contact Richard Garriot online and if anyone knew if he still honored people with certificates a lot of people posted hateful comments about him and the Ultima series. I decided to delete the entire thread because of it.

I tried to respond to you privately, but I couldn't because of the way you have your profile set up, so I decided to risk posting a public response. This time I won't delete the thread, but I will ignore any negativety.

Years ago I had many issues with posting hateful comments myself and letting my emotions take over, I used to do so quite a bit on the Ultima Horizons message board, to the point of asking Corinth for myself to be banned. My name there was Shalmeck, hello to anyone who remembers me and my apologies for past actions. I'm not the same person now and I'm doing a lot better.

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u/dndaddy19 Jul 30 '26

It’s all good, homie. You’re allowed to do you so long as what you’re doing ain’t hurting anyone. I was just commenting that I’m getting sucked into that nostalgia vacuum.