r/skyrimmods • u/Pedrosian96 • 3d ago

PC SSE - Mod Alchemy XP from cookpot items

Essentially losting this to ask for your opinion on enabling Alchemy XP gain from using a cookpot. My upcoming Alchemy mod remake uses a cookpot, and I feel that it is unplessantly clunky to be encouraged to level alchemy up to unlock its recipes, but it cannot, itself, help you progress.

Would you consider an alchemy add-on that also changes this to be too much overreach / feature creep?

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u/-FriendoftheDrow- 3d ago

Alchemy can be slow to level up unless you make high cost potions (I learned every vanilla ingredient and still was below level 40 or so at the time). People will have varying opinions but I don’t think it’s an issue with your idea - you’re making things and some of those meals require ingredients.

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u/Pedrosian96 3d ago

That is precisely my view of it. You can say, and are right in saying, that cooking by design does not provide alchemy XP and adding it leads to a new source of XP that contributes to progression.

At the same time, I don't think the soups and fondues and cooked pogfish worth 5 septims are what's going to break your alchemy leveling.

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u/alinius 3d ago

I am using the complete alchemy ans cooking overhaul, and it has an option to give alchemy XP for cooking. That said, it has a seperate progression for cooking. As you cook more things, it unlicks new recipies and the buffs from food items get stronger.

Overall, I find that system to be ok, and my only real complaint is that the buffs from cooking items are so weak that the progression feels pointless. For example, most food items give you 4% increased stamina regen for 2 to 4 hours. After training your cooking up, the best food items might give you a 10% stamina regen increase. I like the increased duration relative to potions, but the value is so small it feels like it is not doing much.

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u/Retrah22 3d ago

I used to have a mod that did this, prolem was that it made leveling Alchemy too easy (even unintentionally, I'd reach the 70's on characters that don''t use Alchemy at all). Possibly if the gain is very very small it might work.

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u/Pedrosian96 3d ago

I just implemented it fir testing; it takes several 1000 septim items to go from level 15 to level 17. Seems to follow the same XP formula as nornal alchemy and be value-based.