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Baldur's Gate 3

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All this time, I've been hauling around the Sword Coast seed bank, wondering when I'll get to use this stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Press i, open alchemy tab (direct hotkey might be h or something) At the bottom of the window is a button to make all available extracts at once

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I saw that button, but making a mountain of extracts was not what I wanted to do, so I never used it.

[–] AnotherRyguy 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think there's any reason not to make all the extracts. AFAIK the unextracted ingredients aren't usable for anything

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Careful with extracting all ingredients.

Act 1 underdark spoiler:

spoilerI extracted all ingredients in between picking up required ingredients from Arcane Tower and then giving them to Omeluum in the Myconid Colony. From what I remember, it locked me out and I had to reload.

[–] Callendor 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You cannot use them until extracted. Not reason to not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

There was no apparent reason to extract them, because I had no potion recipe that could use them. That's the point of this post.

As far as I could tell, extraction would just create clutter, and given how much clutter this game already has, that was reason enough not to do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I might be mistaken, but I think the recipes become available once you have the extract necessary. So if you extract all you should simultaneously unlock a bunch of new recipes. The extracts also go into the alchemy ingredient pouch, so it's not that much clutter either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but I think the recipes become available once you have the extract necessary.

Yes, you've restated the title of my post.

As far I know, the only way to discover that was to make extracts for recipes I didn't already have, but there was no obvious reason to do that, since I had no recipes that could use them.

(Some people might argue here that making the extracts saves weight. True, but not everyone hoards enough junk to need that small weight reduction.)

Meanwhile, the game offers recipes written down in the world, so it was easy to assume that we're supposed to discover them through exploration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The system is definitely not intuitive. I stumbled onto it since I didn't find any reason not to extract, but a tutorial tooltip when you loot your first ingredient telling you to extract it to discover what recipes it can be used for would not go amiss.

[–] PlushySD 9 points 1 year ago

Ingredient management is one thing in this game that you do not have to manage much.

Once you extract them you got the recipe.

Put all of the ingredient in one alchemy bag and you are done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Extraction reduces weight. You go from three items to one when you extract ingredients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's amazingly dumb. It's got it's own bag and everything