Editing Epidemics guide (section)

== Creating medicines ==

[[School of alchemy|Alchemists]] can create medicines, such as salves and pills, and cures, such as potion of theriacs and elixirs of life, and also measure their strength in order to avoid overdosing.

Thigs you need:

 set of alchemist's equipment (for potions/elixirs)
 Black small compact recipe book (for potions/elixirs)
 Empty vials for potions (for potions/elixirs)
 White wooden bowl for mixing (salves/pills)
 The correct recipes for potions/elixirs/spirit of x in your recipe book (need to be a new recipe book, very old ones might not work).

You can learn recipes from Yaudric in Alchemists guild. The vendor there sells the recipe book and alchemy set and vials.

Next you need to gather the materials needed to make a pill/salve/potion/elixir. For pots/elixirs the recipe should tell you what you need, and for salves/pills you find the requirements in "help epidemics" helpfile.

''NOTE: putting materials for multiple pills in bowl, and using mixing will ONLY produce ONE pill, and you lose the rest of the materials. so make only one pill/salve at a time!''


Creating a painkiller/antifever pill or salves

 put required herb in bowl
 use mixing


Creating a cure
 
 use potion brewing at potion of theriac/elixir of x/spirit of x


After you have created pill/pot/elixir/salve, you want to do one or both of the following, to make sure the strength does not exceed 10, and/or is appropriate for your purposes.

 Use measure medicine at <potion/elixir/pill/salve>
 Use measure medicine at <potion/elixir/pill/salve> to <strength number>

Pills and salves should persist in your sacks/inventory over boot. However, potions, elixirs and spirits need a vial container.

''NOTE that there is a bug that resets these potions/elixirs/spirits and their strength might change after you put it in a container, so always re-measure before use!''