The Serpent Rogue: Brewing The Serpent Rogue guide, walkthrough
On this page you will learn how to brew in The Serpent Rogue. You will learn what rules to follow when inventing new potions, why you must research ingredients, and what essence is. You will also learn a list of the most interesting ingredients that are worth acquiring. You will also learn how to discover new recipes on your own.
Last update: 26 April 2022
The following page explains what Brewing - creating potions - is in The Serpent Rogue. You will learn how to use ingredients and brew potions, how to combine ingredients into something logical, why you need to research all the ingredients first and how to find out their essence. You will also learn which ingredients are the most valuable for the player and how to learn recipes on your own, without using the list of potions from the guide.
What is brewing?
Brewing, i.e. making potions, is a key activity in the game. The mechanics of discovering and creating new recipes are very fun and intuitive. After examining an ingredient, you will learn what property (essence) it has.
At the table, you choose the ingredients that will create something logical - for example: using Tea Leaves (Remove), Fishbone (10), Aloe (Vitality) , you will get a "sentence": Remove 10 Vitality. This potion will causes damage; by replacing Remove with Add, you will get a healing potion. Later in the game, the complexity of the processes and recipes will increase significantly. Additional tips:
- The game saves all your progress while you are experimenting with ingredients: both newly discovered recipes and previous attempts that were unsuccessful.
- You can combine up to 4 ingredients, but you do not need to fill 4 slots to create a potion - one potion can require two, the other three.
- The order in which the ingredients are placed does not matter.
- You may only use one item of each ingredient with similar properties (e.g. you won't make a stronger potion by adding 2x Fishbone [but also 1x Shell 1x Fishbone]).
The list of discovered ingredients is available in the journal. Use it to see what you can combine at the moment.
How to discover new recipes?
If you prefer to discover new recipes on your own, you can take advantage of the hints offered by Kiosk. After researching a new ingredient, you can get new tasks that will tell you which essences you need to combine to get the required potion. However, if you do not know a given essence, you have to figure out for yourself how to get it or what ingredient will represent it.
The most important ingredients
The most important ingredients are Mandragore (Wasteland) - the Change essence, and "multipliers" - Shell, Fishbone, Claw. Berry and Tea Leaves are also important since they are responsible for Add and Remove essences. You will be combining the ingredients with these "prefixes". All Change potions do not require "multipliers" and are focused on transmutation: transforming into another animal, killing or reviving. Add and Remove are for buffs/debuffs.