Increased enchanting and smithing potion duration
Enchanting and smithing potions last for 5 minutes, instead of original 30 seconds.
Have you ever been in a situation where you want to use enchanting potion while enchanting multiple items, all the while also renaming them? Normally 1 potion’s 30 second time isn’t enough to do much.
So because it’s not fun to feel so stupidly rushed, I modified some alchemy ingredients to give Fortify Enchanting and Fortify Smithing effects 5 minute duration. These ingredients are: Skyrim:
Enchanting:
– Blue Butterfly Wing
– Hagraven Claw
– Snowberries
– Spriggan Sap
Smithing:
– Blisterwort (Mushroom06)
– Glowing Mushroom
– Sabre Cat Tooth
Dawnguard (only enchanting):
– Ancestor Moth Wing
– Chaurus Hunter Antennae
Dragonborn (only enchanting):
– Spawn Ash (DLC2GhoulAsh)
You don’t need to gather the ingredients again for this mod to work. I tested that existing recipes are updated with the new values after enabling or disabling the mod.
As a side-effect the potions would by default be more expensive. Skyrim automatically calculates the price, but the mod reduces alchemy recipe spell cost multiplier to ~10% of original. It should be in a very balanced/immersive range now. It does not seem possible to keep 1:1 pricing. For example smithing potion now at skill level 18 has less value than in vanilla, but at skill 100 its value is a little higher.
Changelog:
– 1.2: More consistent Oldrim and SSE release with added smithing and DLC ingredients. Now ingredient prices aren’t auto-calculated by creation kit and keep the original values. 1.1 and before the ingredients became roughly twice as valuable. Edited potions price multiplier to better match original pricing.
– 1.1: Only SSE release, which included optional smithing potion.
– 1.0: First release.
