🧪 Potion Brewing

Beneath Hazel’s perfectly respectable farmhouse sits a perfectly unrespectable basement: a witch’s workroom with a cauldron already bubbling in the corner. This page is your brewer’s companion — what goes in the pot, what comes out, and why your pantry is secretly a spell component chest.

The Workroom & the Cauldron

The basement opens up as the main story pulls Tara into the craft (see The Craft: An Introduction). It comes equipped with one cauldron; the ability to build additional cauldrons unlocks later in the game — the quest To Summer it Up For You rewards you with a cauldron blueprint, at which point your production line can finally match your ambitions.

The brewing workflow

1. Learn a recipe. Potion recipes arrive through main story quests and magical tasks for coven members — the early quest Something’s Brewing is exactly what it sounds like. You can’t brew what nobody’s taught you.
2. Gather ingredients. Recipes draw on all three of your daytime trades: crops you’ve farmed, plants and oddments you’ve foraged, and ores you’ve mined.
3. Set the cauldron going. Load the ingredients, start the brew, and go live your daylight life — like other crafting stations, the cauldron works while you don’t.
4. Collect and deploy. Bottle in hand, pour it, drink it, or deliver it to whichever coven member asked so nicely.

start a brew before bed — the cauldron keeps working while you sleep 🌙

Verified Potions

The full recipe book is long — the names below are ones this journal has confirmed; you’ll unlock plenty more, including powders and distillations, as your studies deepen.

A note on the two families you’ll lean on hardest:

• The Miracle Grow line is the farm’s best friend. Speeding a slow crop toward harvest is lovely; speeding one to beat an incoming season change — before out-of-season crops vanish — is survival. And don’t sleep on the crafting-station trick: a splash on a slow station hurries artisan goods too (Artisan Goods).
• Revitalizing Potions quietly rewrite your daily energy budget. A witch with a bottled second wind mines deeper, fishes longer, and still makes it to the circle by moonrise.

⚠️ spoilers — some brews exist purely to move the story. Quest potions (banishing-adjacent brews, ritual components like the Spirit Flame, remedies for particular townsfolk’s particular problems) unlock exactly when the plot needs them. If a quest is waiting on a potion, the quest itself supplies the recipe — check your to-do list before panic-foraging.

Stocking the Witch’s Pantry

Brewing rewards the player who hoards a little of everything:

Lore aside: Lina Dahl-Johnson, who sells you half these ingredients over the counter by day, is the coven’s High Priestess by night. She knows exactly what you’re brewing and will not say a word.

Brewer’s Habits Worth Forming

1. Brew ahead of quests. If a coven member mentions needing something, start it that night — one story task asks for three Miracle Grow Potions at once.
2. Never sell your last of anything. Tomorrow’s recipe wants it; see Money-Making for what’s actually safe to sell.
3. Queue before bed. The cauldron brews while you sleep, so load it every night.
4. Expand when allowed. The moment extra cauldrons unlock, build them — late-game rituals and requests come thirsty.

The Potion Shelf, Illustrated

Bottles from the archive — brews, essences, and one distilled scream (long story; see the later chapters). More vials join the shelf as further plates are archived.

Last updated October 7, 2026