Potions are some of the most useful items you can carry in Underkeep. Whether you’re fighting a difficult enemy, running low on Mana, or trying to save a teammate from a dangerous status effect, having the right consumable can make a big difference.
In this guide, I’ve put together the Underkeep potion recipes, including their ingredients and effects. You’ll also find food recipes, crafting instructions, places to get potions, and tips for choosing which consumables to carry during your adventure.
The good news is that potions don’t consume a hero’s turn when used. This means you can heal your party, restore resources, or remove certain status effects during combat without giving up your normal attack or skill.
Underkeep Potion Recipes Guide – Ingredients, Effects
To make your own potions, you first need the Mortar and Pestle. This tool is used for both alchemy and cooking, so it’s worth getting early.
You can find the Mortar and Pestle in Jacob’s Cottage in the woods or purchase it from a shop.
Once you have it, follow these steps:
- Collect the ingredients required for the potion.
- Use the Mortar and Pestle to access crafting.
- Add the ingredients needed for your chosen recipe.
- Press Craft to create the item.
Alchemy ingredients include mushrooms, flowers, berries, and monster parts. Keep collecting these materials while exploring because you may need them for different recipes later.
You don’t have to worry too much about experimenting with combinations. If you use the wrong ingredients, the crafting attempt simply fails without consuming them.
Where to Buy Potions in Underkeep
Crafting isn’t your only option if you need more healing items. You can also purchase potions from Khelebar in Underkeep Village.
This is particularly useful early in the game when you haven’t collected enough ingredients or discovered many recipes yet.
I recommend checking his available stock before heading out on a long expedition. Buying a few useful consumables can save you from having to return to the village when your party runs into trouble.
How to Find and Discover Potion Recipes
You won’t necessarily know every potion recipe from the beginning. Recipes can be discovered throughout the game world, so make sure you explore thoroughly and pay attention to what you find.
You can also experiment with ingredient combinations using the Mortar and Pestle. Since incorrect combinations don’t consume the ingredients, trying different combinations is a useful way to discover new crafting options.
Keep an eye out for these ingredient types:
- Mushrooms
- Flowers
- Berries
- Monster parts
Collecting materials as you explore will make it easier to craft potions whenever you need them.
All Underkeep Potion Recipes
Below are the potion recipes, with their required ingredients and effects. Each recipe is listed separately so you can quickly find what you need.
Healing Potion Recipes
Healing potions restore HP and are especially useful for front-line heroes who take damage during combat.
Potion of Minor Healing
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask and 2 Amberrose.
- Effect: Restores 4–8 HP.
Potion of Healing
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 2 Amberrose, and 1 Crimsonspire Berries.
- Effect: Restores 9–15 HP.
Mana Potion Recipes
Mana potions are important for heroes who depend on spells and abilities. Keep some available if your party includes classes that regularly spend Mana during battles.
Potion of Minor Mana
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask and 2 Moonpetal.
- Effect: Restores 12–17 Mana.
Potion of Mana
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 2 Moonpetal, and 1 Crimsonspire Berries.
- Effect: Restores 17–25 Mana.
Caerlin Essence
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Caerlin Blue Bloom, 1 Voidshard, and 1 Moonpetal.
- Effect: Permanently increases Mana by 5.
Stamina Potion Recipes
Stamina is used by physical classes for their active skills. These potions can help your Warrior, Thief, or Ranger continue using abilities during longer encounters.
Potion of Minor Stamina
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask and 2 Solarbloom.
- Effect: Restores 10–14 Stamina.
Potion of Stamina
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 2 Solarbloom, and 1 Crimsonspire Berries.
- Effect: Restores 14–22 Stamina.
Alternative Stamina Recipe
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask and 2 Potions of Minor Stamina.
- Effect: Restores 14–22 Stamina.
Poison and Cure Recipes
These recipes are useful when dealing with poison-related items and negative status effects.
Potion of Poison
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Venom Sac, and 1 Red Mushroom.
- Effect: Creates a poison potion.
Potion of Cure Poison
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Amberrose, 1 Solarbloom, and 1 Red Mushroom.
- Effect: Removes Poison.
Special and Combat Potion Recipes
These potions provide temporary bonuses, remove specific status effects, or restore more than one resource.
Resurrection Potion
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Mimic Heart, and 1 Potion of Poison.
- Effect: Used for resurrection.
Ghoststep Draught
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Crimsonspire Berries, and 1 Spider Eye.
- Effect: Increases Evasion by 20% for 3 rounds.
Wardstone Elixir
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Solarbloom, 1 Moonpetal, and 1 Amberrose.
- Effect: Increases all elemental resistances by 20% for 3 rounds.
Mindwell Elixir
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Potion of Poison, 1 Moonpetal, and 1 Amberrose.
- Effect: Restores 10–15 HP and 15–20 Mana.
Warblood Tonic
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Potion of Poison, 1 Amberrose, and 1 Solarbloom.
- Effect: Restores 10–15 HP and 15–20 Stamina.
Frostvein Draft
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Crimsonspire Berries, 1 Moonpetal, and 1 Venom Sac.
- Effect: Removes Burn and Freeze.
Ironhide Potion
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Crimsonspire Berries, 1 Bone, and 1 Bug Mandible.
- Effect: Increases Armor by 5 for 3 rounds.
Thunderwake Draught
- Ingredients: 1 Empty Flask, 1 Solarbloom, 1 Crimsonspire Berries, and 1 Bug Mandible.
- Effect: Removes Stun and Paralysis.
All Underkeep Food Recipes
Potions aren’t the only consumables worth preparing. Food is another important resource because resting uses your shared food supply to restore the entire party.
When you rest, your heroes recover HP, Mana, and Stamina. However, you cannot rest while enemies are nearby or when you don’t have enough food.
You can use the Mortar and Pestle to prepare meals from ingredients you collect during exploration.
Dungeon Toast
- Ingredients: 1 Mushroom, 1 Ham, 1 Cheese, and 1 Bread.
- Food value: 16.
Simple Mushroom Stew
- Ingredients: 2 Mushrooms.
- Food value: 1.
Hearty Mushroom Stew
- Ingredients: 4 Mushrooms.
- Food value: 2.
Make sure you collect food whenever you find it. Apples, berries, loaves, and ham are all useful supplies. Remember that digging graves also consumes food, so don’t spend your entire supply before you have finished exploring an area.
All Underkeep Status Effects and Their Cures
Some enemies can inflict negative status effects that make battles much harder. Certain effects deal damage over time, while others prevent heroes from acting or reduce their accuracy.
Knowing which potion removes each effect will help you prepare the right items before difficult encounters.
Poison
Poison deals damage every round, with its duration affected by the hero’s Endurance.
You can remove it using:
- Potion of Cure Poison.
- Void Mend at level 4.
Burn
Burn deals fire damage over time.
You can remove it using:
- Frostvein Draft.
- Void Mend at level 3.
Freeze
Freeze causes the affected hero to skip their round.
You can remove it using:
- Frostvein Draft.
Bleed
Bleed causes the affected hero to lose HP every round.
You can remove it using:
- Void Mend at level 2.
Stun
Stun prevents a hero from taking an action.
You can remove it using:
- Thunderwake Draught.
- Void Mend at level 5.
Paralysis
Paralysis prevents movement and can leave the entire party stuck. However, the affected hero can still attack.
You can remove it using:
- Thunderwake Draught.
Blind
Blind reduces melee and ranged hit chance by 50 points. It also affects enemies, but it doesn’t reduce spell accuracy.
There isn’t a potion cure listed for this effect, so you need to wait for it to wear off.
Disease
Disease prevents your party from recovering while resting.
Make sure you cure it before resting. Otherwise, your party will consume food without restoring HP, Mana, or Stamina.
Mental Fog
Mental Fog prevents the affected hero from using skills for a few rounds.
You need to wait for this effect to wear off.
Slime Corrosion
Slime Corrosion reduces the affected hero’s Armor.
Wait for the effect to wear off.
Best Potions to Carry Before a Difficult Fight
You don’t need to carry every potion for every encounter. The best choices depend on your party, the enemies you’re facing, and the resources your heroes use.
Here are some useful options to consider:
Potion of Healing
Keep healing potions available for situations where a front-line hero loses too much HP. They can help prevent a character from falling during a difficult fight.
Potion of Mana
If your party depends on spellcasters, Mana potions can help them continue using their abilities instead of relying only on basic attacks.
Potion of Stamina
Warriors, Thieves, and Rangers can benefit from additional Stamina when they need to keep using their active skills.
Potion of Cure Poison
Poison causes damage every round, so having a cure available can prevent unnecessary HP loss.
Frostvein Draft
This is particularly useful because it removes both Burn and Freeze. You don’t need to carry separate potions for these two effects.
Thunderwake Draught
Keep this available for encounters where enemies can inflict Stun or Paralysis. Both effects can interfere with your party’s actions and movement.
Wardstone Elixir
The additional elemental resistance can help when facing enemies that deal fire, ice, lightning, or poison damage.
Ghoststep Draught
The Evasion bonus can be useful when you want to improve a hero’s chances of avoiding incoming attacks.
Important Potion and Alchemy Tips
A few mechanics make potion management much easier once you understand how the game handles consumables.
Potions Don’t Consume Your Turn
This is one of the most important things to remember about combat in Underkeep.
Each hero normally gets one action per round, such as a basic attack or active skill. However, drinking potions and using inventory items do not consume that action.
You can therefore use consumables without sacrificing your hero’s normal attack or skill. If your party is in serious trouble, don’t hesitate to use the healing items you have available.
Don’t Wait Until You Run Out of Ingredients
Collect mushrooms, flowers, berries, and monster parts whenever you find them. Different potions require different combinations, and you may not have the right ingredients when an emergency happens.
Keeping a collection of useful materials makes it easier to craft potions before heading into dangerous areas.
Buy Potions When You Need Them
If you haven’t discovered a particular recipe or don’t have enough ingredients, check Khelebar in Underkeep Village.
Buying a few consumables can be more convenient than delaying your exploration to gather materials.
Cure Disease Before Resting
Disease is especially important because it prevents recovery while resting. Your food is still consumed, but your party won’t receive the normal HP, Mana, and Stamina recovery.
Check your party’s status effects before using the Rest option.
Save Food for Longer Expeditions
Food is shared by the entire party, and resting consumes it automatically. Collect food during exploration and use the Mortar and Pestle to prepare meals.
Avoid spending too much food on unnecessary grave digging when you still need supplies for recovery.
Alchemy gives you several ways to prepare for the dangerous encounters in Underkeep. Healing, Mana, and Stamina potions help your party recover, while special draughts can remove negative effects or provide temporary combat bonuses.
You can buy potions from Khelebar in Underkeep Village, discover recipes while exploring, or experiment with ingredients using the Mortar and Pestle. I recommend collecting useful materials whenever possible and keeping a few emergency consumables in your inventory.
Most importantly, don’t forget that potions are free actions during combat. Having the right cure or recovery item ready can make a difficult encounter much easier.
