Items and economy

Brewing

Brew turns Farm herbs into unfinished potions, then finishes them with another skill's materials. A few recipes split their XP between Brew and another skill.

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Rules and numbers

confirmed Brew is a rollable processing skill paired with Farm; each Farm herb maps to one unfinished potion.
Source: skills.json; Constants.js:5222-5241
confirmed Finishing recipes combine an unfinished potion, a raw material and (usually) its processed form; Brew XP runs from 16 at T0 to 522 at T10.
Source: Constants.js:3666-3760
confirmed Life Soup recipes pay Brew XP plus about the same amount as Cook XP (T7: 92 + 92).
Source: Constants.js:3711-3754; BrewModal.js:299-307
confirmed Potion of Discovery pays Brew, Bard and Discover XP (T2: 8 + 4 + 4, T5: 24 + 12 + 12, T8: 66 + 33 + 33).
Source: Constants.js:3758-3760
confirmed Combat potions boost two stats by 2*(tier+1).boost = 2*(T+1)
Source: Constants.js:1546
confirmed Without real herbs Brew can process scrap herbs into scrap potions at half XP.xp = successXP / 2
Source: Constants.js:412; Constants.js:421

Connected systems

Brewing weight lever widened by Almanacs
Bard supplies Barding Notes to Brewing
Discover supplies Jars of Dirt to Brewing
Brewing makes Life Soup for Food healing
Brewing makes Potions
Brewing can fall back to Scraps
Brewing is listed in Skills overview

Arrows show who acts on whom: → this system acts on the other, ← the other acts on this one, ↔ both do.

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Statuses: confirmed is a value or rule in the game files; observed is measured from recorded play; dev note comes from a developer comment, tooltip or patch note; inferred is worked out from the files with the assumption stated; unknown is decided on the server. Game data read 2026-10-03.