Medicine

Medicine is a crafting skill. You make healing items and potions, mostly from herbs you gather with Foraging. Healing items keep you alive in fights. A potion makes one skill better for a number of actions. Some places need Medicine goods to be rebuilt.

How to train

Start with Brew salve at level 1. New activities open as you level up: see the table below.
1 of the 35 activities needs the old well rebuilt first.
Tool: Mortar and pestle (+15% speed, made with Masonry). Better ones: Iron still (+20%), Cobalt still (+30%).

Activities

Armour and trinkets

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
10	Make fang talisman	Fang talisman	1 × Alpha's fang, 6 × Beast bones	120
20	Drill the knucklebone charm	Knucklebone charm	1 × Giant's knucklebone, 8 × Beast bones	200

Skill gear

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
9	Fill a well-water flask	Well-water flask	2 × Salve, 1 × Wolf pelt	70
12	Make healer's charm	Healer's charm	1 × Saint's relic, 1 × River pearl, 10 × Comfrey	260

Potions

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
4	Brew gatherer's potion	Gatherer's potion	2 × Comfrey	8
8	Brew miner's potion	Miner's potion	1 × Comfrey, 1 × Rock salt	10
10	Brew forester's potion	Forester's potion	1 × Comfrey, 1 × Pine resin	10
12	Brew angler's potion	Angler's potion	1 × Sage, 1 × Minnow	10
16	Brew quarrymen's potion	Quarrymen's potion	1 × Sage, 1 × Clay	10
18	Brew huntsman's potion	Huntsman's potion	2 × Beast bones, 1 × Comfrey	14
20	Brew smith's potion	Smith's potion	1 × Yarrow, 1 × Flux	12
22	Brew carpenter's potion	Carpenter's potion	1 × Yarrow, 2 × Bark	12
26	Brew weaver's potion	Weaver's potion	1 × Yarrow, 2 × Wild fibre	12
28	Brew mason's potion	Mason's potion	1 × Foxglove, 1 × Rock salt	14
32	Brew harvest potion	Harvest potion	1 × Nettle, 1 × Eggs	16
34	Brew marksman's potion	Marksman's potion	3 × Feathers, 1 × Sage	14
44	Brew quickblood potion	Quickblood potion	1 × Grave dust, 1 × Wormwood	20

Food and remedies

Level	Activity	Makes	Materials	Sells for
1	Brew salve	Salve	2 × Comfrey	8
2	Make bark dressings	Bark dressing	1 × Comfrey, 1 × Bark	10
6	Brew yarrow remedy	Yarrow remedy	2 × Yarrow	9
12	Brew sage remedy	Sage remedy	2 × Sage	14
14	Make sage dressings	Sage dressing	1 × Sage, 1 × Bark	24
20	Brew nettle remedy	Nettle remedy	2 × Nettle	19
24	Brew an antidote	Antidote	1 × Ghoul blood, 2 × Sage	60
28	Mix grave dust salve	Grave dust salve	3 × Grave dust, 6 × Comfrey	40
30	Brew foxglove remedy	Foxglove remedy	2 × Foxglove	24
30	Brew plague cure	Plague cure	2 × Wormwood, 1 × Wild honey, 1 × Rock salt	60
36	Boil bandages	Boiled bandages	1 × Wheat cloth	40
40	Make wormwood dressings	Wormwood dressing	1 × Wormwood, 2 × Bark	48
42	Brew wormwood remedy	Wormwood remedy	2 × Wormwood	29
48	Brew a gold drink	Gold drink	1 × Gold bar, 1 × Wormwood, 1 × Wild honey	60
55	Brew mandrake remedy	Mandrake remedy	2 × Mandrake	34
68	Brew bloodroot remedy	Bloodroot remedy	2 × Bloodroot	39
82	Brew moonpetal remedy	Moonpetal remedy	2 × Moonpetal	44
95	Brew crownwort remedy	Crownwort remedy	2 × Crownwort	49

"Sells for" is what one action's items sell for, at the level the activity opens, before bonuses. Every skill uses the same XP table: see Levels and XP.

Mastery

Each of the 35 Medicine activities has its own mastery level, from 1 to 99. Every completed action gives that activity mastery XP, and higher mastery makes the activity better (table below).

A quarter of that mastery XP (half once Medicine is level 99) also goes into the Medicine mastery pool, which holds up to 32,375,000 XP. You can spend pool XP on any Medicine activity: 1 pool XP gives 1 mastery XP. See Mastery for the exact numbers.

Each activity's own mastery

Activity mastery	Adds to that activity
10	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
20	+5 points high-quality chance
30	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
40	+5 points high-quality chance
50	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
60	+5 points high-quality chance
70	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
80	+5 points high-quality chance
90	+5% chance to spare materials (or arrows)
99	+10% sell price on the items it makes, +10% chance to spare materials (or arrows)

Pool checkpoints

While the pool is filled to a checkpoint or above, its bonus counts for every Medicine activity. If you spend the pool below a checkpoint, that bonus stops until the pool fills up again.

Pool filled	Pool XP	Adds to every activity of the skill
10%	3,237,500	+5% mastery XP
25%	8,093,750	+10% XP
50%	16,187,500	+5% speed
95%	30,756,250	+10% chance to spare materials (or arrows)

Gear for this skill

Healer's charm — +10% speed
Counting charm — +10% XP, 5% chance to spare materials
Winter shawl — +6% speed
Doctor's mask — +8 points high-quality chance
Surgeon's gloves — +8% speed
Scent ball — +12% XP
Perfumed gloves — +10 points high-quality chance
Mortar and pestle — +15% speed
Iron still — +20% speed
Cobalt still — +30% speed, +1 item per action
Gold tasting spoon — +8 points high-quality chance

Gear only helps while it is equipped. A high-quality piece gives 1.5 times the bonus, rounded down. See also every boost for Medicine.

Faster from rebuilt places

Plague chapel — +15% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt
The sick house — +10% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt

Places that need this skill

You need this level to find and rebuild the place. Some places accept another skill instead.

Plague chapel — level 4
The sick house — level 15
The silk house — level 50 (or Tailoring 60)

Story

Make salves, remedies and potions from herbs. Salves and remedies heal you in fights, and potions boost your other skills.