Completing Ailment Solutions with Apothecary in Sims 4: Nature’s Magic

The Sims 4: Enchanted By Nature brings a brand-new skill called Apothecary. This skill allows your Sims to treat temporary ailments that they might catch from other Sims or receive from playful fairies. Additionally, it lets you create potions that can alter your Sims’ moods, which can be beneficial for activities like skills development or social gatherings.

This skill has ten levels and involves using various plants, herbs, and fruits, along with some special items to create your mixtures. Most of these items can be collected through foraging, while others can be bought. Here’s an overview of the items you can craft, the skill level needed for each, and their effects on your Sims.

What You Need To Level The Apothecary Skill

First off, you’ll require an apothecary table. It costs only $100 and works off the grid. There’s one available at The GROM Exhibit museum located in the Coast of Adhmor neighborhood, and another one can be found at Everdew, near the fairy hub.

For your initial concoctions, you can purchase basic ingredients directly from the table. After that, foraging is the best way to acquire items, and it’s completely free.

Foraging is random, but once you reach level two of the Apothecary skill, you can selectively forage for apothecary items, decreasing the chances of stumbling upon useless items. Still, chance plays a role, so if you end up with too many aura petals or acorns, you might want to also forage for specific plants.

You can also level up the Apothecary skill by using a set of three books, or by selecting the Study Apothecary Cures option at the table. As with other skills, each book has a cost that increases with the level. Reading them helps you gain skill at a fair rate, though slightly slower than crafting. Meanwhile, studying at the table is a free action but builds skill at a slower pace than other methods.

How To Get Emotion Potions

You can obtain emotion potions in several ways:

• Harvest a Wild Moody Shrub – Located in Everdew, just west of the lounge, near the pink tree. You can also buy a moody shrub seed at Clover’s Seeds and Supplies in Sprucederry Grove for $450.
• Visit Moondrop Springs – Here, you can soak up emotions, bottle them, and even request the spring to change its emotional state once each day.
• Craft an Emotion Stone – This requires you to have a level six in the Apothecary skill. Once in your inventory, you can choose Apothecary > Bottle Emotion from the social menu to bottle Sims’ emotions.

Apothecary Skill Levels

Here’s a breakdown of each level in the Apothecary skill along with the crafting options and actions unlocked at each stage.

Level One

At this initial level, you’ll be able to utilize the Study Apothecary Cures interaction at any apothecary table and read Apothecary Vol 1: A Spoonful of Sugar, which costs $75. You can also buy basic ingredients at the table.

The first recipes available include:

Level Two

By reaching level two, you can now forage for apothecary ingredients using the option Forage for… > Forage for Apothecary Ingredients. You can also purchase the Apothecary Study Set decoration in build mode for $110 in the clutter category. At this level, the following options unlock:

Level Three

At this point, you gain access to the Enthuse About Crafting Elixirs social interaction and can start crafting emotion potions. You can create a specific positive emotion potion using any three positive potions, or a specific negative potion using any three negative ones. You can also create the following:

Level Four

At this stage, you should replace Apothecary Vol 1 with Apothecary Vol 2: No, Don’t Drink That! for $150. New recipes unlocked include:

Level Five

At this level, you may have noticed some debuffs due to unpleasant odors. You’ll be less affected by these now. You can also purchase the Apothecarist’s Tabletop Organizer for $110 in the miscellaneous decorations section. Additional potions at this level include:

Level Six

At this level, you can brag about your Apothecary expertise and let others know how skilled you are. The new recipes unlocked are:

Level Seven

From this level onwards, you will only gain skill through reading Apothecary Vol 3: Making Your Friends Drink That, costing $250. Exchanging emotion potions is now possible at a 2:1 ratio rather than 3:1. The new recipes learned are:

Level Eight

This level is straightforward and unlocks just one recipe:

Level Nine

At this stage, negative debuffs from odors will completely disappear. Additionally, you unlock two more recipes:

Level Ten

At the top level, you can now purchase advanced ingredients at the apothecary table. You can also convert any emotion potion into any other emotion potion at a 1:1 ratio.