Completing Every Alchemy Spell, Rune, and Potion in Everwind

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In Everwind, you’ll need to do some melee fighting before gaining access to magic. Once you’ve found your first magical gear, you can start investing in the Arcanist skill tree to unlock more spells and abilities. There’s a lot of magic to discover, including potions to craft, runes to find and use, staff weapons, spellbooks, and more. Here’s what you need to know to get started with magic and the arcane arts.

Although your initial combat experience in Everwind involves using swords, bows, and melee weapons, you’ll soon discover all kinds of magical equipment that will elevate your fighting skills. As an Arcanist, you’ll often rely on staffs, spells, runes, potions, and other magical tools during your adventures.

The key to mastering magic in Everwind is that it needs to be unlocked gradually as you explore. Check every chest and dresser on each island for early magical staff weapons, which are tougher to craft than standard swords and tools and can’t be made at the blacksmith station back on your ship. You can start using magic immediately once you find the necessary items. Look out for potions placed in dungeons and settlements—often on tables or inside chests—as well as spells and spellbooks dropped by stronger enemies as you explore further.

You can craft your own potions at the Alchemy Table, with new potions and stronger effects becoming available as you improve your crafting skill levels. Most ingredients have magical properties, which become visible when you hover over them in your inventory. Initially, these ingredients are locked, and you’ll need to learn what each one does when added to a potion. Our guide includes tables with detailed information about all ingredients once you’ve uncovered their properties.

When it comes to runes—magical weapons that grant special effects—these come in six sizes: Fragment, Small, Medium, Big, Huge, and Perfect. Larger runes produce longer-lasting and more potent effects, such as imbued status effects, debuffs, elemental damage, or slowing enemies. You’ll collect rune fragments from various treasure sources as you explore the randomly generated world and then combine these fragments at a Rune Crafting Station to create active runes for battles ahead.

In combat, you’ll also use offensive magic through staff weapons and spellbooks, which have different mechanics despite both being magical items. Staffs allow you to attack from a distance using elemental magic, making them a great alternative to bows and arrows. Spellbooks, on the other hand, cast spells within an area around you and affect everything inside once activated. Keep in mind that these magical items need to be recharged with Spirit Crystal Dust as their durability decreases with use, much like repairing weapons.

Here is a quick overview of some of the magic staffs and spellbooks available:

Some of these items can be upgraded by spending skill points in the Arcanist tree, which unlocks powerful abilities like increasing spell area effects or enhancing your rune crafting. Upgrades such as ‘Master Rods’ and ‘Master Books’ improve your equipment’s power and versatility.

Spending skill points in the Arcanist tree allows you to understand alchemical properties immediately, extend spell effects, and craft better items for battle. Critical nodes to unlock include advanced books, rune specialist, improved rods, and the master-tier items, all located at specific tiers on the skill tree.

How to Use Alchemy Ingredients, Potions, and Runes

Crafting potions at the Alchemy Station opens a wide range of effects, from offense to defense. Using the ingredients effectively involves understanding their properties, which are detailed in the game’s tables.

Alchemical Properties of Herbs

Bell Flower: Loot Luck
Bulb: Jump Booster
Jasmine: Swiftness
Lavender: Soft Hands
Typha: Diligence
Echinops: Ice Resistance
Snowdrop: Ice Resistance
Black Dahlia: Electricity Resistance
Aster: Soft Hands

Alchemical Properties of Mushrooms

Brown Woodcap: Diligence
Chanterelle: Lockpicking
Fly Agaric: Harvest
Green Woodcap: Poison Resistance
Porcini: Windborn
Glowing Mushroom: Light
Moonshroom: Light
Darkshroom: Perception
Toxic Mushroom: Poison Resistance

Alchemical Properties of Produce and Loot

Blueberry: Swiftness
Corn: Harvest
Tangerine: Healing
Wildberry: Jump Booster
Jelly Fruit: Fall Absorber
Cactus Fruit: Perception
Egg: Stone Skin
Feather: Fall Absorber
Fur: Tireless
Fang: Lethal Precision
Ent Heart: Healing
Bone: Jump Booster
Pearl: Soft Hands
Resin: Healing
Amber: Strength
Honey: Healing
Spirit Crystal Dust: Invincibility
Blaze Crystal Dust: Light
Sulfur: Fire Resistance

Potions and Their Effects

Strength Potion: Boosts physical damage
Swiftness Potion: Increases movement speed
Lethal Precision Potion: Raises critical hit damage
Levitation Potion: Reduces fall speed
Soft Hand Potion: Extends tool durability
Fall Absorber: Lowers fall damage
Loot Luck Potion: Improves loot quality
Harvest Potion: Boosts gathering yields
Fire, Ice, Electric, Poison Resistance Potions: Reduce respective damage types
Purification Potion: Clears all negative effects

Runes and Effects

Rune of Battle Feast: Restores stamina when you kill enemies (varies from 10 to 50 stamina based on size)
Rune of Crushing: Stuns enemies with a chance (up to 8%)
Rune of Doom: Instantly kills enemies below certain HP thresholds (up to 150 HP)
Rune of Life Steal: Heals you based on damage dealt (up to 15%)
Rune of Poison: Inflicts poison damage over time
Rune of Wound: Causes bleeding effects

These runes can be assembled at rune stations using fragments collected through exploration. They introduce strategic options for weakening or finishing off foes efficiently.