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Minor Healing Potion is the entry-tier emergency heal in Windrose, crafted from a single Alchemical Base at the Alchemy Table. It restores 35% of maximum health instantly and is the cheapest potion to mass-produce, which makes it the default combat heal before a player has regular access to Healing Herbs.

"Quickly mends small cuts and dulls the pain, giving you the strength to fight or flee."

Effect

Recipe

Alchemical Base is crafted at the same station from 1 Clay Bottle plus 1 Misty Orchid. Because a Minor Healing Potion only consumes the Alchemical Base and nothing else, it is the cheapest potion in the game to produce once Misty Orchids are on the player's gathering route.

When to Use

The 35% instant heal is enough to recover from one hit of most normal enemies in the early-game archipelago. It is not enough to survive a boss's telegraphed heavy attack; players scaling into mid-game should transition to the Healing Potion (55% heal) or the Great Healing Potion (80% heal) for serious encounters.

• Keep for: early-game exploration, ship boarding cleanup, swamp trash pulls

• Swap out when: you have a reliable Healing Herb route to make full-tier Healing Potions instead

• Pair with: Bandages for calm recovery between fights, saving potions for emergencies

Potion Tier Comparison

Minor Healing Potion is the first rung of three instant-heal tiers. Once a steady Healing Herbs supply is on the gathering route, the full Healing Potion becomes the better default for tougher fights, and the Great Healing Potion caps the line for boss encounters.

The mid-tier Healing Potion has a second known recipe that swaps the three Healing Herbs for two Undead Essence, useful if herb stocks run low but undead drops are plentiful.

Doctor Galen and Free Potions

Doctor Galen Skelton hands out a free Minor Healing Potion roughly once per hour of play in Tortuga. For players who fight out of Tortuga between supply runs, stopping by his office before departure effectively adds a potion per run at no crafting cost.

See Also

• Healing Potion - 55% heal mid-tier version

• Great Healing Potion - 80% heal top-tier version

• Bandages - heal-over-time alternative

• Alchemy Table - the crafting station

• Misty Orchid - reagent for the Alchemical Base input

Game Data

Properties

Crafted By

Crafted at: Alchemy Table

Unlocked By

• Discovery: Basic Alchemy

• Picked up the first Misty Orchid in the Coastal Jungle, which unlocks the Alchemy Table and this recipe

Reagent Sourcing

The whole cost of a Minor Healing Potion traces back to one Misty Orchid per Alchemical Base. Misty Orchids grow in the Coastal Jungle on the second and third islands, favoring the damp strip of ground a short way in from the shoreline and around inland ponds. They glow blue, give off an audio cue when you are close, and bloom mainly at night, so a night gathering run is the most efficient way to stock up.