Recipes

Crafting in The Blood of Dawnwalker is not a side activity — it is the healing system. Raw food and untreated blood restore so little that skipping crafting means gimping both of Coen's forms, and the game never says this out loud. You just quietly eat mushrooms for several hours and wonder why your health bar barely moves.

The loop is simple. Recipes and ingredients come from looting, quests, clearing camps and lairs, and a handful of merchants (notably the witchcraft vendors, who stock both). A recipe must be read from the manuals-and-recipes tab of your inventory before it appears in the crafting menu — there's no point investment, just the reading. The crafting menu itself lives in the radial menu's lower-left, and it is disabled during combat, so stock consumables before a fight, not during it.

One system rule above all: consumables are split by form. Human-form items do nothing at night and vice versa, and vampire-form healing raises Corruption. Carry supplies for both halves of the day — and quickslot the good ones, because auto-filled slots won't make room mid-fight.

Healing Items

Human-form restoration and vampiric infusions, in one table — note how the vampiric line scales both maximum health and segment restoration:

Stamina Items

Stamina regenerates slower than fights demand — these fix that, and any of them work in both forms:

Melee Attack Items

Pastes for weapons and bare hands, vials for claws, potions for crits:

Utility Items

Damage reduction, faction-specific damage, and the legendary one-off:

Active Ability Items

For the ability systems rather than the sword: charge restoration and two schools of attunement:

The Razkovniche Elixir

The one recipe worth a detour. The side quest The Hedgehog Herb — triggered by the body in the northeastern house of Oghasti, in The Silts southwest of Svartrau — hands you the seeds, and the plant needs two time segments across two visits to grow. The payoff is a permanent, craft-once elixir: +20% maximum human health, +10% maximum vampiric health, and a bonus skill point, all for the rest of the game. Have it brewed by Anca (free, plus a conversation) or the Svartrau medic (100 denarii), or craft it yourself — the result is identical.

Elixirs from these tables last a fixed number of time segments rather than a real-time duration, and only one elixir can be active at a time — check the timer before you drink another. For where the ingredients live, see the items page; for the time budget crafting fits into, the guides page.