Potion Craft: How To Master Haggling (2024)

Money is essential in the game Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator. Players need it to buy rare ingredients they can use to make difficult potions, and the only way to build the alchemy lab in the basem*nt and create the Philosopher's Stone is to buy not one but several expensive sets of parts.

Fortunately, the game has a way to get more money from sales and pay less to merchants: haggling. Haggling in Potion Craft is an easy system to understand, but to master haggling players will need to know more about how it works than what the game says on its own.

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Haggling Basics

Players can learn the basics of haggling by going through the Potion Craft tutorial, but there's also a large button on the haggling screen with a question mark on it. Hitting this button will display a helpful diagram that shows all the same information on it, and hitting the question mark again will take the player back to the haggling screen. Haggling works the same way for merchants and customers, and the only real difference is that a good haggle with a customer increases the amount of coin while a good haggle with a merchant will decrease it. Either way, a good haggle will end in the player's favor.

Expert Tips

• Topics change the symbols that appear on the gold bonuses and nothing else. The only reason to choose one topic over another is because of its difficulty level.
• Players can look at every available topic before deciding on any of them. Visitors will be upset if the player backs out of a haggle, but they can always choose the Very Easy topic if they don't like their odds and don't want to lose money.
• Wider bonus panels are always better. If the top difficulty starts with only narrow panels, it may be safer to go one level down rather than risk a bad result.
• Players who need practice should try harder haggle levels on low-cost potions. That way, a failure is less expensive.
• It costs 5 talent points to unlock the Hard haggle level, and another 10 points to unlock Very Hard. The extra profit of each level is 5 percent higher than the last, so a Medium haggle can get up to 40 percent, a Hard up to 45, and a Very Hard haggle gives up to 50 percent extra profit. However, each point in the Trading talent adds 10 percent to the starting value of every sale, and 15 points can buy 7 levels of Trading. In other words, the Trading talent is far more valuable than the Haggling talent. Haggling can add even more profit on top but players should invest in Trading first.
• While the haggling minigame will end when players get the best possible result, they can also end the game early by hitting one of the green panels on the sides of the field. If the haggle is difficult, ending early may be the best way to get a good result.
• Most importantly, players should remember that Potion Craft lets them save at any point, including right before a haggle. This means players can reload and try again if a haggle attempt goes badly.

Haggling is a fun way to break up the main gameplay of Potion Craft, but it can be frustrating for players who don't have great reflexes. Fortunately, there are ways to practice and improve, and haggling on lower difficulty levels isn't too costly.

Potion Craft is available now for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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