Check which health pool needs help before preparing supplies. Human healing and vampiric healing are different effects. A restoration label alone does not prove an item restores the pool you currently need.
If you need a recipe to start with, the standard Mending Ointment has a documented pickup in the Enter Not house, described below. The earliest Minor Mending Ointment unlock and fixed ingredient-gathering spots remain unconfirmed here. This guide covers recipe checks and that specific pickup, rather than a complete supply-farming route.
Check recipes and ingredients
- Open your unlocked healing recipes and read the target effect. Ingredients alone do not unlock a recipe.
- For human healing, check Minor Mending Ointment: 1 Canteen of Water and 2 Ribwort Plantain.
- For vampire supplies, check Animal Blood Infusion: 1 Vial of Animal Blood, 2 Ribwort Plantain and 2 Yellow Sweet Clover.
These ingredients come from the recipe reference; confirm them against your current crafting screen. The Minor Mending Ointment and Animal Blood Infusion pickup routes, fixed gathering coordinates and vendor restocks are not confirmed here.
Get the standard Mending Ointment recipe
- After All Good Things, find the ruined house on the path to the peat bogs in Laslea Glen. Approaching it starts Enter Not; check that name before searching the building.
- Use the shed attached to the neighbouring barn to reach its hayloft. Cross the boards at the barn's west end and enter through the house's roof opening.
- Search the chest beside the fire pit for Recipe for Mending Ointment. Check the crafting list; if the recipe remains locked, inspect and read the recipe in inventory. The confirmation you want is Mending Ointment unlocked, without “Minor” or “Potent”.
The entrance description and chest beside the fire pit are separately documented. The full Enter Not guide shows the recipe-unlock screenshot and covers the figurine handover. Obtaining the recipe and finishing that quest are separate checks; a nearest-shrine approach and the earliest possible unlock are not established here.
Choose instant healing or regeneration
| Supply | Ingredients to check | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Mending Ointment | 1 Linseed Oil, 2 Comfrey | Human health restoration |
| Minor Regenerative Salve | 1 Canteen of Water, 2 Common Yarrow, 2 St. John's Wort | Human health regeneration |
| Regenerative Salve | 1 Linseed Oil, 2 Common Yarrow, 2 Yellow Sweet Clover | Human health regeneration |
The Minor Regenerative Salve recipe is separately corroborated by DawnwalkerDB. These are recipe requirements, not gathering coordinates or guaranteed quantities per craft. Choose restoration when you need immediate healing; distinguish it from regeneration over time and from a maximum-health increase.
Balm of Fortitude: recipe lead and crafting check
Balm of Fortitude reduces physical damage; it is not a healing ointment. Its standard recipe uses 1 Linseed Oil, 3 Green-Gilled Mushroom and 3 Boar Tusks, corroborated by the Gamer Guides consumable database.
ATH places the recipe in a mountain cave west of Rockfalls, in a wooden chest beside a fire bowl. The exact entrance and the chest's contents remain unverified here.
- Use the cave description as a location lead, not a precise map pin.
- At the pictured container, note the red Steal prompt. Do not assume an empty screenshot means there are no witnesses.
- If you obtain Recipe for Balm of Fortitude, check the crafting list for the standard recipe and its ingredient requirements before making it.
Keep Minor, standard and Potent versions separate when searching inventory. This reference does not establish a guaranteed merchant stock, a batch yield or an automatic-unlock rule for every recipe.
Regenerative Salve recipe: a corpse-loot lead
ATH reports the recipe on enemies around Briar Sloughs Watchtower. Check the defeated enemies' loot lists for Recipe for Regenerative Salve, rather than searching only tower chests. The image confirms that named recipe in one loot window; a repeatable drop and exact spawn position remain unverified.
After pickup, check the standard Regenerative Salve crafting entry and the ingredients listed above. Do not substitute its Minor or Potent version.
Ribwort Plantain: gathering leads, not Anca's medicine
ATH reports plants on raised rocky ledges north of the starting village and beneath a large tree beside a western wooden fence. These are unverified search leads, not checked map pins; its place name “Losing Glen” also differs from Laslea used in the quest guides.
Look for the Ribwort Plantain pickup prompt, collect it, then check your inventory quantity. A missing plant does not prove either permanent depletion or a respawn timer. For Esme's medicine, continue Withering Away and obtain Anca's herbs and instructions; this gathering account does not establish that ordinary plants replace that handover.
Make the item usable
- Select an unlocked recipe and resolve the displayed ingredient shortage before crafting.
- Find the finished item in inventory and assign it to a quickslot using the on-screen prompt.
- Check its name and remaining quantity before combat. After use, inspect the intended health pool and item count.
Minor Mending Ointment will not craft
- Select Minor Mending Ointment, not the standard or Potent version.
- Check the inventory contains 1 Canteen of Water and 2 Ribwort Plantain. A vendor selection is not a completed purchase.
- Follow the craft prompt through completion, then check the finished item in inventory and assign it to a quickslot.
ATH's single-item guide and recipe table disagree on this ointment's healing percentage. Use the value displayed on your current item. Its claimed Hustia Glen gathering route and named vendor have not been corroborated here, so fixed gathering directions remain unverified.
If healing seems ineffective
Check the target pool, quickslot assignment, quantity and usage prompt in that order. Anca's recipe is a separate quest conversation, not this ordinary crafting process.
Plan a supply stop
Write down missing ingredients before leaving. Prioritize the effect your current form needs instead of spending everything on overlapping consumables. Practice blocking and dodging to reduce repeated supply use.
A supply container says Steal
Read the interaction label before taking ingredients from an owned container. ATH's theft guide describes a separate Steal All action in the loot window: opening that window is not yet proof the goods entered your inventory. Check nearby NPCs and cancel if you do not want to commit; afterward, verify quantity and any reaction. Prompt colour alone is not a verified guarantee of no consequences here. Use your current controls rather than the article's unverified mouse bindings.
Prologue food: two neighbouring huts
ATH's food route describes a hut on the village's northern edge and its neighbour to the east. The body places them in the prologue village, despite the URL mentioning Horev's Corner; the precise map position remains unverified.
Until the buildings are identified, this is not a usable supply-stop route. If you are already inside a matching hut, inspect the hanging food separately from its containers and check tables and barrels in the neighbour. Read each interaction prompt and verify the actual items in inventory.
These are reported Steal interactions, not guaranteed consequence-free supplies. Do not spend Esme's medicine time budget searching for an unverified building.
Continue: Enter Not: enter the sealed house and return the figurine
Enter Not: enter the sealed house and return the figurine