onoI'm nearing the end of Act 2, and I just figured out that I can unlock alchemy recipes by right-clicking base ingredients to make their extracts.
Press i, open alchemy tab (direct hotkey might be h or something) At the bottom of the window is a button to make all available extracts at once
I saw that button, but that’s not what I wanted to do, so I never used it.
You cannot use them until extracted. Not reason to not.
There was no apparent reason to extract them, because I had no potion recipe that could use them. That’s the point of this post.
That’s amazingly dumb. It’s got it’s own bag and everything