Stockpile the Basics

Learn which essential items and potions to stockpile in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, including arrows, bandages, Saviour Schnapps, and various buff/debuff potions.

There are a number of items in Kingdom Come: Deliverance which are useful to have stored in your inventory at all times:

• Arrows: For hunting and combat. Recommended to carry both long-distance and piercing arrow types.
• Bandages: Used to stop wounds from bleeding, preventing health loss and death.
• Dried foods: Effective for maintaining nourishment when away from settlements.
• Dagger: Useful for stealth kills, especially for a rogue playstyle.
• Lockpicks: Essential for certain quests, regardless of playstyle.
• Repair kits: Armour, Blacksmith, Cobbler, and Tailor kits to maintain weapon and armor effectiveness.
• Saviour Schnapps: Essential for saving the game when away from a bed.
• Spade: Handy for digging up treasure and burying the dead. Store in your horse's inventory when not in use due to its weight. Can be found at Peshek’s Mill.
• Torch: Useful for navigating the wilderness at night and obligatory in settlements.

Additionally, several potions can be created or purchased, offering various buffs and debuffs:

• Artemisia potion: Increases Strength and Warfare by five for ten minutes, but causes blurred vision.
• Aesop potion: Increases Horsemanship by five for ten minutes. Dogs will not bark at you.
• Antidote: Cures poisoning.
• Amor potion: Increases Charisma by five for ten minutes.
• Bivoj’s Rage potion: Significantly increases damage while slightly lowering defence for five minutes.
• Buck’s Blood potion: Increases Stamina by fifty percent for ten minutes.
• Bard potion: Increases Speech by five for ten minutes.
• Bane potion: Can be poured into cooking pots at bandit camps at night to kill them after they eat.
• Bowman’s Brew: Increases Bow skill by five for ten minutes.
• Cockerel potion: Increases Energy by twenty.
• Dollmaker potion: Reduces combat skills by five and Stamina by fifty percent for ten minutes. Can be used in cooking pots at bandit camps.
• Digestion potion: Reduces overstuffing by twenty and cures poisoning.
• Embrocation: Increases Agility and Defence by five for ten minutes.
• Hair o’ the Dog potion: Prevents hangovers and cures drunkenness/alcoholism, but reduces Charisma by two.
• Lazarus potion: Cures hangovers and restores health to maximum within five minutes.
• Lullaby potion: Reduces energy to zero. Can be applied to arrows, meat for dogs, or cooking pots to induce lethargy.
• Lethean Water: Used to reset skill and perk choices.
• Marigold decoction: Cures light wounds and dispels hangover effects within one minute.
• Nighthawk potion: Improves night vision for ten minutes.
• Padfoot potion: Increases Lockpicking, Pickpocketing, and Stealth by five for ten minutes.
• Poison: Can be used to poison food supplies or applied to arrows.
• Preserver: Keeps food fresh longer and makes some spoiled foods edible.
• Vitality potion: Reduces incoming wound damage by fifty percent for five minutes.