The Mailroom potion crafting guide runs through four stations on the processing bench, one tool for each kind of ingredient. Grind in the mortar until the percentages match the order, pour liquid until the vessel reads the requested volume, weigh organs on the kitchen scale, chop raw meat on the block. The finished mixture goes into the jars on the bench, and those jars are the umbral resources the upper floors order.
The Mailroom potion crafting guide: the four stations
- Grinding. Ingredients go into the mortar and pestle, and the mortar tracks the mix by percentage.
- Measuring. Liquid is poured into a vessel that counts up to the volume you were asked for.
- Weighing. Organs are weighed on the kitchen scale.
- Chopping. Raw meat is chopped on the block.
Each station has its own readout, so the bench tells you where you are instead of leaving you to guess. The order you are given specifies which tool to use and what the result should read.
Grinding in the mortar
Put the ingredients in the mortar and pestle and grind them. The readout shows the volume in millilitres and the percentage of each ingredient separately, for example 228 mL with Fish: 56% and Snail shell: 44%. You grind until the percentages match what was asked for, and the numbers on the mortar are what tell you when to stop.
The material you grind comes from the frogs and the raw meat handled on the bench — see frogs.
Pouring the right volume
Pouring is a separate job from grinding, and it has a separate target: pour the liquid until the vessel readout reaches the requested volume. The vessel counts in millilitres, with readouts such as 142 mL and 270 mL as you pour, so you can stop the pour at the number you were given rather than at a vague point where it looks right.
Weighing and chopping
Two stations work on solids rather than liquids. Weigh the organs on the kitchen scale, and chop the raw meat on the block. Both are short steps, but the order requests name the organ and the cut, so check which one you are being asked for before you start.
Filling the jars
The finished mixtures go into the jars on the bench. Those jars are the umbral resources the higher rungs of hell ask for, which is why an accurate mix is worth as much as a correctly sorted letter. Get the mixtures just right and you may have a shot at employee of the month — the scoring side of it is in employee of the month.