I did a search on this and on google, but came up with nothing. I am trying to figure out if there is any way to eating ingredients faster without constantly clicking and dragging it across to my character.

On xbox, just by simple clicking the ingredient or item cause it to be consumed.

If there is a short cut on or a mod that does something similar, I would greatly appreciate a point in the right direction.

why are you wanting to eat them? i dont remember them having the effect of skill gain like it did in oblivion

There is a very small skill raising effect from eating them. You're much better off making potions though, even with the high failure rate to start.

wow i remember it mentioned when oblivion came out, honestly didn't know we had that in morrowind. still learning new things about it amazing.

I have started a new character and I don't have the equipment for alchemy yet. I use just chomp on the random ingredients I come across during the lower levels until I get my first ambelic, mortar, etc.

But based on you response, I take it there is NO WAY to quickly eat (for example 45 kwama eggs) at once or more quickly, rather than "click drag click drag click drag...etc".

No, there is no quick way. Getting basic Alchemy equipment is easy though, even Arrille in Seyda Neen has a mortar and pestle for about 80-90g. You can collect about 100 each of the common mushrooms in the area along with other misc. ingedients. Enough to make a bunch of potions to sell and increase your skill.

Are ingredients not able to be hotkeyed like potions/equipment? I don't think I've ever tried... either way, I think fragonard is right, it will probably just be faster to make potions.

You can get some good alchemy equipment from the Alchemists tower in the Mage's Guild at Caldera.

thanks...

I usually skip out on the Seyda store sometimes. Also i tend to not want to level Alchemy too fast, so chomping plants was a happy medium (for me at least).

Also, remember that even eating ingredients can "fail", i.e. you won't get a skill increase or even an effect from consuming them at lower skill levels.

There is usually a message saying "The X has no effect on you." then.

If you do the low level lay healer quests for the Imperial Cult, I believe the first 3 - you get some apprentice level alchemy equipment as rewards. Plus, if you talk to Tyermaillion, who Caius sends you to, he will give you a journeyman's alembic if you're level 4 or under. They're pretty easy quests.

I always start my alchemy out by stealing this set. I remember the first day I stumbled upon it. What is strange is that I attribute the day I found that set to my mothers homemade buns that I had been eating fresh out of the oven with butter. This was probably about 9 years ago exactly from this post, and that is one of the things that really gets my nostalgia going for this game.

Be prepared for a slow and dreadful time in the toilet and MAN is it gonna STINK...

All those Kwama eggs will generate about as much experience as making 4-5 potions, because eating ingredients provides only somewhere around 10% as much experience as potion making. Since roughly half of the eggs will have "no effect", that offsets the 2 or 3 of the 4-5 potions which will typically fail.

Unless you steal the Kwama eggs from an eggmine, they'll cost you somewhere around what a basic mortar and pestle to start doing alchemy in earnest would (100 Septims standard retail price). You can also sell any successful homebrew potions. although I consider that "gamey".

Yes, you can hotkey ingredients to eat them quickly. Just be careful as the first effect of that ingredient will be applied to you. If you're starting from scratch you won't be able to see the ingredients with negative effects so, if you eat a lot of them at once you could wipe out your fatique or even kill yourself.

As Kovacius mentioned you can also use the ingredients to make potions and sell the resulting brews. If, like Kovacius, you're concerned about abusing this to make easy money you could simply use an Apprentice Mortar and Pestle with no other equipment and no intelligence or luck buffs. The value of the resulting potions isn't that much that it can be game breaking but you'll still get the same gain to your Alchemy skill as if you'd made a high potency potion. (For those coming from Skyrim it's the number of successful combines that affects the rise in Alchemy skill , not the value of the potion.)

If you're not worried about abusing Alchemy;) :

"SERIOUS Alchemy Abuse" is when you find yourself with a stat fortified by 2518 points for 23,692 seconds, and that's nowhere near as bad as it can get. In fact, that's probably about right for self-enchanting a decent "Constant Effect" item. Good thing that it doesn't leave a hangover.

I'm always torn when it comes to deciding whether I want to exploit alchemy to get constant effect enchants or I just want to deal with that fact that I will never be able to use the Grand Soul Gems I filled with all those Golden Saints for anything with a constant effect or marginally better cast on use enchantment.

There is one way you can make minor CE items without any Alchemy: buy 1 custom enchanted ring of Fortify Enchant 100 for 2 sec.

This will cost about 8000g but will let you enchant anything up to 15 capacity. This is plenty for basic CE levitate, restore health and fatigue as well as fully enchanting most weapons ( like absorb health 30ish, etc.) This way you can make dozens of very useful items and only have to pay once.

Only caveat on that is you need the expansions to get the fortify skill spells you'd need. Otherwise a very good idea.

You can hotkey ingredients on the PC version to your number buttons, and just spam the buttons and you can eat 100 ingredients in like 20 seconds.

Still, its quicker to go take the master alchemy gear from caldera mages guild (in that closet type room with the 2 floors) and just make potions.

I can't remember, are the fortify skill spells only available in the expansion zones or does it add them to the whole game? Somehow I ended up with it anyway, but I've been nearly everywhere.

Never seen them in regular Morrowind areas and

Alright, that's no big deal, just a short trip to Mournhold for any new characters and my current one has it already.

Thanks guys.