AlchemicalArsenal

Alchemical Arsenal

A weapon and questline mod for Conan Exiles

Order of the Withered Lotus' Craft, Made Weapon

Long before the first Exile washed ashore in these lands, the Order of the Withered Lotus was operating in the shadows. For centuries its adepts have ground powders from lotus petals, distilled poisons from things that should not be distilled, and carried that knowledge from master to student in unbroken succession. But the Order's craft was never alchemy alone. It is sorcery and alchemy fused together, each discipline sharpening the other. Sorcery lends the alchemist's reagents a potency no mortar and pestle could reach on their own; alchemy, in turn, gives the sorcerer's art a form, a vessel, something that can be brewed, thrown, and made to strike true. Together they become something stronger than either alone.

Alchemical Arsenal asks what becomes of that fused craft when its practitioner is forced to fight. They fight with the might of their minds and the knowledge of their craft. The same powders and reagents the Order has always worked with, packed into orb, blade, and arrow. Every weapon here is something you could imagine an alchemist-sorcerer actually crafting at a bench, in keeping with the grounded, low fantasy magic world Conan Exiles has always been. The Withered Lotus does not summon its enemies' doom from nothing. It brews it with equal parts craft and power.

The Arsenal

Alchemical Orbs: Thrown glass orbs that shatter on impact, releasing a cloud of reactive powder over the area. Eleven variants, each carrying a different reagent from the Order's catalogue poison, fire, frost, and more for when the fight calls for denying ground rather than a single kill. 7 Damage Variants, 5 Utility variants.

Chakrams: The same alchemical reagents as the orbs but concentrated onto a single thrown blade instead of scattered into a cloud. Seven damage variants, built for the moment a fight calls for one target down fast rather than an area held.

Bow & Arrows: The bow carries both approaches in one weapon. A light-drawn shot delivers a coated arrowhead's effect to a single target, in keeping with the chakram's precision. A fully charged heavy shot instead detonates into an alchemical cloud on impact, mirroring the orb's area effect. Eleven arrow types cover the Order's full range of reagents. 7 Damage Variants, 4 Utility variants

Javelins: The Javelin also carries both approaches in one weapon. The light attacks deal melee status effect damage, while the heavy attack javelin throw move produced a aoe smoke cloud just like the throwing orb. The Javelin features 7 damage variants type.

All of it draws from the same shared stockpile of alchemical powders, crafted at the Alchemist's Bench, the Carpenter's Bench, and the Blacksmith's Bench. Forty-one recipes deep, one coherent system tying orb, chakram, and arrow together.

The Reagents:

Every weapon in the arsenal is built from one of eleven ground alchemical powders, each carrying its own effect into battle:

Damage types:

Brimstone: Poison Black Lotus: Choking Poison Yellow Lotus: Hallucination, stamina drain and poison damage Grey Lotus: Sunders armor and deals health damage. Golden Lotus: Burning Frost Lotus: Crippling Crimson Lotus: Bleeding

Utility Types:

Purple Lotus: Narcotic knockout Corruption: Inflicts corruption Cleansing: clears corruption Aloe: Healing Shimmer: Invisibility and De-aggro enemies

Meng Tsu and the Order of the Withered Lotus

Meng Tsu is a sorcerer-alchemist of the Order of the Withered Lotus, a Khitan order that has passed its alchemical knowledge down for centuries. He came to the Exiled Lands searching for rare ingredients his order needed and lost his traveling companions to a sandstorm along the way. When it cleared, he was alone, and his colleagues were dead.

He's the one who takes you on as his apprentice in a multi-stage questline, to help him distill the Alchemical Arsenal and become the most powerful alchemist in the Exiled Lands.

What's Included

37 unique weapons: 12 alchemical orbs, 11 arrows, 1 bow, 7 chakrams, 7 Javelins 11 alchemical powders as crafting components 48 crafting recipes across 3 crafting benches A full questline with branching dialogue and a boss encounter Lore-consistent integration with Conan Exiles' existing systems, no new high-fantasy mechanics, just extensions of what the world already offers

Chakrams and Javelins come in stacks of 30 and are a bit lighter so you can carry a good amount. Limited to only the 7 damage types: Poison, Choking, Burning, Cripple, Bleeding, Sunder + health dmg, Hallucination + stamina drain. Orbs come in stacks of 50 and are lighter so you can carry a good amount. Siege damage has been removed from all the orbs. Comes with a custom smoke trail and custom Powder Smoke cloud visual effects. Arrows come in stacks of 100, same weight as regular arrows, only useable in the Alchemical Bow. Comes with a custom smoke trail, smoke impact and powder smoke cloud visual effects. Alchemical Bow can only be equipped with the Alchemical Arrows; regular arrows won't equip to Alchemical Bow.

****** This is my first time making a mod for any kind of video game so please be kind! I've been teaching myself 3D Modeling in Blender for the past year and, I've been teaching myself the UE5 devkit for Conan over the past two months. I have lots of fun ideas for mods I want to make in the future and try to incorporate my 3D modeling into future projects. I love Conan Exiles, and super excited to be learning how to mod and make content for this game. Looking forward to feedback. Hope you enjoy!