Moonlight Peaks Potions, Sunscreen, Refiner & Sugar Guide

Quick answers: the Sunscreen Potion recipe uses 1 Egg + 1 Fiber. Efficiency tonics such as Mindless Miner and Fierce Forester last one in-game night. Luck Dust comes from farm dig spots created by a fed Rabbicula, but collecting it costs one crop. Fix the farmhouse roof for Ridge to receive the Refiner recipe, then craft it with 20 Wood + 20 Stone. A Mill turns 1 Sugarbone into 2 Sugar.

Crafting supports almost every part of the farm: quests request refined materials, crops become more useful after processing, and later progression adds cooking, potions, and specialized makers.

Choose the Right Potion or Progression Guide

What you need	Start here	What this page covers
Unlock potion brewing	Mend it with Magic	Cauldron repair and the two Mana Essences for Fiona
Check a brew's ingredients	Potion Calculator	Nine recipes, effects, prices and an ingredient checklist
Restore Mana or find Mana Essence	Mana guide and Mana Essence record	Recovery options and the extractor progression, separate from brewing
Change appearance	Alter Ego Elixir in the recipe table below	Cosmetic appearance changes, not a replacement for form-unlock quests
Unlock Cat, Aqua or Bat form	Transformation guide	Story quests, route access and form uses
Make Sugar or refined materials	Processing database and Farm Helper planner	Maker inputs and building materials, not Cauldron recipes

The guide explains the unlock sequence; the calculator checks ingredients you already own. It does not simulate brew times, unlisted Mana costs or a guaranteed crafting schedule.

💡 Interactive Tool Companion: Check the nine current recipes, ingredient readiness, recipe prices, effects, and sale values with our Potion & Alchemy Calculator. The source does not list a Mana cost for brewing, so the calculator does not invent one.

How to Make the Sunscreen Potion

Use a Cauldron with:

• 1 Egg
• 1 Fiber

The resulting Sunscreen Potion protects the vampire from the sun in the checked release guides. Cauldron access is not available on the opening night: complete Mend it with Magic, have Fiona repair the broken Cauldron for 2 Mana Essences, and then continue the potion progression. Sabrina sells additional potion recipes at Webb of Wonders after the system opens.

The current official Wiki lists the Sunscreen recipe at 2,000 Coins and a ready-made potion at 60 Coins through Webb of Wonders. Check the live shop if a later patch changes either price.

The checked sources do not establish that Sunscreen cancels the game's hard end-of-night behavior in every version. Treat it as sun protection, not proof that a night can continue indefinitely past the normal limit.

Universal Storage

The house includes universal storage. Crafting, cooking, potion-making, and processing stations can pull their ingredients directly from it.

Reviewers did not find a practical capacity limit, which means most materials can be stored centrally rather than divided among many chests.

Two limitations matter:

• moving items into storage takes several inputs;
• decorating mode cannot access storage, so furniture must be in the bag.

How to Unlock and Build the Refiner

1. Give Ridge 50 Wood to repair the farmhouse roof.
2. After the roof is fixed, Ridge visits and gives you the Refiner crafting recipe.
3. Use the farmhouse Workbench to craft it with 20 Wood and 20 Stone.
4. Place it outside if the opening house does not have enough clear floor space.

The Refiner is the early answer to several apparently different searches: it makes Refined Stone, all three basic plank types, and Fodder.

Core Refiner recipes

Output	Input	Use
1 Refined Stone	6 Stone	Building and crafting requirements
1 Plank	3 Wood	General construction
1 Soft Plank	3 Light Wood	Specialized construction
1 Hardwood Plank	3 Dark Wood	Specialized construction
2 Fodder	1 Fiber	Nightly livestock feed

These release-build recipes are corroborated across Eurogamer, Neoseeker, and LadiesGamers. Processing time and sale value are omitted from the quick table because those are more patch-sensitive than the ingredient conversion.

How to Make Sugar

Sugar uses the Mill, not the Refiner or farmhouse stove.

1. Buy a Mill from Ridge at Howling Hammer for 8,000 Coins.
2. Choose its farm location and wait two nights for construction.
3. Buy Sugarbone Seeds from Luna in Spring or Summer, or forage Sugarbone in the Howling Marshes.
4. Grow Sugarbone for five nights if using seed.
5. Put 1 Sugarbone in the Mill to make 2 Sugar.

Sugarbone does not grow in Autumn or Winter, so store extra Sugar or Sugarbone before Summer ends. Sugar is required by many Jam Maker, cooking, and potion recipes.

Confirmed Early Makers

Keg

Turns crops into products such as juice and wine. Blood Grape Juice helps with early Energy; wine takes longer and is a major early income source.

Multiple Kegs are useful because processing quickly becomes the farm's bottleneck.

Furnace

Used for refined materials such as bars, charcoal, and glass. Exact recipes should be read from the current in-game station because costs may change with progression or patches.

Cooking

Cooking becomes important for Energy management. Early raw ingredients restore little, so processed drinks and meals help extend productive nights.

How Crafting and Cooking Recipes Unlock

Recipes do not all come from one shop. The release guides checked document several routes:

• story and relationship events give key blueprints, including the Refiner;
• new recipes can appear after sleeping and advancing progression;
• mining rocks and digging glowing ground marks can reveal recipes or blueprints;
• Mina sells cookbooks at the tea shop;
• seasonal festivals sell some cooking recipes;
• Sabrina sells potion recipes after the Cauldron is unlocked.

Check the relevant station after receiving a recipe. Workbench blueprints, maker conversions, stove recipes, and Cauldron recipes appear in different interfaces.

Looking for the Beehive rather than potion brewing? See Bee House and flower zone in the Farming Guide.

Potion Progression

Potions unlock gradually rather than at the start. Bonus Action ties the first Cauldron to Mend it with Magic: Viktor delivers the character's mother's broken Cauldron, and Fiona repairs it after receiving 2 Mana Essences. The source says Fiona then provides the Cauldron blueprint and the first recipe.

The first recipe is Alter Ego Elixir, which changes appearance. After Cauldron access is unlocked, Sabrina sells additional potion recipes at Webb of Wonders.

Verified potion recipes

The September 6 source snapshot lists nine Cauldron recipes, corroborated by Neoseeker. Learn the relevant recipe before brewing: Webb of Wonders sells recipes, but the checked data also lists quest acquisition for Alter Ego Elixir and a Museum reward route for Mana Potion. A shop recipe price is not the cost of an already-brewed potion.

Potion	Effect	Recipe price	Ingredients
Sunscreen Potion	Protects against the sun	2,000 Coins	1 Fiber, 1 Egg
Alter Ego Elixir	Changes appearance	1,300 Coins	1 Quartz Dust, 1 Nightshade Powder, 1 Honey
Mana Potion	Restores 8 Mana	6,000 Coins	1 Mana Essence, 1 Drikker, 1 Henbane Powder, 1 Violet, 1 Frosteria
Mindless Miner Tonic	Mine without spending Energy for the night	2,000 Coins	1 Gold Ore, 1 Leftsee, 1 Glowglammer, 1 Nightshade Powder
Fierce Forester Tonic	Chop without spending Energy for the night	2,000 Coins	1 Sage Powder, 1 Amanita, 1 Light Wood, 1 Cranberry
Frictionless Farming Tonic	Farm without spending Energy for the night	2,000 Coins	1 Onion, 1 Honey, 1 Googly Garlic Powder, 1 Heart Stone
Fluent Fishing Tonic	Fish without spending Energy for the night	2,000 Coins	1 Splotch, 1 Glow Ginger Powder, 1 Sugar, 1 Volacio Mushroom
Love Potion	Adds a small friendship or romance bonus when gifting	4,000 Coins	1 Hold-Me-Close, 1 Muse Nut, 1 Amour, 1 Suffrain Powder, 1 Luck Dust
Rapid Reel Potion	Makes fish bite immediately	4,000 Coins	1 Angry Mandrake, 1 Wolfsbane Powder, 1 Sugar, 1 Whisper

The calculator follows the Official Wiki table reviewed on September 6, 2026. Exact brew time is still not published, and non-efficiency potion durations remain unlisted rather than inferred. For the Mana Potion's ingredient chain, start with Mana Essence; for Alter Ego Elixir, check Honey sources and uses.

Does a Mana Potion increase maximum Mana?

The checked recipe restores 8 Mana; that is recovery, not a permanent increase to the maximum. Use the Mana progression guide for the separate maximum-Mana systems and food alternatives.

Will Alter Ego Elixir unlock Bat or Mermaid form?

The checked potion effect changes character appearance. Cat, Aqua and Bat are listed as story-quest rewards; use the three-form unlock overview rather than looking for an ordinary Cauldron transformation recipe.

How to get Luck Dust

Luck Dust cannot be picked up as ordinary forage. First obtain a Rabbicula and keep it fed. A fed Rabbicula can occasionally create a small Luck Dust dig spot somewhere on the farm; dig up the mound to collect it.

There is a tradeoff: the Rabbicula takes one of your crops each time you collect Luck Dust. Keep valuable or quest crops harvested and maintain a cheap replaceable crop block before digging. Luck Dust is required for the Love Potion and is also a liked gift for Noel and Sabrina in the current official Wiki.

Rabbicula becomes available from Luna in Spring, Year 2 in the checked animal guides, so Love Potion production is later progression even if the recipe appears in Webb of Wonders earlier.

We found no reliable evidence for the old Iron/Silver/Obsidian cauldron ladder, permanent Mana elixirs, or transformation-potion table.

Efficient Crafting Routine

1. Send raw materials to universal storage.
2. Check upcoming quest requirements before processing the last copy of an item.
3. Keep several Kegs active when fruit production increases.
4. Split Blood Grapes between Energy-supporting juice and higher-value wine.
5. Prepare decorating items in the bag before entering edit mode.
6. Save at least one copy of herbs and unusual magical produce before selling; later potions combine crops, forage, powders, fish, and animal materials.
7. Treat exact online recipe lists as version-sensitive unless they cite a current release database.

Confirmed vs. Still Needed

Confirmed:

• universal storage feeding stations;
• Keg, Refiner, Furnace, Mill, cooking, crafting, and potion systems;
• Refiner unlock requirements and core conversion recipes;
• Sugar production through the Mill;
• processing as an important source of income and quest materials;
• gradual potion progression;
• a potion-based appearance change.

Still needed for a complete database:

• Cauldron processing time;
• patch-stable resale values where current databases disagree;
• the exact story night on which every player receives the broken Cauldron;
• version-by-version recipe changes after PC 1.1.45.

How to Use the Brewing Controls

At the Cauldron, select a learned recipe and watch the moving dot on the circular indicator. Press the displayed button when the dot reaches the blue section. Harder potions require multiple successful timing inputs, according to the official Potion Brewing Wiki checked September 14. Follow your platform's on-screen button prompt; the source does not provide a fixed brewing duration or Mana cost.

Sources

Browser source check, September 14, 2026; applied September 15: the Potion Brewing Wiki table agrees with the stored nine recipes' ingredients, recipe prices and sale values. Brewing controls were also checked; fixed processing times and Mana costs remain unpublished. This is not a new patch verification.

Editorial check, September 13, 2026: navigation and acquisition wording were checked against the existing potion and quest records. The Wiki could not be fetched during this edit; the recipe figures retain their September 6 source-review date and are not a new patch verification.

• Josh's Gaming Garden — early gameplay preview, Kegs and universal storage at 06:10–07:15.
• Josh's Gaming Garden — review after 60 hours, appearance potion and storage at 01:53 and 07:02–08:23.
• Eeowna — six-hour preview, Processor, Furnace, Keg, and early Energy at 07:43–09:32.
• LadiesGamers — review, storage and station behavior.
• LadiesGamers — Beginner's Guide, for Refiner products and recipe-unlock routes.
• Eurogamer — Refined Stone, for Ridge's roof task, Refiner materials, and Refined Stone conversion.
• Eurogamer — How to Make Sugar, for the Mill, Sugarbone, seasons, and Sugar output.
• Official game site — Alter Ego Elixir.
• Bonus Action — Cauldron and Potion Guide, for the unlock sequence and in-progress potion list.
• Official Moonlight Peaks Wiki — Potion Brewing, for all nine potion effects, recipe prices, ingredients, and the one-night efficiency duration.
• Neoseeker — Crafting Recipes, for an independent nine-recipe table and the conflicting Rapid Reel sale value and Mindless Miner ingredient spelling.
• Official Moonlight Peaks Wiki — Luck Dust, for the Rabbicula dig-spot method, crop cost, potion use, and liked gifts.
• Official Moonlight Peaks Wiki — Rabbicula, for the daily-feeding requirement behind Luck Dust dig spots.

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