Xintyl said:For those novice barrel makers out there!
Firstly go and talk to the old alchemist. You can find him near Merlin's Tower and the alchemy table in Cammy. For one barrel you'll need to buy 11 trapped lightnings and one enchanted seed. You'll also need the scythe thing he sells but you only ever need to buy one of these.
Port to SI and run west along the coast, just past the pub's beer garden. You'll come to a point where the grass thins out and becomes more sandy, you should get a pop up message at the right point. You'll need to say "In shazam tadam !" including the space before the exclaimation mark coz the syntax is rubbish. Say it once for each trapped lightning you've got to turn it into rough glass.
Port to Avalon Marsh. If you look to the south of the portal you'll see some globs of animated earth flibbing about on the shore. Give the enchanted seed to one of the globs and kill the seedling that appears to get some bright wood (make sure you're weilding the scythe from the old alchemist!)
Return to Cammy. The glass blower is in the magic shop. Give the rough glass to him and he'll make it into a bottle. The Cooper is near the fountain square outside the academy, give him the bright wood and he'll make a barrel for you.
Now you've got your 11 bottles and your barrel, you'll need to make the potions! The alchemy merchant is in the magic shop. You'll need to make 11 potions to make one bottle, and 11 bottles to make one barrel. For one barrel this is 121 potions.
Now is the dull bit. You have to stand by the old alchemist churning out potions. When you've made 11 potions, you can give an empty bottle to the old alchemist and he'll pour your potions into it. When you have 11 bottles, give him the barrel and he'll pour the contents of the bottles into the barrel. Job's a goodun!
You can use the bottles of 10 charges aswell, but you have to take the bottle to the glass blower to get it uncorked. Once it's uncorked you can't use it to make a barrel.