GoldenGodOfD
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Roddy Piper
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I found some mentions of this in the Reddit archives. The players seem to think it's randomly broken and either works or it doesn't.
Their solution is to only use the portable one time, and then just work from the inventory. From the wiki:
The portable well has a 7x7 area of effect after being used for the first time, meaning the player will receive all of its bonuses while mixing potions from their inventory without needing to click on the well again as long as they are within range. This effect will end when the well disappears or the player clicks on a different portable type.
They have a chart showing that 7x7 range, basically 3 squares in any direction from the portable.
This is factually incorrect as I've just tested this method and it does not give you the benefits in a 7x7 area, if you aren't going to test things yourself please don't just regurgitate information you saw on Reddit, every inventory used with the well gives me extra potion whereas I tested 10 inventories without after using the first inventory on the portable well and did not receive one single extra potion.
As others have said, this mechanic works and has done since portables first came out.
Source: Me.
I was on making a huge batch of unfinished potions when portable wells were released. I clicked on the well, but found no option to make unfinished potions at the time. I went back to making them as normal, but found I was getting the well bonus regardless.
This has been the same every time I've made potions ever since.
