If you’re like me, you may find seeing in the dark a little difficult inKingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Many quests require you to travel long distances at night, often out of range of a suitable place to sleep. And, if you’d rather not waste time using the ‘Wait’ command to pass the hours, you may benefit from using a Nighthawk potion or torch.

Torches are great for increasing your immediate field of vision, but they can eventually break and don’t provide a comprehensive look at your surroundings while you travel. The best way to travel at night is to use a Nighthawk potion.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 - An image of the alchemy table.

Nighthawk Potions

By far the best way toincrease your field of vision at nightis to use aNighthawk potion— the medieval equivalent ofnight-visiongoggles. You’d be surprised at just how much these potions can increase your vision.

Rather than only illuminating a small area, like a torch, Nighthawk potionslight up the entire night skyas if it were daytime. Once you’ve downed the potion, you caneasily mistake your surroundings for daytime. That’s how bright they’ll be.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - An image of a guard holding a torch.

Nighthawk potions are great fortraveling long distances in the darkwithout usingfast traveling. Traveling at night can be difficult becausebandits, wolves, or other combatantscould be lying in wait on the road.

NPCs don’t know when you’ve used a Nighthawk potion, so if you approach them at night without a torch, they may still think you’resneaking about to rob themor worse.Hold a torch when approachingguards or NPCs to avoid suspicion.

The biggest caveat, however, isnotto drink the Nighthawk potionduring the day, or too close to daytime. With a Nighthawk potion in your system, thesun will become extra brightand can have ablinding effecton you. If you want to avoid this,try Waiting or Sleepingto kill some time.

Additionally, there arefour variationsof Nighthawk that you can make,depending on the quality of herbsyou use when you brew the potion. You can brewHenry’s Nighthawk, Weak Nighthawk, Nighthawk, and Strong Nighthawk. The differences between each are as follows:

Effect

Henry’s Nighthawk

you may see in the dark and your Energy willnotdecrease for25 minutes.

You can see in the dark for10 minutes.

Nighthawk

you’re able to see in the dark and your Energy will decrease25%slower for15 minutes.

Strong Nighthawk

You can see in the dark and your Energy will decrease50%slower for20 minutes.

How To Get Nighthawk Potions

There arethree waysyou can get Nighthawk potions. The easiest methods are to eitherbrew them or buythem. However, you may get lucky andfind themin the environment, such as inchests or forgotten locationslike abandoned buildings.

You can get a free Nighthawk potion very early on by entering theCottage Ruins by the pondwhere you were ambushed at the start of the game. Inside the cottage (which looks more like a hollowed-out oven) you’ll find the Nighthawk potionsitting on some plankson the counter.

BuyingNighthawk potions is probably theeasiestway to obtain them. However, it’s not the best option if you’reshort on Groschen. you may buy potions and potion recipes fromAlchemists,but not all Alchemists carry every potion recipe or potion, so you may need to do some exploring.

The next best way to get Nighthawk potions is tobrew them yourself. However, as mentioned before, you can’t brew them unless youknow the recipe.Aranka, an NPC in theNomad Camp, will also sell you this recipe.

Nighthawk Potion Recipe

You won’t automatically know the recipe for Nighthawk, so you’ll either need tobuy a recipefrom an Alchemist orbrew it manuallyfrom memory. You can only add the recipe to yourrecipe bookif you haveearned or purchased it.

Before you start brewing, make sure you have therequired ingredientson hand. You’ll needChamomile, Belladonna, and Eyebright.

To brew Nighthawk, you need to follow these steps:

Once you’ve completed those steps, you can pour the finished potion into aphial.

The best way to get the most out of yourpotions and alchemical ingredientsis to make sure you are using fresh herbs. You’ll still be able tobrew potions with dried herbs, but you’ll makefewer phials.

Torches

Whilenot as effectiveas Nighthawk potions,Torches are one good way to see in the dark. Torches will illuminate theimmediate vicinity,but they’re clunky, can break, and areeasily spottedby enemies.

You’ll still need tohold a torch around NPCsat night to seem nonthreatening.