Fortify Sneak Potions

Fortify Sneak potions, known as Light Feet, make you 10 to 25 percent harder to detect for 60 seconds, perfect for thieves and assassins.

Fortify Sneak potions carry the name Light Feet in game, and they do what the name promises: for 60 seconds you become harder to notice, by 10% on the weakest bottle and 25% on the elixir. Thieves slipping past guards, archers lining up an opening shot and anyone training Sneak can use that extra margin when a room is too crowded to cross unseen.

All tiers

Name Effect Value Weight Form ID
Potion of Light Feet You are 10% harder to detect for 60 seconds 45 0.5 0003EB33
Draught of Light Feet You are 15% harder to detect for 60 seconds 70 0.5 00039968
Philter of Light Feet You are 20% harder to detect for 60 seconds 96 0.5 00039969
Elixir of Light Feet You are 25% harder to detect for 60 seconds 123 0.5 0003996F

Where to find them

These are ordinary leveled potions. You can buy them from merchants who stock potions, and they turn up as loot in the world and in the inventories of other characters. Because they are leveled, the stronger tiers become more common as the Dragonborn gains levels. Every bottle weighs 0.5.

Brewing your own

The Alchemy skill lets you make them from Abecean Longfin, Beehive Husk, Frost Mirriam, Hawk Feathers, Human Flesh, Powdered Mammoth Tusk and Purple Mountain Flower. Pair any two to get the effect.

Mixing at an alchemy lab follows the usual rule: two or more ingredients must share an effect before anything useful comes out. Eating an ingredient reveals one of its properties (more with the Experimenter perk), and once an effect is known you can pick it straight from the lab menu instead of guessing.

Tips

A minute goes quickly, so drink right before the tricky stretch rather than at the dungeon entrance. Spells such as Muffle and Invisibility help cover the same ground, and Invisibility Potions are the next step up when being seen is not an option.

Where to find it

  • Sold by merchants who stock potions
  • Random loot in the world and on characters, leveled to the player
  • Can be brewed with the Alchemy skill

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (potion records: effects, weights, IDs); Elder Scrolls Fandom potion articles (prices, locations)