The quest to find the coal

hey guys , me and my mate went into this a bit blind and got stuck looking for the coal (found it in the end ) , also the Alchemy bugged out off cam any one else seem to have the same problems?
heres the video of our balls up , think it was more us then the game

If you want to succeed doing the potion for the farmer…

First you get all ingredients. You got this part good.
You have to speak to Jerry…
After that you have to speak to the old woman near the alchemy bench.
She ask 3 coin to show you how to do it.
She ask if you got all ingredients… after saying yes you go at the alchemy bench and hit E.
A small tutorial window should pop in your screen.

Hit E on the recipe book. Find the potion for poisoning and hit Y.
Now you should see exactly how to do the potion…
Hit enter to prepare the bench…

After that just fallow instruction.

Add water…

Good luck!

it all bugged out on our play though , couldnt click on the book or anything , works now though , its very good

Took me a while to work out it was actually coal the herbal lady was wanting me to get, not charcoal. Charcoal is completely different to coal. Coal is a sedimentary rock, formed over millions of years and is basically fossilized carbon. Where as Charcoal is usually produced by slow pyrolysis, the heating of wood or other substances in the absence of oxygen.

So they need to update the quest text by changing it to coal, or renaming the coal items you find to charcoal - Though they do look more like lumps of coal to me.

Yes, sometimes.

It´s a really bad bug…it breaks alchemy and mostly the Jerry (main) quest.

@warhorse
Have you find out why this bug happens? Is there a solution?
It´s not skip time. I´am run into without used it.
I have tested different answers at the herb woman, et cetera…
but I dosn´t find the reason.