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The herbalist skill will only affect shrubs that you did not plant as [[crop]]s, and will only collect those you designate {{K|d}} with the gather plant {{K|p}} command. | The herbalist skill will only affect shrubs that you did not plant as [[crop]]s, and will only collect those you designate {{K|d}} with the gather plant {{K|p}} command. | ||
| − | Plant gathering can be a good food source early on, and a source for [[seed]]s otherwise not obtainable, but tends to be rather useless later in game unless you are in a biome where you can find the valuable [[Kobold bulb]] or [[Valley herb]] or feel the weird urge to do no farming or food trading at all. However | + | Plant gathering can be a good food source early on, and a source for [[seed]]s otherwise not obtainable, but tends to be rather useless later in game unless you are in a biome where you can find the valuable [[Kobold bulb]] or [[Valley herb]] or feel the weird urge to do no farming or food trading at all. However, having several skilled herbalists can be useful in encouraging [[tree]] growth in a particular region if you mark the -otherwise trampled down- saplings as restricted traffic area. |
Any plant appropriate to the [[biome]] will appear as a shrub. This includes seedless plants such as the [[muck root]] and [[bloated tuber]]. If you have discovered an underground [[river]] or [[lake|pool]], shrubs (and [[tower-cap]]s) will start to grow in [[underground]] [[soil]] and [[mud]] in all biomes of the map. | Any plant appropriate to the [[biome]] will appear as a shrub. This includes seedless plants such as the [[muck root]] and [[bloated tuber]]. If you have discovered an underground [[river]] or [[lake|pool]], shrubs (and [[tower-cap]]s) will start to grow in [[underground]] [[soil]] and [[mud]] in all biomes of the map. | ||