Foraging

Main / Skills / Nature / Foraging

Description

Foraging is the skill used when searching a tile for vegetables, berries, and resources.

Notes

• Foraging is also used to find branches on grass or [[trees|trees].
• "Rummage" on rock or cliff tiles to find low quality iron rocks or rock shards, which can be used to create low quality crude tools.
• Higher skill reduces the action timer, increase the average QL of the items found, and increase the likelihood of finding more than a single resources in a single tile.
• Items found when foraging for vegetables are not all considered vegetables for cooking purposes.
• Eating foraged food directly, raw and uncooked, will solve starvation, but they are more nutritional when used in cooking.
• A tile can be foraged every 24 real hours. It is believed that the timer is triggered by an attempt, and not by an actual item being found. Therefore if nothing is found, try another tile instead of repeatedly trying the same one. Tiles not foraged or botanized for a long time can still be empty.
• Tiles that are not foraged for long periods of time (a week or longer) have a higher chance of giving something than tiles that are checked 24 to 36 hours apart.
• It also seems that there is a higher chance of getting something if the tile has flowers on it.
• It is possible to both forage and botanize on the same tile as these actions are on separate timers.
• Different tiles, player condition, and other possible variables affect the percentage of items that can be foraged.
• You have a chance to obtain a rare coin while foraging.
• Foraging can be done while moving, so long as you do not move too far away (two tiles) from the tile you are currently working on.

Skill	Unlock	Comment
1	forage on grass and trees
20	choose what to forage (Anything, Vegetables, Resources, and Berries)
23	forage on steppe
26	forage two items on grass	one item on short grass
33	forage on tundra
43	forage on marsh
53	forage three items on grass	one item on short grass
80	forage four items on grass	two in medium grass, one on short grass

Items

Vegetables Cabbage Carrot Corn Cucumber Lettuce Mushroom Onion Pea pod Potato Pumpkin Rice (found mostly on grass near water and on marsh) Sugar beet Tomato

Berries Blueberry Lingonberry Raspberries Strawberries

Resources Branch Cocoa bean Egg Iron Rock Rock Shards Cotton Wemp plants Sprouts for: Blueberry bushes, Hazelnut bushes, and Raspberry bushes Seedlings: Ivy, Hops

Messages while foraging

"This area looks picked clean." 

There is nothing to be found on the tile.

"You find nothing edible." 

There is nothing to be foraged, but you will find something botanizing.

"This area looks picked clean. New plants and herbs will grow over time so check back later" 

There is nothing to be found on this tile at the moment.

Characteristics trained

See: Characteristics

Titles

• Forager at 50 skill
• Plant Gatherer at 70 skill
• Master of Plants at 90 skill

Images

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  A player foraging on a grass tile

See also

• Botanizing