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Foraging
Foraging Skill
Foraging allows one to harvest the herbs that grow throughout Egypt.
Clicking on an herb will give its name as "some kind of herb". Once the foraging skill is learned, a menu titled "Foraging..." will appear on the herb. If you harvest the herb correctly you will receive 1-7 herbs in your inventory and the plant will disappear. You can look up the correct forage method for all the known herbs on the list below, or via third-party utilities that provide the ability to search by plant color, stem type, leaves, etc.
Foraging Memory
Once the second level of Foraging has been learned, "Foraging Memory" will allow you to memorize successful foraging methods for herbs. To memorize a foraging method one must successfully forage that herb 7 consecutive times, with no errors. If you select an incorrect option, the counter resets, and you must successfully forage it another 7 times.
Eating an herb fresh off the ground does not interfere with the memorization counter.
Once you memorize the forage method for an herb, the sub-menu of forage method options will disappear, and it will be replaced with a menu option that says, for example, "Forage this Wild Lettuce."
Skill Tuitions
Foraging is learned at a School of Worship.
Rank One (level 2) allows you to forage and requires:
- 300 Thorns
- 30 Cactus Sap
Rank Two (level 9) allows you to memorize foraging techniques through Foraging Memory (see below) and requires:
- 7 Ashoka
- 7 Fumitory
- 7 Ilex
- 7 Orange Sweetgrass
- 7 Pulmonaria Opal
- 7 Sweetsop
- 7 Yellow Tristeria
Harvesting
There are twelve ways to harvest the herbs:
- Cut away the outer stem
- Harvest the root pith
- Trim the root fibers
- Snip the leaf stems
- Peel back the stem base
- Scrape off the stem pith
- Remove the tap root
- Pick out the seeds
- Crush the stems
- Pluck the leaves
- Squeeze out the sap
- Scrape away the leaf hairs
List of Herbs
This list is currently under construction. Please see Third-Party Utilities below for harvesting methods.
| Herb | Method | Leaves | Color | Notes | Picture | Stats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aloe | Remove the tap root | None | None | Green | Frequently mistaken for Moon Aloe (blue), Spinnea (black) | File:Allbright.jpg Allbright |
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Third-Party Utilities
Rogarian's Herbalist
For confirmed Harvest methods, use http://rogarian.atitd.org/herbalist2/t7_herbalist/ (names with [T8] in title).
- The Rogarian tool requires JavaScript to be enabled to function. The site does not render at all without scripting active.
Cegaiel
or you can use Cegaiel's tool
- Cegaiel's tool does not require JavaScript or perhaps a better way to describe it, the site will show up and you can execute some parts of the site without JavaScript being active. It may not be fully functional without scripting.
Google Docs
A [Docs spreadsheet] is available to share foraging discoveries. This page has a limit of 100 concurrent users, so please close your browser when you are finished looking up or adding information to the page to allow others to access it.