Difference between revisions of "Botany"

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"Botany" redirects here. For the Botany task, see Botany (task).

Botany (formerly known as Foraging) allows one to eat and harvest the many herbs that grow throughout Egypt.

Learning Botany

Botany is automatically learned by identifying 25 different species of plants. Click on a plant to begin the Botany task and acquire Botany level 0. After identifying 25 plants you will advance to Botany level 1.

Foraging Herbs

Clicking on an unknown herb will give its name as "some kind of herb". At Botany level 1, 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 in the Herbs reference, or via third-party utilities that provide the ability to search by plant color, stem type, leaves, etc.

Foraging Memory

At Botany level 2, you gain the ability to memorize the proper 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."

Levels

Level	To Acquire	Unlocks
0	Examine Plant	Eat Wild Herbs
1	Identify 25 Plants	Harvest Wild Herbs Can plant flowers
2	5800xp	Memorize the techniques of harvesting Wild Herbs Cross-Breeding 1 Provides: Can Cross-Breed various plants in a Greenhouse
2	6000	Gather seeds while harvesting Wild Herbs Cross-Breeding 2 Provides: Can Register Seed Names at a University of Worship
3	8000	Make a Herbing Pot, Can uproot flowers without killing them

Actions

Action	XP Value
Successfully forage a herb	5
Eat a herb fresh from the ground	1
Plant a flower	100
Harvest moss from an aqueduct	3 per db of Moss

Harvesting

There are fourteen 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
Gather the seedpods
Crush the stems
Pluck the leaves
Collect the fruit
Squeeze out the sap
Scrape away the leaf hairs

List of Herbs

See Herbs or one of the Third-Party Utilities listed below.

Third-Party Utilities

Cegaiel

Cegaiel's Herb DB

May require some Javascript to be fully functional.

Cegaiel's HerbaList Clone

Both of these tools are updated regularly with data sourced from the below Google Docs Spreadsheet.

Google Docs

A Google 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.

Desert Helper Alexa Skill

Users of Alexa devices can enable the free Desert Helper skill. The skill answers requests such as "Alexa, ask Desert Helper how to forage Royal Rosemary." The skill is currently being updated for T9 and will be available soon.

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+{{Redirect|Botany|the Botany task|Botany (task)}}
+'''Botany''' (formerly known as Foraging) allows one to eat and harvest the many [[herbs]] that grow throughout Egypt.
+==Learning Botany==
+Botany is automatically learned by identifying 25 different species of plants. Click on a plant to begin the Botany task and acquire Botany level 0. After identifying 25 plants you will advance to Botany level 1.
+==Foraging Herbs==
+Clicking on an unknown herb will give its name as "some kind of herb". At Botany level 1, 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 in the [[Herbs]] reference, or via third-party utilities that provide the ability to search by plant color, stem type, leaves, etc.
+==Foraging Memory==
+At Botany level 2, you gain the ability to memorize the proper 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."
 == Levels ==
 {| class="wikitable"
 |-
-! Level !! XP Needed to advance !! Unlocks
+! Level !! To Acquire !! Unlocks
 |-
-| 0 ||  ||
+| 0 || Examine Plant ||
 * Eat Wild [[Herbs]]
 |-
-| 1 || nnn ||
+| 1 || Identify 25 Plants ||
 * Harvest Wild [[Herbs]]
+* Can plant flowers
 |-
-| 2|| 5800||
+| 2|| 5800xp ||
 * Memorize the techniques of harvesting Wild Herbs
+* [[Cross-Breeding 1]] Provides: Can Cross-Breed various plants in a [[Greenhouse]]
+|-
+| 2|| 6000 ||
+* Gather seeds while harvesting Wild Herbs
+* [[Cross-Breeding 2]] Provides: Can Register Seed Names at a University of Worship
+|-
+| 3 || 8000 ||
+* Make a [[Herbing Pot]], Can uproot flowers without killing them
 |}
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 ! Action !! XP Value
 |-
-| Successfully Forage a Herb || 5
+| Successfully forage a herb || 5
 |-
 | Eat a herb fresh from the ground || 1
+|-
+| Plant a flower || 100
+|-
+| Harvest moss from an aqueduct || 3 per db of Moss
 |}
-{{T8 Below}}
-=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 Progression==
-'''Foraging''' is automatically learnt by identifying 25 different species of plants - click on a plant to start this process off, and you will gain a skill bar.
-Completing Level One allows you to forage any herb.
-To gain Foraging Memory, you need to successfully identify one of each type of herb - you will be able to track your progress using the Level Two skill bar.
 == Harvesting ==
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 == Third-Party Utilities ==
 === Cegaiel ===
-or you can use http://ceg.atitd.org/herbs/ Cegaiel's tool
+* [http://ceg.atitd.org/herbs/ Cegaiel's Herb DB]
-:: 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.
-There is also a clone of Herbalist that is directly imported from Google Spreadsheet very often and should be up to date: http://ceg.atitd.org/herbalist/
+May require some Javascript to be fully functional.
+* [http://ceg.atitd.org/herbalist/ Cegaiel's HerbaList Clone]
+Both of these tools are updated regularly with data sourced from the below Google Docs Spreadsheet.
 === Google Docs ===
 A [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b11CULGMQTaon9LhwOt73dlbfJdGQZo5bRUXgmyTUBo/edit#gid=0 Google 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.
 === Desert Helper Alexa Skill ===
-Users of Alexa devices can enable the free [https://www.amazon.com/John-Doppler-Tale-Desert-Helper/dp/B07GL3PVZL|Desert Helper skill]. The skill answers requests such as "Alexa, ask Desert Helper how to forage Royal Rosemary."
+Users of Alexa devices can enable the free [https://www.amazon.com/John-Doppler-Tale-Desert-Helper/dp/B07GL3PVZL Desert Helper skill]. The skill answers requests such as "Alexa, ask Desert Helper how to forage Royal Rosemary." The skill is currently being updated for T9 and will be available soon.
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