Herb Seeds

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Herb Seeds are found occasionally (roughly 10% of the time) as a bonus on successful attempts at foraging Herbs.

Requirements

• Foraging skill to forage the herbs. Harvesting from growing herb seeds does count towards Foraging Memory of the herb harvested.
• Herbiculture technology to find the seeds.

Use

The seeds can be planted to grow more Herbs of the same type; however, herb seeds will only grow near aqueduct towers in specific areas of Egypt. If the herb seed type, or the location, is wrong, you will get a message after a few second that the location is not hospitable, and the seed will disappear.

If you are in the right area, but not close enough to an aqueduct, a message will appear telling you to find saturated ground near an aqueduct.

If you are not in the right area for the herb seed, you will get the message "The ecology here must not be hospitable to (Herb Name)". Trying to harvest the herb before it has given you this message will instead tell you the herb dies.

Yield

• Harvesting immediately after planting at the appropriate tower for that harvesting method will result in a harvest of 1 herb.
• The yield then increases slowly, reaching it's maximum harvest at around 3½ real minutes.
• At around 4½ real minutes, the plant will die with 0 harvest.

Yields based on in-game time:

Egypt minutes	Pluri-Minutes	Real Minutes	Quantity
0	00m
1
2
3 to 4
5 to 6
7 to 9
10 to 12	3m	3 1/2 min	7
>over 12	4m	4 1/2 min	0

Restrictions

Herbs grown from seeds have the following limitations:

• They do not count towards the Test of the Ritual Tattoo (message: The herb doesn't have that natural glow needed for a proper pigment.)
• They cannot be eaten direct from the ground (message: You can only eat wild herbs from the ground.)
• Harvesting herbs from herb seeds DOES count towards herb memory. Tjut

Valid Growing Areas

Herb growing areas are based on 256 x 256 boundaries. The Herbal Exploration tech is needed to test areas for growing Herb Seeds without aqueduct towers. The following are known locations of valid growing areas:

• 1 Cut away the outer stem

1550, -1090 7L and 5 towers after this

2090, 2545 Hinterlands (closest Chariot Stop is River Plains)

• 2 Harvest the root pith

-940, 7686 CCR

• 3 Trim the root fibers

770, -2856 7L

• 4 Snip the leaf stems

-250, 7703 CCR

• 5 Peel back the stem base

-529, 7634 CCR and 12 towers after this

• 6 Scrape off the Stem Pith

2878, 4605 Sinai

• 7 Remove the Tap Root

1200, 2769 River Plains and 4 previous towers

• 8 Pick out the seeds

740, -2250 7L

730, -2267 7L

740, -2284 7L

• 9 Crush the stems

2050, -709 7L

• 10 Pluck the Leaves

1290, 2928 River Plains

3090, -6179 SE (Close to EG )

• 11 Squeeze out the sap

800, 5885 OE

• 12 Scrape away the leaf hairs

511, -744 7L (Make sure not to stand at 512, -XXX)

491, -745 7L

The link below is broken and until it can be diagnosed and corrected, please follow this link to view the location map. (the author has been notified)

I have been unable to solve this issue - if you have a solution I'm all ears :) - I believe either a Wiki update or Google Docs update killed the embed routine and I just don't have the time to research it much more than I have already devoted to it - The link below, that Balthazarr posted, is quite usable for viewing the herb growing locations

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nlWmlWHFL_GMvFmQEg3J3SOwCOYRYaghcajeDSe5IS8/edit#gid=444132778

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Research and Tuition

• 1000 required for Herbal Exploration research - any kind
• 700 required for Mutagenics research - varies by region - see Mutagenics page

Required By

Herbal Exploration, Mutagenics, Mutagenics Lab