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New Herbs!

"Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work." - Thomas E. Lovejoy

Because of the frequency with which many people are visiting this page to link to new herbs that were released by the School of Art into the biosphere of our fair nation here is a much more convenient link to reach the new herbs page until such time they can be added to the database at large:

New Herbs Page

Please be aware that this page and Twokay's database might not be in sync for a while. It would be wise to check both sources for the time being.

Foraging

"It is the height of frustration to approach a funny-looking plant, hoping for a rare herb, but only to realize upon closer examination that it is naught but flora unfamiliar to you, yet common to the region. It is to make one scream as if one had covered oneself with desert scarab beetles." -- Anonymous Scribe, found in the margins of "Weekee's Guide to the Herbaceous Flora of Egypt".

Herbs can be found where other trees and plants are. Know your common trees and plants so that you can tell that a given plant is an herb.There can appear more of herbs of any type or two of different types.

Clicking on a rare herb will give its name as "some kind of herb". You can eat it fresh from the earth, which will provide you with some benefit to stats for about 3 minutes. If you have the Foraging skill, you also have a menu "Foraging...". If you harvest the herb correctly you'll get 1-7 herbs in your inventory and the plant will disappear. Note - You may sometimes also receive a number of seeds (WaggPhysh)

January Herb event! Some new forageable herbs/spices have been added to the game. See the 'Newherbs' link below for our storehouse of new images. Please add images of new herbs here for now so we can keep it all together and simplify identification. We can categorize these later on after the event has played out.

Identification

Use Twokay's database at http://herbs.highlyillogical.org/ for easy graphical identification

There are four main categories of plants, and several subcategories. It should be quite obvious which category your herb fits into, without video card settings/lighting having much of an effect. Please keep that in mind when sorting herbs.

• SingleStem (trees; this includes those with a main stem and several branching stems)
• Bulbs (plants with a big root ball at the bottom, from which any leaves or stems emerge)
• MultipleStem (foliage; this includes grasses with feathery bits on top, and stems topped by small flowers rather than by leaves)
  • SingleLeafGreen Single Leaf more than 50% green-to-bluegreen
  • SingleLeafColor Single Leaf less than 50% green-to-bluegreen
  • MultiLeaf Ferns (For ferns with bulbs, see Bulbs section)
• NoStem *only* stems or *only* leaves
• ForagingTechniques This is now mostly complete (herbs/methods). If you already know the name and just cannot remember which method to use, this chart has names and techniques, along with any known stats.
• Newherbs

• Mushrooms

Blue vs. Green Leaves
If you aren't sure whether a single-leaf, multiple-stem plant qualifies as green, list it in both places with a note that you have done so. Bluish-green is now considered green, in order to avoid people running afoul of monitor differences or differing judgements about what qualifies.

Colored Leaves
Color refers to Red, Orange, Brown, Yellow/Gold, Blue, Purple/Pink/Violet, White/Gray and Black. When attempting to determine color, judge only by the top surface of the leaves. This means something with leaves which are green on top and red underneath is considered green. It also means something with green stalks and little pink flowers is not green.

Submitting JPGs
Submit pictures if you are able to get a clearer screenshot than what is shown. Also please turn off time of day lighting, adjust light intensity to max and place 1 straw beside plant as a measurement of scale. Also, please crop pictures to 280-width before uploading.

Harvesting

There are twelve different ways to harvest the herbs:

• Cut away the outer stem
• Harvest the Root pith
• Trim the Root fibres
• 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

Storage

It has been discovered there is a limit to the number of different items that chests can easily handle, no matter the chest size. Too many herbs in one chest may cause serious lag, jerky scrolling and even the game to freeze up. So I suggest you DO NOT store all your herbs in a single chest but to split them into at least 2 chests to avoid the problems mentioned above.

Other Herbing sources

tlanthil's Herb:aList tlanthil's herb ID page - same data as twokay's site, but all work done client-side. It should work much faster, but older browsers may have problems.

Twokay's Herb DB - Wuqensta's DB has been offline for a while. This is an alternative.

Wuqensta's Herb DB

Please feel free to add/synchronise information between external tools and these wiki pages. Use whichever is best for you. The more information in both tools, the better for everyone. Note that Wuqensta is no longer playing ATITD and the link is defunct.

File Attachments

There are no unknown herbs presented below - please edit - (Pale Dhamasa and Rhubarb) Draomin -