Foraging
Foraging
LP Cost	25
Skill(s) Required	Oral Tradition
Skill(s) Enabled	Plant Lore
Required By	Bloated Bolete, Blood Stern, Blueberries, Candleberry, Candleberry Wax, Cave Clay, Cavebulb, Chantrelles, Chiming Bluebell, Dandelion, Dewy Lady's Mantle, Edelweiß, Feldspar, Four-Leaf Clover, Frog's Crown, Glimmermoss, Gray Clay, Inkweed, Lady's Mantle, Peculiar Flotsam, River Pearl Mussel, Royal Toadstool, Rustroot, Spindly Taproot, Stalagoom, Stinging Nettle, Tangled Bramble, Thorny Thistle, Uncommon Snapdragon, Washed-up Bladderwrack, Wheat Seeds, Wild Windsown Weed
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This skill uses Perception and Exploration to be able to see various plants, herbs, roots and berries that you can pick. This Skill can also allow you to raid ant hills.

In-Game Text

"High and low, up above and down below. The forest is a wild larder, and the heath an untamed apothecary, for those who know where to look."

Foraging gives you the ability to find and gather wild growing herbs, mushrooms, roots and flowers, usable for a wide variety of purposes, beyond their obvious utility in medicine and cuisine. Perception and Exploration are key values when looking for anything hard to find, and a well trained Survival skill will ensure that you harvest herbs with good results.

Notes

• The frequency of finding herbs is based on the multiplication of the viewer's Perception and Exploration skills (commonly called Per * Exp).
• The quality of the herbs is based on the soil beneath it, and Softcapped by the gatherer's Survival skill.
• There is a minimum value (required Per*Exp, see above) to start spotting each foragable good. Higher stats will increase the spotting chance, up to 4 times the minimum value, at which point all forageables of that type will be seen.
• It appears that whether forageable item is visible is calculated the moment it gets inside your sight range, and it's random with the chance depending on your Exploration * Perception value. It is possible that item becomes visible, and then "disappears" when you move out of sight range and come back. It simply means that you were less lucky with RNG the second time you came within range of the item, and it may appear again if you move away from sight range and come back. In other words - it seems that items don't have specific difficulty value set at spawn time, and instead it's randomly generated (ranging from base value to 4 * base value) separately for each character, each time it comes within range.

Table of Perception x Exploration collectables

Your forage level is defined as your perception stat times your exploration level.

The following table refers to the "levels" at which forageables are visible. There appear to be 100 levels of gradiation between the "First Seen" and "All Seen" levels, but this is unconfirmed.

It is known that you will start seeing forageables when your forage level is half of the forageable's base level and you will see all of a particular forageable when your forage level is double the base level. Quoting Loftar: "Rustroot's base level is 1000. Which means you'll start seeing them at 500 and see all of them at 2000."

	First Seen	Base Level	All Seen	Terrain
Blueberries	55	1010	2020	Heath Forest
Dandelion	1010	2020	4040	Heath Moor Grassland
Spindly Taproot	1010	2020	4040	Forest
Stinging Nettle	2525	5050	100100	Forest
Chantrelles	5252	104104	208208	Forest
Dewy Lady's Mantle	8080	160160	320320	Swamp
Wild Windsown Weed	8080	160160	320320	Thicket Swamp Beach Moor Heath Grassland Forest
Lady's Mantle	8080	160160	320320	Swamp
Thorny Thistle	9090	180180	360360	Mudflat
Stalagoom	100100	200200	400400	Cave
Bloated Bolete	110110	220220	440440	Grassland Forest
Peculiar Flotsam	110110	220220	440440	Water Terrain
Four-Leaf Clover	130130	260260	520520	Moor Heath Grassland
Uncommon Snapdragon	144144	288288	576576	Heath Moor Grassland
Candleberry	160160	320320	640640	Swamp
Royal Toadstool	210210	420420	840840	Swamp
Inkweed	250250	500500	10001,000	Moor Heath Grassland
Gray Clay	270270	540540	10801,080	Water Terrain
Washed-up Bladderwrack	280280	560560	11201,120	Beach
Tangled Bramble	280280	560560	11201,120	Mudflat
Rustroot	500500	10001,000	20002,000	Forest
Chiming Bluebell	520520	10401,040	20802,080	Swamp
Cavebulb	525525	10501,050	21002,100	Cave
Frog's Crown	550550	11001,100	22002,200	Mountain
Cave Clay	600600	12001,200	24002,400	Cave
River Pearl Mussel	760760	15201,520	30403,040	Water Terrain
Feldspar	828828	16561,656	33123,312	Mudflat Mountain Moor
Glimmermoss	900900	18001,800	36003,600	Cave Mountain
Blood Stern	12501,250	25002,500	50005,000	Forest
Edelweiß	16001,600	32003,200	64006,400	Mountain