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#REDIRECT [[Herbalist]]
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{{Skill
 
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| skill      = Herbalist
 
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| profession = [[Farmer]]
 
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| job name  = [[Plant gathering]]
 
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| tasks      =
 
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* Gather plants
 
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| workshop  =
 
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* [[Still]]
 
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* Agility
 
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* Memory
 
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* Kinesthetic Sense
 
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The '''herbalist''' skill is used by dwarves with the '''plant gathering''' [[labor]] to gather [[plant]]s and plant growths.  It is also used to gather fruits and nuts from certain [[tree]]s.
 
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== Gathering plants ==
 
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Shrubs and their growths can be gathered by designating them by {{key|d}}→{{key|p}}.  If successful, a herbalist will get a stack of 1 to 5 plants.  Shrubs that have useful growths will always yield one of that growth upon gathering.
 
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Herbalists can also gather plants by designating a gathering zone by {{key|i}}→{{key|g}}.  In this case, they will gather from shrubs, trees and the ground where fruit has fallen, using a [[stepladder]] to reach the tree branches whenever needed.  Gathering zones can be configured to enable or disable all of these. Regardless of skill, a herbalist will gather all fruit around them in 3x3x3 box, allowing for stacks of over 20 fruits when done from several z-levels into tree.
 
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Most fruiting plants will bear fruit only in mid-to-late summer.  Ripening is not yet a feature, so fruits can be used for brewing and eating at any time when they can be gathered.
 
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== Food production ==
 
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Herbalists are often used to help with food production, as they do not require farm plots or other setup.  While plant gathering is less space-efficient than [[farming]], requiring a max-sized gathering zone for a fortress under fruit trees and five+ underground, it provides a relatively immediate payoff in comparison, especially in summer and autumn for fruits.  Plant gathering is also an excellent way to acquire above-ground plants in order to bootstrap above-ground farming (the only alternative is to wait for a human or elven caravan and hope they brought seeds), especially for [[Textile_industry|textile]] plants.
 
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Above ground, this skill works best in areas with thick vegetation like [[forest]]s, where an abundance of fruit-bearing trees and [[shrub]]s grow, being less useful in sparsely-vegetated biomes like [[Desert|deserts or badlands]], and is completely useless in [[mountain]]s and polar biomes which do not have shrubs or trees. Underground, plant gathering can be a high-risk activity in the caverns, with production easily outstripped by farms.  However, once a non-dry cavern has been opened, underground shrubs will begin to appear on ''all'' underground soil or muddy tiles.  Herbalists can continue to gather from these to supplement your farming production, at no risk.
 
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The number of plants in the stack that a herbalist gathers depends on skill, the same as with quality levels in earlier versions - for every 'bump' in quality, there is one more plant, starting with 0-1 and capped at 5.
 
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When a herbalist picks some plants, they will carry them to the food stockpile themselves, even if their food hauling labor is disabled.  Herbalists can carry more than one type of item if gathering from a plant that yields multiple usable growths.  When gathering from trees, a herbalist will let the item/stack drop to the ground, to be carried to a stockpile by haulers.
 
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== Gathering seeds ==
 
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Plants gathered by herbalists can be eaten or processed to provide [[seed|seeds]] which can then be [[crop|planted]] in farms. For this reason, it is popular (if not necessary) to gather above ground plants early in a fort's existence if one wants to grow above ground crops.
 
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==Speed of training==
 
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Dwarves gain [[experience]] in plant gathering every time they pick over a shrub whether they are successful at harvesting anything or not. Training a completely unskilled dwarf to legendary status in this skill requires the harvesting of 500 plant shrubs, and can be done in little over a year. A legendary herbalist not suffering from any [[Skill#Skill_penalties|skill penalties]] will never fail to harvest a stack of four or five [[crop|plant]]s.
 
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== Bugs ==
 
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* Herbalists gather from removed gathering zone {{Bug|9414}}
 
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* Dwarves continue to use stepladders to attempt to pick cut-down fruit trees {{Bug|8987}}
 
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* Herbalists can get stuck on stepladders {{Bug|9590}}
 
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{{skills}}
 

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