40d:Herbalist

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Skill: Herbalist

Association
Profession	Template:L
Job Title	Herbalist
Labor	Plant Gathering
Tasks
Gather plants Extract Plant Essence
Workshop

An herbalist is a Template:L with high profession levels in gathering Template:L from Template:Ls.

A highly skilled herbalist will not only pick shrubs more quickly, but will also be able to get a larger quantity per shrub (stacks); this has a positive effect when further processing and will allow for more efficient Template:L use.

The herbalist skill will only affect shrubs that you did not plant as Template:L, and will only collect those you designate d with the gather plant p command.

Plant gathering can be a good food source early on, and a source for Template:Ls otherwise not obtainable, but tends to be rather useless later in game unless you are in a biome where you can find the valuable Template:L or Template:L or feel the weird urge to do no farming or food trading at all. However, as both trees and shrubs compete against each other toward an overall plant life limit within a particular region, having several skilled herbalists can be useful in encouraging Template:L growth (if you mark the otherwise trampled saplings as restricted traffic areas).

Any plant appropriate to the Template:L will appear as a shrub. This includes seedless plants such as the Template:L and Template:L. If you have discovered an underground Template:L or Template:L, shrubs (and Template:Ls) will start to grow in Template:L Template:L and Template:L in all biomes of the map.

An herbalist is also responsible for processing Template:Ls into Template:L at a Template:L.

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