Editing 40d Talk:Herbalist

I would like to add a section "plant gathering can be a good food source early on, and a source for seeds otherwise not obtainable, but tends to be completely useless later in game unless you are in a biome where you can find Kobold Bulb or Valley herb. Objections? --[[User:Koltom|Koltom]] 23:53, 6 March 2008 (EST)
:What! Are you mad? That has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard!
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:Go read http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages#Editing_rules.2C_editing_conventions.2C_and_formatting and follow those directions man. This is a wiki Edit first. Verify facts later (if ever). --[[User:Ikkonoishi|Ikkonoishi]] 02:05, 7 March 2008 (EST)

:: ;) Um, well.. i will just postpone the question of how much irony or insult is intended in your post and point out that calling a skill ''completely useless'' is a bit strong so i thought i d have more opinions on that first. --[[User:Koltom|Koltom]] 13:53, 7 March 2008 (EST)

::: having a herbalist is also useful if you want to grow surface plants, since you need to obtain the seeds first and traders don't always bring the kind of seeds you need. So if it gets completely useless, then only after you obtained enough seeds for any surface farming plots you want. --[[User:Syndic|Syndic]] 13:32, 13 March 2008 (EDT)

::::it never becomes completely useless. some of us never farm at all :) -[[User:Chariot|Chariot]] 14:26, 13 March 2008 (EDT)
::::Personally, I find that herbalism is useful until my food supply overwhelms my population. At that point, none of the other food-generating methods are either. [[User:VengefulDonut|VengefulDonut]] 02:28, 14 March 2008 (EDT)

== More than one region ==

Koltom, care to explain your definition of a region? [[User:Shardok|Shardok]] 21:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

:Sure! I use the one the game uses ->"Region" as it says on embark. Whether you read that as showing '''a''' region (which, frankly, would be odd) or '''many''' regions, you end up with a max of '''1''' region to play on. And very slow then. --[[User:Koltom|Koltom]] 00:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
::That almost caught me as well - [[region]] is as defined by one ascii tile on the Region map at embark.  Not at all the same as [[biome]], which is the correct term for this usage. --[[User:Albedo|Albedo]] 00:07, 3 September 2009 (UTC)