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Healing Herb Sapling is a Seedbed-only farming plant in Windrose. Once mature it can be harvested for Healing Herbs and Healing Herbs Seeds.

Properties

Planting

This plant only grows inside a player-built Seedbed. A Seedbed section is crafted with 5 Fertile Soil each and placed through the build menu under the Farming tab. Each section accepts up to four plants, one in each corner. Walk up to an empty corner with the Healing Herb Sapling in the inventory and place it from the radial menu.

Healing Herb Sapling is obtained by harvesting wild Healing Herbs plants in the world. Wild Healing Herbs grow around Ancient Ruins points of interest, so the first stack has to be foraged on a ruins run. There is no vendor that sells seeds or saplings; once a sapling is planted, the Seedbed turns that one find into a renewable supply.

Growth and Harvest

Plants in Windrose take roughly 70 minutes of real time to grow to full size. Growth continues while the player is offline, so a freshly planted sapling will be ready next session. When ripe, the plant changes to a fully matured model with a faint highlight on inspection.

Press E on a mature plant to harvest. The harvest yields the listed crop plus a fresh seed of the same plant, so a single sapling effectively reseeds itself with no net seed loss.

Notes

Healing Herbs are the core reagent of the early medical line, used in bandages and basic healing potions, so a stocked seedbed is a strong insurance policy before any longer expedition.

Medical Uses

Healing Herbs are the core reagent of the early medical line, which is the main reason a stocked seedbed is worth the space before any longer expedition.

The Alchemical Base those potions need is itself made from a Clay Bottle and a Misty Orchid, so a herb farm pairs naturally with a steady orchid supply once the Alchemy Table is unlocked.

Tips

• Always harvest the seed back. Walking away from a finished plant before pressing E does not consume the seed, but breaking the plant with a tool will.

• Pack a stack of saplings before sailing far. Harvested wild plants drop saplings inconsistently, and a small portable supply means the home base never runs dry of starter stock.

• Saplings do not decay in inventory, so it is safe to overstock and replant only as space frees up in the seedbed.