Foraging

Foraging is a gathering skill. You gather wild herbs. Medicine turns them into healing items and potions.

How to train

Start with Gather comfrey at level 1. New activities open as you level up: see the table below.
Tool: Copper sickle (+15% speed, made with Smithing). Better ones: Iron sickle (+20%), Cobalt sickle (+30%).
Potion: Gatherer's potion (+10% speed, made with Medicine).

Activities

Level	Activity	Makes	Sells for
1	Gather comfrey	Comfrey	2
6	Gather yarrow	Yarrow	2
12	Gather sage	Sage	5
20	Gather nettle	Nettle	8
30	Gather foxglove	Foxglove	11
42	Gather wormwood	Wormwood	14
55	Gather mandrake	Mandrake	17
68	Gather bloodroot	Bloodroot	20
82	Gather moonpetal	Moonpetal	23
95	Gather crownwort	Crownwort	26

"Sells for" is what one action's items sell for, at the level the activity opens, before bonuses. Every skill uses the same XP table: see Levels and XP.

Mastery

Each of the 10 Foraging activities has its own mastery level, from 1 to 99. Every completed action gives that activity mastery XP, and higher mastery makes the activity better (table below).

A quarter of that mastery XP (half once Foraging is level 99) also goes into the Foraging mastery pool, which holds up to 9,250,000 XP. You can spend pool XP on any Foraging activity: 1 pool XP gives 1 mastery XP. See Mastery for the exact numbers.

Each activity's own mastery

Activity mastery	Adds to that activity
10	+2% speed
20	+2% speed
30	+2% speed
40	+2% speed
50	+2% speed
60	+2% speed
70	+2% speed
80	+2% speed
90	+2% speed
99	+10 points high-quality chance, +50% rare drop chance

Pool checkpoints

While the pool is filled to a checkpoint or above, its bonus counts for every Foraging activity. If you spend the pool below a checkpoint, that bonus stops until the pool fills up again.

Pool filled	Pool XP	Adds to every activity of the skill
10%	925,000	+5% mastery XP
25%	2,312,500	+10% XP
50%	4,625,000	+25% rare drop chance
95%	8,787,500	+5% speed

Gear for this skill

Copper sickle — +15% speed
Gatherer's bag — +8% speed
Willow basket — +1 item per action
Reaper's gloves — +10% XP
Iron sickle — +20% speed
Cobalt sickle — +30% speed, +1 item per action
Felt boots — +6% speed
Herb pouch — +8 points high-quality chance

Gear only helps while it is equipped. A high-quality piece gives 1.5 times the bonus, rounded down. See also every boost for Foraging.

Faster from rebuilt places

Abandoned farmstead — +10% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt
The sick house — +10% speed everywhere, once it is rebuilt
Hidden hollow — +20% speed while you are there, once it is rebuilt

Places that need this skill

You need this level to find and rebuild the place. Some places accept another skill instead.

Abandoned farmstead — level 3 (or Mining 8)

Story

Pick wild herbs such as comfrey and sage. Medicine turns them into salves, remedies and potions.