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Medicinal plants

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PlushSpiffo.pngThis article is about the medicinal plants foraging category. For wild plants, see Wild plants. For wild herbs, see Wild herbs.

Medicinal plants is a category of items that can be found whilst foraging. These items can be used in first aid to assist in healing certain injuries.

Player attributes

The player's occupation and traits can help improve the chance of finding medicinal plants.

Occupations

Name Points Factor
Park Ranger Park Ranger -4 75%
Veteran Veteran -8 20%
Farmer Farmer -4 5%
Chef Chef -4 15%
Unemployed 8 5%
Doctor Doctor 2 10%
Nurse Nurse 2 20%
Fitness Instructor Fitness Instructor -6 20%

Any occupations not listed here have no effect on finding medicinal plants.

Traits

Name Points Factor
Former Scout Former Scout -6 5%
Hiker Hiker -6 3%
Hunter Hunter -8 3%
Gardener Gardener -4 5%
Cook Cook -6 3%
Nutritionist Nutritionist -4 5%
Herbalist Herbalist -6 15%

Any traits not listed here have no effect on finding medicinal plants.

Items

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Item Description Encumbrance
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Black Sage
Provides -7 pain relief, -1 hunger. 0.1
Comfrey.png
Comfrey
Aids recovery from broken bones when applied as a poultice. 0.1 / 0.2
CommonMallow.png
Common Mallow
Eat to relieve -5 cold and flu symptoms, -1 hunger. 0.1
Ginseng.png
Ginseng
Eat to restore 2 endurance, -1 hunger. 0.1
LemonGrass.png
Lemongrass
Eat to soothe bouts of -12 food poisoning, -1 hunger. 0.1
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Plantain
Aids recovery from wounds when applied as a poultice. 0.1 / 0.2
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Wild Garlic
Helps to fight against infection when applied as poultice. 0.1 / 0.2

Crafting

Some medicinal plants need to be crafted into a poultice using a mortar and pestle for their medicinal effects to be utilized.

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Recipes are still based on build 41, and are planned to be revamped to build 42 at a later date, depending on the game's crafting system improvement.
Product Ingredients Tools Requirements Workstation XP
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Plantain Poultice
PlantainPlantago.png Plantain ×5 MortarPestle.png
Mortar and Pestle
none none none
MashedHerbs.png
Comfrey Poultice
Comfrey.png Comfrey ×5 MortarPestle.png
Mortar and Pestle
none none none
MashedHerbs.png
Wild Garlic Poultice
WildGarlic.png Wild Garlic ×5 MortarPestle.png
Mortar and Pestle
none none none

Location

This category can be selected as a search focus at foraging level 6. These items can still be found at lower levels. However, most require the herbalist trait or Magazine: Wilderness Survival recipe magazine to have been read.

See also