Any tips for Herbivore achievement?

[epsilon828]

I'm on my second playthrough and I'm trying to get all the secondary achievements done before finishing the game, and I'm having a hell of a time with this one. I've gotten all the Journal entries, all chests and other collectibles, but these seemingly random herb spawns just don't seem frequent enough even though I've out of necessity scoured the entire map for all the other stuff? Is there a trick to this or something I'm missing?

[oku]

Hmm, the only thing I can think of is, are you using the herbs for healing? Maybe you can carry only a certain amount at a time and new finds are not registering?

I got my achievement on a second play through and it seemed like there was still more to be found when it popped. I wondered then if it was a total amount from all games played that triggered it and not just in one game.

Maybe someone else has some thoughts to share?

[epsilon828]

Thanks for the thoughts; I definitely didn't use a single herb for healing, since this file was on Medium difficulty which is really quite easy. I ended up loading up the save and I started using all of the herbs I had; now, it's possible I went a bit too fast because on two or three occasions I didn't hear the "munching" sound effect, but by my count I had used exactly 20 herbs before I ran out. So I might just be one or two off, if the lack of the sound effect means Carl didn't actually consume the herb.

It's interesting that you got it on a second playthrough early on, because I've done three playthroughs now and am 100% certain that I collected several herbs in the other two as well, so if it were cumulative it should definitely have popped by now. Especially since none of the other achievements seem to track across files/playthroughs, because on my second playthrough I didn't get the collection achievements until I found the very last one sequentially (I know in my first playthrough I had gotten the last ones in almost every case.)

So I'm a bit stumped; now this and Survival mode are the only achievements I have left. I guess I'll role play a survivalist and take extra care to scour every inch of the map for herbs on that final run and try to keep careful track of how many I've picked up and see how that goes.

[Watching Nango]

You're in luck! Due to the bug with "Animal Lover" I've had to do a second playthrough. Taking the advice from this previous thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1229020/discussions/0/3945776779138040068/

I started a "Detective" easy playthrough and completely ignored all animals. The wild animals don't attack on easy, and the brume animals don't do any damage. There's only 2 places you have to kill the brume animals to progress the story, and both are in the Underground Laboratory level.

Anyhow since I was frustrated with the "Herbivore" achievement (and the inventory still has a bug and doesn't tell you how many herbs you have), I kept a list this time so I could track both the number of herbs I have and the locations they appear in. I don't think it matters, but this was from a "detective" (easy) level playthrough. I don't have a map, and the list is a bit random in order since it's how I found them, but this should help. I've managed to find 23 herbs in the game so far.


Mansion (2 herbs)
Just west of first set of buildings you find after shelter
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

On skinny path to mansion just after crashed vehicle
1 Crowberries

Leech Lake (8 herbs)
Small Island
1 Crowberries

NE of initial landing for survivors
1 Crowberries

T-shaped building in lower right which you pass in wendigo chase
1 Crowberries

NE peninsular of map where there’s also mistanite and a parachute. You have to climb ice wall to get there.
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

NE side of little circular island on map directly NE of the HMC Helicopter
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

Between HMC and Henryville on the bottom of the loop on the right (northern loop, not the one next to Henryville)
1 Crowberries

Between HMC and Henryville on the top of the loop on the lower left
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

SE of the old house, there’s a little cove between the house and the T-shaped house
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

Henryville (2 herbs)
Behind the second house on the left when you first enter, next to a shed
1 Crowberries

After climbing frozen waterfall, walk forward and it’s on the left
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

HMC (2 herbs)
East and slightly north of the radio tower before it curves north
1 Crowberries

Just behind radio tower to the north
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

Eweewach Valley (9 herbs)
Just before exiting the section next to the lumberjack camp with all the tripwires
1 Crowberries

Between the little circles on the map in the second large area in the center. Directly east of a campfire and NW of the little peninsula on the bottom that looks like Florida.
1 Crowberries

At the very top of the map at the highest point, slightly to the SW where the edge has a little hook
1 Crowberries

Directly south of the previous one in the middle of a forest where the dogsled can’t go with wolves around
1 Labrador Tea leaves

Just south (slightly west) of the multiple cave climbing icons at the strange cave second entrance at ground level
1 Crowberries

The first large island when entering the valley has a twisty path inside it. Just to the NW of the entrance to this path.
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

On the left side of the first brume area (cloudy) when you enter the valley. There is a long finger-like piece of land that points to it and it’s in the lower left corner of the mist.
1 Crowberries

NE of a small island when you first enter the valley. It looks like a little fox head, and has two ears. Just to the north of it right next to it.
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

Directly NE of the Lumber Camp save point
1 Labrador Tea Leaves

[epsilon828]

Thank you so much for this! I had grabbed the first two at the mansion and then one other that I forgot (grrrr) in my speed run, so I followed this all the way through and the only one I had trouble with was the one that says "NW of initial landing for survivors." Does that mean that "island" that you cross to with the logs? But anyway maybe that was the one I already grabbed because I found all the others according to your guide and it popped after grabbing the one NE of the Lumber Camp save point.

Very much appreciated! Now I can just play the game normally on Survivor to finish it out, which is generally how I like to do it with games that have difficulty-based achievements.

[Watching Nango]

Thanks for catching that! "NW of initial landing for survivors." should have read "NE of initial landing for survivors." I've edited the guide above. It's the one you find going NE from the second dock (first dock is small island, second dock is near the Old House for the survivors, third is the radio tower). I had the directions wrong for that one, but seems you got them all anyway so congrats!

[Watching Nango]

For anyone needing help, I've created maps of the herb locations. There are like 24 of them on these marked by the white circles: https://imgur.com/a/dTH8gag