mandragora?

[Zerixar]

i have tons of the blue stat raising mats, but have found exactly 0 mandragoras so i can't been able to make any of the elixers... what gives?

[Redd]

I'm in chapter 1 and I have found 4.

Listen to sound cues cause Mandragoras sing when you are near.

[Tiruin]

There are both audio and visual tells! The former being more distinct than the latter.

Audio: You hear a distinct humming (it's the same for all mandragora), and it gets louder the nearer you are to it! Especially at night or low light, it's hard to see where the mandragora specifically is!
Visual: Three broad, flat leaves on the ground sprouting from a spot. It is as small a person's width. If you lack good (i.e. Act IV) armor, get ready to either dodge or get ear protection and save beforehand!

Henrik's quest involves getting a mandragora! (That Nemeton guy south of Nemeton, as part of the Nemeton faction quests that will autofail if you join the Remnants in Act I)

I hear there are 8 in the game, two from merchants! (i.e. Bombus in a later act, and that one seller SW outside Nemeton)

[Zerixar]

ah, yeah i generally have someting going on a second monitor that i'm watching/listening to so i have the game turned way down so i'm not constantly listening to combat grunts. so if there's audio queues i'm almost certainly gonna miss them. kind of a poor design choice for people who might be hard of hearing too

[Zerixar]

I found on the northeastern side of the remnant camp. are they always found blending into those little blue flower patches?

[KimjonIl]

Do henriks quest then fight him to get it back!

[Razorbaz]

Buy 40 jingling bags from the merchant outside of nemedia, save game, open 5 bags, if no mandragora, load game again, rinse and repeat until all 40 bags are gone. Do 5 at a time. I got 10 Mandragora by doing this. Took about 30 mins, but depends on rng luck.

[Nikanuur]

Originally posted by PUTIN:

Originally posted by Zerixar:

i have tons of the blue stat raising mats, but have found exactly 0 mandragoras so i can't been able to make any of the elixers... what gives?

You can savescum breaking crates to find pouches, and then savescum pouches to get mandragoras from them

I sucessfully abstained from the said practice almost 100% for this game so far, but I wanted to try this at least once to see what happens.

It took me 18 reloads to get anything else but coins, and that was a diamond. Another 10 to get substantially different amount of coins: it said 64 + 38. Then another 10 reloads and only coins and one piece of leather shred. Then I gave up.

Savescum breaking crates AND THEN savescum pouches would therefore seem to shame even the most exquisite masochistic practices

[ФDeadEyeФ]

Just finished the game on iron, you definitely don't need the stat points; I forgot I even had them. Use rings, easier, cheaper, and treat mandrake as extra if you do find it.

[Tiruin]

Originally posted by Zerixar:

ah, yeah i generally have someting going on a second monitor that i'm watching/listening to so i have the game turned way down so i'm not constantly listening to combat grunts. so if there's audio queues i'm almost certainly gonna miss them. kind of a poor design choice for people who might be hard of hearing too

I fully agree yeah--I sent the issue in as feedback weeks back through that in-game medium (missing things from attention to audio capability or even muting the game entirely can all be issues). Some people can miss audio cues as there's nothing else than audio when it comes to that.

Some mandragora are amidst similar colored backgrounds, some are obvious in the open--but their size and leafiness may be difficult to see anyway, due to fog, light levels, attention, and other factors.

[dna]

Click on the "guides" section. Click on first guide. Click on "Mandragora".