Herbalists

[Irrilia]

What is it with them? They do not gather hardly any herbs at all.

[Tony 101101]

Herbalists only gather from around mature trees only...
Otherwise they gather just fine!

[pawzisme]

I think they have to be placed in mature woodland, but not in 'dense' woodland. If you use mods you can get a dedicated herbal /spice garden, also you can go around collecting herbs yourself and or send your workers out to collect..

[Vrayna]

Is it really an issue with very little being gathered, or are your people consuming them so fast you don't see many of them in your storage?

If your people are unhealthy because they have an unbalanced diet, they'll be using herbs several times a year (once per season I think?) in order to regain half a heart of health. That can drain your herb stores faster than the herbalist can cope with, especially if it's not placed with enough trees around.

[Irrilia]

Tony 101101, pawsizma and Vrayna,
I have them in mature woodlands. I do have the workers collect them also. The highest number of herbs I have seen collected is about 32, so far. I place the herbalist out of town too. I can see herbs everywhere, but they remain. I don't think I have more then 87 people yet. How do you get a dedicated herbal/spice garden? I will keep working on it tho. :) Thanks every one.

[dixiechow]

I don't know about a dedicated herbal/spice garden. It may be in a mod I don't have. I always include an herbalist hut in one of my forest nodes. At first I assign 1 herbalist. When the population grows I assign another ( each hut allows 2 herbalists). In a few years I have several thousand herbs and start using them to trade.

[ebrumby]

BlackLiquidSoftware.com has a mod that allows you to grow Herbs as a crop: http://blackliquidsoftware.com/index.php?/files/file/14-grow-herbs/.

[pawzisme]

ooh!,ooh! gotta get that, thank you ebrumby!! :)

[rkelly17]

Originally posted by Irrilia:

Tony 101101, pawsizma and Vrayna,
I have them in mature woodlands. I do have the workers collect them also. The highest number of herbs I have seen collected is about 32, so far. I place the herbalist out of town too. I can see herbs everywhere, but they remain. I don't think I have more then 87 people yet. How do you get a dedicated herbal/spice garden? I will keep working on it tho. :) Thanks every one.

32 per year is pretty low. What is your max limit on herbs? How far is the herbalists' hut from the workers' houses? How close is the nearest barn? How far is the house from the nearest source of food, coats and firewood? These factors all affect work rate. With a house and barn right next door I can keep a settlement of 500 supplied with one herbalist. If your Bannies are getting a balanced diet (protein, grain, vegetables, and fruit) they should have 5 hearts health and not need many herbs.

[Irrilia]

Thank you everyone. I appreciate all the help. I will get the herb/crop. I will check all the locations to make sure they are not too far away and have markets, etc.....I have increased the limit on the herbs, cuz I don't want them to stop! :)

[Neuro]

wow cool, i'm glad that you found an answer, maybe people are just nice after all...

[Irrilia]

I think they are nice, have been very helpful to me here! :)

[hedgewitch]

The North mod also has herbs as a crop--you buy the seeds from traders--a very fun mod, but the herbalists do seem to cause the people to suck up every herb growing wild (down to zero) without a few dedicated crop plots.

[Claybot]

My herbalist's are around the outside of the town actually quite aways from town, there are no homes anywhere near them might be the odd road but thats about it. Usually set the collection limit anywhere from 5000-10000 as I use herbs as one of my main trading staples. I've never had an issue with them being to far away from the town.

But if you decide to place them on the other side of the river/creek please build the bridge first.

[ElanaAhova]

I think it helps to place a herbalist in the town, so your banshees can 'herbs' easially?

[pdoan8]

I have my herbalist at the edge of market range and close to a forester. One herbalist collects about 60 herbs a year with half a circle of forest. A low year could dip to ~30. A high year can reach 80+.