Herbal garden

[Myasko]

Hello! Please, tell me how to use herbal garden properly. My Herbalism skill level is 98, construction is 100. I used a soil of 100 quality, wood 96Q, and 94Q metal parts to build a garden. And I put a 10 portions of 100Q water and 6 portions of a Q98 dung in it (according to LIF wiki). But the quality of the herbs in the output is decreasing. For example: 1 herb of 33Q gives me 10-11 Q12 herbs and so on. After 2-3 round all of my herbs are 1Q. What do i do wrong?

[GIJoe597]

I have not used them, but if the soil depletes in Q like farming soil does, that may be an issue.

[Cait]

you need to use decent quality dung each time you plant your herbs to bring up the quality, the quality of the herb garden when you make it does not matter.

[Myasko]

I tried 1 and 6 portions of a high quality dung (above 90). And I used only 100q soil for construction and as a base. The result was allways the same (decreasing quality). Yesterday I stopped using dungl, and the quality rose to 1-2 from 0, and to 5-6 next time.

[Beer Bandit]

i hate to dig up the past, but, did you ever get it figured out? ive never able to figure it out, myself

[Lateralus]

I'd like to know as well. Currently what i tried was this.
I had two groups of herbal gardens.
First one had gardens next to each other
Second had one tile between them as suggested in wiki.
I used 100Q herb with 100Q water and 95Q dung. My herbalism was 94
For the first group of gardens i received 1x 92Q herb back. some 60Q and a few 30Q.
For the second group I received from 2-4x 92Q herbs, few 60Q and even less 30Q.
It seemed that wiki was right about the spacing. Then however I planted another herbs in the second group of gardens, this time with Q90 dung and 92Q herbs, water as 100Q still. I got back only 2x 92Q herbs from 10 gardens, rest was 60Q and 20Q.
I really dont understand the logic of this. Sure I used a lower Q dung, but the quality dropped by 30 in almost all gardens...

[Trance]

Quality has absolutely no bearing on herb production. You can use the worst quality herbal garden imaginable, with terrible dung and water, and you'll still get the same results. The herbal gardens, for some reason, always produce worse quality herbs than you put into it. Even if everything was 100q, you'll get less than 100q herbs.

I remember something about this being because it's a "mass production" thing and they didn't want it to be easy for everyone to have 100q flux or something.

[Beer Bandit]

i generally get back one 100Q herb, some 60s, and some 30s. thats using 100q water and 100q dug. sometimes i will receive lwer Q herbs. but that seems to be a random thing. and i have been able to bring herb quality up, as well. as have others i have spoken to. im sure the garden and "ingredients" qualities matter, as well, as i have tried it with lower q. no, i cannot grow multiple 100q hebs. but, i can keep a sustainable amount of 60 and 30 q herbs coming in