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Author Topic: Valley Herb harvests not affected by skill?  (Read 424 times)

grendel

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Valley Herb harvests not affected by skill?
« on: September 07, 2006, 02:37:00 pm »

It seems like valley herbs can only be harvested one at a time. I sent a proficient herbalist to gather plants on a freezing map and he kept getting 1 valley herb every time. I must have grabbed eight or nine clumps of 1 herb in a row before abandoning the fortress to the wolves.

Seems odd that valley herbs can only be gathered 1 at a time when other gatherable plants can yield between 0 and 5, seemingly depending on herbalist skill.

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Satyr

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Re: Valley Herb harvests not affected by skill?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2006, 06:21:00 pm »

This should be OK, Valley Herbs and Kobold Bulb are the two herbs that can yield an extract and have both a "clustersize" of 1 (in matgloss_plant.txt) in contrast to the standard herbs with clustersize 5.

What I find a bit strange is that you got so many of them, as it should be a lot harder to find then the other herbs, but maybe the freezing climate somehow favours it.

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Toady One

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Re: Valley Herb harvests not affected by skill?
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2006, 04:04:00 pm »

Yeah, it currently applies the skill and then caps based on cluster size, which is bad, since that won't take skill into account for the smaller sizes.  Easy to fix.
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