Wild plants grow on their own across the world. Picking them gives herbs, berries, roots and
mushrooms; the plant grows back a few days later. Herbs are ground at the herbalist’s table, dried
on the drying rack and brewed in the cooking pot into remedies, or tied by hand into charms. All
numbers on this page come from data/wild_plants, data/herbalism.json, the recipes of
data/recipes and the effects of data/effects.
Picking and regrowth
- Find the plant (see the table below: each grows in certain biomes and spots).
- Break it (left mouse button). Wild plants break instantly, by hand.
- You get its herbs, never the plant block itself.
A picked plant grows back where it stood after its regrowth days (world days of 20 minutes), as soon as its chunk is loaded again, provided its spot is still free and the ground under it is still there. Placing a block on the spot cancels the regrowth.
Seasons
Each plant has a look for its season (flowers, berries) and a plain look for the rest of the year. Some give extra items when picked in season: the berries and flowers are only there in their season. Belladonna, bilberry, cranberry, St John’s wort and the water lily give nothing at all out of season. The seasons follow the calendar: 24 days each, spring first (see Seasons and weather).
The wild plants
| Plant | Where it grows | Picked gives | In season, on top | Regrows |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aconite | mountains; open clearings of the taiga |  Wolfsbane x1 | flowers in summer | 12 days |
| Belladonna | forests, on some islands only | nothing | summer:  Belladonna Berries x2 | 6 days |
| Bilberry | shade of forest and taiga | nothing | summer:  Bilberries x3 | 5 days |
| Bramble | forest, plains |  Plant Fibres x1 | summer and autumn:  Blackberries x3 | 5 days |
| Cep | shade of forest and taiga; cave floors |  Porcini x1 | 3 days | |
| Chanterelle | shade of forest and taiga |  Chanterelles x2 | 3 days | |
| Cranberry | by the water of swamps and taiga | nothing | autumn:  Cranberries x3 | 6 days |
| Fly agaric | shade of forest and taiga; cave floors |  Fly Agaric Cap x1 | 3 days | |
| Heather | plains and taiga of the cold islands |  Heather Sprigs x1 | autumn: 1 more | 6 days |
| Lichen | mountain stone |  Lichen Crust x1 | 8 days | |
| Madder | open plains and steppe |  Madder Root x1 | flowers in summer | 10 days |
| Mandrake | beaches, plains and steppe of the warm islands |  Mandrake Root x1 | flowers in spring | 12 days |
| Mistletoe | hanging under oak branches |  Mistletoe Sprig x1 | autumn and winter: 1 more | 12 days |
| Moss | shade of forest, mountains, swamp, taiga |  Moss Clump x1 | 8 days | |
| Mugwort | open beaches, plains, steppe, stony shores |  Mugwort Leaves x2 | 4 days | |
| Nettle | near water in plains and forest; swamps |  Nettle Leaves x2, half the time Plant Fibres x1 | 4 days | |
| St John’s wort | open ground of forest, plains and steppe | nothing | summer:  St John's Wort Flowers x2 | 6 days |
| Water lily | still ponds one block deep | nothing | summer:  Water Lily Flower x1 | 6 days |
| Weld | open plains, steppe, stony shores |  Weld Stalks x1 | summer: 1 more | 6 days |
| Wild garlic | shade of the forest |  Wild Garlic Leaves x2 | 4 days | |
| Woad | open plains, on some islands only |  Woad Leaves x2 | 6 days |
Berries and mushrooms are food: eating them heals a little (1 health, 1.5 for porcini) and gives Nourished for a few seconds. They spoil in 3 days (cranberries in 8), see Food and preservation.
Poisons
Two wild plants are poisonous to eat:
- Belladonna Berries: Poisoned with 3 stacks for 20 seconds.
- Fly Agaric Cap: Poisoned with 2 stacks for 15 seconds.
Poisoned deals 0.5 poison damage every 2 seconds for each stack (up to 5 stacks). Some creature bites poison as well. The antipoison below cures it. The fly agaric cap is still worth keeping: the fever purge needs one.
The stations
- Herbalist’s table: worked by hand. Each use adds 2 seconds of work (up to 4 kept), so a 6 second grinding takes three uses. Crafted at the workbench (below).
- Drying rack: 4 sticks and 2 plant twine, by hand. It needs no fire.
- Cooking pot: a fired clay pot, 3 sticks and 1 plant twine, by hand. It burns fuel, must be lit and brews at 90 °C (see Fire and stations).
The herbalist’s table takes three planks over a stick, a stone and a stick; any planks and any stone (andesite, basalt, granite, limestone, sandstone, stone) will do:
Plant twine is twisted by hand from 3 plant fibres.
Remedies
At the herbalist’s table
Herbalist's Table 
- Time
- ⏱ 8 seconds
Beeswax comes from beehives (see Husbandry).
On the drying rack
Drying Rack 
- Time
- ⏱ 5 minutes
In the cooking pot
Cooking Pot - Time
- ⏱ 60 seconds
- Temperature
- 🌡 90 °C
Cooking Pot 
- Time
- ⏱ 60 seconds
- Temperature
- 🌡 90 °C
Learned from the almanac
Three brews are not known at the start: reading 
The Herbalist's Almanac (4 seconds)
teaches them.
Cooking Pot - Time
- ⏱ 90 seconds
- Temperature
- 🌡 90 °C
Cooking Pot - Time
- ⏱ 90 seconds
- Temperature
- 🌡 90 °C
Cooking Pot - Time
- ⏱ 90 seconds
- Temperature
- 🌡 90 °C
The garlic is the farmed crop (see Farming).
Charms, by hand
Shapeless recipes, made from the inventory or at the workbench:
Effects
Remedies and charms are used like food. What each one does:
| Item | Heals | Effect | What it does | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Antipoison | 1 | Antidote | removes Poisoned, +0.05 health a second | 60 s |
 Healing Salve | 4 | Soothed | +0.3 health a second | 40 s |
 Breath Tonic | Second Wind | gives back 2 breath a second | 180 s | |
 Fever Purge | Purged | removes Fever, halves the progress of the Hunger of the Dead | 1200 s | |
 Moon Tisane | Moon Tisane | halves the progress of Moon Blood | 1200 s | |
 Thirst Remedy | Thirst Remedy | halves the progress of Pale Blood | 1200 s | |
| Garlic Braid | Garlic Ward | wards off Pale Blood | 1200 s | |
| Wolfsbane Charm | Wolfsbane Ward | wards off Moon Blood | 1200 s | |
| St John's Wort Bunch | St John’s Wort Ward | wards off Pale Blood and the Hunger of the Dead | 1200 s | |
| Rowan Cross | Rowan Ward | wards off all three curses | 1200 s | |
 Bandage | 1 | Bandaged | stops Bleeding, +0.4 health a second | 10 s |
Fever comes from the bites of rats and the claws of ghouls: it deals 0.5 poison damage every 10 seconds, slows you to 90% and warms you by 4 °C. Bandages are torn by hand from linen (3 per linen, see the flax of Farming).
No creature or event inflicts Moon Blood, Pale Blood or the Hunger of the Dead in the current game: the wards and the slowing effects are in place, but have nothing to act on yet.
Dyes
The herbalist’s table also grinds the dye plants:
Herbalist's Table - Time
- ⏱ 6 seconds
Herbalist's Table 
- Time
- ⏱ 6 seconds
Herbalist's Table 
- Time
- ⏱ 6 seconds
The dyes colour stained glass; madder red also goes into the rowan cross.