Overview
The Herb Garden is a farming system: monsters drop seeds, you plant them on garden plots and harvest herbs that Brewers turn into potions. This page covers the seeds, the garden plots and the herbs. The Brewer is Brewing.
Seeds
A seed drops straight into your bag when you kill a monster. The seed depends on the monster's level, not yours.
| Seed | Dropped by | Chance per kill | Per @autoattack kill |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dewmoss Seed | Monsters of level 1-39 | 5% | 2.5% |
| Embergrass Seed | Monsters of level 40-59 | 5% | 2.5% |
| Duskbloom Seed | Monsters of level 60 and up | 5% | 2.5% |
| Starpetal Seed | MVPs | 15% (on top of the band seed) | 15% |
- The chance is the real chance per kill: no hidden multiplier, no daily limit. Kills while on
@autoattackcount too, at half the chance of a hand kill, so a player at the keyboard out-farms an AFK one. - With a full bag the seed is lost, like any drop.
- A seed that drops tells you in chat: "The monster dropped a ...".
- GM events give a Garden Seed Pouch as a prize: open it for 1 Dewmoss, 1 Embergrass and 1 Duskbloom Seed (never a Starpetal Seed). See Winter Festival GM Event prizes.
The Garden and plots
Talk to Gardener Fern in Prontera (147,163, by the trees on the west side of the main avenue) and choose "Go to the Garden". The Garden is a flower-garden island: your two Garden Plots grow in the stone flower beds on its west side, and the Garden Gate where the path meets the shore takes you back to Prontera; every character has 2 plots of their own, so nobody can take yours.
| Step | What happens |
|---|---|
| Plant | Click a plot, choose a seed from your bag. The plot grows it for 4 real hours. |
| Wait | Growth is real time and keeps running while you are offline and through server restarts. |
| Water | Water a growing plot once to take 25% off the time left. |
| Gatherer's Brew | Pour a Gatherer's Brew on a growing plot to halve the time left (4 h becomes 2 h). One brew per plot per growth; a ready or empty plot takes none. |
| Harvest | When it is ready, click the plot and harvest 3 herbs of the seed's kind. Harvesting takes you in person: @autoattack cannot do it. |
- A plot holds one seed at a time. Clicking a growing plot tells you which seed is growing and the time left.
- A ready plot keeps its herbs until you have room: with a full or heavy bag the harvest is refused and nothing is lost.
- When you log in with a plot ready, a chat line tells you.
- The Garden Gate takes you back to Prontera.
Gardening quests (ALT+U)
Talking to Gardener Fern opens a short quest ladder in your quest log. It pays nothing; it shows the next step.
| Quest | Completes when |
|---|---|
| Herb Garden: First Seed | You plant your first seed in any plot. |
| Herb Garden: Dewmoss / Embergrass / Duskbloom / Starpetal Harvest | You harvest that herb for the first time. A harvest quest opens when you plant its seed. |
A refused harvest (full bag) leaves the quest open. The quests show in ALT+U after the next client patch.
Herbs
Each seed grows into a matching herb: Dewmoss Herb, Embergrass Herb, Duskbloom Herb and Starpetal Herb. No brew uses the Starpetal Herb.
- Seeds and herbs are tradable and can be vended or stored.
- An NPC buys a seed for 1 zeny and a herb for 2 zeny. Their worth comes from other players and from Brewers, not from the NPC.
Tips
- Level 1-59 players have seeds to sell too: hunt in your band and sell the seeds to players who garden.
- Starpetal Seeds are rare: only MVPs drop them.