.: Help for forage

Foraging is the skill of gathering useful materials directly from the
environment — herbs, wood, ore, and other raw resources. What you find
depends on where you are and how sharp your eye is.

The biome you're in determines what materials might be available. A forest
yields timber and herbs; a mountainside offers ore and stone; a swamp holds
rare alchemical ingredients.

━━━ Governed Skill ━━━

The search skill governs your foraging ability. Your
Perception stat sharpens your eye. Together, they
determine what quality materials you can find.

At higher search skill levels, you can uncover
better-quality materials and items that are harder to find. A novice scrapes
together weeds; a skilled forager finds rare roots and choice timber.

━━━ The forage Command ━━━

  forage          Search the current room for harvestable materials.

Some rooms have nothing to forage. Wilderness, dungeons, and natural
environments tend to yield more than city streets or polished floors.

━━━ Connection to Crafting ━━━

Materials you gather through foraging feed directly into crafting recipes.
Herbs gathered in the wild become alchemy ingredients; ore and wood become
blacksmithing stock.

You can also find crafting materials by:
  - Picking them up from the floor in crafting rooms.
  - Looting mobs that carry them (cave goblins, feral herbalists, rats).

━━━ Skill Progression ━━━

Foraging improves through use. Each forage attempt has a chance to advance
your search skill. The higher your rank, the wider
the range of materials you can find.

━━━ Material Types ━━━

  healers-root     Used in: Healing Poultice, Conviction
                      Draught (alchemy)
  bitter-thistle   Used in: Stamina Draught, Conviction
                      Draught (alchemy)
  cloth-strip      Used in: Healing Poultice (alchemy)
  iron-ingot       Found in: caves, mountains
                      (blacksmithing)
  leather-strip    Used in: Iron Dagger (blacksmithing)
  wooden-plank     Used in: Iron Buckler (blacksmithing)
  small-vial       Used in: Stamina Draught, Conviction
                      Draught (alchemy)
  polished-stone   Found in: mountains, cliffs
                      (jewelcrafting)
  raw-gem          Found in: caves (jewelcrafting)
  gem-dust         Found in: caves (jewelcrafting)
  chrysalis-shard  Found in: caves, rare (enchanting)
  mutation-catalyst Found in: caves, very rare (enchanting)

Some rare materials can only be found in dangerous places. The deeper you
go, the stranger the things you find.

See Also:

  help craft, help alchemy,
  help blacksmithing, help jewelcrafting,
  help enchanting, help search,
  help skills