Haven & Hearth - Sandbox MMO - Page 47

On April 04 2011 13:29 Razt wrote:
Anyone know how to make the client work with the new server? i'm talking about the third party one that made the res higher

On April 07 2011 08:29 Psyqo wrote:
So I'm trying my hand at farming, but all the wikis and guides on farming start at the expert level and explain to people how to min/max with seedbags and shit. I need a total newbies guide to farming. How do you come across seeds for crops if you don't have a field of them? I've been playing for about a month, and I've never come across crops except in an already human-planted field.

I'm lucky in that the newbie camp I started at has some carrots growing, so I was able to harvest a couple of seeds today and plant my own plants. I'd like to find wheat though so that I can plant that and work on Beehives eventually.

On April 07 2011 08:37 Millitron wrote:

You need to have your exploration skill over 10. This lets you find Wild Windsown Weeds, which can be picked like any other forage-able item. You then hang them on a drying rack for a few hours (8 I think, not 100% sure), and when they're dried, you should have seeds to plant!

You can use an herbalist table instead of a drying rack, and its faster, but wheat seeds, hops, and hemp seeds can dry even further if they're on an herbalist table. If they're left too long, they change into something else, wheat seeds become germinated wheat seeds for instance. Once they change, they can't be planted. Because of this, I dont recommend using herbalist tables for gathering seeds, unless you're going to be really careful about it.

On April 07 2011 09:25 Psyqo wrote:


Thanks, such a simple explanation! No wonder the guy that got me into the game said to get exploration at 10.. I thought it was just an arbitrary figure to help things along. Mine is 7 or 8 at the moment so not far to go.

On April 07 2011 13:15 Millitron wrote:



A couple more things, 10 is the minimum value needed to find WWWs, which also means you find very few of them. As your exploration gets higher, you find things much more often. There are also other cool items that can only be found at even higher exploration values. For instance, you won't start finding gray clay nodes until your exploration is around 20. Another thing you should think about is raising your survival skill. The quality of foraged items is usually affected by your survival skill. If you have a high survival skill, the quality of a foraged item is equal to the quality of the soil. If your survival skill is lower than the quality of the soil, the quality of the item is the average of your skill and the soil's quality, which will always be lower than just the soil quality alone.

On April 08 2011 17:47 judytuna wrote:


Actually, it's not just Exploration skill that determines whether or not you see stuff.... it's your Exploration * Perception value.

You can start seeing WWWs at [Exploration * Perception] > 80: http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Wild_Windsown_Weed

Have you found out about FEPs? http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/FEP
You eat foods that give FEP in order to level up the list of stats on the left side of the character sheet (obviously, as you've figured out, the ones on the right side are leveled up using learning points). So you need to find food that gives you +Perception FEPs (they're orange on the bar). A good example is carrots. Make your poo orange!!! And keep raising your Exploration value, too. Soon you'll be able to see all kinds of things. Stinging nettles, WWWs, blueberries.... later on, yo'ull be able to see more stuff like forageable curiosities (example: http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Tangled_Bramble ) and really important herbs (like http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Rustroot , which you need to do Prospecting).

So if you're just starting out, try to find some Perception food to eat. The wiki lists some example foods for each stat: http://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Perception#Perception

Carrots grow really fast, so if you get your hands on just 1 carrot and stuff it in the ground, soon you'll have a huge field (assuming you're more Nature-y than Industry-y).

You'll also want Intelligence, which you can get by eating blueberries. More int will mean you have more attention, which means you can study more things at once, which'll get you more learning points.