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<br><br>'''Command:''' /forage
 
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=== Types of Foraged Items ===
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= Ability Breakdown & Details =
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* [[Forage System Messages (Game Messages)|Forage]]<br>
  
Forage is an underutilized skill that is granted to Scouts. Similar to the artisan "sample" skill, foraging allows you to scrounge the immediate area for food and drink. This food and drink provides different buffs, such as temporary strength increases, HAM penalty reducers and other effects that have multiple benefits. At this time you don't receive XP from successful forage and these remains a request of the Scouting community.You can also forage lairs, which provide you with interesting items such as bees and eggs. The eggs are useful in some kinds of
 
crafting, and can be sold. Bees can be placed into a creature habitat craftable by artisans. While these don’t benefit you directly, they do provide some interesting visual affects and may make you a few bucks selling to loot collectors.
 
  
The Scouting community feels that Forage has not lived up to its original design premise, which was to create incentives for Scouts to explore the landscape. We are working hard with the Devs to turn forage into a useful feature that provides useable loot and food items in line with the player crafted consumables that have become a key factor in the game.
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== Ability Breakdown & Details ==
  
  
'''Using Forage'''
 
  
1. Forage must be done outside and can only be initiated while not moving.
 
  
2. Forage zones are pockets made 22 meters from the next one. In these pockets, a player may forage for goods and when successful, the pocket is depleted. If the player wishes to gain more foraged items they will have to move to the next pocket to forage. These pockets will regenerate over time.
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Forage is an underutilized skill that is granted to Scouts. Similar to the artisan "sample" skill, foraging allows you to scrounge the immediate area for food and drink. This food and drink provides different buffs, such as temporary strength increases, HAM penalty reducers and other effects that have multiple benefits.  
  
Each "area" has 4 forage slots. You can only have 4 successful forages in an area, No matter if you forage 1, 2, 3 items at once. Once you hit the 4th success that area is dry. The area will regenerate items at a rate of roughly 1 per 5min. So if you say get 4 successes in a row, you will not get a success for another 2mins or so.
 
  
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* [[Using Forage (Game Mechanics)|Using Forage]]<br>
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* [[Foragable Items (Game Mechanics)|Foragable Items]]<br>
  
  
3. Forage succes increases as the player gains more forage skill. At master scout, the forage success is higher and the the number of items the player is supposed to receive is increased to a maximum of 3 in a single forage. Items are chosen randomly although fishing bait seems to be rather commonly obtained.
 
 
Maximum items:
 
 
1 Item at Survival I. Foraging +5<br>
 
2 Items at Survival III. Foraging +25<br>
 
3 Items at Master Scout. Foraging +50
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
=== '''Foragable Items''' ===
 
 
 
So, what are these 16 unique items? Glad you asked! I have them all compiled in a nice list for you.
 
 
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'''Fishing Bait'''
 
(Found 1-5 uses each, 1-2 with Scout w/Survival I, 4-5 with Master Ranger)
 
 
1. Insect Bait <br>
 
2. Worm Bait<br>
 
3. Grub bait
 
 
 
 
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'''Edibles'''
 
 
These have a filling of 75
 
 
4. Alever Tweth'pek = Action +100, 100s
 
Mind + 25, 100s
 
 
5. Esost'Ew Zann = Health +50, 700s
 
Action +50, 700s
 
Mind +50, 700s
 
 
6. Flurr-Cle Onion = Mind +500, 60s
 
 
7. Jar of Foraged Berries = Health +100, 300s
 
 
8. Jar of Foraged Bugs = Action +100, 300s
 
 
9. Jar of Foraged Fungus = Health +50, 250s
 
Mind +100, 250s
 
 
10. Jar of Foraged Grubs = Action +10, 10s
 
Mind +60, 10s
 
 
11. Ko-Do Fruit = Action +50, 250s
 
Mind +50, 250s
 
 
12. Maroj Melon = Health +50, 150s
 
Mind +50, 150s
 
 
13. Schule Nef = Mind +50, 400s
 
 
14. Sijjo Sewi = Action +100, 200s
 
 
15. Sosi Hodor = Health +120, 400s
 
Mind +50, 400s
 
 
16. Wild Snaff = Health +50, 50s
 
Action +150, 50s
 
Mind +50, 50s
 
 
 
 
 
'''Anectdotal account of foraging success rates:'''
 
 
People were telling me that they rarely, if ever, have made mutliple-item forages.  Now, I had made quite a few two and three item forages in my lifetime, so I could not quite see why they weren't.  So I did a bit experimenting.  I took only two planets, Endor and Tatooine, just because their vegetation is so radically different.  I plan to repeat this on other planets, when I have the time.
 
 
Now, I didn't give the developers enough credit.  I didn't think the foraging would be that much different, just because I couldn't quite believe that the foraging system was that complex.  They said it, themselves, that it was a low priority and so I underestimated them, thinking they hadn't put that much time into it before.
 
 
Boy was I wrong!
 
 
Endor and Tatooine are radically different, as far as the mutliple-item foraging is concerned.
 
 
I only did one multiple-item forage on Tatooine (for 3 items), out of 100 logged attempts.
 
 
On Endor, I did two 3-item forages, and three 2-item forages, out of 100 logged attempts.
 
 
They also differ on which item you're more likely to find.
 
 
On Endor, you're more likely to find Maroj Melons, Wild Snaffs, Ko-Do Fruits, Sosi Hodors, Jars of Berries and Jars of Bugs.
 
 
On Tatooine, you're more likely to find Sijjo Sewi, Worm Bait, Insect Bait, and Flurr-Cle Onion.
 
 
Schule Nefs, Alever Tweth'peks, and Jars of Fungus were pretty common on both.  Etost'ew Zanns and Jars of Grubs, weren't.
 
 
Now, this is either unique to each planet, or planet type.  For instance, Lok might yield the same as Tatooine, and Yavin IV the same as Endor.
 
 
There's a good 10% chance of getting items discarded on both planets.
 
 
You also have a 20% chance of failure on both planets as a Master Ranger (which I think is a bit too much.)
 
  
  
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==Ability Flow==
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==Source References==
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==Formula(s)==
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Forage area regeneration rate is: <br>
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1 item regenerates into the forage pool for that 20 meter radius per every 5 minutes.
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Latest revision as of 09:32, 8 September 2009

Ability - Forage

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Description

/forage: Searches the area for usable resources such as food and water.

Command: /forage
CommandQueue Entry: forage (494F9F80)


Types of Foraged Items

Example of Bait use
Jar of Foraged Grubs

Related Tags

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Ability This document relates to Player Abilities.

Scout This document is related to the Scout Profession.

Ranger This document is related to the Ranger Profession.

System Messages


Ability Breakdown & Details

Forage is an underutilized skill that is granted to Scouts. Similar to the artisan "sample" skill, foraging allows you to scrounge the immediate area for food and drink. This food and drink provides different buffs, such as temporary strength increases, HAM penalty reducers and other effects that have multiple benefits.





Source References

Source Source in Context
Source 1 http://swg.allakhazam.com/db/guides.html?guide=87
Source 2 http://swgforums.swganh.org/viewtopic.php?search_id=1042626312&t=304154
Source 3 http://swgforums.swganh.org/viewtopic.php?search_id=987986385&t=445096
Source 4 http://swgforums.swganh.org/viewtopic.php?search_id=987986385&t=443456
Source 5

Ability HAM Costs

Modifier Value
Health Cost 0
Action Cost 100
Mind Cost 0
Force Cost 0

Ability Multipliers

Modifier Value
Health cost 0
Action cost 0
Mind cost 0
Force cost 0
Damage 0
Delay Time 10