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Added in one of the earliest game packs released forThe Sims 4, the Herbalism skill in the Outdoor Retreat pack is a cool way for your Sims to interact with the new natural world around them. Search Granite Falls for ten unique herbs, build your skill, and learn to make potions.
The herbal recipes your Sim crafts into potions have a variety of benefits: they can change a Sim’s mood automatically, cause a little chaos just for fun, or even boost the chances of having a multiple birth in a pregnancy. Pretty powerful stuff, from just a few herbs!
Herbalism Skill Overview
Added in theOutdoor Retreat packfor The Sims 4, the Herbalism skill is aten-level skillthat puts your Sims out in the elements aroundGranite Falls, the new world included in the pack, in search of wild herbs.
Keep your cameralow to the groundin search of the herbs that grow in Granite Falls.
In all, you’ll have two primary interactions with the new herbal plants growing in Granite Falls:
Unless you really need the moodlet an herb will give when eating it or you need to identify the plant,save herbs for herbal recipes.
Craft Potions And Elixirs With Your Herbalism Skills
Not only can your Herbalist Sims identify and consume plants to continue building their Herbalism skill, you’ll quickly learn to makeherbalism recipes on any stove or grillthat awcan offer powerful moodlets and perks.
They’ll needmore than just herbsto make the recipes, but being able to identify and collect the correct herbs for the recipes they want to make can save them tons of time while they’re out gathering.
These offer powerful perks when consumed and can also be used inpowerful herbal recipesthat influence anything from whether your Sim gets a bug bite while camping to how many babies they have should theybecome pregnant.
Not only areherbal recipes stronger than just consuming raw herbs, but they can also sell for a pretty Simoleon if you’d like to turn your skill into a side hustle.
Pair Herbalism With The Gardening Skill For Easier Skill-Building
After your Sim can successfully identify herbs out in nature, any Sim that’sat least Level Five in the Gardening skillwill be able totake a clipping of the herbhome with them from their trip to Granite Falls.
Doing this allows them toplant herbs at homein their own gardens, and these Sims can enjoyan abundance of homegrown herbsto use in their potions and perks.
This is especially helpful when stumbling upon rarer herbs you don’t often see - taking a clipping home and growing it on your home lot allows for a much more plentiful supply.
Not only will the Gardening skill help your Sim collect more herbs, but you’llneed produce items for herbal recipesjust as often as you’ll need herbs themselves.
Keeping a prosperous garden can help your Simgrow their own herbal recipe ingredients, saving money later on when it’s time to get brewing.
Helpful Traits And Aspirations
Since the Herbalism skill is exclusive to the Outdoor Retreat pack, it shouldn’t be surprising that you’ll need to spend plenty of time outside. And if that’s the case, theLoves Outdoors traitcan offer some helpful boosts.
Simswith the Loves Outdoors traitgain Happy moodlets when spending time outside, so if you’ll be doing a lot of it, you may as well truly enjoy the experience.
While it’s a fun touch for other gameplay elements in The Sims 4, you’d do well toavoid the Squeamish trait. It conflicts with the Loves Outdoors trait, but should still be avoided even if you’re not using Loves Outdoors.
Also added in Outdoor Retreat, this trait makes Sims experience severalnegative moodletsfrom several things -bugs and various other outdoor elementsincluded - so this trait adds an extra element of difficulty to building the Herbalism skill.
Finally, if you’repairing the Herbalism skillwith the Gardening skill, consider theSuper Green Thumb reward traitwith yourSatisfaction Pointsin the Reward Store.
Buying thisreward traitwill helpall your garden plants to prosper, leading to a healthy helping of herbs.
When it comes to aspirations, consider theOutdoor Enthusiast aspirationthat also came with the Outdoor Retreat pack.
Building the Herbalism skill is but one of the focus points of the aspiration, which overall seeks tohelp you experience all the new content in the packlike herbs, bugs,fish, and more.
All Herbs In Granite Falls And What They Do
In all, there areten total berries and herbsavailable in The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat that your Sim will need to find, identify, and collect before they can use them in herbal recipes.
This includesfive regular herbs, as well asfive poisonous versions of these same herbsthat will be used just as frequently in your herbal recipes.
Consuming herbs raw will offer your Sim avariety of moodletsdepending on the type and quality of the herb they’re consuming, which is an easy way to help them switch between emotional states with ease.
These plantsappear in the overworld as “Wild Plant” until your Sim has properly identified the herb.
False Morel Mushroom
Uncomfortable
If you’re struggling to find the mushrooms,visit the Hermitregularly, as herbs of all kinds - Morels included - grow pretty fruitfully in their garden planters and around the hidden area.
Additionally, it’s worth noting thatthe Hermit is a randomized Sim in each save, meaning no two Hermit of Granite Falls look alike.
Every Herbal Recipe Your Sims Can Make
Sinceherbal recipes are the only reward for building your Herbalism skillin The Sims 4: Outdoor Retreat, below, you’ll find the name of each recipe, how to make it, what it does, and at which level of the Herbalism skill you’ll unlock it.
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2 Noxious Elderberries
2 Basil
The Sim that uses it will not be bitten by bugs while outdoors.
1 Blackberry
1 Firefly
Extremely powerful fertilizer recipe for use in your home garden to help grow and evolve your plants.
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3
1 Locust
Reduces the duration of the negative moodlets from insect bites, removing them entirely if there’s little enough time left when used.
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5
2 Sage
1 Termite
Cancels any moodlets related to nausea, regardless of the reason (pregnancy, spoiled food, the Squeamish trait, etc.).
6
2 Morel Mushrooms
1 Fire Ant
Gives any Sim that uses it an upset stomach and longstanding itch that makes them Extremely Uncomfortable for several hours.
7
3 Fireleafs
1 Stink Bug
Removes weeds and prevents them from growing when used on home garden plants when they’re in need of weeding.
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10
1 Bee
1 Will-o-the-Wisp
Increases a Sim’s likelihood of conceivingtwins and tripletswhen Trying for Baby after use.
*The Fungal Infusion Fertilizer Recipecan only be learned afterbecoming friends with the Hermit of Granite Fallsand asking about the recipe.
Itwill not be learned automaticallyat Herbalism skill level one, but it can be learned as early as level one in the skill if you’ve already befriended the Hermit beforehand.
