43 plants modelled in 3D, each growing wild in the biomes of its region. The rarer, the more alive: common ones sway, rare ones breathe and glow, very rare ones give off motes of Qi.

Gathering

• Pick a wild herb: the herb, mature and 70 % pure, sometimes with something to plant. Shears take the plant itself.
• Very rarely a wild herb is already at spirit maturity: it moves, glows, and gives a double, very pure harvest.

Growing

• Plant the seed, bulb, cutting, rhizome or spores on its own soil (the tooltip says which: good earth, sand, wet earth, rock, or still water for the lotus and the water lily).
• Four stages: Seedling, Young, Mature, Spirit maturity. It needs light, the right warmth and, for wet plants, water within 4 blocks. A common plant ripens in about 25 minutes, a rare one in about an hour and a half.
• Spirit maturity only comes on Murim land rich in Qi, twice as fast on a place of power, with no more than 8 plants within 4 blocks.
• Purity rises with each stage grown well: 50 % as a seedling, 90 % or more at spirit maturity. Bone meal hurries a plant to Mature but adds no purity.
• Harvest with an empty hand: flowers, berries and leaves grow back; roots and shoots are pulled up. Sneak and right-click to read its light, warmth, water and purity.

The herbs

• The Central Peaks: Chrysanthemum, Rhododendron, Ginseng, Lingzhi (very rare)
• The Northern Snows: Kunlun Sedge, Snow Lotus
• The Dry Lands: Goji, Sea Buckthorn, Cistanche
• The Humid Lands: Bamboo Shoot, Karst Fern
• The Water Country: Astragalus, Lotus

The flowers

Six a region, from the Peony and the Red Spider Lily to the Himalayan Blue Poppy, the Desert Candle, the Hydrangea and the Water Lily; and everywhere, very rarely, the Udumbara, said to open once every 3 000 years.