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Roots & Remedies

Smoked and dried food, a small herb garden and improved potions for Valheim.

Roots & Remedies works on its own — and it is better with ImmersiveTrader.

BETA: the mod works in single-player and multiplayer, but bugs and unexpected behaviour may still occur.

Please report issues on the Discord HypnoMODS server.

Roots & Remedies adds no new biome and no new tier. It gives you more to do between the bosses: grow herbs, preserve the food you already cook and brew better potions. Everything is built from things Valheim already has, so it fits a vanilla playthrough from the Meadows onward.

At a glance

• 49 dishes × 3 qualities = 147 smoked or dried foods
• Up to 6 % off stamina or Eitr costs (or on stamina regeneration), per stat
• 21 improved potions: +20 % duration, or −20 % cooldown
• 4 herb crops, oyster and rosemary planters, mosquito traps and flytraps
• 8 buildable pieces and 12 garden materials
• Starter items in the world: rare wild plants and a chance of one item in chests, split by biome
• Single-player, host/client and dedicated server
• Standalone. ImmersiveTrader is optional, and recommended

Solo, or together with ImmersiveTrader

The mod is complete either way. What changes is how you get the garden starters (seeds, flowers, mycelium, Rosemary Root, Live Flytrap, Clay, Mosquito Nets, the Press Crank).

| | Roots & Remedies alone | With ImmersiveTrader (recommended) |

|---|---|---|

| Garden starters | Found in the world: chests and rare wild plants | Rewards of the traders' story quests, plus wild plants |

| How it feels | Explore, loot, get lucky | Earn them from people with names and stories |

| Food, garden, machines, potions | Everything | Everything |

| Extra | — | 14 traders, contracts, cargo, reputation, scrolls and 33 story quests |

Why it is better together: the two mods are made by the same author as a pair. With ImmersiveTrader 1.1.0 or newer, the traders of the Meadows, Black Forest and Swamp hand out the garden starters as you follow their quest chains, so the garden grows with your story instead of with your luck at chests. Nothing needs to be configured: Roots & Remedies notices ImmersiveTrader by itself.

Playing solo: install only Roots & Remedies. The starters then turn up in chests and as wild plants, and nothing of the mod is locked.

You can also mix the two, or force one source, with the ItemSource setting: see Where the starter items come from.

Smoked & dried food

Build a Wicker Drying Rack or a Clay Smokehouse (Hammer → R&R). Put up to 12 cooked dishes inside and add wood: 4 wood per dish, one dish finished every 12 game hours (about 10 real minutes). The food you load is shown on the shelves.

The wood you burn decides the quality, and it stays locked until that wood is used up:

| Wood | Quality | Extra duration | Extra health regen | Bonus |

|---|---|---:|---:|---:|

| Wood, Core Wood | Poor | +5 min | +1 / tick | 1 % |

| Fine Wood | Fine | +6 min | +2 / tick | 2 % |

| Elder Bark, Yggdrasil Wood, Blackwood, Frostwood | Best | +7 min | +3 / tick | 2 % |

Health, stamina, Eitr and regeneration are copied from the original dish. On top of that each dish carries one bonus:

| Bonus | Dishes |

|---|---:|

| Block stamina cost − | 9 |

| Run stamina cost − | 8 |

| Attack stamina cost − | 8 |

| Jump stamina cost − | 8 |

| Eitr cost when casting − | 7 |

| Dodge stamina cost − | 6 |

| Stamina regeneration + | 3 |

Eat up to three different dishes with the same bonus and they add up (Poor 1 %, Fine and Best 2 % each, so 6 % at most). The bonus lasts as long as the food does; nothing is permanent. A smoked dish and its plain original never take two food slots at once.

Herb garden

Plant with the Cultivator on cultivated ground (Meadows, Black Forest, Plains). Mature crops are only harvested.

| Crop | Planted from | Gives | Grows in |

|---|---|---|---:|

| Sunflower | Seeds | 1 Sunflower Head | 40 min |

| Sunflower | Head | 3 Seeds | 40 min |

| Mugwort | Seeds | 1 Mugwort Sprigs | 40