Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
61 Achievements
1,300
60-80h
Green Thumb
Harvested 10 of each type of reagent.
15
How to unlock the Green Thumb achievement in Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning - Definitive Guide
There are 19 reagents that you must harvest 10 times each (Looting or buying dose not count) Reagents are also on a 2 day respawn (Except for Seaflax which is 3 days) You do not need to harvest Essence of Fate, it's the only reagent that you do not need to collect for the achievement.
If you are farming a certain reagent remember that you can sleep in a bed to pass the time and make it spawn again.
Also you do not need to have 10 of everything in your inventory at once, you can sell/use anything you harvest and it will still count.
If you leave this achievement until one of the last achievements that you go for, it will be very simple. By then you will most probably only be missing one or two reagents of the 19, Which are the rarer ones like White Flake,Scarab Salts or Seaflax.
I suggest first doing the ones in Seawatch like the Seaflax. If you do that and don't get the achievement then start to do the White Flake and what ever else you think you might not have.
How to get the Castle (Seawatch)
To start this quest travel to Klurikon - SeaWatch, Note that you will be unable to travel here until you have completed the quest "Breaking The Siege"
Once inside speak with Byrn Elgar. He will inform you that the previous tenants have left the castle over time, he also mentions that you're the only one deserving of the Castle it's self. But he may be a little crazy... After talking to him you will begin the quest "Ghost of Seawatch"
Now on to getting back the rest of the staff, starting with Conni.
Part One:
Find Conni:
Locate the Fae woman "Conni", she is inside the prison of Castle Ansilla, Western section. However one dose not simply enter Castle Ansilla. You will need to run around the side of the Castle to locate a drain pipe to get inside.
When inside you should receive a quest from "General Fynn" But it is not required to free Conni.
Find the Dungeon Key:
Upon talking to Conni, she'll tell you to locate a key to the prison gate in the Eastern part of the castle.
Open the Dungeon Door & Talk to Conni:
Return to Conni with the key to free her, Conni will be available to train you in Master Alchemy (7-9) inside Seawatch now. Then return to Byrn Elgar, when you return to Byrn he will start the second part of the quest.
Part Two:
Find Erion Odi:
To find Erion Odi your second retainer (Healer), go back to the North section of the Caeled Coast(Klurikon) to Odi's Camp. The Sergeant is more then willing to leave but wants a replacement first. Seek out Private Cornall to the southwest and convince him to replace the Sergeant. Return to Odi who heads off to Seawatch.
Part Three:
Once that's handled, go for the last servant, a merchant named "Astor Colliani" he will be ransacking corpses for money in Mel Senshir. Talk to the gnome merchant and take the dagger (a war trophy) he wants from the soldier in the tavern her name is Fridi Edstar. You can attempt to buy or persuade her. Return with the dagger to the gnome and he will make his way to Seawatch.
Congratulations, you now own the best castle in all of Amular.
Locations for Reagents:
Seawatch is one of the best places to farm reagents once you get the castle and all the upgrades you get a massive garden with several different reagents, so just sleep in the bed at the castle and keep farming. Remember that reagents are on a 2 day respawn (Except for Seaflax which is 3 days)
Seaflax - Seawatch & Fallen Hall (End of House of Sorrows story line, about 6 can be found here.).
Ysa's Breath - Seawatch.
Embereyes - Seawatch.
Sativa Fibers - Seawatch.
Leechwood Bark - Seawatch.
Bloodroot - Seawatch.
Scarlet Flowstone - Seawatch.
Scarwood Bark - Seawatch.
Star Thistle - Seawatch.
Sky Blossom - Seawatch.
Tindertwig - Seawatch.
Black Cohosh - Allestar Tower, start of the game, also found basically everywhere.
White Flake - Shardfall, top left of Cradle of Summer inside cave.
Eel Petal - Allestar Tower, at least 2 on the way to first town. also found basically everywhere.
Scarab Salts - Shardfall.
Softscrabble Powder - The Court of Winter, final warp point in the game, just warp and turn around.
Cripplespore Caps - Stonecandle Mines, first mine at start of game, also found in most caves.
Edelweiss - House of Valor, 2 inside warp point, big white bush, also all over the desert.
Prismere Dust - The Court of Winter,Red Marches & Cynic Quarry in Apotyre.
If you find this solution to be unhelpful, please tell me why in a comment and I will update it the next time I'm online.
- Don't start this until you've discovered a decent part of the world. Fast traveling is WAY easier than running.
- Max out your alchemy skill. See a fateweaver if you have to.
- Have a piece of paper next to you, and write down the name of each reagent. Every time you HARVEST one (not buy/loot/reward), count it down to keep track.
credit goes to TehVGG
If you are farming a certain reagent remember that you can sleep in a bed to pass the time and make it spawn again.
Also you do not need to have 10 of everything in your inventory at once, you can sell/use anything you harvest and it will still count.
If you leave this achievement until one of the last achievements that you go for, it will be very simple. By then you will most probably only be missing one or two reagents of the 19, Which are the rarer ones like White Flake,Scarab Salts or Seaflax.
I suggest first doing the ones in Seawatch like the Seaflax. If you do that and don't get the achievement then start to do the White Flake and what ever else you think you might not have.
How to get the Castle (Seawatch)
To start this quest travel to Klurikon - SeaWatch, Note that you will be unable to travel here until you have completed the quest "Breaking The Siege"
Once inside speak with Byrn Elgar. He will inform you that the previous tenants have left the castle over time, he also mentions that you're the only one deserving of the Castle it's self. But he may be a little crazy... After talking to him you will begin the quest "Ghost of Seawatch"
Now on to getting back the rest of the staff, starting with Conni.
Part One:
Find Conni:
Locate the Fae woman "Conni", she is inside the prison of Castle Ansilla, Western section. However one dose not simply enter Castle Ansilla. You will need to run around the side of the Castle to locate a drain pipe to get inside.
When inside you should receive a quest from "General Fynn" But it is not required to free Conni.
Find the Dungeon Key:
Upon talking to Conni, she'll tell you to locate a key to the prison gate in the Eastern part of the castle.
Open the Dungeon Door & Talk to Conni:
Return to Conni with the key to free her, Conni will be available to train you in Master Alchemy (7-9) inside Seawatch now. Then return to Byrn Elgar, when you return to Byrn he will start the second part of the quest.
Part Two:
Find Erion Odi:
To find Erion Odi your second retainer (Healer), go back to the North section of the Caeled Coast(Klurikon) to Odi's Camp. The Sergeant is more then willing to leave but wants a replacement first. Seek out Private Cornall to the southwest and convince him to replace the Sergeant. Return to Odi who heads off to Seawatch.
Part Three:
Once that's handled, go for the last servant, a merchant named "Astor Colliani" he will be ransacking corpses for money in Mel Senshir. Talk to the gnome merchant and take the dagger (a war trophy) he wants from the soldier in the tavern her name is Fridi Edstar. You can attempt to buy or persuade her. Return with the dagger to the gnome and he will make his way to Seawatch.
Congratulations, you now own the best castle in all of Amular.
Locations for Reagents:
Seawatch is one of the best places to farm reagents once you get the castle and all the upgrades you get a massive garden with several different reagents, so just sleep in the bed at the castle and keep farming. Remember that reagents are on a 2 day respawn (Except for Seaflax which is 3 days)
Seaflax - Seawatch & Fallen Hall (End of House of Sorrows story line, about 6 can be found here.).
Ysa's Breath - Seawatch.
Embereyes - Seawatch.
Sativa Fibers - Seawatch.
Leechwood Bark - Seawatch.
Bloodroot - Seawatch.
Scarlet Flowstone - Seawatch.
Scarwood Bark - Seawatch.
Star Thistle - Seawatch.
Sky Blossom - Seawatch.
Tindertwig - Seawatch.
Black Cohosh - Allestar Tower, start of the game, also found basically everywhere.
White Flake - Shardfall, top left of Cradle of Summer inside cave.
Eel Petal - Allestar Tower, at least 2 on the way to first town. also found basically everywhere.
Scarab Salts - Shardfall.
Softscrabble Powder - The Court of Winter, final warp point in the game, just warp and turn around.
Cripplespore Caps - Stonecandle Mines, first mine at start of game, also found in most caves.
Edelweiss - House of Valor, 2 inside warp point, big white bush, also all over the desert.
Prismere Dust - The Court of Winter,Red Marches & Cynic Quarry in Apotyre.
If you find this solution to be unhelpful, please tell me why in a comment and I will update it the next time I'm online.
You need to harvest (not just find/loot) ten each of the reagents below. Putting points into Alchemy will increase the chance of harvesting. All harvest points will respawn after some time, so sleep at a bed if you need to use the same spawn points. Names and locations are as follows (note that you have to complete a side quest to rebuild Seawatch before reagents will spawn there):
- Bloodroot - Seawatch, located to the left of Caeled Coast on the map.
- Seaflax - Seawatch.
- Scarlet Flowstone - Seawatch by alchemical lab.
- Scarwood Bark - Seawatch.
- Sky Blossom - Seawatch.
- Tindertwig - Seawatch.
- Black Cohosh - Allestar Tower, start of the game, also found basically everywhere.
- White Flake - Shardfall, top left of Cradle of Summer, inside cave.
- Eel Petal - Allestar Tower, at least 2 on the way to first town in the game.
- Scarab Salts - Shardfall.
- Star Thistle - Seawatch.
- Softscrabble Powder - The Court of Winter, final warp point in the game, just warp and turn around.
- Sativa Fibers - Seawatch.
- Cripplespore Caps - Stonecandle Mines, first mine at start of game, also found in most caves.
- Edelweiss - House of Valor, 2 inside warp point, big white bush, also all over the desert.
- Ysa's Breath - Seawatch.
- Embereyes - Seawatch.
- Leechwood Bark - Seawatch.
- Prismere Dust - The Court of Winter.
The only exception to the Harvest rule seems to be Essence of Fate. This can be looted from bodies after using Reckoning and it counts toward your ten. More help with this achievement can be found HERE. If at the end of the game you don't have this achievement, sell all your reagents and then start Prismere Dust, harvesting ten of everything. Do not loot anything other than Essence of Fate! This will help you easily earn the achievement.
You will either get a reagent, or find no reagent at all. The higher your Alchemy skill, the higher the chance you’ll harvest a reagent. With a level 10 Alchemy skill, you pretty much harvest a reagent all the time.
You can check all your reagents by going to your Inventory menu > Items > Crafting > Reagent Bag. The list keeps track of all your found and looted reagents, not just the one's you've harvested, so it isn't very accurate.
Reagents:
- Bloodroot
- Seaflex
- Scarlet Flowstone
- Scarwood Bark
- Sky Blossom
- Tindertwig
- Black Cohosh
- White Flake
- Eel Petal
- Scarab Salts
- Star Thistle
- Softscrabble Powder
- Sativa Fibers
- Cripplespore Caps
- Edelweiss
- Ysa's Breath
- Embereyes
- Leechwood Bark
- Prismere Dust
If you're not sure how many of each you've harvested, sell all your reagents and start to harvest (and don't pick up any as loot) 10 of each reagent. Start with the one's which you had the least of. (Such as Prismere Dust for example.) However, only do this if you haven't obtained this trophy when you've pretty much obtained all the other trophies.
An other great place to harvest most of the reagents is Castle Seawatch. You'll need to upgrade it first via a quest though.
Conditions for receiving it:
- it is necessary to collect 10 copies of reagents of each type, except for Essence of Fate (i.e. 19 types out of 20)
- Only those reagents that you collect directly from the bush count (those purchased, found in chests, enemy corpses, etc. do not count)
- You don’t have to have reagents with you, all collected during the game are taken into account
- from the beginning of the game, collect reagents from bushes by running past them, useful for both alchemy and trophies
- pump up alchemy to maximum values, because the probability of collecting a reagent from a bush depends on the value of the skill, it will save a lot of time (in the middle of the game 4-6, by the end up to 9-10)
- Of course, it makes sense to be one of the last to receive it, because... a lot of things will already be collected during the passage of the game and the map should already be open (Alabastra should also be almost all open)
- All bushes in the game are renewable, the respawn time of reagents is 48 hours. To renew your bushes, sleep on a bed.
- when you decide that it’s time to get a trophy, it makes sense to dump all the reagents into junk and start taking them only from bushes for general visual statistics.
- Reactants grow in certain areas and are encountered with varying degrees of frequency. If you systematically collect herbs from the bushes from the beginning of the game to the end, this trophy will most likely drop out on its own. However, if it does not fall out, it is recommended to start with the selected reagents, as the rarest (primarily Prismere Dust).
- Prismere Dust - The Court of Winter. Dark Glow Caverns (Shadow Pass)
- Tindertwig - Seawatch, according to the quest you need to rebuild it first.
- Sativa Fibers - Seawatch, Scholia Arcana Rathir (more recommendations )
- Leechwood Bark - Seawatch
- White Flake - Shardfall.
- Scarab Salts - Shardfall
- Seaflax - Seawatch (more recommendations )
- Bloodroot - Seawatch, Scholia Arcana Rathir
- Scarlet Flowstone - Seawatch
- Scarwood Bark - Seawatch
- Sky Blossom - Seawatch
- Black Cohosh - Allestar Tower.
- Eel Petal - Allestar Tower.
- Star Thistle - Seawatch. Scholia Arcana Rathir
- Softscrabble Powder - The Court of Winter. Scholia Arcana Rathir
- Cripplespore Caps - Stonecandle Mines.
- Edelweiss - House of Valor.
- Ysa's Breath - Seawatch. Scholia Arcana Rathir
- Embereyes - Seawatch
Video guide to reagents (though not everything the author says during the guide is true, but you can watch it for general information).