Alchemist herb growth rate

[AngelFist]

Hi Folks,

the Board is full of Alchemist topics here and there.
Everyone being fancy about the cool herb duping feat.
But no actual numbers are provided til now.

After a little testing i figured out:

You just need one Herb to dublicate. Amount of stacks and stack size don´t matter.
Tiles walked with Herb in Inventory does not matter.
There are certain thresholds of tiles walked after wich herbs dublicate (i.e. If you put the herb in to the inventory 10 steps before a threshold is reached and then walk 10 tiles it dublicates)

Thresholds:

Blooddrop Cap: 850
Etherweed: 930
Mudwort: 1950
Falconskyre: 2500
Blackmoss: 3700
Crystal Flower 4500

At every multiple of the treshhold the games checks if a certain herb is in inventory. If yes you get one additional. (Something like that.)
There is no failchance or randomness (or it is too small to notice.)
Alchemy skill does not affect growth rate (provided by Tarami).

Testing was done with alchemists of lvl1.
Maybe growth rates get better with higher lvls.

Happy Duping

[Darklord]

Good work, interesting to know!

Daniel.

[Tarami]

Nice data!

I tested whether Alchemy affects growth rates. It doesn't.

[Saice]

Thank you for this. Vary useful

[sapientCrow]

interesting.
so with the threshold aspect does this mean each herb has its own quasi exp table?
so it does not auto dupe each x steps but multiplies?

[Jad]

Will they still duplicate if you stored all your herbs in a container?

*EDIT: Tested it, they will duplicate even if inside a container. The duplicates will be placed in said container as well.

[Ichthyic]

wait... you actually counted 4500 steps?

gotta be an easier way, or am I missing something?

[Dirminxia]

Getting large amount of steps seems easiest to me once you open the desert.

SpoilerShow

I duped 2 crystal flowers before i even finished the golems off.

[Ichthyic]

also, I just realized the game counts the steps for you, on the stats page.

doh.

[sapientCrow]

think my next playthrough will be 1 farmer and 2 alchemists. I will turn the Farmer into a God.