Herb & Fable: The Wayfarers Quest and Communal Planting Beds

If you played the Willowton Cuthbert & Canny Valley Quest at Fantasy Faire this year (to the end) you’ll have interacted with a Yew tree, contributing water to it along with other players. This was a test prototype of what would become Communal planting beds.

The Yew Tree fom the Willowton Cuthbert Quest 2026. Image courtesy of Softpaw, fellow Fantasy Faire blogger.

The Yew Heart, used to receive offerings to the Tree, as we now contribute to Communal Beds. Photo by Dark Bloodstome.

Communal planting beds work in the same way as the tree did, except some players must contribute seeds and not just water. When the bed has had enough seeds and water contributed, the plant will grow, then when it is harvested everyone that contributed something, will receive the grown product.

Obviously since the beds are producing more at harvest, the number of seeds and water are much higher than regular planting beds.

So far Julala has only released Communal versions of the Pumpkin, Plantain, Poppy and Marigold beds, all the other beds will be added in due course.

Below you can see that hovertext on the beds shows how many of each ingredient is still required for the plant to grow.

When a plant has grown and been harvested, you will usually get a message such as:

The object 'HnF_poppy_cobed' has sent you a message from Second Life:
🌿 The communal HnF_poppy_seed_head you helped grow in Bee Leaf has been harvested! Your reward is on its way.

You must then rez your HnF Mailbox from the Welcome Pack and click it to receive your items. If you’ve contributed to multiple beds, you may well have multiple pending items:

[04:47:24] HnF User Mailbox (m): Checking for pending items...
[04:47:24] HnF User Mailbox (m): Processing item: HnF_seedhead_plantain
[04:47:30] Second Life: HnF_plants-1 owned by Julala Fairelander gave you 'HnF_seedhead_plantain' ( Jinx (159,46,2457) ).
[04:47:45] HnF User Mailbox (m): Wait, while I check if there are any more pending items....
[04:47:45] HnF User Mailbox (m): Processing item: HnF_poppy_flowers
[04:47:49] Second Life: HnF_plants-1 owned by Julala Fairelander gave you 'HnF_poppy_flowers' ( Jinx (159,46,2457) ).
[04:48:06] HnF User Mailbox (m): Wait, while I check if there are any more pending items....
[04:48:06] HnF User Mailbox (m): Processing item: HnF_poppy_seed_head
[04:48:12] Second Life: HnF_plants-1 owned by Julala Fairelander gave you 'HnF_poppy_seed_head' ( Jinx (159,46,2457) ).
[04:48:26] HnF User Mailbox (m): Wait, while I check if there are any more pending items....
[04:48:26] HnF User Mailbox (m): All pending items processed.

This is all very well you may think, but how do I find all these communal beds to contribute to?

Introducing the Wayfarers Quest!

The Wayfarers Quest is a new traveling quest from Herb & Fable that links locations that have communal planting beds and possibly other H&F resources.

The Wayfaring HUD, free from the Mainstore.

Clicking the Explore button brings up a menu that lets you find available Waystone locations using various criteria.

The current list shown when you choose “Newest” from the Explore menu.

Setting up a Waystone

Central to the Wayfaring quest is the Waystone, each player can have a maximum of 5 Waystones which must be on different land parcels and have at least one communal planting bed.

Click your Waystone to start the process of registering your location in the Wayfaring Directory.

The Landing Point you set doesn’t have to be close to the Waystone, you can rez (hide?) the stone wherever you want then wander off to where you want people to arrive then click the button. So long as it’s within the same land parcel. If you have Teleport routing on your parcel, you may want to adjust it accordingly or turn it off.

Configure your Waystone listing