Julala recently added a requested feature to Herb & Fable website that allows you to see which badges you still have Yet to Get.
I was surprised how many I was missing, so I’ve been working to try and catch up with the missing tasks.
One group of badges I noticed I was missing were those for the Haynei Iris. The iris beds let you grow flowers, petals and seed pods. The latter is important, since this plant was only available briefly as a fundraiser and seeds aren’t often available, but can be traded. Fortunately I snagged a few packets of seeds when they were at Fantasy Faire this year.
Of the other products you can grow, the petals currently don’t have a use, but the flowers give you a pretty powerful stats boost of 50% across the board:
I was missing more of the rituals than I realised, but have decided I’ll cover those at their corresponding times of year.
While I was writing this post some other missing badges appeared on the site, Julala released the Manifestation Ritual & Lions Gate Portal. More on those soon!
We recently got alcohol in Herb & Fable and of course, as people may know it can make you feel a little worse for wear. and one thing that’s really helpful to make you feel a little better is a fry up! Now we’re not quite there yet, but I do have for you today a few new Herb & Fable things for you all to see and go play with. We have beds and seeds for growing Plantain and a new gadget; a frying pan (which might get bacon and eggs one day, who knows?).
The Plantain beds allow you to grow either Leaves or Seedheads, the latter of which you can fry up in the new pan.
The grown plants:
The harvested produce:
The seedheads are fried up in the pan with some sunflower oil and a little black pepper.
[13:15:05] HnF_frying_pan: HnF_plantain_seeds_fry requires the following ingredients: HnF_sunflower_oil: 1 HnF_seedhead_plantain: 4 HnF_black_pepper: 1 It will take 5.00 minutes to make
Well that’s the seedheads processed, what do we do with the leaves then? We get the vodka out and make a tincture of course, in the small Kilner Jar:
15:32:38] HnF_kilner_jar_250ml: HnF_plantain_tincture requires the following ingredients: HnF_100_vodka: 3 HnF_leaves_plantain: 6 It will take 2.50 minutes to make
You’ll see above that you need 6 of the leaves to make the tincture, however since you only get 3 leaves from the plant when you harvest, you’ll need to grow 2 lots of leaves.
[15:21:14] HnF_leaves_plantain: Ava Bloodrose you received 3 of item: HnF_leaves_plantain
Your final product, Plantain tincture:
Head over to the Herb & Fable store to get the new stuff!
It’s that time of year again, the build up to a single day when people are supposed to show love to their special person. The shops are all decked out in pink or red and the price of flowers skyrockets, not to mention the price of restaurant bookings. Linden Lab even gets in on the action with an 18 day Shop & Hop.
If you have someone in your life, that’s great, but shouldn’t be showing your feelings throughout the year?
What about yourself? Everyone needs to show themselves a bit of self-care occasionally too, so Herb & Fable have released a Self Love Spell, to give yourself that bit of a boost.
The Rose bed lets you grow the Rose bush for both Petals and Flowers, but don’t forget your Gardening Gloves when harvesting them!
Your spell ingredients
The Spell is performed using the Ritual Bowl. There’s no end “product” of the spell, but you do earn three badges and the Rose you grow makes a lovely decor item.
HnF_ritual_bowl: HnF_self_love_spell requires the following ingredients: HnF_self_love_spell: 1 HnF_sea_salt: 1 HnF_petals_red_rose: 1 HnF_lavender_sprig: 1 HnF_rose_quartz_small: 1 HnF_pink_spell_candle: 1 water: 1 It will take 10.0 minutes to make
You’ll also need some sea salt from the store and a Lavender sprig, for the latter you’ll have to grow some lavender. If you didn’t do the Lavendell Quest, you’ll need to go there and buy the Quest pack for 1L$ then go to the store and get the Updated Lavender bed and buy some seeds, so you don’t need to do the whole Quest if you don’t want to.
Most importantly though with this Spell is how it makes you feel,make sure you have some peaceful time to yourself to do it, so you can relax and enjoy it’s benefits. Even if you have to wear some earphones to shut out your surroundings and listen to audio narration of the spell, it’ll make a difference.
Well… yes and no. There’s Vodka but it’s not really for drinking, it’s for making tinctures.
In this first instance you’ll be making a Red Clover tincture in the new processor, a 250ml Kilner jar.
As in the physical world you need an awful lot of flowers to make a small amount of liquid. In this case you will need 20 red clover flowers to go with 3 shots of Vodka, which means having 5 clover beds out at once if you want to grow them all at once.
HnF_red_clover_bed: HnF_flowers_red_clover requires the following ingredients for planting: HnF_red_clover_seeds: 2 water: 2 It will take 30.0 minutes to make
If you do choose to try drinking the Vodka (by setting it to be Produce rather than Ingredient on first click), you can’t then use the rest in tinctures.
I’ll leave my open bottle on the bar in my tavern if anyone wants to try.
When you use your Vodka for it’s intended purpose, you’ll receive your bottle of tintcture
HnF_kilner_jar_250ml: You gave 3 of item: HnF_100_vodka & 20 of item: HnF_flowers_red_clover.
As you can see above, you can also make a Stinging Nettle tincture that needs the following ingredients and to save you working it out, that 1440 minutes to make is a whole 24 hours.
HnF_kilner_jar_250ml: HnF_s_nettle_tincture requires the following ingredients: HnF_100_vodka: 3 HnF_stingingnettleleaves: 10 It will take 1440 minutes to make
Head over to the Herb & Fable store to get the new stuff!
It’s now been a month since I wrote anything here, I was hibernating. Everyone else was blogging or vlogging their Christmas and New Year’s messages while I just curled up and tried to avoid as much of it as possible after Christmas day.
During that time there’s been a few new releases from Cinnamon and Herb & Fable I’d like to share with you all. Today will be the Cinnamon items and the Herb & Fable ones will be coming soon.
The Chocolate Kit lets you make 6 chocolate bars you can consume, or use as ingredients to make two different types of chocolate drinks. Then there’s the Fondue set that allows you to make chocolate coated strawberry skewers.
Chocolate kit Contents:
Chocolate kit recipe stages:
My favourite thing in the chocolate kit is the Mexican chocolate drink, which comes in a huge bowl, now if you were presented with one of these, would you not have a maniacal grin on your face too?
Fondue kit ingredients:
The fondue kit lets you make a plate of 6 chocolate strawberries, or individual skewers, but if you do make an indidual one, you’ll run out of strawberries to make the plateful, the plate also requires you to make 2 lots of chocolate sauce so that you have enough in your pouch for that many strawberries.
I do have some other news of things happening in my Second Life that will be sharing in due course near the end of the month. This may interest Herb & Fable players, as well as any other Witchy folks.
In the spirit of the season and upcoming festivities of Yule and Christmas, Herb & Fable have released some ingredients and produce.
Mulled Wine
This spicy drink is made in the Saucepan and doesn’t even need stirring!
[11:18] HnF_saucepan: HnF_mulled_wine requires the following ingredients: HnF_red_wine: 5 HnF_star_anise: 2 HnF_cinnamon: 1 HnF_orange_slices: 1 HnF_cloves: 4 HnF_lemon_zest: 1 HnF_sugar: 1 It will take 15.0 minutes to make
You first need to slice your Oranges however:
[12:23] HnF_simple_chopping_board: HnF_orange_slices requires the following ingredients: HnF_oranges: 1 It will take 2.50 minutes to make
Yule Clove Orange
This is made using the Crafting Table and is, I think, quite charming when completed.
[11:18] HnF_craft_table: HnF_yule_clove_orange requires the following ingredients: HnF_oranges: 1 HnF_ribbon_red: 1 HnF_cloves: 40 It will take 10.0 minutes to make
Orange String Decor
Also made using the Craft Table is this seasonal decor.
[11:19] HnF_craft_table: HnF_orange_deco_string requires the following ingredients: HnF_oranges_dried: 7 HnF_string: 1 It will take 10.0 minutes to make
Which requires some more slicing and then drying the slices in the oven:
[11:31] HnF_primitive_oven: HnF_oranges_dried requires the following ingredients: HnF_orange_slices: 7 It will take 120. minutes to make
These tasks all take very little time to complete, except for the drying of the Orange slices, which takes a couple of hours in the oven.
All the ingredients are now in the Herb & Fable store.
Julula has been very busy lately before and since the Samhain Ritual, so I have plenty to show you.
We have a couple of new plants we can grow and from those some crafting of accessories and produce.
New plants: Poppies and Marigolds
New Processor: Knife & Chopping board
New items & produce: Copper wire, Poppy pin, Poppy hair accessory, Marigold tea and Marigold cleanser (as in one you drink to cleanse your system)
Marigold beds let you grow multiple items, leaves, flowers and roots to create different things, the Poppy bed lets you grow flowers and seed heads.
First the Poppies, you can use the Crafting table to make the hairpiece and the broach pin with some copper wire.
Unlike other plants, when you take the Poppy flowers into your Pouch, the flowers don’t get the red hovertext for composting, they’re too pretty to throw away. They make nice decor instead, like those behind me in the header image.
Note: you get 3 copper wire in a pack and a broach or pin requires 1 each. Grown poppies give you 6 flowers, so you’ll need extra wire to make the most of your Poppy leaves.
Since the Marigold beds let you grow more things, you can do more with them. To make the tea you use the leaves and the flowers in your Teapot, along with some honey.
Making the Cleanser is done by using the new Chopping board & Knife to cut it up, then heat it in the Saucepan with some water.
Note: You get 5 Marigold seeds in a packet, but each product requires 2, so you’ll need 2 packets to make everything described.
Last but not least there’s the Recycling Unit, I’d accumulated an awful lot of “waste” items waiting for this release, when it came to rezzing them out, I realised I actually had more than I thought!
Just in time for All Hallows Eve Jinx has released a Samhain personal Ritual. There is also of course a Herb & Fable version free when you buy the Ritual pack.
This time of year the Veil between the world of the living and the dead becomes thinner, at its thinnest on Halloween. Remember and cherish the memories of loved ones now passed in this powerful ritual.
The HUD guides you through the steps of the ritual with text and audio narration, animating your avatar throughout.
Inviting friendly spirits to visit our sacred space.
Toasting the Dead
Please do read the Trigger Warning at the beginning of the instruction notecard. If you are still grieving for someone recently passed, this ritual could bring to the surface overwhelming emotions.
If you would like to participate in a group Samhain Ritual, Julula ( the owner of Jinx and creator of Herb & Fable) will be holding one on 1st November at 1pm SLT on the Centauria region.
The Samhain Ritual is now available store linked below.
Note on the Herb & Fable version: To perform the ritual requires you to have a carved Jack O Lantern from the Pumpkin Pack I featured previously.
In the time it took between me buying the Pumpkin Pack and publishing my last blog post that featured it,a couple of extra activities have been added.
Pumpkin Flower Tea
I mentioned in my last post that the pumpkin growing beds also let you grow pumpkin flowers, now you can make those into tea using the rustic teapot.
When you grow pumpkin flowers and take them into your Pouch, you’ll receive three portions: HnF_pumpkin_flower: Ava Bloodrose you received 3 of item: HnF_pumpkin_flower
The recipe for Pumpkin Flower Tea is as follows;
HnF_rustic_teapot: HnF_pumpkin_flower_tea requires the following ingredients: HnF_hot_water: 1 HnF_pumpkin_flower: 1 HnF_honey: 1 It will take 5.00 minutes to make
Jack O Lantern
It wouldn’t be Spooky Season without Pumpkin carving, would it? So now you can make your own Herb & Fable Jack O Lantern.
HnF_craft_table: HnF_jack-o-lantern requires the following ingredients: HnF_pumpkin: 1 It will take 30.0 minutes to make
Obviously you need a knife and a table on which to carve your pumpkin. The Crafting Table is free as part of the Lavendell Quest and the Knife comes with the First Wand pack from the store.
In the spirit of the spooky season, Herb & Fable have released a Pumpkin Pie set along with the various ingredients in the store allowing you to make more when you run out.
The pie pack gives you enough ingredients to make three pies, which is a multi-step process.
So what to do with this lot? Let’s check out the recipe cards, you can add them from your inventory and they display on screen.
To make Pumkin Pie you will need:
1 x HnF_pumpkin_pie_mix 1 x HnF_pastry_case 1 x HnF_icing_sugar
First you need to heat your pumpkin in the Saucepan which takes half an hour. Since the pan is copyable, I’ve put three out to heat at once, they’re also Modifiable so I resized them too.
To cook the pumkin you will need:
1 x HnF_pumpkin 3 x water
While the pumpkin is cooking you can start on making the pie mix.
To make Pumkin Pie Mix you will need:
1 x HnF_cooked_pumpkin 1 x HnF_pumpkin_pie_spice 2 x HnF_eggs 1 x HnF_milk 1 x HnF_sugar 1 x HnF_sea_salt 1 x HnF_butter
So before we can make pie mix, it looks like we need to make some pumpkin spice using the mortar & pestle to grind up some of the ingredients.
To make Pumkin Pie Spice you will need:
1 x HnF_ground_ginger 1 x HnF_grated_nutmeg 1 x HnF_cinnamon 1 x HnF_allspice 1 x HnF_black_pepper
After you’ve done all that, you should then have cooked pumpkin and pumpkin spice to use as ingredients for the next steps.
Once you have both your cooked pumpkin and spice, you’ll need to mix them together in your mixing bowl.
When that’s done, you’ll have pumpkin pie mix,that can go in the oven with the pie case as per the pie recipe. When they’re baked you’ll have some pies that look lovely and which will restore yourHHerb & Fable health stats when used.
As with cooking in the real world, a lot of mess has been made of empty containers and leftover produce, so your workspace may look something like the picture below. You can see that the items now have red hovertext over them, meaning you can either recycle the containers or compost the food waste.
But now of course you probably want to make some more? No problem! You can grow your own pumpkins with the Pumpkin Beds and seeds, with the other ingredients also available in the Herb & Fable store.
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If you look here though, it’s not just actual pumpkins that you can make, but pumpkin seeds and pumpkin flowers as well.
