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Herbalist

by blacks7ar · for Valheim

A skill mod that makes dandelion and thistle useful early game, adds a new craftingstation, 3 healing tonics, 6 recovery tonics, 17 new pickable plants and 8 new elixirs.

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About Herbalist

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A skill mod that makes dandelion and thistle useful early game, adds a new craftingstation, 3 healing tonics, 6 recovery tonics, 17 new pickable plants and 8 new elixirs.

# Herbalist

A skill mod that makes dandelion and thistle useful early game, adds a new craftingstation, 3 healing tonics, 6 recovery tonics, 17 new pickable plants and 8 new elixirs.



>## ## Installation (manual)

  • extract Herbalist.dll file to your BepInEx\Plugins\ folder.


>## ## Features

  • Adds a new skill called Herbalist that you can level up by collecting/harvesting/picking up dandelions and thistles and other new pickable plants.
  • You can also level it up by crafting tonics and elixirs at the mortar and pestle.
  • Makes dandelions and thistle into a herbal medicine that can heal you overtime.
  • Adds 3 new healing tonics called MinorHealingTonic, MediumHealingTonic, and LargeHealingTonic that can heal you overtime.
  • Adds 6 new recovery tonics called MinorStaminaTonic, MediumStaminaTonic, LargeStaminaTonic, MinorEitrTonic, MediumEitrTonic, and LargeEitrTonic that can help you recover overtime.
  • Adds a new pickable plant called Chicory which spawns only at swamps, it can remove poison status effect and gives poison resist for a short amount of time.
  • Adds a new pickable plant called Daisy which spawns only at the mountains, it can remove freezing status effect and gives freezing resist for a short amount of time.
  • Adds 15 new pickable plants that will spawn to other biomes excluding ashlands and deepnorth.
  • Reduces potions cooldown and increases potions duration base on herbalist skill level. (Supports PotionPlus mod)
  • Configurable base heal amount, duration, and intervals for dandelion and thistle.
  • Configurable heal bonus factor and duration bonus factor for thistle and dandelion.
  • Configurable base heal amount, duration and intervals for all tonics.
  • Configurable level requirements for crafting tonics
  • Configurable exp gain factor for herbalist skill.
  • Heal overtime of dandelion and thistle is scaled by herbalist skill level.
  • Uses ServerSync and built-in ConfigWatcher.
  • Configurable through config file or Configuration Manager

Highlights

From source data

Loaders

Runs on BepInEx.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Dependencies

Needs 1 other project installed alongside it.

Herbalist on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Optional on the server
Server type needed
BepInEx
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
1.5.0, released 2026-09-14

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
BepInEx

From 25 recorded builds of Herbalist.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
1.5.02026-09-14n/aBepInEx
1.4.92026-09-13n/aBepInEx
1.4.82026-02-05n/aBepInEx
1.4.72025-10-20n/aBepInEx
1.4.62025-09-12n/aBepInEx
1.4.52025-03-11n/aBepInEx

Dependencies

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Herbalist on a Valheim server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Thunderstore as “Tweaks”

Quality of life & UI

Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.

Works on a server

From source side support

Thunderstore lists server-side support for Herbalist as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Compatibility

Game
Valheim
Loaders
BepInEx
Runs on
Serveroptional on the server
Requires
One-click install needs a BepInEx server. 1 other project installed alongside it.

Verified at the source

  • ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓Authorblacks7ar, as published on Thunderstore
  • ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree

Herbalist, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Herbalist?

Thunderstore lists server-side support for Herbalist as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.

Which loaders does it support?

BepInEx.

Is it free?

Yes. Herbalist is free to download from Thunderstore.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

NxLabs

Run Herbalist on a Valheim server.

Deploy in about a minute from $9.99 a month, then add Herbalist in one click.