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- The info on this page is in the process of being adjusted. Pardon the odd format until it is complete. See the Talk page for info.
- If you want to learn to feed your plant while revisions are being made to this page, see the Care and Feeding Guide.
There are two ways to add this house pet, a hungry-looking carnivorous plant, to your home. There are three colors available, but they have the same functions. All three colors are shown near the bottom of this page.
- It can be purchased with 15 Loyalty Point Tokens from a Loyalty Merchant.
- If you purchased the retail version of the Kingdom of Sky expansion, use the slash command /claim. The claimed version of this plant was limited to one per account.
- This house pet has special interactive features, described below.
Special Interactive Features
Most of the pets that can be placed in a house have a variety of interactive features like the ability to make it stay, do a trick, and sleep. Most also have a "feed" interaction, but using it only activates a animated action (eg. feeding a Baby Dragon pepper makes it sneeze).
The carnivorous plants are different because they have a few interactive features that serve a purpose; if used correctly (and if you are lucky) they reward you with a useful item. If you don't use them correctly (and are unlucky) you may get a useless piece of rotten fruit placed in your inventory instead.
- The potential useful items you can get from the plant are single-use charms that do one of the following:
- Root a single-target
- Increase movement speed
- Power increase
- Single-target heat damage
- Allow the caster to shrink/grow
- Make you invisible
- Group evac
- Increase attack speed
- Heal
- Give you a food item for out of combat health regeneration
Overview and Terminology
Once you understand the basic process of interacting with you plant, you can give it common loot in exchange for useful items that work like charms. The first few times you do this it may seem complicated, so this guide was created to make learning the secrets of the plant easy.
- Though people commonly refer to the all of the menu options to interact with this plant as "feeding," only one of the options you'll see is labeled as such. For the sake of simplicity and to prevent confusion, the following terminology will be use here:
- Feed: refers to the action you take when you give the plant a bone.
- Water: refers to the action you take when you give the plant water.
- Fertilize: refers to the action you take when you use fertilizer on the plant.
- There are several looted items you can give to your plant using the interactive menu options. The terminology used here to describe those is as follows:
- Ingredient: refers to any of the looted items you can give to the plant
- The are three different ingredient categories that include fertilizer, water, and bone
- Recipe: refers to the many ways you can combine the ingredients to get a desired result.
- Working Combinations: refers to the recipes that have been found to produce a specific item.
- Ingredient: refers to any of the looted items you can give to the plant
- The owner of the plant can right click on it and use the Stay command so it won't wander while it's being fed.
- You do not have to own a plant in order feed it. You can visit someone else's house and feed their plant instead to get the same results. If the plant you are feeding is not your own and you can't use the Stay command, be prepared to chase it around the house a bit!
The Ingredients
- In order to get an item from your plant, you need to combine fertilizer, water, and bones that are dropped by/looted from intelligent creatures (mobs) in various zones.
- How many of each ingredient you need and what you will receive in return is shown below in the Working Combinations section.
- The names and cash value of the ingredients vary and are based on the level of the mob that dropped them.
- As mentioned above, what you receive in return for feeding the plant seems to be effected by level of the ingredients you use; the item the plant gives you back scales to match level of the lowest-level ingredient that it was fed.
- If you have ingredients of the same type with various levels in your bag or bank when you feed the plant, the lowest-level ingredients are consumed first, .
- The ingredients you need to feed your plant are looted while you are out adventuring. They are fairly common loot from intelligent mobs (that is, from creatures that generally have a language and culture, rather than bugs or similar monsters).
- The level of the looted ingredients you feed the plant seems to directly effect what you get in return.
- You don't have to have the ingredients in your inventory at the time to interact with the plant. They can be in your bank vault instead.
- If you have multiple ingredients (of the same categories) from different tiers (levels) in your bank, items from a lower tier may get used before higher tier ones in your inventory. This does not apply to any items you have in on the broker, including those not up for sale.
The level and names of the items you can feed a plant are as follows:
| Level | Fertilizer | Water | Bone |
| 10 | pouch of peat | flask of rancid water | small decaying bone |
| 20 | small bag of ammonium sulfate | flask of stale water | large decaying bone |
| 30 | small bag of muriate of potash | flask of pond water | small polished bone |
| 40 | small bag of diatomaceous earth | flask of fresh water | large polished bone |
| 50 | small bag of ammonium nitrate | flask of pure water | small meaty bone |
| 60 | This Tier had reported bugs that may or may not be fixed. Mobs in this Tier may drop T5 or T7 ingredients instead. | ||
| 70 | small bag of compost | flask of enchanted water | large meaty bone |
| 80 | bag of tundra compost | flask of glacial water | large frostbitten |
Note: Higher tiers of of fertilizer, water, and bones may only be used with a herbalist hireling (a guild hall amenity) in Guild Halls.
Combing Ingredients
The interactive menu (interface) for a pet carnivorous plant.
Feeding, watering, and fertilizing are all done via the right-click menu options on the plant when it is placed in a house.
When you have enough ingredients from the table above, you're ready to interact with the plant and attempt to get an item (mostly charms) from it. If you want to receive a specific item, how much and what you feed the plant matters. See the table in the Working Combinations section below for details. The complete process to feed the plant and receive and item in return will vary by the desired outcome.
- Before you begin, the plant must be placed in a home in order to feed it.
- Combing the items is not unlike a recipe; in order to receive an item in return you must give the plant at least one ingredient of each type (fertilizer, water, and bone).
- The order in which you use the special interactions to give the plant ingredients has no effect on the outcome, but for consistency's sake, we use the order fertilize, water, feed.
- The recipes are flexible, allowing you to combine 1-5 of any of the ingredients types. For that reason, the process is not a specific series of steps (like a quest). How many ingredients of each type you combine will produce a specific item in return. For example, if you want a Lightning root you will give the plant 2 fertilizers, 2 waters, and 2 bones. Altering the number of any of those ingredients will yield a different result.
- The interaction you you choose will be determined by the ingredient type you feed the plant. For example, you will choose the "water" option from the list when you are feeding the plant a water ingredient.
- Right-click on the plant and select the fertilize option. Repeat as many times as are needed, based on what you'd like to receive in return.
- Follow the same process for water.
- Follow the same process
- Follow the same for the feed option.
- Once you have given it the desired combination of items, right-click and use the check soil option.
Working Combinations
These are combinations that we know will work and provide useful items. If you give the plant a combination that it doesn't like, you will receive a piece of rotten fruit that is good for ... absolutely nothing! Stats for the charms (listed under the results section of the table) will vary based on the level of the player at the time they interact with the plant.
As stated above, these results will scale based on the level of the ingredients you use to create them. Some of the linked images provided here may be list incorrect stats, but they should give you a general idea of what they might be like.
- Locate the charm (result) you want and combine the exact number of ingredients listed in its row.
| Result | Fertilizer | Water | Bones |
| Entwining roots (single-target root) | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Short Root (movement speed increase) | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Power root (power increase) | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Flame root (single target heat damage) | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Toadstool (shrink/grow) | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Shifting root (self-invis) | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Escape Root (group evac, few seconds to cast) | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Lightning root (attack speed increase) | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Mending Root (heal) | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Fresh fruit (food item - out of combat health regen) | * | * | * |
- *There are several working combination that are valid for fresh fruit. Combine in same manner as above for fertilizer/water/bone: 1/1/1/, 1/1/2, 1/1/3, 1/1/4, 1/1/5, 1/1/9, 1/2/1, 1/3/1, 1/3/3, 1/4/1, 1/9/1, 2/1/1, 2/1/4, 2/2/3, 2/3/2, 2/3/3, 2/1/2, 2/2/1, 3/1/3, 3/2/2/, 3/2/1, 3/3/1, 3/3/2, 3/3/3, 4/4/4, 4/5/3, 5/3/4, 6/6/6, 9/1/1, 10/10/10
It has been reported (but not yet confirmed) that you can only get the Escape Root once per week. For this reason, don't be surprised if you get a fresh fruit instead using the combination shown in the table above.
(Note from EQ2 Traders) There is only a 25% chance on the 5/5/5 combination of receiving an escape root. The rest of the time you will receive either fresh or rotten fruit.
Getting AA and Experience
Carnivorous plant recipes are like quests, using them for the first time will grant you Experience if you are in the proper level range. It is unclear if the recipe level, based on the Tier of items you give the plant, effects the amount of experience you gain.
Color Options
You can choose which color you want your plant to be and the features and functions will be the same for each one.
Credits
This guide owes significant thanks to one of EQ2s most helpful (and funny) tradekill "reporters," Naimi Denmother. The vast majority of the information here was adapted from her website announcement about the plants, the table of items we can give it, the "recipes" to get what we want, and more. For that reason, here's the opening of Naimi's page on this topic:
Naimi told us...
- While it does say "Feed me!" when you examine it, we're relatively certain it isn't going to do an Audrey routine, such as in "Little Shop of Horrors" ... we hope!
- What it will do, however, is provide you with some interesting, and potentially useful no-trade items, including a one-charge insta-cast group evac. However, as with most things, it can be a bit confusing to sort out how you get which what, so, once again, it's time for another 'Mum "how to" guide.
- We're receiving some reports that indicate that things like the escape root may only be able to be created once per day, but as yet, have no solid testing regarding it.
- Niami Denmother over at EQ2Traders originally wrote this article, although it has been edited here for wikification. The original article can be viewed here.
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