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Skyhold is your home base inDragon Age: Inquisition.While there, you can talk to people, craft things, and generally prepare for the dangers ahead. Just because it’s an important place for The Inquisition and their cause doesn’t mean it can’t also be nice to look at. The garden situated within Skyhold’s main building helps make the place more beautiful.
It also can provide you with a place to grow and harvest herbs that can help you on your adventure. However, you first need to figure out how the seed nursery works. So, here is everything you could possibly want to know about the subject.
How To Unlock The Skyhold Seed Nursery
The gardenunlocks after you reach Skyhold. You may have to leave and come back to be able to reach it, but once the debris is cleared, you can get to it throughthe first door on your leftin the main building.
How To Complete A Greener Garden
Once you’ve accessed your garden, the first thing you should do iscomplete the A Greener Gardenquest to upgrade it.
To unlock the quest, you need togain access to your quarters at Skyhold.So, you have to leave the place and come back at least one time for your quarters to be ready.
Then, head inside your quarters andgrab the piece of paper from your desk.This unlocks the A Greener Garden quest, which tasks you with getting various materials to upgrade Skyhold’s garden.
You need 30 Spindleweed, 30 Elfroot, 30 Blood Lotus, and one logging stand.you may gather all of this from The Hinterlands. Spindleweed, Elfroot, and Blood Lotus are common herbs you can find growing in The Hinterlands. So, just roam for a while to locate them.
As for the logging stand, you can findone right near the Forest Camp on The Hinterlands map. It’s just southeast of the camp, on the other side of a small mountain.
Once you have all the supplies, head over tothe Quartermaster icon on the Skyhold map. It’s in the building next to where Cassandra typically hangs out.Interact with the ‘Inspect Requisitions’ table, then select andcraft the Skyhold Gardento finish the A Greener Garden quest.
Pick A Garden Type
Once you’ve done the A Greener Garden quest, you can thenselect what type of garden you want it to be.You do this by interacting with the mechanism in the center of the seed nursery. Then, you get to choosebetween a Chantry Garden and a Herb Garden.
Outside of how they look, there isn’t a huge difference between the two garden types. Here arethe main things that separate the two:
How To Plant And Harvest From The Nursery
To plant a herb in the nursery, all you have to do isgo up to one of the pots and hit the button indicated on the screen. Then, you select what seed you want to plant.
Once the seed is planted, you will have towait for it to sprout.Some progress will be made every time you leave Skyhold and come back.
When the herb is fully grown,you’re able to harvest it by going up to it and hitting the button on the screen.
Once an herb has been harvested, youcan plant a new seed in the pot or leave it to grow the same herb again.
Where To Find Every Seed
You don’t just automatically have all the herbs you need.You must acquire them.Unfortunately, there is an element of randomness to this.
To pick up seeds,you have to harvest herbs out in the wild.However, you won’t always get a seed for doing so. So, you may have to harvest the same type of herb a number of times to gain the seed for it.
On a more positive note,once you have the seed of a herb, you can plant it countless times.Therefore, you don’t need to keep finding seeds for the same plant.
Here areall the seeds in the game and where to find them:
Arbor Wilds, Emerald Graves, and Emprise du Lion.
Blood Lotus
Crestwood, Emerald Graves, Fallow Mire, Forbidden Oasis, Storm Coast, and Western Approach.
Sold by merchants at Caer Bronach (Crestwood) and Crossroads (Hinterlands).
Deep Mushroom
Crestwood, Emerald Graves, Forbidden Oasis, Hinterlands, Storm Coast, and Western Approach.
Sold by merchant at the Village of Crestwood (Crestwood).
Elfroot
Arbor Wilds, Crestwood, Emerald Graves, Emprise du Lion, Forbidden Oasis, Haven, Hinterlands, Hissing Wastes, and Western Approach.
Crestwood, Emerald Graves, Hinterlands, and Winter Palace.
Emerald Graves, Emprise du Lion, and Exalted Plains.
Crestwood, Emerald Graves, Forbidden Oasis, Hinterlands, and Storm Coast.
Vandal Aria
Hissing Wastes and Western Approach.
In the Western Approach, the Vandal Aria can be found in Coracavus.
Emerald Graves, Emprise du Lion, Exalted Plains, and Storm Coast.
Fallow Mire and Storm Coast
Exalted Plains, Forbidden Oasis, Hissing Wastes, and Western Approach.
Emerald Graves and Emprise du Lion.
Exalted Plains, Hissing Wastes, and Western Approach.
Emerald Graves, Storm Coast, and Winter Palace.
Crestwood, Emerald Graves, Exalted Plains, Hinterlands, and Winter Palace.
