Anyone else have hundreds of water herbs stashed in their hoard? They're kind of... useless. Outside of crafting, their only use is reducing thirst during August.

As stated in the event information for August:

You will also notice a thirst bar on your side panel. 100% thirst means that you are extremely thirsty and need to find a source of water. You can do so by using thirst-quenching items or getting lucky in Explore. Your thirst will drop by 5% every 30 minutes. 0% thirst means you're good to go!

What, exactly, does thirst affect? If you're too thirsty, you won't be able to battle any NPCs.

Oh no, I won't be able to battle! But wait... battles suck this month so who really cares LOL

5% every 30 minutes is so slow as well. From 0% thirst it will take 10 hours of inactivity to get back to up 100%, and the battle-blocking drawback of thirst is ONLY in effect at exactly 100% - so even at 99% thirst you can still battle. Players who explore every 2 hours (about the length of time required to get nearly full energy) will prpbably never even have 100% thirst except for when they wake up for the day due to the vast amount of thirst-quenching encounters in explore. Some of them take away 10% thirst while others even fully reduce your thirst to 0%.

Uh, anyway. My point is that thirst is pretty close to irrelevant, so we might as well have something else to do with the herbs! There are decor items as well as applicators available for most of them. However, unlike the rest of them (African Cucumber, Aloe Leaf, Stripped Cacti) Water Root does not currently craft any applicators. So not as valuable as the other three. But I feel that, instead of an app, Water Root would be neat to craft into Energy Boosts.

1. They are both roots!

2. They look similar!

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3. A craftable energy item that isn't MARBLE MUSH would be cool to see.


I don't know what a recipe would look like. I'd like it to be attainable to craft one during the month where you get a decent amount *COUGH* unlike marble mush *COUGH* so 50 Water Roots sounds good to me. 100 could also be fair. I guess it would depend on how many people tend to get on average. Would love to hear some thoughts!

Addition 8/4/24: A new craftable energy item that incorporates all thirst herbs in the recipe?

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My other suggestions:
Masterpost here