I always find it funny when one of my young herbalists with low skill tries to harvest peacebloom and fails. It's a flower. You pick it. How do you fail at that? Sometimes it takes two or three tries to pull the flower out of the ground. I can understand failing at mining. Maybe you miss the huge rock in front of you. Maybe the pick axe lands on your foot instead of the ground. But picking flowers? It's not rocket science.
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