RDR2: How To Beat Every Herbalist Challenge

Botany may not be a skill you expect to be important in , but several Herbalist challenges can be beaten for rare rewards if you grow your knowledge of plants. These ten tasks ask you to gather and use plants from all the areas on the world's expansive map. Special items, XP, money, and more are available to those who travel enough to gain a green thumb.

Each Herbalist Challenge has a task to complete around the map, even in elusive areas like Guarma and New Austin. Completing challenges may give you additional Health, while others could grant you reinforced equipment, XP, or cash. Like other single-player content in , you need to finish one Rank before you can unlock the challenge tied to the next level.

Many of these challenges involve finding specific types of plants, but only the ones tied to the current Herbalist task. For example, if you encounter a plant used to complete the second Herbalist Challenge during the first, it won't count as collected until you gather it a second time.

The first few Herbalist Challenges introduce you to the diverse plant types all over, from simple yarrow plants to mushrooms in certain climates. Keep in mind that you have to tackle the first Rank of each challenge before the next one. You cannot choose the order in which you complete Challenges, even if one is easier to complete than the one that came before.

The first Challenge asks you to collect 6 Yarrow plants from the grassy plains of Lemoyne and New Hanover. Doing this will unlock the Herbalist Off-Hand Holster item for whichever character you are playing in the game.

The second Rank of the Herbalist Challenges involves eating all four types of berries found in from around the general wilderness. This task may take longer than the previous one, but it is still a straightforward goal compared to others. Doing this will earn you 25 Health XP and $5 in cash you can spend however you like.

This Challenge demands that you craft seven items using Sage plants as a main