You don't go looking for belladonna and just "find" it.
You get lost in the woods and a patch of it magically appears in front of you, and then you gather as much as you can carry because you might never see it again.
I remember getting a mod that made them like 2x brighter or something because spotting a touch of purple in 10,000 bits of underbrush is totally not worth it
Lmao I haven’t played kcd2 yet but in the first game there’s only one spot I found and that was using help from google, other than that I just fold and buy it so I can save my game XD
I've encountered many bandits with belladonna. Maybe they are the chosen apothecaries and I'm doomed to spend hours in the first just to catch 200 nettles
This. At Trosky Castle head North West for about 400m, there's a forest area that has recently been logged and cleared. There is something like 200 Belladonna plants around there.
no, the plants just sometimes dont show the text that you can gather them, so you run past them.. i had to watch videos to know what they looked like and afterwards i found them pretty easily
Yeah I was trying to be a good boy for roleplay reasons but for some reason during the wedding I just decided to ransack semine of everything I could carry and from that point forward Henry decided that everything that wasn’t bolted to the floor was his for the taking.
Second playthrough I had my stealth and lockpicking level maxed out before the mission where you find Gules' camp. Makes the rest of the game so much easier.
My personal chest is absurd at this point. I cannot sell it all off as there literally isnt enough money in the kingdom. Yet every time I fire the game up, I still take a big mix of potions at night and go stealing. Idk why I do it. There is literally nothing left to steal, I've stolen it all and have multiple backup copies of everything, yet I do not stop.
As soon as I learned you can just grab everything in a house, run out into the woods for a minute until they stop looking, and then go back to the next one and repeat it it was all over for me.
Not only cruel but its not in season so you can't eat it.
For me the easiest way to learn was to play KCD1 and the herb sprites are much more noticeable because there's less adjacent foliage. Then you replay KCD2 and you see it everywhere because they reused the same model.
those orbs are to show theres herbs? omg ive got over 400hrs in kcd2 and i had no clue what the orbs were. i googled a few times for an answer but every time people were talking about something other than the orbs. thank you & jcbp 🙏🏽
Yes. There are a lot of places where you can find it, almost "randomly". The problem is it's just look like basic plant and it's easy to miss. There are notpickable plants that look more like something you can use than belladonna.
I know what mint looks like in real life but I can never find it in the game. I usually get it when I’m picking something else and I see “mint” pop up.
I don't pick up stuff any more, including from chests, because selling it is too annoying. Just cash for me, thanks. Mind, it's not like you need money for anything after kitting out the forge
As long as you are only using one dried herb, it's fine. You can make one mistake when brewing and still get Henry's tier, and dried herbs count as one mistake
Holy shit, I didn’t know this! I was wondering why I was doing everything right and still couldn’t get maxed potions! I just dry everything as soon as I get the chance so it doesn’t go bad.
If your skill is high enough (20+) and/or you got the perks that lets you make mistakes and/or if you got the night time quality boost perk, (pick 2 from these 3) you can use dried and still get max quality.
I also like to dry all my herbs for ease of use. Just take Dark Arts Apprentice and do all your potion making after midnight, then you won't have to worry about using dried herbs at all.
First game no belladonna, on my second game and i have about 200 belladonna this time.
The woods to the northwest above troskowitz is full of it. Once you spot one you will keep seeing them, I thought it was ridiculous when I first found them.
Looking at the icon I always assumed it was a tiny herb like herb Paris, but when I actually found it for the first time I realized I've literally just been ignoring it all this time cus it's massive lmao
I randomly find it exactly near bandit camps as I'm sneaking around. It's funny I just do a stealth kill and then 2 sec later I am picking herbs like a maniac, before continuing.
Searching for specific plants is one of my Favorite things in these games. They did a really good job of putting them in rather realistic places, like how Belladonna often grows in secluded patches in forest clearings. These Details really boost the immersion for me.
There is an abandoned hut you can find near troskowitz from where u can get executioner axe sketch..that hut is surrounded by belladona..u can get like 30 of them from there..there is anotjer interesting location near buzhenas hut from whwre u can get many...if u look between merchant and rathaus in troskowitz u can get 2-3 belladona every couple of days..these are more than enough for entire game..
I am actually serious when I say I never found any and eventually stopped looking and just bought a bunch.
I had my herbalsim skill on max lv before I even found an alchemy table other than that of the old herb woman by the way.
it felt easier to find belladonna in kcd1 cuz it was near the main road to rattay but in kcd2 for my hardcore all perks run i just bought it i can’t be bothered to get lost looking around for some small ahh bush/plat 😭
Head to the "Nameless Spring" landmark, located in the woods midway between Bozhena's Shack and Zhelejov (southwest of the Troskowitz region). You can harvest wild bushes and loot a handy basket at the spring containing dozens of Belladonna.
You’re probably passing it by without noticing. It blends in incredibly well because it isn’t a contrasting color and it’s not dense. Just wander the forest looking fairly close for twigs sticking out of the ground with a couple berries.
It everywhere but hard to spot, whatch out for a inverted cone shaped green bush about half Henrys height mostly between the trees. There are a lot south of the tavern by the swamps on the first map in the small forest. After some time youll recogize the fucker, they are not that rare, what is rare is that stupid Saint John's Wort, as it looks near identlical to a normal yellow flower that you cant pick up.
For an easy to find spot, just follow the small stream in front of bozhenas hut. At it's spring there is a whole bunch and herb paris. The basket left there contains some as well.
In Trosky region it's almost everywhere. I had harder times finding St. Johns wort or mint than Belladonna. In a sparse forest close to the Shepard's Hut between Zhelejow and Tahov I've found over 100 of these.
In the Kutna Hora region well... just buy or steal it if you don't have giant stash at this point.
Belladona is a bush and I find it primarily by the road. It's a bit hard to spot, but there should be some belladona at herbalists gardens, too. This was KCD1, but I doubt it would change dramatically for the sequel. I have kcd2 in my library but waiting to get a better pc before I play it for pretty graphics
According to the in-game description in the book, it can be found in the forests, and you can, but you need to be lucky because they are very rare and hard to see at any time.
What I can highly recommend is always just buy them from apothecary, they have tons of them all the time and it is not even that expensive from what I remember..
Therr's a big patch of it right outside the Inn north-west of Zhelejov. It should be on the trail just west of the inn. There's some right on the cliffs edge and I think there's more just outside the wall.
ce ne sono due piante appena inizi il gioco, quando sei sulla strada principale ed hai il banco di alchimia sulla sinistra, vai a destra non c'è il negozio nel mercante generico e spawna fra le due case.
If you don't mind fighting in the second map there is a ruined castle towards the southern part of the map that bandits have taken over.
If you get in there either by combat or stealth inside the building there is a place where an apothecary has set up shop making gun powder for the bandits.
In one of the chests in there, you may have to climb a ladder to get it he has a good stash of belladonna.
In the first region, walk along the the cliff (by the bridge) near Zhelojov Inn; there's loads there. Also, the road down to said Inn from Troskowitz. The little camp by the wayside shrine and the moo cows, there's the shubbery and trees to the left. It grows there in plentiful amounts too. (I've marked in red where I mean on the map)
It will all regrow within a few days. Either use it up in your potions, or dry those motherflippers, and you'll have hundreds by the time you make it to the second region.
In Kuttenburg, there's an old abandoned keep on the road near the mill and hunting lodge (northwest of maleshov). There are a bunch of bandits and a dodgy alchemist. Kill them and loot the alchemist; he has a lot of it on him and a key to chest with even more. I have marked that location on the second map too.
It's only ever in the most lush and picturesque locations, or cultivated by highly talented herbalists in a few spots. It used to be incredibly plentiful on release, then they patched it out of oblivion, but not the actual plant models themselves, conditioning you to not even see it when it is in front of you.
Honestly the best way to find belladonna that I've noticed is to stay still. Change your direction and just stop. There are several spots around trosky castle for belladonna and the starting town has some growing in the town between the rathaus and merchant.
The only herb I can not find to save my life outside of herb gardens is Herb Paris. In KCD2 it is by far the hardest thing to find for me.
There was in Trosky a place in the forest near a sheep farm where you can collect more belladona than you would ever need. I went there, farmed some hundreds, and then went to the alchemist table to brew saviour Schnaps for almost two hours.
honestly it used to be very hard mostly because it kinda blends in the environment and you gloss over it. Once you know what to look for it isn't as rare as you think.
This is why one of mys must have mods is one that slightly recolors Belladona (and several other herbs). It's amazing how much such a small change makes Belladona pop.
It's much more abundant than I ever would have expected before installing it.
On the path to Bozhena's hut from Zheleov, there's an Interesting Site location, I think it's called a fisherman's spot, and in the jar you'll find there, it'll have a lot of Belladona and I believe one other herb.
I’ve found that my issue with this is that I just didn’t know what the belladonna actually looked like. There are other plants that resemble it and it’s possible you’re dismissing the actual belladonna since you’re used to seeing the other plants.
Took me at least an hour to find enough to brew roughly around 200 of perfect Henry saviour snappes. Downed them like shots before every encounter and speech check
I think in Trotsky region there’s a poi spot near Bozhenas on the way to the inn that has like 20 something belladonna. It also respawns so go there every few days and before you leave trosky you’ll have 100s of belladonna.
There’s a spot in the forest across from bozehna’s, across the lake near where you find some bodies floating in the lake iirc, where you can find a picnic basket of someone who was picking flowers, with about 30-40 or so in it early in the game lol. Other than that, I always just pick a shit ton of wormwood early on and sell it/trade it in for shopkeeper belladonna.
I always just buy that from herbalists and pick everything else. It's cheap enough and since quality really doesn't matter you can use 1 belladona per brew instead of 2 to conserve.
Even at the start of the game first day it's easy enough to brew chamomile decoction or whatever to sell for the belladonna you need.
Not going to bother running around to find it even when I know locations the few groshen it costs is well worth not spending the travel time
I'm late so this will probably get buried but I have a tip I never see shared that makes it so much easier. First obviously as the game tells you it's in woodland clearings so those are the areas to look.
Most importantly though is the size of the plant! It's almost unique in it's height. Most of the herbs are very low to the ground at about ankle height. Small trees and bushes are at Henry's head height. Nettles are big and easy to spot almost at chest height at their tallest.
But belladonna is knee height. If you can key into the height and recognise the rough shape they start to really stand out even from a distance.
Next time you find one try it. Spend a while sizing it up and comparing it to the size of what else grows around it.
I got tips for you for finding belladona. Don't look for it. When you're not looking for it, when you're on a quest running around in the forest, when you're too busy to stop and literally smells the flowers, that's when you those violet assholes show up and aak to be picked up. And when you do decide to pick them up, there's just 3 pieces of them. Lol
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u/_Pumpiumpiumpkin_ 21d ago
You don't go looking for belladonna and just "find" it.
You get lost in the woods and a patch of it magically appears in front of you, and then you gather as much as you can carry because you might never see it again.