ricky wrote:You guys keep saying foraging is dead, but logically it should be by late game. do you guys know any professional foragers in real life? no?
Yeah, I do. Sorta... I'd call him a "professional" because he makes really good money on it, but it is seasonal work, so can't really sustain a practical lifestyle on it. You do have to remember that only a few types of mushrooms can be cultivated. Many, like truffles, have to be foraged out of the wild. Pick a corner of the world, and there's a mushroom there that has to be foraged for so that high end restaurants the world over can get them. Then there's the professional botanists digging and rooting through the rain forests and other barely explored parts of the world looking for herbs, mosses, and other plants that might have medicinal, especially antibiotic, use. (I probably shouldn't, but I will even note the guys I've met that "farm" for magic mushrooms.)
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