Reed

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Cattails
Grid Cattails.png
Stackable 64
Fuel
Temperature 600°C
Duration 4 s
Items
Papyrus
Papyrustops.png
Stackable 64
Fuel
Temperature 600°C
Duration 4 s
Items


Reeds are a type of plant in Vintage Story, which can be harvested using a knife . Reeds are used in many crafting recipes, and are critical in the early game for inventory expansion and early container creation. Two variants of reeds exist, cooper's reeds and papyrus, which are found in temperate and warm climates respectively.

Obtaining

Cooper's reeds grow in or near shallow bodies of water, in temperate climates. Papyrus reeds grow in the same environment, in warm biomes. Cattail and papyrus tops can be harvested by breaking the tops of the plants. If the tops are harvested using an equipped knife , they will regrow. Harvesting with a knife is also faster. The bottoms of the reeds can be broken for either a cattail or a papyrus root, depending on the plant.

Reeds can be grown by planting a root in soil or muddy gravel, next to water or up to one block under water. Since one plant will only ever produce one root, reeds cannot truly be multiplied, only moved around.

A note on names: The game calls the green reed plant "cooper's reeds" in-game, but calls them "cattails" in the handbook. When broken, the "cooper's reed" drops "cattail tops" and "cattail roots". They are the same plant.

Usage

Cattail reeds and papyrus can be used interchangeably.

As wild food

   

Cattail and papyrus roots can be eaten after being cooked in a firepit , providing 100 vegetable satiety . They cannot be used to cook meals.

Crafting

   

Reeds are a vital early game resource, used to create early-game backpacks such as the hand basket and hunter's backpack . It can also be used to make the reed chest , an early standing storage container with 8 slots.

Throughout the game, reeds are needed to create healing poultices , and skeps for beekeeping . Reeds are also used for the throwable beenade item.

Reeds are used to make:


Items
Resources  Beeswax Blasting powder Bone Bonemeal Candle Cattails Charcoal Clay Clay bricks Clear quartz Cloth Coke Compost Crushed resources Dry grass Egg Fat Feather Firewood Flax fibers Flax twine Flint Gems Herb bundles Hides Honeycomb Large gear section Leather Lime Mortar Parchment Papyrus Planks Potash Quicklime Refractory brick Resin Sail Sewing kit Shingles Stick Stones Stone bricks Termites
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Seeds  Cattail root Crop seeds Papyrus root Tree seeds
Tools  Axe Chisel Cleaver Firestarter Hammer Helve hammer Hoe Ink and quill Knife Ore blasting bomb Pickaxe Plumb and Square Prospecting pick Saw Scythe Shears Shovel Sieve Soldering iron Tongs Wooden pan Wrench
Weapons  Arrow Beenade Bow Falx Sword Spear Sling Tuning spear
Consumables
Equipment
Transport  Glider Raft Crude oar
Miscellaneous  Book Game of Omok Tuning cylinder
Creative only  Stack randomizers


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