In the forests you can find a lot of useful food and medicinal plants, but if you do not understand them, you can just die and not heal. You have since childhood to study the surrounding world in Red Dead Redemption 2. You'll need to become an herbalist, so you have to pass such tests:
- Gather eleven of herbs to be able to add them to the dish. Herbs are going on your discretion, as long as they were unfit for food, and they really could season and not to poison the dish.
- Make poisonous weapons of herbs.
- Find and eat four different berries.
- Create a sage a few items.
- If you want to become a skilled mushroom hunter, then you have to collect 5 mushrooms and to feed the horse.
- Gather a collection of herbs.
- You have to create a tonic with healing powers.
- Find and get rid of the yarrow, about 6 pieces.