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so with which of them are you able on average collect more forageables?

If you hold your cursor over the icon it will tell you about them. I always get them reversed but one drains more humor and allows you to walk faster while you slightly increase your ability to find things. The other drains less, makes you walk slower, and significantly increases your ability to find things.

yeah I have read the descriptions....and hence,maybe not sufficiently descriptive,asked whether the increase in walking speed of wander makes up for the lower chance of finding things or not?

Wander is better in my experience, but forage is good for maximizing the use of small terrain patches (beaches, for example).

Sort of depends on where you are and what you're looking for.

Basically I use wander for everything. Only times I use forage is when I'm picking a lot of mushrooms/berries in the forest for recipes or on beaches like Potjeh said.

It would be good to get some data on this. If Wander is 50% as effective at spawning items than Forage, but movement is 200% as fast, then it's equivalent in terms of how many items you spawn for any particular amount of time spent searching. (this is just a guess, I haven't collected any hard data in-game yet.)

If I'm just cruising around foraging anything useful I come across, I use Wander. If I'm looking for something specific or scouring a small area (as mentioned above with beaches) I use Forage.

To note: make sure you turn them on BEFORE you enter the area. You don't see anything new when you toggle them, only when you go into new sections as you move along.

Wander's spood boost is really nice, but as a beginner it doesn't help you see as much of the high difficulty items you don't have skills for yet. Forage makes you move like a snail, but for starting players it really opens up what you can see before you have full foraging skills trained.

Forage in forest, wander in grassland. That's what I go with.

I always use Wanderer since you cover more land, Unless I'm carrying something or pulling a sled then its Wanderer.