Pipe-weed

About Pipe-weed

Pipe-weed is the name Tolkien used to refer to tobacco products in LOTRO Lore, and was referred to several times in The Lord of the Rings. Game Developers have confirmed that Pipe-weed is used to refer only to tobacco products and firmly refute any links to illicit substances. Farmers have the ability to grow Pipe-weed, harvest the crop and refine the crop into tobacco pouches.

Tobacco pouches can be used by any player to trigger a smoking emote. The smoking animation includes a long-stem pipe with a glowing bowl and is ended with a smoke-ring animation that varies based on the type of pipe-weed smoked. Higher-tier tobacco pouches have complex and fancy smoke shapes appearing at the end of their animation.

Smoking pipe-weed is currently a purely recreational activity within the game and, other than adding atmosphere, has absolutely no effect on stats, resting rates, abilities or other character attributes.

Farmers can also recieve cross-breed pipe-weed seeds from harvesting their pipe-weed crops. Cross-bred pipe-weed has different animations than any of the parent seeds.

Types of Pipe-weed

Vendor

Loot or Quest Reward

Crossbreeding

Festival

Quest

Recipes

Farmers receive recipes for the Longbottom Leaf, Southern Star, and Sweet Galenas varieties when they reach Apprentice, Journeyman, and Expert proficiency levels, respectively. All other cross-breeding, seed and pouch recipes must be purchased.

Lengalenas, Stonecrop & Summer Green-weed all appeared as quest rewards from some Farmers Faire Quests. They are now available for purchase from a Pipeweed Vendors.

Shire Sweet-leaf seeds and recipes are bought from farming vendors.

Crossbreeding Pipe-weed

Crossbreeding pipe-weed seeds is no longer a manual process. When harvesting pipe weed crops, you have a chance of receiving a cross-bred seed from the same crafting tier or the one above it.

For example, a Sweet Galenas Field has a chance of producing Dragon's Breath Seeds, Roper's Twist Seeds, Eagle's Nest Seeds, and Gamwich Braid Seed.

For higher tiers, it should be noted that farmers stop selling common pipe-weed seeds after the expert tier. That means to get Artisan or higher pipe-weed seeds from farming, you need to plant expert level crops, and harvest them for chances at Artisan level seeds. From there, you would plant and harvest Artisan seeds for Master seeds, and Master seeds for Supreme.

There is about a 10% chance for a crossbreed seed to drop from a standard pipe-weed field when harvested. This increases to 50% from a well-tended field. The seed dropped will be at the same or next highest level.

Pipe-weed seeds by crafting difficulty

These are all the pipe-weed seeds listed by the crafting tier they are harvested in. Three generic types, Apprentice Pipe-weed Seed, Journeyman Pipe-weed Seed and Expert Pipe-weed Seed are purchasable at a vendor, and each one can be used for various kinds of pipe-weed in their corresponding tier. Nine are cross-bred seeds, and can only be received as loot, or from harvesting pipe-weed fields of their own tier or one lower. The animation for each type is also given. Usually the animations get more complex and beautiful at higher levels.

Apprentice
Name	Source	Effect	Image
Pouch of Longbottom Leaf Pipe-weed	Basic	One little smoke ring
Pouch of Rushlight Pipe-weed	Vendor	One smoke ring that rotates
Pouch of Southlinch Pipe-weed	Basic	Puff of smoke
Pouch of Stonecrop Leaf Pipe-weed	Summer Festival Vendor	A running boar
Pouch of Sweet Lobelia Pipe-weed	Vendor	Two smoke rings moving away from each other
Journeyman
Pouch of Hornblower Pipe-weed	Vendor	A ring going through another
Pouch of Muddy Foot Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Three rings, last two going through the others
Pouch of Southern Star Pipe-weed	Vendor	Triangle
Pouch of Tighfield Choice Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Square
Expert
Pouch of Dragon's Breath Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Dragon in flight, breathing fire
Pouch of Lengalenas Pipe-weed	Summer Festival Vendor	Pair of crossed Swords
Pouch of Old Toby Pipe-weed	Vendor	heart ring
Pouch of Roper's Twist Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Spiraling String of Smoke
Pouch of Shire Sweet-leaf Pipe-weed	Vendor	Three Butterflies
Pouch of Sweet Galenas Pipe-weed	Vendor	Sailing ship
Artisan
Pouch of Eagle's Nest Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Eagle in flight
Pouch of Gamwich Braid Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Fish swimming
Master
Pouch of Summer Green-weed Pipe-weed	Summer Festival Vendor	Smoking Pipe
Pouch of Wizard's Fire Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Bird
Supreme
Pouch of Fungo's Fuzzy-leaf Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Shooting Arrow
Pouch of Gold-fire Pipe-weed	Farming Drop	Big circle with puff of smoke in the middle
Minas Ithil
Pouch of Berrybear Pipe-weed	Farming Drop Quest Reward	Running Bear (front half only)
Pouch of Lyndelby Leaf Pipe-weed	Farming Drop Quest Reward	Mountain range with clouds
Pouch of Old Eagle Wings Pipe-weed	Farming Drop Quest Reward	Flying Eagle