Riverpig Harvest?

[Saeveo]

So are Riverpig plants supposed to just be impossible to harvest, or am I missing something?

I have some growing in the water near my settlement, and they're mature, but trying to harvest them just gives me "this riverpig no longer provides any yield nor carries any usable parts".

I'm aware that they're poisonous anyway, I'm just wondering.

[Plotinus]

I've noticed that too and I've never been sure if it's a bug or not. But probably it is, since there's no way to get poisoned by them

[Sami]

Riverpigs in the game have been left in kind of unfinished state of development, and as this issue has only rarely come up it hasn't become a priority to adjust their harvesting.
When riverpigs were added I had in mind to make their roots harvestable, as they were used by the ancients mostly in a form of flour, and at least during times of scarcity.

But as the whole plant is somewhat poisonous the roots would need to be blanched/boiled first. And as the roots need to be dug up by hand or handheld tool at least one would need to wade, swim or even dive to be able harvest them. Having to add two new mechanics for a single plant that is likely only rarely used by the player characters felt a bit too much at the time and thus riverpigs were left in the world in their current unharvestable state.

Now when time allows I might consider if there's not too costly way to add simple wade//swim/dive based harvesting option for these water plants.