Arelith

Is it just me or are harnak seeds really hard to find?

Harnak seeds are necessary for flasks of oil, which are a needed crafted ingredient for multitudes of different recepies: smithing to make fishing hooks, and some other gear, herbalism to make dragon oil, carpentry stuff too.

You also need them for printing ink, which is necessary for making book copies. The Guldorand vendor who used to sell ink no longer does either.

Ive had a really hard time finding them, which strikes me as an oversight as they're so necessary for crafting common every day items (fishing hooks, ink) and epic gear (dragon oil). Going on a several hour adventure for hunting adamantine makes sense. Going on several hour adventure running around like a maniac checking map corners for harnak bushes for seeds is a lot.

It would help if there were some permeant placeable bushes of the stuff in each "garden" of the major cities at least. Or if harnak bushes were made craftable again.

They are fairly easy to find in mid level area's on the surface.
A little harder to get in the UD but there are places there also.

In the surface there are areas with several plants, some where you can go below level 10.

I'm fairly sure that harnak is one of those that can only be grown in certain gardens as well because climate. So if the places it can be are not then you've only got the ones found in the wild to pick from. But seeing how flask of oil sells for high amounts I don't think it should be overly easy to make.

There are a couple of Harnak gardens on the surface in places that are pretty much harmless in addition to the wild plants other people mentioned.

Flasks of oil are also commonly harvested from Golem/Constuct type enemies.