Harvesting

Summary

• Use Harvesting skills to acquire raw resources which can be refined into useful materials for Crafting
• Players will be occasionally be required to complete a Captcha when harvesting
• Harvesting skills do NOT receive an Active Skill Gain Bonus
• Harvesting skills raise more slowly than other skills
• Players can double-click harvested resources to convert them into their crafting resource if they have a proper tool in their pack (i.e. convert logs into boards, raw fish into fish steaks, ore into ingots)
• Boards, Leather, Ingots, and Fish are all normalized to weigh .1 stones each
• Whenever a player Recalls, Travels via Moongate, or Hikes, they will have a 60 second delay before they can attempt to Harvest again

Smart Harvest

• Use a tool and target yourself/status bar to begin Smart Harvesting
• The player will automatically harvest from any nearby "harvest node" that has resources remaining

Fishing

• Requires a Fishing Pole and the Fishing skill
• Capture a variety of Fish, including Aquarium creatures
• Special Fish (large fish, crab, lobsters, etc) are used in high-level Cooking recipes

Forensic Evaluation

• Requires a Skinning Knife and the Forensic Evaluation skill
• Leather is used to craft armor and other items
• Using Forensic Evaluation on corpses will also yield cooking ingredients and feathers from bird-type creatures

Lumberjacking

• Requires a Hatchet and the Lumberjacking skill
• Logs can be used to craft kindling, ships, furniture, addons and more

Mining

• Requires a Pickaxe and the Mining skill
• Ore is turned into Ingots by double-clicking on the Ore while near a Forge
• Ingots are used to create weapons, armor, tools and many other items

CAPTCHA

• Players will occasionally be required to complete a Captcha when harvesting
• If a player fails a CAPTCHA three times, they will be blocked and restricted from any form of harvesting for a set duration depending on the number of previous offenses

Commodities

• Players can purchase Blank Commodity Deeds from a Banker
• Double-click a Blank Commodity Deed and target the resource to create a Resource Commodity
• Commodities are NOT blessed and can be stolen/looted

Resource Maps

• Resource Maps yield Fish, Leather, Logs and Ore
• They must be deciphered in the same manner as Treasure Maps, by a Cartographer
• Resource Maps must be completed by a harvester with the requisite skill (i.e. 65 mining to harvest a Dull Copper Resource Map)