Gathering

Gathering is a type of job to gather herbs and food from any place outside a city, you can sell the herbs and eat the food you gather or you can use Coooking to make potions and better types of food.

## Ratings

* **OK**
* **Good** with Sickle and 10 SUR
* **Amazing** with 15 SUR, 5 WIS and Sickle equipped

## Guide

* Enter desired map type and search for gather-able materials, herbs are worth the most money and food is useful to extend amount of time able to be spent there (1 'raw' food replenishes the food bar by 5 points).
* Once you have gathered all the desired plants in one map, exit the map and re-enter (you do not need to change tile) to get a new map.
* If you have 10 SUR, you can make Dry meal out of food plants to increase food gain or sell for more money. Alternatively, you can make Vegetable Soup by removing the wooden club but these sell for next to nothing. In addition, you can also make medicine from the herbs (requires 15 SUR).
* If you decide to hunt the local fauna, you can make Smoked meat (requires 10 SUR) or Meat Soup. Note that mixing 'undesirable' meat (meat with a red warning on it: human meat, monster meat, etc) will cause all the end-product to be with 'Mysterious' tag which is worth much less.
* Once you have gathered enough, return to Noer and sell your plants, herbs or foods to the bank as they offer the best price for Coins or directly to a merchant you want to buy from.
* When you playing on Difficulty higher than Hard, raw food and soups in your inventory will quickly expire after leaving the location. So the only way to make money from this job on higher difficulties without 10-15 SUR is selling herbs. But to gather enough herbs you also need to have some WISdom. **So this job is definitely not for warriors who plays at higher difficulties without investing in SUR or WIS**.

## Locations to do Gathering

### Rain Forest (**Amazing Location**)

* Watch out for boars, they are dangerous and can easily stun lock you although killing them gives a lot of meat. They are normally not aggressive if you are fully equipped (low 'weakness' stat) but some seem to attack no matter what.
* **Food**: Apples (trees with red apples), Bananas (trees with bananas), grapes (vines on map walls with purple grapes), Blue Berries (grass on the ground with blue berries), and Tomatoes (vines on map walls with red tomatoes). Raw Animal Meat (Killing boars for a high amount of meat)
* **Herb(s)**: White Dragon Weed (tall grass/hay/rice)
* **Unique Recipe(s)**: Blue Potion (2 White Dragon Weeds)

### Pine Forest (**Good Location**)

* This area regularly has goblin ambushes due to most pine forests being near to goblin nests, the narrow and winding nature of the maps can make it difficult to escape: try to memories the map.
* Watch out for wolves they attack fast and can rip you apart quickly. Some are not aggressive if you are fully equipped (low 'weakness' stat) but most attack on sight.
* There are also skeletons hidden in the ground from time-to-time so be wary of bone piles.
* **Food**: Nuts (dark trees with light leaves that contain sandy/beige pear-shaped nuts), mushrooms (yellow-orange mushrooms), Raw Animal Meat(Killing wolves for a low amount of meat)
* **Herb(s)**: Tung Flower (white flowers with yellow center)
* **Unique Recipe(s)**: Birth Control Pill (2 Tung Flowers)

### Plainfield (**OK Location**)

* This map has rabbits on the map which can be killed to gain a little bit of meat (1-5).
* A very open map makes this an ideal place for hostile encounters due to how easy it is to escape. Note that defeating enemies that are standing at the map border can cause items to drop at the map border, these items cannot be picked up anymore.
* **Food**: Carrots (single bright green plant on ground), Onions (tall and dark green bush), Potatoes (large and wide green bush) and sometimes Raw Animal Meat (Killing rabbits for a low amount of meat)
* **Herb(s)**: None
* **Unique Recipe(s)**: None

### Mountains (**OK Location**)

* This map is very narrow and has many choke-points and few exits, making any 'attack' events very dangerous on this map: memorizing the map layout is highly recommended.
* Watch out for wolves they attack fast and can rip you apart quickly
* Watch out for boars, they are dangerous and can easily stun lock you although killing them gives a lot of meat.
* There are also skeletons hidden in the ground from time-to-time so be wary of bone piles.
* **Materials**:Phosphorus(white rocks on the wall)
* **Food**: Carrots (single bright green plant on ground), Onions (tall and dark green bush), Potatoes (large and wide green bush) and Apples(red apples on trees), Raw Animal Meat (Killing boars for a high amout and wolves for a low amount of meat)
* **Herb(s)**: Dragon Root (small & dark green bush with red flowers)
* **Unique Recipe(s)**: Red Potion (2 Dragon Roots)

### Swamp (**Awfull Location**)

* You can walk on the water tiles that has a dark-brown bottom but this is hard to see, especially at night.
* The narrow winding paths, which are sometimes obscured by the water, and the lack of exit points makes this a very dangerous map as you can easily get cornered and defeated.
* **Food**: Tomatoes (vines on map walls with red tomatoes), mushrooms (yellow-orange mushrooms), fish (dark-blue fish moving in water tiles or bubbles in the water that appear and disappear), Blue Berries (grass with blue berries)
* **Herb(s)**: none
* **Unique Recipe(s)**: none

### Corrupted Land (**Good Location**)

* \*This area is extremely high risk and high reward
* There are 3 corrupted land tiles: Badlands (Easiest to traverse, no plants), corrupted forests (Winding paths that lead to dead ends, many mutated mushrooms), and corrupted mountains (hardest to traverse, avoid at all costs).
* Filled to the brim with enemies and traps that spawn more enemies, they are specialized in stun/movement locking you then draining your stamina. Recommended to have blue potions and a melee weapon.
* **Food**: Raw Mutant Flesh(Killing abominations)
* **Herb(s)**: Mutated Mushroom (Mushroom on the ground)
* **Unique Recipe(s)**:none

## Tips

* You can gather wood from basically any tree in a map by facing it and interacting with it. Harvesting wood has a high stamina cost (-15 stamina).
* Gathering any material (other than wood) costs 3 stamina.
* Higher WISdom stat increases the amount of herbs that spawn on the map, buying Glasses (4000p) from the magic merchant is a good way to increase your WIS (2-3 herbs per map instead of 1).
* Having a Sickle equipped while gathering reduces the cost from 3 stamina to 1 stamina, important if you don't want to burn through your food. This can also be bought at Central Noer Market from the weapons merchant or you can go to the blacksmith.
* You can interact with rocks (small, white ones on the ground) to get insects to spawn, which you can gather. Not really useful as the stamina cost is quite high for a very bad food source.