Harvesting is one of the Gathering Skills in Amazon's new MMO, New World.
It will help you seek out and obtain key resources that you can refine, and requires you to equip a Sickle.
With plenty of plants ripe for harvest in Aeternum, you shouldn't find yourself short when levelling your Crafting skills!
Is Harvesting for me?
If you're looking to increase your level in Cooking, Weaving, or Arcana, then you're going to need a whole lot of herbs and spices. This gathering skill turns you into a bit of an explorer as you hunt down rare plants.
To harvest a plant, such as Hemp, press the interaction key (default E) when close to it. Be mindful to have a Sickle equipped, and make sure it isn't broken.
If you're running a build that requires Intelligence, you'll get bonuses to your Harvesting ability. You'll get this for every 50 points you have in the stat.
- 50 Intelligence: +10% harvest speed
- 100 Intelligence: 5% chance to gain 1 Azoth when harvesting
- 150 Intelligence: -10% decrease in weight of harvested items
- 200 Intelligence: +10% harvest speed
- 250 Intelligence: +10% yield when harvesting
Adding Bonuses to Harvesting
Via Crafting Perks
You can use the following special resources when crafting to add perks to your Sickle:
Via Trophies
Displaying Trophies within your home adds more bonuses to your adventures in Aeternum.
These are the three that are relevant for Harvesting:
Via Cooking
While not an upgrade for the Sickle exactly, certain food will grant a bonus to your results when harvesting plants.
Cooked Corn and Cornbread, for example, increase Harvesting luck, and they won't set you back too much in terms of resources.
Corn can be found in clusters in Windsward, First Light and Monarch's Bluffs, while you'll need to rely on chests or the Trading Post for ingredients such as Cauliflowers.
To create a Seasoning Blend, simply mix any two seasonings, such as Sugar or Salt, in the Kitchen. You can also create Butter from Milk, which can be gathered from the milkable cows in the Monarch's Bluff, First Light, Windsward, Restless Shore, or Mourningdale settlements.
Through Engineering
Finally, you can use Proficiency Boosters. These consumables add percentage modifiers to the amount of resources you gain when using a gathering tool.
Harvesting Resources
It's important to keep hold of anything you gather while Harvesting, as they are either needed for levelling up Crafting skills, or refined into further key resources.
Common Resources
Items like Honey or various spices are quite common, and you just need to know where to look.
Check out our guide to herbs and spices for more information.
Detecting Plants
Once you pass certain levels in Harvesting, you'll gain the ability to detect nearby plants. These appear as icons on the compass at the top of the screen.
Plant Locations
Plants can be found all over the map, in particular in wooded areas, farmsteads, and waterfronts.
There are a few interactive maps that have sprung up online that can help you locate the various trees in New World, especially the rare ones. Make sure you consult them when hunting that particular resource!
- newworld-map.com
- New World MapGenie
