Foraging

Foraging

Summary Foraging is a life skill activity that allows players to gather plants, vegetables, fruits, herbs, and other natural resources. Most gathered items are used for Cooking, while some can also be used as healing materials. All foraged items are tradable with other players. Unlike Mining and Fishing, Foraging includes a rank progression system that unlocks better items as you gain experience.

Location

Once you reach Job Level 10 as a Novice, talk to Gordon Greensides. Before leaving the map, he will give you a guidebook called Wild Harvests. The book unlocks the Foraging skill, but it can only be learned after changing to a first class.

How It Works

Use the Wild Harvests guidebook to instantly learn the Foraging life skill. The skill can be found in the Etc tab of your skill window.

Use the Foraging skill on special Foraging nodes found in open world maps. There is a chance to discover a rare node. Rare nodes are not visually different from normal nodes until interacted with, but they allow 4 additional gathers before disappearing. When a rare node is discovered, a 6x6 area map broadcast will announce the map coordinates where it was found.

Foraging Nodes

There are 3 types of foraging node you can gather with your Foraging skill:

• Proudful Thistle
• Humble Thorn
• Lavish Weed

These nodes share the same loot pool and functionality. The only differences are their appearance and name.

Foraging Rank

Foraging has a unique rank progression system. Your rank determines:

• The variety of items you can gather
• The quantity of items dropped
• The drop rate of rare herbs and materials

You gain 5 Foraging EXP every time you successfully gather from a node.

You can check your current Foraging Rank and EXP by using @foraging.

Foraging Rank divided into 3 ranks:

• Beginner (Default)
• Intermediate (10.000 Exp required)
• Expert (20.000 Exp required)

Foraging items

Item variety:

• Beginner: Stem + 2 items
• Intermediate: Stem + 4 items
• Expert: Stem + 6 items

Cooking

Cooking turns gathered ingredients, many of which come from Foraging, into food items that grant a temporary stat boost. Only one food buff can be active at a time, and all food items are tradable with other players.

How to Unlock

Cooking is learned through a short quest with two NPCs in the Prontera Castle kitchen, Madeleine Chu and Charles Orleans.

1. Talk to Madeleine Chu at (prt_castle 45/35) Copied and tell her you want to learn to cook. She'll ask you to wear a Chef Hat to show your enthusiasm before introducing you to Charles.

1. With the Chef Hat equipped, talk to Charles Orleans at (prt_castle 43/30) Copied . He'll pick a random Level 3 food for you to make and tell you what ingredients it needs.

1. Bring him those ingredients, this first attempt always succeeds, and he'll hand you the finished food. Hold onto it, you'll need it again later in the quest.
2. Return to Madeleine. She'll give you a Level 3 Cookbook along with a batch of Outdoor Cooking Kits.
3. Using the cookbook, craft one of each Level 3 recipe on your own.
4. Bring your finished foods back to Madeleine, she'll bundle them up and ask you to deliver the bundle to a friend of hers in Payon.
5. After delivering it, return to the Prontera cooks to finish the quest. Madeleine will reward you with Home Cooking Kits, and cooking is fully unlocked from here.

Each Cookbook level requires its own set of ingredients per dish.

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