Harvesting Trade Skill Guide for New World

Harvesting in New World: Aeternum offers a wealth of benefits for players looking to excel in crafting, gathering, and even gold-making. As a key trade skill, harvesting allows you to collect a wide variety of resources (such as fibers, herbs, and plants) that are essential for crafting armor and potions.

As you improve your harvesting trade skill, you'll gain access to more efficient gathering methods, and can locate higher-quality (and more sought-after) resources, making harvesting not only a vital part of your character's progression, but also a potential source of gold.

To begin your harvesting adventures, simply craft a Flint Harvesting Sickle at any campfire or workshop. The only materials needed to craft this tool are Flint and Green Wood, making it an easy tool to quickly put together.

Harvesting goes hand-in hand-with Cooking and Weaving, in which you can utilize all the fibers and cooking materials you harvest and craft them up into food that buffs your stats or luck, and cloth that can be used in other professions to create armor.

This trade skill scales solely with Intelligence, so we highly recommended that you focus on obtaining Intelligence on both gear and your attribute selection, up to 350 for the final harvesting perk, if you are aiming to get the most out of your harvesting. If you are not an intelligence-based character at the time, you will still be able to get a lot out of harvesting, but it will be a slower farm.

Below is a list of the perks granted from Intelligence that benefit harvesting.

• 25 Intelligence: +10% harvesting speed
• 50 Intelligence: +5% chance to gain 1 Azoth when Harvesting
• 100 Intelligence: +50 encumbrance
• 150 Intelligence: -10% decreased weight of harvested items
• 200 Intelligence: +20% harvesting speed
• 250 Intelligence: +10% yield increased from harvesting
• 350 Intelligence: +10% chance at finding rare items while harvesting

Luck greatly increases your chance at getting rare materials from harvesting. Stacking as much luck as possible on all of your armor, tools, and even consumables is the key to finding those legendary rare materials.

Below is a list of rare resources you can find while harvesting, and where to find them.

• Shadecloth — Hemp
• Phasefiber — Hemp
• Glintstrands — Silkweed
• Scalecord — Silkweed
• Blisterweave — Wirefiber and Spinfiber
• Scalecloth — Wirefiber and Spinfiber

Harvesting is rather a unique gathering profession in that you can only find certain ingredients from herbs and plants in specific zones. Below is a list of specific ingredients you can gather while harvesting, and what zones they are most commonly found. This also applies to provision crates.

Below is a list of secondary resources that you can acquire from looting herbs in specific zones.

• Basil — Everfall, Brightwood
• Cinnamon — Edengrove, First Light, Cutlass Keys
• Dill — First Light, Edengrove, Mourningdale
• Garlic — Everfall, Great Cleave
• Ginger — Ebonscale Reach, Windsward, Reekwater
• Mint — Restless Shore, Weavers Fen, Windsward
• Nutmeg — Great Cleave, First Light, Weavers Fen
• Oregano — Monarchs Bluffs, Shattered Mountain, Restless Shore
• Paprika — Shattered Mountain, Monarchs Bluffs, Brightwood
• Parsley — Cutlass Keys, Monarchs Bluffs, Edengrove
• Peppercorn — Cutlass Keys, Mourningdale, Monarchs Bluffs
• Rosemary — Weavers Fen, Restless Shore, Great Cleave
• Saffron — Brightwood, First Light, Mourningdale
• Sage — Reekwater, Brightwood, Everfall
• Tarrargon — Brightwood, Reekwater, Everfall
• Thyme — Windsward, Ebonscale Reach, Reekwater

You are able to have a total of three houses currently in New World: Aeternum, and in each of those houses you can place up to five trophies. Placing a harvesting trophy in your house increases your harvesting luck globally, and you may place a harvesting trophy in each of your three houses, which will stack the luck up even further. You are also able to permanently increase the power of these trophies by acquiring either Journal of Aeternum Flora or Mercurial Token. Trophies can be made by the Furnishing profession.

1. Minor Trophy = +500 Luck
2. Basic Trophy = +1,000 Luck
3. Major Trophy = +1,500 Luck

The best perks for your harvesting sickle can change depending on what you need. For example, as you are levelling up your harvesting skill, you may want the Horticulture Discipline perk, which grants increased harvesting experience. Below is the list of perks we recommend adding to your harvesting sickle.

1. Horticulture Discipline
2. Harvesting Luck
3. Harvesting Yield
4. Azoth Extraction

Armor	Drop Source
Harvester Hat	Open World
Harvester Shirt	Open World
Harvester Gloves	Open World
Harvester Pants	Open World
Harvester Shoes	Open World

If you are an avid harvester you may want to look for the Weaver's Burden perk, which reduces the weight of your fibers, cloth, and harvesting sickles. The Extra Pockets perk is also fantastic for all situations, as it is just extra bag space.

In addition to the harvesting yield perk at 250 Intelligence, you can also get more fibers, herbs and cooking materials and rare materials by drinking the Powerful Proficiency Boost proficiency potion, made by the Arcana profession, which can increase your yield by up to 15%. You can also get additional yield on your crafted harvesting sickle with the perk listed above.

Leveling harvesting in New World: Aeternum is fairly simple: the higher level required to harvest the plant, the more experience you will gain (generally). However, the difference in experience is not that great until the later levels (Wirefiber and Spinfiber). Finding a patch of herbs or a farm full of plants is a great way to get experience without having to travel much.

Plants are found everywhere in Aeternum, so generally you can just go about whatever you are doing and gather the herbs/plants you see on the way, but if you are looking for a specifically dense area it can be extremely helpful to use a map resource like this one to find the spawn points of everything you may be looking for.