Harvesting Trade Skill Guide (2024)

Last updated on Mar 19, 2023 at 06:39by Lemoni1 comment

On this page, you will find our in-depth guide for the Harvesting Trade Skillin New World where we cover everything from basics to advanced farming tips forrare materials.

Harvesting utilizes the Harvesting Sickle tool to harvest fibers, herbs, andcooking materials from plants around the world, which can be used to level mostother professions in the game and greatly increase the power of your character,or be turned into a huge Gold profit.

To begin your Harvesting adventures, simply craft a Harvesting Sickle at anycampfire or sanctuary after the initial game introduction. It uses similarmaterials to the Flint Sickle that you craft shortly after the introduction(Flint and Greenfibers, herbs, and cooking materials), and then you are readyto harvest.

Harvesting goes hand in hand with Cooking andWeaving, in which you can utilize all the fibers and cookingmaterials you harvest and craft them up into food that buffs your stats/Luck,and cloth that can be used in other professions or to create gear.

This Trade Skill scales solely with Intelligence, so we highlyrecommended that you focus on obtaining Intelligence on both gear and with yourAttribute selection, up to 250 for the final harvesting perk, if you are aimingto get the most out of your Harvesting. If you are not an Intelligence-basedcharacter 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 fromIntelligence that benefit Harvesting.

• 50 Intelligence: +10% Harvesting speed
• 100 Intelligence: 5% chance to gain 1 Azoth when Harvesting
• 150 Intelligence: -10% Decreased weight of harvested items
• 200 Intelligence: +10% Harvesting speed
• 250 Intelligence: +10% Yield increased from Harvesting

Luck greatly increases your chance at getting rare materials fromHarvesting. Stacking as much Luck as possible on all ofyour gear/tools/food buff is the key to finding those legendary rarematerials.

Below is a list of rare resources you can find while Harvesting and where tofind them.

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

Harvesting is rather a unique gathering profession in that you can only findcertain herbs/plants in specific zones. Below is a list of farm plantsand what zones to find them in. This also applies to provision crates.

Below is a list of secondary resources that you can acquire from lootingherbs 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 and in eachof those houses you can place up to five trophies. Placing a Harvesting trophy inyour house increases your Harvesting Luck globally, and you may place aHarvesting trophy in each of your three houses, which will stack the Luck up evenfurther. You are also able to permanently increase the power of these trophiesby 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 = 1000 Luck
3. Major Trophy = 1500 Luck

The best perks for your Harvesting Sickle can change depending on what youneed. For example, as you are levelling up your Harvesting skill, you may wantthe Horticulture Discipline perk, which grants increased Harvestingexperience, however once you are at 200 Harvesting skill you will likely wantto drop that for something else. At 200 Harvesting we recommend the followingperks on your Harvesting Sickle.

1. Harvesting Luck
2. Harvesting Yield
3. Gathering Alacrity

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, andHarvesting Sickles. The Extra Pockets perk is also fantastic for allsituations, as it is just extra bag space.

In addition to the Harvesting Yield perk at 250 Intelligence, you can alsoget more fibers, herbs and cooking materials and rare materials by drinking the Powerful Proficiency Booster proficiency potion, made by theArcana profession, which can increase your yield by up to 15%. Youcan also get additional yield on your crafted Harvesting sickle, which isgreat.

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

Plants are found everywhere in New World, so generally you can just go aboutwhatever you are doing and gather the herbs/plants you see on the way, but ifyou are looking for a specifically-dense area it can be extremely helpful touse a map resource like this oneto find the spawn points of everything you may be looking for.