Harvesting Trade Skill Guide for New World
Welcome to the ultimate harvesting guide for New World: Aeternum, where you'll master the art of gathering and uncover the secrets to the rarest plants and magical resources. Whether you're brand-new to this trade skill, or a harvesting veteran, this guide has everything you need to transform Aeternum's landscapes into loads of materials and gold.
Harvesting Overview in New World: Aeternum
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.
Starting your Harvesting Adventure
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.
Attribute Bonuses
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 and Rare Resources
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
Finding Zone-Specific Plants and Herbs
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.
Name | Zone(s) |
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Barley | Ebonscale Reach, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Corn | Everfall, Ebonscale Reach, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Potato | Brightwood, Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Melon | Great Cleave, First Light, Weavers Fen |
Broccoli | Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Berry | Everfall, Cutlass Keys, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Strawberry | Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Nuts | Brightwood, Everfall, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Wheat | Everfall, Great Cleave |
Carrot | Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Squash | Brightwood, Cutlass Keys, Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs |
Cabbage | Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Windsward |
Blueberry | Brightwood, Cutlass Keys, Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Weavers Fen, Windsward |
Cranberries | Brightwood, Everfall, Monarchs Bluffs, Weavers Fen |
Honey | Brightwood, Everfall, First Light, Monarchs Bluffs, Reekwater, Windsward |
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
Harvesting Trophies
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.
- Minor Trophy = +500 Luck
- Basic Trophy = +1,000 Luck
- Major Trophy = +1,500 Luck
Best Perks for Your Harvesting Sickle
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.
Harvesting Gear
Armor | Drop Source |
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Harvester Hat | Open World |
Harvester Shirt | Open World |
Harvester Gloves | Open World |
Harvester Pants | Open World |
Harvester Shoes | Open World |
Best Bag Perks for Harvesting
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.
Increasing Your Harvesting Yield
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.
Best Way to Level Your Harvesting in New World: Aeternum
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.
Harvesting Routes in New World: Aeternum
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.
Changelog
- 05 Sep. 2024: Updated guide to be up-to-date. New strategies and perks added. New resource (Spinfiber) now available.
- 18 Mar. 2023: Updated Tool Images, Gear, and Perks.
- 17 Nov. 2021: Guide added.
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