Harvesting

Pick crops that grow wild, and grow your own on your island. It's the only gathering skill that needs no tool.

The Harvesting skill page — every level, every item and the xp, in tables.

On this page: Getting started · What you can grow · How it works · Going further · Tips

Getting started

Three patches of wheat grow wild in the Yard: one in the northwest above the copper, one beside the path through the middle, and one out in the southwest meadow. Click them, and they grow back on their own.
You don't need anything in your hand: no tool, no grade, nothing but your level.
On your island, a plot grows in real time whether you're logged in or not, and pays back several of what you planted. That's where the levels are.

What you can grow

Most crops are their own seed: planting spends one of the thing you are growing, so the first of each kind has to be found. They drop from the monsters of the zone that grows them, at about 1.25% of kills. The four Wizardry flowers are the exception. They grow from Sun seeds, Ember seeds, Frost seeds and Void seeds, which drop from monsters all over the map at about 0.8% of kills, and you harvest the flower that ink is brewed from. What you can grow is decided by where you can survive.

Crop	Harvesting	Grows in	Pays back	xp	Sells	Seeded by
Wheat	1	10 min	2–4	26	2	grows wild in the Yard
Tomatoe	5	20 min	2–5	60	3	rotten tomatoes, in the Yard
Rattlebean	10	20 min	2–4	51	5	the Gloam
Sun seeds → Sunpetal	15	1 hr	2–4	102	—	The Gloam, The Lantern Mire, The Golden Sands, Cloudreach, The Boneyard, Cinderville, Thornspire Crown, The Wilderness, The Deep Wild
Lanternroot	20	40 min	2–5	128	18	the Lantern Mire
Pumpkin seed → Pumpkin	20	1 hr 30 min	2–3	221	20	—
Ember seeds → Emberbloom	25	1 hr 30 min	2–4	187	—	The Carnival, The Thunderhead, The Boneyard, The Trailer Park, Cinderville, The Deep Wild
Bonegourd	30	1 hr	2–5	340	45	the Boneyard
Frost seeds → Frostcap	35	2 hr	2–4	323	—	The Golden Sands, Cloudreach, The Thunderhead, The Trailer Park, Glasswater Wastes, The Deep Wild
Stormcorn	40	2 hr	3–6	850	125	Cloudreach & the Thunderhead
Void seeds → Voidlily	45	3 hr	2–4	510	—	Cloudreach, The Vault, The Carnival, The Thunderhead, The Boneyard, Starfall Rift, The Wilderness, The Deep Wild
Golden tomatoe	50	4 hr	1–2	1,700	30	It's a secret
Glass gourd	62	5 hr	2–4	2,550	180	the Carnival
Bog rice seeds → Bog rice	70	5 hr	2–4	3,230	152	The Boardwalk, Cabin Coast, The Lighthouse, Shipwreck Isle, Pirate's Pier, Skull Isle
Ember wheat	78	6 hr	2–4	3,825	260	the Vault
Primeval melon seeds → Primeval melon	85	7 hr	2–3	5,100	240	Thornspire Crown, The Primeval Valley, The Deep Wild
Starfruit	92	8 hr	2–3	6,800	400	the Trailer Park
Frostbloom seeds → Frostbloom	99	10 hr	2–3	9,350	440	Glasswater Wastes, The Frozen Reach
Cinderroot seeds → Cinderroot	103	10 hr	2–4	13,200	528	Cinderville
Brineberry seeds → Brineberry	108	10 hr	2–4	15,950	638	Glasswater Wastes
Crownheart squash seeds → Crownheart squash	113	10 hr	2–4	18,700	748	Thornspire Crown
Starwheat seeds → Starwheat	118	10 hr	2–4	21,450	858	Starfall Rift

How it works

Your island decides how many plots you have: 8 to start, 12 for 5,000, 20 for 20,000, 24 for 600,000, 26 for 1,000,000, 28 for 4,000,000 tickets. It multiplies everything else, so it's the upgrade that matters.
Plant the longest crop you can before you log off, and the short ones while you're around. A plot does nothing between ripening and your coming back, so timing is the real skill here.

Going further

The greenhouse: at Harvesting 75, Yahsmeena sells one for 25,000 tickets. Put it down and it has four more plots along its front, on any island, that grow a quarter faster. Frostbloom grows nowhere else.
The top three crops' seeds drop from monsters at their level: Bog rice seeds (Harvesting 70) from a Deckhand or a Clawhand; Primeval melon seeds (Harvesting 85) from a Caveman or a Sabretooth; Frostbloom seeds (Harvesting 99) from a Frost Wraith or the Frost Jarl. If you'd rather not fight, a harvest of the crop two rungs below turns one up now and then (about 0.67% of harvests).
Rich compost: at Harvesting 85, surplus crops and a bone go in the cellar's compost bin. A fungus bed planted with it grows a fifth faster.
The Harvester's cape: at Harvesting 99, Yahsmeena, on your island sells it for 99,000 tickets. Every harvest gives one more crop, and your plots grow a tenth faster.

Tips

It's background money, not a living. A full set of plots kept going makes a fraction of what fighting the same zone pays. The appeal is that it happens while you do something else.

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