⛏️ Gathering & Harvesting Resources
You reap what you sow, mine, pick, or pluck.
For those who find joy in soil, stone, and stem — every Mystavarian can specialise in one gathering skill. This allows for the collecting and harvesting of specific types of resources used across a wide variety of the crafting skills. Whether harvesting herbs for potions, planting fields for fabric, or chipping gemstones from the bones of the earth, gathering is how it all begins.
The skills listed below will be available at launch. Additional gathering skills may come in later phases.
Farming
Farmers keep the world fed, clothed, and occasionally buried under surplus potatoes. This skill lets you grow crops like cotton, flax, and wheat — essential for tailoring, cooking, and trade. Tend your fields, rotate your crops, and enjoy the simple life.
Best paired with the crafting skill: Tailoring
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General Gathering
Jack-of-all-gatherings, master of convenience. General Gathering is focused on learning how to harvest basic commodities and materials from around the world without honing in on a specific area of expertise. These abilities will allow you to become proficient at chopping wood, plucking feathers, tanning leather, paper-making, and more.
Best paired with the crafting skills: Artisanry, General Crafting, Woodworking
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Herbology
Herbology teaches you how to find, identify, safely harvest, and prepare plants, fungi, and mystical flora from across the realm. From the silent killing hemlock poison to healing herb vervain, your satchels will be bursting with potent herbs and poisons desired by combatants and healers alike.
Best paired with the crafting skill: Alchemy
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Mineralogy
For those who hear a calling from the echoes of the caves and caverns, Mineralogy teaches you how to identify and mine veins of ore, extract precious gems, and haul out the stone needed for smithing and sculpting alike. Mineralogists learn to refine pure ores with smelting and how to polish gems to prepare them for further use.
Best paired with the crafting skills: Armour Smithing, Weapon Smithing, Lapidary
See Abilities List✨ The Path of the Farmer ✨
Some dreams don't burn with fire — they grow slowly in soil, drip from limestone caverns, or shimmer beneath riverbeds.
The Path of the Farmer is for those who wish to live off the land and those who value the quiet work of coaxing life and resources from the world. By choosing this path, you'll trade one major skill to gain two extra gathering skills and one additional crafting skill, giving you greater breadth in harvesting, mining, and more.
Farmers are often highly self-sufficient, able to forage, fish, mine, and harvest what others must trade for — then process those goods into something practical or profitable.
💡 Tip: To embrace the farmer life, simply type CHOOSE FARMER in game. If you change your mind later, you can instead RENOUNCE FARMER.