Gathering the skill everything else is built on i
Type	Life skill
Practiced	Outdoors, anywhere the world provides material
Tools	Hoe, pickaxe, lumbering axe, butcher knife, tanning knife, fluid collector
Costs	Energy, though less as skill rises
Minigame	Green Thumb, for a tenfold return
Gear	Manos and Preonne, for rarity and efficiency
Supplies	Alchemy, cooking and processing
Related	Farming, the cultivated equivalent

Gathering is the skill that supplies most of the others in Black Desert, a life skill in which an adventurer takes raw material directly out of the landscape rather than growing or buying it.

Almost everything made in the game starts here. Herbs and sap become elixirs through alchemy, meat and crops become food through cooking, and ore and timber become the refined stock that processing turns into everything else.

It is also the skill that most rewards equipment. A gatherer in the right gear collects more, collects rarer things and spends less energy doing it, so the gap between a casual gatherer and a committed one is unusually wide.

What an adventurer can take from a given object depends entirely on which tool is in hand, and the same tree yields logs, timber or sap depending only on which tool is used.

Tool	What it takes
Hoe	Herbs, wild herbs and mushrooms, which can also be picked by hand without any tool at all.
Pickaxe	Ore from mineral deposits, and crystals and ore from desert sand.
Lumbering axe	Logs and timber from trees.
Fluid collector	Sap from trees, blood from animals and water from a river or a puddle.
Butcher knife	Meat from a carcass.
Tanning knife	Hides and feathers from a carcass.

Every gather costs energy from a pool that refills slowly, which is the real limit on how much an adventurer can collect in a sitting rather than the time it takes.

Skill loosens that limit. As gathering level rises the chance of collecting without spending anything at all increases, so an experienced gatherer works through the same pool considerably further than a beginner does.

The Green Thumb minigame is what turns gathering from a trickle into a harvest. It appears as a short skill test suited to the tool in hand, timing for lumbering, direction for mining, precision for tanning.

The odds are set generously. Success costs ten energy and returns ten times the usual amount, while failure costs a single point, so an adventurer who plays it consistently comes out far ahead even when they miss.

Mastery governs what turns up rather than how much. Higher mastery raises the chance of the special and rare materials that recipes higher up the chain depend on, and Manos and Preonne equipment raise it further.

Two things appear unpredictably while gathering. Fairy's Breath can be traded in for resources or experience, and Buried Traces open into chests holding materials worth considerably more than the gather that revealed them.

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