Guide:Gathering & Crafting

With the full release of chapter 3 a new gathering and crafting system was introduced. This system serves as one of the primary ways of increasing strength along with finding runes. In addition to stat increases gathering resources can help players fill their inventory and get money

Gathering
There are three types of gathering

1. Free gathering allows you to gather an item with requiring an item. These gathering spots are indicated by a sparkle symbol and can reward herbs and worms. Herbs are located on walls and trees while worms are found in tree stumps

2. Consumable gathering requires an item that is used up to get the resource. These resources are fish and meat. Fishing spots require the use of worms and are indicated by a white circle They will give either a blue fish or a rare fish. Meat is gathered using a hunting spear. Brown cows give meat, and white cows give rare meat.

3. Item required gathering requires the player to have the correct tool in their inventory. These tools have a high up front cost but have unlimited uses. To gather wood the player must have the Lumberjack Ax. To gather minerals such as flint and gems the player needs the pickaxe.

Crafting
There are currently two things that can be crafted right now. In order to craft you must take the correct material to a lit fireplace.

1. Hunting spears are crafted using wood harvested from trees. You should always remember to turn any wood sitting in your inventory into spears. As long as you're harvesting trees you come across you should always have enough spears. If you find yourself without a spear to harvest any meat walking around the area you can always return later. Resources remain until harvested even after an area has been cleared of enemies, so it's recommended to backtrack to avoid missing stat increases.

2. Food must be cooked before it can be eaten. You can cook food at a lit fireplace with the game automatically checking for any common or rare variety of food. The cooked blue fish will increase your max MP, while the cooked Red fish will increase your magic attack. Cooked meat will increase your max HP, while cooked rare meat will increase your physical attack. If you've harvested multiple pieces of raw food you may have to cycle through the cooking sequence multiple times to cook all food. You must use the cooked food to get the effect.