Gathering

In the image below, you can see a list of all eight gathering skills. Note that each skill has a unique purpose.

Let's look at farming, a uniquely passive skill, given that you don’t have to assign your character to farming once crops are planted. Instead, these crops will grow passively in the background, freeing up your character to train another skill during this time.

Returning to the image below, we can see that there are currently 84 items found or used within the farming skill. We can also see what kind of items these are, including their use cases and sources. For example, seeds are used to grow grains, vegetables, and so on. Note that there are also use cases outside of food, including cotton and medicinal plants, which are used in recipes and other skills.

Finally, we can see that farming has three actions, three tools, and a sub-skill associated with it. While we’ll discuss what these mean in the following sections:

• Tools are generally required for specific actions and

• Actions are specific steps taken to complete any skilling task.

Ultimately, these actions will dictate which animations are visible in later versions.

Lastly, there are:

• Sub-skills, which are mini-skills that require dedicated attention and unique strategies.

Below, we can see that composting is a farming sub-skill.

More information on sub-skills can be found here: Sub-Skills.