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Summary
Use Harvesting skills to acquire raw resources which can be refined into useful materials for Crafting
Players will be occasionally be required to complete a Captcha when harvesting
Harvesting skills do '''NOT''' receive a Shelter Dungeon Bonus
Harvesting skills raise more slowly than other skills
Players can double-click harvested resources to convert them into their crafting resource if they have a proper tool in their pack (i.e. convert logs into boards with a hatchet, raw fish into fish steaks with a dagger, ore into ingots with a pickaxe only while also near a forge)
Whenever a player Recalls, Travels via Moongate, Hikes, Teleported or used an Adventurer's Rope they will have a 60 second delay before they can attempt to Harvest again
Smart Harvest
Double-click a tool to begin Smart Harvesting
The player will automatically harvest from any nearby "harvest nodes" that has resources remaining
It is used on rock walls, floors of caves and boulders/individual rocks to obtain ore.
Ore is turned into Ingots by double-clicking on the Ore while near a Forge, the chance to successfully smelt it is based on your Mining Skill, not the blacksmithing skill
Ingots are used to create weapons, armor, tools and many other items
CAPTCHA
Players will occasionally be required to complete a Captcha when harvesting
If a player fails a CAPTCHA three times, they will be '''blocked and restricted from any form of harvesting''' for a set duration depending on the number of previous offenses
They must be deciphered in the same manner as Treasure Maps, by a Cartographer
Resource Maps must be completed by a harvester with the requisite skill (i.e. 65 mining to harvest a Dull Copper Resource Map)
The Loot Goblin program can greatly aid you in finding the location of where the map is to be used https://forums.uooutlands.com/index.php?threads/witchers-updated-guide-to-tmaps-how-you-can-and-why-you-should-be-running-your-own-tmaps.3439/