Harvesting
Pull flax, wool and silk from field, pasture and shore for the weavers.
Introduction quest
What the Field Gives — Tertia, field hand. Flax, wool and silk — every robe in the city starts in somebody's field.
| Step | Objective | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hear out the field hand | 0 gold, 4 XP |
| 2 | Pull flax 8 times | 25 gold, 8 XP |
| 3 | Weave 3 squares of Linen Cloth | 45 gold, 10 XP |
Finishing the chain pays a further 50 gold and 12 XP. It runs once per character and is claimed from the Quests tab under Trades — see Quests.
The trade from here: At skill 15 the wool pasture opens, silk waits at 45, and divers pull byssus from the shallows at 75.
The chain is the trade's introduction and does not continue. Everything past it opens with skill at the bench, not with another quest.
Gathering nodes
| Node | Tier | Skill req | PE | Yields | Bonus | Skill XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flax Field | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1–3× Flax | — | 36 |
| Wool Pasture | 2 | 15 | 2 | 1–3× Raw Wool | — | 54 |
| Hemp Field | 3 | 30 | 2 | 1–3× Hemp | — | 72 |
| Silkworm Grove | 4 | 45 | 2 | 1–3× Raw Silk | — | 90 |
| Cotton Rows | 5 | 60 | 2 | 1–3× Raw Cotton | — | 108 |
| Byssus Shallows | 6 | 75 | 2 | 1–3× Byssus Fibre | — | 126 |
| Deep Byssus Beds | 7 | 80 | 2 | 2–4× Byssus Fibre | — | 144 |
How much XP a node actually gives
The table's Skill XP is the full award. What you receive depends on how far your skill has passed the node's requirement (d = skill − skill req). The game colours each node by this band and prints the exact number on the node card.
| Band | Condition | Skill XP |
|---|---|---|
| Optimal | d < 10 | 100 % |
| Good | d < 20 | 100 % — but the drop is coming |
| Capped | d ≥ 20, no higher node open to you | 50 % |
| Trivial | d ≥ 20, a higher node is open | 25 % |
The Capped band means a profession's top node never drops to trivial XP: once nothing better exists, the anti-AFK penalty has nothing left to steer you toward.
Skill curve
Skill runs 1–100. Cumulative skill XP for key milestones:
| Skill | Cumulative XP |
|---|---|
| 15 | 2100 |
| 30 | 8700 |
| 50 | 24500 |
| 75 | 55500 |
| 100 | 99000 |