Gathering

Gathering Trade Skills determine what raw resources a character can collect throughout Aeternum. Nearly every crafting chain begins here: ore must be mined, trees must be logged, plants must be harvested, creatures must be skinned, and fish must be caught before those materials can enter the refining and crafting economy.

Each Gathering skill levels independently and rewards continued use with access to higher-level resources, improved tracking, and increasingly valuable materials.

Gathering Skills

Harvesting

Gather fibers, herbs, plants, produce, and other botanical resources with a Sickle.

Logging

Cut trees for wood used by Woodworking, Engineering, Weaponsmithing, and Furnishing.

Mining

Extract stone, ore, precious metals, and rare mineral resources with a Pickaxe.

Skinning

Skin eligible creatures for hides, meat, and other animal-derived crafting materials.

Fishing

Catch fish and aquatic resources from open water and Fishing Hotspots across Aeternum.

Tools and Resources

Trade Skill	Primary Tool	Typical Resources	Primary Refining Connection
Mining	Pickaxe	Stone, ore, precious metals	Smelting / Stonecutting
Logging	Logging Axe	Wood and rare tree resources	Woodworking
Harvesting	Sickle	Fibers, herbs, plants, produce	Weaving
Skinning	Skinning Knife	Hides, meat, creature materials	Leatherworking
Fishing	Fishing Pole	Fish and aquatic resources	Cooking / other recipes

Gathering Progression

The Gathering level cap is 250. Progression controls access to increasingly advanced resources and contributes to resource tracking on the compass. The level-205 tier introduced with Rise of the Angry Earth added important endgame resources such as Mythril Ore, Runewood, Spinfiber, Dark Hide, and Prismatic Barb.

Gathering can also produce rare secondary materials used in specialized recipes. High-level gathering therefore remains useful even when the common resource itself is not the main target.

Speed, Yield, and Luck

Three bonuses appear frequently throughout gathering equipment and buffs:

Gathering Speed reduces the time required to complete a gathering action.
Gathering Yield increases the amount of material received from eligible gathering sources.
Gathering Luck improves the chance of receiving uncommon or rare drops from eligible sources.

These bonuses can come from gathering tools, profession equipment, food, trophies, Music buffs, and other effects. Because they modify different parts of the gathering process, they should be treated as separate statistics rather than interchangeable bonuses.

From Gathering to Crafting

Raw resources usually move into a Refining profession before becoming useful to a crafter. This creates the core Trade Skill chain used throughout Aeternum:

Gathering → Refining → Crafting

A player can specialize in only one part of that chain for trading purposes, or level every connected skill to become largely self-sufficient.