Gathering
Steps are the gathering currency. Pick a rock or a tree, go move, and your steps turn into ore, logs and XP.
How a session works
Pick an activity and every step you take fills its bar. When the bar fills you get the ore or logs and the XP: Mining for rocks, Woodcutting for trees, Crafting for flax. Better resources take more steps and pay much more XP.
Banked steps: it works while you sleep
Your phone counts steps all day whether the app is open or not, and those steps bank into a balance. During a gathering session the bank drains on its own, one step every half second, phone off, app closed, it doesn't matter. Come back to a "while you were away" haul.
What you can gather
| Resource | Level | Skill |
|---|---|---|
| Stones and sticks | 1 | Mining and Woodcutting |
| Flax | 1 | Crafting |
| Copper and pine | 5 | |
| Tin and oak | 15 | |
| Iron ore | 25 | Mining |
| Coal | 35 | Mining |
| Walnut | 40 | Woodcutting |
| Gold ore | 50 | Mining, members |
| Ironwood | 55 | Woodcutting, members |
| Mithril ore | 60 | Mining, members |
| Lightning logs | 65 | Woodcutting, members |
| Mythic logs | 75 | Woodcutting, members |
Rows without a skill come in pairs: copper and tin are Mining, pine and oak are Woodcutting.
Tools
Rocks need a pickaxe and trees need an axe. Craft a stone one from stones and sticks, then climb the metals: every tier cuts the steps each resource takes. To wield a tool you need its metal's level in Melee, and to gather with it you need the same level in Mining or Woodcutting.
Company
You are not out there alone. The gathering screen shows who else is working the same spot, and a live chat logs finds and level-ups as they happen.