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# Gathering

Mining, woodcutting and foraging.

Three skills that come down to the same thing: find it, take it, carry it home. What you gather feeds almost everything else.

## Mining

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Swing a pickaxe at a seam. Higher levels open better seams, and the deeper ones hold gems.

Copper and coal make bars, which make tools. Gold and amethyst make the best tools in the game. The rest is worth carrying to market.

Almost all of it comes out of [Stonepeak](/the-world/index/stonepeak.md).

## Woodcutting

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Fell trees for wood, and occasionally hardwood, which every good tool needs. A felled tree grows back before long.

Your farm has its own small coppice. For real quantity, go to [Whisper Wood](/the-world/index/whisper-wood.md).

## Foraging

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The one gathering skill that needs no tool. Pick bushes for fiber and mushrooms where you find them.

Fiber is what your animals eat, so a ranch means a standing demand for it.

## Where it all goes

|                    |                               |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------- |
| Wood, stone, fiber | Tools, benches, a beehive     |
| Ore and coal       | Bars, then better tools       |
| Gems               | Sold, mostly                  |
| Mushrooms          | Cooking, or eaten on the spot |


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