BDO Workers are NPC characters you can hire that will help you progress in game.
Worker Benefits:
- gather materials from nodes, saving you time gathering manually
- build items in workshops, such as gear, ships, horse gear, furniture, trade crates, and more
- level, promote, and fire workers
- train and exchange helpful skills that cater to your game goals
- tend your farms for you by pruning and killing insects, so that plants grow faster
- choose fast workers that require more feeding and maintainence, or less powerful, but more slow and easy
Workers are a huge benefit to players because they are mostly a passive way to get materials and gear.
Passive AFK Income:
Workers require periodic feeding and management, but the rewards are well worth the time and cost. They work in the background making you money, while you play the game or sleep/work.
Worker Requirements
Start hiring workers as soon as you enter Velia. You get 1 free Worker Lodging per city <Work Supervisor>.
Find a <Work Supervisor> by using your Find NPC button on the top right of your screen.
When you have enough Contribution from questing, you can invest in a node that can help you feed your worker. (Or purchase worker food on the Marketplace.)
Worker Management:
Access the “All Worker List” window by clicking the Pickaxe icon in the user interface.
You will need more Worker Lodging, if you would like more workers in Velia.
BDO Workers
There are 9 different worker races. Each race has their own strengths and weaknesses. Some are only obtainable in a specific region.
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★★★
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★☆☆
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★☆☆
● Luck: ★★★
● Stamina: ★★☆
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★☆☆
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★★★
—- Land of Morning Light Workers —-
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★★★
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★☆☆
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★☆☆
● Luck: ★★★
● Stamina: ★★☆
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★☆☆
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★★★
——— Kamasylvia Workers ———
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★★★
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★☆☆
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★☆☆
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★★★
——— O’dyllita Worker (Humans & Giants also) ———
Stats Overview
● Movement Speed: ★★★
● Luck: ★☆☆
● Stamina: ★☆☆
Worker Stats: Speed, Luck, & Stamina
Work Speed:
Work Speed is an important stat because this number determines if a job can be done in 1 tick or more. 1 tick is equal to 10 minutes (Crates are 5 minutes). Work Speed stat is heavily reliant on the node’s Workload however, so you have to pay close attention to the node detail window visible before you give a work command.
Basically, you are trying to cover the node’s Workload with your worker’s Work Speed. If a node’s Workload is 200, and a worker’s Work Speed is 100, then he will do the job in 2 ticks (20 minutes) plus the distance calculation.
- Work Time = roundup(Workload/Workspeed)*10
- When Workspeed equals or is higher than Workload = 10 minute job completion
- When Workspeed is between 50% and 99% of the Workload = 20 minute job completion
- When Workspeed is between 33% and 49% of the Workload = 30 minute job completion
- Worst Work Speed: Shellfolk, Giant, Fadus.
- Best Work Speed: Goblin, Papu, Dokkebi, Dwarf.
Complete Work Instantly for Silver
Instantly Complete Work:
You can spend silver to use the Complete Work Now function for Workshops on the World Map (M).
| Remaining Time | Silver Cost |
|---|---|
| 10 min or less | 10,000,000 |
| 20 min or less | 20,000,000 |
| 30 min or less | 30,000,000 |
| 40 min or less | 40,000,000 |
| 50 min or less | 50,000,000 |
| 60 min or less | 60,000,000 |
| 72 min or less | 70,000,000 |
| 84 min or less | 80,000,000 |
| 96 min or less | 90,000,000 |
| 108 min or less | 100,000,000 |
| 120 min or less | 110,000,000 |
| 135 min or less | 120,000,000 |
| 150 min or less | 130,000,000 |
| 165 min or less | 140,000,000 |
| 180 min or less | 150,000,000 |
| 195 min or less | 160,000,000 |
| 210 min or less | 170,000,000 |
| 225 min or less | 180,000,000 |
| 240 min or less | 190,000,000 |
| 260 min or less | 200,000,000 |
| 280 min or less | 210,000,000 |
| 300 min or less | 220,000,000 |
| 320 min or less | 230,000,000 |
| 340 min or less | 240,000,000 |
| 360 min or less | 250,000,000 |
| 380 min or less | 260,000,000 |
| 400 min or less | 270,000,000 |
| 420 min or less | 280,000,000 |
| 440 min or less | 290,000,000 |
| 480 min or less | 300,000,000 |
| 510 min or less | 310,000,000 |
| 540 min or less | 320,000,000 |
| 570 min or less | 330,000,000 |
| 600 min or less | 340,000,000 |
| 630 min or less | 350,000,000 |
| 660 min or less | 360,000,000 |
| 690 min or less | 370,000,000 |
| 720 min or less | 380,000,000 |
| 750 min or less | 390,000,000 |
| 780 min or less | 400,000,000 |
| 810 min or less | 410,000,000 |
| 840 min or less | 420,000,000 |
| 870 min or less | 430,000,000 |
| 900 min or less | 440,000,000 |
| 930 min or less | 450,000,000 |
| 960 min or less | 460,000,000 |
| 1000 min or less | 470,000,000 |
| 1040 min or less | 480,000,000 |
| 1080 min or less | 490,000,000 |
| 1120 min or less | 500,000,000 |
| 1160 min or less | 510,000,000 |
| 1200 min or less | 520,000,000 |
| 1240 min or less | 530,000,000 |
| 1280 min or less | 540,000,000 |
| 1320 min or less | 550,000,000 |
| 1360 min or less | 560,000,000 |
| 1400 min or less | 570,000,000 |
| 1440 min or less | 580,000,000 |
| 1500 min or less | 590,000,000 |
| 1560 min or less | 600,000,000 |
| 1620 min or less | 610,000,000 |
| 1680 min or less | 620,000,000 |
| 1740 min or less | 630,000,000 |
| 1800 min or less | 640,000,000 |
| 1860 min or less | 650,000,000 |
| 1920 min or less | 660,000,000 |
| 1980 min or less | 670,000,000 |
| 2040 min or less | 680,000,000 |
| 2100 min or less | 690,000,000 |
| 2160 min or less | 700,000,000 |
Movement Speed:
Movement Time = Distance/Movement speed * 2
Speed is important for nodes located far away. It’s added after the ticks are counted. For closer nodes, you can use slower moving workers if that’s all you have left.
- Worst Movement Speed: Shellfolk, Giant, Fadus.
- Best Movement Speed: Goblin, Papu, Dokkebi, Dwarf.
Stamina (aka Action Points):
Allows workers to work for longer periods without being fed. 1 job uses up 1 Stamina.
Stamina isn’t so important if you have plenty of family inventory, which allows you to auto-feed workers.
Worker Luck:
Luck gives a better chance for obtaining a greater quantity of goods from nodes. Luck also improves your chances of having that worker obtain the rares from a node. For example, Red Tree Lump is often a rare from timber nodes.
Luck Improvements:
In patch May 31 2023, the Luck stat got some major changes.
- Humans were given a +3 boost to Luck.
- Luck procs give lucky sacks with rare goodies.
- Two nodes give special luck proc rewards.
Two specific nodes have special luck rewards:
| Special Luck Rewards |
|---|
|
Node: Erdal → Node: Zvier Highlands → |
Cocoon
Silk Thread
Cooking Honey
| Node Type | Worker Luck Reward |
|---|---|
| Gathering/Farming |
Some Farmer’s Sack: Use to obtain Fruit of Nature, Abundance, Nature, Sun, Enchantment, Magic Power, Perfection, or Destruction x1 |
| Lumbering | Spirit’s Leaf, Old Tree Bark, Monk’s Branch, Bloody Tree Knot, Red Tree Lump |
| Mining |
Some Miner’s Sack: Use to obtain Rough Ruby, Sapphire, Topaz, Emerald, Diamond, or Opal x1 |
| Excavation |
Some Archaeologist’s Sack: Use to obtain Trace of Nature, Despair, Wave, Earth, Ascension, Savagery, Origin, Battle, Forest, Violence, Death, or Memory x1 |
| Fish Drying |
Coral Piece, Some Fisher’s Sack: Use to obtain Green, Gold, White, Red, or Blue Coral x1 |
Lucky Sacks
 Some Farmer’s Sack |
 Some Fisherman’s Sack |
 Some Miner’s Sack |
 Some Archaeologist’s Sack |
Worker Ranks (Grade or Tiers)
Workers have 5 different grades that show us their rarity and strength. Worker grades are shown by the color of their name. In BDO, the best worker grade of Artisan is colored orange/red.
- Artisan – the best worker tier and most difficult to obtain. Keep this fella if you get lucky on seeing one! Normally you have to go through the Promotion process to get an Artisan worker. You can sometimes get lucky at the Worker Exchange. (Work Supervisor’s Worker Exchange button). Reportedly, it takes about 1.8k energy (360 rolls) to obtain one. (less than 1% chance.)
- Professional – more common than Artisan, but still requires a very lucky roll. I like to roll new workers at the Work Supervisor until I get at least this grade. (Last try cost me 1040 energy, but then got the next one with 100 energy. RNG!)
- Skilled – try not to hire anyone below this grade. Skilled grade is where you really start to see big improvement in worker stats at level 30. Skilled workers and above can be sold at the Work Supervisor. (Click Worker Exchange then Register.)
- Normal – most common tier, but has significantly lower stats than Skilled workers. Until you gain more Knowledge, which increases your energy, you might have to settle for this at first. You can also check out our guide on Professional Amity Workers, which are low cost, but not a long term option.
- Naive – poor stats! Click View Another button.
Artisan Chances?
So how many times do you have to roll to get an Artisan?!
For the lucky few: 1 time.
For the rest of us…
9176 Worker Rolls from 2 players…
- Naive Workers: 1326 (14.45%)
- Normal Workers: 6403 (69.77%)
- Skilled Workers: 1286 (14.01%)
- Professional Workers: 137 (1.49%)
- Artisan Workers: 124 (0.26%)
Ryu and Yollar!
Two generous BDO players (ryu1313 and Yollar) posted their dogged attempts to attain the unattainable… the rare Artisan worker. They posted their findings to Reddit, which helps us see the chances that you might get a particular tier. View the Reddit post.
Increased Probability of Hiring Professional/Skilled workers
UPDATE from patch notes 2-22-23:
The probability of workers appearing in each city and village upon hiring a worker via Work Supervisor NPC has been adjusted for each level.
- Increased the probability of professional level workers appearing by approximately 2 times.
- Increased the probability of skilled level workers appearing by appoximately 1.4 times.
- With the increased probability of professional and skilled workers appearing, the probability of normal level workers appearing has been reduced.
- Unified the appearing probability of same level workers (Giant, Human, Goblin, etc.) to be equal.
However, the appearing probability of workers hired via Work Supervisor NPC of Old Wisdom per level remain the same.
Goblin Worker Stats (Level 1)
| Grade | Work Speed | Movement Speed | Luck | Stamina |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skilled | 65 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| Professional | 90 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 10 |
| Artisan | 115 | 5 | 6 | 15 |
Work speed growth per level 0.1 ~ 1.39
Movement Speed growth per level 0.1 ~ 0.25
Luck growth per level 0.05 ~ 0.3
Look at that handsome blue grade goblin! Unfortunately, I had to pass on him, because I only hire Professionals!
Worker Skills
Worker Skills can greatly influce a workers performance. With the correct skills, you can potentially turn a 20 minute job into a 10 minute job.
Workers Gain 1 skill per 5 levels:
- 1 Skill at Level 1
- 2 Skills at Level 5
- 3 Skills at Level 10
- 4 Skills at Level 15
- 5 Skills at Level 20
- 6 Skills at Level 25
- 7 Skills at Level 30
- 8 Skills at Level 35
- 9 Skills at Level 40
- Permanent Delivery Skill at level 40
TOTAL SKILLS: 10 (Named Amity workers have 1 extra skill.)
A skill can be swapped out periodically, after your worker reaches level 30. This costs 20% worker exp and you are given a random skill in exchange.
To learn more, please visit our Worker Skills list, with filter and sort capability.
Worker Skills help the worker with Movement Speed, Work Speed, and have other special abillities that can really help you speed up work time.
Worker Skill Example:
The image below is a good example of how worker skills make a difference. Look at the node info window and you can see that it shows a Workspeed of 151. This is the Workpeed of the Goblin with his worker skills applied. The Goblin’s base Workspeed is shown as 143 and it is not enough to cover the node’s full Workload of 298. But with his skills, he is able to trim off 10 minutes. Without his skills, the job would have taken another tick for him to complete. (or 39 minutes)
Worker Promotion
Workers earn a promotion chance every 10 levels.
Promotion chances do stack, but there isn’t any benefit to stacking them and waiting for workers to level. Since patch May 25, 2023 worker level no longer improves a worker’s promotion chance.
To learn more about gaining ranks and leveling workers, please view our Worker Promotion & Rank Guide.
Worker Stamina & Worker Food
Workers use one stamina per work cycle.
If you have many low tier and low Stamina goblins, this can keep you busy feeding workers throughout the day, unless you have auto feed enabled. For example, you have to feed a Skilled Goblin every 40 minutes, if they are on quick 5 minute crafting jobs in town. They only have 8 stamina.
A Skilled Giant, however, has the most Stamina and would last 125 hours on 5 minute jobs because he has 25 Stamina. As you can see, Giants are Stamina kings, but their workspeed and movement is slower.
- Beer and Grilled Bird Meat are the cheapest to make.
- Beer replenishes 2 Stamina, and Grilled Bird Meat replenishes 3 Stamina.
Please visit this Beer Guide, for more details making these foods, with a step by step how-to.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: You can auto feed workers for many hours, depending on the weight limit of your family inventory.
Beer Recipe
5x 
Grain
6x 
Mineral Water
1x 
Sugar
2x 
Leavening Agent
Grilled Bird Meat
2x 
Chicken Meat
6x 
Deep Frying Oil
2x 
Cooking Wine
1x 
Salt
Auto Feed Workers
One of the great benefits of Family Inventory is it allows you to automatically feed workers to recover their stamina.
Activate this feature by pressing the Recover All button from the Worker list.
The automatic recovery feature prioritizes the workers’ stamina when it reaches 3 and by the sorting order of recovery items within the Family inventory.
A notification will display when there are no worker recovery items in your Family Inventory.
Image Source: patch notes
Best Worker
Goblins, Papu, Dokkebi, and Dwarf truly excel at working on your nodes, especially if they are far away from town. In my work on the BDO Node Investment Calculator, I discovered that Goblins and Papu always produce more.
Often times this means they produce in less time, what a Human can produce. This amount is usually like 10 minutes, but for other nodes it can make a much bigger difference.
I always use a goblin on my excavation nodes. Their work loads are so long that every other slow worker can’t compete.
Luck has seen recent improvements and I’m unsure yet how this will impact workers. Studies done and published by Balzor and other players in the past concluded that a Human’s high Luck can’t outpace Goblin/Papu/Dwarf Movement Speed and Workspeed except if the node is very close to the town. View Balzor’s Worker Guide
Choosing the Best Worker:
- Giants, Fadus, Shellfolk: highest Stamina (less feedings), but slow speed
- Unique Talent: Production Increase obtains an additional 68.4% of the basic harvest amount when harvesting at production nodes.
- Use if you don’t have good Family Inventory.
- Use if you frequently forget to feed the workers you have.
- Use if you frequently have to work in real life.
- Use if you don’t like checking your workers more than once a day.
- Use on close nodes with low workload.
- Works very well on timber nodes.
- Use if the node distance isn’t too great and the Workload isn’t high.
- Goblin, Papu, Dwarf, Dokkebi: best speed, but more feedings
- Use if you have plenty of Family Inventory and use Auto Feeding.
- Use if you play often night and day.
- Use if real life doesn’t prevent you from logging in to feed workers.
- Use if you don’t mind keeping an eye on workers and possibly having to log in an Alt to feed them.
- Use on excavation nodes.
- Human, Dolswe: middle ground
- Greatest Luck of all workers. (Get more lucky sacks with rare goods.)
- Lower speed than goblin, and lower Stamina and production than giant.
- For some nodes, it makes little work time difference between a Goblin & Human.
- Use if you are having trouble finding those hard to obtain and rare items in lucky sacks.
It’s important to consider your play style and Family Inventory when choosing workers. Do you AFK for long periods and don’t have good Family Inventory? Then Giants, Shellfolk, and Fadus are the best. Are you constantly at the keyboard, ready to check your worker’s Stamina when they tucker out? Then Goblin, Dokkebi, or Papu is often the best man! ..err I mean species!
Humans are a sort of middle ground. I often use Humans when smaller cuts in Work Speed don’t make a big difference. (where it takes a few minutes more per work cycle.) If you visit our BDO Node Investment Calculator, you will see that many nodes have a default worker selection of Human because the decrease in silver value was small enough for my play style.
should be mentioned that having amity with the work supervisor will increase the chance of rolling better workers. should be capped at 1001 amity.