Green Thumb Artisan Gathering Mini-game

“Green Thumb” is knowledge that allows you to obtain special mini games while gathering. After obtaining this knowledge via a quest line, you can turn on your “Green Artisan” skill which gives a chance to proc a mini game while gathering.

Once you obtain the Green Thumb knowledge, all alts can enjoy Green Artisan gathering mini-games, since it’s a knowledge reward that is shared with family.

Gathering Mini-game Requirements:

• 10 Energy:
  • Mini-game Success: 10 Energy gives 10x the normal gathering rewards.
  • Mini-game Fails: 1 Energy gives the normal amount of gathering rewards.
• Gathering Mini-game Questline: “[Green Thumb] Gatherer Across the Sea”, given by Hyunyong <Chorong Merchant Guild> in Nampo’s Moodle Village.
  • Gathering Level: Artisan 1+
  • Land of the Morning Light Access:
    • Abyssal Veins portal via the Magnus questline (level 56+)
    • Sail with a ship across the great ocean. (tier 4+ ship recommended)
    • Create a new level 1 character to start in LoML.
    • Take a Ferry Boat Ride to LoML.

Green Thumb Questline

You will have to complete the following quest line to enable gathering mini-games.

• [Green Thumb] Gatherer Across the Sea
  • Bare handed gathering of Maehwa which are large trees that have pink leaves.
• [Green Thumb] Gowun Plateau Reed
  • Gather 100 reeds with a hoe.
• [Green Thumb] Yeowoo Pass Mother Support
  • Gather 100 wild berry with a hoe on top of the hill.
  • Gather 100 viola inside a large cave where the Fox Statue NPC is. (Yeowoo Cave entrance is in the little village below the hill.)
• [Green Thumb] Life is Hard, Even in Times of Plenty
  • gather rice stalk and pink rosebay with a hoe.
• [Green Thumb] Tiger Pattern Flower
  • gather tiger flowers with a hoe.
• [Green Thumb] Bamboo Sprout Gathering
  • gather bamboo sprouts with a lumbering axe.
• [Green Thumb] Great… Green Artisan
• Optional Quest: “Irritated Bambooling” – a short movie quest given by Bambooling for Rabbit and Turtle emoji. (Level 56+)

Gathering Mini Game Benefits

• Have fun while gathering using the same amount of energy in less time.
• Gathering mini-game gives 10x the gathering exp and rewards.
• Green Thumb game gives all gathering resources, not just basic.
• Milennial Wild Ginseng is rarely obtained through the gathering mini-game.
  • The drop rate of Wild Ginseng is not increased by gathering level, mastery, or pets such as Hedgehog.
  • Wild Ginseng can be bought and sold on the central market for a steep price.
  • 90 Day Buff for Entire Family:
    • Max HP +100
    • Max Stamina +50
    • All Resistance +2%
    • Max Energy +50
    • Energy Recovery +1
    • Max Weight +50LT
    • Breath/Strength EXP +20%
    • Heat Stroke/Hypothermia Resistance +50%

Green Thumb Gathering Minigames

Every gathering type uses a different gathering tool and produces a unique minigame.

My Gathering Minigame Gear Set

The images below show the minigame loot from a Season Character on a Season Server before the Life Skill changes on June 5, 2024. (Season Characters can now wear Life Mastery gear, however 100% Basic Resources was removed from Season Servers.)

• Low gathering skill – skilled to professional level
• Yawning Hedgehog Lightstone Combo
• T4 Hedgehog pet that’s well fed and chubby with cuteness 🙂
• Season Server → 100% more basic resources. (equivalent to 750 Gathering Mastery. Ex. full TRI Loggia Gear & accessories.)
• Demihar gathering tool → 80% gathering item drop rate
• Agris Fever → 150% basic resources.
• You could also use Treant’s Tear, but I forgot about it so it’s not in the test screenshots below. (Treant’s Tear gives 10% gathering item drop rate.)

Fluid Collecting Minigame

Minigame Gathering Tool: Fluid Collector

You get 5 chances to fill the fluid collector all the way to full.

Press and hold SPACE to keep the line moving.

Release SPACE when the line is in the blue or green area.

If you release SPACE outside of the blue or green area, you get one FAIL and no fluid fills the syringe.

• Green Zone is PERFECT → 40% added to fluid collector
• Blue Zone is GOOD → 30% added to fluid collector
• Outside blue or green is FAILED → 0% added to fluid collector

Logging Minigame

Minigame Gathering Tool: Lumbering Axe

Time Limit: 15 sec.

Press SPACE when the yellow bar is within the blue target area.

Each successful strike, makes the target area smaller and more difficult to hit.

Sometimes the yellow bar moves faster than other times.

If you press SPACE outside the blue target too many times the minigame ends in failure.

Hoe Gathering Minigame

AKA → Root Demon Hellground.

You get 5 seconds to memorize the location of 4 to 5 twisted roots. A feature was added in a patch that allows you to start the mini-game immediately by pressing SPACE.

After the 5 second preview, all the roots will be covered by 4 different types of ground layers.

1. Stone Layer
2. Grass Layer
3. Light Brown Layer
4. Dark Brown Pebble Layer

You have 25 seconds to uncover all of the roots.

Move to a square that is hiding a covered root by pressing W, A, S, D until it is over the square.

Press SPACE over a covered root to dig down through the layers until you see the root.

Move to the next buried root and keep going until they are all revealed.

If you dig into a square without a root, then you have to cycle through the layers until you change it back to its original state. (This mechanic was removed in a patch.)

Hoe Gathering Minigame Tips:

The gathering mini-game is much easier now since it has been patched. However, if you are still having difficulty with memory games, try the following strategies.

• Record the 5 second preview phase.
  • Windows key + SHIFT + S will open a screen capture (Snipping Tool)
  • Use your phone to snap a photo during the preview phase.
  • Put BDO in windowed mode to use a secondary app.
  • None of the above I found helpful, but it has helped others.
• Mind Mapping Memory Techniques: Try to making image associations in your mind based upon what you see. For example, roots in a C, T, X, Z etc, shape.
• Count the number of roots you see during the 5 second preview. Speaking out loud may help to remember.
• Don’t get too frustrated. This is supposed to be fun. Try digging a big hole outside in RL for those Root Demons to die in!!! 🙁

Mining Minigame

Minigame Gathering Tool: Pickaxe

Time Limit: 20 sec.

You have 15 seconds to strike red dots on the rock to find the weak one to attack.

Use W, A, S, D to move the pickaxe around the rock.

Press SPACE to strike the red dots with the pickaxe.

After you strike the weak one, a crack will form.

Keep hitting the the cracked spot a few more times with SPACE.

Butchering Minigame

Minigame Gathering Tool: Butcher Knife

Time Limit: 20 sec.

Hunting Life Skill Exclusions: The butchering mini game does NOT occur when harvesting <wild> mobs that you kill with a matchlock or sniper rifle.

The yellow bar will move quickly back and forth around the dial.

Press SPACE when the yellow bar gets to any highlighted red meat icon.

You have 20 seconds to hit the red meat successfully 3 times.

If you press SPACE outside the target area, your success count is NOT reset to 0/3. (It was updated in patch 10-11-23 so that any failure does NOT make you start completely over.)

Tanning Minigame

Minigame Gathering Tool: Tanning Knife

You have 15 seconds to guide the tanning knife on the left side to the right side without allowing it to touch the dotted lines.

Press SPACE to start.

The tanning knife will start to travel to the finish line on the right.

As the tanning knife travels between the two dotted lines, it sinks downward. (Tanning knives are so heavy and wayward.)

Press SPACE before the tanning knife touches the bottom dotted line. But don’t go gung ho. You may only need to press it once, since hitting the top dotted line will cause a failure.

If at any time, you touch a dotted line anywhere, you fail. Evil Dots!!!

You also fail from an invisible timer if you never ever press SPACE. (Of course I would NEVER do silly like that. Not while desperately learning what to do. 🙂