Green Thumb Artisan Gathering Mini-game

Green Artisan is a gathering skill that allows you to proc special mini games while gathering. Each gathering type (except Water Scooping)  produces a unique minigame.

Gathering Mini-game Requirements:

• 10 Available 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 Level: Professional 1+
• Knowledge: “Green Thumb”

Green Thumb Knowledge

Complete 1 of the following quests to obtain the “Green Thumb” knowledge:

• [Green Thumb] Gatherer from Across the Sea
  • Talk with Hyunyong from Nampo’s Moodle Village in LOML.
• Quest requires Professional 1+ gathering skill.

 

If you’re level 60+ I highly encourage you to enroll in the Olvia Academy. The Gathering course will level your gathering skill to Artisan or better in about 7 easy gathering quests. As a perk you get extra goodies like Gathering mastery clothes and tools.

• [Gathering Course] Challenge: Rough Stone Mining
  • Speak to Zelfinith at the Olvia Academy to enroll in the Gathering course
• Quest requires character level 60+ to enroll in Olvia Academy courses

Green Thumb & Green Artisan Skill

You have the option to disable the Green Artisan skill in your Life Skill window if you don’t like to play mini games. Green Thumb proc rate is reported to be around 5%. With RNG, it’s about 1 every 10 to 30 gathers.

• Turn Green Artisan Mini-games ON & OFF: My Information (P) → Life Skill tab (fish icon) → Gathering Slider Button

Green Artisan can proc on every gather except Water Scooping and Butchering wild animals via the Hunting life skill.

Gathering Mini Game Benefits

• Have fun while gathering using the same amount of energy in less time.
• Winning the Gathering mini-game consumes 10 energy but gives 10x the rewards and gathering EXP. Example:
  • Normal gather: 6 Iron Ore, 3 Rough Stone, 1 Hard Black Crystal Shard, and 2 Black Gem Fragments
  • Mini-game gather: 60 Iron Ore, 30 Rough Stone, 10 Hard Black Crystal Shard, and 20 Black Gem Fragments
• Failing the Gathering mini-game consumes 1 energy and gives normal rewards.
• 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 Gear

Gathering drop rates are especially important when a Mini game procs as it directly affects the amount of materials you get times ten!!

So, please keep in mind these gathering rules:

Gathering drop rates from equipped life mastery gear (clothes and accessories) and life mastery buffs do not stack with non life mastery gathering tools like Magic, Demihar, or Stella tools.

If you have a non life mastery tool equipped ONLY the tool’s gathering drop rates will apply – not the life mastery gear’s drop rates. The other life mastery gear buffs (Gathering EXP, Movement Speed) will still apply, however.

When in doubt, read the description on the gathering tool. The warning is in RED lettering.

Fluid Collecting Minigame

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

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.

Time Limit: 25 sec.

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 the root is exposed.

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

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

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

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

Time Limit: 15 sec.

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. 🙂