Gathering Skill, New Interactables Coming with Dawn Expansion

**Henrik Nystrom**

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Originally Posted by Artorius

Awesome, does that include people and mobs?

Because we are adding tons of new interactables over the entire world, we are allways careful about performance. We have created a new system that track different draw distances. For instance, players and houses will have a longer range, pickables and similar things will have a bit lower range because there are so many of them spread out in the world with Dawn we need to keep performande by having different draw distance on these things. Our goal is that any player can interact, search on anything in the world. There will be tons of different things to search/pick/gather and loot. Gathering is a new skill btw that works similar as mining and lumberjacking. The jungle area is getting a face lift and we are working on performance there as well, the entire world is getting it's waited vegitation etc.

**Mats Persson**

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Originally Posted by deathshroud

picking up a flower sghould not use the gathering skill, picking up a boulder shouldnt either, picking up a beehive however should not be possible afterall you would get stung. But picking out the honey/beeswax from a beehive should use the gathering skill and extracting the pollen and petals from a flower you have picked up should use the gathering skill. I hope you people understand what im trying to say? cause sometimes alot of you seem a little dense. but jsut incase heres a list of examples..

pick up a rock- gathering skill NO

pick up a red flower- gathering skill NO

extract petals/pollen from a red flower- gathering skill YES

pick up a clam- Gathering skill NO

extract a clam from its shell and maybe pearl- Gathering Skill YES

pick up a red frog- Gathering Skill NO

extract red poison from red frog- Gathering skill YES

pick up a crab - Gathering Skill YES (otherwise it will pinch you

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pick up honey/beeswax from a beehive- Gathering Skill YES

pick up red berries- Gathering skill NO

However at no point does the player recieve specific information about what hes picking up, he sees a red fruit and its called a red fruit, he would need certain knowledge in plants to gain a better description of what the fruit is actually called.

Amen, and that is how it works.

Henrik said skill, however although "Gather" is technically a skill (it's located in the skill window) it will be presented as an "Action". Which means that it isn't a "skill" (not even a secondary skill) as everyone can do it, and you cannot get better at it. For instance "Sleep" will also be an Action. ("Sit In Chair" would have been an Action, although instead it is activated by pressing "R").

However most gathered items will require skill to use, and many can be further processed (extracted from), which will require skills and/or tools.

**Mats Persson**

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Originally Posted by Sindas

But since he's loose imma go ahead and ask what type of skills we will need to use pickable items? Are there very many, or just one "processing" skill used for all of it? And i'm guessing this is closely related to alchemy..?

One skill?

New material skills includes the various types of meat (Flesh Lore and subskills), Botany skills (Agrostology, Carpology, Herbology etc), and Alchemical Dissolvents (Nitre, Fuming Salt etc).

Extraction skills include Milling and Herbalism. New workbenches and skills are Press and Herbologium.

Studying skills are Alchemy with some subskills (although the actual Potion Crafting (aka "Alchemy") will be introduced later), as well as Zoology with a major part of the large cladistic tree.

And crafting skills are of course Cooking (Sec) and Advanced Cooking (Pri).

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