Foraging – CADRIFT

Introduction to Foraging

Foragers travel the lands to gather Plants and Wood.
The Plants and Wood can be refined at a Workbench to create materials for crafting.
The Plants and Woods are used in most of the main crafting professions; with Apothecary, Artificer, and Weaponsmith benefiting most.
At low levels, Plants and Woods are split, with Apothecary using the plants while Artificer and Weaponsmith use the woods.
At high levels (After Storm Legion), Woods have been removed, leaving plants to be used by all the professions.

Training the skill

You will come across a Foraging trainer early in the game, this is to encourage you to take the foraging profession quickly so you don’t walk past the rest or the plants/wood in the starter zone!
Defiants will find their first Foraging Trainer in Kelari Refuge at /setwaypoint 6569 4597
Guardians will find their first Foraging Trainer in Divine Landing at /setwaypoint 6219 3873
There are many more Foraging Trainers scattered around the world, especially in the major cities.

The Foraging Trainers in the major cities are at..
Meridian /setwaypoint 5970 5206
Sanctum /setwaypoint 7248 2988
Tempest Bay /setwaypoint 12838 11668

You should visit the Foraging Trainer regularly to learn all the new refining recipes and to continue into the next tiers of the foraging skill. The Foraging trainers are usually found near the Laboratories, even though foragers use the Workbench to craft! The recipes from the Trainer will allow you to refine the Woods and Plants you have gathered. These recipes can help you gain some skill points, but the main bulk of your levelling will come from actually foraging in the open world.

Finding Woods and Plants in the World

When you first learn foraging you will be given 2 tracking abilities called ‘Track Wood’, and ‘Track Plants’. You will find these in your ability book under the General Tab. When you activate the two tracking abilities, they will stay on your character. They have no timer, and cannot be cleansed. The only way to remove them is to right click each ability or to unlearn Foraging. So you should only need to apply them once and then have no need to apply them again.
Woods show up as brown diamonds on your mini-map, plants are green diamonds.

There are 11 types of wood that can be foraged. Wood is only found in Mathosian and Storm Legion zones.
There are 23 types of Plants. Mathosian and Storm Legion plants are used as they are harvested. NMT and PoA plants usually need to be refined before they can be used to craft.

Plants/Woods can also be mined from Plant/Treant bad guys. Some zones will have decent clusters of these mobs for you to kill. This will often be quicker/easier than trying to find the Plants/Woods on the ground.

For more information about where to find each plant or wood, have a look at the Materials page.

Mathosia
Yew Log
Ashwood Log
Oak Log
Mahogany Log
Kingswood Log
Runebirch Log
Sagebrush Log
Shadethorn Branch

Storm Legion
Linden Timber
Elm Timber
Madrosa Timber

Mathosia
Coastal Glory
Grieveblossom Petals
Creeperbrush Roots
Razorbrush Leaves
Krakenweed Stems
Golden Nettle Stems
Evergreen Nettle Stems
Duskglory Petals
Wyvernspurr Stems
Tattertwist Leaves
Roc Orchid Petals
Drakefoot Stems
Drakefoot Seed
Bloodshade Petals
Basiliskweed Stems
Tempestflower Stems
Twilight Bloom Roots

Storm Legion
Chimera’s Cloak Petals
Frazzleweed Tuft
Lucidflower Spire

Nightmare Tide
Sarleaf

Prophecy of Ahnket
Faecap Mushroom
Xarthian Tendril

How to forage

Most of your levelling will come from actually foraging the plants or wood in the open world.
Find the plants or wood using your tracking abilities, stand next to them and right click them to forage. Your character will magically wave their hands around and the plant/wood will be in your bags. You do not need to craft any kind of tool to forage with, just have the profession trained.

At low level, all the foraging you do will level up your skill. As you advance through the levels, lower level items will no longer give skill points.
You can see if an item will give you a skill point by mousing over it and looking at the colour of the text.

Red Text
You will always get a Skill Point from this node.

Orange Text
You will always get a Skill Point from this node.

Yellow Text
You will get a high % of a Skill Point from this node.

Green Text
You will get a low % of a Skill Point from this node.

Grey Text
This node will not give you Skill Points.

From this we can deduce that it is best to always be foraging plants/wood that have red/orange text.
The yellow/green level plants/wood will only give a % of a skill point, this % will vary considerably depending on your skill level. At very low levels, the yellow/green plants/wood pretty much always give a skill point from each harvest, but as you go up in level, those yellow/green plants/wood will give less and less of a percentage of a full skill point.
At the highest levels, yellow items will give 25-50% of a point, while green items give 10-25%.
These %s do seem to have an element of variability. There is no way to see the % you get from each harvest, just keep foraging!

Skill Points from each Plant/Wood.

To the right is a table showing each Plant/Wood type and when you will stop getting Skill Points from them.

You can find a full list of all the plants and woods with information about where to find them on the materials page.

Wood/Plant	XP Up To
Coastal Glory	65
Yew Timber	60
Grieveblossom Petals	65
Ashwood Timber	90
Creeperbrush Roots	90
Razorbrush Leaves	130
Krakenweed Stems	135
Oak Log	130
Golden Nettle Stems	140
Duskglory Petals	140
Mahogany Log	170
Wyvernspurr Stems	170
Kingswood Log	200
Tattertwist Leaves	200
Roc Orchid Petals	200
Runebirch Log	240

Wood/Plant	XP Up To
Drakefoot Stems	240
Bloodshade Petals	270
Sagebrush Timber	270
Basiliskweed Stems	270
Shadethorn Log	305
Tempestflower Stems	280
Twilight Bloom Roots	305
Linden Timber	365
Chimera’s Cloak Petals	365
Frazzleweed Tuft	405
Elm Timber	405
Madrosa Timber	450
Lucidflower Spire	450
Sarleaf	450
Faecap Mushroom	525
Xarthian Tendril	525

Boosting skill gain

You can use a Skill orb! This will increase your chances of gaining a skill point while foraging, and also while crafting foraging items. Skill Orbs are available in the Rift Store for credits only. The skill orb only lasts for 2 hours once applied, so be sure to have raw materials ready to craft with, or some great spots picked out to farm.
There is also a Guild Perk called ‘Journeyman‘ that will increase your chance of gaining a skill point.

Celestial Foraging Rune

The Celestial Foraging Rune will temporarily increase your Foraging skill level by 50 points, even if that takes you over the max of 525.
The rune is crafted by a Runecrafter. You can apply the rune to any Shoulder gear of any level. You can craft/buy some cheap lower level shoulders to place the rune on, and then switch out your shoulders when you require the extra Foraging boost.

The 50 extra points will be a detriment to you while you are trying to level up the skill. It is not recommended that you use the rune until you are already at max level. At max level the rune will increase your yield from each node, making it quicker to farm materials that you need to craft.

Foraging to Level

If you are already a high level character while levelling Foraging , then you can just go straight to high level zones and mine 500 Xarthian Tendril/Faecap Mushrooms to level to 500+ very quickly. It is best to use a skill orb while you do this, as this will drastically cut down the amount of plants you need to forage! Be sure to visit your trainer every 75 levels as explained below.

A great spot to farm to level foraging is the Blackthorn Fall area of Scatherran Forest. Kill the plant dudes and Treants here and forage their corpses for quick skill ups. Note: These baddies don’t drop a lot of actual plants, so they are no good for farming Xarthian or Faecap.

If you are levelling Foraging as you level your character, then its best to do the zone quests and harvest any plants/woods that you come across as you quest. You can send the materials you gather to an alt and then use them to level up some of the crafting professions when you have decided which of those you want.
When you reach the higher level areas, just keep Foraging!

You will need to visit your Foraging Trainer every 75 levels or you will get stuck at the end of a skill tier. You can train up to 5 levels before the end of each tier. Train at 70-75, 145-150, 220-225, 295-300, 370-375, 445-450.

Crafting to Level

Foraging is a gathering skill, not a crafting skill!
Most of the crafting involved is to refine the plants/wood into more usable materials.
By the time you have gathered decent amounts of Plants/Wood, you will already be high enough level that refining them wont give XP anymore!
So the best way to craft to level is to buy a bunch of the raw materials from the AH and then use them to craft.

All the refining recipes will be learned from your Foraging Trainer as you level up.
You will also find 5 recipes in the store to buy with crafting marks. These are for plant themed dimension items.

Due to the limited amount of recipes, there will be a lot of gaps in crafting where your only option is to go out and forage to level until you reach the next craftable item.

You can use the Foraging rune to bump up your level temporarily and craft items of a higher level. The rune will also allow you to train recipes that are up to 50 levels higher than you actually are. With careful management of the rune (taking it off and back on again) you will be able to level up a lot of skill points by just crafting. Even using the rune there are still gaps in the levelling that will require you to go out into the world and forage.

49 Recipes Available for Foraging

Bulk Materials

Name of Item	Learn At	High Until	Medium Until	Low Until	Expansion	Free?	Source of Recipe
Twenty Yew Planks	35	35	35	35	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Ashwood Planks	75	75	75	75	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Oak Lumber	115	115	115	115	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Mahogany Lumber	145	145	145	145	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Kingswood Lumber	185	185	185	185	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Runebirch Lumber	225	225	225	225	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Sagebrush Lumber	250	250	250	250	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Shadethorn Lumber	280	280	280	280	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Linden Lumber	335	335	335	335	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Elm Lumber	350	350	350	350	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Madrosa Lumber	375	375	375	375	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Fused Sarfiber	390	395	400	405	Nightmare Tide		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Sarleaf Extract	390	395	400	405	Nightmare Tide		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Faecap Extract	475	475	475	475	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Faecap Resin	475	475	475	475	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Xarthian Extract	500	500	500	500	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Twenty Xarthian Fiber	500	500	500	500	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.

Dimension Items

Name of Item	Learn At	High Until	Medium Until	Low Until	Expansion	Free?	Source of Recipe
Dry Scrub	60	70	80	90	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Little Pine	120	130	140	150	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Blue Jungle Flowers	180	190	200	210	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Pink Ground Cover	240	250	260	270	Vanilla		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.
Enoki Algae	300	310	320	330	Storm Legion		Bought in the Rift Store for In Game Currencies.

Materials

Name of Item	Learn At	High Until	Medium Until	Low Until	Expansion	Free?	Source of Recipe
Yew Plank	1	5	10	20	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Ashwood Plank	35	40	45	55	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Oak Lumber	75	80	85	95	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Mahogany Lumber	115	120	125	135	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Polished Mahogany Lumber	115	120	125	135	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Potent Distillate	115	120	125	135	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Kingswood Lumber	145	150	155	165	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Polished Runebirch Lumber	185	190	195	205	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Pure Distillate	185	190	195	205	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Runebirch Lumber	185	190	195	205	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Sagebrush Lumber	225	230	235	245	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Shadethorn Lumber	250	255	260	270	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Pristine Distillate	260	265	270	280	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Polished Shadethorn Lumber	280	285	290	300	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Linden Lumber	290	295	300	310	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Enchanted Shadethorn Lumber	300	305	310	320	Vanilla		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Elm Lumber	330	335	340	350	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Madrosa Lumber	350	355	360	365	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Fused Sarfiber	375	380	385	390	Nightmare Tide		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Laminated Madrosa Lumber	375	376	377	380	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Majestic Material	375	380	385	300	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Regal Distillate	375	376	377	380	Storm Legion		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Sarleaf Extract	375	380	385	390	Nightmare Tide		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Faecap Extract	450	455	460	465	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Faecap Resin	450	455	460	465	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Xarthian Extract	475	480	485	490	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.
Xarthian Fiber	475	480	485	490	Prophecy		Learned from your skill trainer in Tempest bay.