¶ Harvesting Creature Parts
"From scales and hides to venom and bone, the creatures of Narumer hold countless treasures. Alchemists, leatherworkers, and blacksmiths alike can find use for nearly every part of the beasts you fell in your travels."
¶ How It Works
Across Narumer, most creatures you encounter can be harvested for useful materials once defeated.
In most cases, you will need a harvesting knife to perform the task. However, certain creatures may require specialized tools, such as a pickaxe to break down a stony elemental or crystalline shell.
¶ Skills Used
The skill required to harvest from a creature is determined by its default creature type, though individual parts may require different skills if a builder chooses. The majority of harvesting follows this breakdown:
- Heal 🩹
- Used for humanoid types: Giants, Elves, Dwarves, Halflings, Half-Orcs, Humans, Humanoid Goblins, Humanoid Monstrous, Humanoid Orcs, Humanoid Reptilian
- Knowledge: Arcane 🔮
- Used for: Elementals, Fey, Outsiders, Oozes, Aberrations, Undead
- Knowledge: Architecture 🧱
- Used for: Constructs
- Knowledge: Nature 🍃
- Used for: Beasts, Dragons, Magical Beasts, Plants
- Survival 🏕️
- Used for: Shapechangers, Animals, Vermin
¶ Determining Available Harvests
When you attempt to harvest, the system rolls a d100 for each possible item in the creature’s carcass. This roll is then modified by several factors:
- Damage Done
Certain damage types harm specific parts more than others. For example, slashing can tear hides, while bludgeoning may crush bones. In-game experience will reveal which damage types preserve which parts best. - Skills
Each modified skill point in the relevant harvesting skill adds +1% to the d100 roll for that part. - Feats
Certain feats improve your chances of retrieving parts from a creature. - Equipment Used
The tier of the harvesting knife used also applies a modifier to this value, either reducing, or increasing, the percentage chance of the items being available for harvest.
If the modified d100 result is equal to or less than the target value, the part becomes available for harvesting.
¶ Attempt to Harvest
Even if a part is available in the carcass, you must still succeed on the harvest check to collect it.
Failure destroys the item. This check typically uses the same skills listed above, though builders may assign a different skill if it makes sense for the part.
In some cases, you must also have an appropriate collection item to attempt the harvest. For example, harvesting blood requires an empty vial to store it.