Gather spot

Gathering in Dragon's Dogma is the act of collecting raw materials or items from objects found in the environment.

The places from which objects can be collected are oft known as Gather Spots.

Overview

A gatherable object is indicated by a slight glow or shimmer on the object - approach such an object and gather to collect items.

There are no special tools required to gather, unlike mining from Ore deposits; gathering from fish pools (fishing) is a special case of gathering, but is done in much the same way.

There are several items that can be gathered from including fallen logs, bags and sacks, and odd corners here and there. In general several objects can be gathered from a single object, and pawns will also gather if unoccupied. Once an object has been gathered from it will be a few days before items can be got from it again.

Types of gather spot

• Fallen trees and logs usually yield Kindling or branches such as Pine Branches.
• Man made Log Piles also may contain some items.
• Bags and sacks may yield different types of cloth, such as Absorbent Rags, as well as potions like Harspud Sauce.
• Refuse piles can sometimes be gathered from, or dusty corners may sometimes give up tufts of hair or other useless items.
• Also spots near various types of furniture may be gathered from giving different types of cloth or coin.
• Piles of weapons or old armor, marked by a rusty sword, can yield old soldier's kit including Rusted Weapons, Royal Banners, Skulls, rarely other weapons or equipment, or more general items such as curatives - they are also known as Weapon/Armor Piles.
• Corpses, wearing various types of garments and arranged in many different positions, may give curatives or more common items. Also Rift Crystals and cursed items at the Bitterblack Isle.
• Piles of books or scrolls oft give writing or written materials, such as an Ancient Scroll, or more rarely an Enemy Strategy Scroll.
• Tombstones. like the ones at Cassardis and The Greatwall, may give a multitude of items from Throwblasts, curatives and pieces of jewelry to weapons. Opened or broken Sarcophagus also sometimes have gather spots.
• Fresh plants - i.e. those that look as if they might have been the product of human horticulture - usually give Pumpkins or Twigbeans. Such spots can be found near the Miner's Hut, or in the clearing outside the Witch's House, and elsewhere.
• Some bushes also can be gathered from around the base - ones in the Wilted Forest can give the rare Spiny Nut. Such spots are generally uncommon, and mostly met along the shore between The Ruins of Aernst Castle and Bloodwater Beach.
• Captive cages sometimes have loot.
• Fish pools - oft give fish of various sizes, also sometimes gold - they often give better rewards including larger fish by night

Temporal effects

Several gather spots including book piles and weapon piles seem to have a higher chance of giving interesting or rare items when the location they are found in is first visited as part of the Arisen's main questline.^(verify) These include :

• Book piles in the Pawn Guild during Lure of the Abyss
• The chance of finding Hydra Strategy Vol. 1 at the Command Headquarters in The Encampment is thought to be much higher just before the Hydra attack.

Additionally the Enemy Strategy Scrolls from book piles founf inside Hillfigure Knoll depends on progress of the main quest.

The time of day also effects a few gather spots :

• The Set of Servant's Garb is found only in the Duchess's Bedchamber and only at night.
• A pile above the Nameless Falls in the Deos Hills often gives Rusted Magick Shield by night but never by day
• Weapon piles on the unmarked path through the Witchwood.
• Graves in the outer courtyard at The Greatwall.
• Some Fish pools have a better chance of catching Giant Fish by night.
• Bushes in the Duke's Demesne.
• Some gather spots and weapon piles in The Watergod's Altar.

Notes

• Rook refers to these as "harvest points"
  • "You'll find ore, plants, and other materials at harvest points."
• Low value, decayed, or mundane items are commonly found, but occasionally rare things turn up - a Cyclops Sigil (value over 200,000 Gold) has been unearthed in one of the chambers of The post-Dragon Everfall from an uninspiring patch.
• The Dark Arisen augment Acquisition increases the speed of gathering.
• Pawn Inclination effects :
  • Pioneer in either 1º or 2º cause the pawn to stand more distant from the Arisen at rest, and as a side effect increases general gathering as they oft find them nearer to loot than other pawns.
  • Acquisitor seems to increase gathering and all other forms of loot collection in both 1º and 2º positions.
  • The specific inclination 1º Pioneer and 2º Acquisitor seems uniquely suited to a gathering pawn - this combination causes a pawn to wander off to far greater distances and such a pawn will sometimes gather everything in reach if left.
• Some gather spots give very specific items - for example one Fish pool above the Nameless Falls may give a Snakeskin Purse, and one under a table in the Visitor's Chamber (Julien's room) in the Duke's Demesne always gives a Set of Salvation Robes.