Black Desert Online Where Can I Find Cows for Beef

A guide to Gardening and Farming in Black Desert Online tailored to the NA/European union version.

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Farming/Gardening Basics

Farming/Gardening in Black Desert Online is a great style to get some of the materials for cooking and making a profit afterward on with Sunflowers. Additionally you tin can get a large amounts of carrots for cheap to replenish your horse's stamina. To get started, all you need is some contribution points.

May 18 Update

With the May 18, 2016 update you can now have workers manage your farms, more details below.

NA/European union Region Differences

Compared to the Korean/Japan versions of the game, at that place are currently no manner to make Haystacks.This ways y'all cannot have cows on your farm to get together milk/beefiness/leather.

Renting A Contend

To offset farming, you volition demand to rent a fence from some NPCs using contribution points. The rental is permanent as long y'all keep using it. If yous don't utilise it for 7 days, information technology will go deposited dorsum to your storage and yous can go back to the NPC to return information technology to get your contribution points back. Of course yous can always remove and return the fences early if you decided farming isn't for you.

There is a NPC in Northern Baby-sit Camp north of Heidel that will give you an introductory quest for farming and requite you a Weak Contend which can field only a single corp. Information technology is rather useless but better than nil if yous just want to try it out.

There are three types of fences you tin can hire (Modest, Manifestly, and Stiff). Beware that some seeds take up 2 ingather spaces and can affect how many of them you can plant per fence.

• Pocket-sized Fence costs 3 contribution points and allow you lot to plant 4 crops.
• Plain Fence costs half-dozen contribution points and let y'all to plant seven crops.
• Strong Argue costs 10 contribution points and allow you to plant 10 crops.

If you lot are going to max contribution point efficiency, modest or apparently fences are better if you don't program to apply scarecrows/waterways simply once y'all are at the bespeak where you lot take enough contribution points and just want fourth dimension efficiency you probably want the strong fences.Strong fences also get the about benefit from scarecrows/waterways since they take up crop spaces.

To find the NPCs that will rent the fences to you lot, y'all tin open up upward the NPC window and blazon in Contend, this will listing all the NPCs you know that rent them. Of grade if you havn't explored much they won't evidence up but I will testify y'all some example locations below.

Stiff Fence can be rented from Flaviano within Heidel. He is too the material vendor so just click on Material button when you are in Heidel to find him. Small/Plain Fences are rented from the two farms simply southward of Heidel. Mael Costa rent Small Fences and Mercianne Moretti rents Evidently Fences.

Once you find the NPC, click on [Rent] button in the dialogue window and a new Contribution Item Rental window will pop up, allowing you lot to hire the item and become it in your inventory if y'all have enough contribution points.

There is no limit to how many fences you tin hire from the same NPC so you can go rent multiple ones.

Putting Downwardly A Argue

In full general y'all can put down a fence in a grassy expanse that isn't most a contested node or inside a town/city. When y'all right click on your fence in your inventory, you will run across a placement mode being activated. Move the fence around the area to run across places where it lits upward blue. That is where you can constitute your fence. Obviously you want to pick some place that your alts can accomplish easily as yous may need it to tend to your subcontract afterwards on while taking into consideration of the temperature and humidity of the area. Once you have placed a farm, press R to enter placement and place your seeds. Garden usage at top left corner of the placement window tell y'all how many crops you lot have planted and the max number of crops.

Unlike other games similar Archeage, farms/gardens here are not contested. Instead, they are instanced which means that fifty-fifty if other player'due south farm are nearby, you can still drop your farm on top of theirs and their farm volition disappear out of view.

Once your debate is setup, you will exist able to view its location on the globe map by a dark bluish icon. This will plough into red if there are blight/pruning issues.

Groundwater/Temperature/Humidity

If you are planning to subcontract a specific plant, information technology might be important to take into consideration the groundwater/temperature/humidity of the area, which y'all tin can view with different filters on the world map.

Groundwater Distribution

Groundwater distribution can shift with rains so the blueprint always changes. This isn't something to peculiarly worry nigh.

Temperature

Temperature is unlike in several regions. The area around Olvia for example is a bit warmer (represented by yellow) than the rest and some plants like Grapes and Sunflower have a high growth rate at that place. You take to use some real world noesis to deduce if a establish will like a warmer area or colder expanse.

Humidity

Humidity tin can affect the blight rate of a detail crop. If the humidity isn't suitable for the constitute, information technology may blight more than and have its growth slowed. The regions with more intense reds are more than humid than rest and may change as rains come up and go.

Finding Seeds

You can breed crops in Black Desert to get more seeds so once you take acquired a single seed, you can plant information technology and then become more. So technically all you need is a single seed to get started.

Gathering

Seeds tin can be gathered from Bushes/Thicket using barehands or gathering hoe yous can buy from material vendors or crafted (requires Tool workshop). This is a random and tiresome method (depending on your gathering level, most weed at low levels) simply y'all can notice random seeds for free this way while leveling up your gathering skills.

Marketplace

If you want a specific seed however, y'all will demand to purchase information technology from the seed vendor or Market. Marketplace is a striking or miss since it is stocked by other players but sometimes y'all tin find cheaper seeds than buying them from vendor.

Vendor

The seed vendor in Heidel is named Hunt. He is located in the northmost part of the metropolis and he has a rather poor choice of seeds. It is but sufficient for the about basic farming.

If you want a more complete choice, visit Calpheon which is far due west of Heidel. In that location is a seed vendor in that location named Ahr that has probably the most complete choice of seeds you can await from a vendor. Y'all only need to purchase one seed to get started simply if yous desire to exist fourth dimension efficient probably buy 2-3.

Workers

You can now have workers tending to your farms, and they volition prune weeds and remove bugs until their action points are depleted. Only one worker tin tend to a farm at a time. To do and so, simply left click on the farm/garden icon to brandish a listing of all your farms. Click on the list button side by side to the farms and it will let you select workers to tend to the garden. Workers will not harvest/breed seeds for you lot and you practise not get whatsoever farming XP from their deportment.

Workers that accept their lodging closer to the farms will take less travel fourth dimension compared to workers far abroad but you do not demand to accept nearby nodes connected or anything and can utilise any worker that is available.

Upon on returning, workers will store everything they got from pruning weeds/bugs in the warehouse (i.e. Weeds, Kermes, Monk's Co-operative, Spirit Leaf etc) so make sure you have plenty space in the warehouse. Giant workers are best for this as they take the about stamina and you practise not need to feed them equally oft.

Ingather Data

To view crop information currently, you demand to press R to enter placement mode for the garden and and then click on each crop individually. There is suppose to be a method to click R on an individual crop to view the information directly but it is currently bugged.

Online/offline

Crops only grow if you are online. If you are not online, their growth will be halted so brand sure to login and just AFK if needed.

Temperature

The temperature bar you see here compares the ingather'southward preferred temperature vs the temperature of the garden. The little vertical bar tells y'all the crop'southward preferred temperature and the vivid red surface area tell yous the garden's temperature range. The ane.fifty% tells you lot the growth rate of the crop every 5 minutes. You can adjust the vertical bar by moving it around and the displayed % will differ. This tells you lot what temperature range this detail crop adopt. For case I shifted the petty bar to the right and the growth rate went up to 1.79% instead of ane.v%. This means that this particular crop adopt a warmer temperature and volition grow faster if our garden was planted in a warmer area.

Don't get confused and think you can change the crop's growth past shifting the trivial vertical confined around. They are only at that place to bear witness you what the crop prefer and how information technology likes the electric current garden weather. This give you an idea of where to move your garden for all-time growth rate for that particular crop.

Lets look at some other crop. This particular crop's preferred temperature is in the range of the garden's temperature and we have the highest growth charge per unit. If we were to increment the temperature for case by moving the garden to a warmer surface area, the growth rate drops by 0.05%.

Humidity

Humidity bar acts the same way equally Temperature with the difference being that the % represents the chance of the crop catching blight.

Sunflower hither has a preferred humidity inside the range of our garden'southward humidity. Therefore blight has the everyman % of happening (iii%). If we planted a garden at say at a college humidity area, the same crop would accept a 10% chance of blight.

H2o/Moisture

The water bar tells you how full the groundwater is below the garden. The % displayed hither is the alter of the crop'south moisture with the current h2o level. To enhance the water bar, you will demand to pour Distilled Water i(info on how to brand information technology below) into the garden by standing inside the garden and right clicking the item in your inventory.

Generally you desire the ingather to be at 100% wet every bit dropping below 75% wet tin can affect crop yield.

Fertilizer/Estimated Time

The fertilizer bar tells y'all how much fertilizer is left in the soil. There are three different types of fertilizers and they volition each fill the bar to a different extent. Inorganic Fertilizers, the lowest tier, volition fill up the bar about l% of the mode, Fertilizer Byproduct will fill the bar about 65% and Organic Fertilizer volition make full the bar about 85%. They all reduce the growth fourth dimension (estimated time) by the aforementioned amount, with the only difference being on how long they will last.

Hither is a comparison between a crop using Fertilizer and i not using Fertilizer. Yous tin can see the estimated timer was reduced by most twenty% from 13 hrs to about 10.ii hrs.

Blight/Pruning

Bane and Pruning are 2 issues that can increase the crop'southward growth fourth dimension past fifty% if untreated.When in that location is a Blight/Clip issue, your garden icon on the world map volition turn red instead of the normal dark blue. Compare the growth time of the same ingather with and without blight.

Due to the lack of a characteristic on the NA/EU servers that allow your workers to prune/cure blight for you, you will need to manually do it yourself. The best way is to park an alt next to the subcontract so yous can just relog to gear up the outcome. To fix blight/prune, you elementary need to run next to the affected crop and printing R to prune or remove insect. Bane/Pruning does not touch crop yield, just its growth time so you can ignore it if you don't mind waiting twice every bit long for the establish to grow.

Bird Attacks/Wellness

Birds can attack your crops and reduce the overall health of your crop, which can reduce the growth fourth dimension. I personally havn't seen many bird attacks but you can foreclose them with a Scarecrow, which is discussed below.

Summary

• Growth speed of the ingather is affected by: Temperature, Bane, Pruning, Fertilizer and Bird attacks.
• Yield of the crop (not seeds) is affected by: Water and harvest fourth dimension (before 120%). This is discussed more below.

Taking Intendance of Your Garden

Water

The groundwater at your garden often isn't enough, especially if you have multiple crops planted. You will need to water. To become h2o for your garden you need to collect them from the river. To do this y'all will need to detect a cloth vendor in a boondocks/urban center by using the NPC button and then purchase Empty Bottles.

With the Empty Bottles in your inventory, walk up to a river and correct before you bear upon the water, right click the bottles in your inventory to begin transforming Empty Bottles to Bottles of River H2o.

Canteen of River Water can exist used to h2o the garden but they don't add likewise much water.To make this efficient you want to catechumen them to Distilled Water by pressing L (processing) and select Heating. This volition convert them to Distilled H2o at a 1:1 ratio with extras depending on your processing skill which give you lot even more water.

Waterway

Waterway will reduce the water consumption of your crops by 50%, which is a must have if yous take lots of crops. Unfortunately they will take upward a ingather spot so you lot have less space for your crops. To craft this you need to apply your contribution points to find and brand a Carpentry Workshop by using the house filter at the elevation right of the screen within a town/city.

Making information technology requires 2 Logs, viii Bottles of River Water and one Black Stone Powder. You lot need to put them all inside the Storage and have your worker brand information technology via the Carpentry Workshop. Logs tin be obtained by using an lumber axe and cutting downwards copse. Black Stone Pulverization can exist obtained by making a Refinery and have your workers process the Crude Stones you get from mining rocks like Fieldspar which are all over the map. Alternatively, you can acquire Blackness Stone Powder past breaking down the random crystals you get from questing via the Grinding option in processing (Fifty).

You install the waterway the same way yous would plant a ingather in the placement mode.

Scarecrow

From time to time, birds will assail your crops and reduce the overall wellness of your ingather which in turn translates to slower growth. To counter this yous can install a Scarecrow, which is also made from the Carpentary Workshop. Similar Waterway this will also have a spot on your farm. I personally havn't institute a need for this but if yous need it yous can make information technology with ten Logs and 1 Blackness Stone Powder.

Fertilizer

In that location are iii types of fertilizer you lot can make for your garden: Inorganic, Byproduct and Organic.The simply departure as far every bit I am aware is that they give unlike corporeality to the fertilizer bar in the garden window information and does not give different growth times. Therefore it might be just easier to brand the Inorganic Fertilizer than bother with the other two.

Inorganic Fertilizer

• This requires 5x Grain (i.due east.5x Potato, 5x Barley, 5x Corn or 5x Sweetness Potato). Press Fifty to open the processing window and and then select Drying and put in whatever Grain you have (must exist the same one). Since you cannot split stacks in the processing window simply put in whatever you have and move your character once y'all think you lot accept processed plenty.

Fertilizer Byproduct

• This requires 3x Inorganic Fertilizer and 2x Leavening Agent. Leavening Amanuensis can be brought from the cooking vendor. If you are in a town/metropolis use the NPC push to the left of your mini map and select cooking to notice the NPC. Select the Shaking option in the processing window to make information technology.

Organic Fertilizer

• This requires 1x Fertilizer Byproduct and 2x Distilled Water. Go far by using the processing window and select Shaking.

Harvesting and Convenance Crops

Breeding (Getting Seeds)

You can select the F1 pick once a plant has attain 100% growth or more to brood the crop. This volition produce ane-3 seeds from the ingather, with the possibility for higher quality seeds.

In that location is a tier system inside the seeds.

• Withered Seeds
• Regular Seeds
• Loftier-Quality Seeds (green)
• Special Seeds (blue).

To get High-quality seeds, you breed crops grown from regular seeds. To get Special Seeds, you breed crops grown from High-Quality speeds.

Planting Crops for Breeding requires less micromanagement every bit nix affect the yield/tier of the seeds merely RNG and farming skill. So you lot can ignore water, birds and even pruning/bane if you plan to not tend to your garden for a while. Also unlike harvesting crops, having a 120% growth does non lower the yield.

Crops grown from Special/High Quality seeds have more yields and you can substitute them in for regular version of the ingather with fewer amounts. A Special crop is worth 5 regular crops and a High Quality crop is worth three regular crops. And so instead of using 5 potatoes for a beer, you can just use a single special potato and get the chore done.

Harvesting (Getting Crops)

If y'all plant seeds to exist harvested for the product via the R button, then you need to pay more attending. If the moisture level gets low, your yield will be reduced so you need to monitor the water usage often. Too, you must harvest the crops between 100% and 119% as letting the crop getting to 120% will drastically reduce the yield.

Blight and Pruning affects the growth speed but not the final yield of the harvest so you can ignore them as well as long you stock your garden total with water, use a waterway and harvest before they reach 120%.

Harvesting also costs free energy and so make sure yous don't run out of it or take an alt to harvest for you since they share the energy cap but employ their own energy.

Farming skill will increase crop yield as well so every bit you get higher in farming y'all will get more crops.

Byproducts

Much like cooking, you tin get some byproducts when breeding, harvesting, or even while removing insects from blighted crops. Examples include byproducts you can substitution for high quality seeds, argent, fertilizer and trade items that are worth 10k silvers.

What to Farm

Sunflower

Sunflower farming can be a fairly lucrative way to brand some silvers. Your goal is to breed Sunflowers until yous get a Special Sunflower Seed and and then you go along breeding them until you go plenty Special Seeds to populate a couple farms. You lot want to harvest near half of the Special Sunflowers and brood the other one-half to keep your stock of special seeds.

Make a Crop Workbench and have your worker make Special Sunflower Crate with the harvested sunflowers. Sell the Crates to traders merchants for 15k silvers each.

Additionally, regular Sunflowers are used to make Tea with Fine Scent  with cooking equally it is the only bloom that can be mass produced without transmission gathering. These teas are used to make Milk Tea, which give a viii% XP buff are in loftier need.

Due to the long abound time of Sunflowers, y'all demand to be online at to the lowest degree 5+ hrs a day for the Sunflowers to abound.

Carrots

Some people farm bluish quality Carrots the same way equally Sunflower and and then make them into carrot juice using the cooking recipe of 1 Special Carrot, 3 Sugar, 3 Flour (any grain) and 4 Mineral Water. Y'all can then sell the Carrot Juice to NPCs at 220 silverish each. Employ the byproducts to trade in for silverish, contribution xp, beer and milk.

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