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Job Perk: Gathering

Active job perk — collect materials with /gather in your village Town Hall. Items roll from your job and region.

What Is Gathering?

Daily material rolls for ranchers, miners, foragers, and more

Gathering is an active Job Perk for Roots of the Wild. Characters with the GATHERING perk collect materials through an RNG roll based on job and village region.

Use /gather in Discord from your character's Town Hall channel. Results land in your OC's inventory — keep, trade, or sell them like any other item.

Jobs with this perk

  • Rancher
  • Fisherman
  • Miner
  • Beekeeper
  • Forager
  • Farmer
  • Herbalist
  • Hunter

Quick reference

  • Discord only: /gather charactername:[OC] in the Town Hall for your character's current village (Rudania, Inariko, or Vhintl)
  • Physical location: Your OC must currently be in that village — using another village's Town Hall fails even if you own the character
  • Job + region pool: Items must be flagged gatherable for your job and the region tied to where you gather
  • Daily limit: One gather or loot per OC per day — /gather and /loot share the same slot (resets 8 AM Eastern)
  • Job voucher: An active voucher bypasses the daily limit; it deactivates after a finished normal gather — not after a Blood Moon encounter-only result
  • Stage 4+ blight: Characters at blight stage 4 or higher cannot gather
  • Village-exclusive jobs: Fisherman (Inariko), Rancher & Miner (Rudania), Beekeeper (Vhintl) — voucher or OC must use that village's Town Hall

What Gathering Does

RNG materials by job and region

Each gathering job pulls from a different slice of Hyrule's item tables. Your village maps to a region (Eldin, Lanayru, Faron, and others), and only items marked for both your job and that region can appear.

  • Regular resultOne weighted random item added to inventory (sometimes bonus quantity from village level)
  • Hunter noteHunter has GATHERING and LOOTING — use /gather for materials and /loot for combat loot (they share one daily slot)
  • No stamina cost for the gather command itself
  • Special weather uses a separate /specialweather command — not the same as a normal /gather roll

How to Use /gather

Discord · Town Hall channel

  • Checks your character's job, village, and GATHERING perk
  • Rolls a weighted random item from the job + region table
  • Adds the result to your inventory database
  • Locks the shared gather/loot daily slot until the next 8 AM Eastern reset (unless a job voucher is active)

Gather Materials

Run this in your character's current village Town Hall. The bot checks job, location, cooldown, and status effects before rolling.

Discord command

/gather charactername:[your OC]

  • characternamePick your OC from autocomplete — must belong to you
  • Bot validates GATHERING perk, Town Hall channel, and that the OC is physically in that village
  • Rolls one item from the gather table for your job + region (quantity may increase with village level bonuses)
  • Adds the item to your inventory database and shows a success embed
  • Sets your shared gather/loot daily roll unless a job voucher is active (voucher deactivates only after a normal gather completes, not a Blood Moon encounter)

Before You Start

Checks the bot runs automatically

  • CharacterCreated OC you own, with a valid job that includes GATHERING
  • ChannelThat OC's current village Town Hall — wrong channel or wrong village location fails
  • HeartsNot KO'd (currentHearts === 0 or ko flag)
  • JailNot serving jail time
  • BlightNot stage 4 or higher (advanced blight blocks gathering)
  • DebuffNo active debuff — the embed shows remaining duration if one is active
  • Daily slotHaven't already gathered or looted today — unless using a job voucher

Village-exclusive jobs on a job voucher (e.g. Beekeeper, Fisherman) must gather from that job's required village Town Hall, even if your OC is elsewhere.

Daily Cooldown

Shared gather/loot window

  • Once per day per character for /gather or /loot combined
  • Resets at 8:00 AM Eastern (America/New_York — handles EST and EDT automatically)
  • The limit embed shows the exact Discord timestamp for your next available roll
  • Job voucherAn active voucher bypasses the daily limit; it deactivates after a finished gather reply (normal item roll). Blood Moon encounters use the daily slot but do not deactivate the voucher
  • Mod characters skip the daily limit (staff OCs)

Blight Rain

Infection risk while gathering

If Blight Rain is active in your village when you /gather, the bot rolls infection before your gather result.

  • 75% base chance of new blight infection if you aren't already blighted
  • Already blightedNo change — you still gather, with a flavor message
  • Elixir resistanceBright Elixir and similar buffs reduce infection chance (each resistance level −30%, clamped between 10% and 95%) and may be consumed on use
  • Mod characters and certain immune accounts skip infection
  • New infections are logged and applied automatically — see Blight for stages and healing

Blood Moon Encounters

Monsters can interrupt gathering

  • During an active Blood Moon, /gather has a 25% chance to trigger a tier 1–4 monster encounter instead of a normal gather roll
  • Encounters use combat rolls — you may take damage, get KO'd, or earn monster loot if you win cleanly
  • Blight stage 3+Monsters ignore you — the bot skips the encounter and continues with a normal gather
  • If no monsters exist for your region, the command may fail with a warning instead of gathering
  • See Blood Moons for schedule and encounter details

During Lightning Storm weather, there is a 30% chance of a −1 heart lightning strike on /gather (and similar outdoor commands).

Village Level Bonuses

Higher-level home villages improve odds

  • Level 1Standard gather weights and base quantity (1 item)
  • Level 2+10–15% weight toward rarer items (rarity 3–5); 30–50% chance for +1 extra of the same item
  • Level 3+20–30% weight toward rarer items (rarity 3–7); 40–60% chance for a quantity bonus (+1 or +2)
  • Bonuses use the village where you gather — Scholar boosts can apply the target village's level instead
  • See Village Upgrades for how levels are earned

Gathering Boosts

Temporary perks from other jobs

Accepted Gathering-category boosts from /boosting modify your roll and clear after one successful gather (unless noted otherwise).

  • Fortune TellerBiased rarity weighting on the gather table
  • TeacherFilters toward common staple materials and expands the useful-item pool
  • ScholarGather from another village's region table (uses that village's level for bonuses)
  • EntertainerNormal main roll plus an extra entertainer-themed bonus item when the pool has entries
  • PriestCan surface divine gather items when configured on the table
  • If a boost leaves no valid items, the gather does not consume your daily roll — cancel with /boosting cancel if needed

Job Vouchers

Second gather in one day

Activate a job voucher on a character whose permanent job lacks GATHERING, then /gather using the vouchered job. The voucher bypasses the daily limit for that action.

  • Voucher must be active before the command — mid-activation blocks gather with a wait message
  • Voucher deactivates automatically after a completed normal gather (not after a Blood Moon encounter-only result)
  • Village-exclusive gather jobs must use the correct village Town Hall while vouchered
  • Invalid or missing vouchers are rejected with a bot error — see Jobs & Vouchers

Common Problems & Fixes

When /gather fails or the daily slot is used up

Character not found

Spell the name exactly and confirm you own the OC. Mod OCs must belong to your account.

Wrong channel or wrong village

Use the Town Hall for your OC's current village. If they're in Inariko, Rudania's hall won't work — travel first with /travel.

Already gathered or looted today

Wait until the next 8 AM Eastern reset (the embed shows the time) or activate a job voucher for another gather.

KO'd, jailed, debuffed, or stage 4+ blight

Heal, serve jail time, wait out the debuff timer, or seek blight healing before gathering again.

Job can't gather / missing perk

Only GATHERING jobs (or a voucher into one) work. Check the jobs list above or voucher into Rancher, Fisherman, etc.

No items available to gather

Your job + region combo may have an empty table, or an active boost filtered everything out. Try canceling the boost or gathering from a different village (Scholar boost).

Job voucher activation in progress

Wait a moment after using /item on the voucher, then run /gather again.

Blood Moon encounter with no loot

You still used your daily slot. Losing the fight or taking damage doesn't refund the roll — heal and try again tomorrow or with a voucher.