Foraging
Foraging jobs, Nerve, your Foraging skill, success odds, crits and job mastery.
How it works
Foraging jobs cost Nerve (20 max, +1 every 5 minutes). Any job on your moon (or on every moon) can be tried. Success depends on your Foraging skill against the job’s difficulty.
| Your skill against the difficulty | Success |
|---|---|
| -20 | 10% |
| -10 | 35% |
| -5 | 48% |
| Equal | 60% |
| +5 | 73% |
| +10 | 85% |
| +15 | 95% |
- A failure: nothing (70%), hurt for 10%–25% of max HP (25%), or stung by the guards: a 10–20 minute Molt (5%).
- Critical success: 5% of successes pay double Amber and a bonus find (a crate or a collectible).
- Forager’s Gloves (an item) add 10% success for 1 hour.
Foraging skill
Every job gives Foraging XP: its Nerve on a success, 50% of that on a failure. The skill goes up to 100 and takes about two years of play to max.
| Skill | Foraging XP needed |
|---|---|
| 5 | 2 |
| 10 | 35 |
| 25 | 1,084 |
| 50 | 13,177 |
| 75 | 55,774 |
| 100 | 154,470 |
Job mastery
Successes on a job earn its stars at 10, 50, 150, 400, 1,000. Each star adds 1% to that job’s success and crit chance.
Jobs
| Job | Where | Nerve | Difficulty | Amber | Can find |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sift spore mats | Any moon | 2 | 1 | 5–15 | Honeydew Drop 10% |
| Peel glow-lichen | Any moon | 2 | 4 | 8–20 | Honeydew Drop 5% (1 in 20) · Spore Pod 2% (1 in 50) |
| Rob a grub burrow | Ganymede | 3 | 8 | 15–40 | 1 Ice Crystal 5% (1 in 20) |
| Pinch eggs from a ground nest | Ganymede | 3 | 12 | 20–50 | Amber Inclusions piece 4% (1 in 25) |
| Raid a resin hoard | Europa | 4 | 18 | 40–90 | Healing Nectar 8% (1 in 13) · Graft (T1 60%, T2 40%) 3% (1 in 33) |
| Raid a hidden honeycomb | Ganymede (hidden: explore Resin Hollows) | 4 | 19 | 55–120 | Amber Inclusions piece 8% (1 in 13) |
| Tap a resin vein | Ganymede | 4 | 22 | 40–95 | Amber Inclusions piece 6% (1 in 17) |
| Harvest ice-kelp | Europa | 4 | 26 | 55–110 | Nerve Draught 4% (1 in 25) |
| Crack brine-oyster beds | Europa | 5 | 30 | — | 1–3 Brine Pearl · Graft (T1 40%, T2 60%) 8% (1 in 13) |
| Comb the glow grotto | Europa (hidden: explore Glow Grotto) | 5 | 33 | 90–180 | Ice Pearls piece 8% (1 in 13) |
| Dive for loose pearls | Europa | 5 | 36 | 70–150 | Ice Pearls piece 7% (1 in 14) |
| Trap vent crabs | Europa | 6 | 40 | 90–190 | Focus Tonic 5% (1 in 20) |
| Tap a geyser-bloom | Io | 6 | 45 | 100–220 | Royal Jelly 3% (1 in 33) |
| Sift the ash plains | Io | 6 | 50 | 130–260 | Ember Glass piece 6% (1 in 17) |
| Pry gems from a cooling vent | Io (hidden: explore Vent Forge) | 7 | 52 | 190–380 | Ember Glass piece 8% (1 in 13) |
| Harvest cooling lava-glass | Io | 7 | 55 | 150–320 | 1 Lava Glass 25% |
| Plunder a stinger nest | Io | 8 | 60 | 200–450 | Graft (T2 60%, T3 40%) 10% |
| Steal stinger eggs | Io | 8 | 66 | 230–480 | Hunter's Brew 4% (1 in 25) |
| Comb the shell graves | Callisto | 8 | 70 | 250–520 | Fossil Shells piece 7% (1 in 14) |
| Dig a fossil cradle | Callisto | 8 | 75 | — | Graft (T2 30%, T3 50%, T4 20%, better rarity) 15% |
| Sift the elder ossuary | Callisto (hidden: explore Elder Ossuary) | 9 | 78 | 330–680 | Fossil Shells piece 8% (1 in 13) |
| Climb an elder spire | Callisto | 9 | 82 | 280–600 | Resin Cache 4% (1 in 25) |
| Steal from a brood queen’s larder | Callisto | 10 | 90 | 300–700 | Graft (T4, better rarity) 5% (1 in 20) |
| Raid a wild swarm’s camp | Any moon | 10 | 95 | 350–800 | Swarm Totems piece 6% (1 in 17) · Graft (T4, better rarity) 4% (1 in 25) |