The Discerning Crafter: Bree-Land
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Guide to Gathering Resources
By Darkgolem
Bree-Land is a outstanding place to gather resources, having tier 1, 2
and 3 resources available. Only tier 3 resources (Rich Iron, Gold
and Yew) are hard to find, everything else is easy to find. Crops
(found as opposed to grown) are the only resource not commonly
found. Almost all areas have little or no crops, the only
exception being the Brandy Hills.
Of particular note for tier 2 resources are the Eastern
Bree-Fields. This area is a veritable cornucopia of hides, barrow
iron, silver and
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Hardly anyone goes there, and moving from one end to another (in an
east-west fashion) you can constantly gather these resources, easily
gathering as much as you need in a short time.
For tier 1 resources, the best area is the
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Marshes. This area is full of copper, tin and rowan wood,
though you will have to look other places for hides. Light hides
are best found in the
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Bree-Fields, though there are plenty of places with
enough animals of the appropriate difficulty to make finding light
hides not a difficult task.
Overall, aside from the near absence of crops, Bree-Land is probably
the best tier 1 and 2 resource gathering area in
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located and near lots of crafting areas. Only the small number of
farming areas (and the absence of high tier farming areas) make
crafting a
problem.
Iron
and The Old Forest
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(4)
Downs
Brandy Hills
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(1)
Bree-Fields
Bree-Fields
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Bree-Fields
Harn
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Chetwood
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Marshes
South
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Buckland and The Old Forest:
This area is great for light and
medium skins. There are so many animals here, especially bears,
that it is fairly easy to get all you need for medium skins. You
can also find scattered nodes of ore, some tier 1 and tier 2, in this
area, but not enough to make it worth a special trip. Also,
sometimes you fill find that you note ore that is on the other side of
a barrier or trees. You can find crops in the old forest;
strawberries, taters and cabbages, but hardly any, few enough to make
it worth going other places for these sorts of things. Rowan wood
can be found here too, but in moderate quantities, and because of the
many twisting paths, like ore, often it is out of reach even when
visible on your radar. There are no artifacts in Buckland or the
Old Forest.
The Barrow Downs: As
expected, you can find a fair amount of
Silver and Barrow Iron here, along with hides from the many barghests
here. Expect constant attack if you are the correct level for
this area, however. Ash is found in good quantities in the Barrow
Downs, though of course the fighting makes it tiresome to collect
it. Unsurprisingly, there are no crops in the Barrow Downs.
There are very few artifacts in the Barrow Downs (which is odd), but
those that are are tier 2.
The Brandy Hills: The
Brandy Hills are a great place to get ore
and skins. Copper and tin are common here, and the area is not
heavy mined by most adventurers. You can find medium skins here
in great quantities with boars and bears. Around 27.2S, 58.5W you
can find bear dens with a lot of medium skins. Rhubarb can be
found in the Brandy Hills, as can yarrow root and strawberries in
marginally large numbers. Rowan grows a lot here, and you it's a
good place to go for this wood if you are close by and have time for
harvesting wood. There are some ruins here, and rarely they will
have tier 2 artifacts.
The Southern Bree-Fields: This
area is a good source of light hides,
from all the boars and bears there. Ore is a little less
plentiful, but you can find a moderate amount of copper and tin
scattered about. There are little to no crops found here.
There are quite a bit of rowan wood, scattered widely over this area if
you are harvesting for woodworking. There are some ruins on the
far west portion of the Southern Bree-Fields which have a node or two,
but that is all for artifacts (tier 1).
The Northern Bree-Fields:
You can find a little ore along the
road heading to the Northern Bree-Fields from Bree-Tow, but overall it
isn't worth the trip. Conveniently, there are some forges at the
Thornley Work Site along the way. The ore you will find is silver
and barrow-iron. There are some light skins found here,
especially around Snarling Hollow (which, as you might guess, contains
a lot of wolves) along with a good number of medium hides.
Snarling Hollow can be found at 23.8S, 54.2W. There is a node for
tier 2 scholar resources at the Old Greenway Fort, near the southern
portion of this area, east of the road.
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style="font-weight: bold;">The Eastern Bree-Fields: There
are a large number of both light
and medium hides found here. The entire area is replete with
wolves, boars and bears. In addition, the Eastern Bree-Fields
have some ore, barrow iron and silver, in large quantities. You
basically will always have some sort of ore in your radar as you move
around. There are no crops to be found in the Eastern
Bree-Fields, unfortunately. However, this area is full of ash, an
outstanding place to gather for woodworking. There is only one
tier 2 node in the Eastern Bree-Fields, at the ruins halfway across
them (going east-west) on the north side, in some ruins near the river
here.
Nen Harn: Nen Harn is
found in the far north eastern portion of
the Bree-Land map. A scattered area of islands on a huge lake,
this is the highest level area of Bree-Land (though there are only a
few quests here). You can find rich iron here, but only in small
quantities. You can find yew in moderate quantities here, also,
but not enough to justify a special trip to the area (you are better
served heading to the lone lands). There are no crops in Nen
Harn. No artifacts can be found in Nen Harn.
The Far Chetwood:
Awash with Crebain, there is a lot of fighting
your going to have to be bothered with if you collect ore here.
However, you can find barrow iron and silver here in excellent
quantities(better than the Barrow Downs, frankly). Skins,
unfortunately, are not found in any amounts here.. everything here is
small or has no pelt. Ashwood is found commonly here, but it is
simply easier to go to the nearby Eastern Bree-Fields to collect
it. Crops are completely absent from the Far Chetwood.
There are no artifacts in the Far Chetwood.
North Chetwood: In the forest
past Combe, you can find only small
amounts of ore at all. I suggest not bothering to go here for ore
at all. You can find light hides however, in moderate amounts, at
the wolves den found at 27.7S, 45.8W. Crops are (like much of
Bree-Land) unavailable in the North Chetwood. Rowan wood is
available in fair amounts. In the ruins of the woods outiside of
Combe you can find an excellent amount of tier 1 scholar nodes.
The Midgewater Marshes:
This place seems to have a lot of copper
and tin ore in it's northern reaches. It's a great place to
gather these resources if you happen to need these for your tier one
blacksmithing. There are no skins found here, all the creatures
here do not have hides, making it poor for this sort of thing.
You cannot find crops in the Midgewater Marshes. Rowan wood is
plentiful, it is an excellent place to harvest rowan wood if your
planning on woodworking. The Midgewater Marshes are
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1 artifacts are found in plenty at all the ruins here.
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South: Excepting extremely widespread veins of copper and tin,
you will find no ore in Chetwood south or Archet. Light skins can
be found in short quantity, but are present with boars and bears
here. There is rowan wood found here in abundance, some of the
most common in all of Bree-Land. Ost Baranor (near yellow tree)
is a good place to get tier 1 artifacts.
Andrath: Andrath, located south
on the Greenway, contains some moderate
amounts of barrow iron and silver, though the Eastern Bree-Fields are
better for that sort of thing. You can get light skins here, in
moderation, from the boars here. You can find small amounts of
ash in Andrath, but not in any quantities. Andrath is one of the
best place in all of Bree-land for artifacts (tier 2). There are
about 5 nodes, scattered among the many level 14 bandits here.
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