Gathering Professions

• Four new professions. Every character now has Woodcutting, Mining, Herbalism and Harvesting, each going from level 0 to 10. Every successful swing at a tree, rock, herb or crop earns experience in the matching profession, and a chat message tells you when you level up.

• Tools follow your gathering level. Tools now need a gathering level instead of a character level: Bone tools work right away, Iron tools need level 1 in their profession and Steel tools need level 2. Item tooltips show each tool's requirement.

• Clear messages and an automatic tool swap. If you hold a tool you are not ready for, the game tells you exactly what it needs, for example "Steel Axe needs Woodcutting level 2.", and swaps in a usable tool from your bag if you have one.

• New herb: the Faoi Mushroom. Gather it with Herbalism.

• Your progress is saved. Profession levels and the number of nodes you have finished are saved with your character.

Resource Sense

• Learn where to look. Finish 50 nodes of a resource (Pine trees, Iron Veins, any herb) and you unlock Resource Sense for it. A chat message marks the moment: "You can now sense Iron Vein from afar."

• Labels over every node within 150 m. From then on, every node of that resource within 150 metres shows its name and distance, such as "Iron Vein - 84 m", while you have a clear line of sight to it. Labels hide behind walls and terrain, update as you move, and disappear when you hide your HUD.

• Each resource is learned separately. A seasoned miner who has never picked herbs still has to learn the meadows.

Gathering Window

• New Gathering button. It sits in the HUD menu bar next to Crafting and opens the Gathering window, with one tab each for Woodcutting, Mining, Herbalism and Harvesting.

• Track every profession. Each tab shows your level and an experience bar, plus every resource of that profession you have gathered, with your node count and your Resource Sense progress ("Sense 12/50", then "Sense unlocked"). Resources stay hidden until you gather your first one.

• Closes with Escape. Just like the other menus.

Behind the Scenes

• Polish and safeguards. Retuned day and night lighting with darker, more readable nights, new safeguards that briefly pause trades and purchases rather than risk lost items, and improvements to the server list's ping measurement.