Black Desert Where Do You Get a Tanning Knife

Introduction

Gathering is one of the most profitable life skills after the Life Skill Mastery update and players can easily make over 100 million silver an hour once they reach high mastery and level. But it is an active lifeskill which can take up a lot of time. It is very easy for anyone to get started though and you can start making instant money. Gathering requires you to spend Energy though, which is a limited resource. You can recover 1 energy every 3 minutes, and can only improve this rate by popping certain buffs or sleeping in a bed.

To get started you will also need to equip a gathering tool depending on the type of material you are going to gather. More information can be found below. Each time you gather, the durability of the tool will decrease and eventually break once they hit 0.
Gathering tools cannot be repaired (apart from the mastery tools).

Gathering Tools
	Axe	used on any trees to gather logs, timber, planks, old tree bark, bloody tree knot, etc.
	Hoe	used on wild plants to gather herbs, fruits, weeds, seeds, flowers, mushrooms etc. can also be used to gather underwater plants you can also gather wild plants (land only) without needing a hoe but you are likely to only get weeds
	Tanning Knife	used on certain dead animals to gather hides, fur, feathers and plumes (eg. kuku bird, deer hide, rhino hide)
	Butcher Knife	used on certain dead animals to gather meat (eg. pork, fox, wolf, bear) can also be used with the hunting lifeskill on certain monsters to get blood and hide
	Fluid Collector	used on certain dead animals to gather blood or used on any tree to gather tree sap
	Pickaxe	used on rocks to gather ores, gemstones and crystals

Other items are also used to gather some materials. These work differently from other gathering tools and can only be obtained from a material vendor. You must go to a specific place and then right-click the item in your inventory to begin gathering. Each gather requires x1 of the item so if you want to gather lots of water, you will need multiple empty bottles.

Gathering Tools

Beginner gathering tools can be bought from any materials vendor.

The best choices for Gathering Tools is a Magic Tool until you reach over 650 Gathering Mastery, and then you will benefit from the Mastery Tools more.
This is because Magic Tools have an Increase extra acquistion rate of +80% that does not stack with gathering mastery. Once you reach over 650 gathering mastery you will get an 85.7% increase, as well as the other benefits. Until then it is lower than using a Magic Tool.

Magic Tools have high durability (250) and also the fastest gathering speed (-11 second gathering time), as well as an increased chance of getting rare drops when using them. But you must be over Gathering Skilled 5 to use Magic Tools.

You can usually get most Magic Tools from the central market and they are given out through event boxes as well.

If Magic Tools are unavailable, you can also get them by exchanging certain Imperial Seals

Magic Tool	Shiny Golden Seal
Magic Lumbering Axe	Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x2 Obtained from Imperial Horse Training
Magic Pickaxe	Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x35
Magic Hoe	Shiny Golden Seal – [Calpheon Trade] x100
Magic Butcher Knife	Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Conquest] x35
Magic Tanning Knife	Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Training] x2 Obtained from Imperial Horse Training
Magic Fluid Collector	Shiny Golden Seal – [Imperial Fishing] x10

Other tools can be crafted at a Tool workshop.

When crafting one of these tools they have around a 10% chance to become a lucky tool, which gives a +80% increased chance of getting extra materials which gathering. This is the same as a Magic Tool, but lucky tools have a lower durability and higher gathering time.

Gathering Tool	Durability	Gathering TIme	How to obtain
Steel Lumbering Axe Requires Gathering Beginner 10	130	-8 sec	Tool Workshop Level 2 Maple Timber x1, Steel x3, Black Stone Powder x3
Steel Pickaxe Requires Gathering Beginner 10	130	-8 sec	Tool Workshop Level 2 Maple Timber x1, Steel x4, Black Stone Powder x3
Steel Hoe Requires Gathering Beginner 10	130	-8 sec	Tool Workshop Level 2 Maple Timber x1, Steel x2, Black Stone Powder x3
Steel Butcher Knife Requires Gathering Beginner 10	130	-8 sec	Tool Workshop Level 2 Maple Timber x1, Steel x1, Hard Hide x1, Black Stone Powder x4
Steel Tanning Knife Requires Gathering Beginner 10	130	-8 sec	Tool Workshop Level 2 Maple Timber x1, Steel x1, Hard Hide x1, Black Stone Powder x3
Sturdy Fluid Collector Requires Gathering Beginner 10	130	-8 sec	Tool Workshop Level 2 Steel x2, Black Stone Powder x3
Shining Steel Lumbering Axe Requires Gathering Skilled 5	250	-10 sec	Tool Workshop Level 3 Maple Timber x1, Steel x3, Pure Iron Crystal x1, Black Stone Powder x5
Shining Steel Pickaxe Requires Gathering Skilled 5	250	-10 sec	Tool Workshop Level 3 Maple Timber x1, Steel x4, Pure Iron Crystal x1, Black Stone Powder x5
Shining Steel Hoe Requires Gathering Skilled 5	250	-10 sec	Tool Workshop Level 3 Maple Timber x1, Steel x2, Pure Iron Crystal x1, Black StonePowder x5
Shining Steel Butcher Knife Requires Gathering Skilled 5	250	-10 sec	Tool Workshop Level 3 Maple Timber x1, Steel x1, Pure Iron Crystal x1, Hard Hide x1, Black Stone Powder x4
Shining Steel Tanning Knife Requires Gathering Skilled 5	250	-10 sec	Tool Workshop Level 3 Maple Timber x1, Steel x1, Pure Iron Crystal x1, Hard Hide x1, Black Stone Powder x5
Shining Fluid Collector Requires Gathering Skilled 5	250	-10 sec	Tool Workshop Level 3 Steel x2, Pure Iron Crystal x1, Black Stone Powder x5

Gathering Tool Durability Reduction

You can use buffs to reduce the rate that your gathering tool durability decreases. This means that you won't always lose -1 durability when you gather and you don't have to repair your mastery tools as often, or replace the other tools which can't be repaired. It's more for your convienience and not too important. That being said, you can easily invest in a cheap mainhand weapon and use the durability crystals in it. This is easy to do and other buffs are more optional.

Mainhand Weapon Crystals
- Buy a cheap mainhand (such as rosar) which has 2 crystal slots
- Use Magic Crystal of Infinity – Durability for a total of 20% durability reduction
Pearl Store Weapon Costume Piece
- Using any weapon costume piece from the pearl store gives a +10% durability reduction
- Can stack with the mainhand weapon costume piece
Pearl Stone Awakening Weapon Costume Piece
- Using any awakening weapon costume piece from the pearl store gives a +10% durability reduction
- Can stack with the mainhand weapon costume piece
Costume 8 set bonus
- Equipping a total of 8 costume pieces (a full premium set) gives +10% durability reduction
- Treant costume (which gives Gathering level +1) does not have the 8 set bonus
Pets
- Pets can have durability reduction skills which can stack up to +20%
Brand Stone
- You can use a Brand Stone (bought from the pearl store) on your mastery gathering tools to add +50% durability reduction to them

Gathering Gear/Buffs

You should aim to get gathering level 5 to increase your gathering speed. This can be done a number of ways but should be fairly easy. Most people can get between level +1 to +3 from their passive guild buff. You can then use a Balenos Meal for an additional +2, or use an Alchemy Stone/Life Spirit Stone for +2.

Ideally you will then want to use Fig Pie for the increased Gathering Item Drop Rate and Life Mastery clothing and accessories to increase your drops as much as possible.

Here is an excellent gear roadmap made by DMUK on the Lifeskill discord. This shows what you should aim for to improve your Gathering Mastery.

Name	Buff	How to obtain
Grain Soup	Gathering Speed +1	Cooking (Beginner 1) Cooking Wine x3, Grain x6, Salt x1, Mineral Water x3
Pickled Vegetables	Gathering Speed +1	Cooking (Apprentice 1) Cabbage x8, Vinegar x4 Leavening Agent x2, Sugar x2
Hard-Boiled Shellfish	Gathering Speed +2	Cooking (Skilled 1) Dried Pearl Oyster x2, Essence of Liquor x3, Garlic x4, Hot Pepper x2, Olive Oil x5
Fig Pie	Gathering Item Drop Rate +3%	Cooking (Apprentice 1) Fig x5, Dough x3, Sugar x3, Olive Oil x2
Balenos Meal	Gathering Speed +2	Cooking (Skilled 6) Cheese Gratin x1, Meat Croquette x1, Smoked Fish Steak x1, Stir-Fried Vegetables x2, Beer x2
Seafood Cron Meal	Gathering +2	Processing window (L) > SImple Cooking Balenos Meal x3, Calpheon Meal x3, Margoria Seafood Meal x1, Ancient Cron Spice x1
Alchemy Stone of Life	Gathering +2 Gathering Item Drop Rate +13% (depends on alchemy stone)	Alchemy (Skilled 5) Recipe for one: Shining Powder x8, Blood of the Sinner x5, Powder of Time x6, Pure Powdered Reagent x9, Clear Liquid Reagent x9
Life Spirit Stone	Gathering +2 Gathering Item Drop Rate +10%	Dropped from monsters in Kamaslyvia region
Worker's Elixir	Gathering +2	Alchemy (Apprentice 1) Sinner's Blood x1, Silver Azalea x6, Powder of Flame x2, Ash Tree Sap x4
Verdure Draught	Gathering +3	Processing window (L) > Simple Cooking Worker's Elixir x3, Elixir of Swiftness x3, Elixir of Time x3, Tears of the Falling Moon x1
Silver Embroidered Gatherer's Clothes (up to +5 enhancement)	Gathering +1 to +4 Gathering EXP +10% to +40% (depending on enhancement)	Costume Mill (Level 1) Flax Fabric x10, Trace of Forest x10, Black Stone Powder x15
Loggia Gatherer's Clothes (up to +20 enhancement)	Gathering Mastery +3 to +280 (depending on enhancement)	Sold by Camellia Loggia and Zaaira for 1 million silver
Carta Gatherer's Clothes (up to +20 enhancement)	Gathering Mastery +4 to +330 (depending on enhancement)	Sold by Geranoa and Zaaira for 10 million silver
Manos Gatherer's Clothes (up to +20 enhancement)	Gathering Mastery +5 to +400 (depending on enhancement)	Processing window (L) > Manufacture Moonlight Opal x20, Manos Stone x5, Magical Shard x50, Dusk Laden Cotton Fabric x15
Treant Camouflage	Gathering +1	Pearl Store (F3) > Apparel > Costume (2,900 pearls)
Nimble Fingers (level 1 – 3)	Gathering +1 (per level)	Passive Guild buff
Pet Skill	Gathering +1	Pets can randomly obtain the buff and it can stack if you have multiple pets with the skill

Hedgehog Pet

Unlike with other pets, the Hedgehog can only be obtained through certain events and promotions, or as a reward through the Gift Packages.

The Hedgehog pet has a unique buff which will give an increase proc rate once they reach level 10. This means that every time you gather, you have a chance of getting extra materials.

Tier 1 – Tier 2: 30% proc chance
Tier 3: 40% proc chance
Tier 4: 50% proc chance

Having multiple hedgehogs do not make the buff stack. Hedgehog procs do not scale with gathering mastery either and then Golden Hedgehog is simply a reskin which doesn't stack with the regular Hedgehog pet or have extra benefits.
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Energy Regen Buffs

Since gathering is limited by your energy, it's important to use certain buffs to increase your energy regen so you can gather more. Having higher Gathering life skill level also reduces the rate that you use energy. So if you are Artisan for example, each time you gather you have a chance of not using energy and will be able to gather for longer than if you were only at Apprentice level.

Below is a list of all buffs which give energy or energy regen:

Blessing of Kamaslyve
- Effect: Energy Recovery +2
- Obtained from pearl store, bought from the central market, or through events
Turning Gates Villa Buff
- Effect: Energy Recovery +1
- Obtained from Karashu's Villa, Shakatu's Villa, Marzana's Villa, Talia's Villa, Kiyak's Villa or Muna's Villa
- Requires a villa invitation which costs 10 million silver
- Buff costs 300k silver for 90 mins, 900k silver for 180 mins (can be bought from a tent)
Energy Potions
- Obtained from Alustin by converting energy into energy potions (4 different sizes: Small, Medium, Large, XL)
- Can be bought from the Central Market
- Small: Instantly replenishes 10 energy
- Medium: Instantly replenishes 20 energy
- Large: Instantly replenishes 30 energy
- XL: Instantly replenishes 50 energy
- Cooldown: 10 minutes
- Shared cooldown with different sizes
Pearl Store Energy Potions
- Same as the Energy Potions above but seperate cooldown
- Obtained from the Pearl Store
Victory at Red Battlefield!
- Quest which can be completed once per family every day
- Quest can be obtained from Daz, who is the vendor in the Red Battlefield
- You must collect 5 Red Seals which are obtained by participating in the Red Battlefield
- Quest instantly replenishes 200 energy when completed
Sleeping in a bed
- Sleeping in a crafted bed gives Energy Recovery +1
- Sleeping in a pearl store bed gives Energy Recover +2
- Bed must be placed in a residence to use
Duvencrune Hot Springs
- Hot springs are located in duvencrune (location shown here). You can afk in the hot springs to receive Energy Recovery +1
- You can also gather water here using the empty bottles so it is a good place to afk and quickly dump your energy for gathering EXP
GM's Blessing/Events
- Some event items give Energy Recovery buffs or can replenish energy

Gathering Drops

When gathering, there are different items you can get as well as just the basic material:

Basic Resources: Wild Herbs, Hide, Meat, Logs, Timber, Sap, Ore, Blood, etc.
Special Resources: Old Tree Bark, Laila's Petal, Deep Blue Hoof root, Fairy Powder etc.
Rare Resources: Ancient Spirit Dust, Black Gem Fragments, etc
Very Rare Resources: Caphras Stones, Hard Shards, Sharp Shards, Black Gems, Mass of Pure Magic

The fever time buff also increases your chances of gaining Hard/Sharp shards. Click here for details.

Gathering certain basic resources have a higher or lower rate for EXP, Black Gem Fragments and Ancient Spirit Dust/Caphras.

Gathering Mastery

I recommend checking out our Life Skill Mastery guide for all the details about mastery gear, how to obtain them, enchance them and exactly how much mastery each one gives.

Higher Gathering Mastery increases the amount of basic materials you get when gathering, as well as the chance of gathering special and rare materials.

Basic Resources: drop amount increase up to +400%, chance to obtain up to 80%
Special Resources: drop amount increase up to +100%, chance to obtain up to 200%
Rare Resources: drop amount increase up to +85%, , chance to obtain up to 250%
Very Rare Resources: drop amount increase up to +44.42%, chance to obtain up to 133.25%
0% to +30% chance of not consuming Energy per gather (reduced from +60% chance at Master 1 Gathering Life Skill)

You will need a Gathering Tool for the type of gathering you are doing. For example, if you are gathering wood, you will need a Mastery Lumbering Axe equipped in your life skill tool slot to make use of the Gathering Mastery buff.

The Gathering Chance increase buff from Magic/Lucky Gathering tools does not stack with your Gathering Mastery
If you have a Magic/Lucky Gathering Tool equipped, the buff from the gathering tools will be applied only
You should use a Magic Tool until you are over 650 mastery. Magic Tools have an increase extra acquistion rate of +80%

	Basic Resources		Special Resources		Rare Resources		Very Rare Resources
Mastery	Chance to obtain	Drop amount increase	Chance to obtain	Drop amount increase	Chance to obtain	Drop amount increase	Chance to obtain	Drop amount increase
0	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
50	0.00%	16.00%	8.00%	4.00%	10.00%	3.33%	5.33%	1.78%
100	80.00%	19.80%	9.90%	4.95%	12.38%	4.13%	6.60%	2.20%
150	80.00%	23.99%	11.99%	6.00%	14.99%	5.00%	8.00%	2.67%
200	80.00%	28.56%	14.28%	7.14%	17.85%	5.95%	9.52%	3.17%
250	80.00%	33.49%	16.75%	8.37%	20.93%	6.98%	11.16%	3.72%
300	80.00%	38.80%	19.40%	9.70%	24.25%	8.08%	12.93%	4.31%
350	80.00%	44.47%	22.23%	11.12%	27.79%	9.26%	14.82%	4.94%
400	80.00%	50.49%	25.25%	12.62%	31.56%	10.52%	16.83%	5.61%
450	80.00%	56.87%	28.43%	14.22%	35.54%	11.85%	18.96%	6.32%
500	80.00%	63.59%	31.80%	15.90%	39.74%	13.25%	21.20%	7.07%
550	80.00%	70.65%	35.33%	17.66%	44.16%	14.72%	23.55%	7.85%
600	80.00%	78.05%	39.02%	19.51%	48.78%	16.26%	26.02%	8.67%
650	80.00%	85.77%	42.89%	21.44%	53.61%	17.87%	28.59%	9.53%
700	80.00%	93.82%	46.91%	23.46%	58.64%	19.55%	31.27%	10.42%
750	80.00%	102.19%	51.09%	25.55%	63.87%	21.29%	34.06%	11.35%
800	80.00%	110.87%	55.44%	27.72%	69.29%	23.10%	36.96%	12.32%
850	80.00%	119.86%	59.93%	29.96%	74.91%	24.97%	39.95%	13.32%
900	80.00%	129.15%	64.57%	32.29%	80.72%	26.91%	43.05%	14.35%
950	80.00%	138.74%	69.37%	34.68%	86.71%	28.90%	46.25%	15.42%
1000	80.00%	148.62%	74.31%	37.15%	92.89%	30.96%	49.54%	16.51%
1050	80.00%	158.79%	79.39%	39.70%	99.24%	33.08%	52.93%	17.64%
1100	80.00%	169.23%	84.62%	42.31%	105.77%	35.26%	56.41%	18.80%
1150	80.00%	179.96%	89.98%	44.99%	112.47%	37.49%	59.99%	20.00%
1200	80.00%	190.96%	95.48%	47.74%	119.35%	39.78%	63.65%	21.22%
1250	80.00%	202.22%	101.11%	50.55%	126.39%	42.13%	67.41%	22.47%
1300	80.00%	213.74%	106.87%	53.44%	133.59%	44.53%	71.25%	23.75%
1350	80.00%	225.53%	112.76%	56.38%	140.95%	46.98%	75.18%	25.06%
1400	80.00%	237.56%	118.78%	59.39%	148.47%	49.49%	79.19%	26.40%
1450	80.00%	249.84%	124.92%	62.46%	156.15%	52.05%	83.28%	27.76%
1500	80.00%	262.36%	131.18%	65.59%	163.97%	54.66%	87.45%	29.15%
1550	80.00%	275.11%	137.56%	68.78%	171.94%	57.31%	91.70%	30.57%
1600	80.00%	288.10%	144.05%	72.02%	180.06%	60.02%	96.03%	32.01%
1650	80.00%	301.31%	150.66%	75.33%	188.32%	62.77%	100.44%	33.48%
1700	80.00%	314.75%	157.38%	78.69%	196.72%	65.57%	104.92%	34.97%
1750	80.00%	328.40%	164.20%	82.10%	205.25%	68.42%	109.47%	36.49%
1800	80.00%	342.27%	171.13%	85.57%	213.92%	71.31%	114.09%	38.03%
1850	80.00%	356.34%	178.17%	89.09%	222.71%	74.24%	118.78%	39.59%
1900	80.00%	370.62%	185.31%	92.65%	231.64%	77.21%	123.54%	41.18%
1950	80.00%	385.09%	192.54%	96.27%	240.68%	80.23%	128.36%	42.79%
2000	80.00%	400.00%	200.00%	100.00%	250.00%	85.00%	133.25%	44.42%

Where to Gather

These rotations were collected and compiled by the amazing community on the Lifeskill discord. Full credit goes to the discord for these resources and I highly recommend joining for an updated list and other helpful resources.

I also recommend taking a look at this Gathering Calculator to help you work out what is best for you to gather depending on your goals.

Gathering certain basic resources have a higher or lower rate for EXP, Black Gem Fragments and Ancient Spirit Dust/Caphras.

Herbs/Logs/Stone

Wild herbs: Behr, Balenos Mountains, Trent
Logs: North Kaia Mountain , Serendia Shrine, Trent
Rough stone: Pilgrim's Haven

Meat

Lamb meat: Sheep mountain
Deer meat: Behr
Wolf meat: Agris Steppe
Fox meat: Forest of Seclusion
Snake/scorpion meat: Tshira Ruins (Snake+scorpion) , Gorgo Rock Belt (Snake), Desert Nagas (Scorpion)
Lion meat: Ancado Coast
Llama meat: Duvencrune
Marmot meat: Tshira Ruins
Yak meat: Fountain of Origin

Blood

Wolf blood (group 1): Agris Steppe
Deer/sheep blood (group 2): Behr, Sheep mountain
Fox blood (group 3): Forest of Seclusion
Troll blood (group 4): Quint Hill
Lizard blood (group 5): Northwestern Gateway

Hide

Tough hide: Stonetail Horse Ranch
Soft hide: Sheep Mountain/Behr deer
Hard hide: Northwestern Gateway

Sap

Ash sap: Refugee Camp
Maple sap: Orc Cam
Pine sap: Ash Forest, North Kaia Mountain (Cedar+Pine)
Birch sap: All locations: https://bdocodex.com/us/item/5004/
Fir sap: All locations: https://bdocodex.com/us/item/5009/
Cedar sap: Southern Mountain Range, North Kaia Mountain (Cedar+Pine)
White cedar sap: All locations: https://bdocodex.com/us/item/5012/
Acacia sap: Abun
Elder tree sap: Kisleev Crag
Moss tree sap: All locations: https://bdocodex.com/us/item/5017/
Loopy tree sap: Loopy Tree Fores
Thuja sap: Night Crow Post

Other

Bracken: Tshira Ruins (No mobs during NW)
Dead tree essence: Night Crow post
Rainbow button mushroom: Polly's Forest
Blue/volcanic umbrella mushroom: Polly's Forest
Violet flower, sky blue flower: Lake Flondor
Lobster: Al-Naha Islan
Coral: Nada Islan d
Gemstones: Rumbling Land

Cow Milking

The cow milking min-game allows you to gather milk, which is an ingredient for cooking. Milk can only be obtained from the Cooking Byproduct exchange, using Haystacks on a farm, or through manual cow milking.

Cows can only be found in 4 locations:

Oliva: Wale Farm
Calphoen: Falres Farm
Calpheon: Bain Farm
Dreighan: Duvencrune Farmland

To complete the mini-game you must press LMB and RMB alternatively to fill up the bar to 100%. You can fail the mini-game if you do it too quickly. If you fail the mini-game it will only cost you 4 energy, if you are successful it will cost you 10 energy. It takes an average of 16 seconds each time.

Your gathering level effects the amount of milk you get but gathering buffs, gear and mastery do not have any effect.

Beginner 2: average 25 milk per mini-game
Professional 2: average 35 milk per mini-game
Master 2: average 45 milk per mini-game

Black Desert Where Do You Get a Tanning Knife

Source: https://www.blackdesertfoundry.com/gathering-guide/