Harvesting

Harvesting in Stars Reach will include several types of gatherables. Currently, we believe plants, trees, and minerals have been metioned as gatherable (and destroyable, if permitted by the governing bodies of the planet) from the open world. However, player farms have also been mentioned. Farms will enforce permissions so that only players with appropriate access can utilize them, thus reducing griefing.

With Star Wars: Galaxies being a large influence on the gathering and crafting professions in Stars Reach, we might also see gasses and organic materials such as leathers, hides, bones, and meats harvestable.

Harvesting has also been said to require specific tools to gather specific resources. With a limited number of tools able to be equipped at a time (5 is a current limit), this is likely to require players plan ahead for the items they set out to harvest before leaving their home base.

Skills with such tools are also likely to play a part in the speed, volume, and rarity of materials being harvested during the harvesting process.

Stars Reach Official Website

FIND THE LAST ARCTURAN CRYSTAL VEIN IN THE ENTIRE GALAXY IN THE INNARDS OF AN ASTEROID

Every planet and space zone has unique resources with unique stats. You can even mine a planet out, in which case you’ll need to discover new worlds with the materials you need. Tunnel through the landscape as a miner, or start a farm growing purple wheat under a blood-red sky. Thanks to the living world simulation, the strategies for finding, farming, mining, and harvesting have never been richer.

Reddit /r/swg/ from Raph Koster

In response to an announcement post in /r/SWG comparing Stars Reach to Star Wars: Galaxies, Raph Koster replied, "Harvesting will be somewhat different, because the worlds are modifiable. But stuff like shifting resources is still there."

"Resources can be exhaustible. Resources can be found on new worlds. Some resources are renewable. Some you can import from one world to another. Temporary unavailability creates economic opportunity, not permanent blockage."

Reddit /r/MMORPG/ AMA with Raph Koster

• Question: Can users generate resources at their feet and then just harvest them?
• Answer: You can’t just generate resources. You have to scoop them up from elsewhere.

• Question: Will greifers just come and torch farms or resource nodes to keep others from gathering them?
• Answer: You can’t just destroy other people’s farms. You might destroy in world resources, but only if you have permissions to on a given world.

Reddit /r/MMORPG/ from Raph Koster

"The iron is spawned when the world is created. It appears in places that make sense for iron to be, based on the sim."