The Arc/Berries
Berries of the Arc is an activity in the Arc where players find and breed berries of various types. Berry bushes can be grown from seed in the planters on Tuai Leit. Players can check the status of these seeds on the first page of the Arc Journal, under the heading "Planters".
Eating berries provides temporary +2 boosts in one skill, drains 1 Defence level, and heals 1 life point, which can be used as a stackable food source if combined with expensive spices, increasing their healing to 51 life points each. All berries can be sold at Terri's Merry Berry Bar, found in the gnome encampment in south-western Tuai Leit, or at Sweet Goods on Cyclosis. Players can sell berry seeds to Ani's Seed Store by the Sea Shore, found in the gnome colony on Tuai Leit, or to Sinuman (food merchant) on Cyclosis for an extra chime on some seeds.
After growing all 16 varieties of berries, Ani rewards the player with a 50,000 Farming XP lamp, and he also agrees to tend to the player's berry bushes while they are away, granting 10% extra experience and berries. Greenfingers aura does not function on berries regardless of tier.
Cross-pollination[edit | edit source]
In order to obtain any berry besides rumberries and exuberries, players need to forage them from the bushes grown in the berry planter in the central Tuai Leit. While some of the bush seeds may be found elsewhere such as from Uncharted Isles, most of them must be obtained by cross-pollinating the bushes.
Players can plant two seeds to each of the adjacent spots in the berry planter in order to cross-pollinate and grow bushes. After approximately 42 hours of growth, bushes will mature and can be foraged for berries and seeds of the bush's type, and potentially a cross-pollinated seed, depending on the bush planted next to the foraged bush.
The bushes' growth stages can be checked from the Arc journal. The bushes can be harvested only when the state is "ready". The bushes change state on the start of the next growth stage cycle after the state has changed in the journal. The time thresholds between growth states are shown in the following table.
Time left (maximum) | Time left (minimum) | Growth stage in Arc journal |
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42 hours | 31 hours and 31 minutes | Planted |
31 hours and 30 minutes | 10 hours and 31 minutes | Sprouted |
10 hours and 30 minutes | 1 minute | Growing |
N/A | N/A | Ready |
Unlike the seeds in the real world that only produce pollen after flowering, berry seeds will cross-pollinate if they are planted next to each other, even before any growth shows. Therefore, foraging from one bush and immediately planting a new seed - before foraging from the second bush - will ensure that each foraging may yield a new cross-pollinated seed along with the regular produce. The chance to obtain a cross-pollinated seed is 100% with a correct combination of seeds planted.
Players do not require 86 Farming to plant or forage berry bushes, only to obtain the rumberry and exuberry seeds initially from bushes. However, foraging berries without 86 Farming awards no Farming experience. Players may alternatively receive them from a foraging bakami, but catching one requires 90 Hunter.
Each bush is foraged separately in one action, destroying the foraged bush. The entire amount of berries and seeds are put into the player's backpack.
Recommended order[edit | edit source]
The most efficient order to cross-breed all seeds (excluding stoneberry, stormberry and their respective crosses) is as follows:
Be sure to harvest one bush, plant the seed, then harvest the second bush and plant that seed, otherwise the second crossbred seed will not be given.
Day | State of planter at start of day | Actions to take | |
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0 | N/A | N/A |
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2 | Exuberry bush | Rumberry bush |
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4 | Fireberry bush | Exuberry bush |
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6 | Mournberry bush | Rumberry bush |
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8 | Blisterberry bush | Mournberry bush |
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10 | Fireberry bush | Blisterberry bush |
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Then, finishing up with the stormberry and stoneberry crosses can be done this way:
Day | State of planter at start of day | Actions to take | |
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10 | N/A | N/A |
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12 | Exuberry bush | Stormberry bush |
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14 | Stoneberry bush | Rumberry bush |
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The various seeds still need to be planted, as the journal tracks berries harvested, not discovered seeds.
Achievements[edit | edit source]
- Berries of the Arc (
25) – Discover all the Arc berries.
Update history[edit | edit source]
- ninja 21 September 2020 (Update):
- The Tuai Leit berry patches and Money tree patch have been added to the remote farm interface.
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