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=== How To GatheR ===
====== Gathering Costs ======
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While gathering, sheep will produce resources and shiny boxes. All of which can be used to advance your game or even sold to other players for Wool in the game. Gathering requires a few items:
Any sheep in a given community has the ability to gather one of four resources at a time. To gather, connect your wallet to Game.Wolf.Game, select your sheep from the "My NFTs" button, go to the desired resource, click the resource, select the mini-game options, and start gathering.  
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Unit
!Amount
|-
|'''Energy'''
|10 energy + 2 per day collecting
|-
|'''Wool'''
|25 wool burn fee
|}
'''<u>NOTE:</u>''' The wool fee may change over time, reference the [https://wolf.game/woolpaper Woolpaper] or click "gather" on a sheep in-game for real time costs.


Gathering costs [[energy]]. Each time you start gathering, you sheep loses 10 energy instantly, then an additional 2 energy per day spent gathering. So, a 5 day gathering period would mean your sheep spent 20 energy. 10 to start gathering + 2 per day.
====== How to Gather ======
There are multiple ways to initiate gathering in the game. For smaller players, you can select your sheep in the game, walk up to a resource, click the resource, and initiate gathering. However for larger players, the in-game tools are immensely valuable. From the My NFTs view, you can select "List" to see more sheep at once, then use the Quick Gather and Mass Claim actions to manage as many sheep as you want at once.


=== Why Gather? ===
'''<u>WARNING!!</u>''' Be sure to watch your Loot Rank, as you climb the rankings in your community, your odds of getting looted by a wolf increase!
Gathering generates a lot more value than simply the <u>'''resources'''</u> you can harvest. While gathering, sheep <u>'''discover shiny boxes'''</u> which can be opened and/or sold at the Shopkeeper's marketplace. You can use those resources to <u>'''build higher level structures'''</u>, or <u>'''trade'''</u> those resources for [[wool]], [[chops]], and [[pelts]] in the games AMM. Finally, gathering is one of the primary ways to climb seasonal leaderboards in order to <u>'''win more pouched wool'''</u>.


=== The Daily Multiplier ===
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For more about the gathering daily multiplier and farmer protection strategies, check out the [[Sheep|Sheep Strategy]] page and the [[Farmers|Farmer Strategy]] page.
 
====== Resources ======
Gathering Resources is all about longevity and claiming on a sunny day. If you can gather in longer sprints, your earnings increase dramatically, this is due to the gathering rate multiplier. Each consecutive day a sheep gathers, it gathers faster. Learn more about the [https://wiki.shepslibrary.com/Farmers Farmers ability] to significantly extend your gathering rates and productivity here.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="6" |Gathering Daily Multiplier
|-
!Day 2
!Day 10
!Day 20
!Day 30
!Day 40
!Day 50
|-
|1.03x
|1.24x
|1.59x
|2.01x
|2.48x
|3x
|}
 
====== Weather Multiplier ======
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Weather also effects your ability to maximize profits. Claiming on Sunny day will multiplier your resources another 1.2x on top of the daily gathering multiplier. As the average gathering length on the farm drops, the weather multiplier becomes a bigger factor. This is because your sheep will burn through a lot more energy gathering, and margins can become very thin.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="3" |Weather Multiplier
|-
!Rainy
!Cloudy
!Sunny
|-
|0.8x
|1x
|1.2x
|}
In the Verdant Valley, weather is *actually* predictable. You can reference the 60-day forecast for each community to plan your gathering strategy and get the most out of your spent energy.
 
====== Claiming & Taxes ======
If you claim a sheep, a few things will happen. Any shiny boxes you found will become available to open or sell, and any resources gathered (minus taxes paid to land owners) will show up in your balances on the top banner. You can use the Game Explorer to view community tax rates across the entire Valley.
 
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Latest revision as of 11:53, 18 April 2024

Gathering Costs

While gathering, sheep will produce resources and shiny boxes. All of which can be used to advance your game or even sold to other players for Wool in the game. Gathering requires a few items:

Unit Amount
Energy 10 energy + 2 per day collecting
Wool 25 wool burn fee

NOTE: The wool fee may change over time, reference the Woolpaper or click "gather" on a sheep in-game for real time costs.

How to Gather

There are multiple ways to initiate gathering in the game. For smaller players, you can select your sheep in the game, walk up to a resource, click the resource, and initiate gathering. However for larger players, the in-game tools are immensely valuable. From the My NFTs view, you can select "List" to see more sheep at once, then use the Quick Gather and Mass Claim actions to manage as many sheep as you want at once.

WARNING!! Be sure to watch your Loot Rank, as you climb the rankings in your community, your odds of getting looted by a wolf increase!

Resources

Gathering Resources is all about longevity and claiming on a sunny day. If you can gather in longer sprints, your earnings increase dramatically, this is due to the gathering rate multiplier. Each consecutive day a sheep gathers, it gathers faster. Learn more about the Farmers ability to significantly extend your gathering rates and productivity here.

Gathering Daily Multiplier
Day 2 Day 10 Day 20 Day 30 Day 40 Day 50
1.03x 1.24x 1.59x 2.01x 2.48x 3x
Weather Multiplier

Weather also effects your ability to maximize profits. Claiming on Sunny day will multiplier your resources another 1.2x on top of the daily gathering multiplier. As the average gathering length on the farm drops, the weather multiplier becomes a bigger factor. This is because your sheep will burn through a lot more energy gathering, and margins can become very thin.

Weather Multiplier
Rainy Cloudy Sunny
0.8x 1x 1.2x

In the Verdant Valley, weather is *actually* predictable. You can reference the 60-day forecast for each community to plan your gathering strategy and get the most out of your spent energy.

Claiming & Taxes

If you claim a sheep, a few things will happen. Any shiny boxes you found will become available to open or sell, and any resources gathered (minus taxes paid to land owners) will show up in your balances on the top banner. You can use the Game Explorer to view community tax rates across the entire Valley.