Harvest crafting

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Infographic showing the result of Horticrafting an item using the "Reforge an item keeping all prefixes" craft.

Harvest Crafting or Horticrafting refers to creating or improving items by utilizing harvested modifiers, or "crafts". It was introduced in the Harvest league and added to the core game in the Echoes of the Atlas expansion. Players can explore maps to find entrances to the The Sacred Grove. Monsters in the Sacred Grove drop Crystallized Lifeforce which are used for Harvest crafting recipes using the Horticrafting Station.

These crafts allow players to create greatly improved rare items, because they allow greater control over the modification process verses using orbs, or exchanging currency or fragment items for different ones.

• For example, the craft "Augment an item with a new Life modifier" works in a similar fashion to an Exalted OrbExalted OrbStack Size: 20Augments a rare item with a new random modifierRight click this item then left click a rare item to apply it. Rare items can have up to six random modifiers., but offers the ability to add a Life-related modifier, rather than simply adding one of hundreds of possible modifiers at random.
• Certain crafts are completely unique to Harvest crafting and cannot be performed with any other method currently in the game. For example, the craft "Change a modifier that grants Fire Resistance into a similar tier modifier that grants Lightning Resistance" is completely unique and allows players to "fix" items that are perfect for their build but have a resistance modifier that they don't need.
• Harvest crafting also allows you to change other implicit features of the item, such as its influence or turning it into a Fractured or Synthesised item.

Mechanics

Harvest crafts can be applied normal, magic and rare items. Unique items cannot be modified but a few enchants can be applied to them, if applicable.

Modifier groups

See also: Category:Mod lists by tag

To learn which tag a given modifier falls under, roll-over an item while pressing the Alt key. You will see the modifier tags above the modifier. Eg. "Adds # to # Cold Damage" falls under the groups of Attack, Cold, Elemental and Damage.

A partial listing of modifiers that fall within the modifier tags are given as follows:

• Life - # to Maximum Life, % Increased Maximum Life, Regenerate # Life per Second, Attack Damage Leeched as Life, # Life Gained on Kill, % Increased Totem Life, % Increased Minion Life
• Attack - Adds # to # Physical/Cold/Fire/Lightning Damage to Attacks, Attack Speed, Attacks Penetrate % Elemental Resistance (Influenced only)
• Defence - # to Evasion Rating/Armour/Energy Shield, Stun and Block Recovery (hybrid mod only), Evasion Rating/Armour/Energy Shield
• Caster - % Increased Spell Damage, % Increased Cast Speed, Adds # to # Physical/Cold/Fire/Lightning Damage to Spells, Critical Strike Chance/Multiplier for Spells
• Critical - Critical Strike Chance/Multiplier, Critical Strike Chance/Multiplier for Spells
• Physical - Adds # to # Physical Damage to spells/attacks, % Increased Physical Damage, % Physical Damage leeched as Life/Mana
• Fire - Fire Resistance, Adds # to # Fire Damage to spells/attacks, % Increased Fire Damage, % Fire Damage leeched as Life/Mana
• Lightning - Lightning Resistance, Adds # to # Lightning Damage to spells/attacks, % Increased Lightning Damage, % LightningDamage leeched as Life/Mana
• Cold - Cold Resistance, Adds # to # Cold Damage to spells/attacks, % Increased Cold Damage, % Cold Damage leeched as Life/Mana
• Chaos - Chaos Resistance, Adds # to # Chaos Damage to spells/attacks, % Increased Chaos Damage, % Chaos Damage leeched as Life/Mana
• Speed - Increased Movement Speed (Boots only), Increased Attack/Cast Speed

Version history

Version	Changes
3.19.0	Rather than being presented with a selection of crafting options that must be used immediately, you now receive itemised, tradeable lifeforce of the appropriate colour. This lifeforce can be used later, in your own time, at the horticrafting bench in your hideout. Its crafting options are now priced in terms of this itemised lifeforce currency. We have rebalanced all Harvest crafts for the new system and have removed a bunch of filler crafts and some ones with deterministic outcomes that were incredibly RNG-gated before. Some crafts that provided access to exclusive content, like the special Offerings to the Goddess, have been removed because these items can now be found in more appropriate locations elsewhere in the game.
3.14.1b	Fixed a bug where Harvest plots could grant fewer than four crafts. Each plot now correctly grants a minimum of four crafts per plot.
3.14.0	Increased the chance for Map Areas to contain The Sacred Grove by 60%. The chance to encounter a Zana mission requiring you to complete a Harvest encounter has also been increased by the same amount. The Sacred Grove now contains a minimum of three pairs of plots that can be harvested from. The Heart of the Grove encounter will no longer appear in place of a normal Harvest encounter. Instead, it can now be accessed through a Sacred Blossom map fragment that sometimes drops from Tier 4 Harvest bosses. Completing the Heart of the Grove encounter for the first time now unlocks 5 extra Horticrafting Station crafting slots, allowing you to store up to a maximum of 15 crafting options. Crafts are no longer guaranteed from seeds. Now, seeds of Tiers 1, 2 and 3 each have a chance to provide a craft, with Tier 4 seeds still guaranteeing a craft. The number of Tier 2 and 3 seeds encountered in Harvest Plots has remained unchanged, so the encounters will remain as challenging as they were before. Some crafts that had overly-deterministic behaviour have been removed: Most Annulment-type crafts (crafts that removed a modifier of a specific type) All type-specific Divine crafts (crafts that rerolled the value of specific modifiers). Type-specific Exalted crafts (crafts that augmented modifiers of specific types to items) can now only be applied to non-influenced items. This does not apply to the existing modifier which applies an Influenced modifier to an already Influenced item. Crafts that added random Atlas Influences to certain types of non-Influenced items have been removed. In their place, crafts that randomise the existing Influence on an item while also reforging it with new modifiers have been added. Rebalanced the weightings of seeds so that you're seeing type-specific crafts at a more equal rate (for example Cold, Fire and Lightning). The weightings of crafts have also been rebalanced so that the more powerful crafts such as the Exalted-type crafts are now rarer. Weaker crafts such as "Set an item to three sockets" have also been removed, making the higher tier versions of these crafts more common.
3.13.0	Harvest has been added to the core game and has been vastly reworked.
3.11.2b	The Sacred Grove and its contents have been removed.
3.11.0	Introduced to the game in Harvest league.

See also

• Guide:Harvest crafting quick guide