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Gathering — Where nodes are

Resource locations are shared and refresh daily at 00:00 UTC. Each character can gather from each location once a day. Availability varies by climate:

Climate	Trees	Herb patches	Veins	Boulders
Desert	0	6	10	5
Mountain	4	4	12	5
Rainforest	12	10	2	0
Swamp	6	10	2	0
Subtropical	8	8	4	3
Mountain Woods	10	6	6	4
Woodlands	12	8	4	3
Haunted Woodlands	8	8	4	3

The Jungle of Bantha has 48 trees per map pixel.

Node tiers

Tier	Chance
1	40%
2	25%
3	15%
4	10%
5	6%
6	4%

Dungeon veins

Dungeon location	Veins per day	Vein tiers
Dungeons on Daggerfall’s original map	1–4	3–6
Spawned, Elite and Abyss Dungeons; Cyrodiil Map zone halls	None	—

Dwarven Scrap and Diamonds come only from dungeon veins.

Witnessed ground

Requirement	Value
Players who have gathered on the pixel	3
Minimum account age for each	1 week

Before ground is witnessed, surface veins stop at Silver and give no gems; rare trees and herbs do not grow, Pearls and Slaughterfish cannot be caught, and regional bonuses do not apply.

Region	Signature metal on witnessed ground
Daggerfall region	Moonstone
Wayrest Map	Mithril
Sentinel Map	Ebony
Orsinium Area Map	Orichalcum
Wrothgarian Mountains Map	Orichalcum
Isle of Balfiera Map	Adamantium

Nodes in the Marches yield 25% more.

Finding nodes

Display	Information
Compass	Marks the nearest 16 standing nodes within 150 m, using each profession’s colour
Overworld map	Shows resource groups, such as Mining ×6

Motherlodes

Property	Value
World-wide daily limit	3
Announcement	10 minutes ahead; 30 with Motherlode Sense
Tier	6
Eligible miners	First 20 strikers
Minimum Mining rank	25
Silver per eligible miner	10

See Motherlodes for the event reference.

Provincial gathering

Gathering beyond the Iliac Bay lists each province’s richer resources and extra ores. Skyrim Map and Cyrodiil Map also provide regional Orichalcum; Bay locations retain their own signatures.

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