Brighter Shores dropped a small but focused patch today, and the headline addition is exactly what it says on the tin: Forager's Gloves. According to the official Steam patch notes, you can now craft them by talking to Jack Wellis in the Leatherworks.
The way they work is straightforward. Each Leatherworker milestone unlocks a new pair, and every pair gives a 20% speed boost when foraging two specific items tied to that milestone. Milestone 1 covers Nettle and Wrack; milestone 2 moves on to Pond Weed and Bellplant. It's a progression system built into the gear itself, which means you'll be swapping gloves as you level rather than finding one pair that carries you forever. For a game built around skill-based grinding, that's a sensible design call.
It's a small patch, but 20% faster foraging on regularly-farmed materials will add up fast for anyone deep into the Leatherworker grind. Full patch notes below.
Forager's Gloves can now be crafted by talking to Jack Wellis in the Leatherworks.
You can craft a new pair of Forager's Gloves in each milestone of Leatherworker. Each pair of Forager's Gloves gives a 20% speed boost when foraging two specific items. For example milestone 1 Forager's Gloves give a 20% speed boost when foraging Nettle and Wrack, and milestone 2 Forager's Gloves give a 20% speed boost when foraging Pond Weed and Bellplant.
These improvements are cumulative, so milestone 2 Forager's Gloves have all the benefits of milestone 0 and milestone 1 Forager's Gloves. You can see details on which Forager's Gloves unlocks are available in the Leatherworker professions interface, and you can see which milestone of Forager's Gloves you have crafted in the Forager equipment interface.
Note that Forager's Gloves do not improve respawn speeds, so they will only be beneficial if you forage/catch/etc something else while you wait for the respawn.
Quality of life improvements
• The profession interface now shows how much knowledge you have in an orb in the global section instead of at the bottom of the interface.
Bug fixes
• Remove the 'Past milestone' option from training dummies.
• Shift a vine in the Beecause quest which temporarily blocked access to a poplar tree.
• Fix Filtration Station crash when the filtered and corrupted water collide in a cross pipe.
• Fix missing exit in Filtration Station room when 'Adjacent rooms' option is disabled.
• Stop 'Close interface' key bind from exiting Filtration Station prematurely and leaving you trapped in the room.
• Make the Kobolds in the Kobold Arena use the correct article when referring to a weapon.
• Fix bug where your own scores did not always appear when comparing scores with your friends or nearby players.
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