In New World Aeternum, the lost fantasy land of Aeternum, you can join your chosen faction and freely explore every corner of the land. You can earn loot through combat or farm specific items.
New World Aeternum is currently in Season 9, with the next new season launching on October 13th. Regardless, fiber is one item you'll need to farm and stockpile in large quantities.
Based on the gameplay mechanics of Season 9, we'll plan the most efficient fiber farming route for you and provide some tips.
What Is New World Fiber?
Fiber in New World Aeternum is essentially an item obtained by harvesting hemp plants with a sickle. Hemp plants are tall and purple. They are found in most areas, but are more common in forests and grasslands.
To successfully harvest hemp, you'll need to collect Green Wood and Flint in the starting zone and craft a basic sickle at a campfire. Once you've harvested enough fiber, you can craft clothing and armor, or even the more advanced Wirefiber.
If you find yourself with extra fiber in your inventory later in the game, you can sell it for New World Aeternum coins, which will also free up space in your inventory.
What Preparations Should You Make Before Starting Farming?
To maximize your farming efficiency, it's recommended that you equip a full harvesting outfit that provides extra yield, as well as an amulet that boosts your luck.
In addition, you'll need to increase your intelligence to 350 to increase your harvesting speed and unlock all harvesting milestones.
Next, you'll need to add perks to ensure your scythe has the yield, luck, efficiency, alacrity, and mold alignment attributes - ideally, of course. If you can't unlock all five, at least yield, luck, and efficiency are essential.
Available perks include:
- Harvesting Luck
- Harvesting Yield
- Horticulture Discipline
- Reinforced Harvesting Luck
- Adored Harvesting Luck
Note that there are a variety of craftable scythes in the game, and higher rarity provides greater bonuses. From lowest to highest, they are:
- Flint Harvesting Sickle
- Iron Harvesting Sickle
- Steel Harvesting Sickle
- Starmetal Harvesting Sickle
- Orichalcum Harvesting Sickle
If possible, you can also obtain some extra Harvesting Trophies to increase your luck, but if you don't, it's fine; it won't significantly affect your final farming efficiency. Available trophies and their corresponding benefits include:
- Minor Harvesting Gathering Trophy: +500 Luck in Harvesting
- Basic Harvesting Gathering Trophy: +1000 Luck in Harvesting
- Major Harvesting Gathering Trophy: +1500 Luck in Harvesting
Essential buffs and consumables include a proficiency booster, locked food items, and a song that increases yield. If your faction provides access to Brimstone Sands Fort, you'll receive an additional 10% yield boost.
Best Route Overview
The first stop on this fiber farming journey is Monarch's Bluffs in Wild's Gateway shrine. Across the road from Monarch Bluffs, you can begin harvesting hemp plants.
The rest of the route takes approximately 15 to 17 minutes to complete, coinciding with the in-game hemp spawn time. You can expect to spawn at least:
- One large hemp plant node per farming session
- One to two medium-sized hemp plant nodes
- One to three small hemp plant nodes
If your character's power isn't high enough or other issues prevent you from completing all the nodes in the route in time, you can skip the next two southwest nodes, as they are the furthest from the route. You can farm them later as you become familiar with the route.
Route Details
When passing through densely populated and highly contested areas, it's recommended to keep to the right, then return through the middle, and finally harvest from the left, following a circular route to harvest as much as possible and avoid long detours.
If your harvesting level isn't high enough, farming fiber can quickly increase your harvesting level! Especially if you haven't reached level 250 yet, it's recommended to upgrade your sickle to gain additional harvesting experience.
However, this bonus will expire after you reach level 250. After that, you'll need to upgrade to better tools or obtain skill-boosting items through season pass rewards to increase your harvesting experience.
If you discover that other players have already harvested the surrounding hemp while you're on the route, don't be discouraged. While collecting the remaining hemp, you can mark these locations on the mini-map and return to farm again later.
It's crucial to emphasize that marking locations promptly is crucial! As a MMORPG, New World Aeternum is almost always online, so it's difficult to guarantee that the hemp nodes you pass by are already harvested.
Thus, timely and accurate mini-map marking will improve your efficiency when returning to farm again, preventing you from diligently completing the route only to find nothing.
If all goes well, you can expect to earn approximately 4.2 kg of fiber in about 15 minutes of fiber farming, and you can earn even more by farming again depending on the refresh time!
What Can You Do With Fiber After You Earn It?
While you can exchange some items for coins, some items require fiber consumption to craft, such as:
- Linen: Even at the lowest skill level, you can craft linen using fiber in Tier 2 Loom, which can then be processed into Tier I and II clothing. Linen also makes sateen out of silk fiber.
- Wooden Fishing Pole: Requires fiber and a Tier I Campsite or a Tier 2 Workshop.
- Wicker Basket: Requires fiber and reeds. Reeds can be obtained manually.
- Rusty Iron Lantern: Requires fiber, oil, and iron.
- Warm Iron Chandelier: Indoor furniture. Requires fiber, oil, and iron.
- Round Sunny Rug: Requires linen and fiber.
- Cerulean Drapes: Requires fiber, blue pigment, and iron ingots.
That's all for this guide. This route is expected to remain available in Season 10, assuming no major changes to cannabis locations. Thank you for reading.
