Harvestable Creatures

I really enjoy harvesting while exploring and fighting with my character.

How about being able to harvest a creature like an elemental to get various resources. The higher level the creature, the better or more quanity of the resource...

Stone elementals could have granite
Iron elementals could have iron ore
Copper elementals could have copper ore
Ents could have wood

There could even be magic elementals who could be harvested for various reagents that worked in the spells that made them.

It could make combat more interesting for the crafting/harvesting people.

 

yes!

 

R E A P E R S !

 

I believe UO had something like this. I like this idea.

 

I like the idea, especially if higher skills allowed for better chances at more resources (or even if you'd be able to try harvesting them

 

Or even copper or iron scraps. It's possible that an elemental is a pure creature and is not an ore composite.

+1

 

Would hope at least 1 piece of ore would be on the harvest. If a rabbit gives 1 leather then a full elemental should give one ore...but of course it should vary based on your harvesting ability. My high level harvester should be able to get more resources with more skill.

(Off topic-the same way I think higher level crafters should be able to get more items with high skill.)

 

Agree completely with everything said so far (with the exception of Reapers - I'm not a fan, even tho I owned them)...
Given the current pathetic "loot" on mobs, I am guessing and certainly hoping and fully expecting - that what we see now are only basic placeholders.

But it sure won't hurt to "prod" them a bit on the issue, so they know exactly where we stand and what we expect.

So +1 for Lord Baldrith's suggestion and all the rest...

My $.02....

 

I could see the knees, hips, shoulders being made of a more fluid substance like unrefined ore for movement. Just let me haul away that solid metal leg so I can smelt it down for 12 iron/copper scraps!

 

Or if you go to harvest a molten fire elemental, and you accidentally cause it to explode and kill you

 

or we can use it as a smelting table to turn earth elementals into ingots

 

Perhaps it's time to look at this again, particularly with elementals. I have always enjoyed mining/harvesting creatures that I kill in other games...some of the loot tables seem a bit off on elementals...if they had 0 loot but were minable, that would seem a better reward than just gold...Especially putting silver and gold scraps to make gold and silver ingot loss a bit less painful.

 

ELM

Elemental Lives Matter !!!
Stop the carnage​

J/K LOL

 

@Lord Baldrith,

Did you see this thread of mine? Elemental loots

 

Ah, somehow I missed that! Very nice! I have seen sulfur nodes in Nightshade pass near the fire boss...I generally swing by there to pick up the ash which I can always use

I would think Earth Elementals should have crystal, ores, scraps etc as loot. I had suggested the tree mobs with a hat tip to Vanguard, which had tree-creatures that could be killed and harvested. That was epic for wood gathering and level raising. I love multi-tasking harvesting with adventuring myself.

 

Hated Reapers in UO. Always one would pop up outside my house....had to go kill it all the time so it wouldnt kill my pack horse. LOL. But yes. Reapers and Ents would be awesome....Run up thinking its a tree to harvest and WHOMP hits you back. That would be a hoot. Only met a few elementals in game so far and the loot varies. One time i got a sword off it...guess it ate the last person that fought it. LOL. That would be cool on all creatures you kill.....random items from past kills they made. There are unlimited things they can do for loot on everything.

 

Yesterday I was in game and accidentally targeted a horse with my fire arrow glyp.
I surely did not mean to hit him.

I was surprised that he could be hit and more surprised that he attacked me back.
I had to run out of the area so I would not have to kill him before he killed me.

(now that I think of it, maybe it was a female LOL)

 

Yes I agree we need harvest-able creatures. Surely it is missing that earth elementals and other types of elementals cannot be harvested and there are so many of them, forget the ore, harvest the creature lol. j/k


@DarkStarr @Chris @Lord British2

 

I like this idea. Not sure how I would do against one of these mobs but I would like to try for the loot.