Harvest

Adapted from Battlezoo Bestiary- Monster Parts p132-135

The first step in upgrading your gear with Special Materials (Rare Metals, Monster Parts, Plant Materials) is gathering suitable components. Once a suitable material source is located, the PCs can spend time gathering the materials.  It is usually a good idea for PCs to use the Materials  quickly to upgrade their items via Refining and Imbuing.
The PCs can keep track of these materials by their value, as well as their type (for instance, “12 gp of giant crab parts”). This represents a variety of materials, and the PCs can split the value of parts as needed. For instance, if the PCs used 10 gp of those giant crab parts to refine a weapon, they would have 2 gp of giant crab parts remaining. It’s recommended that the PCs be allowed to allocate and spend monster parts shortly after earning them, to avoid needing to drag along bulky materials and keep track of a large list of parts from different creatures and values. As the GM, you determine the value of the monster parts the PCs find.

Monster Parts 

Monster parts vary in Bulk based on the original monster, but they generally tend to be extremely bulky. While the Bulk is at the GM’s discretion, typical Bulk values are light Bulk for the parts of a Small creature, 1 Bulk for Medium, 2 Bulk for Large, 4 Bulk for Huge, and 8 Bulk for Gargantuan. As such, While many monster parts are gathered by harvesting them directly from monsters, most campaigns will include opponents that are not sources of parts (such as human foes). These foes might instead carry refined items that the PCs can break down for useful parts for their own equipment, or even unrefined monster parts.

Ores

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Plants

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Harvest

Exploration

You gather materials from your immediate environment.

• Prerequisite There are harvestable Ore deposits, Flora, or Fauna at your location

You make a Survival Check against the DC of the material being harvested to determine what you can gather.

• Critical Success You harvest Double the value of Material from the source.
• Success You harvest the value of Material from the source.
• Failure You harvest Half the value of Material from the source.
• Critical Failure You harvesting efforts have ruined all of the salvageable material.

— Taming the West

Parent Technologies

• Survival

Children Technologies

• Refining

Monster Parts Gained Per Monster

Creature Level	Parts Value	Harvest DC
-1	6.5 gp	10
0	9 gp	12
1	13 gp	13
2	22 gp	14
3	30 gp	16
4	50 gp	17
5	80 gp	18
6	125 gp	20
7	180 gp	21
8	250 gp	22
9	360 gp	24
10	500 gp	25
11	720 gp	26
12	1030 gp	28
13	1560 gp	29
14	2,300 gp	30
15	3,400 gp	32
16	5,150 gp	33
17	8,000 gp	34
18	13,000 gp	36
19	22,500 gp	37
20	30,000 gp	38
21	45,000 gp	40
22	60,000 gp	42
23	90,000 gp	44
24	120,000 gp	46
25	180,000 gp	48