Skill
Gardeningガーデニング
The skill for growing and harvesting crops. It rises along with your food production. Gardening is one of the 12 skills in Core Keeper and needs 5,990 XP to reach level 100.
Harvesting plants gives you green fingers, allowing you to gain extra plants.
In-game description
How Gardening XP is gained
You gain XP when you harvest fully grown crops yourself. 1 XP per fully grown crop harvested (golden crops also give 1).
Tips for leveling Gardening efficiently
- Plant seeds and harvest them by hand once they are fully grown. Mushrooms give no XP.
- The bigger your farm, the more XP you earn in one round. Area-harvest hoes and sprinklers help.
XP needed to level up Gardening
Total XP from level 0. Each level needs more XP than the one before it, so the last 25 levels take the longest. Every 5 levels give 1 talent point, and reaching level 100 gives 5 more (25 in total).
| Level | Total XP | Talent points |
|---|---|---|
| Lv.25 | 304 | 5 |
| Lv.50 | 987 | 10 |
| Lv.75 | 2,526 | 15 |
| Lv.100 | 5,990 | 25 |
How to level skills efficiently →
Gardening talents
Spend the talent points you get from leveling up on these talents. Each effect is "value per point × points spent" (values from the talent data in the game's configuration files). You cannot fill every talent, but you can reset the points for 200 Ancient Coins and spend them again.
| Talent | Effect (per point) |
|---|---|
| Grateful gardener | +5% chance to gain a seed when harvesting plants |
| Eat your vegetables! | +5% food when eating plants or cooked food made out of plants |
| Feast for the eyes | +1 food gained when harvesting plants |
| Thorny weapons | CriticalDamagePercentageIncreaseFromGardening 5 |
| Thorny skin | +10 thorns damage |
| Poison coated weapons | +3% chance to apply poison on hit, which reduces enemy healing received by 75% |
| Expert gardener | +3% chance that plants planted by you become golden |
| Potent poison | +5% damage against poisoned targets |
Max-level icon
When a skill reaches its maximum level, its icon turns gold.
Normal
Max level
How XP is gained per action and the leveling tips are from the Core Keeper Wiki (Fandom) "Guides/Skill experience" and "Skills" pages (based on Core Keeper 1.3; CC BY-SA 3.0), written up in our own words. Skill names, descriptions and talent names are the game's official English. XP totals are calculated with the skill level formula in the game's program (Pug.Other.dll), the level cap and talent points come from the game's constants (Pug.Base.dll), talent values come from the game's configuration files (Conf/Talents) and the 200-coin reset cost from the game's program, Core Keeper 1.3.0.6. Core Keeper and its images are © Pugstorm. This is an unofficial fan site.