Gathering Settings

The system’s gathering Settings page carries the rules that apply to every environment, task, and event in the system.

Gathering Resolution Mode

The system’s gathering Settings tab has a Gathering resolution mode card above the Limitation card. It chooses how a gathering attempt decides its outcome.

The only mode available today is d100, which is selected by default. Progressive and Routed by check are shown but disabled with a “Coming soon” label, because they are planned and not yet available.

Gathering Limitations

Each crafting system decides how often its gathering tasks can be attempted through two independent limitations, set on the system’s gathering Settings tab under Limitation:

Limitation	Toggle	What it caps
Stamina	Stamina pill	A per-character stamina pool. Each attempt spends the task’s stamina cost. A character can keep going only while they have stamina, which regenerates as world time passes.
Resource nodes	Resource nodes pill	A finite per-task node pool in each environment. Each accepted attempt depletes one node. Once a pool is empty the task is blocked until its nodes respawn over world time.

The two toggles are independent, not a single choice. Each can be on or off on its own:

• Neither on means no limit. Tasks can be attempted freely (subject only to tools, conditions, and any time requirements, which are always orthogonal to the limitation toggles).
• One on means only that limitation applies.
• Both on means both limits apply at once. A single accepted attempt both depletes the node pool and spends the character’s stamina. This is the anti-dogpiling combination. Finite resource nodes cap the total pulls until they respawn, so a large, high-stamina party cannot strip a task in a single visit no matter how much collective stamina it has.

Stamina enforcement only kicks in once a character actually has a pool (a non-blank Maximum stamina rolled for them). A task with no stamina cost is never gated by stamina. Resource-node enforcement applies per task only where you author a node pool on that task. Per-task node counts/respawn and per-character stamina pools/regen are unchanged by the toggles. The toggles only decide whether each limitation is active for the system.

The Limitation card, with neither limitation turned on.

Older worlds used a single limitation choice that could only be none, stamina, or resource nodes at a time. When you upgrade, Fabricate converts that choice into the two independent toggles automatically (stamina becomes Stamina on, nodes becomes Resource nodes on, otherwise both off). To run both limits at once, turn on both toggles.

Gathering Rules

Gathering rules are set per crafting system on the Gathering Settings tab. Once authored, they apply to every gathering environment in that system.

The gathering rules for a system, in the inspector beside the Settings tab.

Rule	Values
Rewards	Highest ranked successful drop, all drops, or a limited number of drops
Reward limit	A positive number used when Rewards is set to a limited number of drops
Events	Highest ranked successful event, all events, or a limited number of events
Event limit	A positive number used when Events is set to a limited number of events
Event outcome	Whether a triggered event still lets the attempt succeed, or makes it fail
Blind candidate gate	Whether a blind action only draws from tasks the character can attempt right now (the default), or from every matching task (see Blind Mode)
Blind reveal	When a blind task is revealed to the player: never (the default), on success, or on any attempt
Reveal scope	Who learns a revealed task: the character, the player, the party, or everyone

Blind Mode

A blind environment hides its tasks from players and presents a single generic gather action. On each attempt Fabricate picks one concrete task for the character:

1. Candidate pool starts from the environment’s visible, enabled tasks. The system Blind candidate gate then decides which are eligible. By default the pool only includes tasks the character can attempt right now (so it never resolves to a task that would immediately fail for missing or broken tools, depleted nodes, exhausted attempts, or unmet gates). You can instead keep every matching task in the pool. If the pool is empty, the player gets an opaque “nothing you can gather here” response.
2. Selection is a weighted random draw over the pool, using the per-task Weight values set on the Tasks tab rows (the default is 1, and a weight of 0 excludes a task). Blind selection is always weighted random.
3. Reveal happens after the attempt resolves, when the task may be revealed to the player so it can be recognised later. The Blind reveal and Reveal scope rules are set at the system level only. Environments cannot override them. Reveal can be set to never, only after a successful gather, or after any attempt (success or failure).

The per-task Weight column only appears while the environment is in blind mode.