Maximizing Foraging Fortune
Foraging Fortune gets you more logs per tree. Every source below, with its maximum value and how to get there.
Base Fortune
This is the base Fortune, before any tree-specific bonuses.
Base Fortune, all trees
1696.78
21 sources, fully maxed
| Foraging Skill | +228 |
| Gear | +794.78 |
| Heart of the Forest | +300 |
| Forest Essence Shop | +20 |
| Attribute Shards | +110 |
| Pets | +219 |
| Consumables | +25 |
| Base total | 1696.78 |
Foraging Skill
Foraging Skill Level+228
| Level 50 (base cap) | 50 × 4 | +200 |
| Fig Log IX | 150,000 Fig Logs | +4 |
| Mangrove Log IX | 150,000 Mangrove Logs | +4 |
| Helix Log IX | 250,000 Helix Logs | +4 |
| Agatha's Milestone 4 | 250 Agatha's Coupons and 2 Agatha's Prizes | +4 |
| Agatha's Milestone 5 | 500 Agatha's Coupons and 5 Agatha's Prizes | +4 |
| Miria's Milestone 4 | 250 Miria's Coupons and 2 Miria's Prizes | +4 |
| Miria's Milestone 5 | 500 Miria's Coupons and 5 Miria's Prizes | +4 |
| Total | +228 |
+4 Foraging Fortune per level, to level 57.
Every Foraging level is a flat +4 Fortune, and it is the one source no amount of gear substitutes for. The cap starts at 50 and each of seven separate unlocks raises it by one level, to 57. Three are collections: maxing Fig, Mangrove or Helix logs to tier IX. The other four are bought, two from Agatha and two from Miria, and each needs that NPC's milestone 4 or 5 first. Coupons and prizes for both are on the bazaar, so those four have a real coin price. Raising the cap only pays if you already have the XP banked for the level above it.
Foraging Skill Level gives up to +228 fortune.
Gear
Helix Armor (4 pieces)+420
| Base | Per piece, from the Helix collection | +45 |
| Groovy reforge | +6 | |
| Forest Pledge VI | 2 per level. Books stop at V, so level VI needs a Water Hyacinth | +12 |
| Uncommon Foraging Fortune Booster Upgrade | Common gives 5; buy the Common first, then upgrade at Maxim | +10 |
| Perfect Citrine ×2 | 16 each. Helix armor added a second gem slot, so you need two per piece now | +32 |
| Total | +420 |
105 Fortune per piece, 420 for the full set. The single largest source in the game.
Helix armor unlocks at Helix collection level 8 and replaces Fig armor. Craft it the same way you would any collection armor. The second gemstone slot is new, so budget for two Perfect Citrines per piece rather than one. Forest Pledge VI is the last 2 Fortune per piece: buy a Water Hyacinth on the bazaar and apply it to a piece that already has Forest Pledge V.
Helix Armor (4 pieces) gives up to +420 fortune.
Helix Chopper+167.28
| Base × Legendary | 50 base × 1.1 | +55 |
| Moonglade reforge | +12 | |
| Absorb X | +20 | |
| Uncommon Foraging Fortune Booster Upgrade | Common gives 10 | +20 |
| Wood Singularity | +25 | |
| Perfect Citrine ×2 | +32 | |
| Iron Axe Axed | ×1.02 applied to the whole total | |
| Total | +167.28 |
167.28 Fortune fully maxed, including the 1.02× Iron Axe Axed multiplier.
The axe is where booster upgrades pay off most, so buy the Uncommon booster here before your armor or equipment. Iron Axe Axed is a one-time Forest Essence Shop purchase that multiplies the entire axe total by 1.02, so buy it late, once everything else is maxed.
Helix Chopper gives up to +167.28 fortune.
David's Cloak+59.50
| Base | +50 | |
| Marshroom reforge | Applies "Marshy" · scales with rarity · Mythic gives +4.5 | +4.50 |
| Uncommon Foraging Fortune Booster Upgrade | Common gives 2 | +5 |
| Total | +59.50 |
50 base (Legendary → Mythic), +4.5 Marshroom reforge, plus an Uncommon booster.
Obtained from David in Galatea. Its Fortune line is secondary to its Sweep, which is the real reason to max the cloak. The Marshroom reforge adds +4.5 Fortune at Mythic. Recombobulate to Mythic for the full value.
David's Cloak gives up to +59.50 fortune.
Honeycomb Necklace+33.50
| Base | +25 | |
| Marshroom reforge | Applies "Marshy" · scales with rarity · Legendary gives +3.5 | +3.50 |
| Uncommon Foraging Fortune Booster Upgrade | +5 | |
| Total | +33.50 |
25 base (Epic → Legendary), +3.5 Marshroom reforge, plus an Uncommon booster. Upgrades from the Mangrove Locket.
Crafted from 2 Helixes, 2 honeycomb blocks, a vial of spring water and your Mangrove Locket. The Marshroom reforge adds +3.5 Fortune at Legendary. Recombobulate to Legendary for the full value.
Honeycomb Necklace gives up to +33.50 fortune.
Veilshroom Bracelet+33.50
| Base | +25 | |
| Marshroom reforge | Applies "Marshy" · scales with rarity · Legendary gives +3.5 | +3.50 |
| Uncommon Foraging Fortune Booster Upgrade | +5 | |
| Total | +33.50 |
25 base (Epic → Legendary), +3.5 Marshroom reforge, plus an Uncommon booster. Upgrades from the Mangrove Grippers.
Crafted from 2 veilshroom bunches, 4 Helixes, a vial of spring water and your Mangrove Grippers. The Marshroom reforge adds +3.5 Fortune at Legendary. Recombobulate to Legendary for the full value.
Veilshroom Bracelet gives up to +33.50 fortune.
Safari Belt+71
| Base | The item itself carries no Foraging Fortune | +0 |
| Forest biome milestones | +1, +2, ... +7 through milestone VII, then +7, +7 and +8 | +50 |
| Morning Dew reforge at Mythic | Shows on the belt as Majestic. Scales with rarity: 2 Common, 4 Uncommon, 6 Rare, 8 Epic, 12 Legendary, 16 Mythic | +16 |
| Uncommon Foraging Fortune Booster Upgrade | +5 | |
| Total | +71 |
No base Fortune at all. All 71 come from hunt milestones, the Morning Dew reforge and a booster.
The best belt once maxed, and the slowest. Milestones are earned by catching critters in a biome, and any mob caught there counts. The ladder is the same in all four biomes and the totals are cumulative: 5 catches for milestone I, then 25, 50, 100, 150, 250, 350, 450, 600 and 750 for milestone X. That is 750 catches per biome you care about, halved from 1,500 by the August 11 patch. Forest biome catches are the Fortune itself. Cavern biome catches matter indirectly: every second Cavern milestone raises the belt one rarity, up to Mythic at milestone X, and rarity is the multiplier on the Morning Dew line. Morning Dew is a Safari Belt exclusive reforge stone from the bazaar, and it shows up on the belt as the Majestic reforge. The Haunted and Icy tracks give Hunting Fortune and Cold Resistance, so they do nothing for foraging. Only one belt fits the slot, and this is the one that belongs there in a maxed build.
Safari Belt gives up to +71 fortune.
Relic of Power+10
| Epic | Base rarity | +6 |
| Legendary | Recombobulated | +8 |
| Mythic | All 12 gem slots holding Perfect gems | +10 |
| Total | +10 |
10 Fortune at Mythic, which needs every gem slot filled with a Perfect gem.
A general-purpose accessory rather than a foraging-specific one. Its Fortune comes from its gemstone slots, so the number scales with the relic's rarity. It starts Epic, a Recombobulator takes it to Legendary, and filling all 12 slots with Perfect gems takes it to Mythic for the full 10. Twelve Perfect gems is by far the most expensive Fortune upgrade in the game, so leave it until everything else is maxed.
Relic of Power gives up to +10 fortune.
Heart of the Forest
HOTF Foraging Fortune+150
+3 Fortune per level, 50 levels.
A tier 2 node, so it is available early and worth levelling steadily. At 150 Fortune maxed it is the largest non-gear source in the game.
HOTF Foraging Fortune gives up to +150 fortune.
HOTF Foraging Madness+50
Flat +50 Fortune (and +10 Sweep) once unlocked.
A tier 4 node. A single flat unlock rather than a levelled perk, so it is pure upside the moment you buy it.
HOTF Foraging Madness gives up to +50 fortune.
HOTF Early Birdvaries
+100 Fortune, but only on your first 250 trees each day. Deliberately excluded from the totals.
Early Bird is worth having, but it is not a permanent stat: it applies only to the first 250 trees you cut per day. Foraging Stats does not count it toward your Fortune total, and neither does this page, because doing so would overstate your real rates for most of a session.
HOTF Early Bird gives up to varies fortune.
HOTF Forest Strength+50
| Formula | perk level × 0.001 × your Strength | |
| Strength cap | 1,000. Strength beyond that adds nothing here | |
| Level 50 with 1,000 Strength | +50 | |
| Total | +50 |
Converts your Strength into Fortune. +50 at perk level 50 with 1,000 Strength.
A tier 8 node and one of the largest Fortune sources once your Strength is high. It depends on a stat the API does not expose for this purpose, so Foraging Stats asks you to enter your Strength manually. Below 1,000 Strength you get proportionally less.
HOTF Forest Strength gives up to +50 fortune.
HOTF Forest Speed+50
| Formula | perk level × 0.002 × your Speed | |
| Speed cap | 500. Speed beyond that adds nothing here | |
| Level 50 with 500 Speed | +50 | |
| Total | +50 |
Converts your Speed into Fortune. +50 at perk level 50 with 500 Speed.
The Speed counterpart to Forest Strength. It caps at a much lower stat value, so 500 Speed is a realistic target. Also a manual input.
HOTF Forest Speed gives up to +50 fortune.
Forest Essence Shop
Fern Lumberjack+20
+2 Fortune per level, 10 levels.
Bought from Fern in the Forest Essence Shop. Cheap, universal, and easy to overlook.
Fern Lumberjack gives up to +20 fortune.
Attribute Shards
Animal Expertise+100
+10 Fortune per level, 10 levels. Rare rarity, 48 shards to max.
Universal Fortune, unlike the tree-scoped shards. Worth prioritising for that reason alone.
Animal Expertise gives up to +100 fortune.
Ultimate DNA (Galaxy Fish shard)+10
+1 Fortune per level, 10 levels. Legendary, so only 24 shards to max.
A small bonus, but legendary shards need just 24 to reach level 10, making this one of the cheapest maxes available.
Ultimate DNA (Galaxy Fish shard) gives up to +10 fortune.
Pets
Jade Dragon+194
| Base | 25 at level 101, +0.25 per level, capping at 50 at level 200 | +50 |
| Jade Scale | 15 Fortune per digit of Mangrove collection, max 8 digits | +120 |
| Symbiosis | Level 200 only: +4 per OTHER maxed foraging pet, so 6: Frog, Giraffe, Lion, Monkey, Ocelot and Sloth | +24 |
| Dragon's Pride | NOT counted in the 194: +1 Fortune per 5 total Sweep. At 600 Sweep that is a further +120. | |
| Total | +194 |
194 from its fixed perks, plus Dragon's Pride which scales with your Sweep.
Dragon's Pride couples Fortune to Sweep, which is why the two stats are not independent: every point of Sweep you add is worth a fifth of a Fortune on top. That feedback loop is the reason a Sweep-focused build ends up with high Fortune too. Note that the pet contributes nothing below level 101. Only the Base line is a pet stat, so a Hephaestus Relic raises that 50 and nothing else. The other three are perks and no pet item touches them.
Jade Dragon gives up to +194 fortune.
Hephaestus Relic+25
| Hephaestus Relic | +50% to pet stats. Half of the Jade Dragon base line, which is 50 at level 200 | +25 |
| Minos Relic | The cheaper Epic alternative at +33.3%, so 16.65 here rather than 25 | |
| Total | +25 |
A pet item worth half of the Jade Dragon's 50 base Fortune.
Both relics raise pet STATS and explicitly not perks, so on a Jade Dragon the whole gain comes off its 50 base Fortune. Jade Scale, Dragon's Pride and Symbiosis are perks and are untouched, which is why this is worth 25 rather than half of the pet's full total. On a Monkey or an Ocelot a relic is worth nothing at all, since their Fortune and Wisdom are abilities too. Note the pet has one item slot: taking the relic means giving up the Winding Ivy and the 10 Sweep on the Sweep page, so the two maximums on these pages cannot both be reached by the same build.
Hephaestus Relic gives up to +25 fortune.
Consumables
Bee Saliva+5
One-time consumable, +1 Fortune each, 5 maximum.
Permanent once eaten. Small, but it never has to be re-earned.
Bee Saliva gives up to +5 fortune.
Celestial Mason Jar+15
Flat +15 Fortune, and +3 Foraging Wisdom.
Foraging Stats assumes every player has this active, because it cannot be read from the API. If you do not have one, subtract 15 from your Fortune.
Celestial Mason Jar gives up to +15 fortune.
Cloudy Century Cake+5
Flat +5 Fortune while active.
A timed buff rather than a permanent unlock, so it needs re-applying.
Cloudy Century Cake gives up to +5 fortune.
Two caveats worth stating plainly. Some sources have no fixed ceiling we can publish, because they scale with another stat or with an unbounded collection, so they are listed but excluded from the total. And only one pet can be active at a time, so pet sources count the best one rather than all of them.
Tree-specific Fortune
These only apply on one tree type, so they never stack with each other. Whichever tree you are cutting, exactly one column below is live and the other two are worth nothing to you at that moment.
Fig
base + 380
2076.78
total on Fig, 1 uncapped
Mangrove
base + 380
2076.78
total on Mangrove, 1 uncapped
Helix
base + 380
2076.78
total on Helix, 1 uncapped
Fig only
Agatha Fortune (Fig)+200
+4 Fortune per level, 50 levels, on Fig trees only.Fig trees only
Bought from Agatha with contest coupons. At 200 Fortune maxed this is the single largest tree-specific source in the game. It applies only when cutting Fig trees, so it cannot stack with the Mangrove or Helix equivalents.
Agatha Fortune (Fig) gives up to +200 fortune.
Moonglade Mastery (Phanflare shard)+100
+10 Fortune per level, 10 levels. Counts on both Fig and Mangrove trees.Fig & Mangrove trees only
Common rarity, so 96 shards to max. The one tree mastery that covers two tree types, which makes it the best value of the three if you split your time between Fig and Mangrove. It does nothing on Helix trees.
Moonglade Mastery (Phanflare shard) gives up to +100 fortune.
Fig Collector (Sparrow shard)+80
+1 Fig Fortune per collection digit per level, so +80 at level 10 with an 8-digit collection.Fig trees only
Uncommon rarity, 64 shards to max. Applies only when cutting Fig trees. Digits cap at 8, so a 10,000,000 Fig log collection is the ceiling and chopping past it adds nothing.
Fig Collector (Sparrow shard) gives up to +80 fortune.
Mangrove only
Agatha Fortune (Mangrove)+200
+4 Fortune per level, 50 levels, on Mangrove trees only.Mangrove trees only
The Mangrove counterpart to the Fig perk above. Same shop, same cost structure, same 200 ceiling.
Agatha Fortune (Mangrove) gives up to +200 fortune.
Moonglade Mastery (Phanflare shard)+100
+10 Fortune per level, 10 levels. Counts on both Fig and Mangrove trees.Fig & Mangrove trees only
Common rarity, so 96 shards to max. The one tree mastery that covers two tree types, which makes it the best value of the three if you split your time between Fig and Mangrove. It does nothing on Helix trees.
Moonglade Mastery (Phanflare shard) gives up to +100 fortune.
Mangrove Collector (Seagull shard)+80
+1 Mangrove Fortune per collection digit per level, so +80 at level 10 with an 8-digit collection.Mangrove trees only
Uncommon rarity, 64 shards to max. Applies only when cutting Mangrove trees. Digits cap at 8, so a 10,000,000 Mangrove log collection is the ceiling and chopping past it adds nothing.
Mangrove Collector (Seagull shard) gives up to +80 fortune.
Helix only
Miria Fortune (Helix)+200
+4 Fortune per level, 50 levels, on Helix trees only.Helix trees only
The Torrhus Canyon equivalent, sold by Miria. If you are grinding Helix trees this is the one of the three that matters, and at 200 Fortune it is the biggest single upgrade available to a Helix forager. Worth buying early.
Miria Fortune (Helix) gives up to +200 fortune.
Torrhus Mastery (Firefox shard)+100
+100 Helix Fortune at max. Common rarity, so 96 shards to level 10.Helix trees only
One of the best value shards in the update. Firefoxes spawn around Torrhus Canyon and are easy to collect with a lasso while you forage normally, so this maxes itself as a byproduct of grinding.
Torrhus Mastery (Firefox shard) gives up to +100 fortune.
Helix Collector (Hawk shard)+80
+1 Helix Fortune per collection digit per level, so +80 at level 10 with an 8-digit collection.Helix trees only
Scales with the number of digits in your Helix log collection, so it grows as you grind. Digits cap at 8, so the 80 assumes level 10 and a 10,000,000+ collection. At 7 digits it is 70, and chopping past 10,000,000 adds nothing. Uncommon rarity, 64 shards to max.
Helix Collector (Hawk shard) gives up to +80 fortune.
Check your own numbers
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