🌿 Foraging guide, 1 to 99

Foraging gathers catnip, herbs, silvervine and stranger things from the zones. Grooming and Brewing use the herbs, and dyes come from them too.

The quickest route

Doing the action with the most XP an hour at each level, back to back, Foraging 1 to 99 takes about 158 hours (13,034,431 XP). Life skills carry on while you nap, action by action, so much of that happens while you're away.

Levels	Do this	Where	Time
1–8	Pick Catnip	Hearthmeadow Fields	5 min
8–22	Gather Meadowsweet	Hearthmeadow Fields	16 min
22–30	Dig Silvervine	Mousewood Edge, Lilypad Shallows	15 min
30–36	Pick Glowshrooms	B1: Drainmouth	20 min
36–42	Gather Sea Kelp	B1: Drainmouth	31 min
42–52	Gather Moonpetals	Smugglers' Cove	1.7 h
52–62	Pick Moor Heather	The Grey Kennels, Wreckers' Cove	3.8 h
62–72	Scrape Snowcap Lichen	The Hollow Library, The Sunken Promenade	8.7 h
72–82	Gather Sugar Crystals	The Sink Lake, The Anvil Thunderhead	20.5 h
82–92	Pick Sun-Dried Dates	Mirage Basin, Coconut Heights	49.6 h
92–98	Pick Cloudberries	Greytuft Hold, Salamander Springs, The Cat-Haunted Wood and 3 more	58.8 h
98–99	Pick Colourbloom	Greytuft Hold, Salamander Springs, The Cat-Haunted Wood and 3 more	13.1 h

Set your own levels and bonuses in the life skill calculator.

Every action

XP an hour at the action's own level.

Level	Action	Makes	Where	XP an hour
1	Pick Catnip	Catnip	Hearthmeadow Fields	10,286
8	Gather Meadowsweet	Meadowsweet, Catnip	Hearthmeadow Fields	18,000
22	Dig Silvervine	Silvervine	Mousewood Edge, Lilypad Shallows	30,400
30	Pick Glowshrooms	Glowshroom	B1: Drainmouth	34,500
36	Gather Sea Kelp	Sea Kelp	B1: Drainmouth	40,320
42	Gather Moonpetals	Moonpetal, Silvervine	Smugglers' Cove	47,077
52	Pick Moor Heather	Moor Heather	The Grey Kennels, Wreckers' Cove	55,286
62	Scrape Snowcap Lichen	Snowcap Lichen	The Hollow Library, The Sunken Promenade	64,800
72	Gather Sugar Crystals	Sugar Crystal	The Sink Lake, The Anvil Thunderhead	74,250
82	Pick Sun-Dried Dates	Sun-Dried Dates	Mirage Basin, Coconut Heights	82,588
92	Pick Cloudberries	Cloudberries	Greytuft Hold, Salamander Springs, The Cat-Haunted Wood and 3 more	90,000
98	Pick Colourbloom	Colourbloom	Greytuft Hold, Salamander Springs, The Cat-Haunted Wood and 3 more	93,789

Tips

Herbs feed two other skills, so a forager is never short of buyers.
Some of the best patches sit up on ledges: climb or jump to reach them.
At a Foraging spot, tap Play for Sniff, a 30-second minigame. A gold score (90 points) gives +25% Foraging XP for 15 minutes while your cat keeps working, and the first gold puts a look in your wardrobe.
Each week's contest features one life skill; the three cats who gain the most XP in it win big gold prizes.

More on Foraging: its wiki page, and the other life skill guides.