BDO – Lakiaro’s Guide
Introduction
Lakiaro is a gatherable plant or herb that spawns all around Dreighan and Kamasylvia regions. They may be easier to find in Dreighan, especially around the mountains.
Lakiaro is a mini game that starts upon harvest. Upon successfully completing the mini game you will be rewarded with item that can be vendor for decent amount of silvers along with enhancing materials and traces.
You must have a Manos Hoe or a Dostter Steel Hoe to start the mini game. I highly recommend to not use dostter steel hoe this is because a PEN Dostter Steel Hoe is equivalent to a TRI Manos Hoe where it starts to be sufficient enough for clearing the mini game perfectly.
Manos Hoe can be obtain by Processing (Manufacture) using the followings:
- 1 x Shining Steel hoe (Tool workshop)
- 50 x Magical Shards (Melting any black magic crystals)
- 15 x Metal Solvents (Alchemy)
- 5 x Manos (Vendor)
Materials uses for enhancing Manos Hoe is the same as boss weapon but beware that it will always gives 1 failstack even at PRI or TET from fail enhancement and it may have a lower success rate compared to a boss weapon.
Lakiaro’s mini game rules
The goal of the mini game is to uncover all the dirts while avoiding damaging any roots in the process. In order to obtain max reward, not a single root is to be damaged. Upon damaged, rewards are significantly decreased.
The player has deeply digs and shallowly digs, deeply digs are infinite but shallowly digs are limited depend on your hoe enhancement level. TRI manos hoe has 22 and TET manos hoe has 25, I would not recommend trying Lakiaro with a DUO or under mainly because its deeply digs only uncovers 6 tiles or less.
Deeply digs are always used for uncovering tiles and shallowly dig are used for checking the single tile that it is clicked on. A shallowly dig will be consumed upon right click and will always uncover a root if chosen tile has one covered, if not then it will simply do nothing and you may safely use a deeply dig afterward, a pebble will also not be uncovered using a shallowly dig.
Lakiaro’s mini game consist of 2 sizes, a 12 x 12 and a 14 x 14. A 14 x 14 mini game is much harder than a 12 x 12 simply because the roots are less predictable.
12 x 12 Lakiaro –
- Roots length are minimum of 6 and maximum of 9 tiles long
- The first 4 roots are the thick roots
- The 5th or the middle roots are always the thick to thin roots
- The 6th to 8th roots are the thin roots looks like below:
- And the last root are always between 6th and 9th, it has a very clear end root texture and show the direction of which side it came from:
14 x 14 Lakiaro –
- Roots length are minimum of 8 and maximum of 13 tiles long. Their texture variations are the same as 12 x 12 roots
- The first 6 roots are the thick roots
- The 7th or the middle root are the thick to thin roots
- The 8th to 12th roots are the thin roots
- The last roots are always between 8th and 13th roots
- 14 x 14 Lakiaro likely to have more pebbles than 12 x 12 and only exist on Lakiaro with at least 4 stages.
The first Lakiaro’s root always starts up straight from the middle where it can be dug. This will always makes the Lakiaro starting roots taking 2 tiles long from starting point.
Lakiaro can contain up to 5 stages
- Energy cost to start a stage 1 – 5 are 20, 20, 30, 40, 50 correspondingly
- Stage 1 – 5 max rewards are:
- Stage 1 gives 3m with a chance of hard/sharp
- Stage 2 – 3 gives 5m/10m with guaranteed 1-3 hard with a chance of sharp
- Stage 4 – 5 gives 30m/100m with guaranteed 1-3 sharp with a chance of hard
- Stage 4 and 5 may have a 14 x 14 mini game instead of just 12 x 12 and Lakiaro are worth 10% more vendor price in this case
- Any stage reward may have a chance to contain any type of traces, fairy wing and ancient spirit dust.
TRI Manos Hoe rules
A TRI manos hoe will always attempt to uncover 7 tiles from top left to button right in a 3 x 3 square around the click with a chance of all 8 or 9 tiles being attempted too. In the event where there are obstacles in the tiles that’s being attempted, the tiles will stay covered.
An example of a perfect TRI hoe dig is:
Here it revealed 7 tiles in a 3 x 3 square with 2 on the bottom right being covered, there is no way to know if these 2 tiles are empty or containing any roots due to the limit of a TRI manos hoe, therefore not very good information are provided. There are several other results can be obtained from a TRI manos hoe dig such as:
(The red dot are marked for screenshots, it is not a tool provided by the game. For those that are curious, i’m using Epic Pen program)
The red dots indicates that there are either a pebble or a root under the tiles. The red dots are marked there because a deeply dig uncovers the tiles from top left to bottom right and a TRI manos hoe attempts at least 7, so the skipped tiles are because there are something underneath them. It is preferred to have digs like these as they provide us more information.
There are more tricky uncovering digs that a TRI manos hoe user must understand. The two pictures below have one dot at the bottom left and not the right ones, this is because a TRI manos hoe only uncover first 7 tiles so the bottom right are left unknown.
However there are cases where 8th and 9th tile can be known by a TRI manos hoe digs, such as:
The bottom middle or bottom right is marked this time because it only uncovered 6 tiles due to at least 2 obstacles around the first 7 tiles it tried to uncovered. In the case where the manos hoe failed to uncover 7 tiles from top left to bottom right, it will attempt to uncover a 7th tiles again in the next tile. This also apply when manos hoe failed to uncover more than 5 tiles from first 7 tiles and result in both last 2 tiles being attempted to be uncovered.
TET Manos Hoe rules
TET Manos Hoe is a game changer for Lakiaro farmer. First of all it has 3 more shallowly dig than a TRI manos hoe, therefore, you will be saving a tons of time by being able to digs more flexibly. TET manos hoe also uncover an extra tiles from the 3 x 3 square. It is still from top left to bottom right but the information it can gives is largely different because there is only 1 result that can provide an unknown tile after a deep dig.
This is a perfect TET manos hoe dig and the last tile will always be unknown in this scenario, however, in any other cases of a TET manos hoe dig, there will not be any unclear result such as:
From these 4 deeply dig results above, the 9th tile is always marked because of an obstacle existing in the first 8 tiles it tried to dig, thus it failed to uncover 8 tiles and tried to uncover the next one, the 9th tile. Other than this spectacular difference to the TRI manos hoe, a TET manos hoe can do anything a TRI manos hoe could. Any digs result that isn’t the perfect dig and have tiles being covered in the any of the 9 tiles should all be marked as either a rock or a root.
Tips to consider
■ There are few roots that might be tricky to identify its direction because of the shape itself. Such as:
If you look closely enough to where the very end of the root is at, you will be able to figure out the next tile it is heading toward. The first one is from left and up, second one is bottom and up, third is also bottom and up. The third root example is also tricky because it almost looks like a thick root but it is a 5th root, please be aware of these when identifying the roots.
■ It is very unlikely you will be using more than 80 durability or even 60 in a whole rotation in Dreighan unless you will never go through Druvencrune or any repair NPC in your route, therefore repairing your manos hoe max durability above 80 is not recommended. Only other reasons you would use up so much durability is either you have a very large rotation, meeting multiple stage 4 and 5 Lakiaro being 14 x 14 or hitting most of the pebbles for no reason.
You may even consider lower max durability if you have a tent for repair after every few Lakiaro.
■ Try to have a set of opening shallowly digs on your Lakiaro and find what is the best to open with at start for you instead of randomly click all over the place, this will improve your speed and consistency by a margin.
■ You should always try to find out all the roots location first, not the dirts and especially not the pebbles in most cases. After you have found all the possible roots is when you then uncover all the dirts, not the other way round. This is especially important to do when clearing a 14 x 14 puzzle.
■ Beginners to the game I would recommend going for a TRI manos hoe first then work up for a TET manos hoe from cronning using silvers earn from Lakiaro assuming you have high interest in earning from Lakiaro because farming Lakiaro does not improved much if at all by weight limit, inventory space, gear, pets, outfits or any other pearl shop items unlike other activities. The only issue is getting the manos hoe itself which can’t be your first goal at the beginning of the game without buying pearls. Might also want a fast horse too.
I would recommend sniping or pre-ordering manos tool off market because the base itself is actually cheaper than the cost to make one and at PRI to TRI pretty much paid itself from the repairing others did for you excluding the cost of enhance. (This is only true before new marketplace comes in place of course)
How I start my 12 x 12 (TET Manos hoe)
If you are curious about the silver per hour, it’s very hard to judge due to rng involvement. Normally on the rotation I do takes about an hour total considering there are around 12 Lakiaro in the route for me to harvest and are all stage 3 and below. The yield of 8 stage 1s, 3 stage 2s and 1 stage 3 is total of 49m excluding sharp/hard. This is very minimal in term of luck, if any luckier, you would naturally earn more. The only case where your silver per hour drops significantly is when you see a 14 x 14 stage 4 and unable to clear it perfectly after spending around 40 minutes. On a side note, I normally used about 40 or less durability in a rotation and spam energy potion during so to continuously dig.
The income can be greatly increase if there are less competitor in the channel or using a Pegasus to fly across the mountains as there are more Lakiaro around due to it being hard to reach by ground horses.
Routes will not be disclosed as it would end up being meaningless when it gets populated, just runs around Dreighan until you found a route that you can consistently find Lakiaros and may consider also running through a repair NPC and a stable to recover mount stamina but normally tents and 1 or 2 carrots would do the job.
I believe the Lakiaro that are spawned stays around for about 30-45 minutes until the next set starts to spawn in the area but it’s hard to confirm this. Sometimes you will find Lakiaro that can not be harvest even though it is there, this is because it has already despawned just before you interact with it or because you have spent too much time around it before attempting to harvest it, it is simply kept loaded in your screen while it has already despawned. If you run away and come back, you will see that it has disappeared.
Examples of completed 12 x 12
Examples of completed 14 x 14
Left one is actually a 14 x 14 of the fifth stage out of 5. As you can see it is filled with pebbles and has around 68 roots. Still can be completed perfectly with a TET hoe but with more roots it going to be harder, I’ve seen up to 99 roots so far. Right side is the 3rd stage of the 5, it has less pebbles and roots so it was much easier.