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Introduction
Today we will cover a beginner’s guide on the node and workers system in the black desert online game. This is specifically targeted at players who have no idea about nodes and worker systems and how to invest in them to make their progress in this game better. We will cover the topic of setting up a basic node, what nodes to invest in, and getting workers to start working in your nodes.
Contribution Points
A little medal-type symbol at the top left corner of your screen will represent your total contribution points(shown in the picture below).
It will show as numbers/numbers, the second number representing your total contribution points, and the first number is the current total of uninvested contribution points. In my case, I’ve invested all my contribution points, and they should always be invested to maximize your worker empire income.
Contribution points are important because you need contribution points to invest in nodes or hire more than one worker in any city.
Contribution points are obtained from completing quests like story, side, and daily quests or cooking. You can also power-level your contribution points with AFK cooking. Your percentage will increase as you earn contribution points; when it hits 100%, you will get more contribution points.
The Importance of City
When you press the M key on the map, you will see a lot of lines around. Each city around the map has a city or forest-like icon. You can build your nodes outside of this city. For example, if you want to get to the Alejandro farm, the closest city would be Heidel so that you will start your node from here.
If a node is not invested in, the line will be white; if it is invested in, it will be yellow; as you can see, I’ve invested in Moretti plantation but not in Northern Swamp. If you have a Value pack active you can invest from anywhere in the game, using your energy, by left-pressing the node and pressing invest contribution.
Otherwise, you’ll have to visit the node manager to invest. You can find the node manager by right-clicking on the node, and it will automatically select the path to the node manager for that node.
Press on the node and then invest contribution on what you want to invest in.
But if you want to get a place far away from your current city, it’s probably best to get a node from the closest city rather than from your current city. The proximity of the city matters because all of your workers will be based out of your city, and the time it takes depends on the type of worker and the distance from the node to the city.
So when you hire workers, they need to travel, which takes time. Getting to a city nearer to the nodes is advisable to save time. So it is best to choose a centralized city or one closer to all the nodes you want.
Primary Function of Nodes
As you travel around the world of Black Desert, you will come across different areas that will unlock map waypoints, known as the nodes. These nodes have multiple different purposes.
- Send workers to a node to gather different items to sell in the marketplace or use for crafting.
- Function as a connection to reach farther nodes. You cannot obtain anything from a node not connected to cities.
- Used in trading
- Increase the drop rate of mobs in that area by investing energy into it (click the node, and the energy bar will appear, click it to increase the drop rate as the exp bar increases)
Which Nodes To Invest In
If you want to invest heavily in processing, cooking, or alchemy skill in the black desert, where you need certain materials, then you need to invest in nodes that provide raw materials. You can also invest in those nodes if you decide to make quick money on the marketplace. So the example we will see today is cooking honey, which can be used in cooking skills or sold in the marketplace to earn extra money.
We have a full guide on the best nodes to invest in for each city
Wise Selling
When looking for different things to set up a node network, consider the value of the items in the marketplace. Use the material tab on the central market on the left, identify items in demand, and go for a solid amount of money.
Then use the map to identify which node you can use to look for that particular material. For example, the timber base price is only 285, but there are already thousands on the marketplace, and it will not sell very well.
Instead, if you sell acacia timber, although it has a lot in the market, its pre-order is also very high. So the chances it will sell are very high. One of the items that go well is cooking honey which you can get only from Alejandro farm and sells very fast for 2500 a pop.
How To Connect To a Node
Whenever you arrive at a node, you will meet the node manager. Click on them to talk and then click on the node management button. Once done a tab will pop up at the left that says invest contribution. Once you have invested, you can connect any of the items.
All the nodes around with white line are not connected, and those with the orange line are connected. Then click on the node itself, which will bring up everything you can obtain at the node. Then it will ask you which worker you want to assign to it. Once you click on which item you want to obtain, you need to invest a contribution point for that too. You will not get anything from that node if it is not invested.
How To Hire Workers
Navigate to the work hiring guy that is nearest to the node. They are called work supervisors and are located in all the cities around the map. To look for them, hit the search icon in the top right corner and look for the worker icon.
Once you click on it, it will show the closest work supervisor. Click on this guy and ask him if you need to hire workers. Then click contract workers, and it will cost 5 energy. You will be given random workers from 5 different tiers.
The tier from the lowest to highest is white, green, blue(skilled), gold(professional), and reddish orange(artisan). I would just reroll anything below professional, and once you got your empire going, only roll for artisan workers. If you don’t like the worker you get, click another, and another worker will pop up. There are three types of workers.
- Goblins – fastest worker but cost more energy
- Giants – slowest worker but cost less energy
- Human – somewhere in between
Workers and Housing
To hire more than one worker, you need to build housing for your workers, using lodging. To do that, open the map, click the city, and it will show all the housing available in the city. You click here, worker, and this work will be assigned to you.
To make it simple, navigate to the filter at the top right corner, click repurchased, and then lodging. Once inside, click lodging and purchase it. It might ask to check purchase conditions, and you might need to buy other houses first.
How To Assign Workers
To assign workers, click the map, open up the node designated, click on the product type and the list of workers will be shown.
Choose the worker you want and then click change and set it to 50,000 so it will be automatically sent back each time. Then hit start work. All the collected items will be sent to the bank. So you can go to your bank manager to check all the collected items.
Replenish Workers Energy
Press the escape key and go to the life tab. Click on the worker’s list to show all the workers’ information.
If their energy hits zero, they will stop working. You need to hit recover all to replenish all of their energy. For that, you will need a beer, grilled bird meat, or steaming hot grilled bird meat. Go to the marketplace, buy some beer, and then use it on all workers to replenish their energy. To replenish your workers, press the worker pickaxe icon, Recover All, and Confirm. Finally, press repeat all since some of your workers likely has stopped working.
Conclusion
This is a complex system, but it is easy to follow the guide above. Just remember you will need always to log in to get all the benefits from the items from the node. Node and workers are very important, especially for beginners.