Black Desert Olvia Life Skills Contribution Dailies Guide

Black Desert Online Olvia Life Skills Contribution Dailies Guide with a list of all the dailies that give gathering, processing, cooking and alchemy XP.

General Info/Dailies List

Olvia Life Skill dailies are some of the best way to advance gathering, processing, alchemy and cooking skills as you gain huge amounts of skill XP when completing them. You also get a decent amount of Contribution XP doing these dailies, even rivaling those earned from Calpheon dailies but they do take much longer to complete.

For best time efficiency, I would recommend you pick up all the dailies under a category that you are able to based on your skill level (i.e. all the lumbering/sap dailies) as they tend to overlap and you are able to complete multiple dailies at the same time.

XP: XP is calculated by comparing the amount of Life Skill XP granted between the dailies. For example if you are at Gathering Skill Level 7, a daily with Large XP gain will give you 10%, Medium XP gain will give you 5% and Small XP gain will give you 1%. This value varies depending on your Life Skill level as you get less at higher levels.

Dailies List

Gathering – Lumbering/Sap

Avidio’s Guard Service

NPC: Avidio

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Gather 10 Logs by Lumbering

Reviving a Fish

NPC: Arden

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Purified Water or Distilled Water

Fill the 10 Empty Bottles with Sea Water (buy them from material vendor)

Hop! Step! Jump!

NPC: Heinz

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 2+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Processing XP, Gathering XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Get 10 Birch Timber by Lumbering and Get 2 Birch Planks by Chopping

Withering Trees

NPC: Bionier

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 2+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of 5 Purified Water or 5 Distilled Water

Get 8 Ash Sap, 8 Maple Sap and 4 Birch Sap with the Fluid Collector.

Sady’s Tool Supply

NPC: Sady, Unlock the quest by gaining 300 Amity with her

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 2+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Processing XP, Gathering XP, Choice of gathering tools

Get 25 Maple Timber by logging and then process them to make 5 Maple Planks.

Treatment for Bison

NPC: Kebira

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 5+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Get 10 Fir Sap with the Fluid Collector

Wooter, Wocester’s Pupil

NPC: Wooter

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 5+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Pepper Seed or Garlic Seed

Get 15 Fir Lumber from lumbering.

Julietta’s Hobby

NPC: Julietta, Unlock the quest by gaining 150 Amity with her

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 5+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Bloody Tree Knot, Spirit’s Leaf, Monk’s Branch, Old Tree Bark (Pick Bloody Tree Knot)

Get 15 Maple Timbers from lumbering.

Daily Training

NPC: Buntt

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 10+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Processing XP, Gathering XP, Choice of Powder of Darkness, Flame, Crevice, Earth or Time

Get 20 Logs by Lumbering. Make 2 Usable Scantling by Chopping.

More than Moderate

NPC: Wocester, Unlock the quest by gaining 300 Amity with him.

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 10+, Chopping: Beginner Knowledge

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Processing XP. Choice of Melted Tin Shard or Melted Lead Shard.

Obtain 10 Ash Planks by Chopping, Produce 1 Ash Plywood by Chopping.

Old Tree

NPC: Layen

Requirement: Gathering Skilled 5+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Monk’s Branch, Red Tree Lump, Spirit’s Leaf

Get 1 Old Tree Bark from lumbering (rare drop).

Reed of the Spirits

NPC: Kid

Requirement: Gathering Skilled 5+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Powder of Darkness, Flame, Crevice, Earth and Time.

Get 1 Spirit’s Leaf from lumbering/farming (rare drop).

Gathering – Blood/Hide/Meat

Blood of Beasts

NPC: Rachel



Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+



Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.



Get 10 Wolf Blood and 7 Fox Blood using the Fluid Collector

Making a Saddle

NPC: Jerry

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Processing XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Get 15 Weasel Hide by Tanning

Process 3 Thin Hide by Drying

Meat for a Cat

NPC: Romie

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Processing XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Get 5 Weasel Meat by Butchering

Meat Wars

NPC: Marv

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Milk or Egg

Gather 10 Wolf Meat (the meat here will be used for the next daily Support the Supporter)

Support the Supporter

NPC: Baldos

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Processing XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Make 10 Fragrant Jerky by drying Wolf, Fox or Weasel Meat

Marv Hates Wolves

NPC: Marv

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Potato, Corn, Wheat, Barley.

Gather 15 Wolf Hides

Lacy Hates Hides

NPC: Lacy

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 5+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP. Choice of Beer or Grain Soup

Gather 20 Fox Hides

Gathering – Herbs/Crops

Nodmir’s Passion

NPC: Nodmir, Unlock by gaining 100 Amity with him.

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Gather 15 weeds from Wild Herbs, Thickets and Bushes

Medical Botany

NPC: Lloyd

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 2+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Cloud, Sky, Tiger, Emperor Mushrooms (Pick Cloud Mushroom)

Gather 5 Fire Flake Flowers

A Herb Crusher

NPC: Bertoli

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 5+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Fortune Teller, Arrow, Dwarf or Ghost Mushrooms ( Pick Dwarf Mushrooms)

Gather 15 Sunrise Herbs

Hay for Chiara

NPC: Chiara Coop, Unlock the quest by gaining 150 Amity with her

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 5+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Fortune Teller, Arrow, or Dwarf Mushrooms ( Pick Dwarf Mushrooms)

Gather 4 Dry Mane Grass

Gathering is Fun!

NPC: Puzia

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Fog, Hump, Bluffer, Ancient, Amanita Mushrooms

Gather 3 Silver Azalea

Raymond Loves Grapes

NPC: Raymond

Requirement: Gathering Skilled 3+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP, Choice of Milk or Egg

Gather 5 Grapes

Gathering – Mining

Willkevic’s Request

NPC: Wilkevic

Requirement: Gathering Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Gathering XP. Choice of 3 Med HP Pot or 2 Med MP Pot.

Get 10 Rough Stones by Mining

Master’s Perseverance

NPC: Curtis, Unlock by gaining 200 Amity with him.

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 10+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Processing XP. Choice of Pine Plank or Cedar Plank.

Make 10 Melted Copper Shards and 1 Copper Ingot.

Milking

Milkin’ the Potion

NPC: Algena

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 2+

Rewards: 70 Contrib XP, Recover 5 Energy, Gathering XP. Choice of Milk or Egg.

Succeed in the Cow-Milking Minigame once

Young Shepherd

NPC: Flute Boy

Requirement: Gathering Apprentice 2+

Rewards: 50 Contrib XP, Strength XP, Gathering XP. Choice of Milk, Pork, Egg, Potato.

Succeed in the Cow-Milking Minigame once

Alchemy

Julietta, the Rookie Alchemist

NPC: Julietta

Requirement: Finished the Alchemy Catalyst, Clear Liquid Reagent quest.

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Wild Grass, Silk Honey Grass, Sunrise Herb, Silver Azalea, or Fire Flake Flower

Make 3 Clear Liquid Reagent (1 Salt, 1 Sunrise Herb, 1 Purified Water, 1 Weed/Wild Grass) and 3 Pure Powder Reagent (1 Sugar, 1 Silver Azalea, 1 Purified Water, 1 Weed/Grass)

Chiara’s Hide Treatment

NPC: Chiara Coop

Requirement: Alchemy Apprentice 1+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Trace of Savagery, Origin, Ascension, Earth.

Make Leather Gaze using Alchemy 1 Clear Liquid Reagent, 2 Powder of Darkness, 3 Maple Sap, 3 Trace of Ascension Trace of Ascension is a rare drop from the Old Tree Spirit’s Token node in Ancient Stone Chamber (Need to invest in the Ancient Stone Chamber node first and then spend 35 energy with the node manager in a conversation to unlock that node). Powder of Darkness is a rare drop from Iron Ore nodes.



Method of Hemostasis

NPC: Akan

Requirement: Alchemy Apprentice 1+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Cloud, Sky or Tiger Mushroom (Pick Cloud Mushroom)

Make 1 Elixir of Hemostasis using alchemy: 1 Pure Powder Reagent, 1 Ash Sap, 1 Cloud Mushroom, 3 Purified Water

Curtis’ Metal Solvent

NPC: Curtis

Requirement: Alchemy Apprentice 1+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Trace of Savagery, Origin, Ascension, Earth.

Make 1 Metal Solvent: 1 Clear Liquid Reagent, 4 Rough Stone, 3 Melted Iron Shard, 2 Trace of Savagery.

Trace of Savagery is a rare drop from the node unlocked in Lynch Farm Ruins by investing in Lynch Farm Ruins first and then spend 35 energy to talk to the node manager to unlock the Altar Imp’s Broken Trumpet node.

Bionier’s Jewels

NPC: Bionier

Requirement: Alchemy Apprentice 1+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Trace of Savagery, Origin, Ascension, Earth.

Make 1 Gem Polisher: 1 Pure Powder Reagent, 4 Processed Coal, 6 Purified Water, 2 Trace of Origin Processed Coal: Made by heating Coal (Coal node north of Keplan) Trace of Origin is a rare drop from the node unlocked in Glish Ruins by investing in the node first and then spend 35 energy to talk to the node manager to unlock the sub-node.



Just Like a Seal

NPC: Bionier

Requirement: Alchemy Apprentice 1+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Fortune Teller, Arrow or Dwarf Mushroom ( Pick Dwarf Mushroom).

Make 1 Seal Elixir: 1 Birch Sap, 4 Wolf Blood, 5 Purified Water, 3 Dwarf Mushrooms

Wocester, Enhancing Plywood

NPC: Wocester

Requirement: Alchemy Apprentice 1+

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Alchemy XP, Choice of Trace of Savagery, Origin, Ascension, Earth.

Make 1 Plywood Hardener: 1 Pure Powder Reagent, 4 Fir Sap, 3 Bloody Tree Knot, 3 Trace of the Earth. Trace of Earth is a rare drop from the Old Tree Spirit’s Token node in Ancient Stone Chamber (Need to invest in the Ancient Stone Chamber node first and then spend 35 energy with the node manager in a conversation to unlock that node). Bloody Tree Knot can be obtained as a rare drop by workers from the Fir Lumber node in Treant Forest north of Trent in the SW corner of the map.



Learning Never Stops #1

NPC: Bofin

Requirement: Alchemy Skilled 1+, Completed Bofin’s (available starting at Alchemy apprentice 8+).

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Alchemy XP, Choice of Fruit of Crimson Flame, Abundance, Nature, Magic Power

Make 2x Clown’s Blood (1 Clear Liquid Reagent, 2 Wolf Blood, 1 Powder of Darkness, 1 Spirit’s Leaf) Spirit’s Leaf can be obtained from farming or from the Cedar Timber node at Lumberjack’s Rest Area around Trent (rare drop, higher luck workers have better drops) Powder of Darkness is a rare drop from Iron Ore nodes.



Learning Never Stops #2

NPC: Bofin

Requirement: Alchemy Skilled 1+, Completed Bofin and Corin’s series of quests (available starting at Alchemy apprentice 8+).

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Alchemy XP, Choice of Fruit of the Sun, Enchantment, Perfection, Destruction

Make 2x Tyrant’s Blood (1 Pure Powder Reagent, 2 Bear/Troll/Ogre Blood, 1 Trace of Savagery, 1 Monk’s Branch) Troll Blood is easier to acquire and can be acquire from the trolls north of Calpheon Trace of Savagery is a rare drop from the node unlocked in Lynch Farm Ruins by investing in Lynch Farm Ruins first and then spend 35 energy to talk to the node manager to unlock the Altar Imp’s Broken Trumpet node. Monk’s Branch can be acquired as a rare drop from workers farming timber nodes or from farming.



Learning Never Stops #3

NPC: Corin

Requirement: Alchemy Skilled 1+, Completed Bofin and Corin’s series of quests (available starting at Alchemy apprentice 8+).

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Alchemy XP, Choice of Essence of Crimson Flame, Abundance, Nature, the Sun.

Make 5x Oil of Regeneration (1 Legendary Beast’s Blood, 1 Fruit of Crimson Flame, 1 Powder of Crevice, 1 Red Tree Lump) Legendary Beast’s Blood: 2 Spirit’s Leaf, 1 Trace of the Earth, 1 Pure Powder Reagent, 5 Lizard/Worm/Bat Blood Fruit of Crimson Flame is from farming Pepper, Garlic, Hot Pepper, Pumpkin and Olive (use seed breeding option for higher drops) Powder of Crevice can be obtained as a rare drop from workers farming Coal (north of Keplan) Red Tree Lumps is a rare drop from workers farming Birch Timbers (nodes north of Calpheon).



Learning Never Stops #4

NPC: Corin

Requirement: Alchemy Skilled 1+, Completed Bofin and Corin’s series of quests (available starting at Alchemy apprentice 8+).

Rewards: 120 Contribution XP, Alchemy XP, Choice of Essence of Enchantment, Magic Power, Perfection, Destruction.

Make 5x Oil of Tranquility (1 Wise Man’s Blood, 1 Bloody Tree Knot, 1 Fruit of Magic Power, 1 Powder of Earth) Wise Man’s Blood: 1 Monk’s Branch, 1 Trace of Ascension, 1 Clear Liquid Reagent, 2 Fox/Weasel Blood Bloody Tree Knot can be obtained as a rare drop by workers from the Fir Lumber node in Treant Forest north of Trent in the SW corner of the map. Fruit of Magic Power can be obtained from farming Emperor mushroom, Hump mushroom Powder of Earth can be acquired by workers farming Tin Ore.



Cooking

All 4 Cooking dalilies are from Nadia Rowen in Olvia. The 4th daily requires 200 amity with her to unlock.

Everyone Loves Cheese

NPC: Nadia Rowen

Requirement: Cooking Beginner 10+

Rewards: 40 Contribution XP, Recover 3 Energy, Cooking XP. Choice of Milk or Egg (pick Egg).

Make 2 Cheese by Drying Milk in Simple Processing

A Glass of Beer

NPC: Nadia Rowen

Requirement: Cooking Beginner 10+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Cooking XP, Cool Draft Beer. Choice of Onion, Garlic, Hot Pepper, or Pepper.

Make 5 Beer by Cooking (5 Grain, 6 Mineral Water, 2 Leavening Agent, 1 Sugar)

Good Snack

NPC: Nadia Rowen

Requirement: Cooking Beginner 10+

Rewards: 70 Contribution XP, Recover 5 Energy, Cooking XP. Choice of Onion, Garlic, Hot Pepper, or Pepper.

Make 3 Boiled Eggs by Cooking (3 Eggs, 6 Mineral Water, 1 Salt, 1 Cooking Wine)

A Poultry Dish