Gatherables
Reed Plant
Gather reed bare-handed — no tool, no durability — and weave it into the baskets and bags the rest of the colony carries everything in
L$200
Citizens L$160 · save up to L$120 with a membership
Buying on the site is being switched on carefully, a piece at a time. Everything is available in-world at the Emporium today, and delivery is handled by the bot. Members save on the whole range.
Watch it work
The product tutorial, start to finish.
Read it written up on the forum — the same walkthrough, with the numbers, and somewhere to ask.
The reed plant is the gatherable that asks nothing of you. Left click it with empty hands and the reed goes straight into your inventory — the gather shown in the video returned seven at once. The plant then vanishes and comes back after about five minutes, which is quick enough that a bed of reeds will keep a colonist working all afternoon.
No tool is needed, so nothing loses durability and a brand new player can start earning crafting experience on their first day. Reed goes to the basketweaving station, where it becomes baskets and bags of every size — including the large bag, the tool a player needs to lift all 240 sand out of a sand pit in one go.
They are meant to stand near water: a riverbank, the shallow edge of a lake, the pilings under a dock. If you are placing them on your region, hold left click for the owner menu and set spawn points anywhere in the region at any rotation. Each respawn picks one at random, so the reeds drift along the shoreline instead of reappearing on the same square metre; picking the plant up clears every point at once.
Security runs public, colony, group or owner, so a reed bed by the landing point can be open to visitors while a private stand stays with your own people. Hover text can be switched off or recoloured, the item renamed, and the whole thing is fully modifiable.