Rootstock

Rootstock is TERA harvest festival. However, this event is in many cases activated outside summer or harvest time too. Event takes place in Freeholds, south of Velika and north of Chebika.

Main point of Rootstock is gathering materials for cooking various dishes that give buffs for battle. Rootstock was added several years before Cooking skill was added to game. Festival foods have similar effects than items crafted with the new cooking system, but the materials are not the same. Main difference is that Rootstock cooking materials are free or very cheap, whereas crafting one dish with Cooking may require several hundreds gold for purchasing materials.

Rootstock foods require using correct cooking station (Frying Pan/Stove/Cauldron/Salad Table) to cook each food. Food cannot be cooked when event is not active.

Festival has several exclusive crops that can be gathered.

However, more complex foods require materials from daily minigames.

Quests

 * Quest:(Rootstock) Going to the Fair
 * Quest:(Rootstock) Get Back to Your Roots
 * Quest:(Rootstock) Down on the Farm
 * Quest:(Rootstock) Create a Farmer's Almanac (alternative)
 * Quest:(Rootstock—Daily) Dish Delivery
 * Quest:(Rootstock—Daily) Kick-Bale
 * Quest:(Rootstock—Daily) Sheep Herding
 * Quest:(Rootstock—Daily) Ranch Management
 * Quest:(Rootstock—Daily) Higgledy-Piggledy

Mini-games
The Rootstock festival has two mini-games for players to participate in. These mini-games are Kick-Bale and the Pigling Rodeo.

Kick-Bale
In Kick-Bale players 'kick' a hay bale away from two scarecrow mobs. Players score 50 points every time they successfully 'kick' the hay bale. If a scarecrow hits the hay bale, the player loses 15 points.

If you score 1,000 points or more: "Your bale-kicking skills earned you the top rank!"

50 Silver

1 x

1 x

10 x

If you win the mini-game while the quest (Rootstock—Daily) Kick-Bale, you will receive 1 x instead of flour.

Pigling Rodeo
The Pigling Rodeo involves players luring piglings to follow them around a fenced area for 59 seconds. Players can achieve this by hitting the piglings with the mini-game skill 'Pig Pheromone'. Once hit with this skill, piglings will follow the player. The player will be awarded 100 points for every pigling they have following them when the mini-game ends. The game ends if the player steps outside of the fenced area.

This easy sounding game is complicated by a swineherd bot with the name 'Fringed Scarecrow' that follows the players piglings, attempting to hit and kill the piglings. If the swineherd bot hits a pigling the player will lose 100 points and the pigling will disappear and re-spawn somewhere for the player to lure again. A maximum of 1,200 points can be earned since there are only 12 piglings in the mini-game.

Players can only play the mini-game once every 60 seconds.

0-200 Points Scored:

"You got the lowest score. But you had fun, right?"
 * 10 Silver

300-400 Points Scored:

"Your score earned you rank 4! Care to try again?"
 * 10 Silver
 * 1 x

500 Points Scored:

"Your score earned you rank 3! Need some more practice?"
 * 30 Silver
 * 1 x
 * 1 x

600-700 Points Scored:

"Your score earned you rank 3! Need some more practice?"
 * 30 Silver
 * 1 x

800-900 Points Scored:

"Your score earned you rank 2! Come on! One more try!"
 * 40 Silver
 * 2 x
 * 2 x

1,000 Points or More Scored:

"Your pig-wrangling skills earned you the top rank!"
 * 50 Silver


 * 1 x


 * 1 x


 * 1 x


 * 10 x

Players may also receive instead of pigling meat.

Daily Quests
Festival has several repeating daily missions:

Dish Delivery
From. She wants one of the simple foods: Popped Cobseed, Mudroot Salad or Grilled Pigling.
 * gives Struthio Breast

Sheep Herding
From. Escort two sheeps into pen.
 * gives Lamb

Ranch Managment
From. Kill hyenas.
 * gives Milk

Cooking Materials
Materials you may gather:
 * Moongourd
 * Flame Pepper
 * Cobseed
 * Floretta
 * Taproot
 * Mudroot
 * Shevranberry
 * Sky Lotus

Materials you can buy from Rootstock merchant Melsa each:
 * Salad Dressing
 * Special Sauce
 * Butter
 * Salt
 * Sugar
 * Herb-seasoned Salt
 * Flour Dough

Benefits of Cooking
All food effects last 15 minutes. Effect is removed if you die.
 * Mudroot Salad
 * Restores 1% of your total HP every 5 seconds.
 * Grilled Pigling
 * Restores 1% of your total MP every 5 seconds.
 * Popped Cobseed
 * Raises HP by 5%.
 * Lamb Bulgogi
 * Raises max HP by 5%, crit rate by 20, and attack speed by 3.
 * Struthio Breast Salad
 * Restores 1% of your total HP every 5 seconds, increases endurance by 2, and attack speed by 3.
 * Half-Moon Croquette
 * Restores 1% of your total MP, increases power by 2, and attack speed by 3.
 * Moongourd Muffin
 * Restores 1% of your HP every 5 seconds and increases endurance by 1.
 * Shevranberry Cookie
 * Restores 1% of your total MP every 5 seconds and increases power by 1.
 * Floretta Soup
 * Raises max HP by 5% and crit rate by 10.
 * Traditional Bleakfields BBQ
 * Increases healing effects by 9% for you and up to 20 people within 20 meters.
 * Freeholds Flame Salad
 * Raises max HP and MP by 5%
 * Raises maximum stamina by 15 for you and up to 20 people within 20 meters.
 * Bleak Wings
 * Increases Crit Resist Factor by 20.
 * Prevents stamina from decreasing for you and up to 20 people within 20 meters.

Achievements
There are several achievements, see: Eat! Drink! Cook! Enjoy Rootstock!

Achievements give 21-day Rootstock Carpet flying carpet mount. To get permanent Moonsilk Carpet you need to finish Festival of the Sun achievements.

Year 2019 rework added new achivements:
 * Rootstock: Kick-Bale Gift Box Jackpot!
 * opening 15 Kick-Bale Gift Boxes gives permanent Digory's Bamboo Hat.
 * Rootstock: Pigling Rodeo Gift Box Jackpot!
 * opening 15 Pigling Rodeo Gift Boxes gives permanent Tippani's Duck Mask.
 * Rootstock: Fast and Quick
 * Pigling Rodeo daily gives delivery talismans. 20 dailies gives title "Delivery Man".

Event is coupled with Pond Faire event where dailies give 2 more talismans:
 * Love, Courage, and Delivery
 * use 25 of all talismans