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Postknight 2 Item Farming Guide
Five-star equipment upgrades require a lot of items. Need to know which trail is best for collecting a certain material? We’ve got you fam.
Once you’ve enjoyed the main story of a Postknight game, the attention of most gamers moves to acquiring and upgrading every piece of equipment you can. To get all those satisfying five-star upgrades – not to mention collecting gifts for your favourite NPCs – you’re going to need to collect a lot of items. That’s where our Postknight 2 farming guide comes in. Need to know which trail is best for collecting a certain herb, wood, metal, material or orb? We’ve got you fam
Spoiler Alert
The following guide includes spoilers for the game’s story. This isn’t intentional and the story isn’t discussed, but there are plot points and characters revealed just through the item descriptions and names. We recommend finishing the story before reading this guide.
Item Guide Overview
While each item has it’s own drop rate, story and information below in the Item List With Best Farming Location By Area, there were also a number of learnings we made that apply to the item system in general:
- You can patrol each trail three times before all enemies are cleared and you need to wait for that trail to refresh. The number of enemies (and hence item drops) decreases on each trail replay. You can see the exact numbers by clicking through to the data spreadheet.
- Metal bars do not drop from defeated enemies. You can only get them from merchants or as gifts from NPCs.
- An NPC will give you a small reward each time you clear out a trail. They only ever appear after your third patrol of a trail. In a previous edit of this article – and an early version of the game’s Early Access – this reward mechanic was fulfilled with randomised trail chests. This has since been updated in the early access period and replaced with the more story focussed NPC reward system.
- The third and fourth trail of each area have the most drops. This isn’t true for every individual item. But overall these trails tend to provide the most item drops.
- The area boss will appear at the end of the first patrol of the fifth trail. This was changed from earlier in the games development, where the boss would appear at the end of the third patrol.
- Blooplets always appear in the third replay of a patrol. They can appear in any area and on any patrol but they are very rare and players can go tens or hundreds of runs at times without seeing them.
Interesting Note: Item Template For Each Area
The number of items in total as well as the breakdown of different item types and rarities follows a pattern across the areas. The pattern is as follows. The first three areas have:
– 1 metal bar (not dropped, only available from chests, NPCs, bounty rewards and offline tasks).
– 1 metal ore.
– 2 common herbs.
– 1 common creature-derived material (e.g. Dire Fur).
– 1 common humanoid-derived material (e.g. Psycho Cloth).
– 1 wood.
– 1 rare herb.
– 2 rare materials.
– 1 epic orb.
The areas Violetfair and Aldor have the above items as well as one additional rare item in each area.
Item Drop Rate Data
At the time of writing this guide, Postknight 2 is now out of Early Access and is in full release. Even with the game finished, the dev team is active and there very well may be new areas and new items yet to be released. We plan to keep this guide up to date as quickly as possible after each update in the game. To assist in this goal and also to provide transparency to readers, we have linked our data spreadsheet below which shows the item drops for each individual run we make to gather the data for this guide.
Postknight 2 Secret Enemy – How Do You Get The Blooper To Appear So You Can Harvest His Bag Of Bloops?
I can personally attest to how painful the Blooper can be to find. I played through hundreds of replays of patrols and still hadn’t seen one. I actually thought my game might be bugged. But I persisted and eventually he appeared. This is what I can tell you: The Blooper always appears in the third run of a patrol and has an equal chance of appearing across areas.
Item List With Best Farming Location By Area
Contents
Click the links below to jump to that area section in the guide. Click the coloured name bar of an item to expand its section.
Maille
Bronze Bar
“A bar of bronze. Perfect for new smiths”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Locations: Maille & Pompon (Note: Doesn’t drop from enemies. Only available from Shopkeepers and friendship rewards).
- Best Trails For Farming: N/A.
Bronze Ore
“An alloy of copper found in the wild. How does it naturally appear? No one is certain.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Locations: Maille & Pompon.
- Best Trails (in Maille) For Farming: Parcel Path & Whitebeard Way.
- Note: Interestingly, while you may think that Bronze Ore would be easier to farm in Pompon due to it being a later stage, the drop rate for Bronze Ore between Maille and Pompon is almost identical.
Ceruleaf
“Bright blue leaves found all around Caspid. They have mind-calming smells.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Parcel Path & Whitebeard Way.
Puffwort
“Often mistaken as cotton, they make potions easier on the throats of their drinkers.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Parcel Path & Whitebeard Way.
Dire Fur
“Tufts of ash-coloured fur pulled off of the backs of defeated Dire Wolves.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Letter Lane & Parcel Path.
Robblin Rubbish
“Bronze pieces left behind by those messy Robblins.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Whitebeard Way & Graduate Glade.
Walnut Log
“Reliable walnut wood fresh out of the Caspid region.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Wood.
- Drop Location: Maille & Pompon.
- Best Trails (in Maille) For Farming: Parcel Path, Whitebeard Way & Graduate Glade.
- Note: As with Bronze Ore, the drop rate for Walnut Log between Maille and Pompon seems to be practically identical.
Sage
” An uncommon ingredient for cooking and brewing. Currently out of season.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Parcel Path & Whitebeard Way.
Elastipops
“Pippops drop their stretchy rubber antennae when attacked. Do not consume.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Parcel Path, Whitebeard Way & Graduate Glade.
Flowings
“Delicate Flowerfly wings carefully preserved for their agility-boosting properties.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Letter Lane & Whitebeard Way.
Zephrite
“Refined fragments of the Crystal of Lucidity. A small cyclone twists within its core.”
- Rarity: Epic.
- Type: Orb.
- Drop Location: Maille.
- Best Trails For Farming: Letter Lane. (Note: Take this with a grain of salt, as the difference between trails was only slight and due to the rarity of the drop it’s difficult to amass a large amount of data. This was just the most common for us. More data is needed to state a definitive answer. It could be that the drop rate is equal across all trails for orbs).
Pompon
Bronze Bar
“A bar of bronze. Perfect for new smiths”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Locations: Maille & Pompon (Note: Doesn’t drop from enemies. Only available from Shopkeepers and friendship rewards).
- Best Trails For Farming: N/A.
Bronze Ore
“An alloy of copper found in the wild. How does it naturally appear? No one is certain.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Locations: Maille & Pompon.
- Best Trails (in Pompon) For Farming: Perished Pasture & Caspid Creek.
- Note: Interestingly, while you may think that Bronze Ore would be easier to farm in Pompon due to it being a later stage, the drop rate for Bronze Ore between Maille and Pompon is almost identical.
Low Mallow
“Little plants that grow after a forest fire. They act as pain-relievers in potions.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Perished Pasture & Caspid Creek.
Rotaseed
” Airborne seeds that have floated in from Quivtol. They make drinks lighter.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Perished Pasture & Caspid Creek.
Hexascale
“Honey bears shed these scales as they grow larger. They may taste sweet if licked.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Burnt Path & Perolla Falls.
Psycho Cloth
“A piece of fine, silky fabric, worn by dragon-worshipping lunatics.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Caspid Creek & Perolla Falls.
Walnut Log
“Reliable walnut wood fresh out of the Caspid region.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Wood.
- Drop Location: Maille & Pompon.
- Best Trails (in Pompon) For Farming: Caspid Creek & Perolla Falls.
- Note: As with Bronze Ore, the drop rate for Walnut Log between Maille and Pompon seems to be practically identical.
Valley Bells
“A sign of hope among ruins. Some say the Goddess of Life plant them to bless the lost.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Burnt Path, Caspid Creek & Perolla Falls.
Moulten Tail
“Salamander tails that were dropped at the sight of danger. A hot smithing material.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Burnt Path & Perished Pasture
Glowshell
“An insect’s abdomen shell that glows in the dark. It has glowing reviews!”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Burnt Path & Caspid Creek.
Sunblaze
“Warm as the sun’s glow, this Crystal of Life piece is highly favoured in Kurestal.“
- Rarity: Epic.
- Type: Orb.
- Drop Location: Pompon.
- Best Trails For Farming: Burnt Path & Perolla Falls. (Note: Take this with a grain of salt, as the difference between trails was only slight and due to the rarity of the drop it’s difficult to amass a large amount of data. This was just the most common for us. More data is needed to state a definitive answer. It could be that the drop rate is equal across all trails for orbs).
Caldemount
Silver Bar
“A bar of silver for smiths of adept skill.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Location: Caldemount & Violetfair. (Note: Doesn’t drop from enemies. Only available from Shopkeepers and friendship rewards).
- Best Trails For Farming: N/A.
Silver Ore
“A soft, white, lustrous metal. A great choice for upgrading weapons and armour.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Location: Caldemount & Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Amity Park & Honour Highway.
Kuroot
” Piffs love these despite their frenzy-inducing poison. Careful treatment is required.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road & Honour Highway.
Foresight Fruit
“A fruit commonly dried to be used in teas for the nobility. Said to bring new insight.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road & Amity Park.
Puff Tuft
“Puffy Piff fur shed by Piffs off Puff Pasture. Warmth worth the Puffort effort.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road & Amity Park.
Anti-Piece
“Torn off the helmets of Anti-Knights. They’re made of metal found in the Fractured Forest.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Amity Park & Honour Highway.
Maple Log
“A tough log of Maple wood, source from the Capital Fields.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Wood.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Amity Park & Honour Highway.
Golden Basil
“A popular royal herb. Originally from the Fractured Forest, it is now grown locally.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road & Amity Park.
Tuffler Horn
“Claims of their medicinal benefits were recently disproven. It is now a smithing material.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Materials.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road & Amity Park.
Whipped Drill
“The twisted tail of a Chocoboar. Though hard, they resemble whipped cream.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road & Amity Park.
Globesoul
“Poor attempts to refine Crystal of Tenacity pieces have created this orb of spirits.“
- Rarity: Epic.
- Type: Orb.
- Drop Location: Caldemount.
- Best Trails For Farming: Bartarium Road. (Note: Take this with a grain of salt, as the difference between trails was only slight and due to the rarity of the drop it’s difficult to amass a large amount of data. This was just the most common for us. More data is needed to state a definitive answer. It could be that the drop rate is equal across all trails for orbs).
Violetfair
Silver Bar
“A bar of silver for smiths of adept skill.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Location: Caldemount & Violetfair. (Note: Doesn’t drop from enemies. Only available from Shopkeepers and friendship rewards).
- Best Trails For Farming: N/A.
- Loved By Which NPCs: Flint.
Silver Ore
“A soft, white, lustrous metal. A great choice for upgrading weapons and armour.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Location: Caldemount & Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Lovely Lagoon & Shadow Meadow.
Invigoroot
” Rhizomes with amazing medical properties. They are commonly brewed into teas and beers.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Everwood Overlook & Shadow Meadow.
Evercherry
“Fallen fruit from the revered Everwood. A source of vitality for the Highlands.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Lovely Lagoon & Shadow Meadow.
Treeheart
“A magical core that once gave a Treant sentient life. Taken by a heartless monster.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Lovely Lagoon & Everwood Overlook.
Soul Jar
“The residual essence of a Summon tainted by darkness. It feels cold, even through the jar.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Shadow Meadow (doesn’t drop anywhere else).
Maple Log
“A tough log of Maple wood, source from the Capital Fields.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Wood.
- Drop Location: Caldemount & Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Everwood Overlook & Shadow Meadow.
Nightlight Cap
“Glowing mushrooms from Ameranne. They were likely introduced with decaying imported wood.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Everwood Overlook & Shadow Meadow.
Bushworm
“An icky parasite that lives off healthy shrubs, turning them into poisonous Coilshade Bushes.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Everwood Overlook & Shadow Meadow.
Leaflets
“Phyleaf bugs drop these leafy exoskeletons as they flee. They feel like hardened paper.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Lovely Lagoon & Everwood Overlook.
Ringtail
“A fallen Tanuchi tail. Surprisingly light and soft, feeling almost ethereal.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Lovely Lagoon & Shadow Meadow.
Lovamber
“Life-encrusted amber, found within fossilised trees touched by the Everwood.“
- Rarity: Epic.
- Type: Orb.
- Drop Location: Violetfair.
- Best Trails For Farming: Everwood Overlook & Shadow Meadow
Aldor
Gold Bar
“A bar of shiny gold. A challenging metal for smiths.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Location: Aldor (Note: Doesn’t drop from enemies. Only available from Shopkeepers and friendship rewards).
- Best Trails For Farming: N/A.
Gold Ore
“A rare metal of high value. Mined fresh out of the Valley of Gold.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Metal.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Hail Alley & Goddess Summit.
Wintermint
“A fast-growing herb. Aldor Scholars commonly mix it into premium drinks and toothpaste.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Hail Alley & Goddess Summit.
Tingletoe
“A semiparasitic plant found on Aldor Fir. Commonly associated with the Wintertide Holiday.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Hail Alley, Alpine Crown & Goddess Summit.
Old Fangs
“Dropped canines of the feline variety. Sabre cats regrow these periodically.“
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Hail Alley & Goddess Summit.
Snow Coat
“A leftover cape of Tuffler fur once worn by mountain-climbing bandits. Surprisingly soft.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Alpine Crown & Goddess Summit.
Frozen Fir Log
“Ancient wood found only in the highest of altitudes. Sturdy as stone.”
- Rarity: Common.
- Type: Wood.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Survey Slope & Goddess Summit.
Afloe Vera
“An ice-cold succulent with amazing medicinal properties. Found floating on frozen ponds.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Herb.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Hail Alley & Goddess Summit.
Ice Balls
“Frogres drop these fantastically sweet spheres. Their method of creation remains a mystery.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Alpine Crown & Goddess Summit.
Quadrune
“Golems process information with this central processing rune. Looks complicated.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Alpine Crown & Goddess Summit.
Crichip
“Fragments of a Cricicle. A layer of ice coats the crystallised magic of a once living entity.”
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Hail Alley & Goddess Summit.
Crystabit
“Pure magic hardened into an orb. These form near points of stray magic all over Prism.“
- Rarity: Epic.
- Type: Orb.
- Drop Location: Aldor.
- Best Trails For Farming: Lookout Point & Goddess Summit.
All Areas
Bag Of Bloops
“A plastic bag of squishy inanimate Blooplets. Feels nice to hold.“
- Rarity: Rare.
- Type: Material.
- Drop Location: All areas.
- Best Trails For Farming: The 3rd run of any patrol. Extremely rare.
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Hi could you please make a guide that tells us what areas the division bounty enemies are located in?
This is a great idea, I’ll make that guide! I’ll put it on my to do list, thanks 🙂
Hello, Could you make a guide on the weapon books? you know the ones you can buy from the sketchy merchant and from captain colin?
Hey ChillSoda, thanks for the recommendation! I’ll put it on my list 🙂
Hi Jazz, thanks for those useful info you provide.
So far I didn’t find any equipments guide on the Internet, I’m thinking maybe you can create a speadsheet like the item guide/relationship guide, so people can fill in the table as they knew the perk bonus on their account. I believe that would save much of your time.
Also, I’m more than happy to provide any help if you need~ (I’m a computer science student)
Hi Chestnut, thank you for your kind words and for your idea regarding the spreadsheet! Are you already part of the Kurechii Discord Server? If not you might like to join the community there. You can find a link to it here: https://discord.com/invite/kurechii
I just mention this because a number of community members there have already put together various spreadsheets that you could potentially contribute to and if there’s not one already there for items/relationships, that’s maybe something you could start!