The Arc/Berries

Berries of the Arc is an activity in the Arc where players find and breed berries of various types. Eating berries provides temporary stat boosts. All berries can be sold to Terri (fruit merchant), found in the gnome encampment in south-western Tuai Leit, or Sinuman (food merchant) on Cyclosis. Players can sell berry seeds to Ani's Seed Store by the Sea Shore, found in the gnome colony on Tuai Leit.

Players can check the status of their berries with the Arc Journal under the Planters section.

After growing all 16 varieties of berries, Ani rewards the player with a 50,000 Farming XP lamp, and he also agrees to tend to the player's berry bushes while they are away, granting 10% extra experience and yield.

Harvesting from planter

Each bush is harvested separately in one action. The entire amount of berries and seeds are put into the player's inventory.

Bush	XP
Exuberry	2,000
Rumberry	2,000
Fireberry	3,000
Stoneberry	3,000
Stormberry	3,000
Blisterberry	5,000
Mournberry	5,000
Musaberry	5,000
Rosaberry	5,000
Cocoaberry	8,500
Gloomberry	8,500
Jitterberry	8,500
Meloberry	8,500
Smoulderberry	8,500
Sourberry	8,500
Squiffberry	8,500

Cross-pollination

In order to obtain any berry besides rumberries and exuberries, players need to either find a seed in a rare Uncharted Isles chest or cross-breed them in the farming plot in central Tuai Leit.

Players can add two seeds to the patch to cross-pollinate and grow mature bushes. Harvesting when both plots in the patch are mature after approximately 42 hours rewards some new berries and seeds.

Unlike real seeds, that only produce pollen after flowering, berry seeds will cross-pollinate if they are planted next to each other - even before any growth shows. Therefore - always harvest one berry and immediately replant it before harvesting the second bush. This will ensure that each possible combination will produce a crossed seed.

If different seeds are planted next to each other, even if one is grown and the other just planted, harvesting the grown bush may yield a new cross-polinated seed along with the regular items.

Players do not require 86 Farming to plant or harvest from berry patches, only to obtain the rumberry/exuberry seeds initially.

Berry	Positive boost	Negative boost	Cross-pollination / source
Rumberry	+2 Attack	-1 Defence	Picked on Tuai Leit
Exuberry	+2 Ranged	-1 Defence	Picked on Uncharted Isles
			Rumberry seed	Rumberry seed
Fireberry	+2 Magic	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Exuberry seed
Blisterberry	+2 Strength	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Fireberry seed
Mournberry	+2 Hunter	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Fireberry seed
Stoneberry	+2 Mining	-1 Defence	Found in treasure chests on Uncharted Isles
Stormberry	+2 Fishing	-1 Defence	Found in treasure chests on Uncharted Isles
Rosaberry	+2 Woodcutting	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Stoneberry seed
Squiffberry	+2 Cooking	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Blisterberry seed
Meloberry	+2 Divination	-1 Defence	Rumberry seed	Mournberry seed
Jitterberry	+2 Agility	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Blisterberry seed
Cocoaberry	+2 Farming	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Mournberry seed
Smoulderberry	+2 Firemaking	-1 Defence	Fireberry seed	Blisterberry seed
Sourberry	+2 Thieving	-1 Defence	Fireberry seed	Mournberry seed
Gloomberry	+2 Herblore	-1 Defence	Blisterberry seed	Mournberry seed
Musaberry	+2 Summoning	-1 Defence	Exuberry seed	Stormberry seed

Recommended order

The most efficient order to cross breed all seeds (excluding stoneberry, stormberry and their respective crosses) is as follows:

Day	State of planter at start of day		Actions to take
0	N/A	N/A	Plant a rumberry and an exuberry seed in the Tuai Leit planter.
2	Exuberry bush	Rumberry bush	Pick the exuberry bush, producing a fireberry seed. Plant it in the open planter plot. Pick the rumberry bush, producing a blisterberry seed. Plant an exuberry seed in the open planter plot.
4	Fireberry bush	Exuberry bush	Pick the fireberry bush, producing a mournberry seed. Plant it in the open planter plot. Pick the exuberry bush, producing a cocoaberry seed. Plant a rumberry seed in the open planter plot.
6	Mournberry bush	Rumberry bush	Pick the mournberry bush, producing a meloberry seed. Plant a blisterberry seed in the open planter plot. Pick the rumberry bush, producing a squiffberry seed. Plant a mournberry seed in the open planter plot.
8	Blisterberry bush	Mournberry bush	Pick the blisterberry bush, producing a gloomberry seed. Plant a fireberry seed in the open planter plot. Pick the mournberry bush, producing a sourberry seed. Plant a blisterberry seed in the open planter plot.
10	Fireberry bush	Blisterberry bush	Pick the fireberry bush, producing a smoulderberry seed. Plant an exuberry seed in the open planter plot. Pick the blisterberry bush, producing a jitterberry seed.

Then, finishing up with the stormberry and stoneberry crosses can be done this way:

Day	State of planter at start of day		Actions to take
10	Fireberry bush	Blisterberry bush	With an exuberry seed already planted, plant a stormberry seed in the open planter plot.
12	Exuberry bush	Stormberry bush	Pick the exuberry bush, producing a fireberry seed. Plant a stoneberry seed in the open planter pot. Pick the stormberry bush, producing a musaberry seed. Plant a rumberry seed in the open planter pot.
14	Stoneberry bush	Rumberry bush	Pick either bush, producing a rosaberry seed.

The various seeds still need to be planted, as the journal tracks actual berries obtained, not their seeds.

Incompatibilities

These berry combinations yield no cross-pollination results:

Source 1	Source 2
Rumberry seed	Rosaberry seed
	Squiffberry seed
Stoneberry seed	Exuberry seed
	Stormberry seed
	Rosaberry seed
	Sourberry seed
	Musaberry seed
	Mournberry seed
	Fireberry seed
Musaberry seed	Sourberry seed
	Fireberry seed
Sourberry seed	Mournberry seed
	Rumberry seed
Stormberry seed	Fireberry seed
	Rumberry seed
	Musaberry seed
	Blisterberry seed
	Sourberry seed
Smoulderberry seed	Blisterberry seed