Worker Empire Guide 2022 - Black Desert Online: Nodes, Workers, Passive Income.

[@freds9235]

I've seen many videos of how to build your empire worker, but none of them could deliver it as good as this.

[@imPansy]

I'm glad it helped Fred!

[@im_nikkys]

I dont normally thumbs up videos but this was really nice because everyone says "I cant tell you what to put your points into you just have to figure it out yourself". This was really helpful thank you so much.

[@BhBraaq]

Finally a video that helps me understand the complexity of workers and nodes only to find out it's not that complex, some content creators just aren't good at simplifying it the way you do. Thank you! Created my worker node empire after watching this to support my cooking for silver.

[@imPansy]

Awesome man, glad to hear it helped

[@Veredien]

Did you pay to get a house to rank 1? I can’t use nodes since I don’t have a rank 1

[@chris_hisss]

Hey buddy, nice video, thanks for your perspectives. I might like to add that I learned through the lifeskilling discord pins that the luck with humans cannot overcome pure production of goblins, in many many tests, so that is considered myth at this point. Also grilled bird meat is the way to go, I have been corrected multiple times, you can essentially sell everything, buy just birdmeat to use, it charges more, and cheaper than the raw chicken used because it is often tons waiting at lower price. They also suggested that if I want cooking leveling, to focus on the power leveling techniques rather than worrying about self sufficiency, after all you are bleeding a lot more money and time the previous way (due to intense buff use). I like what you say about the traces, but much like sap, you need it to craft and upgrade and it is a stupid pre order, the sooner you start stocking up, the better. Though the priority should be Trace of; Earth ($92.5), death ($92.5), hunting (15.2), as they are all rare and for boat upgrades, Violence (92.5) Savagery (19.2), Hunting (15.2), looks like weapon crafting maybe. Due to the low amount of production these make them priority over most other things that you can buy on market readily, or gather yourself. Sap(s) comes next but at least you can gather it if you need to. But still that is kinda tough especially if you aren't a skilled gatherer it can take a good while, and you can only do so much due to energy limitations. Well at least this is what I have learned since watching just about every guide out there and trying the methods. Though barter I still am not into yet which will likely complicate things. Cheers m8

[@akumawashere6620]

just reached 92 workers, working to get 100 :D opened nearly all (except 1 in valencia) excavation nodes and other goodies to sell or use for cook/alchemy or whatever

[@patcreates]

Hey Pansy, I love your videos, especially this one, because of how organized and concise you sound, you kept it simple yet informative as well. Keep it up! I hope to see more guides like this.

[@imPansy]

Thanks Akela! I appreciate it :) More to come for sure.

[@blinkonceonsunday1325]

Another tip for freeing up storage is to drop as many items as you can into the Marketplace warehouse. This has the added bonus of being accessible by all characters on your account in any city. Very convenient for transferring items to other characters or to other cities quickly. Also, you get an incredibly large capacity for storing items in Marketplace.

[@MLPRucenas]

Hey man, just got back into BDO after 2+ years break, superb video to quickly get back into all the worker stuff. Huge thanks

[@imPansy]

Good stuff man, glad it helped!

[@adamthomas4462]

Veteran player here. Man, solid guide wish I had this 2 years ago lol. Only thing I'd like to note is that you won't get a lot of sap at all unless you have artisan workers

[@niemand4126]

Finally a yt video that explains everything exactly and leaves no questions unanswered. Thanks for the help, good video

[@imPansy]

Glad you liked it!

[@ilBuGzYli]

I love it

[@Seriksy]

I'm just getting into bartering and have wanted to start my worker empire. This video came out at just the right time! :D

[@imPansy]

Haha that’s awesome Seriksy! I’m glad

[@NicolasMeseguer]

I just came back to the game after a 1 year break and I have to say that ur videos are like fresh water. Tysm.

[@stevenaudrey8444]

chicken meat and egg are top priority for new players. Grilled chicken meat for feed the workers and egg can be used for cooking. If you don't into cooking you can always sell the eggs. Especially in EU, egg always in pre order for 5,1k each.

[@imPansy]

I'd do both. Potato are sold out on NA atm at 1.4k ea, eggs are sold out at 5.1k ea. Chickens are sitting a bit. But yeah, I got 2 artisan humans on the eggs.

[@daviddavidson6515]

exaclty the kind of information I was looking for, thanks a lot, quality content

[@ladywave]

Level up the worker manager ( the ones where you hire workers) 1k amity on them will yield better workers on rolls and for many it doesn't take many minigames to push. example: the one in grana gives 250 amity every minigame if lucky.

[@MarkyTheSharky]

Is there somewhere that this is proven?

[@Despond]

Just to add if you're following his TLDR, feel free to explore and check prices/stock ratio on the market place. For example for small CP investment you can pick up a lot of traces nodes at mines/quarries near Calapheon and Heidel. Always make sure a material doesn't have like 100k PO on min price.

[@imPansy]

Nice tip :)

[@jarvisbinks7576]

Returning player here (on the OG x one so I obviously like the game, lol) after a year or two. Your guides have been helping sooo much. So thank you. I have subbed.

[@imPansy]

good stuff man, thanks

[@Micha6254]

another handy thing is to divide towns by certain things, illya for barter, port epheria fro ship mats, keplan for various event stuffs, velia for enahncing mats, heidel for processing and cooking and other lifesilling.... :) might help and I usually dont even need to purchase any extra storage, except a few in Heidel and one or two in Velia

[@arnauchuecosvilaro5373]

By far the most complete video to start a worker empire, keep the great work man, congrats.

[@leerussell8499]

Just subbing and I’m just watching these bdo guys and only pansy is a no bs guy but I will say his math is off lol

[@imPansy]

Heh, you assume I did "math" kekw

[@hrdgod]

Great video, i started bdo some months ago and was looking for an efficient way to use my 340cp i have currently and this video just gave me the base idea aswell as some good nodes that i never bothered to look into. Thanks a lot my dude.

[@xaphyreansar6996]

OMG for a newbish casual player who just got into LS this was a godsent because I didn't know which nodes were best to invest in and how to best make use of them! I started with naive workers and OMG they plow through beer right away and don't get much done lol! I invested my CPs in almost EVERY node in Velia thinking I needed to connect EVERYTHING in order to sell the junk gathering trash like paws and kermes at the best price at the Trader's! Watching your videos has given me a lot of great tips and pointers to help me clean up my CP investments and pick up better node investments. Thank you so much!

[@epictcg4424]

Damn this really is something that I needed lol. I was just wasting my cp on iron ore etc lol . It doesnt make that much money at all. Nice video! Time to change my cp and workers lol

[@imPansy]

glad it helps, good luck!

[@mysterious_monolith_]

Excellent video! Thank you for explaining how to unlock nodes without it costing energy.

[@unrealdragonax1662]

finally a proper guide, I had to find it while sever is under maintenance :( , now I have to wait a few more hours to try this.

[@shushuyu]

Really informative for old players like me who might come back. Depending on how "fun" Sting is I might stay and this video really helps me get up to date. I already have a ton of artisan workers branched out mainly for gathering and making crates from Kama to Ancado but I guess thats not really a thing anymore. All I heard was bartering. But actively playing is not my thing..if I can get passive income like before I'd rather do that. Nice video.

[@Purdy88]

Great video. Perfect for someone like myself who is still new to the game.

[@imPansy]

Thanks man. Definitely get started on rolling for workers ASAP. It takes a long time to get all artisan workers so it’s great you’re starting early :)

[@daleroxas3218]

i just wanna add, there's a node northern plain of serendia. at dastard bheg location and it also gives red tree lump. btw, nice video. really helps a lot on what and where to invest cp.

[@Avgsharkenjoyer]

good vid for understanding the mechanics, most of the node info and market values are outdated unfortunately, would be cool if you made a followup. atm all i can personally see as worth investing cp into is loopy tree forest for sap, oluns for nickel ore, any noc ore nodes, and lumber nodes in the eternal winter area

[@efMoe87]

9:50 11k pearls... dayum!

[@stat11]

Thank you for this. Amazing job. I had bits and pieces and this video put it all together. Did not know about the stamina and farms. I had all my goblins on farm cuz I thought it cycled more quickly. Good to know.

[@imPansy]

Glad to help

[@blacksunguppy]

Thanks for the guide. A good start for my worker empire.

[@Unlickable]

Aye thank you! I’ve been confused on this for awhile. Just got back into the game

[@mattvargo9]

Liked, subscribed, and commented. Just because you are amazing. And the effort you have put into these videos! It's crazy when I think about it.

[@BobFromSeattle]

Best video guides EVER. Thanks, Pansy

[@imPansy]

Thanks Bee!

[@henderstech]

Thank you for this guide. I appreciate the hard work you have done.

[@imPansy]

Glad you like it!

[@henderstech]

@@imPansy You are very Welcome. As a returning player who has not played since Valencia was released. This helps so much

[@TheKChristopher]

this is very helpful and how you deliver these guides are truly concise . Just awesome!. If you ever wanna do miru , I’m down

[@khanbearpig8513]

Great video. You deserve more views and likes. Thank you.

[@Shek1nah]

u forgot one vanadium node. 2 nodes before ancado habor is also vanadium im up to 93 artisan workers. most of them do money crates, i recently saw your guide and build the ore nodes and starting to get all the cooking nodes. the only critic i have is, that giant workers arent that bad. i actually really like them. if you organize them good, they have waaaay higher value than just farms

[@johngkoulis6553]

It's a top notch guide for newbies

[@doublefender]

Hey Pansy, I recently following your videos, great tips and vids, love that you making it easy to follow and per section. Keep up the great work man, cheers!

[@ningfuxun7160]

I really appreciate your content! It's very helpful especially as I'm starting to explore for into Life skilling!! :D

[@TeamAestheticss]

Great videos as always!

[@imPansy]

Thanks Moamer, I appreciate it :)

[@DiaborMagics]

This really helps even veteran players as well, if they either never bothered to deal with it or just randomly picked things up here and there. A lot of these nodes I knew about, a lot I didnt. I'm reworking my whole empire with the changes and new alchemy and cooking pursuits and this guide is a great refresher and start. Do you have any insight about good Ody and Winter nodes?

[@DavidGLee-lv8jb]

didnt know u can use wagons as storage, thanks mate for saving my cp

[@bigrice5069]

Great content. Keep it up ma dude! 🍺

[@satorugojo4173]

Just Subscribed ty for all the great videos bro !

[@RealThunder99]

Great video man! Thank you!

[@InvestWithQueenie]

Amazing content well done 😊

[@imPansy]

Thanks Queenie :)

[@pinkbunny3209]

Thanks my man Much Love!

[@Nocutexx]

Thanks a lot such a good video, I got everything in my brain easily bcs of u :)!

[@sedylsd1861]

Wow it really shows how much time u put into this video so fucking clean keep it up bud

[@imPansy]

Thanks David! I appreciate it :)

[@sciencenerd6623]

Remember for the 14:50 feature you need to have a VP activated

[@imPansy]

yikes. I've been using VP for so long, I forget about those. They should just make Value pack baseline at this point -.-

[@sciencenerd6623]

imPansy True :). Pretty much essential to do anything these days

[@visageliquifier3636]

Small pronunciation note. 11:48 - there is an 'n' in there. It is not a "Leaving" agent, it is a "LeaveNing" agent. Replace the 'h' in 'heaven' with an 'L', and there you are.

[@PandaPowerable]

Thought it was just me that this bugged! :-)

[@galloviking4766]

I'd really recommend getting all grain you can. Corn, potatoes, etc to make beer.

[@Ishongar]

As a new player, when I started out, I invested into the Wheat, Corn, Potatoes really early. Way before I started cooking. So when I was ready to start cooking, I had a ton of material to work with. To be able to make my own Beer was the reason for this.

[@dantealbania7972]

I am nearly 90 nodes and i have opened all the Traces Nodes (except one 1 Valencia Desert which its far and costs CP) so all those nodes have workers, also on Eilton, Odraxxia, Douvencrune and all the cities that have those Traces and nodes which I use their items for cooking or any Life Skills. Or just Sell on the market but traces are good tbh they sell a lot. Oh i forgot on Upper velia at the sea literally all those nodes ive opened from Port Epheria until East of velia (and North east to Iliya Island)

[@ssol6507]

This is helping me a lot man, thx

[@LoveSpoutwcue]

Well done brother !

[@pnwdayz6287]

Wow! i didnt think there was anyone that where a bigger horder than me ... i was wrong xD

[@SAPVR]

AMAZING CONTENT!!

[@imPansy]

Thanks man!

[@Snakedx]

perfectly explained, thanks a lot!

[@Si0Ro]

Thank you very much ♥️

[@willfulmisfortune3679]

May want to include the fact you need a valuepack active to remote invest in a node.

[@goblin8557]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@mrzow1872]

Big respect bro i was lost lol

[@sera8356]

very helpful! ty

[@SamuelAlder]

thanks for the TLDR man

[@123yopey]

For the altinova nodes that you pointed out, a lot of them have very high distance away from the city so normally you would want goblins right? But since what we really want is the sap you would want humans on those nodes. What kind of workers are you running for those nodes?

[@imPansy]

Hey Christopher, Goblins out pace Humans unless the node is right next to the town. The trick is keeping them fed :P

[@euphoramacnauticus2073]

Dipping back into BDO, i never started a worker empire so I will have to wipe the board clean, I am scared but I need the silver more. BTW great music used here, where did you find it? Awesome and informative.

[@imPansy]

I recommend spending 100 CP on farming and the rest into Worker nodes. Don't worry when starting the empire. Due to how strong lifeskilling is now, if you pick the nodes I mentioned in the guide you're definitely be making money out of them whether you sell or use the items. Music is from Streambeats (youtube channel)

[@Chris3s]

I recommend ignoring drieghan as a beginner and definitely not take Bracken, its prodution rate is way too low for the CP, maybe get trace of memory to the west to use the free worker (worker lodging is also expensive)

[@imPansy]

For sure. Tossed it at the very bottom because of that. Only people I've spoken to who did it are those who aren't playing actively and just AFK in the game.

[@mytruckinlifeace4047]

I wonder if sometimes they repeat without being told. Because I got potatoes and pumpkins regularly in my storage but not chickens timber and mushrooms. I just realized about the set number feature.

[@dennisgeorge2742]

Hi Pansy, thank you for this great video! Could you please name the song you used for this video? I saw below in comments you mentioned it was from Streambeats, but was unable to find the particular track. Thanks again.

[@zeehero7280]

I am very amused and happy that fried chicken and beer are the only foods a worker needs.

[@imPansy]

I'd be fine with that too lmao

[@zeehero7280]

@@imPansy it's just kind of memey. although since I named my giant workers all these burly sounding russian names I could use some vodka too.

[@osamaalahmar582]

much love

[@knowbuddycares6168]

i know I am late to the party but 2 raw bird cooked is way better & cheaper for recovery on workers especially for beginners & you get chicken from the same farm as potatoes also also would have thrown in that you can connect all nodes without needing to go everywhere with the value pack on ,

[@raullovatos]

Thank you so much

[@RydonKG]

Loved it, tyvm

[@basasjulius662]

I have 291 cp Purchase House: 124 Node Investment: 88 Rent Item: 79 Im newbie and thanks about the tip of using the wagon as storage

[@morisv735]

Amazing guide, thank you so much! And this might be a stupid question, just got into the game a month ago. But how do you actually get all the things to the storage you acutally want it to be in? So let's say I have nodes set up in valencia and want to transfer them over to heidel. Do I run there? Do I use the character transport feature? Whats the best way, i'm a little confused. Or might just not see the obvious way. Thanks for the help guys!

[@imPansy]

As long as there's some silver in the storage of the starting city, you can transport them. Or you could keep an alt there and transfer it from the marketplace warehouse.

[@morisv735]

@@imPansy Oh I see, that makes sense. Thanks a lot really Appreciate it

[@xaphyreansar6996]

Yeah I transfer stuff I need somewhere else to MP and then grab it at the other end where I need it from there.

[@waveexistence3512]

I hate how the marketplace is so dead for certain types of merch. I love this game though ❤️

[@damin1916]

very good stuff i just got back in to the game after a year and i forgot everything, i noticed i had a bunch of workers and i forgot how to feed them lol

[@imPansy]

Haha get beer or grilled bird meat and hit the worker icon on the top left. Then hit Recover All on the bottom

[@nasser2577]

great video i want to ask about the money the money come from selling things or passively enter my account ?

[@imPansy]

You can directly sell the items or you can use them for cooking & processing before selling for more money

[@KeikoMushi]

Grilled bird FTW!!!

[@Selfish35]

it really great content~

[@imPansy]

Thanks Selfish, I appreciate it.

[@dogLover12352]

do you use humans for the coconut nodes? Or goblins?

[@FadedKai]

Plz don't fire your professional worker after they fail promotion. Sell them, and make some silver off them.

[@SenpaiKai888]

That "JustTransitioned" Archer is beautiful XD

[@alex140i3]

so are there some worker races that are better for certant nodes?

[@kennethclemente6073]

How Many CP did you use while setting up your complete node lists.? Thanks for the answer.

[@imPansy]

Hey Kenneth, over 340 CP.

[@kennethclemente6073]

Thank you for this

[@hoppityscoppity]

Thanks for the guide! But how do you actually make the money? Do you just sell everything or is there an NPC to dump them?

[@imPansy]

Hey Mario. Selling Date Palms, Nutmegs, Figgs, Chicken, Eggs, Potato's and traces net me about 45m per day. However, I personally use the Datepalms and Figgs to cook Valencia meals so it saves me money when I do that. You can make money by selling the gathered products or by using them for your other lifeskills :)

[@hoppityscoppity]

@@imPansy Thank you for the fast reply, I feel like I'm on the right track because of your guides

[@imPansy]

No worries! Glad to help :)

[@RussellFeatherstone]

@@imPansy chicken actually sells?

[@imPansy]

@@RussellFeatherstone Once in a while it for whatever reason, sells out lol. I usually make grilled bird meat with it.

[@hruaitealianhna6080]

And here i am trying connect all node... 😂

[@DaRealKakarroto]

you too? shoot, I need to increase my cp gathering speed

[@CharDhue]

I have 316 cp and i can only connect velia to altivnova and still feel useless bcouse there no purpose on conecting them

[@DaRealKakarroto]

@@CharDhue you must have many of your cp's in storage or workshops I guess? Maybe your connections are also not the best. There is a map online where you can check the best connection, it's called www dot somethinglovely dot net best to check that out and look at your connections, maybe you can save some points, since I'm around your cp count and I have port ratt, trent and Valencia connected, also with the ability to gather some at arehaza

[@CharDhue]

In valrncia i recently invest on date palm and after a month playing i have more than 100k and i dont know what to do with those My trash righ know mainly is fig, teff, frekeh, date palm, nutmeg and silk cocoon all of them is more than 100k unit

[@Zutraxi]

altarofgaming.com/ Look up the materials on this site. There you see most of not all uses for your materials. Start with one, and just go down the rabbit hole. Most of the thing you have are for later cooking and are in pretty good demand. So you could sell it or save it. Especially if you don't have value pack. Then they will be worth a lot more crafted by you.

[@Mu51q]

I think Tarif should be used for Timber nodes in Mediah btw ;) nice video tho

[@Echorim]

Noobie question: so uh how do we collect our resources that our workers got? Does it go directly to our storage or something?

[@imPansy]

Ye goes straight to the storage of the associated main city

[@Echorim]

@@imPansy ty so much

[@ViViDxUK]

got an artisan goblin on my second roll ever lmao, very unexpected

[@imPansy]

grats dude

[@rox9415]

0:40 anyone know which outfit is this pls? I se it a lot in game but cant find it in the pearl shop

[@imPansy]

Called "Coco Cloths" . Came out in the summer, they're swim cloths like the shark outfit but only out for a limited time. I expect them to be back next summer.

[@rox9415]

Ohhh ty!!!

[@passion4899]

you can't invest from distance into nodes though without an active premium package or whats it called in english

[@Ishongar]

Value Pack

[@dannymanic123]

noob question. you don't connect the cities right? I figured not, since it would take a lot of extra cp, but unfortunate if you have to back and forth between cities to pick up your resources

[@freemel8929]

Ive found its only worth connecting Velia and Heidel. The reason being that Heidel workers can take care of your local field areas in Velia while your Velia workers work the fish nodes, if you need fish, which is a huge gatekeeper for a lot of food.

[@Tha_Monsta88]

can you do a worker empire for bartering specifically... everything from ship mats - t0-t1 bartering mats for trades, looking for max profit from passive income, cost, and time-effective.

[@imPansy]

Don't need a whole video for that, just search for the nodes for the items you want here: www.somethinglovely.net/bdo/ It shows you where it's located and the cheapest path to unlock it from a main town

[@Tha_Monsta88]

@@imPansy thanks for the reply n info. Earned a sub. Happen to run past your channel by chance.

[@Tha_Monsta88]

@@imPansy ok either the game isnt on the same content of the game or the map is outdated, finding nodes that aren't a thing in live servers. ie norther hiedel quarry..

[@MatthewSchellGaming]

I am still bit new. There seems to be a big emphasis on Elder Tree Sap, but currently looking on the market it looks like there are 13k listed. They do go for base price of 11,600 silver. How often do you get these? Is it still worth it? Just wanted to make sure it wasn't out dated info and if I am reading the market right.

[@imPansy]

elder tree sap has multiple nodes and is most abundant of the tree. Acacia and white cedar are rarer