Harvest league



"Though this land is shrouded in pain and darkness, it teems with life. Behold the Sacred Grove ! With forethought, we may bend life to our will, to remake the world as we see fit. But beware... Nature protects itself.

In Harvest, Oshabi is cultivating the Sacred Grove, an ancient garden of mysterious power. Plant seeds that grow into dangerous enemies and craft their Lifeforce onto your items."

- Description on the official Path of Exile website

The Harvest league was a challenge league. The PC version launched on June 19, 2020 (UTC), alongside the Version 3.11.0 patch. It ended on September 14, 2020, alongside the version 3.11.2b patch.

In this league, you will find caches of seeds in each zone. You can take these to Oshabi's Sacred Grove to plant them. With time these plants will fully mature and they can be harvested by killing the monsters emerging out of them for their Lifeforce. Once the harvest is complete, the plants will provide special crafting options in exchange for Lifeforce. Higher tier seeds will need other seeds and extra Lifeforce in order to grow, which will require plotting your grove to maximize your bounty.

League mechanic
''This section is for archival purposes only. The current core mechanics differ drastically from the league mechanics. See Harvest for the current mechanics.''

In this league, each zone will contain a seed cache. When you interact with the seed cache, it drops Tier 1 seeds, advances a growth cycle, and Oshabi opens a portal to the Sacred Grove.

Once you've acquired a seed, you can plant them in any free space within the Sacred Grove. Tier 1 seeds only need to advance growth cycles to grow, but higher tier seeds need plants of one tier lower adjacent to them and require extra condensed Lifeforce from a Disperser in order to grow. Seed enhancers can be placed in any unoccupied space. Their effect will activate when any seed within radius is harvested.

Once you have at least 8 fully grown crops of the same color within range of a Collector, you can begin the harvest, spawning monsters from each crop. Once all monsters are killed, you can use then use the Collector to craft. Each crop gives Lifeforce and a random one-time use crafting option from its specified crafting pool. Monsters will be stronger and more rewarding the more Lifeforce you harvest at once. Monsters may also drop seeds of one tier higher and seed enhancers when killed.

You must use your crafting options as soon as it is revealed, unless you have a Horticrafting Station to store crafting options for future use. Any unused lifeforce can be condensed and stored to be used to fertilize crops. Condensed Lifeforce cannot be used for future crafting. Collectors and Storage Tanks can store condensed Lifeforce up to a capacity. If you do not have enough storage space, the excess is lost.

Harvesting a Tier 4 seed will cause a Heart of the Grove to grow. It takes 100 cycles to grow. Once it finishes growing, you can harvest it to challenge the Avatar of the Grove.

The player is responsible for planting seeds and placing equipment and arranging the plot. Equipment costs Lifeforce to craft. The list of equipment are as followed:
 * Lifeforce Collector (Wild, Primal, Vivid): Activates fully grown plants of a specific color, spawning monsters to collect Lifeforce from and revealing the seed's crafting option. Requires at least 8 fully grown plants to being Harvesting. Stores up to 50 Lifeforce.
 * Disperser: Fertilizes crops with Lifeforce, used to grow higher tier seeds.
 * Storage Tank: Stores up to 500 Lifeforce.
 * Advanced Storage Tank: Stores up to 5000 Lifeforce.
 * Horticrafting Station: Stores up to 3 crafting options for future use by paying its Lifeforce cost.
 * Pylon: Used to connect equipment. Has a range of ~4 tiles.

Modifiers
All map and most areas have the modifiers:

Minimap
These new icons are introduced to the minimap:

Items
These items are introduced to the Harvest leagues and are/were exclusive to Harvest league:

New basetype
The following items are/were exclusive to Harvest crafting mechanics :

After the league end, these items, except and, are enabled to drop in the subsequent league, Heist league and no longer tied to Harvest mechanic only.

Harvest seeds
Harvest league introduced Harvest Seed as league exclusive basetype.

Seed enhancers
Harvest league introduced Seed Enhancers as league exclusive basetype.

Harvest infrastructure
The league also introduced Harvest infrastructures:

Harbinger Scroll
Harbinger Scrolls drop from, which was exclusive to Harvest league:

New Unique items
The following items are exclusive to Harvest league bosses:

The following item was exclusive to Harvest crafting mechanics:

The following item are derived from using the upgrade scroll from :

Challenges and rewards
The Harvest leagues include 40 optional challenges. Completing them awards the following microtransactions:

When you complete 12 challenges, you will receive the Harvest Footprints Effect. When you reach 24 challenges, you will receive the Harvest Cloak. At 36 challenge completed you'll receive the Harvest Portal Effect. These microtransactions are only obtainable in this league.

From the 19th challenge onwards and for every third challenge after that, you will receive pieces of the Harvest Totem Pole decoration to display in your hideout. The Totem Pole permanently showcases how many of the Harvest challenges you completed during the league.

Version history

 * Introduced to the game.
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