If you’re farming something that isn’t really valuable, sure, it just takes a bit more time.
If you’re farming something that has limited nodes, not it’s not about time but about harvesting rate.

I’m gonna do the test for you tho so you can see the real difference, with Efficient Harvest and Hard Worker :theworst:

We are using THE spot to farm stone in the silvermine, where everything is stacked like mad, it takes about 2mn to harvest the whole thing.

Test 1: Steel Pickaxe + Advanced Tool Upgrade Kit (Harvesting Power 10+3=13)
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About 8600 stone.

Test 2: Black Blood Pick + Oil of Bounty (Harvesting Power 16+9=25)
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About 16600 stone.

Of course, when it comes to stone, you can find more resource nodes in different spots even if it takes twice as much time to get the same amount (not even accounting for possible travel time), but if you’re looking for something rarer, like let’s say you’re harvesting Star Metal Ore from a meteor… Yeah, for that, use the very best harvesting rate you have, because the nodes are very few.

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