It's pain in the neck to harvest bark

[ExNihiloish]

@BigRedBeast

I shouldn’t have to spend over 20 minutes to an hour just to still get a handful of bark or the necessary amount while I’m still getting tons of wood.

Okay then spend 3-5 minutes.

Easy Bark - 334 Bark in 5 Minutes

I ran a 5 minute circuit five times for bark. Here are the results on a x1 harvesting server. Obsidian Pick w/ Advanced Tool Upgrade = 436 Bark. (Brittle pick will need repairs) Pickaxe w/ Advanced Tool Upgrade = 348 Bark. (I had to toss over 2,000 branches) Star Metal Pick w/ Advanced Tool Upgrade = 334 Bark. Steel Pick w/ Tool Upgrade = 253 Bark. Iron Pick Without Upgrade = 153 Bark. I show the location at the start of the video so you don’t have to watch it all. There are three cluster…

This takes me just under 5 minutes without 20 Survival. Should take around 3 minutes with it.
There are a couple other locations almost as good as this one, so you don’t have to wait for respawns if you need more bark.

Bark really is a non-issue. The guide shows an excellent way to get bark, but I ‘never’ used this for bark myself. Just for testing purposes - verifying information I read in other bark threads and nailing down the numbers.

I always got way more bark than I ever needed just from clearing large NPC settlements like New Asagarth, and I don’t even go there for bark, I go for steel and end up with excessive amounts of bark, crystals, glass, etc.