MMOs with Resource Gathering

Before anything gets crafted, sold, or cooked, someone has to go get it. Resource gathering covers the mining, herb-picking, logging, skinning, and fishing-adjacent loops that feed a game's crafting and trade economy — often a slow, meditative counterpart to combat, with its own skill trees, rare node spawns, and gear built specifically for harvesting rather than fighting. For a lot of players, it's a genuine alternative playstyle: skip the dungeon queue and make a living off the map instead. This tag covers MMOs with deep gathering systems, from titles treating gathering as a core crafting prerequisite to games building entire gatherer-focused playstyles around it.