Lakiaros are very rare medicinal plants that used to grow in the mountains of Drieghan. They were thought to have become extinct when a dark force contaminated the land there. However, when the Drieghanese buried the dragon’s fang and the blessed rain fell from the skies, the lakiaro also started to appear again.
This "miracle of Drieghan" not only started appearing again, but its range expanded beyond the mountains, and even into Kamasylvia to the west. Still, they remain relatively rare, so if you are out looking for them, you might have to search in a wider area than you would first think.

To dig up lakiaros, you will have to play a gathering minigame. If you find a lakiaro, you can equip one of a few hoes (Manos Hoe, Dostter Hoe, or Dostter Steel Hoe) and interact with the lakiaro plant to start the minigame.
The object of this minigame is to either find all of the roots of the lakiaro, or dig up all of the dirt around the plant. If you are too rough while digging for the lakiaro roots, you may damage them, reducing the total value of the rewarded lakiaro you receive.

Once the minigame has started, simply left or right-click to dig up around the lakiaro. You will get a better reward the less damaged the lakiaro ends up. Besides, if you manage to dig up a perfectly intact lakiaro root, you will be able to sell your reward for a high price.

So what are you waiting for, find a lakiaro plant and start digging!

◈ Minigame

There are seven types of lakiaro. When you find one while traveling around Drieghan and Kamasylvia, you can interact with it to start the minigame.

The minigame to dig up a lakiaro is tile-based. It can be either a 12x12 or 14x14 grid, depending on the type of lakiaro you are digging up. 14x14 grids are naturally harder to successfully complete, but tend to give better rewards.

The objective of the minigame is to dig up the lakiaro while damaging it as little as possible.
Depending on the remaining value of the lakiaro after it is dug up, you will get different rewards. Both the value (starting at 100% and degrading every time you damage the plant) and the given rewards for your current value can be seen in the right side of the minigame window.

The difficulty of the minigame will depend on the type of lakiaro you are trying to dig up.
Depending on the lakiaro you’ve encountered, the minigame can have a different number of stages or tiles, which will determine its total difficulty.

There are two ways to approach the lakiaro while digging for it.

 As seen above, a perfectly dug lakiaro will give you a reward based on 100% of its value.

◈ Hoes

Specific gathering tools are used to dig up lakiaro plants: Dostter Hoe, Dostter Steel Hoe, and Manos Hoe.
Dostter Steel Hoe and Manos Hoe can be enhanced with Black Stone (Weapon) and Concentrated Magical Black Stone (Weapon) to PEN (V) level.

As one of these hoes are enhanced, they will: cause less damage to the lakiaro when digging deeply; be able to dig shallowly more times; have a greater maximum durability; dig up more area per each deep dig.

The Manos Hoe can be manufactured. The ingredients are as follows.

 ◈ Rewards

Depending on the remaining value of the lakiaro after it is dug up, you will get differently valued rewards in the form of lakiaro sacks.

From these sacks you will obtain a lakiaro plant as well as some other items, such as sharp & hard black crystal shards, Laila’s petals, traces, and even mythical feathers for the better rewards.

If you manage to dig up an intact primitive lakiaro, you will get a reward worth 100 million silver. 
The lush variants of each type will increase the rewarded plant’s value a bit, at a certain proportion.
Lush high-quality lakiaro and lush primitive lakiaro are more difficult to dig up because of the greater number of tiles. However, this is compensated by the better rewards they give.

*The content of the game guide may differ from the actual game content, depending on the update and content changes.