Tales of Arise Guide | Unlock the Veteran Rancher Trophy

Here's a guide on how to get the Veteran Rancher Trophy in Tales of Arise

Game Guide by Mash Rahman on May 31, 2026

To make it through the punishing battles in Tales of Arise, you’ll need more than well-timed dodges and better weapons. A good cooking system is a huge part of the game that can turn the tide of a hard boss fight, with your party getting huge and long-lasting passive buffs.

Whether you want a temporary gain in your total experience point gains or a huge decrease in your shared Cure Point usage, collecting ingredients and cooking special dishes on campfires is an absolute must.

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But as you get into the middle and later stages of the campaign, you will soon find that buying good meat from the local town merchants is extremely expensive. The harsh in-game economy makes it financially impossible to rely on vendors for your food needs, especially when you need to save your hard-earned Gald for crucial weapon forging and armor upgrades.

The only way to completely overcome this economic barrier and have an unlimited supply of your cooking ingredients is to spend some time learning the Pharia Ranch system.

Finding and Unlocking Pharia Ranch

Farming mechanics will not be unlocked to you immediately at the start of your journey. Only when your party has successfully crossed the hot deserts of Calaglia and the cold tundras of Cyslodia can you manage your own livestock. After entering the third major realm, the verdant and lush pastures of Elde Menancia, you will eventually find yourself walking along the sprawling Traslida Highway on your way to the capital city of Viscint.

As you travel this particular highway, you will have to keep a close eye on the main dirt road. Eventually you will find an older Dahnan man, in obvious distress, who has collapsed flat on the ground from hunger and exhaustion. Approach this non-playable character and a cut scene will automatically begin where your party tends to his wounds and helps him up.

The man introduces himself as Bogdel, the caretaker of the nearby Pharia Ranch. He was grateful for the quick help and invited Alphen and the rest of the group to his agricultural complex. Walking to the ranch (which is indicated by the quest marker) will officially unlock the farming interface and start the Pharia Ranch sub-quest. To get your hands on the much sought-after Veteran Rancher trophy, you’ll need to successfully complete fifty individual livestock harvests, and the only way to do that is by working on this newly acquired property.

Basic Principles of Livestock Production

When you first open the agricultural interface by talking to Bogdel, you will see that your capabilities are rather limited. You begin your farming career with one small barn that has enough open stalls to raise only three animals at a time. You are given a menu displaying the different types of livestock you can currently buy and raise. Standard pigs, cows and chickens.

Each specific type of animal corresponds to a particular culinary ingredient. Chickens will give you the common poultry, pigs will give you pork and cows are the main source of beef. Later in the game, you will also unlock the ability to raise sheep for mutton, horses for horse meat, and even exotic rappigs for incredibly rare cooking materials.

Different animals also take different lengths of time to fully grow for harvest. Standard chickens grow super fast and are the best option if you are just trying to grind out the fifty required harvests as fast as possible and don’t care about the actual ingredients. On the other hand, larger creatures such as cows and horses take much longer to grow up, but they are the source of the essential ingredients for the most powerful endgame stat-boosting meals.

Managing Feed Options

When you have chosen the animals you want to place in the available barn stalls, you will be asked to choose a type of feed. The kind of feed you give your livestock will have a direct effect on how fast they grow and how much you get at harvest. You get the standard, basic feed completely for free but it gives zero growth acceleration, which means you'll have to wait the longest possible time for the animals to grow up.

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If you're prepared to invest a small amount of Gald in your agricultural ventures, you can buy higher-quality options. The mid-tier feed does a nice job of speeding up the maturation timer, providing a nice middle ground for players that want to save a buck or two while still actively progressing the trophy. However, the absolute best option is the Miracle Feed, which drastically reduces the time required for an animal to become ready for harvest.

Miracle Feed is the most expensive item on the menu, but the time saved is invaluable. If you are just trying to quickly push your stats towards the fifty harvest goal for the Veteran Rancher achievement, then you should definitely always choose the Miracle Feed. The quantity of meat you get from the accelerated harvests is enough to be cooked into meals or even sold back to merchants to fully cover the initial cost of the premium feed.

Protecting the Farm with Pets

Choosing your livestock and feeding them well is only the first half of the ranching process. Dahna is a very dangerous world, filled with aggressive zeugles and roaming pests that will actively try to destroy your agricultural investments. But while you’re out and about, you need a system to keep your growing animals safe. That’s where the game’s pet management system comes in.

In the menu before placing your livestock order, you can select guard animals to add to your active barns. You may want to send out different cats and dogs to actively patrol the facility's perimeter. These pets play very different, important roles that cannot be ignored if you want to maximize your harvesting efficiency.

Placing a cat or cats on barn patrol will actively discourage small mice from invading the stalls and eating the costly feed you have invested in for your livestock. Dogs on the perimeter will aggressively discourage larger predatory zeugles from attacking and killing your animals before they can fully mature. You have to constantly adjust the ratio of cats to dogs based on the specific threats shown on the ranch interface to ensure that no outside forces ever interrupt your harvests.

Remote Campfire Control

One of the most common misconceptions about the Veteran Rancher trophy is that players think they have to constantly fast-travel all the way back to the Pharia Ranch in Menancia whenever they want to check on their animals. To avoid this lengthy backtracking, the developers added a major quality-of-life feature, making the entire agricultural process much easier. You can literally run every single aspect of your ranch completely remotely from any safe zone in the game.

In the wilds, whenever you stop to make a campfire, there’s always some heavily armored merchant nearby selling basic supplies. If you speak to this particular merchant and scroll down to the bottom of their dialogue list, there will be a specific prompt that allows you to enter the Pharia Ranch. This option gives you the same interface as if you were confronted by Bogdel himself.

This remote access allows you to collect your fully grown livestock, choose new animals to fill the now-empty stalls, buy more Miracle Feed and reassign your guard pets all without ever pausing your current dungeon crawl. And checking in with the merchant every time you naturally come across a campfire means that your barn stalls are never sitting empty and you are passively being pushed towards the fifty harvest requirement as you naturally play through the main campaign.

Ranch Capacity Expansion

To truly speed up your progress towards the Veteran Rancher trophy, you need to increase the amount of animals you can raise at the same time. You can upgrade the Pharia Ranch and expand it physically, but expansions are firmly linked with your active engagement with the farming mechanics. If you get some good harvests, and you are regularly supplying Bogdel with a variety of different meats, he will decide to build more facilities, and this will happen automatically.

Once you have a certain number of successful yields, you can go back and talk to Bogdel in person, which starts a brief conversation in which he says he has built a second barn. This expansion immediately doubles your capacity, allowing you to raise six animals at once instead of three. If Bogdel keeps up his aggressive use of the remote campfire management system, he will eventually build a third and last barn.

The third barn is unlocked, bringing your total number of stalls to nine. The fifty-harvest milestone takes a large amount of time away from harvesting nine fully grown animals at the same time. Therefore, it is highly recommended to try and unlock these expansions as soon as possible, always keeping your original stalls full with chickens that grow fast.

Speeding up the internal clock

Your livestock maturation timer is not linked to your console's real-world clock. The game instead features a hidden internal clock that determines growth based on a combination of active playtime and your direct involvement in combat encounters. You can just stand in a town and your animals will eventually grow, but fighting will speed up the agricultural clock exponentially.

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If you’re in the post-game content and just want to make the Veteran Rancher trophy pop as fast as possible, you can actively manipulate this combat timer. Fast-travel to an early-game area like the Iglia Wastes or the Sandinus Ravine in Calaglia, where the enemy zeugles are very weak. Make sure all 9 of your barn stalls are filled with chickens, feed them Miracle Feed, and then charge into every low-level enemy encounter on the map.

Your party is so wildly over-leveled that you can clear these battles with a single basic attack, and you can fly through dozens of encounters in minutes. Once you’ve cleared a big bunch of weak enemies in short order, pull up your map, fast travel to a nearby campfire and talk to the merchant. You’ll also notice that the sheer volume of combat encounters has sped up the game’s internal clock, causing all nine chickens to instantly reach full maturity.

Earning the Veteran Rancher Badge

If you adopt this accelerated combat loop, you can easily complete all fifty required harvests in under an hour of focused grinding. Just pick up the nine grown chickens from the campfire merchant, restock the empty stalls with nine more chickens, buy another round of Miracle Feed, and head back to the Iglia Wastes to kill some more low-level wolf packs.

Once your cumulative animal yield reaches the magic number of fifty, the game will immediately acknowledge your agricultural dedication. Now the Veteran Rancher trophy will flash on your screen to add another valuable silver accolade to your collection. And on top of that, you’re gonna walk away from this insanely profitable farming loop with hundreds of pieces of poultry and beef, totally guaranteeing you’ll never have to spend another piece of Gald on cooking ingredients for the rest of your adventure across Dahna.

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