Garrison Preset Buildings: Fishing Shack, Herb Garden, Menagerie, Mine

By Wowhead Updated: 2018/05/24

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With the Fishing Shack, you can recruit Nat Pagle as a Garrison follower, who sells cool items like Crimson Water Strider.

With the Herb Garden, you can purchase transmoggable farm equipment like Garden Hoe.

The Menagerie Level 3 has pet dailies with rewards like Sunfire Kaliri.

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Preset Plots OverviewFishing ShackHerb GardenMineMenagerieUnlocking Blueprints

Complete a quest (detailed below) to automatically learn a preset building blueprint.

Level 2 Blueprints have no requirements, once you have the Level 1 building constructed.

Level 3 blueprints are unlocked via a special achievement and hitting 100. These achievements are account-wide.

Blueprint Costs and Requirements

Level 1 Preset blueprints are free/automatically learned as you finish the questline.

Level 2 Preset Blueprints cost from Rezlak or Sparz Boltwist.

Level 3 Preset Blueprints cost .

Construction Costs:

Level 1 preset buildings are free.

Level 2 preset buildings cost 0 Garrison Resources and .

Level 3 preset buildings cost 0 Garrison Resources and .

Level 1 Quests

Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwall Mines Level 1: Level 92, Things Are Not Goren Our Way/Things Are Not Goren Our Way

Fishing Shack Level 1: Level 94, Looking For Help/Looking For Help

Herb Garden Level 1: Level 96, Clearing the Garden / Clearing the Garden

Menagerie Level 1: Level 100 and Level 3 Garrison, Pets Versus Pests / Pets Versus Pests

Herb GardenWhat is it good for?

Professions - it allows you to pick herbs in your garrison for professions that need them regardless of whether you have Herbalism.

Transmog - there is a set of farm tools that can be transmogged as weapons.

Battle pets - there are two pets which can be acquired at the Garden.

What does it do?

Herb Garden Level 1: Grows Draenic Seeds into herbs each day and herbalism nodes are available in the garden. 7 Work Orders.

Herb Garden Level 2: Allows followers with the Herbalism trait to work here, granting a unique bonus (can select herbs you want to grow). Also increases the amount of herbs that can be harvested at the garden. 14 Work Orders.

Herb Garden Level 3: Grow a unique Draenor fruit tree in your garden that grants food buffs. 21 Work Orders.

HerbsTalador OrchidNagrand ArrowbloomStarflowerGorgrond FlytrapFireweedFrostweedChameleon LotusWork OrdersDraenic SeedsDraenic SeedsFollowersHerbalismHerb Garden Level 2

Fiona from Fiona

Shadow Hunter Rala from Oath of Shadow Hunter Rala

Draenic SeedsDraenic SeedsGarden HoeCrazy CarrotDraenic Seed CollectorDraenic SeedsHerb Garden, Level 3

Learn more with our Guide to the Garrison Herb Garden

Return to Table of ContentsMineWhat is it good for?

Professions - it allows you to mine nodes in your garrison for professions that need ore regardless of whether you have Mining.

Battle pets - there is a small chance to get a special pet from mining nodes, even if you don't have the profession.

What does it do?

Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwall Mines Level 1: Allows players to mine Draenic Stone from mineral nodes in Draenor. Draenic Stone can be converted to work orders for Draenor minerals. 7 Work Orders

Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwall Mines Level 2: Allows followers with the Mining trait to work here, granting a unique bonus (adds mining carts). Also opens a new mineshaft, granting access to additional mining nodes. 14 Work Orders

Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwall Mines Level 3: A final mineshaft allows access to rich mining nodes. In addition, garrison guards will patrol your mine, keeping it clear of hostile Goren. 21 Work Orders.

Work OrdersDraenic StoneDraenic StoneBlackrock OreFollowersMining

Preserved Mining Pick: Allows faster mining in Garrison Mines. Does not need to be equipped. (1 Min, 30 Sec Cooldown)

Miner's Coffee: Increases the player's run speed by 20% for 10 min. Only works in Garrison Mine's. (1 Min, 30 Sec Cooldown)

Small quantities of Ogre Archaeology Fragment and Draenor Clans Archaeology Fragment

Lantresor of the Blade from Challenge of the Masters

Draenic StoneDraenic Stone CollectorDraenic StoneFrostwall Mines, Level 3

Learn more with our Guide to the Garrison Lunarfall Excavation / Frostwall Mines

Return to Table of ContentsMenagerieWhat is it good for?

Pet Battles - it allows you to battle elite pets for rewards. Also lets 5 of your pets roam your Garrison

What does it do?

Menagerie Level 1: Attracts elite pets you can battle for rewards. Also lets 5 of your battle pets hang out in your garrison.

Menagerie Level 2: Increases your trap chance and reduces the cooldown of Revive Battle Pets while in Draenor. Up to 10 of your pets can now hang out in your garrison.

Menagerie Level 3: Unlocks a pet battle daily with unique pet rewards.

Pet Battles and RewardsBattle Pet RoundupScrappin'Shiny Pet CharmBig Bag of Pet SuppliesAlbino ChimaeralingFirewingGhastly KidPuddle TerrorSun SproutlingSunfire KaliriWeebomination

Learn more with our Guide to the Garrison Menagerie

Return to Table of ContentsFishing ShackWhat is it good for?

Professions - it allows you to catch fish in your garrison for professions that need them regardless of whether you have Fishing.

Mounts and pets - it allows you to purchase Reins of the Crimson Water Strider and Land Shark from Nat Pagle for his special currency: Nat's Lucky Coin.

What does it do?

Fishing Shack Level 1: Allows small Draenor fish to be caught in garrison waters and provides access to daily Fishing quests.

Fishing Shack Level 2: Allows medium Draenor fish to be caught in garrison waters.

Fishing Shack Level 3: Allows enormous Draenor fish to be caught in Garrison waters. Also grants you a chance to catch a unique fish that can be used to lure mysterious creatures onto the shore.

Nat PagleNat PagleDraenor AnglerThe Anglers

Luring Nat

Finding Nat Pagle

The Great Angler Returns

A True Draenor AnglerNat's HookshotLunkers and RewardsAnglerNat's Lucky CoinReins of the Crimson Water StriderFishing in your GarrisonLunarfall CarpFrostdeep MinnowLunarfall CavedwellerFrostdeep Cavedweller

Learn more with our Guide to the Garrison Fishing Shack

Return to Table of ContentsPreset Building Achievements

Keepin' Busy: Construct all four buildings in this guide.

Draenic Seed Collector: Collect 500 Draenic Seeds. Rewards Herb Garden, Level 3.

Draenic Stone Collector: Collect 500 Draenic Stones. Rewards Lunarfall Excavation, Level 3 and Frostwall Mines, Level 3.

Draenor Angler: Complete the Angler achievements to fish up 100 Enormous fish of every type. Rewards Fishing Shack, Level 3.

Draenic Pet Battler: Win 500 pet battles in Draenor. Rewards Menagerie, Level 3.

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Comments

Comment by Tarumuat

Very helpful! Thank you.

Comment by crazypaul

awesome guide the one question I have how do you get the pet menagerie on your garrison any help on this matter would be lovely :)

Comment by aznballer735

A great tip of mine is to build up farm garrison resources is to:
lvl alts and complete to yrel chain quests
unlocking garrison mine and garden
along with daily garrison supply that caps at 500(around in 3days)

build trading post, where u can trade garrison mats for trade prof good

and keep sending endless supply of mats to your main
so you main can save all his garrison supplies to build lvl 3 buildings

Comment by Darchaidhe

Awesome guide!

Comment by chueco

Awesome guide!

Comment by 1400498

The best Guide.. I LOVE IT

Comment by brennenzinckgraf

Man, I really love being able to mine and herb every day right from within my garrison!

Comment by mishii

Awesome guide! gonna be using this, I love pets and pet battles!

However, it appears your Pet Menagerie section has a glitch - the part about level 2 appears to be missing, and you have a broken quote tag instead. Only see level 1 and 3 shown! Oops!

Comment by 1403410

I have a level 2 mine with 0 followers attached. There are mining carts in it and I have looted the pick axe for mining speed boost and the coffee for run speed boost

Comment by perculia

Based on feedback and the addition of guides to each specific building, I’ve cleaned up and reformatted this guide a bit. It’s more of an overview to Preset Buildings if you’re not sure what to choose and don’t want to be overwhelmed by information. I’ve kept some of the details, but the fullest in-depth summary can be found on the guides to each individual building, which are linked to this guide.

I’ve also made the basics more obvious in the Overview section at the top as well.

Comment by matheus314

A thought about our preset garrison buildings I had a while ago that I'd like to share with you:

Mine: unlocked at level 92, no need to have the profession to build.
Fishing Shack: unlocked at level 94, no need to have the profession to build.
Herb Garden: unlocked at level 96, no need to have the profession to build.
Pet Menagerie: unlocked at level 100, need to have level 3 garrison and 3 level 25 pets (or so) to build it.

So, I don't want to do ANY pet battle, I haven't even unlocked the option to do pet battles on my chars, but I like to collect pets (I got almost 200 without ever catching one in the wilds), and I'd love to display my companions on my garrison, but I CAN'T, because of that damn quest. Something need to be done about it.

Comment by WTBaggrodump

By the way, for mining/miners, you can pick up Peon's Mining Pick (Spires of Arak) and use Preserved Mining Pick to instantly pick up nodes in your mine. For herbalists/garden users, Gorepetal's Gentle Grasp (Nagrand rarespawn). Tauren herbalists already pick herbs faster, so I wonder if it stacks with there racial.

UPDATE! The gloves do NOT stack with the Tauren racial of a character that has herbalism. I don't think it even stacks with a Tauren who doesn't have herbalism, either.

Comment by menace97

I have come here to find out if you have a full Herb Garden, for e.g. with Frostweed - and you did not pick/collect them for that day, at the reset time if you don't have the follower with the Herbalism profession trait assigned to the Herb Garden:

do the herbs get replaced with the default "random planting" (variety) of herbs? or
do the Frostweed (as in this e.g.) herbs remain planted (uncollected) as they would in real life?

ANSWER:
After doing some testing and checking trying a few different scenarios, I found out how it works. I thought I would post what I had found out, for those of you that were wondering about this too (so you don't have to waste time and materials to find out). As many of us know, Blizzard doesn't always have things work in-game as they would in real life - to improve gameplay, etc., but in this case, the Herb Garden does essentially "work" as a garden would in the real world.

Using the e.g. I used above with Frostweed:

If you have a full crop of Frostweed left uncollected past the daily reset, no matter if you have the follower with the Herbalism profession trait assigned to the Herb Garden or not, the crop will remain as Frostweed until gathered.
If you have the default "random planting" left uncollected past the daily reset, no matter if you have the follower with the Herbalism profession trait assigned to the Herb Garden or not (and more importantly: regardless if you do have the follower assigned, and you have chosen to grow Frostweed), the crop will remain as "random planting" until gathered.

TL/DR:
Whatever has grown in your Herb Garden will remain there until you gather it, and make room for something new to grow.

Comment by twistedsista

This is a good guide. It answered a question I had about the menagerie.

Was hoping we could swap out any buildings we don't have a use for (and normally you can), but apparently the Menagerie is pre-set so we're stuck with it.

Rather shockingly, I know, I just don't use it (not a pet battle fan) and would rather swap it for something I do have a use for.

Garrison Preset Buildings: Fishing Shack, Herb Garden, Menagerie, Mine

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