Resources

Your Settlement revolves around your resources. Some are gathered from map tiles, some are produced in Buildings, some are rewarded from Glade Events, and all of them will move around your settlement by villagers to fill Storage, satisfy Recipes, build Buildings and Roads, and complete Glade Events. Resources are also moved invisibly and instantly through Trade, Sacrificing, and Orders.

Whenever producing a new Recipe, check to see whether you can use alternative ingredients. If the Recipe accepts alternatives, the resource icon will be round with rotating arrows around it, like this: 🔄. If the ingredient is fixed, for example Flour in the Biscuits recipe, the icon will be square.

Consult the Recipes Panel to browse Recipes or look for a specific ingredient or product. To open this panel, click any product in any building, or click the book icon in the top right of your screen. In this panel, you can check or uncheck Recipes just like when looking at a Building. You can also set limits, to stop production once the count of that resource in Storage reaches that number.

Resources Panel

Resources panel in game

Showing Crafting Materials expanded

At any time, you can see the totals of different categories of resources at the top of your screen, to the left of the primary time display and controls.

The number on each category icon represents the total amount of those types of resources. Clicking on those icons reveals a grid below the panel showing icons for every resource from that category currently in Storage. The number below each of those icons is how many of that item your settlement has in Storage. It does not count items in Building inventories that are waiting to be consumed by Recipes or have been produced but not yet delivered to a Warehouse. The red or green arrow on each icon indicates whether the number of each category or resource has been trending up or down recently.

From left to right, the categories are the following:

1. Food (Raw Foods like Berries and Roots and Complex Foods like Biscuits and Jerky)
2. Building Materials (the main three—Planks, Bricks, and Fabric—and also Parts and Wildfire Essence)
3. Consumable Items (for providing Services, such as Ale, Incense, and Scrolls)
4. Crafting Materials (everything else that's part of a Recipe—like Flour, Pottery, and Reeds—and also Stone and Clay that are used in both Recipes and for building Roads)
5. Trade Goods (Citadel resources, Amber, Packs of Goods, and Ancient Tablets)
6. Fuel & Exploration (Wood, Tools, and fuel items like Coal and Sea Marrow)

Food

Main article: Food

Every few minutes, Villagers will go to rest at a Hearth and try to eat food from Storage. If they cannot eat, they will get a Resolve penalty. Alternatively, if Complex Food is available, villagers will eat that instead of raw food, rewarding a bonus to Resolve. Therefore, it is essential that your settlement have a steady income of food resources.

Raw Food

Initially only Raw Food will be available around the beginning of each settlement. Raw Food prevents villagers from getting hungry, but will not satisfy their needs for Complex Food. Compared to the number and diversity of ingredients, Complex Food feeds more villagers than Raw Food. In general, plan ahead to convert Raw Food into Complex Food, so that you can feed more villagers sustainably and satisfy their needs for Complex Foods.

You can prevent your villagers from eating one or more of these Raw Food resources via Consumption Control, once the Upgrade Obsidian Archives Level 3 is unlocked. For example, if you are running low on Roots and need Flour, you may want to disable Roots in the Consumption panel.

Raw food resources and how to get them

Raw food item	Amber value	Gathered by		Farmed from Farm Fields by	Produced by
		Camp	Near resource node
Berries	0.20	Herbalists' Camp (★)	Dewberry Bush	Plantation (★★)	none
Eggs	0.20	Scavengers' Camp (★) Trappers' Camp (★)	Stormbird Nest	none	Ranch (★)
Insects	0.20	Scavengers' Camp (★) Trappers' Camp (★)	Wormtongue Nest	none	none
Meat	0.20	Trappers' Camp (★)	Slickshell Broodmother	none	Ranch (★)
Mushrooms	0.20	Herbalists' Camp (★)	Bleeding Tooth Mushroom	Homestead (★★)	Greenhouse (★★)
Roots	0.20	Scavengers' Camp (★)	Roots Deposit	Herb Garden (★★)	none
Vegetables	0.20	Foragers' Camp (★)	Moss Broccoli Patch	Small Farm (★) Homestead (★★)	none

Additionally, some of these resources are available as bonuses when villagers work other deposits. If you have no access to their main gathering, farming, or production methods, you will still find a few as bonuses. They are infrequent extra resources that happen during normal gathering (between 5% and 40% of the time, typically about 1-in-5 times). See Bonus Resources for more information.

Bonus resources and where to find them

Raw food item	From resource node
Berries	Herb Node
Eggs	Lush Trees (Royal Woodlands)
Insects	Bleeding Tooth Mushroom Flax Field Moss Broccoli Patch Stone Deposit
Meat	Musselsprout Trees (Coral Forest) Stormbird Nest
Mushrooms	Mushwood Trees (The Marshlands)
Roots	Clay Deposit Moss Broccoli Patch Reed Field Stone Deposit
Vegetables	none

Complex Food

Main article: Complex Food Need

These food resources are produced from Recipes and will satisfy the villagers' needs for Complex Food. Villagers prefer these food items over Raw Food when resting at Hearths. Satisfying villagers with Complex Food is more efficient, because most Recipes yield more goods than the number of raw ingredients used to produce them.

Note that the ingredients Flour, one of its ingredient alternatives Grain, and Herbs are not edible, but required in many Complex Food recipes.

Complex Food	Amber Value	Produced in	Recipe
			First ingredient alternatives	Second ingredient alternatives	Amount produced	Time cost
Biscuits	0.25	Apothecary (★★) Bakery (★★) Cookhouse (★★) Smelter (★) Field Kitchen (⊙)	Flour	Berries Herbs Roots	10	1:30
Jerky	0.14	Smokehouse (★★★) Butcher (★★) Kiln (★) Field Kitchen (⊙)	Insects Meat	Coal Oil Sea Marrow Wood	10	1:15
Pickled Goods	0.20	Granary (★★) Brewery (★) Cellar (★) Field Kitchen (⊙)	Berries Mushrooms Roots Vegetables	Barrels Pottery Waterskins	10	1:30
Pie	0.25	Brick Oven (★★★) Bakery (★★) Furnace (★★)	Flour	Berries Eggs Herbs Insects Meat	10	1:30
Skewers	0.20	Grill (★★★) Butcher (★★) Cookhouse (★★)	Insects Jerky Meat Mushrooms	Berries Eggs Roots Vegetables	10	1:30

Building Materials

Building Materials are mostly used for constructing new Buildings, however there are Recipes that require these materials as ingredients. All materials are refunded if a Building is demolished.

Building Material	Amber value	Produced in	Recipe
			First ingredient alternatives	Second ingredient alternatives	Amount produced	Time cost
Bricks	0.31	Brickyard (★★) Furnace (★★) Workshop (★★) Kiln (★) Crude Workstation (⊙)	—	Clay Stone	2	0:30
Fabric	0.31	Weaver (★★★) Granary (★★) Leatherworker (★★) Workshop (★★) Crude Workstation (⊙)	—	Plant Fiber Leather Reed	2	0:20
Planks	0.18	Lumber Mill (★★★) Carpenter (★★) Supplier (★★) Workshop (★★) Crude Workstation (⊙)	—	Wood	2	0:20
Parts	2.39	Rainpunk Foundry (★★★)	Clay Copper Bars Crystalized Dew Stone	Oil Wood	1	2:00
Wildfire Essence	5.00	Cannot be produced; only available by trading.

Consumable Items

Consumable items are used in Service Buildings to satisfy villagers' needs for Services. Some of these items are also ingredients when producing Packs of Goods.

Consumable Item	Used in Service	Amber value	Produced in	Recipe
				Amount produced	First ingredient alternatives	Second ingredient alternatives	Time cost
Coats	Clothing (at Hearths)	0.10	Clothier (★★★) Artisan (★★) Smithy (★★) Druid's Hut (★)	—	Fabric	10	1:30
Ale	Leisure	0.17	Brewery (★★★) Tinctury (★★) Scribe (★★) Grill (★)	Grain Roots	Barrels Pottery Waterskins	10	1:15
Cosmetics	Cleanliness	0.14	Alchemist's Hut (★★) Apothecary (★★) Cooperage (★)	Eggs Oil	Herbs Pigment Resin	10	1:30
Incense	Religion	0.18	Apothecary (★★) Brick Oven (★) Druid's Hut (★) Smokehouse (★)	Herbs Insects Resin Roots	Coal Oil Sea Marrow Wood	10	1:30
Scrolls	Education	0.14	Scribe (★★★) Clothier (★) Lumber Mill (★) Rain Mill (★)	Leather Plant Fiber Wood	Pigment Wine	8	1:00
Training Gear	Brawling	0.21	Cooperage (★★) Manufactory (★★) Tinkerer (★★) Weaver (★)	Copper Bars Crystalized Dew Stone	Planks Reed	10	1:30
Wine	Luxury	0.14	Cellar (★★★) Alchemist's Hut (★★) Tinctury (★★)	Berries Mushrooms Reed	Barrels Pottery Waterskins	10	1:00

Crafting Materials

Crafting Materials are goods used in Recipes, and most don't have another purpose except as intermediate products. These are the most diversely and frequently used resources, some being used in almost a dozen recipes. Materials for building Roads also falls into this broad category.

Crafting Materials can frequently be found as rewards from Glade Events and Orders.

Raw Crafting Materials

These Crafting Materials are gathered or farmed from map tiles with resource deposits. Some only need a Camp or Mine, while others need Fertile Soil to be improved to Farm Fields and a nearby farming building.

Note that Crystalized Dew appears here because it can be farmed raw from the Grove. It is also produced in three buildings, listed here for quick reference, and its Recipe appears in the second table for Crafting Materials.

Raw Crafting Materials and where to get them

Raw Crafting Material	Amber value	Gathered by		Farmed from Farm Fields by	Produced by
		Camp	Near resource node
Clay	0.14	Stonecutters' Camp (★)	Clay Deposit	none	Clay Pit (★★)
Copper Ore	0.12	none		none	Mine (★)
Crystalized Dew	0.59	none		Grove (★★)	Alchemist's Hut (★★) Brickyard (★★) Smelter (★)
Grain	0.20	Foragers' Camp (★)	Swamp Wheat Field	Homestead (★★) Small Farm (★★)	none
Herbs	0.20	Herbalists' Camp (★)	Herb Node	Greenhouse (★★) Herb Garden (★★)	none
Leather	0.14	none		none	Ranch (★)
Plant Fiber	0.14	Harvesters' Camp (★)	Flax Field	Plantation (★★)	none
Reed	0.14	Harvesters' Camp (★)	Reed Field	none	Clay Pit (★★)
Resin	0.14	none		Grove (★★)	none
Sparkdew	0.06	none		none	Rain Collector (★)
Stone	0.14	Stonecutters' Camp	Stone Deposit	none	none

Additionally, some of these resources are available as bonuses when villagers work other deposits. If you have no access to their main gathering, farming, or production methods, you will still find a few as bonuses. They are infrequent extra resources that happen during normal gathering (between 5% and 40% of the time, typically about 1-in-5 times). See Bonus Resources for more information.

Bonus resources and where to find them

Raw Crafting Material	From resource node
Clay	Flax Field Reed Field Stone Deposit
Copper Ore	Clay Deposit Coppervein Trees (Scarlet Orchard)
Crystalized Dew	Musselsprout Trees (Coral Forest)
Grain	none
Herbs	Roots Deposit
Leather	Mushwood Trees (The Marshlands) Slickshell Broodmother
Plant Fiber	Coppervein Trees (Scarlet Orchard) Herb Node Lush Trees (Royal Woodlands) Swamp Wheat Field
Reed	none
Resin	Lush Trees (Royal Woodlands) Plantleaf Trees (Coral Forest)
Sparkdew	none
Stone	Crimsonreach Trees (Coral Forest) Sea Marrow Deposit

Produced Crafting Materials

These Crafting Materials are produced from Recipes in Buildings. They are not available from gathering, with the exception of Crystalized Dew.

Crafting Materials that are produced and how to get them

Produced Crafting Material	Amber value	Produced in	Recipe
			First ingredient alternatives	Second ingredient alternatives	Third ingredient alternatives	Amount produced	Time cost
Barrels	0.20	Cooperage (★★★) Artisan (★★) Provisioner (★★) Toolshop (★)	—	Copper Bars Crystalized Dew	Planks	10	1:30
Crystalized Dew	0.59	Alchemist's Hut (★★) Brickyard (★★) Smelter (★)	Herbs Insects Resin	Clay Stone	Sparkdew	2	0:30
Flour	0.18	Rain Mill (★★★) Provisioner (★★) Stamping Mill (★★) Supplier (★★) Press (★)	—	—	Grain Mushroom Roots	10	0:45
Pigment	0.12	Artisan (★★) Cookhouse (★★) Manufactory (★★) Tinctury (★★)	—	—	Berries Coal Copper Ore Insects	10	1:30
Pottery	0.18	Stamping Mill (★★★) Bakery (★★) Brickyard (★★) Smokehouse (★)	—	Clay	Coal Oil Sea Marrow Wood	5	1:00
Waterskins	0.18	Leatherworker (★★★) Supplier (★★) Clothier (★) Toolshop (★)	—	Leather	Meat Oil	10	0:45

Trade Goods

Trade Goods are used in Trade and Orders. Generally, these items have the highest value of Amber among all of the resources because they are at the end of the production chains.

Producing these items consumes more ingredients than most other recipes, so be careful. When fulfilling Orders, setting limits is recommended, so you don't inadvertently use up all your building materials and food.

Amber is in this section, which is the currency of settlements and Trade.

Citadel Resources are also in this section, which are awarded after completing settlement Missions and from Glade Events. They are not producible by any Buildings.

Trade Goods and how to make them

Trade Goods	Amber value	Produced in	Recipe
			First ingredient alternatives	Second ingredient alternatives	Amount produced	Time cost
Pack of Building Materials	0.87	Tinkerer (★★) Rain Mill (★) Makeshift Post (⊙)	—	Bricks Fabric Planks	2	0:30
Pack of Crops	0.59	Granary (★★) Brewery (★) Makeshift Post (⊙)	—	Grain Mushrooms Roots Vegetables	2	0:30
Pack of Luxury Goods	0.65	Carpenter (★★) Leatherworker (★) Press (★)	—	Ale Cosmetics Incense Scrolls Training Gear Wine	2	0:30
Pack of Provisions	0.40	Provisioner (★★) Manufactory (★★) Makeshift Post (⊙)	—	Berries Eggs Herbs Insects Meat	3	0:30
Pack of Trade Goods	0.80	Smithy (★★) Lumber Mill (★) Weaver (★)	—	Barrels Flour Oil Pigment Pottery Waterskins	2	0:30
Amber	1.00	Finesmith (★★★)	Resin	Sparkdew Oil	1	0:30
Ancient Tablet	8.00	Cannot be produced. Found from solving Glade Events.
Food Stockpiles		Cannot be produced. Found from solving Glade Events and completing Missions.
Machinery		Cannot be produced. Found from solving Glade Events and completing Missions.
Artifacts		Cannot be produced. Found from solving Glade Events and completing Missions.

Fuel & exploration

Resource	Cost	Recipe
		Amount produced	Ingredient 1	Ingredient 2	Ingredient 3	Time	Building	Blightroot Footprint
Purging Fire	0.31	5	10 Wood	-	-	0:40	Blight Post
Coal	0.31	5	10 Wood	-	-	1:00	Kiln	2%
Simple Tools	1.38	2	8 Wood 2 Planks	3 Copper Bars 3 Crystalized Dew	-	1:10	Carpenter	4%
Infused Tools	1.76	2	4 Sparkdew	2 Copper Bars 2 Crystalized Dew	6 Wood 1 Planks	1:00	Finesmith Rainpunk Foundry	4%
Oil	0.16	Cannot be obtained from recipes
Sea Marrow	0.31	Cannot be obtained from recipes
Wood	0.06	Cannot be obtained from recipes