Resource

**Resources** in *Before We Leave* are any sort of items, supplies, or materials used by the Peeps. Resources can help the Peeps in many ways, such as feeding them, construction of buildings in their cities and creating space vehicles to venture to planets in outer Space. Resources help the player understand what the Peeps need in order to accomplish their goals.

## Mechanics

Resources typically have at least one production building (although some have several production sources). Most resources can be collected with the help of a building from certain Resource deposits on the terrain, or farmed from certain fertile tiles among the islands the Peeps live on. Other resources can be produced by buildings that combine them with Power or other resources. Resources then may be used by several other buildings as either construction materials or process inputs (such as Peep consumption or production of other resources). For example, the Kitchen requires Vegetables to turn into Meals. Resources are typically stored at buildings, either where they are produced, at a Warehouse or Port, where they are being used, or in a pile on the floor.

## Food Resources

### Potatoes

Potatoes are a basic food resource. They are produced by the Shelter, Potato Fields, and Spaceship, and keep Peeps from being hungry.

### Vegetables

Vegetables can be grown in Vegetable Fields. They provide the Peeps with better nutrition and happiness.

### Fruits

Fruits can be grown in Orchards. They provide the Peeps with better nutrition and happiness, or can be turned into Smoothies.

### Other

* Wheat: Made at a Wheat Field and turned into Flour.
* Flour: Made from Wheat, turned into Bread.
* Bread: Made from Flour, can be eaten directly or turned into Good Meals.
* Salt: Obtained at a Desalination Plant. Can be added to Good Meals at a Kitchen.
* Meals: Made at a Kitchen from other food items. Improves carrying capacity.
* Good Meals

## Drink resources

### Water

Water is collected from the Well and is required to keep your Peeps hydrated.

### Tea

Tea can be grown in Tea Fields. They provide the Peeps with better nutrition and happiness.

### Other

* Milk: Farmed from Cows, as an improved form of drink.
* Smoothies: Made at a Smoothie Maker as an improved form of drink. Improves working time (indirectly decreasing hunger too).
* Good Smoothies

## Construction

### Wood

Wood is produced from tree trunks at the Woodcutter building. Wood is a basic resource needed for construction. It is also used for making Tools at the Toolsmith and Transmogrifier, and can also be used in creating Power via the Wood Generator.

### Stone

Stone can be collected by demolishing small piles of rocks or boulders. However, it is mainly mined from the Mountains using the Quarry or Deep Mine buildings. Stone is a basic resource needed for different kinds of constructions and eventually other game resources, such as Luxury Items.

### Tools

Tools are created in the Toolsmith from Wood and Iron. They are required in the construction of many buildings.

### Glass

Glass is used for mid-game constructions, and early upgrades. It is smelted from raw Sand. Late in the game it is part of renewable electronics production.

### Steel

Steel is used for mid to late game constructions, including the Spaceship repair, other Vehicles, and other Space related buildings. It is smelted from Iron.

## Raw Materials

These are usually extracted from Resource Deposits on the islands.

### Iron Ore

Iron is mined out of Rusting Hulks in the Highlands using the Iron Mine buildings. Iron is a basic resource needed for different kinds of constructions and other game resources such as Tools. Late in the game it can be extracted from the Deep Mine, but only on certain islands (with the appropriate fertility indicated).

### Sand

Sand is gathered by the Sand Mine building on any desert tile. It is refined into Glass and added to Cement.

### Oil

Oil is harvested by the Oil Well building from an adjacent Oil Deposit.

Oil has a variety of uses, including generating Power, making Fuel at a Refinery, and Chemicals at a Chemical Plant. It is also used to make Airlocks.

### Electronics

Electronics are gathered by the Electronics Mine or at a PCB Maker. Electronics are used for mid to late game constructions, upgrades, and processing into resources like Gadgets.

### Astrobaleenium

Astrobaleenium is gathered by the Astrobaleenium Mine. Astrobaleenium is used for late game constructions and the Filtering upgrade.

### Crystal

Crystal is used by the rediscovered Transmogrifier.

## Peep Resources

These resources keep the peeps clothed and happy.

### Cotton

Field resource used in the making of clothing, via the Weaver and Tailor.

### Luxury Items

Created at the Market Place. Used to improve Peep happiness. Has an improved variant, Good Luxury Items.

### Fabric

Made from Cotton at a Weaver. Made into clothing at the Tailor, and airships at the Hangar. Has a Good Fabric variant.

### Clothing

Made from Fabric; Makes Peeps completely resistant to Fatigue. Has a Good Clothing variant that improves happiness.

## Products

These are miscellaneous manufactured resources. They usually requiring input resources and processing by another building, but are important as technology progresses.

### Iron

A sort of refined ingot or bar of iron material, after it has been through the Iron Smelter. Usually made into Tools or Steel; occasionally used standalone as a construction material, without being processed further.

### Chemicals

Made with Oil at a Chemical Plant. Used for the Cleaner II, and creating Cement and Batteries.

### Fuel

Made with Oil. Required for some Vehicles.

### Batteries

Made from Power and Chemicals at a Battery Plant and can be turned back into power at a Battery Generator. Can be used as permanent storage of power beyond what individual buildings can hold, and constructing some end-game buildings.

### Gadgets

Made from Electronics. Used for Upgrades, late game buildings (like  Lasers, space whale protection) and certain clean power generating buildings.

## Other

### Power

*Main article:* Power
Power refers to any source of energy. Power can be produced by various forms of generator, which may need some other resource to power themselves. Most production buildings require power. Power can be transmitted by the Power Lines upgrade for roads.

### Tree Trunks

Tree Trunks are grown naturally in forests and can be retrieved through Peeps working at a Woodcutter or the demolition tool. They cannot be used in their raw form.

### Ancient Technology

Automatically processed into Research at the Explorers Hut, which can then be spent on unlocking Technology.