Resources

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Resources are a key progression driver in Kingdom Maker and part of the game's economy.

## Resources

"We can't build a city on an empty stomach."

### Uses

Currencies, Materials and Resources for building your City, raising Armies, upgrading your Nobles, and more.

### Rewarded In

Combat, Daily Goals, Objectives, Story Quests, Events, and more.

## Key Details

Resources run the realm of Ardendale, and by extension, the gameplay experience of Kingdom Maker itself! Resources are divided by **Basic Resources**, **Currencies**, **Materials**, **Mined Resources**, **Quest Crafting Materials** and **Crafting Materials**.

The full inventory panel of collected Resources is found by ***tapping the blue top bar on the game's HUD.***

## Basic Resources

Basic resources, otherwise known as main resources, include Food, Wood, Stone, Silver, Population and Gold that is featured in the top bar of the game's HUD.

A Player would always have some amount of these basic resources at any time, as well as the ability to quickly collect obtain Food, Wood, Stone, Silver from Buildings in their City when they are ready to be collected. Population is replenished over time and will never fully run out, unlike Gold, which is obtainable from Store Offers, Daily Goals, Objectives, Story Quests, Events and more.

These basic resources, along with certain Mined Resources, are essential for upgrading your City, raising Armies, upgrading your Nobles, completing Research and the general progression in the game.

## Currencies

Currencies are resources that are primarily used in purchasing Noble Talents and opening Chests to obtain items such as shards for Banners, Champions or other Blueprints. Currencies also include Event tokens to open Event Chests or exchange them for rewards, as well as Crowns to exchange for in-game Store Offers in the Crown Shop on the online web store.

## Materials

Materials are resources that are primarily used for crafting, upgrading and leveling Banners, Battalion Equipment, Noble Equipment, Nobles, and Champions. Orc Banner Parts, Human Banner Parts and Banner XP is used to craft or upgrade Banners. Weapon Parts ranging from Machine Ammo Parts to Unit Weapon Parts along with Battalion Equip. XP are used for crafting or upgrading Battalion Equipment. Noble Equip. XP is used in upgrading Noble Equipment. Family XP is used in leveling up or promoting Nobles. Champion XP is used for leveling or promoting Champions.

### Noble Self-Improvement Materials

Mythical Spell Scroll Pieces can be combined to create a new Mythical Quality Spell Scroll.

## Mined Resources

Mined Resources are resources gathered primarily from Mining activities. Various Ores are gathered from different Mining Nodes and are in turned Refined into Common, Uncommon or Rare refined resources from the Refinery. There is also an opportunity to find Mysterious Ores of different types and grades to refine into more refined resources. Gold Nuggets are rare Mined Resources found in Glittering Ore Mines of a random generated type.

## Quest Crafting Materials

Quest Crafting Materials are key crafting materials found in Ardendale. These are only obtainable in Story Quests. These crafting materials are primarily used for upgrading or transmuting certain Noble Equipment or items to a new level or tier. These materials include Lustrous Reagents, Malefic Reagents and Wrathful Reagents.

## Crafting Materials

Crafting Materials include materials primarily used in the construction and upgrading of Temples, maintained by a Temple Keeper. Anyone can craft these Temple materials in their Blacksmith, and can benefit their Alliance's Temple Keeper and their group's Temple by tributing extra Crafting Materials to their Temple Keeper member of their Alliance. These materials include Temple Brick, Temple Block and Temple Slab, and are usually crafted with Stone.

## Other

There are resources that may be uncategorized or are otherwise part of Events. These Event resources come in the form of Event-related tokens to exchange for rewards or upgrade components to upgrade certain Event-related Noble Equipment. These resources may be time-exclusive items that only appear in a Player's inventory during an Event or for a short amount of time after the Event has ended.