Resources

Resources in the game are kept in your storage bag (pictured). We have split up resources into three main groups:

1. things you grow
2. things you find
3. things you make

All these resources help you progress in the game. You spend your currency to get or make resources. Then you use them to construct buildings, complete quests, and fulfill orders from the order board and helicopter.

## The Storage Bag

The storage bag is available from your main screen when you play, no matter which island you are on. As shown in the picture below, there are four tabs in the storage bag, these comprise:

1. Raw and Grown Resources
2. Made Resources
3. Special Resources
4. Collection Resources and those items particular to specific islands

## Game Play Help

### Gaining Resources

The best way to gain resources is to fully clear an island of its objects, **except for grass** as it is not worth the energy. When clearing islands, try to keep these points in mind:

* it is best to clear after you have finished the last quest on the island
	+ otherwise you can have problems with completing quests
* clear before you travel to the next island
	+ it can take over a week to clear some islands and if you travel to the next story island, then your old island will permanently close in 24 hours

The laboratory should be considered a last resort to gain resources: it is slow and taxing on your gold, making it less efficient than clearing islands. It is still useful however when natural sources of a resource have temporarily been expended, so do not forget to use it in a pinch.

Bombs are a great tool for gathering a lot of resources and fast. They deal the equivalent of 150 energy to surrounding objects, so make sure to place them next to as many trees, rocks, beehives, etc. as possible to optimize their usefulness and avoid as much grass as you can with their blast. When placing the bomb, nearby objects that will be affected by the blast should slowly flash.

Special orders at the order board have a chance to give honeycombs and iron ore, which is useful when trying to increase your stockpile of these resources as they are more heavily demanded at higher levels and later islands, along with event islands.

### Using Resources

Keep a stockpile of X amount per resource in your inventory, with X being an amount you feel confident you can continuously maintain. You can even further divide it with different X amounts for crops, fruits, bakery goods, woodcutter goods, etc. since each type is harvested and produced at different speeds with different needs. This will help you prepare for orders, quests, and events ahead of time.

Honey is a valuable and rare resource. It is used for constructing dragon houses, completing certain quests, and progressing in event islands. One way to make sure you do not run out of it is to make sure you are not using it, or items made with it, for board and helicopter orders. Only when you have a stockpile of it to your liking should you consider using some for orders, though even then it may be best to save it for event islands. The same may be said about iron and truffles, though to a lesser extent.

Do not fulfill board orders that ask for seeds, unless you really need to for completing 10 orders for the energy or they are part of a special order. When used this way, seeds have a value of 3 gold, but when used for planting they have a value of 4 to 5 gold, taking into account the 2 gold each they save you from planting plus the value per seed of the crop grown, along with the fact that crops have a wider range of uses with buildings, quests, and orders.

**Do not be afraid to cancel unappealing or difficult board orders, or send the helicopter away early.** Long periods of time spent producing the goods needed can hinder your quest progress and slow your resource gain. Completing orders is not always better than maintaining your stockpile of harder to earn resources and being prepared for future quests and events.

Resources come in a variety of different forms and can be divided into different categories. They include:

* 7 different crops,
* 6 different fruits,
* 7 different materials,
* petals,
* 64 different factory products, made from resources.

These resources can be gathered from plants and rocks in islands, trees, flowers, plots and specific factories.

Energy, gems, gold and petals can also be considered as resources as they are needed to proceed in the exploration.

Reproduced with grateful thanks from *Chase Apollo* at the Facebook group Dragonscapes Adventure Friends. For different languages, please use the translation service on Facebook and look at Apollo's Facebook post.

### Collection Book

When you clear a resource for the first time, you unlock it in the Collection Book, that is the Book Statue in the Camp center of the home island. Each resource can give you either gold, gems or petals by tapping on it when unlocked.

The same thing also happens for new Dragons and after the construction of new Buildings.

## Rare resources

### Honey

Beehives drop Honeycomb in three different sizes. Usually you can clear them with 48 to 66 energy and are very rare to find. You can sell honeycombs in the storage at the price of 1, 3 and 10 gold.

It is used to make Honey with the Honey Extractor in the home island. You can sell the honeys in the market at the price of 23 gold, but it is better to keep it for the production of the objects because is very rare.

In the following pictures you can see Beehive, the 3 sizes of Honeycombs and Honey. In May-June Treasure Hunt there is a special treasure box that gives a piece of honeycomb, you can see its picture in the following gallery.

BeehiveBeehive in Aries IslandHoneycomb; little, medium and large sizes from left to rightHoneyTreasure that gives one piece of honeycomb in Treasure Hunt

### Ore

Ore mines drop Iron Ore in three different sizes. Usually you can clear them with 38 to 100 energy and are rare to find. You can sell iron ore in the storage at the price of 1, 3 and 10 gold.

It is used to make Iron Bars with the Smelter in the home island. You can sell the iron bars in the market at the price of 27 gold, but it is better to keep it for the production of the objects because is very rare.

In the following pictures you can see Ore mine, the 3 sizes of Iron Ore and Iron Bars.

Mines of OreOre in Aries IslandIron Ore; little, medium and large sizes from left to rightIron Bars

### Truffle

Truffle Trees drop Truffles. Usually you can clear them with 33 to 46 energy and are rare to find. You can sell them in the storage at the price of 3 gold or in the market at the price of 8 gold.

In the following pictures you can see the Truffle Tree and Truffles.

Truffle TreeTruffle Tree in Aries IslandTruffle

## Special Materials

These resources help you along in the game. When you look in your storage bag, they are on the 3rd tab (with the ticket icon). Each image shows you a picture of the item and how many of them you own.

## Exchangeable Resources

Honey and Iron Bars are unique resources gathered as honeycomb and iron ore, which are found at 3 different sizes. They are then refined at the Honey Extractor or Smelter, respectively, before being able to be used. Filling 1 bar at the machine gives 5 of the resource. Each size takes a different amount to fill a bar:

* 15 of Small Honeycomb / Iron ore
* 5 of Medium Honeycomb / Iron ore
* 1.5 of Large Honeycomb / Iron ore

The Laboratory is a special building that can be bought in the dragon housing tab of the store on your home island. It provides a means of gaining resources if there are currently no natural sources to harvest from islands, but with the additional cost of requiring gold and time to create the objects. Each type of object requires a different amount:

* Beehive: 45 energy, 300 gold, 50 mins
* Grass: 27 energy, 150 gold, 30 mins
* Ore: 50 energy, 300 gold, 60 mins
* Shrub: 39 energy, 250 gold, 40 mins
* Stone: 45 energy, 200 gold, 40 mins
* Tree: 36 energy, 200 gold, 45 mins
* Truffle Tree: 39 energy, 300 gold, 55 mins