Resources

Resources in Dream Engines: Nomad Cities are used for construction, production, crafting, and other situations. There are two main categories - raw resources and refined resources.

Raw resources are usually used in production buildings to produce refined resources, and while you can store them in storage buildings or Tiny's inventory, they can not be carried with you when you fly, and will remain behind.

Refined resources are used to pay for various actions such as construction, crafting, expanding your city, and purchasing upgrades. They can be stored and carried with you when you fly. Refined resources can be used to pay for actions as long as they are stored in a storage building, or in Tiny's inventory.

Global Resources
Most resources have a physical presence in the game, and need to be transported through rail carts. Some refined resources, however, such as Flux and Power, are stored globally, and are added to your global inventory as soon as they are produced. These resources often have limited storage capacity, and you can increase the maximum amount you can store by building certain buildings such as Storage Yard.

Harvested Resources
To obtain these resources you first have to find a Resource Node by exploring your surroundings, and then build a harvester on it. Some resource nodes appear only in certain biomes and only at certain difficulty levels (skulls). These resources are usually considered raw and can not be taken until refined.


 * Bloodwood Logs
 * Raw Featherstone
 * Crystal
 * Acid Shards
 * Cabtus
 * Raw Copper
 * Glow Honey

Renewable Resources
These resources can be obtained by building their production building, which does not require any resource node. They are raw resources and can not be taken with you when you fly.


 * Purptatoes
 * Star-Stuck Tar
 * Glueberry
 * Smoke Gel

Intermediary Resources
These resources are semi-refined. They require other raw resources to produce, but are not considered refined resources. They are used in other production recipes to produce refined resources, and they can not be taken with you when you fly.


 * Carbon Mix
 * Liquid Dream
 * Nightmare Crystals

Refined Resources
These resources are considered final products, they are used in many construction, upgrade and crafting recipes, and they can be taken with you when you fly, so stocking up on them is a good idea.

Global Refined Resources

 * Flux
 * Power
 * Workers
 * Fuel
 * Upgrade Materials
 * Research Points

Normal Refined Resources

 * Food
 * Bloodwood Planks
 * Crushed Featherstone
 * Starwood
 * Feathercrystal
 * Acidwood
 * Acidstone
 * Carbonite
 * Copper Ingot
 * Armor Plating
 * Tesla Cell
 * Nightmare Plating
 * Flaming Copper