Refined Resources

Refined resources cannot be found or harvested directly from the land plots, but instead are created in special buildings from the Natural and/or Magical resources. In most cases, the Natural and Magical resources cannot be used until they have been refined. The different types of Refined resources along with how they are made are listed below.

• Lumber - Raw wood can be turned into Lumber in a Sawmill building. Lumber can then be used in building construction and maintenance.

• Metal Bars - Any of the five raw ores obtained from a Mine can be smelted into metal bars corresponding to the type of ore used in a Foundry building, using raw Wood for fuel. The metal bars can then be used in building construction and maintenance, with higher level buildings requiring bars made from the more rare ores.

• Elemental Essences - Essences can be combined with any of the six elemental resources to create Elemental Essences. For example, if raw Essences are combined with Virtulium then it will create "Life Essences", and if raw Essences are combined with Sparkstone then it will create "Fire Essences", etc. These element-specific Essences can then be used to create the different types of stones, foods, and eventually Item and Spell cards corresponding to their element.

• Elemental Foods - Grain can be combined with Elemental Essences in a Mill building (using raw Wood as fuel) in order to create different types of food that can be consumed by worker cards when working on land. Cards of a particular element strongly prefer the food that corresponds with their element and will perform much more efficiently if given that food instead of unrefined Grain. The list of the six Elemental Foods and the magical element to which they are associated is as follows:

  • Pureflakes (Life)

  • Ulana Bread (Earth)

  • Sparkmeal (Fire)

  • Stormcakes (Water)

  • Soulfood (Death)

  • Heliobars (Dragon)

• Elemental Stones - Stone can be infused with Elemental Essences (using raw Wood as fuel) in order to create different types of stones corresponding to each magical element which are required for construction and maintenance of buildings relating to that element. The list of the six Elemental Stones and the magical element to which they are associated is as follows:

  • Quartz (Life)

  • Limestone (Earth)

  • Granite (Fire)

  • Sandstone (Water)

  • Hematite (Death)

  • Obsidian (Dragon)