Special Resources
Special resources are resources that don't fit into the other categories. Some aren't harvested or otherwise created from the land itself, but instead they are obtained through other methods throughout the Splinterlands ecosystem.
Time Crystals - Time Crystals will provide 10K production each towards a construction project including plot clearing, building construction, and building upgrades. In the future they may be able to applied to other things like Item and Spell crafting. Time Crystals can be earned in loot chests from ranked battles or they can be purchased by burning 100 DEC or DEC-B per token.
Mana Crystals - Mana Crystals will be required to craft Item and Spell cards starting in version 0.3 (Phase 3) of the Secret of Praetoria expansion. They can be obtained exclusively through contributing Guild Power to your Splinterlands guild. There will be a fixed pool of 10,000 (10k) Mana Crystal tokens per day that can be earned and the amount that each player receives from the pool will be based on their contributed GP as compared to the total contributed GP across all guilds in the game.
Trifoil Runes - Trifoil Runes are a special resource that is required in the Runology Tower building for scholars to study and produce Research Tokens to unlock each phase of the Ancient Ruins reconstruction project. Trifoil Runes can be obtained by workers working in Castle or Keep buildings for the owners of Castle & Keep plots. Please see the Castles & Keeps section for more details on how to obtain Trifoil Runes.
Research - Research is a non-transferrable resource which is created by providing Trifoil Runes to worker cards in an Runology Tower building. Research earned by a player will increase their Contribution Score towards the Ancient Ruins reconstruction project, and once enough Research has been generated by all players within a particular Territory then the next phase of the reconstruction project can begin.
Elixir - This resource will be able to be purchased using a fixed amount of DEC or VOUCHER tokens and will also be available to be earned by providing liquidity to one of the many pools available on the internal market for any of the Secret of Praetoria resources and DEC pairs. This resource will act as a reagent required to combine Essences with the Elemental Resources. The amount of Elixir earned per DEC worth of liquidity provided to any of the pools will automatically adjust on a periodic basis based on the price of Elixir vs DEC in its own internal liquidity pool. This is intended to maintain a relatively stable price in DEC for Elixir since more will be given out if the price is above the intended target and less will be given out if it is below.
Desalinization Crystals - This resource will be able to be purchased using a fixed amount of DEC or VOUCHER tokens and will also be available to be earned through various activities within the broader Splinterlands universe, such as in loot chests from ranked battles or from Guild participation, for example. They will be transferrable and available within the Internal Market just like most other land resources. The exact details around the cost of DC and the methods for earning them in the game are still TBD. They can be contributed to the Infrastructure Projects within each Region to gain various benefits for all land owners in the Region and to earn Salt tokens.
Salt - This resource is earned by contributing Desalinization Crystals to the Infrastructure Projects within each Region. It will be able to be mixed with the existing in-game Legendary and Alchemy potions in an Alchemy Lab building to create enhanced versions of those potions which will be transferrable and will be able to increase the chances of producing higher rarity and/or gold foil version of Item and Spell cards when they are able to be crafted in future phases.
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