Resource Ideas

[Chizume]

Greetings,

I'm trying to collect a larger amount of resources/materials for a gather/builder map I'm planning on making. Basically the list below is a draft which I'd like for you to help me fill in. The thing is that even if I'd like many resources - too many would result in confusion. Such an example would be different types of wood which would only make things complicated.

Resource List

Basic

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  Water - Common resource. Used in most things.
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  Feathers - Common resource. Used for arrows and some equipment.
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  Oil - Uncommon resource. For torches, machinery and some potions/elixirs.
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  Clay - Common resource. For crafting pottery.
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  Lumber > Processed Wood (Planks) - Common resource. For building structures and crafting some weapons.
  
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  Dragon Scales - Unique resource. For crafting equipment.
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  Glass - Uncommon resource. For crafting bottles and vials.

Tailoring

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  Leather - Common resource. For crafting equipment.
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  Fur - Common resource. For crafting equipment.
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  Pelt - Common resource. For crafting equipment.

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  Thread - Common resource. For crafting equipment.
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  Linen - Common resource. For crafting equipment.
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  Wool - Common resource. For crafting equipment.
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  Silk - Rare resource. For crafting equipment.

Bowmaking

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  Intestine
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  Hemp
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  Sinew
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  Dogbane

Mining

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  Stone - Common resource. For building structures.
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  Coal
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  Flint - Common resource. For making fire, support glass-ingredient.
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  Limestone
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  Tin Ore
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  Copper Ore
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  Gold Ore
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  Silver Ore
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  Iron Ore
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  Steel Ore
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  Mithryl Ore - Epic resource. For smithing equipment.
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  Gems - Rare resource. For imbuing equipment with magical powers.

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  Tin Ingot
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  Copper Ingot
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  Brass Ingot
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  Iron Ingot
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  Steel Ingot
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  Mithryl Ingot
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  Silver Ingot
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  Gold Ingot

Glassmaking

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  Silica Sand
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  Soda Ash

Food

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  Meat
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  Milk
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  Chicken
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  Fish
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  Egg
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  Honey
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  Malt
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  Spices (I think naming all spices would be too many)
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  Grass | Hay - Common resource. For feeding some animals.

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  Wheat
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  Barley
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  Rice
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  Maize
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  Oats
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  Rye

Herbs (This includes most greenery, each herb has it's seed.)

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  Goldthorn - Rare herb. Has superior healing properties.
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  Silvermist - Common herb. Has mana recovering properties.
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  Ashenvale Leaf - Common herb. Has minor mana recovering properties.
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  Glassworts - Common herb. For producing ingredients for glassmaking.
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  Seaweed - Very common herb. Found along rocky shores. For producing ingredients for glassmaking.

Miscellaneous

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  Wax
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  Candles

Care to help me out with some resources you find essential and what they could be refined into?

Yours Truly,
Chizume

 

[Zanekok]

Flint
Hay|Grass
Sand->Glass
Water
Seeds
Corn
Leafs
Feather
Cloth
Clue
Wool

Will this help you?

 

[Chizume]

It's great! Thanks a lot, I totally forgot about cloth. Any ideas for herbs? And do you know anything about making glass?

Yours,
Princess Chizume

 

[Zanekok]

It's great! Thanks a lot, I totally forgot about cloth. Any ideas for herbs? And do you know anything about making glass?

Yours,
Princess Chizume

Tailoring:
Hide(Bear|Elk|Wolf|Gepard|Panther|Elephant|Hypo|Bison|Fox|atc.)
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Herbs:
Tow-Cloth|Clue (i am not sure)
Blowball-Elixiers
Mushrooms-Poison|Elixiers|Food
SunFlower-Food|Oil

Trees-Wood|Apples,Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, atc.
Bushes-Berries

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Making glass? Just mellting of silica sand and annealing treatment.
PS: Sorry for some bad words i have this from dictionary because i know it in czech only
PPS: ill write more things here later i am not ood in biology(i have 3 in school of it)

 

[Chizume]

No worries about the language, I understand you

I'm googling for some more information about glass and silica, it's actually really interesting!

Added a few items and some icons to the list.

 

[Landmine]

Mining
Diamond (for money/creating effective saws) Rare
Oil (aids with machinery) Uncommon
Flint Stone (allows for furnaces for smithing (especially glass-making) and can create fire/heated things) Common

That's all I got. May think up more later.

 

[Zanekok]

Mining
Diamond (for money/creating effective saws) Rare
Oil (aids with machinery) Uncommon
Flint Stone (allows for furnaces for smithing (especially glass-making) and can create fire/heated things) Common

That's all I got. May think up more later.

i wrote Flint there and glass making too
PS: Chizume dont you want some buildings too? And why did you placed Hay to food i thought it can be cool on some building like Granary But with food its good idea

Some ideas about icons:

Feather

Planks

Wood

What do you think about it?(Dont forgot to give credits to all creators of icons)
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[Chizume]

Tow-Cloth|Clue (i am not sure)
Blowball-Elixiers

What do you mean by these two?

Thanks once again, I'll have a look at the icons. I usually stick to icons created either only by Blizzard Entertainment or by a few professional artists - keeping the credit list low and the theme coherent.

Buildings are right now insignificant, but perhaps later

And thanks to you to Landmine

Yours,
Chizume

 

[Zanekok]

What do you mean by these two?

Thanks once again, I'll have a look at the icons. I usually stick to icons created either only by Blizzard Entertainment or by a few professional artists - keeping the credit list low and the theme coherent.

Buildings are right now insignificant, but perhaps later

And thanks to you to Landmine

Yours,
Chizume

Tow is Flax. How i said i looked to dictionary and used one word
Clue = Thread
BlowBall is yellow flower. Some teas are made with it.

BlowBall

 

[cleavinghammer]

Another plant:

* Barley (used to brew beer) : common.

Tailoring/Skinning:

* Sinews (bowstrings and such): common.

* Teeth/Claws (weapons): common.

For mining:

* Electrum (or crafted using Gold + Silver): rare.
** Not sure what it'd be used for, maybe one of those items whose only use is to be sold.
* Orichalcon (another popular "magic metal", along the lines of mithryl): rare.

 

[Chizume]

Decided to replace "Grain" with the most important types of grain. Also, I'm looking into how to make bows and bowstrings to see what materials they used in the olden days. There seem to be wide variety of materials for bowstrings. Anyone got some knowledge on this?

Thanks for your input cleavinghammer

Yours,
Chizume

 

[cleavinghammer]

If Wikipedia is to be believed, "traditional materials include linen, hemp, other vegetable fibers, sinew, silk, and rawhide".

 

[Chizume]

If Wikipedia is to be believed, "traditional materials include linen, hemp, other vegetable fibers, sinew, silk, and rawhide".

I sure believe it can most of the times

Two types of strings for later use (Kind of using this post as a reminder to myself).

• Simple Single-Cord String
• Flemish Twist

Yours,
Chizume