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Overview

Merchant: Natural Resources is a Merchants craft station in Windrose. It is an NPC trader that sells raw materials for Piastres, covering ores, wood types, Clay, Stone, and other refining-feed inputs. Build it from a Merchant Contract: Natural Resources and place it under a roof within Bonfire range like any other station.

Station Info

Property	Value
Category	Merchants station
Station Type	Merchant (NPC trader)
Max Health	1 million
Requires Roof	Yes
Within Bonfire Range	Required

Construction Materials

Material	Quantity
Merchant Contract: Natural Resources	x1

Placement Strategy

The Merchant: Natural Resources is the fallback stock for any refining run that has exhausted the local mining and logging pool. Copper Ore, Foothills Iron Ore, Clay, Wood, Hardwood, and Stone are the typical categories, with advanced unlocks tied to island threat clears. Piastre-per-unit rates are high compared to farming the raw materials yourself, so this merchant is best treated as a top-up source rather than a primary supply line.

Tips

Use this merchant when a single refining recipe is bottlenecked by one missing ingredient, not for whole-stack purchases; the Piastre drain is significant.
Advanced-tier materials unlock as island threats are cleared, which means the natural-resources stock improves across a playthrough without extra investment.
Stone and Clay are cheap enough here to buy in x10 bulk if you are starting a large stone structure build.
Copper Ore from this merchant feeds the Smelting Furnace directly; Piastre-to-ingot math favors buying ore and refining in-house over buying pre-refined ingots.

Current Stats and Drops

These are the exact Merchant: Natural Resources prices observed in the current live build. Quantities scale x1, x2, x5, and x10 at a flat Piastre-per-unit rate, so bulk purchases are time savings rather than cost savings.

Buy Prices

Every line item below is confirmed stock, though the advanced goods only populate once the matching threat camps have been cleared. Expect a partial table on a fresh island until the clear list progresses.

Item	Category	Quantity	Cost
Clay	misc	x1	Piastre x10
Hardwood	misc	x1	Piastre x50
Plant Fiber	misc	x1	Piastre x10
Stone	misc	x1	Piastre x25
Sulfur	misc	x1	Piastre x40
Tree Bark	misc	x1	Piastre x50
Wood	misc	x1	Piastre x25

Refining Notes

The materials sold here are the same inputs gathered from the world, so they slot straight into refining and building chains:

Material	Feeds Into
Wood and Hardwood	Building pieces, ship repairs, and charcoal for the Smelting Furnace.
Stone and Clay	Stone structures, foundations, and pottery; the cheapest lines here at 25 and 10 Piastres.
Sulfur	Combined with Ash at the Millstones to craft Homemade Gunpowder.
Plant Fiber	Rope, cloth, and early tool handles.
Tree Bark	Tanning and refining inputs for leather and treated-wood recipes.

Because the per-unit Piastre rates run high, this station pays off most as a top-up when one ingredient bottlenecks a recipe, not as a bulk supply line. Compare it with the Merchant: Animal Products and Merchant: Food stations, which cover the other raw-goods categories.

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