Resources

Resources are the real progression ladder in Windrose. Story quests decide where you should go next, but materials decide what you can actually build, wear, fire, repair, and sustain once you get there. The easiest way to understand the live build is to read it as a chain from starter gathering, to refining, to animal materials, to biome-specific upgrades.

Core Early Resources

Image	Resource	Why It Matters
	Wood	The universal baseline for building, repairs, stations, and fuel chains
	Stone	Foundations, tools, and basic infrastructure
	Plant Fiber	Bandages, rope, coarse fabric, shelter, and cheap structures
	Clay	Key station costs and pottery-related progression
	Copper Ore	The first major metal gate
	Rough Hide	The early leather bottleneck for armor and gear
	Animal Fat	Utility fuel for the Oil Lamp

Those basics keep mattering far longer than they look like they should. One of Windrose's recurring tricks is making a starter material stay relevant because a later system still quietly depends on it.

Processing Chain

Input	Output	Where It Happens
Plant Fiber	Coarse Fabric and Rope	Workbench
Wood	Charcoal	Charcoal Kiln
Copper Ore	Copper Ingot	Smelting Furnace
Foothills Iron Ore	Foothills Iron Ingot	Smelting Furnace

That processing chain is what turns the map from scenery into progression. A copper cave is not exciting because ore exists. It is exciting because the ore plugs into stations, tools, bells, ship parts, and everything after them.

Animal Materials

Animal drops are not a side issue in Windrose. They are a real part of the build and equipment economy.

Image	Material	Why Players Notice It
	Rough Hide	Starter armor, weapons, and broader leather progression
	Animal Fat	Portable light and exploration support
	Boar Tusk, Wolf Fang, Mountain Goat Horn	Animal-specialized materials that begin to matter once crafting branches widen

Trade and Utility Materials

Material Type	Why It Still Matters
Trade goods	They keep the currency side of the economy moving even when you are not pushing reputation
Repair and ship materials	A world can look stable and still be one ship loss away from a sudden resource scramble
Treasure-route materials	Maps, curios, and rarer upgrade items stop exploration from feeling like only another ore run

Starter Resource Ladder

Wood, stone, and plant fiber keep the first camp alive.
Clay and copper turn that camp into real infrastructure.
Animal materials like rough hide and animal fat stop the early gear and exploration loops from stalling.
Iron, sulfur, and later-biome materials widen the game into proper mid-game crafting and naval support.

Biome-Based Resource Growth

Biome	Resource Identity
Coastal Jungle	Starter gathering, copper, hide, food, and broad survival basics
Foothills	Iron, sulfur, farming materials, and more serious mid-game inputs
Cursed Swamps	Later-biome plague and supernatural materials that sit beyond the starter ladder

That biome ladder is what keeps the game from flattening into one endless starter-material farm. Each new biome changes what counts as a real bottleneck.

Storage and Throughput

A resource problem is often really a processing problem. If ore is piling up but ingots are not, the bottleneck may be charcoal, furnace time, or simple base organization. The same thing happens with fiber chains when rope, cloth, and healing all compete for the same stock. Windrose gets easier when you build your base around throughput instead of around whichever chest happened to be empty at the time.

That is also why smart bases feel richer than they look. A well-placed chest, kiln, furnace, and workbench cluster can save more time than another random expedition for a material you already own but have not actually processed yet.

Merchant Support

Current station listings show three buildable merchant stations that can smooth specific shortages once your base economy matures.

Image	Merchant Station	Helpful Goods
	Merchant: Natural Resources	Wood, stone, clay, and plant fiber at baseline, then sulfur, hardwood, and tree bark after threats are cleared
	Merchant: Animal Products	Rough Hide and other animal materials after threats are cleared
	Merchant: Food	Basic and later food ingredients plus seeds

Where Players Usually Get Stuck

Plant Fiber looks common until bags, bandages, rope, and shelter all pull from the same stock.
Rough Hide looks replaceable until a new armor or utility craft needs leather right now.
Metal bottlenecks feel like mining problems, but they are often really charcoal and station-throughput problems.
A resource shortage on a shared server is often a route problem, not a total-world problem.

That last point is especially important in co-op. The material is often still out there. The issue is that your group is trying to pull it from the same overfarmed route instead of treating the archipelago like a wider supply network.

Practical Resource Habits

Keep your basic survival materials near the stations that convert them, not in random overflow storage.
Do not wait for a shortage to remember that animal materials matter. Stockpile hide and fat while the animals are convenient.
If a world is crowded enough that basics are missing, fix the route rather than pretending the shortage will solve itself.

The resource game gets much smoother once you stop seeing materials as separate chores and start seeing them as connected chains. Wood is charcoal. Charcoal is copper. Copper is bells, tools, stations, and ship parts. One shortage usually has a parent shortage behind it.

Complete Resource Directory

Every resource tracked in the Windrose item database is listed below, sorted alphabetically. Tap a name to jump to that resource's article. Total entries:138.

Directory Stats

Grouping	Count
Common rarity	67
Uncommon rarity	36
Rare rarity	27
Epic rarity	7
Legendary rarity	1
Metal category	3
Resource category	135

All Resources

Resource	Rarity	Category	Summary
Alchemical Base	Uncommon	Resource	Alchemical ingredient made from misty orchids. Crafted at an alchemy table.
Aloe Leaf	Common	Resource	Found in the Foothills.
Aloe Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Aloe. Grows only in the seedbed.
Ancient Relic Fragment	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Ancient Scraps	Common	Resource	An ancient piece of metal of unknown origin and composition. Found in ruined swamp settlements.
Ancient Steel Shard	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Animal Fat	Common	Resource	Required for crafting lamps. Obtained from animals.
Anvil	Uncommon	Resource	A blacksmith's tool. Crafted at a workbench.
Aquamarine	Rare	Resource	A stone the colour of a coastal wave - a rare find in the archipelago. Found in ancient vaults.
Ash	Uncommon	Resource	Useful for crafting gunpowder. Made in a charcoal kiln.
Banana Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Bananas. Grows only on the ground.
Basic Composter	Common	Resource	Fertilizer Made in a compost bin
Bean Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Beans. Grows only in the seedbed.
Beans	Common	Resource	Found in the Swamps.
Bezoar	Common	Resource	Alchemical ingredient. Found in goat stomachs. Obtained from goats.
Bird Meat	Common	Resource	Dodo tastes like chicken! Obtained from birds.
Boar Head	Uncommon	Resource	A trophy. It will grace any wall and show your guests it is unwise to cross the one who felled such a beast. Obtained from boars.
Boar Tusk	Common	Resource	Alchemical ingredient. Obtained from boars.
Bone Meal	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Bones	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Brandy	Epic	Resource	A strong distillate imported from France and Spain. A versatile staple, currency in trade, alcohol for medicine, and a rare aid in shipboard and field work. Available for purchase at Brethren of the Coast camps.
Broadcloth	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Bromeliad	Common	Resource	Alchemical ingredient. Found in the Swamps.
Bromeliad Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Bromeliads. Grows only in the seedbed.
Cane Sugar	Rare	Resource	Cooking ingredient. Found in ancient ruins.
Cayenne Pepper Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Cayenne Peppers. Grows only in the seedbed.
Charcoal	Uncommon	Resource	Charcoal. Fuel for ore smelting. Made in a charcoal kiln from wood.
Clay	Common	Resource	Needed for construction and pottery. Found in the Coastal Jungle, near the beach
Clay Bottle	Uncommon	Resource	A container for alchemical decoctions. Crafted at an alchemy table.
Clay Pot	Uncommon	Resource	Not a helmet. Do not wear on head. Essential for alchemy and cooking. Crafted at a workbench.
Coarse Fabric	Uncommon	Resource	Not the best fabric, but handy for just about anything. Crafted at a workbench from plant fiber.
Coconut Oil	Uncommon	Resource	See article for details.
Cocoplum Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Cocoplums. Grows only in the seedbed.
Coffee Beans	Rare	Resource	Fragrant beans. Cooking ingredient. Found in ship holds in the archipelago.
Copper Ingot	Uncommon	Metal	Used for crafting tools and armor. Smelted in a smelting furnace.
Copper Ore	Common	Resource	Used to craft Copper Ingots. Found in copper deposits of the Coastal Jungles.
Copper Pot	Uncommon	Resource	Not a helmet. Do not wear on head. Essential for alchemy and cooking. Crafted at a workbench.
Corn Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Corn. Grows only in the seedbed.
Cornmeal	Uncommon	Resource	Cooking ingredient. Obtained by grinding corn. Crafted at millstones.
Crab Meat	Common	Resource	Crabs scuttle all over the beaches. Obtained from crabs.
Crab Shell	Uncommon	Resource	Can be hung on the wall as a trophy. Obtained from crabs.
Crocodile Head	Uncommon	Resource	The head of a dangerous predator. Obtained from crocodiles.
Crocodile Hide Piece	Common	Resource	Boots made from this hide might see you mistaken for an aristocrat. Obtained from crocodiles.
Crocodile Tail	Common	Resource	Meaty! Harvested from crocodiles.
Diamond	Rare	Resource	See article for details.
Dodo Egg	Common	Resource	An ordinary egg from an extraordinary bird. A tasty and useful find from dodo nests, though they defend their clutch fiercely. Obtained from dodos and dodo nests.
Dodo Head	Uncommon	Resource	A trophy. Not a bad start for a collection. Obtained from Azure Dodos.
Elastic Leather	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Emerald	Rare	Resource	A stone green as a cat's eye. Found in ancient vaults.
Enchanted Ritual Dagger	Rare	Resource	The sharp edges of the stone blade can easily cut flesh. The dagger chills the palm and seems to tremble in the hand with anticipation.
Essence Arborum	Uncommon	Resource	An embodied curse. Smelted from plague wood in a large smelting furnace.
Fabric Arborum	Uncommon	Resource	Enchanted cloth. Crafted at an enchanting table.
Feather	Common	Resource	A hat decoration and alchemical ingredient. Obtained from birds.
Fertile Soil	Common	Resource	Found in abandoned farms in the Foothills.
Ficus Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow ficus. Grows only on the ground.
Firefly	Common	Resource	A firefly. Found in the Swamps.
Fish Fillet	Common	Resource	A nice-looking piece of fish, it just needs proper cooking! Obtained by fishing.
Flax Fiber	Common	Resource	Used to make fabric. Obtained from cultivated or wild flax found in the Foothills.
Flax Oil	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Flax Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Flax. Grows only in the seedbed.
Foothills Iron Ingot	Uncommon	Metal	Used for crafting tools, armor and other items. Smelted in a smelting furnace.
Foothills Iron Ore	Common	Resource	Can be used to make Foothills Iron Ingots. Found in the natural quarries of the Foothills.
Foothills Temple Key	Legendary	Resource	Opens the doors to an ancient temple.
Garnet	Rare	Resource	A rather precious gemstone with a gentle pink color. Found in ancient vaults.
Glass Bottle	Uncommon	Resource	See article for details.
Gold Ingot	Rare	Resource	A gold ingot used to upgrade jewelry. Found in ruins.
Guinea	Rare	Resource	An English gold coin. Essential for securing the finest black-market cargo available on Tortuga.
Hardwood	Common	Resource	Used for making weapons, ship materials and much more. Harvested in the Foothills from Divi-divi trees.
Head of a Mountain Goat Leader	Uncommon	Resource	A trophy. They say if you stare at it long enough, it will blink. And if you stare at it even longer, it can butt you. Obtained from goat leaders.
Healing Herb Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Healing Herbs. Grows only in the seedbed.
Healing Herbs	Rare	Resource	A bundle of aromatic herbs said to hold vital powers. Alchemical ingredient.
Hewn Stone	Uncommon	Resource	Building material. Crafted at a workbench.
Hide Arborum	Uncommon	Resource	Enchanted hide. Crafted at the enchanting table.
Improved Master's Tools	Epic	Resource	Required for crafting high-quality firearms and leather armor. Purchased from Buccaneers.
Improved Sewing Tools	Epic	Resource	Required for crafting high quality clothing made of fabric Purchased from the People of Tortuga.
Improved Shipwright's Tools	Epic	Resource	Required for crafting high-quality cannons and ship equipment Purchased from Brethren of The Coast.
Improved Smithing Flux	Epic	Resource	Required for crafting high-quality metal weapons and armor. Purchased from Smugglers of Port Royal.
Ingot Arborum	Uncommon	Resource	Ingot Arborum. Crafted at an enchanting table.
Ironware	Uncommon	Resource	Useful for cooking meals and crafting poisons. Crafted at a workbench.
Leek	Common	Resource	Found in the Swamps.
Leek Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Leek. Grows only in the seedbed.
Lime Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Limes. Grows only on the ground.
Linen Fabric	Uncommon	Resource	Used in tailoring. Crafted at a spinning wheel from flax fiber.
Lobster Mushroom	Common	Resource	Grows in the Swamps.
Madeira	Epic	Resource	A fortified wine shipped from the island of Madeira under the Portuguese flag. It withstands heat and long voyages, making it highly prized by officers, merchants, and shipwrights. Available for purchase at Brethren of the Coast camps.
Master's Tools	Rare	Resource	Required for crafting quality firearms and leather armor. Purchased from Buccaneers.
Meat	Common	Resource	A fatty cut of meat, fit to be turned into a juicy steak. Harvested from large animals.
Millstone Parts	Uncommon	Resource	Required to craft a millstone. Crafted at a workbench.
Mire Metal Ingot	Uncommon	Metal	An ingot smelted from ancient iron of unknown composition. Smelted in a large smelting furnace.
Misty Orchid	Common	Resource	Alchemical ingredient. Often found near ruins. Blooms at night; rarely seen during the day. Doesn't grow in the Foothills. Makes a sound that helps to track it down.
Mountain Goat Horn	Common	Resource	Alchemical ingredient. Obtained from male goats.
Mysterious Spice	Rare	Resource	Cooking ingredient. Almost no one knows the secret of its preparation. Found in the Swamps.
Nails	Uncommon	Resource	Can be salvaged from ship and boat wrecks along the shore. Crafted at a workbench from copper or iron.
Navigational Instruments	Rare	Resource	See article for details.
Nuts	Common	Resource	Easy to eat on the move. A pirate's favorite bite. Obtained from pirates.
Obsidian	Rare	Resource	A fragment of volcanic glass. Required for crafting jewelery. Found in the Swamps.
Palm Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow a palm. Grows only on the ground.
Piastre	Rare	Resource	A Spanish silver coin. Recognized by every merchant and scoundrel, it is most often claimed by boarding and sinking ships.
Plague Wood	Common	Resource	Plague Wood Harvested from trees in plague-infested places.
Plant Fiber	Common	Resource	Used for making fabric. Harvested from shrubs.
Quagmire Powder	Common	Resource	This strange powder burns with an unexpectedly bright, fierce flame. Found in the Swamps.
Rigging	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Rope	Uncommon	Resource	An adventurer's best friend. Crafted at a workbench from plant fiber.
Rough Hide	Common	Resource	Future boots or a fine hat. Obtained from furry animals.
Ruby	Rare	Resource	Looks like a piece of clotted blood, frozen in stone. Found in ancient vaults.
Salt	Rare	Resource	Cooking ingredient. Found in ship holds in the archipelago.
Sapphire	Rare	Resource	A sturdy stone the colour of the deep sea. Found in ancient vaults.
Sewing Tools	Rare	Resource	Required for crafting quality clothing made of fabric Purchased from the People of Tortuga.
Shipwright's Tools	Rare	Resource	Required for crafting quality cannons and ship equipment. Purchased from Brethren of the Coast.
Shrub Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow shrubs. Grows only on the ground.
Silver Ingot	Rare	Resource	A silver ingot, required for upgrading jewelry. Found in ruins.
Smithing Flux	Rare	Resource	Required for crafting quality metal weapons and armor. Purchased from Smugglers of Port Royal.
Smuggled Goods	Common	Resource	Of great interest to merchants on Tortuga. Found among pirates or obtained by destroying pirate ships at sea.
Steel Nails	Rare	Resource	High-quality nails brought from the homeland. The most reliable way to get them is to seize them from other ships, or salvage them from wreckage.
Stone	Common	Resource	A building material. Found everywhere around the world as cobbles or boulders.
Sulfur	Common	Resource	You better cross yourself, just in case. Found around rocky formations.
Sweet Potato	Common	Resource	A tasty root crop. Found in the Coastal Jungle.
Sweet Potato Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Sweet Potato. Grows only in the seedbed.
Tainted Bile	Rare	Resource	Bile from the remains of a tainted crocodile. Obtained from Plague Crocodile.
Tanned Leather	Uncommon	Resource	Used in tailoring. Crafted at a tanning rack.
Tannin	Uncommon	Resource	Has tanning properties and a distinctive astringent taste. Used in the treatment of hides and furs. Crafted at an alchemy table from divi-divi tree bark.
Tar	Common	Resource	Thick and sticky. Perfect for proper tarring. Found in the Swamps.
Tarred Fabric	Uncommon	Resource	Excellent moisture resistance. Suitable for sails and sturdy clothing. Crafted at a tanning rack.
Tarred Planks	Uncommon	Resource	Resists moisture exceptionally well, essential for shipbuilding. Crafted at a workbench.
Tear of Sorrow	Rare	Resource	An incredibly clear liquid with no taste or smell. Alchemical ingredient. Obtained from Plague Crushers.
Timber	Uncommon	Resource	Shipbuilding material. Made from hardwood found in the Foothills. Crafted at a workbench.
Tomato Seeds	Common	Resource	Used to grow Tomatoes. Grows only in the seedbed.
Topaz	Rare	Resource	Though its color resembles sand, this stone is far more valuable. Found in ancient vaults.
Tree Bark	Common	Resource	Divi-divi tree bark, harvested only from large trees. Used to produce tannin for leather tanning.
Triton's Horn	Common	Resource	A beautiful shell. Found on the beach.
Tumbaga Ingot	Rare	Resource	An ancient alloy of copper and gold, discovered by the native peoples in ages past. Required to ascend equipment. Found in ruins.
Undead Heart	Common	Resource	Burns your fingers with cold. Obtained from powerful undead.
Vinegar	Common	Resource	See article for details.
Whiskey	Epic	Resource	A harsh grain spirit imported from Scotland and Ireland. Rare in the Caribbean, and therefore especially prized as a trade good and an ingredient in special recipes. Available for purchase at Brethren of the Coast camps.
Wolf Fang	Common	Resource	Alchemical ingredient. Also used as a material for jewelry. Obtained from wolves.
Wolf Head	Uncommon	Resource	A trophy. Ancient peoples served a roasted head as a ritual dish to their chiefs. The real trick was not breaking your teeth on the bones. Perhaps that's why ancient chiefs rarely smiled… Obtained from wolves.
Wood	Common	Resource	A building material. Harvested from large trees and palms.
Wooden Plank	Uncommon	Resource	Required for shipbuilding. Crafted at a workbench.

Specialized Guides

For deep dives on specific resource families, seeMetals(ingots and ore-to-ingot smelting)MiningGatheringHuntingandCrafting.

All Resources (A-Z)

A complete index of all 138 resources currently catalogued in this wiki, sorted alphabetically. Click any resource name for its full page.

Resource	Category	Rarity	Stack Size	Weight
Alchemical Base	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.0
Aloe Leaf	Resource	Common	50	0.1
Aloe Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Ancient Relic Fragment	Resource	Common	20
Ancient Scraps	Resource	Common	10
Ancient Steel Shard	Resource	Common	20
Animal Fat	Resource	Common	30	0.3
Anvil	Resource	Uncommon	1	50.0
Aquamarine	Resource	Rare	100
Ash	Resource	Uncommon	100	0.1
Banana Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Basic Composter	Resource	Common	20	0.5
Bean Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Beans	Resource	Common	50	0.2
Bezoar	Resource	Common	30	0.1
Bird Meat	Resource	Common	40	0.2
Boar Head	Resource	Uncommon	10	0.5
Boar Tusk	Resource	Common	30	0.5
Bone Meal	Resource	Common	20
Bones	Resource	Common	30	0.2
Brandy	Resource	Epic	10	0.1
Broadcloth	Resource	Common	20
Bromeliad	Resource	Common	50	0.1
Bromeliad Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Cane Sugar	Resource	Rare	30	0.1
Cayenne Pepper Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Charcoal	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.0
Clay	Resource	Common	50	0.5
Clay Bottle	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.3
Clay Pot	Resource	Uncommon	1	3.0
Coarse Fabric	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.3
Coconut Oil	Resource	Uncommon	20
Cocoplum Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Coffee Beans	Resource	Rare	30	0.2
Copper Ingot	Metal	Uncommon	40
Copper Ore	Resource	Common	24	0.5
Copper Pot	Resource	Uncommon	1	5.0
Corn Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Cornmeal	Resource	Uncommon	100	0.3
Crab Meat	Resource	Common	40	0.2
Crab Shell	Resource	Uncommon	10	0.5
Crocodile Head	Resource	Uncommon	10	3.0
Crocodile Hide Piece	Resource	Common	30	0.5
Crocodile Tail	Resource	Common	30	0.2
Diamond	Resource	Rare	20
Dodo Egg	Resource	Common	50	0.2
Dodo Head	Resource	Uncommon	10	0.5
Elastic Leather	Resource	Common	20
Emerald	Resource	Rare	100
Enchanted Ritual Dagger	Resource	Rare	1
Essence Arborum	Resource	Uncommon	50	0.2
Fabric Arborum	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.3
Feather	Resource	Common	30	0.1
Fertile Soil	Resource	Common	50	0.5
Ficus Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Firefly	Resource	Common	30	0.2
Fish Fillet	Resource	Common	40	0.4
Flax Fiber	Resource	Common	50	0.2
Flax Oil	Resource	Common	20
Flax Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Foothills Iron Ingot	Metal	Uncommon	40
Foothills Iron Ore	Resource	Common	15	1.4
Foothills Temple Key	Resource	Legendary	100
Garnet	Resource	Rare	100
Glass Bottle	Resource	Uncommon	20
Gold Ingot	Resource	Rare	40	2.0
Guinea	Resource	Rare	9999
Hardwood	Resource	Common	30	0.5
Head of a Mountain Goat Leader	Resource	Uncommon	10	0.5
Healing Herb Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Healing Herbs	Resource	Rare	50	0.0
Hewn Stone	Resource	Uncommon	40	2.0
Hide Arborum	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.5
Improved Master's Tools	Resource	Epic	100	0.1
Improved Sewing Tools	Resource	Epic	100	0.1
Improved Shipwright's Tools	Resource	Epic	100	0.1
Improved Smithing Flux	Resource	Epic	100	0.1
Ingot Arborum	Resource	Uncommon	40	2.0
Ironware	Resource	Uncommon	1	2.0
Leek	Resource	Common	50	0.1
Leek Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Lime Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Linen Fabric	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.3
Lobster Mushroom	Resource	Common	50	0.1
Madeira	Resource	Epic	10	0.1
Master's Tools	Resource	Rare	100	0.1
Meat	Resource	Common	40	0.4
Millstone Parts	Resource	Uncommon	1	5.0
Mire Metal Ingot	Metal	Uncommon	40
Misty Orchid	Resource	Common	50	0.1
Mountain Goat Horn	Resource	Common	30	0.3
Mysterious Spice	Resource	Rare	30	0.3
Nails	Resource	Uncommon	100	0.2
Navigational Instruments	Resource	Rare	20
Nuts	Resource	Common	50	0.2
Obsidian	Resource	Rare	30	0.1
Palm Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Piastre	Resource	Rare	9999
Plague Wood	Resource	Common	30	5.0
Plant Fiber	Resource	Common	100	0.2
Quagmire Powder	Resource	Common	30	0.0
Rigging	Resource	Common	20
Rope	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.6
Rough Hide	Resource	Common	30	0.5
Ruby	Resource	Rare	100
Salt	Resource	Rare	30	0.1
Sapphire	Resource	Rare	100
Sewing Tools	Resource	Rare	100	0.1
Shipwright's Tools	Resource	Rare	100	0.1
Shrub Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Silver Ingot	Resource	Rare	40	2.0
Smithing Flux	Resource	Rare	100	0.1
Smuggled Goods	Resource	Common	10	10.0
Steel Nails	Resource	Rare	50	0.0
Stone	Resource	Common	40	1.0
Sulfur	Resource	Common	30	0.2
Sweet Potato	Resource	Common	50	0.2
Sweet Potato Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Tainted Bile	Resource	Rare	30	0.0
Tanned Leather	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.5
Tannin	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.3
Tar	Resource	Common	50	0.1
Tarred Fabric	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.0
Tarred Planks	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.0
Tear of Sorrow	Resource	Rare	30	0.1
Timber	Resource	Uncommon	40	0.5
Tomato Seeds	Resource	Common	100	0.1
Topaz	Resource	Rare	100
Tree Bark	Resource	Common	30	0.1
Triton's Horn	Resource	Common	20	0.3
Tumbaga Ingot	Resource	Rare	40	2.0
Undead Heart	Resource	Common	40	0.1
Vinegar	Resource	Common	20
Whiskey	Resource	Epic	10	0.1
Wolf Fang	Resource	Common	30	0.1
Wolf Head	Resource	Uncommon	10	0.5
Wood	Resource	Common	50	0.5
Wooden Plank	Resource	Uncommon	40	1.0

Dedicated Material Pages

The live material ladder reads more cleanly once the starter basics and the Foothills jump each have their own dedicated pages.

Image	Page	What It Covers
	Wood	Baseline building stock, station costs, and the split between ordinary trade and merchant-contract supply
	Stone	Starter infrastructure, Hewn Stone, and the route into Millstone Parts
	Sulfur	The live gunpowder ingredient and its link to Millstones
	Hardwood	The Foothills timber step behind better upgrades and ship-leaning crafts
	Foothills Iron Ore	The raw ore behind the iron chain
	Foothills Iron Ingot	The refined iron step used across tools, stations, and ship progression

Top Five Priority Stack Targets

Windrose has dozens of gatherable resources, but in the first few hours only five of them actually gate progression. Stockpiling these aggressively during the first coastline sweep prevents the mid-tutorial bottleneck where three production chains all queue up behind the same material.

Priority	Resource	Why It Matters Early
1	Rough Hide	Almost every early armor piece costs 2-4 hide per slot; Sailor Backpack needs 5
2	Wood	Gate for every station, tool, tent, and ship repair consumable
3	Plant Fiber	Coarse Fabric chain (3 Plant Fiber = 1 Coarse Fabric); feeds tents, ropes, and early armor
4	Copper Ore / Ingots	Entire mid-tier crafting pipeline (Weaponsmith, Shipwright's Workshop, cannons) gates on Copper
5	Clay	Without Clay there is no Charcoal Kiln or Smelting Furnace, so the entire metal chain collapses

Stockpile targets for the first two hours: roughly 100 Wood, 30 Plant Fiber, 10 Rough Hide, 20 Copper Ore, and 60 Clay is enough to clear the Islander tutorial with a small reserve. Collecting more than these targets on the first pass means fewer forced returns to the same cluster later and a smoother run into the Weaponsmith Workshop and Shipwright's Workshop steps.

Discovery Tab Mechanics

Every gathered resource in Windrose is logged in the Discovery tab, which acts as both a personal collection log and a progression checklist. The tab is biome-organised, with separate panels for the Coastal Jungle, Foothills, and Cursed Swamps. Until a resource has been added to the player's inventory at least once, its slot in the Discovery tab is hidden behind a question-mark icon: the slot exists, but the name, source, and unlock chain are obscured.

Biome unlock gating: the later biome panels (Foothills and Cursed Swamps) are not visible until the player has progressed the main story far enough to defeat the previous biome's boss. Before that, the Discovery tab simply does not show the placeholder slots for those resources, even if the player has visited the biome and seen plants or ores there. This means a complete Discovery tab is also an implicit progression marker; a tab with three populated biome panels only happens after both biome bosses are down.

Question-mark icon behavior: the question-mark slot upgrades to the resource icon, name, and full description the first time the resource lands in the player's inventory. Picking the resource up off the ground, looting it from a chest, harvesting it from a plant, dropping it from an enemy, or pulling it from a multiplayer storage chest all satisfy the unlock condition equally. There is no need to actually craft with the resource, sell it, or carry it for any duration; the inventory touch alone fills in the entry.

The inventory-touch unlock works for any source, not just personal world gathering. In a co-op session, a player who has not yet found a resource in the wild can have a teammate drop one for them, or pull one from a shared storage chest. The moment the resource is in the receiving player's inventory, their Discovery tab credits the unlock and reveals the entry. This is the fastest way to fill in a new player's Discovery tab without forcing them to repeat every biome's exploration loop, and it is also how groups speed up tab completion: one player gathers the rare drop, hands a copy to each teammate, and every Discovery tab updates in parallel.

Why it matters: the Discovery tab is the in-game reference for which biome a resource comes from and which crafting recipes it unlocks. Players researching a recipe chain can open the tab and trace ingredient sources without a separate guide, but only for resources they have personally touched. Stockpile a small quantity of every new resource the moment it appears, even if the recipe path is not yet relevant, so the Discovery entry is filled in for future reference.

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