Assassin's Creed Shadows: How to get resources?
Developing your hideout in AC Shadows requires a huge amount of materials, which can be problematic to acquire. On this page of the guide we have described how to get materials.
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Upgrading the Hideout is one of the most important elements of Assassin's Creed Shadows. Building and upgrading buildings is very useful and facilitates gameplay in various ways. However, it requires certain materials: Crops, Wood and Minerals. Upgrading the Hideout is expensive and requires a large amount of materials. On this guide page, we described all the ways in which you can gain crafting materials.
They can usually be found in enemy castles, temples, and areas marked on the map with a red diamond. When you hover over the icon of an enemy location, you'll see the wealth level of this place. Low wealth locations will offer you little materials, as opposed to the wealthy ones. After some time, the wealth of the location increases, but "high" is as good as it gets. So, look for materials in high wealth areas whenever possible.
- Materials lying around
- Contracts
- Stockpiles, smuggling and stores
- Port Traders
- Chest in the stable
- How to obtain materials for upgrading equipment?
Materials lying around
The simplest, yet simultaneously the longest way to collect materials is to explore enemy areas, where loot will be lying around on the ground. Alternatively, you will find them in small boxes. While using the Observe mechanic, the materials will be marked with a gold dot. In terms of crops, you'll find small clumps of grains, wood is found in the form of several planks tied together, and minerals come as barrels filled with stones. Collect them whenever you come across them - although they don't give you much materials, they are everywhere to be found. Unfortunately, you have to collect each such material manually.
Contracts
The best way to quickly acquire a large amount of materials is through contracts - small, randomly generated missions that you can accept in kakuregas, which are hideouts located all over the game map. Every 3 months, 3 contracts are generated in each region, and one of the possible rewards for completing them is a significant amount of materials - several hundred pieces of each type of material. Completing a contract should only take you a few minutes, and the reward is definitely worth it. If there is no contract rewarding you with materials in the kakurega, check the kakurega in other regions or wait for the season to change, which will renew all contracts.
Stockpiles, smuggling and stores
It's probably the most common method. In enemy territories, you will come across stockpiles - large pallets of materials marked on the compass with a barrel icon. Each of these pallets contains about 100-200 pieces of a specific material - pallets with grain give you crops, pallets with boards provide wood, and pallets with stones offer minerals. To obtain a pallet, you must assign two scouts to it. They will become unavailable for the rest of the season, planning to smuggle the pallets. You will not get these materials immediately - they will appear in your inventory automatically when the season changes. If you don't have any free scouts, you will have to buy them in the kakurega.
Improving the Hideout will make smuggling easier and more profitable. Upgrading the Stable will reduce the smuggling cost from two scouts to one and will increase the amount of resources obtained from smuggling. Upgrading the Study will permanently increase the number of available scouts, and building a nando will reduce the cost of buying new scouts.
Pallets are most often found in warehouses, which you enter through large, iron doors. The keys are always nearby, and you will locate them thanks to the Observe mode - the key will be marked with a golden dot, and when you get closer, you will see the key icon. The keys are either lying nearby or they are in the pocket of a nearby guard, whom you have to kill. Every key is universal and opens all warehouses in a specific location.
Port Traders
You can also buy materials from Port Traders, marked on the map with an anchor icon. They only appear in port cities, located by the water. The first such city in the game is Sakai, in the Izumi Settsu region. They offer large quantities of materials for purchase, but their products are expensive, so do this only if you have a lot of excess money.
Chest in the stable
Improving your Hideout will eventually result in passive income - when the season changes, all the scouts you haven't used will leave some loot in the Hideout, including money and materials. In order to do this, your Hideout needs to reach Level 2, which will probably happen very quickly. The chest is in the stable and you can take from it what the scouts have brought. Remember, however, that the scouts will leave loot only in an empty chest - if you don't take the resources from it before the season changes, they will be lost. So, remember to regularly return to the Hideout and empty the chest - if you use fast travel to get to the Hideout, you will land right in front of the chest, you just need to turn around.
How to obtain materials for upgrading equipment?
Upgrading equipment in the Forge also requires materials - however, not the same ones as in the case of upgrading our Hideout. Here, you'll need Hemp Cloth, Leather, Silk, Tamahagane, Oakwood, and Ironsand. They are obtained similarly to Hideout materials, but there are several important differences. Below we have listed how to acquire materials for upgrading weapons:
- Small chests - you won't find these materials lying around, they are always inside small chests.
- Contracts - occasionally, contracts will reward you with materials for upgrading equipment.
- Port Traders - you can purchase materials intended for upgrading not only your Hideout, but your equipment too.
- Dismantling weapons - you can dismantle obsolete weapons in the Forge. It'll give you some materials back.
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