Everything you construct or research and every troop you build requires resources.
There are four types of physical resources produced by buildings in the field view:
- Food produced by farms,
- Wood produced by sawmills,
- Stone produced by quarries, and,
- Ore produced by mines.
Increasing resource production
There are a number of ways you can increase your resource production:
- Build more production buildings such as farms, sawmills, etc in your Fields.
- Level up your production buildings.
- Make sure you have enough population to staff all your buildings.
- Conquer the appropriate type of wildernesses to increase production.
- For example, grassland increases food production by 5% per level.
- Research technologies related to each resource, such as Fertilizer, Logging, Stoneworking, and Mining.
- Purchase and use production-related shop items.
- Appoint a Knight as a Steward, increasing your resource production. This is the most immediately useful increase. If you have no Steward, appointing one will immediately increase the production of all your resources by 50% of the base production. Each subsequent 'resourcefulness' skill point will increase it further to a maximum of 100% extra - doubling the base production. The Knight's bonus doesn't affect other bonuses (such as wildernesses) though.
For a temporary resource boost, you can also purchase resources in the Market.