Resources

Overview
Resources are a complex thing in Axioms. Resources fall into a variety of categories including food, materials for goods, buildings, and items, rare magically powerful resources, and plants and herbs for various things like potions and alchemy.

Climate And Terrain
Different resources are found in specific climates and terrains. Temperature, rainfall, altitude, forest, plains, hills, swamps, etc. Trade is therefore required to access a wide variety of resources for various uses.

Processing
Most raw resources are processed into products before being made into items or consumer goods and/or incorporated into buildings. Metal ore must be smelted into bars or ingots for instance. Stone must be carved and wood must be chopped. Herbs and plants must be processed into pastes, oils, tinctures, or powders before being employed to make potions or applied in crafting to help produce other items.