Recursos

Pre-alpha gatherable mushrooms found in an underground cave.

We want our players to have a reason to explore the wilderness, to travel with purpose, and much of that will be driven by our resource system. Transporting these goods might just be more difficult than gathering them. Our regional market system allows players to participate in creating pocket economies that will reinforce the stability of goods in particular regions.

Gatherable resources (also known as raw materials, gatherables, and harvestables) occur in locations where you would expect them to be organically.

• Lower level resources will be abundant. Higher level resources that are gatherable by Apprentice level or higher artisans will spawn randomly but in places that make sense for that type of resource. Surveying is a mechanic that solo or group players can utilize to track these resources down.

We want to be able to spawn stuff randomly and we want to put it in places in the world that will make people travel and bolster up our local player-to-player economies: have people actually be out in the world looking for stuff and not standing in the same place waiting for a tree or a flower to respawn over and over again. So, we're having the best of the both Worlds where we have our lower tier stuff that will fill out the base look of our world, so that it's always looking good; and then the higher tier stuff, from apprentice onward, will always spawn randomly in places that we've deemed look good and make sense for what that thing is. So, surveying is a way that you can track that stuff down. It will help you find places, will help you find particular resources, will help you find resources at a certain rarity; and so it should be something you could do as a gatherer on your own, or group up with other people to bolster up the power of your survey, or the range or reach of it. – Kory Rice

• Certain resources will only be gatherable for a limited time during specific story arcs.

You want to take advantage of the limited time you have during the story arcs to get some of these rare resources for crafting things. – Jeremy Gess

• Seasonal resources are only gatherable during specific seasons.

• Some resources are only gatherable at specific times of the day or night.

• The location the resource was found can affect the benefits, bonuses, and other characteristics of that resource.
  • Some resources will be one-time gatherables, others will exist as clusters that will last until the vein is depleted.

• Players drop resources and other items upon death, based on their applicable death penalties.

• Resources looted from caravan wreckages become stolen resources.

• Resources do not expire or degrade over time.

We don't want to create an environment I feel where you're having to micromanage each of the resources that are very vast in our game. We have 100 plus material system where you're having to play whack-a-mole with managing those things... I don't see the value in it. – Steven Sharif

• Raw materials (gatherable resources) are not to be confused with crafting materials (processed goods).

Resource types

• Aged Aelan Whiskey Barrel
• Ancient Aelan Wine Barrel
• Ancient Aelan Wine Flagons
• Animal byproducts
• Animals
• Apples
• Armament Cases
• Barrels of Fish
• Beef
• Bins of Stone
• Carton of Flasks
• Case of Dunir Tools
• Case of Everburn Scented Candles
• Case of Kaelar Wooden Soldiers
• Casks of Wine
• Cloth Bolts
• Commodities
• Cords of Wood
• Corrupted resources
• Crates of Lumber
• Crop Bundles
• Crops
• Dyed Fabrics
• Eggs
• Fish
• Gems
• Hardy Rations Shipment
• Harvest Bundles
• Hauling Wagons
• Herb Bushels
• Herbs
• Lightly Seasoned Meat
• Livestock
• Lumber
• Meal Packs
• Meat Racks
• Milk
• Mushrooms
• Node commodities
• Ore
• Packs of Fresh Produce
• Palettes of Stonework
• Pig Hide
• Pig Meat
• Resource locations
• Resource types
• Rolls of Leather
• Salt Cured Meat
• Seeds
• Stacks of Ingots
• Stacks of Pelts
• Stolen resources
• Structural Materials
• Trained Draft Beasts
• Wool

Resource quality

Alpha-2 materials inventory of gatherable resources.

Recursos will have differing tiers of quality for the same resource type. This is somewhat similar to Star Wars Galaxies.

• Gatherers who are more advanced in their artisan tree will unlock higher level harvesting tools that have a greater chance of collecting higher quality resources or proccing a greater quantity.

You will have an opportunity to proc certain qualities based on your progression in the Artisan tree. So if you are a gatherer; and as you advance in your gathering, you'll have a higher opportunity to collect better resources. – Steven Sharif

Ferramentas artesanais

Tenaz, ferramenta artesanal do Alpha-1.

Classes artesãs de coleta requerem a criação e o uso de ferramentas de coleta que permitem a coleta de recursos.

• Progressão na classe artesã da coleta abre ferramentas de coleta de nível mais alto que permitem a coleta de recursos de nível mais alto.
  • Um coletor com proficiência máxima abrirá Master toolsets, o que lhe concederá acesso aos coletáveis da mais alta qualidade.
• Ferramentas terão durabilidade e vida útil.
  • A quantidade de usos de uma ferramenta de coleta aumenta conforme o coletor se torna mais proficiente na árvore de artesanato da coleta.
  • Ferramentas podem se tornar inconsertáveis, necessitando que sejam re-fabricadas.
• Artesãos não precisarão depender de outras árvores para fazer suas ferramentas.

As ferramentas avançam na árvore de artesanato, então a sua capacidade de coletar, processar ou fabricar vai precisar das ferramentas equivalentes necessárias naquele estágio de criação para realizar a sua tarefa. Então você não poderia minar cobre e mithril com a mesma ferramenta. – Steven Sharif

O processamento requere blueprints para a construção de edificações que são necessárias para processar recursos.

• A fabricação requere a aquisição de receitas para fabricar itens.

Resource extractors

Resource extractors are potential constructions that can collect resources over time.

Algumas das informações a seguir não foram confirmadas recentemente pelos desenvolvedores e podem não estar no roteiro de desenvolvimento atual.

• Available to node citizens who own a freehold near a "resource center".
• Requires several people to construct.
• Moving resources from the extractor will likely require a caravan.

Seasonal resources

Gloomy Pross is a seasonal resource that is only gatherable in the winter.

If a particular region moves into a season and that week you can't grow a particular type of good, but another region halfway across the world can grow that good; and you talk about moving those goods across regions so that they're relevant to either craft workbenches or you can sell them in the local economies: That is a major indicator of movement of goods and movement of goods carries risks; and risks can create political foes and friends... Something as simple as just a climate can have cascading consequences across the entirety of the game. – Steven Sharif

Seasons affect crops and other herbology resources available for gathering or planting, including how crop rotation is managed.

• Seasonal variations in resource availability will impact the economy and necessitate the transit of goods between different regions.

One of the things that is huge about the season system and how it affects crops and the gatherables in the game is the impact it will have on the economy. When a particular area no longer is capable for a week's period of time, or even potentially longer, of producing a certain type of crop or harvestable; and that has to change across the world regionally, now the transit system of those materials of those gatherables they become more relevant, and they're subject to potential risk; and the prices might go up in certain areas. It is something that is actually very instrumental in the overall design of the economy in the game. – Steven Sharif

• Seasons may not directly affect certain gatherables, such as veins of ore, but access to those resources may be blocked during certain weather conditions.

It won't likely affect too much on certain resource spectrums like veins of ore. Those might not be affected by the seasons or weather systems, but there might be blockages to cave networks that house those types of ore veins. Alternatively it is going to be significant impact on any type of herbology or plant-based types of gatherables. It's going to have significant impacts on crops that players can plant themselves on their properties; and that they'll be able to harvest. They're going to need to time the crop placement and its maturity window so that it's harvestable and available to be harvest before the change of seasons that might adversely affect certain types of crops. And not every biome will experience the same type of effects caused by the seasonality of the world. The desert biome might instead of snow have significant more winds that pick up that could be damaging to more fragile types of crops if you have a freehold in that location. – Steven Sharif

Recursos subterrâneos

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Recursos serão diferentes no subterrâneo.

• Isso afetará as profissões de Plantação e Criação de animais.
• Já que os jogadores só poderão ter uma propriedade, eles devem escolher sua especialização de classe artesã de acordo com se querem possuir terras no subterrâneo ou na superfície.

Resource locations

Ashes of Creation will predominantly have curated content, but procedural mechanics will be leveraged in a places where they don't appear to be 'procedural'.

• Verra's map will not be procedurally generated, but starting resource points may be different on each server.
• Node locations and types are predefined and are the same on each server but they will develop differently on each and drive different narratives and storylines.
• Node layout and style is determined by several factors, such as Environment (biome) and location, Node type, and Race.
• Roads are both pre-generated and player influenced.

Wherever we can leverage procedural mechanics in such a way that does not appear procedural we should. There's a healthy blend between the things that we do in having defined parameters for it and then incorporating a procedural component; and in that sense it will be perceived well, but where we the predominance of what we're implementing should be curated or by design. – Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 mine shaft.

Players will be able to move resources and set up shop in other areas to take advantage of the varied markets. With resources spawning dynamically, certain regions will naturally become important trading hubs for the transportation of goods throughout the world.

The location a resource is found can affect its benefits, bonuses, and other characteristics of that resource.

• Lower level resources will be abundant. Higher level resources that are gatherable by Apprentice level or higher artisans will spawn randomly but in places that make sense for that type of resource. Surveying is a mechanic that solo or group players can utilize to track these resources down.

• Some resources will exist as a cluster (also called vein gatherables). These will last until the full resource is depleted.

  Like a large mine that's present and has a vein of mithril ore in it, or a herd of some type of animal that you can collect fur or wool from. – Steven Sharif

  • Once a vein resource is depleted from one location it may respawn in the same location or somewhere else, depending on the type of resource.
  • There will be moving resources such as herds of animals that are constantly moving around the world.

  Herds are a source of certain types of wild gatherables but they're in animal form and they're animated; and they exist in a group of the golden fleece sheep that might only spawn very rarely in certain hillsides; and only during spring. And if you can find that vein so to speak of resource you can interact with the herd and you can gather from them. – Steven Sharif

• Corrupted areas house corrupted resources that are necessary components for certain crafting recipes.

Certain types of resources will have a corrupt state... We have a Spirit Bloom, which is a harvestable herbalism plant, but when a Zone becomes corrupt you can potentially yield Corrupted Spirit Blooms; and those are necessary components of certain crafting recipes. – Steven Sharif

• Some unique resources may be monsters in disguise or have monsters defending them.

Algumas das informações a seguir não foram confirmadas recentemente pelos desenvolvedores e podem não estar no roteiro de desenvolvimento atual.

• Resources respawn on a cooldown basis.
• Resources won't be locked to the node system.
• Starting resource points may be different on each server.

Loot tables

Alpha-2 Saques UI.

• Mobs drop glint, Itens, and crafting materials in preference to gold.
  • Glint is not bound to a specific region and can be also dropped by players on death as stolen glint, based on applicable death penalties.
  • The rarity of glint increases with the mob's level.
  • Loot tables are disabled for player controlled monsters.
  • There is a small RNG chance of looting rare and legendary items or crafting materials from mobs based on the level, status and type of mob. This also applies to harvesting resources with a gathering profession.
  • Experience debt decreases the drop rate percentages from monsters.

• Loot (loot tables) from world bosses or dungeon bosses has a small RNG chance of dropping gear (completed items).
  • There is a much higher chance that materials and unique recipes are dropped that can be used to craft items of equitable value.
  • Legendary equipment is only dropped by Legendary world bosses.

• Stats on dropped items will vary based on the rarity of the item.

• Loot tables will likely not be affected by weather conditions. This was previously listed as a possible effect.

• There won't be specific loot drops for artisans. Previously it was stated that master gatherers may have the ability to "spoil" a boss' loot.

Q: Can only one gathering artisan harvest resources from a single boss, or can multiple different artisans harvest different parts from a boss for different resources? For example, a lumberjack gets a special wood from Tumock's tree weapon, while a herbalist gathers the flowers from that same tree.

A: We don't have the concept of harvesting from bosses. NPCs follow a reward table format, where those reward tables are global. They're not unique to particular players. So, once the NPC is vanquished, you have access to the loot container that is its corpse; and it has a static value of either materials or items that get dropped; and whatever the party loot settings are that you might be a part of, or if you're a solo player you will be able to recover those things.

Gerenciador mundial

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O Gerenciador Mundial é um algorítmo em Ashes of Creation responsável por controlar elementos dinâmicos do mundo. Ele age como um sistema tanto limitador como incentivador para diversas atividades, com o objetivo de garantir que certos parâmetros estejam dentro de limites aceitáveis.

• Preços de certificados de caça.
• Um mapa de atividade da experiência recebida para ser usada na evolução de base.
• Movimentação de recursos e bens entre regiões para incentivar recompensas de missões nas bases.

Por exemplo, se você sabe que o ferro está sendo usado como um recurso primário na fabricação de certos itens, isso pode aumentar o preço da prata ou do mithril; isso pode incentivar o mercado a se corrigir um pouco. A ideia é oferecer pequenos incentivos para ajudar a aliviar a demanda e também aumentar a oferta que pode não estar presente nos sistemas econômicos. – Steven Sharif

Timeline

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Classes Artesãs estão programadas para lançar no Alpha-1.

Ver também

• Coleta
• Processamento
• Materials
• Classes Artesãs