Legacy of Kings Map: Resource Distribution and Density

Resources in Legacy of Kings

• Coins: The primary currency and your most basic resource, Gold Veins and Coral Reefs.
• Food: Keeps your community running. You'll get it through farming, ranching, and Fishing.
• Workforce: Towns provide the people needed to keep your operations functional.
• Gems: The premium currency, Gem Veins.
• Lumber: Your basic building block, harvested from Forests.
• Stone: Quarried from Hills or Mountains.
• Clay: Dug up at Clay Pits found in Swamps.
• Iron: Extracted from Iron Mines located in Hills or Mountains.
• Goods: Items manufactured by processing other raw materials.
• Steel: Produced by smelting Iron.
• Army: Recruited and trained within your Towns.

Lumber

Lumber is the first and easiest resource to grab. Just find a Forest and build a Lumber Mill there.

Lumber, a resource needed to build various buildings and to upgrade towns. Lumber Mill produces lumber from surrounding forests.

The amount of wood you get depends on how thick the trees are, but you can always plant your own forest if needed. Try not to let the work areas of your Lumber Mills overlap, otherwise you’ll end up with a wasteland. I usually space them out so they don't share any tiles, though you can technically get away with two mills working the same spot.

Old Forest Old Forest is your best bet for lumber, food, and hides, yielding five times more than a standard forest. Take care of these areas and avoid placing multiple Lumber Mills on a single Old Forest tile, since you might clear-cut it completely. Stick to a maximum of two Lumber Mills per tile.

You’ll mostly use lumber to expand and upgrade buildings, but it’s also vital for the various workshops you can set up in Towns.

One particularly handy upgrade lets you build Lumber Mills away from roads, which makes grabbing wood a lot easier.

Stone

Stone is easy to find and vital for both building and upgrading your Towns.

Stone is easy to come by, just set up a Stone Quarry on Hills or Mountains.

You can extract Stone using a Quarry or Large Stone Quarry on Hills or Mountains.

It’s an easy resource to find. Keep in mind that if you build one mine next to another, you won't need a road. I usually drop Stone Quarries on empty tiles around Iron Mines just to fill the gaps.

The main upgrade for Stone Quarries is the Ox Stable, which boosts Stone production in the surrounding area by 50%.

Clay

Clay is tougher to track down since you can only extract it from Swamps, which are tucked away in specific spots across the map.

Clay - Just set up a Clay Pit on a Swamp to start digging.

Pulling enough Clay can be a real headache. Swamps, where you place your Clay Pits, aren't spread out evenly on map. Aside from the occasional lone tile, you'll find three major clusters and a few smaller ones on whole map. Check the Resources Map to track them down.

You'll need a ton of Clay for most structures and Town upgrades starting around the mid-game. For me, this was the first resource to run dry, and it stayed that way for most of my playthrough.

Iron

Iron is easy enough to find resource, but the real kicker is that you're going to need a massive amount of it.

Iron, to produce this resource, place a Furnace near mountains and build Iron Mines within its radius.

In the world of Legacy of Kings: Idle Builder, Hills and Mountains are quite common, so finding locations for Iron Mines is straightforward. Each Iron Mine supplies iron ore to a nearby Furnace. A single Furnace, which has a range of two tiles, can support multiple Iron Mines. The Furnace is the structure responsible for producing the finished Iron.

You will require a vast amount of Iron, as it is utilized not only for construction and Town upgrades but also for the production of Steel and Goods. Eventually, your mountain ranges will be largely covered by mining operations.

Iron Mountain Iron Mountain is unique location designated for the construction of Mountain Steelworks.

Steel

Steel is a high-tier resource made by smelting Iron at the Foundry.

Produce Steel at the Foundry using Iron from your Furnace. You can even hook up multiple Foundries to a single Furnace to keep things moving.

Steel is an advanced material produced by processing your existing Iron.

Beyond construction of builidings and upgrading Towns, its main use is for your Army.

To get Steel, place a Foundry or Industrial Foundry next to an active Furnace. You can cluster several Foundries around a single Furnace if needed.

The Mountain Steelworks mentioned in the Iron section serve as another source.

The real challenge with Steel is the constant drain on your Iron reserves, which usually leads to a shortage.

Resource Storage - Warehouses

Every mine, farm, workshop, or production building has its own small storage, but it fills up fast. To tackle larger projects, like Capital upgrades, you'll need extra storage to stockpile resources.

• Small Storehouse: Affordable and unlocked early on. It stores Lumber, Stone, and Clay.
• Warehouse: Becomes available later in the game. It handles Iron, Goods, and Steel.
• Universal Warehouse: The top-tier option. It costs 200 Gems but stores all resource types, adds 5 Workforce to your pool, and doesn't require a road connection.

You can chain warehouses together or place them next to other buildings, meaning you only need one road connection for the whole cluster.

Upgrading your storage capacity is vital—it's easily one of the most important upgrades you can make.

Don't be overwhelmed by the number of warehouses you'll need to build. Since you'll want large, flat areas for Wheat and Livestock Farms, try tucking your warehouses into narrow, peripheral spaces instead.