Resources are raw materials that can be sold to other players. They can also be used to craft items or construct buildings. Resources can be obtained by the following means:

• Killing enemies and looting them.
• Gathering natural resources in the game world.
• Using special extracting buildings or devices.
• Recycling existing items.

Dropped items in the world are semi-permanent. Players have a strong incentive to gather dropped items to participate in the market.

The resource system of Bestia consists roughly of three tiers:

1. Raw materials
2. Refined crafting raw materials
3. Crafted Items

Whereas the first tier must usually be found and gathered in the world, it is then refined by certain players into the 2nd tier and lastly forged or crafted into usable items like equipment or weapons.

Resource Types link

The following base types of resources exist in the game.

List of Resources link

The Type column reuses the base resource types listed above, plus the refined categories they become. Metal is not a raw type found in a biome: metal bars are the refined (tier 2) form of the corresponding ore — iron becomes steel, gold ore becomes gold bars, and so on.

In Bestia, Mana is considered a resource. It permeates the land, and there are regions with different concentration levels. As higher mana levels usually mean more unstable biomes, it is up to the player to “harvest” mana and specialize in the extraction of this resource. The raw material is a mana-bearing powder (the Mana Essences listed above); when fed into a Mana Harvester it slowly grows into a mana crystal as the device draws mana from the surrounding environment. Mana crystals can also be found directly in the world, for example while mining. These crystals have various powerful magical usages.

Herbs link

Herbs grow all over the world as small plants you can pick. Most of them are wild herbs. Where the land is special, part of the herbs there are a rarer kind:

Where two of these meet, the rarer herb wins: a blighted forest grows ghost herbs, not medicinal herbs. A picked herb grows back after 10 minutes. Herbalism decides which herbs you can pick. Without it you can only pick herbs up to level 10, which is the wild herb.

Felling Trees link

Trees are where wood comes from. A grown tree drops four logs when it is felled, and some resin.

A tree that is removed leaves a stump. It does not matter how: chopped down, burnt, or blown apart by a spell. The stump grows back in stages, and each stage takes one real week.

A stump only sprouts if a grown tree stands within 12 m of it. If none does, it stays a stump and tries again a week later. So a forest grows back from its edges, one ring of trees at a time. A forest that was cut down completely never comes back.

A sapling or a young tree can be felled again. It turns back into a stump and starts over.

A tree whose ground was dug away is gone for good, stump and all. Nothing grows back over a hole.

Refining link

Ore must be processed into metal bars before it is usable — steel, for example, is refined from iron ore together with fuel inside a Furnace. Placing a furnace and smelting at all requires a Master with the Ore Refinement skill; every further rank raises the odds that a batch survives the heat.

Ore Levels link

Every ore carries an ore level just like any other item (see Item Level), and that level alone decides the base chance of a smelt succeeding:

  baseChance = 0.30 - max(0, oreLevel - 10) * 0.01
  

The two entry ores sit at or below Lv. 10 and share the same 30% base chance, so a smith who has just placed their first furnace can work tin and copper reliably from the very first rank of the skill. From there the chance erodes by 1% per ore level, turning negative at level 40 — beyond that point smelting is only worth attempting with skill ranks, good fuel and the stats to back them up. Nothing caps this: an Epic-tier ore above Lv. 100 keeps losing another 1% per level, so the ladder always has another rung that hurts.

Fuel link

Every smelt burns fuel alongside the ore, and a failed batch loses both.

On top of the base chance and the fuel come the smith’s Ore Refinement rank (up to +90%) and their STR and WIL — see Ore Refinement Success Chance for the full formula and worked examples.

Item Recycling link

For each item there is a list of base resources which the item is roughly based upon (this list is also used when forging or creating the item). When an attempt is made to recycle the item, there is a chance that the item is destroyed and the resources are lost. The skill Scavenger can increase the success chance.

The base chance for item recycling is:

The chance can be altered by the player’s INT (slightly) and DEX and also by the appropriate skill:

    P_total = P_base + INT / 40 + DEX / 20 + P_skill
  

If a recycling attempt is performed successfully, the amount of captured resources is determined:

The amount reclaimed is driven by the care taken while stripping the item apart rather than by raw knowledge, so DEX carries the most weight, WIL (steady focus) contributes a little, and no skill adds to it:

    R_total = R_base + DEX / 15 + WIL / 30