Resources

Resources - without them you will get nowhere in CastleCraft. Here is a summary of the 4 current resources:

Food
Food is produced by harvesting from Farms. It is needed to feed your population, without sufficient production they will die. You need 235 food every 10 seconds for every 100,000 people in your population.

Gold
Gold is produced by harvesting Gold Mines, and as a reward from certain quests. The main use for it is to train units, it is also used to upgrade buildings and for researching new technologies. You can increase your gold production by 50% for every mountain under your control. As gold is used for almost everything, you ma find you need more of it than the other resources.

Lumber
Lumber is produced by harvesting Lumber Mills, and as a reward from certain quests. Wood is the main resource when upgrading buildings, you also need it for researching new technologies. You can increase you lumber production by 50% for every forst under your control.

Dragon Crystals
Dragon Crystals are a special resource, they cannot be produced from buildings, but Crystal Refineries in the city you're attacking from will increase the amount of crystals collected according to it's level. There is currently two ways to obtain them: you can buy them for real-world money or, until they are depleted, special places on the map where your troops can collect them. After one army has been sent to an area it disappears, this is a reward for the first players, a promotion to get more people to play.

Dragon craters are guarded by dragons. Each dragon is +20 battle points. The number of crystals in the crater determines the number of dragons.

Usually, it goes like this:


 * 10 ~ 1 dragon
 * 20-30 ~ 2 dragons
 * 50-60 ~ 5 dragons
 * 100+ ~ 6 dragons