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Assassin’s Creed: Shadowsis full of resources to find. You’ll need silk, wood, and various stones to build things in your hideout and upgrade your gear. However, you’ll never have enough of what you need.
Each resource is obtained in a different way, and you can’t just rely on picking it up from the floor in castles and other bases. You’ll need to buy it, use your existing gear to get more, and even smuggle it. You’ll want to know how to get each one so that you can make improvements to your Hideout and keep your gear consistent with the level requirements of the story quests.
How To Get Minerals, Crops And Wood
You’ll need to find the likes of Minerals, Crops, and Wood to upgrade buildings in your Hideout and to build new ones you’ve unlocked. However, you’ll need hundreds of each to build the most useful additions. These are the resources you’ll be in most need of throughout Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Minerals
Upgrading or building rooms and buildings at the Hideout.
Found in bundles at enemy bases and castles, can be smuggled by Scouts, or bought from most shops. The Port Trader near the coast in Sakai is a reliable place to go.
Crops
Found in bundles at enemy bases and castles, can be smuggled by Scouts, or bought from most shops. The Port Trader near the coast in Sakai is a reliable place to go. You’ll also find it in some chests around the world, since it’s the most common resource.
Wood
Found in bundles at enemy bases and castles, can be smuggled by Scouts, or bought from most shops. The Port Trader near the coast in Sakai is a reliable place to go. Occassionally found in chests.
How To Get Upgrade Resources
You need various materials to upgrade Naoe and Yasuke’s gear and weapons, each of which you’ll regularly be running low on. Different materials are used for Naoe and Yasuke’s weapons, as well as their gear, so you’ll need to know where to get each of them.
Hemp Cloth
Naoe Gear Upgrades
you’re able to get it from most traders, including the Port Trader in Sakai. You’ll also get it for dismantling Naoe’s clothing gear at the Forge, and you’ll get small amount when looting some enemies and chests.
Leather
Yasuke Gear Upgrades
You can get it from most traders, including the Port Trader in Sakai. You’ll also get it for dismantling Naoe and Yasuke’s clothing gear at the Forge, and you’ll get small amount when looting some enemies and chests.
Silk
Clothing Upgrades
Gold
Full upgrades for any weapon or gear item. Takes the item to your current overall character level.
Earned as a reward for certain quests in the back half of the game. We got our first at level 28, near the end of Act 2.
Tamahagane
Can be obtained by dismantling weapons and Yasuke’s gear at the Forge in your Hideout. You can also find it in chests and when looting high level enemies.
Oakwood
Ironsand
Yasuke Weapon Upgrades
Can be bought from most traders, and by dismantling weapons at the Forge in your Hideout.
Resource Smuggling, Explained
Resource smuggling is thebest way to get large stock of resources for both gear upgrades and Hideout improvements. You will find large stock of various resources out in the world in Assassin’s Creed Shadows, butyou can’t just pick them up.
The large stocks are usually found in enemy forts and castles, sometimes behind locked doors. If you have Scouts available, you cantag the stocks to ask Scouts to pick them up and return them to your Hideout. You’ll then be able to use those resources to improve your base of operations.
If you need more Scouts quickly, you can always head to a Kakurega in towns to buy an additional Scout for 200 Mon.
