Your Friends and Shipmates can also gift them to you - but the proper Pirate method is to steal them from other Havens during Raids. You can exchange excess Resources or Rum at the Market for whatever you're running low on. If you run out of Rum, your Crew will begin to desert you. Every unit in the game consumes its own set level of Rum per hour. Rum is used to keep your pirate subjects and sailors happy. Make sure you upgrade your Rum Cellar at the same rate at which you increase your Rum revenue or anything over your capacity will go to waste. The amount of Rum you can store in your Haven is limited by the capacity of your Rum Cellar(s). Build and upgrade your Rum Distilleries and the Windmill to increase Rum production. Rum is produced at your Rum Distilleries. Upgrade your Warehouse to store more Resources. The amount of Gold and Lumber you can store is limited by your Warehouse capacity. To gain more Resources, construct and upgrade Gold Mines and Lumber Yards and resource related buildings - such as the Goldsmith and Sawmill. You can make up for the discrepancy by trading Resources with other players. The ratio of resource fields varies for different Havens – some have more Gold Ore, others have more Stacks o' Lumber. The amount of Lumber and Gold you can gain per hour depends on the number of fields you have for these Resources, the number of Lumber Yards and Gold Mines you've build, and their upgrade levels. You need them to construct buildings, research Discoveries and produce new Units. There are three main types of Resources in the game – Rum, Lumber and Gold. Resource Buildings are additions to your Haven that allow you to extract resources from your island, (or produce them more efficiently). The same goes for several of the defensive Improvements that can only be installed on the Fortifications. For example, Fortifications can be constructed only on the Haven Beachhead sections. Some buildings can only be built on designated areas. Click «Build», choose a place inside the Haven, and start construction.Read the information regarding the cost and requirements for construction - many of the building require a certain discovery or substantial upgrading of other buildings before they can be built.Choose the tab for the desired building category (Defensive, Command, Etc.).
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