If you get the mine first and can't pick all the piles in the same turn, you don't lose anything, as they will be still there the next day waiting to be taken. If you spend your movement points collecting the piles, you might not be able to reach the mine in the same turn, virtually losing the mine's production for a day. When you encounter a resource mine surrounded by piles, it is wise to try to flag the mine first. There is no way to see the exact amount of resources that can be found in a pile before picking it up. All piles discovered should be collected, because they are quite numerous especially in the starting area and usually prove to pay a very big importance on the economical field. More often than not, a concentration of resource piles of a certain type indicate a mine of the same type in the vicinity. The piles can be collected, each of them offering 2-10 units of the resource type they represent (for Gold, the offered quantity is a multiple of 100, between 200-1000). On the course of the adventure, a hero may encounter resource piles (each resource type has it's own resource pile, easily distinguished by the similarity between the pile's aspect and the resource type's icon).

There are three main ways to produce resources: finding loose resource piles on the adventure map, flagging resource mines and trading resources at marketplaces. 1.4 Additional ways of gaining resources.

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