Resources

There are three types of resources: basic, strategic and luxury.

Basic resources

There are five basic resources in Endless Legend 2. Together they are called FIDSI and stand for:

• Food is stored on a city-level. Every population consumes Food. If Food is positive the population progressively grows. If Food is negative the population progressively declines, starting with the ones that consume the most Food.
• Industry is stored on a city-level and is primarily used to create units and structures or be converted into another resource via Convert Actions, but can also have more exotic uses like powering converters or allowing landscaping. If a City is not using Industry, it will store up to one turn of their production as surplus. The surplus will be instantly added to the next construction when one is ordered. Everything that costs Industry will show the number of turns it takes to complete next to the cost.
• Dust is stored on an empire-level and is primarily used to pay for army upkeep, accelerate constructions via Buyouts, purchase Strategic and Luxury resource, or bribing minor factions, but has numerous other uses as well.
• Science is stored on an empire-level and is used to research technologies.
• Influence is stored on an empire-level and is to build Foundations, attach or evolve Camps, and conduct diplomacy with other empires.

Cities can convert Industry into other basic resources. Which conversions are available depends on what technologies the empire has researched.

Strategic resources

Strategic sesources are used to construct more advanced Units and Improvements as well as unlock Unit Specializations. They are harvested by building Mines on strategic resource deposits. More rarely they can also be obtained from quests or by defeating powerful monsters.