Hi folks! Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a pure city-building experience with a high focus on the economy. Building production buildings, transporting the goods, further processing them and finally distributing to your citizens (or using them for different purposes, such as trading) is a backbone of the game. The aspect of transportation in difficult mountain terrain is actually pretty complex and will be discussed in a separate post, but today we'd like to tell you more about resources and production chains present in the game. [h2]Production chains[/h2] Our idea here is simple: variety. For some resources, you'll need only a single production building and that's it. Others can be obtained only via a multi-staged production chain with multiple semi-finished products. Some buildings require yaks to operate, some have to be placed near the water source, some can be only built on resource deposits. Each production building requires a specified type of workforce to operate - Commoners, Lowlanders or Monks. With all of these factors obtaining each resource has a unique characteristic of a setup required, so you won't be employing the same building pattern over and over again. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/4100b1cbf9aac96728506dad590e4f11f454b4b6.jpg[/img] This is the scheme of all available production chains in the game. Please note that we're still working on it, so things may change, and this scheme is taken directly from our internal development documentation, so it's not pretty :) [url=https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/9b2ac5a80cf6de3b84bffcdd71f2fa964cff3784.png][img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/dd2c78d389854180d88a60e5980d231f4db2ac45.png[/img][/url] (click for zoom in) [h2]Resources[/h2] As you can see, while there are many "standard" goods present here, like Fish, Cheese, Wood and Beer, the game also features some more exotic ones, such as Tsampa or Butter Lamps for example. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/b2e18a835343b6e3c91c4cac5352c5de0f8712d2.jpg[/img] [b]Tsampa[/b] is basically barley flour, which can be turned into a nutritious meal. This dish is quite popular in the Himalayan region, partially due to the easy way of preparing it. In our game producing and distributing Tsampa is one of the basic ways of providing food for your citizens. It's especially desirable for Commoners and Monks, who are used to the simpler ways of life than Lowlanders. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/2d375d7c0496c939979fae2b11458a7fda16353f.jpg[/img] [b]Butter Lamps[/b] requires Butter and Copper Utensils to produce. Again, Butter Lamps are actually used in Tibet as an aid for meditation and religious practices. In Laysara they serve the same purpose, helping people tend their spiritual needs. It should come as no surprise that they are desirable the most for Monks. Ending the topic of resources, we'd like to show you something we`re actually very happy with. When carriers are moving goods from one place to another, there are adequate visualizations for every single resource they can carry. This way you don't have a crowd of clones with generic-looking packages walking on the streets, but rather a colourful mixture with distinctive resource shapes. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/8f328510cda268064bd317fd87b0a266b0db48fd.jpg[/img] [h2]Supported languages update[/h2] Jumping to real-world topics for a moment: we find the Russian full-blown invasion of Ukraine outrageous and disgusting. As Polish developers, we're doing what we can to help privately, and as a studio, we're dropping a Russian localisation of the game and we'll do a Ukrainian one instead. [img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//41623538/fbffbac552e336b184278245e796012ac4f955cc.jpg[/img] That's all we've got for you today, as always, we remain open to your question and suggestions! See you next time. Maciek & Michał