Resources and Discovery

Resources are player-discovered by submitting a salt in a deterministic hash function.

Discovery function

• Resource name + tile seed + salt gets hashed.
• Difficulty is measured by leading-zero count.
• First discovery sets rarity class.

A resource can be:

• common (easy to discover)
• uncommon
• rare
• legendary (very hard)

Slot occupancy

Each tile has a base number of resource slots. Rarer resources take more slots:

• Common → 1 slot
• Uncommon → 2 slots
• Rare → 3 slots
• Legendary → 4 slots

Slots cap total discovery per tile.

Utility model

• Resources can pay taxes in weighted baskets
• Higher rarity can unlock upgrades and stronger tax-affinity effects
• Future extensions: crafting, governance hooks, and special tile upgrades

Economy consequences

• Discovery is an on-chain/off-chain race that creates asymmetric early advantage.
• Rarer outcomes must not feel unreachable.
• Repeatable discoverability on any tile should remain possible at a higher cost, but not impossible.