There are over 30 types of resources in Flotsam, which must be used not only to survive but also to explore the vast seaworld. This guide will provide you with a tier list of the best resources in the game, which must be prioritized for successful survival. Note that this guide doesn’t include the upgrades, but only the raw resources.
Top Resources Tier List for Flotsam
Tier
Resources
S+
Battery, Engine, Solar Panel, Floater, Oil
S
Dry Wood, Fire Wood, Wooden Plank, Metal Plates, Electric Scrap, Metal Scrap, Plastic Scrap, Bottled Fish
Oil Gobbler, Dried Unbottled Fish, Grilled Gobbler, Unbottled Roll
S+ Tier Resources
Resources
Features
Battery
Vastly increases energy storage, with 1,250 Eels per battery and 2,500 for the holder, which is essential for travel and buffering power.
Engine
Core component for efficient work of all your generators, producing high-output power production, and you’ll need plenty of those by the late game.
Solar Panel
Passive and free continuous generation of 15 Eels constant, with no fuel or labor needed, which easily trumps all other means in the mid-to-late game.
Floater
Fundamental building block for nearly all structures, including walkways, generators, etc., which is recycled from plastic waste.
Oil
Top high-efficiency type of fuel for your generators, which is renewable if you have a Refinery using plastic waste, and certainly a late game powerhouse.
S-Tier Resources
Resources
Features
Dry Wood
Use it to craft Wooden Planks in Sawmill or Fire Wood in Workshop, but first you need to process it from Wet Wood on the drying racks, which takes some time.
Fire Wood
Essential early fuel for your distillers, grills, and the Wood Generator, once you hit a high demand for water, food, and power.
Wooden Planks
Core early building material for walkways, storage, distillers, etc., which you need to produce in abundant numbers with a high dry wood supply.
Metal Plates
Key resource for buildings, such as generators, refineries, farms, boats, etc., which can be crafted from 3 Metal Scrap and Fire Wood for better efficiency.
Electric Scrap
Required for advanced power systems, such as energy storage and holders, which can be processed into batteries.
Metal Scrap
Necessary for producing and processing metal plates, pipes, screws, and other metal components, and obtainable from salvage buoys and boats.
Plastic Scrap
Another important type of waste for building the Floaters, which can be passively salvaged from buoys and boats.
Bottled Fish
Essential food from Fishing Chair that dries into Dried Bottled Fish for storage, and is used to satiate hunger and thirst.
A-Tier Resources
Resources
Features
Wet Wood
Early game staple resource that’s easily collected from buoys and swimmers, just double-click to highlight all nearby floaters for quick gathering.
Seaweed
Key alternative to fish ingredient for mid-game foods, such as salads, sheets, and rolls, which can be farmed using Seaweed Grower from spores.
Bird Chow
Feed this to the seagulls to gain passive resource income of wood and plastic, which seriously boosts automation.
Grilled Flounder
Early grilled food from Flounder and Grill, which satiates both your hunger and thirst, and is much better than the raw options.
Unbottled Fish
Unbottler removes some pollution from the raw fish and yields plastic byproducts.
Unbottled Filet
Fishwasher lowers pollution in the raw fish filet, which is used in high-tier foods like Unbottled Rolls with seaweed.
Flounder Filet
Base for the Quarter Flounder, which not only boosts your morale once consumed, but also has the lowest levels of pollution.
Note that the rest of the resources are either processed foods or less efficient alternatives to what’s already been listed above.
