How does collecting work in BitNations?

Producer buildings bank materials on a real-time timer. Tap the harvest dock on the dashboard to collect stone, wood, food, and later materials. Taxes and influence have their own dock buttons. Standing upkeep keeps producers relevant: food for people, steel for logistics, oil for energy, stone and wood for civic sites, plastic for industry taxes, and nano for build speed.

Why are my resources going down each hour?

Standing upkeep burns materials every play turn. Food feeds people; steel feeds logistics; oil and bio fuel feed energy; stone and wood maintain civic buildings; plastic supports industry taxes; nano bots keep construction fast. Build the matching producer, Collect on the harvest dock, and check the Resources tile rates (+/−N/hr). The owl advisor tips when use beats make.

📦 Collect & Chest

Harvest dock, standing upkeep, and daily login reward

Most of the game runs on the harvest dock at the bottom of the dashboard. Producer buildings bank materials while you are away. Tap 📦 to collect everything ready, or tap 💵 / 🤝 for tax bonus and influence. Research and building live in Manage.

Harvest dock

📦 Materials: drains every ready producer (quarry, mill, farm, and later ages).
💵 Taxes: unlocks with Writing. A bonus on top of automatic tax settle each turn.
🤝 Influence: banks over time. Spend it to settle the map, rush builds, change the budget, or move your capital.
Banks have caps. Influence stops collecting when you are at the cap (raise the cap by leveling up).

Food pantry

Your people eat about 1 🥩 per 10,000 citizens each play turn (plus a little for some early army units). Demand is capped so a full farm build at your age can cover the bill if you keep collecting. An empty pantry costs a little happiness (not deaths). Offline catch-up turns do not eat food.

Standing material upkeep

Every play turn also burns other materials for running the nation. Build the matching producer and Collect often enough to break even. Tap the Resources tile to flip stockpiles into rates (net +/−N/hr). When use beats make, a 🦉 owl appears on the harvest dock with tips (make vs use, and about how many more buildings to build). Building 🛈 details also show +N/hr each for producers.

🥩 Food: people (and some army). Empty → happiness drops. Make with 🌽 farms.
🪨 Stone / 🪵 wood: cities, culture/faith sites, wonders (civic upkeep). Empty → land growth slows. Make with ⛏ quarries / 🪚 lumber mills.
🔩 Steel: transport network (rail, port, air, space). Empty → logistics weaker. Make with 🏭 factories.
🛢 Oil (and later some 🧪 bio fuel): energy for industry and transport buildings. Empty → factory / refinery / AutoFacto Collect slows. Make with 🗼 oil wells (and ⚗️ biolabs). Wells and biolabs still Collect even when the tank is dry so you can refill.
🥤 Plastic: industry footprint (factories, refineries, airports, spaceports). Empty → tax income softens. Make with ⛽️ refineries (they need energy/oil to Collect at full rate).
👾 Nano bots: AutoFactos and nano units. Empty → build and train take longer. Make with 🤖 AutoFacto.

Demand for each material is clamped to what a full producer build at your age can pay if you Collect on cadence, so late-game nations are not permanently bankrupt. Max producers + steady Collect can cover; skip Collect and the stockpile drains. Catch-up / offline system turns do not burn these sinks.

Daily chest

The 🗃️ chest appears on the harvest dock once per day. Claim it for materials, XP, and a streak multiplier that grows when you return. Tap it whenever it glows, even during early tutorials.