How to increase Gathering Speed in Whiteout Survival

Whiteout Survival is a survival game which is based on a post apocalypse world in the middle of icy wastelands. The survival in this game depends on your efficiency in decision making during constructions and resource farming as these two are the backbone of your future progress and development. Many players make the mistake of ignoring resource gathering in the early to mid-stage of the game and solely focus on upgrading their offense.

Why is it important to focus on gathering resources and their proper utilisation? It is important because a faster gathering rate will ensure better sustain for your army, faster upgrades for buildings and mostly keep you ahead in competition. Whether you are a beginner or a lost player who is in search of guidance, let’s follow LDShop to help you increase your resource collection speed significantly which will lay a good foundation for your city in the long run.

Ways to speed up your resource gathering

In Whiteout survival, you will come across mainly 4 resources that are Coal, Iron, Wood and Meat out of which, Wood and Meat are needed to keep the city feeded and warm while Coal and Iron are needed for buildings and construction upgrades. There is a specific ratio for each resource that needs to be maintained and fulfilled in order keep the city running smoothly. These are the ways in which you can significantly accelerate your gathering speed to achieve rapid growth.

1. Musk Ox’s instant gathering skill

You must be wondering what this Musk Ox is. The Musk Ox is the third pet in the game that you will acquire after reaching a state where your age is of 60 days. It is a very good source of speeding up your gathering because of its special skill that allows it to complete a resource gathering expedition in an instant. There are other several pets that you can unlock once you build the Beast Cage building but Musk Ox is the first pet with the gathering skill.

 

2. Alliance benefits

Territory Bonus:

One of the biggest benefits of joining an alliance is the Territory Bonus. The territory provides 20% boost to Resource Gathering Speed, 10% Boost to Territory Defender Attack and Defense and 12% boost to every other resource Gathering speed. The territory bonus can be enjoyed by any alliance member inside the Alliance territory, that is any area within the border surrounding the Alliance HQ and Banners.

Alliance Tech Research

Apart from the territory bonus, Alliance also has Tech Research, using which Leaders can start the research on each type of resource. After the completion of the research regarding gathering speed, members can enjoy a +10% boost in their resource gathering speed.

 

3. Research Center

The research center building in your city will give you a massive speed up of +242.50% to your gathering speed when maxing out the resource research, where each has 6 different levels that unlock as you keep upgrading the Research Center.

 

4. Gathering Facility

Gathering facility is one of the facilities that Alliances within a state fight to obtain because of the buffs that the facilities provide. When acquiring this facility, it will boost up the gathering speed for all the members of the alliance by +5%. But once captured, it remains in a protection state where it can’t be attacked by any other alliance.

 

5. Using Heroes with Great Gathering skills

Heroes are an important source of gathering resources in this game. While sending out your Troops for capturing and gathering, adding heroes who excel in gathering and expedition skills will improve the efficiency and overall output but remember that you can only send out a maximum of 3 heroes at a time. As of now, there are only a limited number of heroes that comes with Expedition Skill and those heroes are:

Charlie

Charlie is a hero that has the Expedition skill called Coal Extraction. He is good for coal gathering as his ability boosts the Coal Gathering speed on map and this increases with the skill’s level.

Cloris

Cloris is a hero that has the Expedition skill called Predator. Cloris is good for meat gathering as his ability boosts the Meat Gathering speed on map and this increases with the skill’s level.

Eugene

Eugene is a hero that has the Expedition skill called Master Woodcutter. Eugene is good for Wood gathering as his ability boosts the Wood Gathering speed on map and this increases with the skill’s level.

Smith

Smith is a hero that has the Expedition skill called Craftmanship. Smith is the best hero for Iron gathering as his ability boosts the Iron Gathering speed on map and this increases with the skill’s level.

Do not forget to upgrade this expedition skill because as its level increases, the gathering speed also increases providing significant boosts to the heroes’ resource gathering speed.

• At skill level 1 → +5% faster
• At skill level 2 → +10% faster
• At skill level 3 → +15% faster
• At skill level 4 → +20% faster
• At skill level 5 → +25% faster

 

6. Using gems for extra Gathering Speed Boost

Making Whiteout Survival top up to purchase in-game boosters and huge piles of resources is a common tactic to stay ahead in terms of resources. The best platform to make the top-up is LDShop, it lets players top up for less and it is a great way to save money.

There exists another way to increase gathering speed by an absolute 100%, that is through special Gathering Speed Boost items which are bought by gems. The rates are as followed:

• For 250 gems - 8Hr Gathering speed boost
• For 600 gems - 24Hr Gathering speed boost

 

Tips to improve Gathering

Let's have a quick look at some useful tips that will help you ensure that your gathering is as efficient as it can be.

• Before going offline, make sure that you have sent out a march party to gather resources on the Map.
• Increase the march spots to its max to increase the number of resource spots you can gather at once.
• Buy VIP, as Increase in VIP levels will give you significant buffs and this will also increase your march spot to 5.
• Upgrade Storehouse building as this is the place where all your resources are being stored. It is good to protect your resources from being plundered during PvP.

 

Conclusion

In Whiteout Survival, achieving gathering superiority will give you a big jump to outpace the competitors. Managing to gather a lot of resources at a good pace will lead you to places and you will be able to achieve maximum development and growth in your city. By mastering the guides and tips to increase your gathering efficiency, you will see a much smoother growth graph and ultimate dominance in the frozen world.