Where To Find Every New Resource In Cult of the Lamb: Woolhaven

The economy in this game used to be simple, but Woolhaven has decided to make things complicated by introducing five new currencies you need to juggle.

I spent way too much time wandering around Ewefall wondering why I couldn't find any Yewbark before I realized I was in the completely wrong dungeon. The game gives you vague hints, but it doesn't exactly hand you a GPS tracker for loot. If you are stuck trying to build a heater or upgrade your ranch, you need to know exactly where to look. I compiled the drop data so you don't have to rely on blind luck.

The Resource Cheat Sheet

Instead of reading through paragraphs of text just to find one item location, look at this table. I listed the resources by importance and where I actually found them dropping consistently.

THE WOOLHAVEN LOOT TABLE

Stop guessing. Here is where the stuff actually drops.

Resource	Primary Locations	My Take / Strategy
Rotburn	Rotburn Mines, Dungeon Crystals (Flaming Skulls), Dead Rotten Followers.	Most Critical. If you ignore this, you freeze. Prioritize Rotburn Mines over everything else.
Wool	Shearing Livestock, Dungeon Chests, Frozen Ancestors.	Don't rely on dungeons for this. Build a Ranch and shear your animals. It is the only consistent method.
Charged Shards	Ewefall Dungeons (Generators), Lightning Rods.	Ewefall Only. Once you unlock Lightning Rods, place them everywhere to farm this passively during storms.
Cursed Yewbark	Interior Mountain Dungeons (The Rot), Killing Enemies.	This is pure RNG. It drops frequently in The Rot, so just keep grinding combat runs there.
Pure Yewbark	Crafted at Refiner.	You can't find this. You have to make it. Cost: 2 Cursed Yewbark + 2 Charged Shards.

A Note On Charged Shards

I see a lot of people complaining they can't find Charged Shards while exploring the mountain interior. That is because they don't spawn there.

These are specific to the Ewefall exterior dungeon. You get them by destroying the generators you see on the map. However, the real game changer is the Lightning Rod. Once you unlock this building, build as many as you can afford. Whenever a blizzard hits, they passively collect shards. It turns a rare resource into something you have too much of.

The Scam That Is Rotgrit

You might unlock something called Rotgrit once you get a Level 3 Furnace.

I'm going to save you some time: Ignore it.

It is produced by the furnace as a byproduct, and its only use is to be refined back into Rotburn. It sounds useful on paper, but by the time you have a Level 3 Furnace, you should have enough Rotburn Mines that you don't need to recycle your own waste. It is a filler item. Don't obsess over collecting it.

Farming Wool Without The Ranch

If you are too stubborn to build a ranch, you can get Wool in dungeons, but it is miserable.

You have to look for "Frozen Ancestors", those ice blocks with guys inside them, and smash them. Or hope for a chest drop. But honestly, just build the ranch. Baraq sells animals for Wool, so it is an investment loop. Spend Wool to get animals, raise animals to get more Wool. It beats hoping for a 5% drop rate in a dungeon.

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