- Kinds9
- Spots on the map1,357
Resources in Permafrost are the boulders and trees you break on the world map for materials. The map has 1,357 spots for them, spread across 9 kinds.
Rock Boulders are the most common at 218 spots, closely followed by Flint Boulders at 200 and Iron Boulders at 196. Coal Boulders come next at 163, then Trees at 144. Sonnenberg's Clinic has by far the heaviest cluster, with 191 spots near it, against 77 around Horizon and 61 around Shallow Rift. Rat Queen's Crossing, Rift Cave and Landscar Cave follow.
Aim at a boulder and the prompt shows its name with a pickaxe icon. If that icon is red and crossed, the tool in your hand cannot break it. The Stone Pickaxe mines Flint and Stone, so it breaks Rock and Flint Boulders: one Rock Boulder went down after 9 hits. Coal, Sulfur and Copper Boulders need a Flint Pickaxe. The Flint Pickaxe does not break Iron, Gold or Moonrock Boulders, which take a better pickaxe. Trees come down with an axe, and the Stone Axe does the job. A felled tree drops as a log in pieces, and you pick up each piece for Wood.
Resources by number of spots
| Name | Pickaxe | Spots | Named places with the most |
|---|---|---|---|
 Rock Boulder | Stone Pickaxe | 218 | Horizon (34), Sonnenberg's Clinic (23), Improvised Radio Tower (16) |
 Flint Boulder | Stone Pickaxe | 200 | Sonnenberg's Clinic (27), Shallow Rift (14), Horizon (12) |
 Iron Boulder | — | 196 | Sonnenberg's Clinic (56), Rat Queen's Crossing (15), Shallow Rift (10) |
 Coal Boulder | Flint Pickaxe | 163 | Sonnenberg's Clinic (16), Horizon (12), Shallow Rift (12) |
| Tree | Axe | 144 | Horizon (9) |
 Sulfur Boulder | Flint Pickaxe | 137 | Sonnenberg's Clinic (42), Rat Queen's Crossing (16), Horizon (5) |
 Copper Boulder | Flint Pickaxe | 136 | Rift Cave (17), Landscar Cave (13), Crater (11) |
 Gold Boulder | — | 109 | Woodcutters Outpost (13), Sonnenberg's Clinic (11), Rift Cave (9) |
 Moonrock Boulder | — | 54 | Sonnenberg's Clinic (16), Crater (13), Shallow Rift (7) |