Monsters and critters and how do they work, oh my!

[FroBodine]

Hello - lame newbie here again.  Could some expert please explain the concept with monsters and critters that are all over the map?  How do they work.  I think you have to put a harvest containment on them, then a guildhall maybe?  Then what happens to them?  I haven't had a chance to try this yet.

Also - it was mentioned in another thread that we had monsters of our own.  We do?  Where are they, please, and how do I use them?

Are my monsters used as an attack force?  Something else? 

Thank you all very much in advance!

[Gwmngilfen]

For resources:

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#17284 may shed some light for you (thanks to @kasnevada)

For monsters:

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There's a building towards the end of the tech tree called a Monster Pit which may be relevant...

[FroBodine]

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Thanks for the tips.  So, what can we do with the resource points we extract from the resources?  Are they used to build certain higher level buildings?

I will check out the Monster Pit.  So, I found a Vice Viper that needed a harvest containment and guildhall.  So, that's not a monster?  It sure looked like a snake monster type of thing.

[Gwmngilfen]

As per the mantis, there's

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a link between two buildings

which you need to assign.

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Both buildings are on the resource tooltip (so Harvester and Guildhall on the viper (I think).

It's quite intuitive once you've seen it once, which is why I filed it as a documentation/tutorial issue

[Aklyon]

Also

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The inventory screen shows you how many buildings worth of a resource you collect, if it hasn't changed.