How to smuggle resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Smuggling resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows lets you move large quantities of resources to your Hideout. You’ll find stockpiles (pallets) of resources in castles, some camps, and enemy-controlled temples. Smuggling them requires scouts.

Our Assassin’s Creed Shadows guide will tell you how to smuggle resources, and help you figure out why you might not be able to smuggle any resources.

How to smuggle resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

While you’re raiding a castle, camp, or one of the enemy-controlled temples, you might come across stockpiles. Stockpiles are marked with a barrel icon on your HUD. These are pallets of resources that you can flag to be smuggled out by your scouts at the end of the season.

The resources you get from stockpiles are crops, wood, and minerals — the same resources you need to upgrade your Hideout. Stockpiles refresh and respawn at the beginning of each season. You can see what the resource you’ll get will be just by looking at the stockpiles.

• Wood will be planks and maybe some bamboo
• Crops will be bushels and bundles of plants (presumably rushes?)
• Minerals are large blocks of stone

The scouts you assign can’t be used for anything else unless you refill them (below). If you have used up your scouts for the season, the option to smuggle will be grayed out. To smuggle any more, you’ll have to wait for a season change to refill your scouts or head to a kakurega to refill scouts yourself.

The resources your scouts collect will just show up in your inventory the next time the season changes and you head back to your Hideout.

How to increase smuggled resources in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

When you first start out, smuggling a single stockpile will require two scouts. Upgrading the Stable at your Hideout reduces the number of scouts required to smuggle stockpiles — down to one scout at level 2 — and increases the amount of resources you get from stockpiles by 20% at level 3.

The other way to get more resources is just to have more scouts to work with. You can read about how to get more scouts here.

For more Assassin’s Creed Shadows explainers, here’s how to get more knowledge points and mastery points, how to get more rations, and how to get all companions and romance options. Plus, see our all weapons and all armor lists.