Essence of theResource World

This Essence comes in a liquid scientific sample container, with the handwritten label "Dim. G-000". The liquid inside changes in color and appearance depending on the holder, but by default is a thick, sparkling rainbow mixture. Drinking it grants you the following:

• At any point or time, you may open a doorway to another dimension. This doorway is infinitely thin, but has "soft" edges and cannot be used for much else other than transport. You can increase or decrease the size of the doorway by focusing at the moment you decide to open it, but by default it is just large enough for your body to comfortably fit through.

• Nothing may pass through this doorway without you actively desiring it to, even things that you may not be completely aware of, like precognitive visions or enemy scrying. You may also make it completely imperceptible to outsiders, but they will equally be able to move through the space it occupies without actually traveling to the dimension on the other side.

• Once you (as the owner of this Essence) step into the doorway, it will remain open behind you and can no longer change size or shape.

• The dimension this doorway connects to is completely inaccessible to any other outside force by means other than the doorway itself, except in some specialized cases:

• At any time, you may link a relatively fixed transport system (train rail, stationary data/power cable, water pump, conveyor belt, or any other similar system) to one in the dimension on the other side of the doorway, allowing you to transport resources or information from a system in the Resource World back to your current reality and vice versa. An appropriately large train rail or similar system can move even living beings across dimensions like your main doorway can, but everything that passes through is subject to the same subconscious filters on your part.

• This dimension appears as an infinitely wide planetary surface, with an environment much like Earth, but with smaller and more sharply divided biomes mixed somewhat randomly across the landscape. Two extremely different biomes, like a tundra and a tropical forest, may exist close to one-another, but there will always be at least a thin strip of a "middle ground" climate between them to allow (relatively) comfortable passage between the two. Think more like Minecraft biomes than anything else, although there's enough variation in biome size and shape to provide massive forests and microcosmic islands equally.

• Each biome's temperature and climate is largely independent of each other, although there is a global seasonal cycle that all climates are influenced by. Whether or not this seasonal cycle is the same as Earth's is up to you, but by default it is an idealized earthly 24-hour-day, 12-month, 4-season cycle, with at least one sun and one moon. You may decide on a different orbital setup when you first enter the portal, if you want three moons and a giant ring to occupy the night sky. Realism need not apply.

• Every biome in this infinite 'Resource World' is incredibly rich in resources, with any naturally occurring resource on earth being found within similar biomes in the RW. Each biome is generally 'specialized' for specific material needs, and their smaller size and patchwork placement means locating a given resource would not take an unduly long time.

• Any given 'resource' will be found much more abundantly in the RW than it is on earth, with a single glacier stream pannable for enough gold to make a conquistador's wet dreams, ore veins crossing multiple biomes of greater size and purity than any on earth, incredible hardwood oaks providing the perfect lumber, and seemingly unending oil deposits.

• The general 'abundance' of this world is not just limited to inorganic resources - there is a constant availability of healthy flora and non-sentient fauna, with even the most difficult predators remaining passive toward you and other outside visitors except when effort is spent to annoy or harm them. Even if you decide to fully deplete these populations, they seem to restock themselves if left unobserved for a couple days afterward. The only thing to note is that anything living native to a specific biome will never leave it, unless you personally move it across biome borders.

• The true power of this Essence is its synergy with other realms and power sources.

• If you are in another place beyond bog-standard earth, you will find that whatever resources can be located in your new reality will be added to the 'pool' in the Resource World - even the rarest magical crystals will grow in shocking abundance in sprawling cave biomes with Vibranium right beside them, the deadliest beasts will stalk landscapes perfectly crafted for them (and which coincidentally make great setups for trapping), and any magical energies inherent to these new realms will suffuse the air even more richly in the RW.

• If you gain access to an ability or power (even one unique to yourself) that requires a specific resource, then it will also be added to the Resource World's "pool", even if it otherwise doesn't occur anywhere else in your current reality.

• Whatever new additions are added to the resource world beyond basic Earth will never negatively impact the world as a whole, and never conflict with one another. Something like the Warp of Warhammer will flow richly in the Resource World, but Chaos will never truly set foot, granting you things like naturally occurring Wraithbone deposits and a few small biomes where atypically passive daemons can be easily slaughtered and used for whatever nefarious crafting you have in mind. Any similar "corrupting" influence will have no grasp beyond its specific biomes, where it will stay ripe for exploitation.

• When in the Resource World, focusing in the same way you open your portal and querying yourself for the location of a specific resource will give you a rough direction to head, making finding even the rarest deposits much quicker.

• Any time you travel to a new setting/dimension, but have already explored part of your resource world, you may choose to have the new resources available to you be added to the biomes you have already surveyed, or begin appearing in areas you haven't already reached.

• If you are capable of spaceflight, you will find that the infinite plane of the resource world 'shrinks' behind you to an otherwise unassuming Earth-like globe, and the surrounding solar system is just as abundant of resources as the RW itself, although attempting to travel to distant stars will see you looping back to the same system. There seems to be an infinite supply of asteroid belts if you need to mine more exotic resources.

• Returning to the Resource World lets it seamlessly stretch back into an infinite plane, and consciously focusing on returning to the area you launched from will let you come back without worrying about missing your parking spot in the face of infinity.

• The other planets in this "Resource System" function as the same kind of infinity when visited, although generally have less biome diversity. You can also create your doorway and transport linkages to these planets the same way you can for the Resource World, if you set up operations on one of them.

• If a planetary condition needed for a unique resource (like stupid high gravity, or an airless atmosphere) is infeasible for the Resource World and its solar neighbors, either a new planet will safely integrate with the Resource System or the conditions of the most similar of the surrounding planets will change to allow that resource to begin appearing. You could also merely let the resource begin appearing incongruously in the RW, but that's less fun.

• Every biome in the Resource World is beautiful in some way, as though crafted by some divine hand. If you don't feel like drilling for infinite oil or deforesting mountain ranges, it makes for a fantastic place to rest, train, camp, or just enjoy the view.

• Don't worry too much about defacing this beauty; Any ecological ramifications of your extraction (like carbon emissions) fade away into the ether harmlessly, and even the most extreme destruction will be self-contained to the biome it happens in.

• When you first take this Essence, you may choose to populate the Resource World with the ruins of past civilizations (including an updating list of civilizations considered "ancient" in your current reality), which may contain interesting artifacts or even magical/technological goodies here and there. They will always come after a handful of interesting puzzles and possibly a couple booby traps here and there, making each piece of loot a fun sideshow adventure (or you can drill straight through to the loot, spoilsport…). Pyramids are great ambiance.

• Any other personal dimensions you have access to may be folded into the Resource World, combining to take the best features of both.