Orb of Creation Capacity Upgrade Finder

Capacity walls are Orb of Creation's most common stall: your spells run, your multipliers look healthy, and every purchase greyed out because one resource hit its maximum. The game deliberately scatters capacity upgrades across unrelated menus so clicking randomly wastes hours. This finder-style guide teaches a repeatable search process for any resource—mental, magic, workshop, alchemy, or ritual-exclusive—and points to wiki pages listing every known source category. Use it whenever a resource turns red or research books stop generating.

Step One: Open the Resource Breakdown Panel

Click the resource icon in your inventory or production panel. Orb of Creation lists every active capacity source with current contribution totals. Sources you have not unlocked yet may not appear, which is why this finder complements the panel with cross-menu reminders. Sort mentally by which sources are cheapest to upgrade next, not which sources contributed most historically—a large past bonus does not mean it is the next purchase.

Screenshot or note the top three sources before leaving the panel. Players who close the panel and navigate from memory buy the wrong workshop node repeatedly.

• how to increase resource capacity
• complete capacity upgrades reference

Mental and Scholar Resources

Knowledge, memory, and related mental stats gate research book generation and scholar upgrades. When Magic upgrades grey out despite full mana, check mental caps before grinding conjures. Scholar tree nodes often hide memory capacity buried under flavor text about libraries and study. Thaumaturgy milestones sometimes raise mental caps as side effects—complete research book chains that look unrelated to your wall.

• Knowledge caps: scholar upgrades and research milestones
• Memory caps: thaumaturgy and mental resource trees
• Research book generation: mental caps plus Magic synergies
• Hidden gates: aspects buffing scholar tags on your current bar

• mental resources guide
• thaumaturgy and research path

Magic Resources: Mana, Energy, and Space

Mana and energy caps interact with permanent augments that lower maximum pools while active. Removing an augment to free mana can lock other spells. Capacity finder logic for Magic includes verifying augment dependencies before blaming missing upgrades. Space and flow-related caps appear more prominently in v0.6 beta; beta players should read Flow unlock guide before copying v0.5 mana advice verbatim.

Energy regeneration upgrades differ from energy maximum upgrades. Hitting energy cap during augment spam requires different fixes than running out during a single cast. Read tooltip categories carefully.

• magic resources including mana and energy
• Flow unlock guide for v0.6

Workshop, World, and Alchemy Capacity

Workshop machines raise material storage and production caps for physical resources. World upgrades raise harvest limits for herbalism and movement-linked systems. Alchemy raises reagent storage and batch sizes for transmutation. When a transmutation recipe stalls, check alchemy capacity before assuming the recipe is wrong—tier-listed recipes fail loudly when input caps are tiny.

Overflow and efficiency mechanics modify how caps feel but do not replace raising caps. Consult overflow guide after implementing this finder process, not before.

• overflow and efficiency tricks
• transmutation at scale

Decision Rule When Multiple Walls Exist

Fix the resource blocking your next intended purchase, not the resource with the lowest percentage bar. If rituals are your goal and mana potions are ready but mana cap blocks Convert Blaze leveling, fix mana cap before herbalism harvest caps you will not use until next week. The progression checklist helps prioritize which wall matters today.

If every category looks purchased, you likely missed a ritual reward, artifact, or beta-only Flow node. Search wiki upgrade tier list for S-tier unlocks you skipped and ask Discord with a screenshot of your breakdown panel—community response is faster than random menu clicking.

• progression checklist tool
• upgrade priority tier list