To start collecting resources, you need to take a bus that will take you to one of the strange islands that has emerged from The Void. There’s also a limit to the items you can collect. At least for the duration of the closed beta, you can only carry three materials at a time and while you can expand your inventory space it’s still quite limited compared to other games. To make things easier, the nearby bus station has an auto-loading system, so you can just drop your items there and the bus will take them back to town and you will still be credited for it.