Crafting by hand, at workbenches and at placed stations needs no materials and takes none: every recipe shows its materials as there, and a crafting component stops using up materials the first time it checks a recipe. Turning it off puts material use back on the components it switched.

Repairing an item and renovating a building neither check for nor take the materials they cost, and a renovation lists nothing more as needed.

Fuel stations such as campfires, stoves and furnaces stop burning their fuel down.

Generators and other power supplies stop using up their fuel.

Vehicles such as the snowmobile stop using up fuel while the engine runs.