Crystal shard

Crystal shard
Released							25 July 2019 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							No
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							No
Stackable							Yes
Noteable							No
Options							Drop
Examine							A shard of the finest crystal, from the crystal city itself.
Values
Value							10,000 coins
Alchemy							Not alchemisable
Weight							0 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							23962
Link							MOID

Crystal shards are items that can be obtained through participating in various activities within Prifddinas, or obtained during sailing using the crystal extractor.

These are necessary to create and charge various crystal equipment through crystal singing, can be used to create enhanced crystal keys for the Elven Crystal Chest, and can be crushed into crystal dust which is used to make divine potions. Each crystal shard added onto a piece of crystal equipment provides 100 charges, up to a maximum of 20,000.

While crystal shards and crystal dust are not tradeable, they can be used to create valuable tradeable items.

Crystal dust can be used to make tradeable divine potions. Wearing an alchemist's amulet or amulet of chemistry while making 1-dose or 3-dose potions instead of 4-dose potions directly can increase the GP obtained per shard. 2-dose potions are generally not optimal to make. Make sure to decant all resulting potions into 4-dose versions if selling them on the Grand Exchange.

If the player does not meet the Smithing or Crafting requirements to make certain items with the singing bowl, they can have Conwenna or Reese nearby create the items for them for additional crystal shards.

Most skilling and combat activities in Prifddinas can yield shards. Most regular resource skilling activities can yield passive shards; while content that is unique to Prifddinas (e.g., defeating Zalcano) will provide shards as part of the regular loot tables. The most efficient way to obtain many shards is to pickpocket elves with Rogue's equipment on. They occasionally give shards as direct loot, but they have a 1/1,024 chance of giving an enhanced crystal teleport seed, which is doubled with the Rogue's outfit on. These seeds can be exchanged for 150 shards each. It is realistically possible to successfully pickpocket 512 elves per hour, granting an average of 29 regular shards and one teleport seed (assuming you get one pair of seeds every two hours, averaging to one individual seed per hour), which totals up to 179 crystal shards per hour. In comparison, completing the Corrupted Gauntlet can only yield roughly 50 shards per hour. If you exchange crystal armour seeds and enhanced crystal weapon seeds for shards, the average can go up to around 125, but the value of these seeds is significantly higher than the teleport seeds, making it far less viable to exchange these for shards.

A full list of crystal shard sources:

If a player receives a shard along with a collected resource, while only having a single free inventory space, the crystal shard will be dropped to the floor instead.

Players can also obtain crystal shards by exchanging various crystal seeds with Amrod, who is found in the Hefin Inn. Those looking to recharge or create crystal equipment by trading in the following crystal items for shards will get the most value by exchanging items with a lowest GP / Shard ratio. Note that this is based off purchasing the items from the Grand Exchange, so Ironmen should consider trading based on other criteria.

Crystal weapon seeds can additionally be traded to Pennant in Prifddinas for one crystal acorn each, which can be grown into crystal trees. Each tree takes 8 hours to grow and yields an average of 30 crystal shards if the patch was treated with ultracompost. A shard obtained this way would cost an average of 10,063.23.

Crystal extractors have a (~1/6) chance to give a shard when activated if the player has completed Song of The Elves. One crystal shard is given on most ocean tiles, while 2 crystal shards are given on crystal-flecked hazardous waters.

• One crystal shard
• Two crystal shards
• Three crystal shards
• Four crystal shards
• Five crystal shards
• Twenty-five crystal shards

• Attempting to cast Low Level Alchemy or High Level Alchemy on a crystal shard will display the message You can't do that to the elven crystal!

v t e Crystal items
Equipment	Weapons Blade of saeldor (c) Bow of faerdhinen (c) Bow Halberd Shield Armour Helmet Body Legs Tools Axe Felling axe Harpoon Pickaxe Saw Chime Seeds Armour Weapon Enhanced weapon Tool Saw Chime
Teleportation	Crystal teleport seed Teleport crystal Enhanced crystal teleport seed Eternal teleport crystal
Keys	Tooth half Loop half Crystal key Enhanced crystal key
Other	Shards Acorn Impling jar

v t e Zalcano
NPCs	Golem Rhiannon Zalcano
Items	Tephra Refined tephra Imbued tephra
Notable drops	Crystal shard Crystal tool seed Zalcano shard Smolcano
Scenery	Altar Barrier Demonic Symbol Furnace Rock Formation Teleport Platform
Related	The Spurned Demon The spurned demon

v t e Herblore secondaries
Secondaries	Eye of newt Limpwurt root Red spiders' eggs Garlic Blamish snail slime White berries Toad's legs Snape grass Pharmakos berries Mort myre fungus Shrunk ogleroot Aldarium Star flower Nail beast nails Yew roots Lily of the sands Wine of zamorak Cactus spine Potato cactus Amylase crystal Jangerberries Magic roots Cave nightshade Nightshade Poison ivy berries Zulrah's scales Ancient essence Araxyte venom sac Demonic tallow Haddock eye Yellow fin Marlin scales
Dust/Crushed items	Unicorn horn dust Silver dust Chocolate dust Goat horn dust Kebbit teeth dust Gorak claw powder Dragon scale dust Crystal dust Crushed nest Lava scale shard Crushed superior dragon bones Ashes Volcanic ash Nihil dust Crab paste Squid paste Rainbow crab paste
Supplies	Unicorn horn Silver bar Chocolate bar Goat horn Kebbit teeth Gorak claws Blue dragon scale Crystal shard Bird nest (empty) Lava scale Superior dragon bones Nihil shard Red crab Blue crab Raw swordtip squid Raw jumbo squid Rainbow crab Raw haddock Raw yellowfin Raw marlin