The ultimate guide to Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds
It's official: RuneScape characters are now part-time vault hunters. As you explore Ashenfall, collect resources, and progress through RuneScape Dragonwilds' questline, you'll notice crafting recipes requiring Vault Shards and Cores. Better yet, you may pick them up during your travels but not know how to use them. What are these mysterious items? Are they rare and useful materials to keep in a storage crate for emergencies, or should you use them right away? That's what we're here to answer. Let's talk about how to find Vault Shards and Cores RuneScape Dragonwilds and what to use them for. Table of contents How to find Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds How to use Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds How to find Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds Your first step to finding Vault Shards and Cores is to dive into a vault. You'll find one vault in every region of Ashenfall, where you'll find Vault Shards from defeating its guardians and Cores from completing the dungeon. Screenshot by Destructoid Inside every vault, you'll find branching paths, obstacles to overcome, and Vault Guardians to defeat. Vault Guardians are large, intimidating elementals that patrol a dungeon's hallways and guard important points of interest. Defeating one grants you some Vault Shards alongside Rune Essence and stone. Another way to get Vault Shards is to open treasure chests inside dungeons. As you explore vaults, you'll occasionally find chests containing crafting blueprints and miscellaneous materials, with some holding Vault Shards. You're not guaranteed to find them in every chest, but every dungeon usually has at least one that holds a few shards. Screenshot by Destructoid At the end of every vault are multiple Vault Guardians and a Vault Core on a pedestal. You have two options for tackling this: swoop in and grab the core before running away, or defeat the guardians before claiming your prize. Dying in a vault will teleport you to your home bed and place your items in a Gravestone outside the dungeon entrance, so it's up to you if you want to take that risk. Otherwise, if you're confident in your combat abilities, you can jump right in and take every guardian out before taking the Vault Core. How to use Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds Vault Shards and Cores have separate purposes. You'll need Cores to build Lodestones, letting you fast-travel across the map if you have at least one more place elsewhere. Vault Shards are also a valuable building resource, particularly when creating a Furnace for smelting ores. Lodestone recipe Here are the exact resources you need to build a Lodestone: Stone (32) Rune Essence (20) Vault Core (1) Vault Cores are the hardest resource to come by in this list. Both stone and Rune Essence are available in abundance in the early game, with Rune Essence also appearing frequently in dungeons. Furnace recipe Furnaces are much trickier to make than Lodestones. Here are the materials you need to build one: Stone (24) Clay (8) Charcoal (4) Fire Rune (10) Vault Shard (8) While Stone is easy to come by, Clay is only available in Whispering Swamp, with Charcoal created using a Kiln. Fire Runes are also tricky initially, requiring either level 13 Runecrafting to make at a Rune Altar or enough goblin pouches to get lucky and score 10 or more. If you're not high enough Runecrafting, make some extra Air and Astral Runes until you reach this level or beat up a bunch of goblins for their pouches. The post The ultimate guide to Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds appeared first on Destructoid.
It's official: RuneScape characters are now part-time vault hunters. As you explore Ashenfall, collect resources, and progress through RuneScape Dragonwilds' questline, you'll notice crafting recipes requiring Vault Shards and Cores. Better yet, you may pick them up during your travels but not know how to use them.
What are these mysterious items? Are they rare and useful materials to keep in a storage crate for emergencies, or should you use them right away? That's what we're here to answer. Let's talk about how to find Vault Shards and Cores RuneScape Dragonwilds and what to use them for.
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How to find Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds
Your first step to finding Vault Shards and Cores is to dive into a vault. You'll find one vault in every region of Ashenfall, where you'll find Vault Shards from defeating its guardians and Cores from completing the dungeon.
Inside every vault, you'll find branching paths, obstacles to overcome, and Vault Guardians to defeat. Vault Guardians are large, intimidating elementals that patrol a dungeon's hallways and guard important points of interest. Defeating one grants you some Vault Shards alongside Rune Essence and stone.
Another way to get Vault Shards is to open treasure chests inside dungeons. As you explore vaults, you'll occasionally find chests containing crafting blueprints and miscellaneous materials, with some holding Vault Shards. You're not guaranteed to find them in every chest, but every dungeon usually has at least one that holds a few shards.
At the end of every vault are multiple Vault Guardians and a Vault Core on a pedestal. You have two options for tackling this: swoop in and grab the core before running away, or defeat the guardians before claiming your prize. Dying in a vault will teleport you to your home bed and place your items in a Gravestone outside the dungeon entrance, so it's up to you if you want to take that risk. Otherwise, if you're confident in your combat abilities, you can jump right in and take every guardian out before taking the Vault Core.
How to use Vault Shards and Cores in RuneScape Dragonwilds
Vault Shards and Cores have separate purposes. You'll need Cores to build Lodestones, letting you fast-travel across the map if you have at least one more place elsewhere. Vault Shards are also a valuable building resource, particularly when creating a Furnace for smelting ores.
Lodestone recipe
Here are the exact resources you need to build a Lodestone:
- Stone (32)
- Rune Essence (20)
- Vault Core (1)
Vault Cores are the hardest resource to come by in this list. Both stone and Rune Essence are available in abundance in the early game, with Rune Essence also appearing frequently in dungeons.
Furnace recipe
Furnaces are much trickier to make than Lodestones. Here are the materials you need to build one:
- Stone (24)
- Clay (8)
- Charcoal (4)
- Fire Rune (10)
- Vault Shard (8)
While Stone is easy to come by, Clay is only available in Whispering Swamp, with Charcoal created using a Kiln. Fire Runes are also tricky initially, requiring either level 13 Runecrafting to make at a Rune Altar or enough goblin pouches to get lucky and score 10 or more. If you're not high enough Runecrafting, make some extra Air and Astral Runes until you reach this level or beat up a bunch of goblins for their pouches.
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