Bone Shards: Not Just For Bonfires Anymore – A Gamer’s Deep Dive
Bone shards. They seem fragile, like pieces left after a puppy chewed a toy. In gaming, these shards are important. Forget dust and splinters; they are used for crafting and rituals. Sometimes, they help put a skeleton to rest. Let’s explore bone shards in games.
Delving into the Depths: Types of Bone Shards
Turns out, not all bone shards are the same. From weak to strong, let’s explore the varieties of bone shards you may find on your quests.
Fragile Bone Shard
The classic. The ‘Fragile Bone Shard’. It suggests care is needed. Details are unclear here. We imagine these are used for basic tasks. Think of them like kindling. They may be small and break easily, but they are a start.
Sturdy Bone Shard
Next is the ‘Sturdy Bone Shard’. Again, not much info. “Sturdy” suggests more durability. These may be for crafting items that last longer. Perhaps for a less flimsy chair for your avatar? Just a thought.
Undead Bone Shard (Dark Souls 3)
Now we’re talking! In Dark Souls 3, the Undead Bone Shard isn’t fragile. These items are key for pyromancers and fans of Estus Flask. Collect these and burn them at the Firelink Shrine bonfire. This enhances your Estus Flask healing. It upgrades your potion from ‘barely a scratch’ to ‘actually effective’. There are ten scattered in the game. Ready for the taking by brave undead adventurers.
Blessed Bone Shard (OSRS)
In Old School RuneScape (OSRS), we find the Blessed Bone Shard. They don’t just sit around; you must earn them in Varlamore. Think Perilous Moons, Hunter Rumours, or mining Calcified Ore in Cam Torum. These stack and are valuable. Sacrifice at the Libation Pool with wine to raise your prayer level. For every 400 Blessed Bone Shards, you’ll need a single wine. Efficient and pious!
Dragonbone Artifact & Blessed Dragon Bones
The names bring to mind ancient dragons and lost power. Details on Dragonbone Artifacts and Blessed Dragon Bones are lacking. However, they are likely high-grade bones. Useful for crafting weapons or stylish dragon-themed hats. Boundless possibilities.
Colossal Bone & Festering Bone
Colossal Bone is for when you need a massive bone. Festering Bone? It sounds unpleasant, perhaps with festering power. Again, details are limited, leaving imagination open. Are Colossal Bones for making giant golems? Do Festering Bones inflict poison? The mystery is intriguing!
Golden Bone Shard
The Golden Bone Shard is the last type. Gold and bones combine for treasure! We can only guess its uses. Maybe it’s rare? Perhaps it crafts items of ultimate power? One can dream of golden-bone armor.
Bone Yard Blues? Nah, Bone Shard Bonanza: Farming Techniques
You’re convinced bone shards are essential and want loads of them. Great choice! But where to find them? Fear not, aspiring bone shard collector. We have the info.
Dark Souls 3: Bone Shard Hotspots
If you seek Undead Bone Shards in Dark Souls 3, explore Lothric. Think morbid scavenger hunt! Important locations include:
- Foot of the High Wall: Start from the Dilapidated Bridge bonfire area. Watch out for spear-throwing hollows.
- Cathedral of the Deep: Secrets and shards lurk within this dark cathedral.
- Farron Keep: Brave the swamp as you search.
- Catacombs of Carthus: A bone shard hunt needs a visit to the catacombs!
- Irithyll of the Boreal Valley: Even in this cold valley, undead bone shards hide.
- Profaned Capital: Venture here for more shard-hunting chances.
- Lothric Castle: This castle holds secrets and more bone shards!
- Smouldering Lake: Explore the fiery depths for double the shards!
- Undead Settlement: Begin your hunt near the Dilapidated Bridge Bonfire on a platform left of the birch tree.
Simply put, if a place seems dreary or undead in Dark Souls 3, a bone shard likely waits nearby. Happy hunting!
OSRS: Mining for Miracles in Cam Torum
For Blessed Bone Shards in OSRS, head to Cam Torum mine, south-east of the town. But wait, you must complete part of the Perilous Moons quest first. Inside, mine Calcified rocks. This is a great AFK method. You can bank around 2,200 shards per hour, translating to 11,000 to 13,200 Prayer XP per hour. Not bad for casual play!
Varlamore Ventures: Blessed Bone Shard Bounty (OSRS)
Mining in Cam Torum is just the start! Go for more Blessed Bone Shards throughout Varlamore. They seem plentiful (not literally, unfortunately). Pursue these activities for more shards:
- Perilous Moons: This quest line provides shards too!
- Hunter Rumours: Find elusive creatures and gain bone shards for your efforts.
- Coliseum: Show your combat skills and gather shards.
- Breaking down Sun-Kissed Bones & Blessed Statuettes: Recycle your loot into more shards.
- Blessing bones at the exposed altar: Even this can reward blessed bone shards. Rewarding your piety with… more bones.
Varlamore is a theme park for Blessed Bone Shards. Off you go to collect!
Stardew Valley: Digging Up the Past
In Stardew Valley, you’re not swimming in “bone shards.” Instead, you find Bone Fragments. Close enough! You need them for crafting various items. How to acquire them? A mix of activities:
- Mining: Explore the mines and swing your pickaxe!
- Digging: Use your hoe on the earth. You could uncover treasures.
- Combat: Sometimes bones require… encouraging them to break.
- Skeletons (Levels 70-79 in the Mines): Target skeletons in mid-level mines. They drop 1-3 bone fragments per kill.
- Lava Lurks in the Volcano Dungeon: Battle Lava Lurks for a chance at fragments – odds of 20-50%!
The hunt in Stardew Valley is hands-on. Get to digging, mining, and smashing skeletons!
Elden Ring: Shadow Keep Shenanigans
Elden Ring offers Blessed Bone Shards, especially at Shadow Keep. Why this spot? Because it has many Black Knights, generous with shard drops. A loop around Main Gate Plaza…
Finding the Site of Grace and defeating Black Knights lets players gather blessed bones efficiently. Knightly corpses yield quite a bounty.
Don’t Starve Together (DST): Hammer Time and Catcoon Charity
In the quirky realm of Don’t Starve Together (DST), Bone Shards are vital crafting elements. How do you get them? Here are some creative approaches:
- Hammering Skeletons and Bones: A simple method. Locate skeletons or bones scattered about (as is typical in DST), and hammer away. Collect those bone shards!
- Destroying Tumbleweeds: Tumbleweeds may seem harmless, but they can hide bones. Smash them for surprises!
- Destroying Hound Mounds: Hound Mounds are not just annoying; they can hold bone shards. Break them open for a bounty of shards.
- Gifts from friendly Catcoons: Befriend a Catcoon, and it might give you bone shards. Strange but true! Free shards are always welcome.
DST features a bizarre selection of methods to acquire bone shards. Use brute force or delight in feline generosity. Your choice!
Bone Shard Utility Belt: What Are They Good For?
You have gathered your bone shard collection. What next? Besides admiring their raw beauty, let’s find out their uses across different games.
Prayer Power-Up: OSRS Style
In OSRS, Blessed Bone Shards are mainly used for Prayer training. How? Sacrifice them at the libation bowl in Varlamore, ideally with Sunfire wine. Here’s how:
- Libation Bowl Location: Go to the NE corner of a building in Varlamore to find this sacred fixture.
- Wine and Shard Ratio: One jug of blessed wine accommodates 400 blessed bone shards. Simple math, even after a long session.
- Prayer Experience: Each shard sacrificed gives 5 Prayer experience. This adds up nicely – each blessed bone contributes 290 Prayer experience.
- Prayer Point Cost: Each sacrifice at the libation bowl takes two prayer points. Don’t fret; the Shrine of Ralos is close by for quick refills.
- Sunfire Wine Creation: Craft Sunfire wine to enhance your shard sacrifices. Combine 2 sunfire shards with a jug of wine in a pestle and mortar.
- Blessing Sunfire Wine: Head to the exposed altar south of Teomat in Varlamore to bless it, making blessed sunfire wine. A bit annoying, but worth it for prayer gains.
This approach makes bone shard sacrifice a complex yet effective prayer training tactic in OSRS. Wine and bones – an interesting combo!
Crafting Concoctions: DST Delights
Bone Shards in Don’t Starve Together serve many crafting needs. They are used in various items:
- Saddlehorn: A tool for taming Beefalo and riding with flair.
- Bucket-o-poop: Functions include fertilizing or pranking, who knows? It involves poop!
- Rain Hat & Rain Coat: Essential attire for surviving DST’s unpredictable weather. Keep dry with bone power!
- Eyebrella: A stylish umbrella to shield against rain and sun. Bones create surprisingly good umbrellas.
Additionally, using a Deconstruction Staff on Bone Helm or Bone Armor yields 10 Bone Shards. Efficient recycling! If you play as Wilson and have “Transmute Icky III,” you can create Bone Shards directly.
Estus Enhancement: Dark Souls 3 Healing Boost
In Dark Souls 3, remember the Undead Bone Shards? Burning them at the Firelink Shrine bonfire looks cool and enhances the healing power of your Estus Flasks and FP from Ashen Flasks. Healing boosts are essential in Dark Souls 3!
Eyebrella Repair: Don’t Starve Durability
Your trusty Eyebrella in Don’t Starve’s Reign of Giants DLC? It needs Bone Shards for crafting, though our brief doesn’t confirm repairs directly. The crafting recipe suggests bone shards likely maintain its structure.
Bone Relatives: Related Items in the Bony Family
Bone shards are just the beginning of the skeletal story. Let’s discover related bone-themed items and materials from various games.
Bone Fragments (Stardew Valley)
Bone Fragments in Stardew Valley serve as the less refined kin of bone shards. They remain useful!
Bone Meal (Minecraft, Skyrim)
Bone Meal, found in both Minecraft and Skyrim, is widely known (with Minecraft being its main context). In Minecraft, craft bone meal by placing bones in your crafting grid or through a Composter. Composters recycle goods into bone meal. Fun fact: You can farm bone meal by composting flowers grown using it. A true recycling cycle!
Bone Char
In the real world, Bone Char is made from animal bones. It acts as a decolorizing filter in the sugar refining industry. That sugar you add to coffee may have been processed using bone char. Many sources of bone char come from cattle bones, especially from countries like Afghanistan, Argentina, India, and Pakistan. Bone char-filtered sugar raises health concerns, pushing the search for alternatives. Bones have unexpected roles in our sweet snacks!
Dragon Bone & Elder Dragon Bone
A return to fantasy! Dragon Bone(Minecraft Fanon Wiki) and Elder Dragon Bone(Monster Hunter Rise) boast an epic sound. Dragon Bone items are more efficient than diamond but less durable in Minecraft Fanon lore. Elder Dragon Bones emerge from high-rank quests in Monster Hunter Rise. Perfect for those wanting an additional edge or cool factor!
Sturdy Bone & Brutal Bone
In Monster Hunter World: Iceborne and Monster Hunter World, find Sturdy Bone and Brutal Bone. Sturdy Bones hide in pile formations in Coral Highlands and Rotten Vale, while Brutal Bones rest in the Elder’s Recess in High Rank. Reliable crafting materials indeed!
Loretta’s Bone (Dark Souls)
Loretta’s Bone, less about crafting and more for quest lines in Dark Souls, advances Greirat’s quest in the Firelink Shrine. You can also trade it with Pickle Pee for a Ring of Sacrifice once a playthrough. Loretta’s Bone – a valuable trading item!
Colossal Bone (Monster Hunter Wilds)
You collect Colossal Bones from High Rank monsters in Monster Hunter Wilds. Big monsters lead to big bones!
Sturdy Fossil (Terraria)
You acquire Sturdy Fossils in Terraria using Desert Fossils within the Extractinator, with a 10% success rate. Alternatively, defeat Basilisks in Hardmode for another method. Sturdy Fossils – prized items for Terraria fans!
Minecraft Musings: Bone-Adjacent Topics
The presence of Bone Meal and Dragon Bone (Fanon) brings us to other Minecraft-related subjects that relate to bones.
Fossils
Minecraft Fossils, rare structures appearing underground in certain biomes, have a chance to generate fossils with attempts of 1 in 64 per chunk. They can come as skull or spine forms, making fossil discovery feel like hitting a treasure jackpot!
Amethyst Shards
You may wonder about Amethyst Shards’ relation to bones. While not directly linked, they come from amethyst clusters. The Fortune enchantment increases their yields. A standard pickaxe gives 4 shards, but Fortune III can gain you an average of 8.8 shards! You can even grow amethyst shards from budding amethyst blocks! Not directly related to bones but still part of the shard family.
Chunks
Lastly, we must introduce Minecraft Chunks. They consist of 16×16 block areas extending from the bedrock up through the sky, 256 blocks tall in the Overworld (or even 384 in newer versions).
Nether and End. Chunks are units of world generation. Each chunk plays a role in Minecraft exploration and building. Fossils also generate per chunk. So, a minor connection to bones exists?
Composting
Back to bone meal! Composting converts plants into bone meal using a composter. Not all items work for composting. Bamboo isn’t compostable, even as a plant. Dead bushes and meat, too. Trash becomes treasure!
Weaponized Bones: Bony Armaments
Bones serve beyond crafting. They can also make weapons! Check out some bone-themed weaponry.
Dragonbone Mace (Skyrim)
The Dragonbone Mace in Skyrim stands out. It is the strongest mace and one-handed weapon. Want to smash? The Dragonbone Mace is your choice.
Dragon Bone Sword (Minecraft Fanon)
The Minecraft Fanon Dragon Bone Sword lasts for 250 uses. It has durability like iron tools. Not as lasting as diamond, but strong dragon-powered weapons.
Sturdy Bone Sword (Genshin Impact)
The Sturdy Bone Sword in Genshin Impact is a 4-star weapon. You can get it through Epitome Invocation. It provides decent ATK% and buffs after sprinting. Wanjiru uses it.
Bone Sword (Terraria)
The Bone Sword in Terraria is rare early on. If you find it, it’s useful. It’s slower and has less knockback. But it deals more damage. A bone-authentic ally!
Dragon Bone Smasher (Demon’s Souls)
The Dragon Bone Smasher in Demon’s Souls is huge. You find it in the Dragon God’s arena. Pure White World Tendency helps you reach it. A mighty weapon, definitely.
Best Sword for Skeletons (Elden Ring)
Facing skeletons in Elden Ring? Choose your swords wisely. Effective weapons have “Order” in their name: Order’s Blade, Litany of Proper Death, Golden Order Greatsword, among others. These can clear skeletons.
Unbreakable Sword (Xenoblade Chronicles X)
The Unbreakable Sword in Xenoblade Chronicles X is Level 50. You obtain it from “The Unbreakable Sword” quest by choosing route A. This sword lives up to its name!
Game Locations and Mechanics: Bone-Centric Spots
Let’s identify key game spots connected to bones and mechanics.
Cam Torum Mine (OSRS)
The Cam Torum Mine in OSRS is vital for farming Blessed Bone Shards. It’s southeast of Cam Torum. Complete part of the Perilous Moons quest to access. Think of Calcified rocks for AFK farming!
Chaos Altar (OSRS)
The Chaos Altar in OSRS, not directly tied to bone shards, is accessed via the Tunnel of Chaos. It’s southeast of Dark Warriors’ Fortress. Sounds like a chilling location.
Skull Cavern (Stardew Valley)
The Skull Cavern in Stardew Valley is a mining hotspot. Tips for success in Skull Cavern:
- Plan for a lucky day.
- Bring bombs for quick access.
- Pack food to maintain energy.
- Killing purple slimes yields valuable materials.
Skull Cavern – for serious spelunking.
Pontiff Sulyvahn Boss Fight Location (Dark Souls 3)
The Pontiff Sulyvahn in Dark Souls 3 waits in Irithyll’s cathedral. Enter from the sewer near the Distant Manor bonfire. A challenging fight in gothic surroundings.
Bone-Appetit! Other Bone-Related Trivia
Here are diverse bone-related facts and gaming trivia:
Cost of 99 Prayer (OSRS)
Aiming for 99 Prayer using bones? Expect a high GP cost. Around 347 million GP for 23,423 bones nets approximately 1.3 million experience. Prayer training is expensive!
Soul of Cinder Weaknesses (Dark Souls 3)
Battling the final boss, Soul of Cinder, in Dark Souls 3? It has specific weaknesses! Vulnerable to lightning and dark damage, resistant to fire. Use lightning and darkness for victory.
Diamond Skeleton Rarity (Minecraft)
Ever encountered a skeleton in full diamond armor? In Minecraft, they are rare. Just a 0.04% chance for full diamond sets to spawn. A lucky find!
Rarest Dinosaur Fossils
The rarest dinosaur fossils? This topic requires more exploration, perhaps later?
Clint’s Location in Stardew Valley
Need tool upgrades or geode openings in Stardew Valley? Visit Clint’s Blacksmith in Pelican Town. Clint is friendly and helpful.
Most Fragile Bone in the Human Body
The clavicle (collar bone) is the softest bone in the human body. Handle with care, both real and virtual!
Why Sugar is White
Circling back to sugar and bone char, sugar appears white. The refining process removes impurities. This creates pure sucrose crystals that appear white. Fascinating science!
Weapon Seed to Shard Conversion
In a specific game (likely OSRS), you can convert weapon seeds into crystal shards. Speak to Amrod in Prifddinas’ Hefin Inn for this exchange. Or trade the seed for a crystal acorn. Your choice!
This wraps up our exploration of bone shards across gaming. From crafting materials to prayer catalysts, these fragments prove valuable and deep. Now, go forth and farm those shards!
