We're excited to announce our newest event that follows the aftermath of the Calamity tournament.  Meteorites have begun falling across Elgea and the Broken lands, leaving harvestable objects that contain a number of treasures.  Players may now send cotters to harvest these celestial objects wherein they'll discover Skysplinters and, on a far rarer basis, enchanting reagents and elemental salts.  

Once a meteorite has been harvested completely it disappears from the map.  Fear not, however, as meteorites will be constantly falling due to the cataclysm in the skies above Elgea.

Skysplinters will be used to create the following equipment, now researchable in the Crafting Research Tree:  

 

Whimsical or ironic implementation?

Some meteorites can fall on impassable terrain, so they are out of reach! e.g. -74|423 in Norweld

lol! before "playing with the new gear" it could be interesting to check under which conditions you might be able to obtain any of it!

There's an history of tentative innovations in Illy, with less than 50% implementation, soon to be obfuscated by other unfinished lure!

Great update, harvesting skysplinters at the moment.

BUT (big but): To make the new gear, we need Dyallom Gal, which is very very rare and now for sale at incredible places at Centrum. to make this gear available to more than just a few very rich players, we need more Dyallom Gal on the map.

Hopper wrote: Whimsical or ironic implementation? Some meteorites can fall on impassable terrain, so they are out of reach! e.g. -74|423 in Norweld (And pity there's no code in datafile_worldmap.txt to spot the meteorites…)

+1  

+1 Yes definitely more Dyallom Gall spots are needed on map

Also for the quality of the Skyfallen equipment it appears to be way cheaper and easier to obtain than, say Kerebos gear.

Skyfallens do not replenish and can mostly be harvested with a single cotter (may take days) so get your armies out there on the squares and create conflict, as this seems to be the aim here.

Falls on herb patches are more painful granted, but they'll be around the longest, serious harvesters and terraformers will reap those rewards

 

Scout report below showing shards as well as Skysplinters. I have one cotter present, and according to the inventory on the Trade Screen he gathered the Shards first or at least gave them priority, as 1) he has all the shards in his inventory and is currently gathering the remaining Skysplinters and 2) the reason why I scouted the square was it showed him gathering Shards rather than Skysplinters.
 

Done a breakdown of the biomes, regions and terrains that I spotted the Skysplinters on.

https://illystuff.uk/skysplinters/" rel="nofollow - https://illystuff.uk/skysplinters/

Harvesters harvest splints at the rate of 3 per hr

They harvest salts at the rate of 1 per hr

They harvest shards at the rate of 1 per 4 hrs

(Can anyone confirm?)

When salts occur with the splints, there is always one of each.

When shards occur with splints, there is always one of each.

I have not yet seen any essences occur - don't know if that happens.

It is possible to harvest on unpassable ground using the trick outlined by Wartow in another post.

PS: These 'free' shards make the new runes more attractive to cast.

My cotters only collect Skysplinters at the rate of 1 per hour. I can't comment on the rates for the extras as I've not found any of those.

Yes, you can use the method described by Wartow to harvest on Impassable tiles (done it myself) and Forbidden tiles (observed other players doing so).

I can confirm that Herbs take precedence AND that you never get to the Skyfallen Stones!!

I had 6 Cotters churning away and the countdown clock looked weird...They had arrived 10 hours ago, according to my notifications, but it said "16 hours remain".

I checked back later, still 16 hours remained, even though more than an hour had passed!

So, I watched it tick down. Switched to 15h 59m, etc. I thought, "okay, cool, maybe soon I'll hit the Skyfallen Stones!".

Nope. I switched screens, came back. Lo, and behold, 16 hours remained!!

Coming back close to when 17 hours had passed, it had *finally* gotten down lower - 3h+ remained.

But when the 20 hours were up, they were done. 600 Herbs and no SKyfallen Stones in sight.

I'm assuming the same thing would happen on Minerals as well. Perhaps Hides, too, if there are more present than the number of Cotters can harvest in 20 hours.

Please look into this!

On a side note - thank you for fixing the Cotter clock! On a regular harvest, it now shows the time remaining even beyond the first cycle! This *may* be related to the problem with the Stones...

Thanks.

 

Are the SkySplinters on Impassable Terrains simply an attempt of the SkySplinter Aliens to colonise our world ?

Incidentally, I have seen rare shards and rare salts, but never ANY rare essences. I am not convinced they exist.

Salts and shards only.  No essences.

Forward report or it didn't happen.

Was it a full set minus one, like the shards?