Cinder Shard
| Cinder Shard | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Volcano Dungeon; Stingray Fish Pond |
| Sell Price | 50g |
The Cinder Shard is the warm, glowing stone of the Volcano Dungeon on Ginger Island, and it is the currency of the Forge at the top. Every upgrade the Forge offers costs shards: forging gems into melee weapons, enchanting tools and weapons, combining two rings and building Infinity weapons. The Island Trader and the Dwarf inside the volcano also take shards as payment. Because the Forge eats them so quickly, cinder shards are one of the main reasons to keep running the volcano long after the first visit. A Stingray Fish Pond adds a slow but steady supply back on the farm.
The in-game description reads: You can feel a warm glow from within this stone.
Location
The Volcano Dungeon is the home of the Cinder Shard. Shard nodes look like rocks with shard pieces poking out of them, and a pickaxe breaks them open. Clearing the nodes on each floor while climbing is the steadiest way to fill a stack.
Four of the volcano's monsters carry shards. Magma Sprites, Magma Sparkers and Magma Duggies often drop one or two when slain. False Magma Caps drop them now and then too. The chests on the dungeon's floors can also hold a handful. The Burglar's Ring, which doubles Monster Loot, makes a volcano trip noticeably more rewarding. Gil gives that ring for slaying five hundred Dust Sprites, and Marlon sells copies afterwards.
Two quieter supplies work away from the volcano. Once the Volcano shortcut is open, treasure rooms in Skull Cavern can contain shards. A Fish Pond stocked with Stingrays from Pirate Cove can produce a few shards on some days once the pond holds seven fish. Stingrays are caught at Pirate Cove on the southeast side of Ginger Island.
Uses
The Forge sits on floor 10, at the end of the Volcano Dungeon. Forging a gem into a dagger, sword or hammer improves one stat, such as damage from a Ruby or speed from an Emerald. A weapon takes three forgings, and each one costs more shards than the last. A Diamond fills every remaining slot with random upgrades for the price of a single forge.
Placing two different rings in the Forge with twenty shards joins them into one combined ring. That lets a farmer wear the power of four rings at once, although a combined ring cannot be joined again. Twenty shards and a Prismatic Shard add a random enchantment to a weapon or tool, and paying again rerolls an enchantment that came out badly. Forging three Galaxy Souls into a Galaxy weapon, at twenty shards each time, turns it into its Infinity form. Shards also pay for changing a weapon's look to match another weapon of the same type.
The Island Trader on Ginger Island trades several items for shards. A few shards buy a Jungle Torch, a large pile buys the Wild Double Bed, and a mid-sized stack buys the Deluxe Retaining Soil recipe. The Dwarf on floor 5 of the volcano sells the Cinderclown Shoes for a hundred shards.
Professor Snail gives the Ostrich Incubator recipe once the fossil collection and surveys at the Island Field Office are done. That incubator needs twenty cinder shards along with Bone Fragments and Hardwood.
Crafting Cinder Shard with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Ostrich Incubator | 
|
Bone Fragment (50), Hardwood (50), Cinder Shard (20) |
Notes
At the Sewing Machine, a Cinder Shard in the spool with Cloth sews a pair of Sunglasses.
Sam hates receiving a Cinder Shard, and every other villager dislikes it. It is far more useful at the Forge than as a gift or a sale.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |