Archaic Shard

Type	Crafting material
Tooltip	Shard of the Age of Ancient Hope - all that remains of the beautiful dream is the withered dust.
Rarity
Sell	1

Archaic Shards are a Pre-Hardmode Crafting material dropped enemies found in the Desert and Underground Desert and are used to create Archaic Gems.

Crafting[]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Archaic Gem	Archaic Shard (3)	Iron Anvil or Lead Anvil

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Potions
Potions	Agility Potion • Charisma Potion • Elixir of Life • Elixir of the Earth • Flameshine Elixir • Flask of Chaos • Galewinds Potion • Gellous Flask • Ironheart Potion • Lustration Potion • Manaforce Potion • Noble Jelly • Resilience Potion • Sanctification Potion • Soulforce Potion • Splintering Potion • Vex Potion • Whispering Brew
Food Items	Baked Potato • Brain Food Lunch • Cookie • Deep Fried Firents • Dense Moss Clump • Fried Egg • Glitter Gel • Grilled Seaweed • Honey-Glazed Honeyfin • Jelly • Mashed Potato • Pink Jam • Potato Fries • Roasted Bunny • Roasted Chicken • Verry Berry
Other	Absolution • Dark Residue • Eye Berry • Flower of Tranquility • Great Harpy Bar • Life Capsule • Light Bulb • Magick Mushroom • Nanite Injection • Repair Powder • Spectral Memory • Standard Bandage • Stone of Sorrows

Ammunition
Arrows	Carapace Arrow • Madlstoken • Skyhunter Arrow
Bullets	Husk Shot • Skyhunter Round • Supeeheated Bullet
Rockets	Incendiary Rocket • Javelin Rocket • Melter Rocket • Rocket Zero
Meteors	Cursed Asteroid • Flaming Meteorite • Fleshy Chunkeroid • Luminmeteor • Mini Blackhole • Space Debris
Other	Cactus Thorn

Crafting Materials
Materials	Altituned Gem • Archaic Gem • Archaic Shard • Basic Mechanism • Biometallic Gel • Broken Hero Blade • Cinders of Chaos • Dark Ritual Quadrants • Dense Moss Clump • Dissonance • Divine Gem • Divine Shard • Empty Gellous Flask • Enchanting Stone • Ethereal Focusing Lens • Fabric of Reality • Fire Soul • Goop Squid • Holy Gems • Piranha • Printed Circuit Board • Processed Asterrock • Pyroplasm • Ritual Parchment • Rogue Memory • Runin Chunk • Scarlet Matter • Scourge Gem • Scourge Shard • Shard of Memory • Soulblossom Leaf • Spectrum Gem • Sulfurous Powder • Sunken Gem • Sunken Shard • Tarnished Metal • Vitiated Gem • Vitiated Shard • White Memento • Wyrdfish
Ores	Carbonite Chunk • Crystallised Sulfur • Irradium Ore • Milky Quartz • Pandaen Ore • Spatterchunk Ore • Specullent Ore • Void Titanite
Bars	Abyssal Ingot • Carbonium Alloys • Durendial Bar • Irradium Rod • Manasteel Bar • Pandaen Bar • Specullent Bar

Other
Boss Summons	Cannister of Lights • Crest of the Storm • Flag of the Whistling Willow • Resonating Gel • Shoggothic Chunk • Sunswept Egg • Suspicious Pink Gel • Trippin' Pink Gel
Grab Bags	Treasure Bags • Abyssal Crate • Twilight Crate
Seeds	Avalon Seeds • Carbon Truffle Pod • Drybark Sapling • Flower of Tranquility Seeds • Ivory Tree Samara • Lunic Star Spores • Magic Mushroom Spores • Potato • Savanna Grass Seeds • Soulblossom Leaf Seeds • Warped Seed Pod • Watermelon Seeds
Permanent Power-Ups	Avalon Fruit • Carbon Truffle • Spark of Courage • Tattered War Banner
Inventory Buffs	Remnants of Dawn • Seal of Recognition
Travelling items	Crystalline Wayfinder • Mysterious Coordinates • Singing Stone • Sunswept Egg • Mind Seal

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
Vulture Antlion Antlion Swarmer Antlion Charger	1-2	?%
Tomb Crawler Basilisk Ghoul Dune Splicer	2-3	?%