Blackstone Shard locations
Blackstone Shards are Key Progression Materials: gather four and they form a Blackstone, which permanently adds 10% Attack and Guard Break and unlocks the top row of the skill tree.
By Edwin Galibert · Updated
- What it does
- Four make one Blackstone: +10% Attack and Guard Break and currency for the top row of the skill tree.
The card describes each one as a strangely shaped black fragment, neither metal nor jade, warm to the touch, whose patterns align once four are gathered.
Like Sha-Chi Amber Fragments they are placed, not farmed: four in Mandate Encampment. In Weeping Creek Valley, one drops from an archer at the Ruthless Archer Camp, one sits in a chest in the furnace room at the base of the Sha-Chi Tower (3/4), and the last lies in the cell behind the Cell Key door. The finished Blackstone's card adds: "It can draw power from the depths of the Discordance and is exceedingly rare."
Crimson Forest's tracker counts six, and its first set of four is fully located: a campfire drop on the main road, a chest in a poisoned ravine, a storeroom of the Thieves' Camp and the tunnel under the Cliffside Lodge.
Blackstone Shard locations by region
Weeping Creek Valley (3 of 4 located)
Region map →Blackstone Shard
Dropped by an archer on the plank platforms of the Ruthless Archer Camp, beside the red and gold chest that holds Token of Pursuit. The Broken-String Bow for the Feather Bow lies at the same spot.
Nearby: Ruthless Archer Camp bell
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Blackstone Shard
On the floor of a barred cell in a fern-covered nook, down stone stairs from the outpost's lower gate, nearest the Outpost Courtyard bell. The door opens with the Cell Key, looted from a body on the upper floor of the outpost.
Nearby: Outpost Courtyard bell
Show on mapBlackstone Shard (3/4)
In a chest on a plank floor between the vats of the furnace room at the base of the Sha-Chi Tower, just before the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base bell. The page The "Four Axes" Case Files: Response from Sect Leader Ming lies beside it, and the note Mystery of Transcension: Instructions for the Sha-Chi Furnace in the same room.
Nearby: Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base bell
No map position yet
One more is in the region's tracker but not located yet.
Crimson Forest (4 of 6 located)
Region map →Blackstone Shard
In a chest behind bars in the same poisoned tunnel under the Cliffside Lodge, on the way to the Thieves Camp Dungeon Key. In one launch run it was the fourth shard of the forest's first set: "Attack and Guard Break Increased!"
Nearby: Cliffside Lodge bell
No map position yetBlackstone Shard
Dropped by an enemy by a campfire between the Abandoned Main Road and Pangzhen Bridge Overlook bells. The pickup reads Blackstone Shard (1/4): the forest counts its shards in sets of four, like the valley.
Nearby: Pangzhen Bridge Overlook bell, Abandoned Main Road bell
No map position yetBlackstone Shard
In an iron chest in a ravine full of green poison mist, right after the crank that lowers Quick Hand Zhang's cage and before the Outlaw Trap bell. Read as Blackstone Shard (2/4).
Nearby: Outlaw Trap bell
No map position yetBlackstone Shard
In an iron chest with a violet glow, in a storeroom of shelves stacked with jars inside a wooden building of the Thieves' Camp, just before the Forest Outpost Courtyard Key. Read as Blackstone Shard (3/4).
Nearby: Thieves' Camp bell
No map position yet
2 more are in the region's tracker but not located yet.
Village of Lu (3 located)
Region map →Blackstone Shard (1/4)
In an iron chest just past Zhuo Bi's arena.
Nearby: Zhuo Bi (boss)
No map position yetBlackstone Shard (2/4)
In an iron chest at the end of the bridge near the Covered Bridge bell, once the threads blocking it come undone.
Nearby: Covered Bridge bell
No map position yetBlackstone Shard (3/4)
In a chest by the stream, right after the Mandate Masters' Memory Flower that follows Master Bi Hai.
Nearby: Bi Hai (boss)
No map position yet
Mandate Encampment (0 of 4 located)
Region map →4 are in the region's tracker, none located yet.
Justice Camp (2 located)
Region map →Dark Fragment (2025 demo): plank ramp
Lying on the sloped plank ramp that climbs out of the dry riverbed, on the way to Coppermaul's arena.
No map position yetDark Fragment (2025 demo): brazier platform
After Coppermaul, on the raised plank platform under a hanging fire brazier, guarded by a lone soldier.
No map position yet
FAQ
Is it Blackstone Shard or Blackstone Fragment?
Both appear on screen for the same pickup. Launch streams read Blackstone Shard (2/4); another launch-day capture of the same archer drop reads Blackstone Fragment (2/4), and the Sha-Chi Amber pickups switch to Sha-Chi Amber Fragment the same way.
What do Blackstone Shards do?
Every four Blackstone Shards permanently raise Attack and Guard Break by 10%: the card reads "Collect 4 fragments to permanently increase Attack and Guard Break by 10%." The finished Blackstone is also spent on the top row of the skill tree, the way Sha-Chi Amber pays for the middle row and Memory Flowers for the bottom one. The tree has about 38 nodes and can be fully reset and spent again.
How do you see how many Blackstone Shards are left in a region?
Open the region's collection tracker from the map (View Collection Details). It counts Blackstone next to bells, weapons, accessories, challenges, Sha-Chi Amber and Memory Flowers, and each pickup shows its count, like Blackstone Shard (3/4).
What were Dark Fragments in the demo?
The 2025 demo's version of this item: "Gather four pieces and fit them together to create a whole Dark Stone… permanently boost your Attack and Breach power by 20%." The finished game keeps the four pieces but gives +10% Attack and Guard Break per set.
By Edwin Galibert · Last checked Oct 29, 2026 · How we source · Report an error