Soul's Remnant Red Shard: How to Get It & What It's For

The Red Shard is a crafting material in Soul's Remnant described in-game as "Very sharp." You get it by mining red ore veins, crafting it at Blacksmithing level 2 from Red Crystals, or looting it from a small set of monsters. This page collects what the official wiki and the community database list — with a caveat that the wiki's item page was last edited in January 2025, so treat exact rates as to-verify in the current build.

What the Red Shard is

The Red Shard is a Material with rarity 1, sits in the materials inventory tab, and is used in crafting. Its listed tooltip is simply "Very sharp." It is a low-tier material you will accumulate while mining early zones, and crafting with it grants Blacksmithing EXP.

How to get Red Shards

• Mining red ore veins — the primary source listed on the wiki.
• Blacksmithing — craft it yourself: the recipe is Red Crystal ×1 for 2 Red Shards, requiring Blacksmithing level 2, with a 100% success rate at the listed Blacksmithing level.
• Monster drops — the wiki lists Rokkik at 1% (1 in 135) and Elemental at 4% (1 in 35). These pages are old, so confirm current drop behavior in-game.

The th.gl community database also indexes the Red Shard under its item database; it does not publish different numbers from the wiki.

What Red Shards are used for

The wiki's item page does not list a recipe table for the Red Shard itself, which likely means it feeds into early weapon and blacksmithing recipes rather than a single famous craft. In practice, low-level materials like this are consumed in bulk by Blacksmithing recipes and sold between players in the auction house and player shops. If you are farming specifically for shards, mining red veins in early mining zones is the reliable route; monster drops are incidental.

Does the drop rate matter for your build?

Red Shards are a common-enough material that they rarely gate a build by themselves. What matters more is having Blacksmithing leveled so you can use the shards you mine. The exact drop-rate table above is included for reference but comes from a January 2025 snapshot of the wiki — during Early Access, values can change without warning.

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