Nightingale Realm Cards List
Desert CardBiome
- Introduction && Effects
Generates a map with a Desert terrain.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1Forest CardBiome
- Introduction && Effects
Creates a map featuring a Forest terrain.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1The WatchMajor
- Introduction && Effects
Transports you to the Watch, a cooperative space shared by players in the End-Game phase.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1Swamp CardBiome
- Introduction && Effects
Creates a map with Swamp terrain.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1Antiquarian CardMajor
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Tier 1 card that includes archaeological sites.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Antiquarian Ascended CardMajor
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An End-Game iteration of the primary realm card, inhabited by NPCs from the Calcularia faction, posing a moderately high level of danger.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1Astrolabe CardMajor
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Tier 1 card that introduces astronomical-themed Points of Interest (POIs) across the map.
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Essence Dust X 25 + Paper X 1 + Ink X 1Astrolabe Ascended CardMajor
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An End-Game rendition of Astrolabe, featuring Calcularia faction NPCs with a moderate level of danger.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1Vault CardMajor
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Vault cards are ideal for dungeon-crawling in Nightingale, providing direct access to Fae vaults that present specialized challenges.
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T3 Essence X 25 + Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1Provisioner CardMajor
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Tier 1 card that introduces industrial buildings and points of interest across the map.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Provisioner Ascended CardMajor
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An End-Game iteration of the primary realm card, inhabited by NPCs from the Calcularia faction, posing a moderately high level of danger.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1Gloom CardMajor
- Introduction && Effects
Tier 2 card that intensifies the Gloom and creates a more menacing atmosphere across the map.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Gloom Ascended CardMajor
- Introduction && Effects
An end-game iteration of the primary realm card, inhabited by NPCs from the Calcularia faction with moderately high threat levels.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1Herbarium CardMajor
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Tier 2 card that introduces additional points of interest with a druidic theme across the map.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Herbarium Ascended CardMajor
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This is an end-game version of a major realm card, populated with NPCs from the Calcularia faction posing a moderately high level of danger.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1Hunt CardMajor
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A Tier 3 card that enables players to embark on Apex Hunts, allowing them to defeat large and powerful boss creatures native to the biome.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Hunt Ascended CardMajor
- Introduction && Effects
This is an end-game version of a major realm card, populated with NPCs from the Calcularia faction posing a moderately high level of danger.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1Alchemist CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
Increases the yield of crafted potions, increases the chance of finding Essence, and enhances the magical power of crafted items.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Diamond X 1Trickster CardMinor
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The recipe enhances jumping height and strength attributes while reducing the risk of injury. However, it also decreases damage dealt, and the yields of resources are "not what you expect."
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Ayrium Ore X 1Amphibious CardMinor
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Enhance swimming speed, boost resistance to disease, and improve the ability to recover stamina while in water.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Artisan CardMinor
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Improves crafting stations and augments all crafting stations to create an ideal environment. It also decreases refinement time by 10 seconds and increases the comfort rating by 1.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1Hunter CardMinor
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This ability enhances item yields from skiing creatures, boosts damage dealt to weak points, and reduces damage dealt elsewhere.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Predator Meat X 1Hunter Eminent CardMinor
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This upgrade offers additional boosts to yields from slain creatures, improved damage to weak points, and decreased damage to hits on other parts of a creature's body.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Predator Bone X 1Blood Moon CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
The sky becomes adorned with a blood moon, raising the likelihood of enemies dropping rare items but reducing your maximum health.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Blood Moon Eminent CardMinor
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The sky is engulfed by a blood moon, intensifying the drop chance of rarer items from enemies. However, it also further diminishes your total maximum health and regeneration rate.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Bound Ichor X 1Blood Moon Apogean CardMinor
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Another Blood Moon card boasting even greater increases in drop chance for rare materials from enemies, yet imposing harsher penalties on maximum health and regeneration speeds.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Yew Lumber X 1Feast CardMinor
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This effect alters the season to spring, enhancing the benefits of food buffs, extending food duration, boosting health regeneration increase, and reducing the hunger rate.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Maleficiate CardMinor
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This effect plunges the realm into eternal night and enhances the yield of Bound resource drops.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Wick X 1Maleficiate Apogean CardMinor
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Plunges the realm into eternal night and increases the yield of Bound resource drops.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Bound Ingot X 1Deep Fae Wilds CardMinor
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This effect reduces the damage you deal but increases your health, stamina, and the rate at which your health and stamina recover.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Bound Ichor X 1Duelist CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
This results in a slight increase in both the damage you deal and the damage you take.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Treasury CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
This effect increases the chance of finding Essence.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Treasury Eminent CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
This effect further increases the chance of finding Essence.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Shimmering Ore X 1Utopia CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
In the realm you're in, the sun never sets.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Explorer CardMinor
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This is a weaker version of Explorer Eminent, offering only slight increases to food duration, minor decreases in damage, and a slight reduction in the damage you deal.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Explorer Eminent CardMinor
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This effect increases food duration and reduces damage taken by modest amounts, while also decreasing the damage you deal by a similar margin.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Shimmering Ore X 1Angler CardMinor
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Benefits to being able to fish in the realm.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Forge CardMinor
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This effect increases ore yield, reduces the time needed to refine ore into products, and enhances the quality of metal items. Additionally, it decreases the cost of other materials' effectiveness.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Ingot X 1Fortitude CardMinor
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This effect increases your resistance to injuries, enhances blocking efficiency, and strengthens the fortitude of your structures. However, it comes at the cost of reducing the durability of tools and clothing.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Granite X 1Ghost CardMinor
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This effect improves your stealth and boosts the yield of resources and Essence, while simultaneously reducing the damage you deal.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Obsidian Glass X 1Greenhouse CardMinor
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This effect increases plant yield, reduces the time needed to refine Refined Fibre into products, and enhances the quality of plant-based items. Crafted clothes gain improved cold, fire, and rain resistance, as well as improved stealth. Additionally, it increases the weight of the items slightly.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Flower X 1Weighted CardMinor
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This is a slightly weaker version of Weighted Eminent.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Weighted Eminent CardMinor
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This effect increases the damage and efficiency of your harvesting tools while altering gravity and reducing your stamina.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Sandstone X 1Hearth CardMinor
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This effect prolongs the duration of meal and rest buffs, reduces the rate at which you become hungry and tired, and enhances health and stamina recovery.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Carved Wood X 1Industry CardMinor
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This effect increases the yield of crafted ammunition and ingots by 2x, while also extending the crafting time of all refinement processes.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Gunpowder X 1Tavern CardMinor
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This effect prolongs meal duration, decreases the rate at which you become tired, and increases stamina regeneration.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 26Lumber Mill CardMinor
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This effect increases wood yield, reduces the time needed to refine wood products, and enhances the quality of wooden items. However, it comes at the cost of reducing the material's effectiveness.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Lumber X 1Marksman CardMinor
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This effect increases the damage you deal with rifles and pistols and enhances the effectiveness of their ammunition. However, it decreases the effectiveness of shotguns.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Barrel X 1Might CardMinor
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This effect increases your strength and carrying capacity, but at the cost of reducing the efficiency of tool and clothing durability.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Outlaw CardMinor
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This effect increases the damage you deal with pistols, boosts the yield of crafting pistol ammunition, and enhances the damage you deal with magical ammunition, while reducing the damage you deal with other guns.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Action X 1Quarry CardMinor
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This effect increases the yield of stone blocks and reduces the time needed to refine stone blocks into useful items. It further enhances the quality of stone items and improves the cost efficiency of stone items.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Stone Block X 1Cleansing CardMinor
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Play this card to eliminate all minor card effects from a Realm.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Tempest CardMinor
- Introduction && Effects
This effect causes the world to rain perpetually but increases the potency of your magic.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Tempest Eminent CardMinor
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This effect further enhances your magical powers at the cost of causing deadlier rains.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Emerald X 1Tempest Apogean CardMinor
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This effect brings even further increases to magical damage, coupled with perpetual rain.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Sapphire X 1Farm CardMinor
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This effect accelerates crop growth, enhances the yield, and increases the chance of finding Essence when harvesting.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Potato X 1Thinned Veil CardMinor
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This effect increases movement speed, stamina efficiency, and jumping velocity, albeit with a slight increase in durability drain.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Settler CardMinor
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This is a weaker version of Settler Eminent, with a slightly lower increase in growing speed.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Settler Eminent CardMinor
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This effect increases the yield of refined building materials and crops, enhances the durability of building pieces, and reduces the rate at which your stamina recovers. Additionally, the plant growth rate is increased from 33% to 75%.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Lumber X 1Settler Apogean CardMinor
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This is a stronger growing speed card with even better yields, albeit with an even worse stamina regeneration debuff.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Gilded Lumber X 1Dragon’s Hoard CardMinor
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This effect increases the chances of finding rare gems in Fae and Human Chests, albeit with a slight increase in damage taken.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Dragon’s Hoard Eminent CardMinor
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This effect further increases the chance of finding rarer gems in chests, which in turn further lowers your damage resistance.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Sapphire X 1Dragon’s Hoard Apogean CardMinor
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This effect significantly increases the chance of finding rare gems and further decreases your maximum HP.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Sapphire X 1Utopia Apogean CardMinor
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This effect brings perpetual daylight and renders you invisible to enemies.
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Foil Paper X 1 + Lustrous Ink X 1 + Diamond X 1Blunderbuss CardMinor
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This effect increases the damage you deal with shotguns, boosts the yield when crafting shotgun ammo, and enhances the damage you deal with magical shotgun ammo. However, it reduces the damage you deal with other gun types.
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Coated Paper X 1 + Vibrant Ink X 1 + Stock X 1Harvester’s Workshop CardMinor
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This effect changes the realm to the spring season, decreases the time to refine tools by 10 seconds, and enhances all tools crafted during this time with +3 efficiency, -2 to weight, and +2 to damage.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Combatant’s Workshop CardMinor
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This effect enables you to craft tools with increased damage but reduces their yields. Crafted tools while under this effect gain the Damage++ trait. Additionally, it reduces crafting time by 10 seconds, and changes the season to summer.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25Bulwark’s Workshop CardMinor
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With this effect, the season transitions to autumn, and players can now craft tools with better blocking ability and efficiency. All tools crafted while the card is active gain Durability +++, Blocking Efficiency +++, Weight ++, and Stamina Efficiency ++.
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Paper X 1 + Ink X 1 + Essence Dust X 25
What are Realm Cards?
Cards allow discovering new realms in Nightingale or altering existing ones. Opening a portal requires at least two cards, which are then consumed. Activating portals or using a Realmic Transmutor also consumes cards. Craft or loot more cards to continue traversing fantastical worlds.
There are three types of Cards in Nightingale: Biome Cards,Major Cards and Minor Cards.
Biome Cards
Biome Cards determine the environment of a Realm. They are one of the two essential cards needed to unlock a Portal.
Major Cards
Major Cards establish the Difficulty level of a Realm. They are one of the two essential cards needed to unlock a Portal.
Minor Cards
Minor Cards can impact the conditions of the Realm you are presently exploring. These effects may include altering gravity, enhancing loot acquisition, reducing crafting time, and various others.
How to Unlock Realm Cards?
In Nightingale, there are two methods to acquire more Cards: purchasing new Card recipes from Essence Traders and completing quests.
Typically, Major Cards become available upon reaching a specific Gear Score and successfully clearing a Site of Power. Meanwhile, the majority of Minor Cards are obtained through purchases from Essence Traders.
While crafting recipes aren't necessary to obtain Cards—since they can be discovered as loot at Points of Interest within a Realm—you won't have the consistent ability to produce Cards without the appropriate crafting recipe.
How to Craft Realm Cards?
You can craft Cards using a Simple Enchanter's Focus. At the very least, you'll need a Simple Saw Table to produce Paper and a Simple Mortar Station to create Ink. Moreover, crafting certain Cards may necessitate spending Essence.