How to Gather Inert Crystals and Craft Contained Crystals

Mining Inert Crystals

To begin progressing in Elemental Craft, you must gather raw elemental resources found underground. Search subterranean caves to locate inert crystal ore. Mining this ore drops inert crystals, which serve as the foundation for your crafting recipes, binding crafts, and elemental infusions.

Crafting Contained Crystals

Once you have acquired inert crystals, you can stabilize them for advanced crafting components.

1. Gather gold ingots and break them down into gold nuggets in your crafting grid.

2. Open a crafting table.

3. Place an inert crystal in the center slot.

4. Surround the inert crystal completely with eight gold nuggets.

Crafting this recipe yields a contained crystal. Contained crystals are necessary components for building core elemental apparatus, including tanks, extractors, and infusers. Keep extra inert crystals on hand as well, since uncontained inert crystals are directly consumed during later infusion processes. If you need visual guidance on your early progression, consult the Elementopedia guide book.