How to Use Shrines for Farming, Ore Extraction, and Lava Generation

Placing and Powering Shrines

Shrines are world-interaction structures designed to channel the natural elements of fire, water, earth, and air into continuous regional tasks. Place a shrine in the world where you need work done, and supply it with elemental power using your extractors, tanks, and pipes. When active, shrines emit a visible beam of elemental magic into the surrounding area.

Automating World Tasks

Depending on which element you supply, shrines perform dedicated environmental functions:

• Crop Growth: Channel natural growth magic over nearby farmland to dramatically speed up crop harvesting.
• Ore Extraction: Use earth-attuned shrines to automatically extract valuable ores from the ground without manual quarrying.
• Lava Generation: Direct fire elemental energy through a shrine to melt plain stone blocks directly into liquid lava, providing an infinite source of fuel or molten material.

Watch for environmental markers in the field—such as stone pillars marked with large upward arrows—and check your Elementopedia guide book for specific shrine placement requirements.