Transmutation Shard

Transmutation Shard

The Transmutation Shard is the basic unit of alchemical exchange in the Retro Exchange Mod. It represents stored transmutation potential rather than a physical material, and it is what makes converting one substance into another possible.

Shards are used as the input for transmutation. When you have a shard, you can direct it at a material and have that material converted into a different one, following the mod's transmutation process. The shard is consumed or spent as part of that exchange.

Because the mod is built around converting materials into one another, shards are the resource you gather or produce before doing any conversion work. Treat them as fuel for the process: without a shard, no transmutation happens. The exact materials a shard can produce, and how many shards a given conversion costs, depend on the transmutation rules in the mod rather than on the shard itself.