How to Farm, Store, and Use Skill Shards

Because vanilla XP orbs are replaced in this mod, your progression revolves entirely around Skill Shards. You can track your current balance directly on your hotbar and use these shards for character stats, tool upgrades, and enchanting.

Earning Skill Shards

There are three main ways to build up your shard balance:

• Mining: Dig deep underground in the Overworld, Nether, or End to find and mine shard ore.
• Fishing: Cast a fishing rod into water to pull up biome-themed supply crates, which open with a reel payout animation.
• Advancements: Complete standard in-game advancements to receive shard payouts.

Banking and Block Uses

Instead of holding all your currency on your hotbar—where it stays digital until spent in the fifteen-lane skill tree—you can withdraw your Skill Shards as physical items. Once withdrawn, you can store them in chests to keep them safe or trade them directly with other players on your server.

If you accumulate a large surplus of physical shards, you can craft them into Stable Skill Shard Blocks. These blocks serve two practical purposes for your base:

1. Base Defense: Placing them down will actively harm nearby hostile mobs.

2. Beacon Upgrades: Using them to build a beacon pyramid triples the beacon's normal effect range.