The best method is to go to the early hunting ground (where you kill grazers with the logs etc.) kill as many as possible each time and then shoot the blaze canisters off the dead bodys using harvest arrows. Sell the cannisters to a merchant and you can make thousands of shards consistantly.
You can actually get an item that allows for infinite travels from one of the merchants in Meridian. The items needed to buy it were not even that hard to get.
This works great. With a shadow sharp shot with handling, damage and tear mods over 45% they drop very quickly. I am using the golden fast travel pack so I can sell also sell the fast travels that are in some of the scavenger light boxes. I have also gotten a lot of very rare mods out of the scrapper resource heap which helped me trick out my weapons and outfits. I am actually averaging less than two arrows per scavenger kill as I have strong strike with the spear so I melee kill a few. Also it is funny but if you leave one dead scrapper out for bait you can get a couple extra scrappers each trip. I leave out out when I am hunting live game for bait. It is actually the mods that force me to head to meridan not the processed metal blocks. I am only keeping very rare mods now and I like to sell the ones I don't need while I am in Meridian. Between selling the scrapper eyes and hearts, the mods, and trading the processed metal blocks for the scavenger light boxes I am averaging over 42 shards per box. It has been easy for me to get 2000 in less than 20 minutes, because I take a little more time once the area is free of hostiles I hunt / harvest all the boar, rabbit, squirrel and rat in the area before I leave. I have tried the hunting grounds and for me this method is much faster with less material usage as I don't have to invest in Harvest arrows to remove the blaze canisters and I can kill with the spear. I am making over two times the shards I made at the hunting grounds. The hunting grounds may be good to get access to better weapons, but I don't know what could be much better than a tricked out shadow sharp shot with precision or hardpoint arrows. This farming method is the best I have tried so far. Kudos to whomever discovered it first.
Good, but i think farming thunderjaw is still the best. Loot all the way. And sell useless mods and some loots. 500-1000shards, and the thing is you can farm and hunt mods that has better stats
I was an idiot. Rush through the Story to new game+. With 10.000 shards and Level 28 and only the Story weapons hahaha. Now, this game is close to Dark Souls (2-3 Hits on level 40 you are down). 🤣 But i love the strategy. When i kill a higher machine , it let me feel like a boss. Today i killed my first ultra hard thunderjaw. It was an 20 minute epic fight. Love this game! 🔥❤🤙🏼
this was posted a long time ago so they probably didn't know then the hammer and steel glitch is right now as of 2021 is the most popular for not just shards but mod farming as well. the other one is thunderjaw farming if you set the difficulty on easy you just fast travel back and forth to the campfire next to it. this specific thunderjaw is the one you passes by on your first trip to meridian. the other farming trick for me is the one on hunter grounds with a lot of grazers. you can kill a lot of these in a few secs by lighting up a few blazers on them and have a chain reaction of explosion to kill the rest. it may sacrifice a few blazes but the fast kill is worth it. you farm the rest of the blaze on their corpses by harvest arrow . 6 x 4 nets you 24 blazes per grazer as opposed to just searching it right away you'd get only 4.
holy shit man youre my hero right now! I'm doing an NG+ UH run right now and the adept weapons and armor are so expensive! i have 75 of these babies in my inventory left over from my original playthrough of HZD! time to go cash in! 😀
As of 2024, the processed metal blocks only seem to spawn in stacks of 1-4, so the method is slower but still effective. It's a great place to get early access to rare mods as well!!!
Thnx bro I was trying to get the shadow blast sling shot for like ages by just killing machines and all and when I saw I already had those metal thingies like 50 or something so I was rich.thnx man
A solution is when you kill the scrappers you’re going to find modifications or even the those boxes so get the modification the boxes the lenses and you can also sell them with other merchants in Meridian or if you have the skill you can sell them right there in the scrapper site and to save you all those travel packs go to the merchant in Meridian and you’ll find a ultimate like fast travel pack you need like 10 fatty meats one fox skin and like small amount of shards I think and that will save you from not having any fasts travel packs it will be like an unlimited fuss trouble
Dec 11 2022 update: seems as though only 1-3 will drop at a time and it isnt the same treasure box as before. The only thing I got was bones and fat, ect. Still good for mods but not for shards.
How do you get 10 processed metal blocks in each scrap pile? I am trying anything different difficulties etc but still get only 2 or 1 processed metal blocks in one scrap pile. Who can help me out plz😮
There is only 3 that spawn in each time i get a mount so it's faster I silent kill them it's easier and I don't have to use my amo there is always 2 by the river you can easily silent kill them one after another behind a bush you can easily sneak behind them to make it way easier and faster
It’s basically the legendary armor set in the game. Not quite sure how to get it anymore as that was 3 years ago but it’s called the shield weaver armor and I’m sure there are a lot of videos on it
Yep, Schuyler Deal is right, it's the shield weaver that's only available near the end of the game. One guy out there has a video on how to get it early. I thought it was gonna be a bunch of BS but the guy actually did figure out how to get it early. He utilized a bunch of glitches.
This is actually not the fastest way. It's the easiest way. The fastest way involves two thunderclaws. The fastest exploit involves an errand called Hammer and Steel. The most profitable is the third one, Hammer and Steel, where the convoy becomes re-lootable if the quest never ends, but the machines remain destroyed. Best mods, too. AND blocks.
The blocks are useless crap! You'll just end up with an inventory full of garbage in the end lol. Just sell them and save yourself the trouble. Potion dup and the Behemoths are definitely the best, and still working.
i hear those machines that looks like hermit crab earns you the most wire per machine. just shoot the back container with tear arrow or regular arrow but hit it on the part that holds it in place to prevent it from being destroyed as that contains the wire. still i would recommend to just farm shards instead and stock up on it through purchase from a merchant. buy it on easier difficulty though. on normal wire cost 5 shards on ultra hard it's 15!!! if you need thousands the difference is massive so yeah stock up on it when you switches the difficulty to easier difficulty then return to harder difficulty. it'll save you a lot of time and shards, very efficient.
I guess it's patched they don't give you as much boxes but you can get a lot of modifications you can sell that shit everything you get from doing this just not the blocks and you sell you might make like a thousand if you get 50 of them and then when you get 50 of them you just cash them in and hope that you get more money so no it doesn't really work anymore but it gives you purple modification every single time you go up to that place so I don't know if that's a good thing if there's a certain places where you can go to get modifications that are better than the ones they give you the X I haven't got the best but not the worst but no it doesn't work as well as it used to but it's still kind of works what I do is I go to that place not back travel to where the other Scrappers are where the seller is and I keep doing those two over and over again while selling things Ultra hard is really hard
Huey R. Ruckus not really, especially since the light box has a 1 out of 3 chance of giving shards. What normally took 10 minutes now will take close to 2 hours to get the same draw. :-/
Erik Herrera Damn! :/ Any tips on a better way to get shards. I just got some Shadow Weapons and am a bit strapped. I need shards for some better armor.
HIGHLY exaggerated.... It is a viable farming method but nowhere close to this fast. Im playing on ultra hard with a stealth build and all scavenger/stealth skills unlocked. I literally run on them and I kill these machines 2 times faster than this video and I don't waste shards for arrows since spear is free damage. But the income is still below 1000 shards in 10 minutes. You should do it? Damn straight you should. It's better than anything else. But don't expect 2k shards in 10 minutes. The back and forth alone is going to take as much
@@negatvecreep He could have answer to this comment 6 months earlier or even better he could just delete the video from YT. But he let it up for the views and just pinned your reply. I felt like someone had to comment how viable this method is and so I did 😁
yeah this approach is very out dated. this look like it worked back then but the popular approach now as of 2021 is the hammer and steel glitch and thunderjaw farming.
The best method is to go to the early hunting ground (where you kill grazers with the logs etc.) kill as many as possible each time and then shoot the blaze canisters off the dead bodys using harvest arrows. Sell the cannisters to a merchant and you can make thousands of shards consistantly.
I do this too works well. I use harvester arrows also. You get 4 or 5 times the amount. I can get around 200 each time
200 canisters that is
How to make harvest arrow?
@@leongaming8570 You need go outside the sacred lands, find a merchant there, then buy the Shadow Sharpshot Bow.
Dont necessarily need harvest arrows, the standard starter arrows would do fine as well.
Not sure if this was patched, I am on PC and only get 1 or 2 blocks a run, however, the mods in this farm run makes it worth it. So TU to OP.
The potion duplication and the Behemoth errand glitch are much faster ways to get shards! This method is crap!
@@williamallen7386 how you do that? Just started the game not long ago but opened up Meridian already
@@williamallen7386 huh
I think your unlucky like really unlucky
I am experiencing the same thing, only one or two per heap
Thank you so much I was getting really frustrated trying to 100% the game on the hardest difficulty!
You can actually get an item that allows for infinite travels from one of the merchants in Meridian. The items needed to buy it were not even that hard to get.
Its called the golden travel pack
@@kema93_ Yup, that's what I meant. Also, the stuff is accessible as early as reaching Daytower.
@@dothackjhe got there yesterday and bought it immediately
@@dothackjhe I got it and its defiently one of the most useful items in the game that not many have
Advice: If you have enough invest in a shadow Hunter bow and use hardpoint arrows since their weakness is armor pen or whatevs
Tell me how this guy has the shield weaver suit but not the golden fast travel pack
Level 59 here, checking videos for getting to 100K shards before I start Ultra hard :)
This works great. With a shadow sharp shot with handling, damage and tear mods over 45% they drop very quickly. I am using the golden fast travel pack so I can sell also sell the fast travels that are in some of the scavenger light boxes. I have also gotten a lot of very rare mods out of the scrapper resource heap which helped me trick out my weapons and outfits. I am actually averaging less than two arrows per scavenger kill as I have strong strike with the spear so I melee kill a few. Also it is funny but if you leave one dead scrapper out for bait you can get a couple extra scrappers each trip. I leave out out when I am hunting live game for bait.
It is actually the mods that force me to head to meridan not the processed metal blocks. I am only keeping very rare mods now and I like to sell the ones I don't need while I am in Meridian. Between selling the scrapper eyes and hearts, the mods, and trading the processed metal blocks for the scavenger light boxes I am averaging over 42 shards per box. It has been easy for me to get 2000 in less than 20 minutes, because I take a little more time once the area is free of hostiles I hunt / harvest all the boar, rabbit, squirrel and rat in the area before I leave.
I have tried the hunting grounds and for me this method is much faster with less material usage as I don't have to invest in Harvest arrows to remove the blaze canisters and I can kill with the spear. I am making over two times the shards I made at the hunting grounds.
The hunting grounds may be good to get access to better weapons, but I don't know what could be much better than a tricked out shadow sharp shot with precision or hardpoint arrows.
This farming method is the best I have tried so far. Kudos to whomever discovered it first.
dawg straight from yapperville
Thank you this video was very short and to the point, I like that
1:10 .. I am playing at ultra hard and it takes 5 min to kill a machine while on easy mode Only 20 or 30 second
You can always change modes.
@@arandom1311 ... No once ultra hard is set in new game + you can not change mode ... Btw I have cleared it 😌
@@aayushswarnkar6211 oh new game plus im talking about first playthrough
@@arandom1311 ... I have already completed this game in 2018 but I did it again for trophies ...
Well what did you expect? Lmao
Good, but i think farming thunderjaw is still the best. Loot all the way. And sell useless mods and some loots.
500-1000shards, and the thing is you can farm and hunt mods that has better stats
Override them and let them hammer them for you.
Level 54 here watching this video for newbs cause I blew all my shards 😂
I was an idiot. Rush through the Story to new game+. With 10.000 shards and Level 28 and only the Story weapons hahaha. Now, this game is close to Dark Souls (2-3 Hits on level 40 you are down). 🤣 But i love the strategy. When i kill a higher machine , it let me feel like a boss. Today i killed my first ultra hard thunderjaw. It was an 20 minute epic fight. Love this game! 🔥❤🤙🏼
😆 same here
Past level 50 but did the same thing buy spending shards
Bro level 60 here just spent 10k for fucking adept bow like bruuuh
I know what you mean. I am level 59 and I am out of shards
this was posted a long time ago so they probably didn't know then the hammer and steel glitch is right now as of 2021 is the most popular for not just shards but mod farming as well. the other one is thunderjaw farming if you set the difficulty on easy you just fast travel back and forth to the campfire next to it. this specific thunderjaw is the one you passes by on your first trip to meridian. the other farming trick for me is the one on hunter grounds with a lot of grazers. you can kill a lot of these in a few secs by lighting up a few blazers on them and have a chain reaction of explosion to kill the rest. it may sacrifice a few blazes but the fast kill is worth it. you farm the rest of the blaze on their corpses by harvest arrow . 6 x 4 nets you 24 blazes per grazer as opposed to just searching it right away you'd get only 4.
Best method! Also you can disassemble all modification that you don't need and have more shards! Once more thanks!
How many blocks do you get per run tho? Coz I normally just get 1-2….
@@esjo04 Starange because I get 5+. Maybe there is soe dependancies? Did you uprgaded your tree skills to max?
@@NoobOnTheMove yeah I donno 🤷🏼♀️ no it’s not upgraded completely yet. Have only played through 38% of the game so far too
holy shit man youre my hero right now! I'm doing an NG+ UH run right now and the adept weapons and armor are so expensive! i have 75 of these babies in my inventory left over from my original playthrough of HZD! time to go cash in! 😀
As of 2024, the processed metal blocks only seem to spawn in stacks of 1-4, so the method is slower but still effective. It's a great place to get early access to rare mods as well!!!
Wow can't believe I went so long without doing this
so far i get a total of no more then 3 blocks each time...
Same
Me too
Same
Same
Thnx bro I was trying to get the shadow blast sling shot for like ages by just killing machines and all and when I saw I already had those metal thingies like 50 or something so I was rich.thnx man
This no longer works as they've lowered the amount of blocks to make it not worth the effort. Unless you are that bored, which is sad.
Wow i really needed this this aint a bad method wither will take some time but not a bad method very helpful thanks man
I get like 1 metal block per scrapper if i'm lucky, have they fixed this exploit in an update?
To what I understand yes. But it shouldnt be that bad. I hear it's like 5 mins for 500 shards or something.
Also each light box you buy does not guarantee shards. I got ridgewood most of the time, maybe half of the boxes or even less have shards in them.
You rock bro!!!
I'm only getting 1 block each if I'm lucky.
Me too
Yeah I think this got patched I'm trying it in 2021 and I'm only getting one block out of the 4 I killed!
@@thisiswhatgarbagelookslike3864 me too
A solution is when you kill the scrappers you’re going to find modifications or even the those boxes so get the modification the boxes the lenses and you can also sell them with other merchants in Meridian or if you have the skill you can sell them right there in the scrapper site and to save you all those travel packs go to the merchant in Meridian and you’ll find a ultimate like fast travel pack you need like 10 fatty meats one fox skin and like small amount of shards I think and that will save you from not having any fasts travel packs it will be like an unlimited fuss trouble
Dec 11 2022 update: seems as though only 1-3 will drop at a time and it isnt the same treasure box as before. The only thing I got was bones and fat, ect. Still good for mods but not for shards.
Theres a different box for shards
How do you get 10 processed metal blocks in each scrap pile? I am trying anything different difficulties etc but still get only 2 or 1 processed metal blocks in one scrap pile.
Who can help me out plz😮
Yeah i get 2 or 1 too i think they patched it
What do the dark boxes do
It looks like this was patched . 2 or 3 blocks tops at a time. The bonus is purple mods. Still an ok farm.
Purple mods from the loot of the machines or from the boxes u buy at the meridian merchant?
Thank you for your time
I'm watching this because I'm playing the game again on ULTRA HARD DIFFICULTY and I want to buy an outfit that costs 10k shards and a few hearts
@@eldritch_prince2730 Don't worry I finally got the outfit I wanted by killing Thunderjaws
@@imel3ment4l10 hmm
@@Simplystimulating what?
I only got one they patched it
4 years later can confirm
I’m not sure if it’s my game but I’m only getting 1 or 2
i am still not able to get the item in the game carja blast sling .?
Also may i add. Harvest arrows are your besties
Great video pal. Thanks.
I can't get more than 3. Any ideas?
There is only 3 that spawn in each time i get a mount so it's faster I silent kill them it's easier and I don't have to use my amo there is always 2 by the river you can easily silent kill them one after another behind a bush you can easily sneak behind them to make it way easier and faster
Where did you get that outfit of yours, I want it, looks amazing😍😍😍
It’s basically the legendary armor set in the game. Not quite sure how to get it anymore as that was 3 years ago but it’s called the shield weaver armor and I’m sure there are a lot of videos on it
Yep, Schuyler Deal is right, it's the shield weaver that's only available near the end of the game. One guy out there has a video on how to get it early. I thought it was gonna be a bunch of BS but the guy actually did figure out how to get it early. He utilized a bunch of glitches.
This is actually not the fastest way. It's the easiest way.
The fastest way involves two thunderclaws.
The fastest exploit involves an errand called Hammer and Steel.
The most profitable is the third one, Hammer and Steel, where the convoy becomes re-lootable if the quest never ends, but the machines remain destroyed. Best mods, too. AND blocks.
The blocks are useless crap! You'll just end up with an inventory full of garbage in the end lol. Just sell them and save yourself the trouble. Potion dup and the Behemoths are definitely the best, and still working.
Which armor is this and glows?
You find it in advanced Armoury, I recommend you look up a guide, it's the ebsta armour in the game
I'm playing on PC and only getting one block a pile. Looks like they nerfed this farming strat.
Anyone know of a good way to farm wire? I need it to craft tearblast arrows
Just grind
Kill watchers
i hear those machines that looks like hermit crab earns you the most wire per machine. just shoot the back container with tear arrow or regular arrow but hit it on the part that holds it in place to prevent it from being destroyed as that contains the wire. still i would recommend to just farm shards instead and stock up on it through purchase from a merchant. buy it on easier difficulty though. on normal wire cost 5 shards on ultra hard it's 15!!! if you need thousands the difference is massive so yeah stock up on it when you switches the difficulty to easier difficulty then return to harder difficulty. it'll save you a lot of time and shards, very efficient.
does it still work??
shoot boom yes! But I'm unlucky
Holy Nuggets umm i guess it doesnt work anymore dude
shoot boom it work men
Holy Nuggets alright then thank You :)
shoot boom no problem,hope you lucky 🍀
Currently playing on PS4 and sadly can only get 1-3 blocks a run in 2022
Bro u have to grind hard asf to get shards😂😂
Looks like it is also great at giving mods
Does it still work after july update
I got 50 shards from this video
I think that means I’m unlucky
Thanks
That was useful realy ... Thank...my situation was better with golden fast travel pack ( unlimited fast travel )
Its also a good way for coils
nice video bro, still works for me 15th May
One rule only.
Use stealth kill. dont use arrow. you will have a lot of money in no time. Trust me.
and sell parts that you dont use.
I'm only a couple hours into the game and LOVE IT, almost as much as good of war! 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻
They must have nerfed this-I’m only getting 1-4 blocks per.
I guess it's patched they don't give you as much boxes but you can get a lot of modifications you can sell that shit everything you get from doing this just not the blocks and you sell you might make like a thousand if you get 50 of them and then when you get 50 of them you just cash them in and hope that you get more money so no it doesn't really work anymore but it gives you purple modification every single time you go up to that place so I don't know if that's a good thing if there's a certain places where you can go to get modifications that are better than the ones they give you the X I haven't got the best but not the worst but no it doesn't work as well as it used to but it's still kind of works what I do is I go to that place not back travel to where the other Scrappers are where the seller is and I keep doing those two over and over again while selling things Ultra hard is really hard
its been patched ...
Worked for me
I’m pretty sure they patched rhis
Or just override them and let them do the legwork for you.
I think its patched, i only got 9 blocks from 3 raids, and in those boxes where 0 shards, (yes ofc Some usefull stuff bit no shards)
I'm on Ps4 and only getting 1 or 2 per run
they nerfed it hard, u only get 1 to 3 blocks now
I am so sad rn because this doesn’t seem to be working in 2023 😭
Awesome!! Thank you. I had 20k, now down to zero.
Still works in 2020
This was nerfed in 1.10 :(
Erik Herrera How badly???
Huey R. Ruckus scrappers no longer have the big drop rate. Now, it's only dropping like 1-2 total vs 15-25 as before
Erik Herrera farming them would still be good for shards just not as much right
Huey R. Ruckus not really, especially since the light box has a 1 out of 3 chance of giving shards. What normally took 10 minutes now will take close to 2 hours to get the same draw. :-/
Erik Herrera Damn! :/ Any tips on a better way to get shards. I just got some Shadow Weapons and am a bit strapped. I need shards for some better armor.
HIGHLY exaggerated.... It is a viable farming method but nowhere close to this fast. Im playing on ultra hard with a stealth build and all scavenger/stealth skills unlocked. I literally run on them and I kill these machines 2 times faster than this video and I don't waste shards for arrows since spear is free damage. But the income is still below 1000 shards in 10 minutes.
You should do it? Damn straight you should. It's better than anything else. But don't expect 2k shards in 10 minutes. The back and forth alone is going to take as much
Thats because that video is from 4 years ago, that method probably got patched out
@@negatvecreep He could have answer to this comment 6 months earlier or even better he could just delete the video from YT. But he let it up for the views and just pinned your reply. I felt like someone had to comment how viable this method is and so I did 😁
yeah this approach is very out dated. this look like it worked back then but the popular approach now as of 2021 is the hammer and steel glitch and thunderjaw farming.
Hmm
I only found 2 ;-;
This doesn’t work anymore. Patched
I got more than 2000 shards
That's stupid
This doesn't even justify the use of hardpoint arrows