On Genesis part 1, you can craft hard element from element shards at mission dispatchers

Fjordur , aberation cave , use mining drill on normal looking rocks . Thank me later

On Fjordur, you can find it from the pink/red crystals in the magmasaur cave. Good luck!

Tried using the mining drill on crystal islands but not getting any shards

Mining drills do not works for element shards on crystal isles.

Use the mining drill in the volcano on genesis on red crystals and then take the shards to a tek replicator to make loads of element

Mantis+ hatchet= good shard farm

On Fjordur in the Abberation cave are stones that drop Element shards, and the loot drops there are insane as well

On crystal isles DO NOT USE the mineing drill for this resorce it dosent work ankys are top for this

Stryders on gen 1 and gen 2 differences: on gen 1 you can farm element 24/7 but not much on 1x maybe 200 hard element per run (converted from shards). And with gen 2 you can only farm element when there’s purple drops but when you do you can farm easily over 1000 hard element on 1x(converted from shards) your welcome! - From T8 DumbDinosaurClub