Striders are easily the best.

1st you can have them linked to a dedicated storage so you are taking up any weight.

2nd they harvest a toooooon

Using the strider to harvest shards on gen 2 in space will easily net you 1 million shards in about an hour. Using any other method of element grind is an absolute waste of time.

If you take a stryder to Crystal isles you can farm about 120 element worth of shards per run on 1x

Use a tek strider it is much better than any other thing on gen 2

For Crystal Isles, the mining drill does work but it’s very minimal. Tek Stryder is the best since it collects the most and has the best range so you can hit the crystals up high. I collect about 100 element worth in a short run.

Crystal isles....crafted hatchet and mantis

An ascendant pick can be better for gathering element shards, than a mining drill or an anky on the magmasaur cave on gen 1

Wow the mining drill is a pure 5.0

just asking if its possible too change the shards too element on ark. does the tek replicator help?

If u go to the space biome on genesis 2, one of the rotations has things the same shape as normal crystal nodes but with a hint of purple. Mine these and you will get hundreds of this stuff, and a bit of normal element

Mining drill does hardly anything. Use the Anky; or, if you have to use equipment, use a metal pick.

Example: mined the same area with each - leveled Anky and journeyman pick do about the same, but mining drill does about 40% less.

Do not inhale this stuff,unless you wanna become Rockwell…

Do not use stryder for this one CI. They will no harvest shards. Tried it.

The axe is better for shards then a pickaxe

It works on isles just gotta be right crystal but ank is still better

Can you actually substitute element shard for element??