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📜 Chapter 5. Hidden Knowledge

⚠ Spoiler: this opens in chapter 5.

⚠ Show the chapter’s stages (spoilers)
  1. A whisper in the machines — Open an ancient vault: defeat the guardians or put them to sleep (tap the vault on the map)
    Reward: 30 shard dust from the vault’s niches
  2. The language of the ancients — Research “Rune reading” and set 3 runes into items (inventory → item card)
  3. Fusion — Fuse runes twice: three of the same into one stronger (needs the Antiquarian’s study; inventory → “Runes”)
    Reward: the way to the Dusky island
  4. The underground library — Fly to the Dusky island — the captain must have an item with a rune (the expedition window is in the shipyard)
  5. Putting the guardians to sleep — Open two ancient vaults and put the automata to sleep in at least one
    Reward: the Archive of Knowledge blueprint
  6. The Archive of Knowledge — Build the Archive of Knowledge
    Reward: the fifth shard of the Heart; research a quarter faster, runes in finds one and a half times more often

This guide is built from the data of the game “Oskolki” — a browser colony simulator on a floating shard among the ruins of the ancients. Play for free in the browser.