🪨 Small shards

⚠ Spoiler: this opens in chapter 6.

After the Ancient Generator the islands shifted: now and then a small shard drifts to the colony’s edge — a patch of 30–60 tiles, two to four tiles of void from the shore. It is always small, whatever your island is like.

• What’s on it: high-level ruins, rock with ore and coal (with a mountain in the middle), or a grove.
• How to get there: “Landfill” ⛰ across the void (landfill).
• The first one drifts in a couple of days after the Generator, then once every 12–18 days; up to four on a normal island, more on large and huge ones.
• Each arrival is an earth tremor: those outdoors may get bruised. The 🛡 Alarm bell rings by itself — everyone has time to take cover.
• ✨ Pull Node (chapter 7): shards drift in more often, and there can be two more of them.

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.