How to craft cards in Nightingale

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You need to startcard craftingfairly early inNightingale, asRealm Cardsare needed to make new portals, which, in turn, are needed to explore. Once you’ve increased yourgear scoreand bested the first Site of Power, you receive a quest telling you toventure into a Forest Antiquarian realm. The catch is that you need to craft the cards yourself.

Unless you’ve been incredibly lucky and found both aForest Cardand anAntiquarian Cardin a Fae chest, you’ll need to get to work. With that said, if you’ve checked your existing crafting stations and aren’t sure where to start, look no further. Here’s how to craft cards in Nightingale, including the resources you need to gather.

Nightingale card crafting: How to get started

You need aSimple Enchanter’s Focusto craft cards in Nightingale. The schematic for this is available from the Essence Trader in exchange for Essence Dust, though you’ll also need aMortar Station, aSimple Saw Table,and aSmelterif you don’t have those schematics yet either.

Here are the materials you need to build a Simple Enchanter’s Focus:

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Once you’ve set up the crafting station, you’ll automatically get the schematics to make five different Realm Cards, including the ones you need for the quest. Here are the materials you’ll need for each card:

Paperis made at a Simple Saw Table. You need two Wood Bundles which you get from chopping down trees with a wood axe.Inkis crafted at a Simple Mortar Station using Refined Pigment, which in turn, comes from either meat, mushrooms, or ore—your choice.Essence Dustis extracted from items and materials.

If you want more Realm Card schematics, you’ll need to search out and complete Sites of Power to unlock them, just like you did for the quest that unlocked the Antiquarian Realm Card.

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