Remnant: From The Ashes comes with a plethora of key items and crafting materials. Each item is important to the overall gameplay experience. Our Remnant: From The Ashes, Key Items and Crafting Materials Guide will discuss all key items and crafting materials.
Remnant: From The Ashes Key Items and Crafting Materials
Key Items are special items in Remnant From The Ashes. These items are used to unlock or advance various missions in the game. They also help you access certain locked areas. You need to find these items at certain locations in the game.
This guide is a work in progress so some of the information might be missing. Will be updated soon.
August 22: Updated with more locations and crafting items.
Key Items
Key Item |
Description |
Location |
| Control Rod | Dropped from Maul (the Pack), Used to activate the Ancient Construct by Wud | Drop by Maul. |
| D.A.T.L.A. Key | This key can power the crystal terminal in Ward 13 | Found in Ward 13 |
| Founder’s Key | This key unlocks a computer connected to a mirror on the lower levels of Ward 13 | Yaesha – Founder’s Prison |
| Fuse | Can be used to fill the empty fuse slot located on Ward 13 | Found in Ward 13 behind keycard door |
| Glowing Rod | Three of these are needed to open the vaults to get the Akari Armor Pieces | Rhom Drop – inside The Ardent Temple |
| Guardian’s Heart | Give to either the Undying King or the Elf Queen to complete their quests. | Ixillis Drop |
| Howling Key | Claviger.Drop | |
| Labyrinth Key | It is used to access the Labyrinth | Undying King Drop |
| Strange Coin | You can give this item to Ace, and she will reward you with Magnum Revolver and 300 Scrap | N/A |
| Strange Curio | This strange object looks like it has been separated from something else. Perhaps that isolation is of some importance? | Found at Yaesha (Stuck Merchant) |
| Tarnished Ring | You give this Item to Reggie, and he will reward you with a trait. | N/A |
| Ward 13 Keycard | Gain access to the main hub, Ward 13. | Founder’s Hideout |
| Ward 13 Master Key | This key unlocks all locks of this type in Ward 13. Very convenient | Ward 13 in the room after the giant fan) |
Now let’s talk about the crafting materials in Remnant: From The Ashes. The game feature a ton of crafting materials and they found and various locations.
Crafting Materials
Material |
Description |
Location/Crafting |
| Unclean Heart | Craft Devastator | The Unclean One Drop |
| Twisted Heart | Craft Petrified Maul | The Ent Drop |
| Totem Antler | Craft Eye of the Storm | Totem Father on Yaesha |
| Thermal Geode | Craft Defiler | Defeat Ixillis |
| The Undying Heart | Craft Ruin | The Undying King drop on Rhom |
| Swarm Tusk | Craft Swarm | Defeat Thrall |
| Storm Crystal | Craft Storm Caller | Defeat Storm Caller |
| Stone of the Guardian | Craft World Breaker | Defeat Claviger |
| Spore Gland | Craft Sporebloom | Defeat The Ent |
| Slime Vessel | Valuable resource carried by CANKER that can be used to forge a powerful weapon. | Defeat Canker |
| Simulacrum | ULTRA RARE resource that has the power to take any weapon or armor and manifest it to its ultimate form at max level. It can also be used to reinforce the Dragonheart. | Cutthroat Channel |
| Sharpnel Shard | Craft Explosive Shot | Brabus Drop |
| Shadewood | Can be used to craft Rattle Weed | Shroud Drop |
| Sentinel Shard | Valuable resource harvested from RAZE that can be used to forge a powerful weapon mod. | Raze drop on Rhom. |
| Radioactive Skull | Used to craft Breath of the Desert | Scourge Drop |
| Lumenite Crystal | The special resource used to craft boss weapons, weapon mods, upgrade boss weapons and dragon heart capacity. | Enemy/bosses drop and can be found inside crates/chests. |
| Iron | The resource used to reinforce weapons and armor. | Enemy/bosses drop and can be found inside crates/chests. |
| Hound Choker | Craft Howler’s Immunity | Maul at Stalker’s Den drops |
| Hivestone | Craft Hive Cannon | Defeat Ixillis |
| Forged Iron | Upgrade weapons and armor to level 6-10 and boss weapons to level 4-5 | Found at Rhom and Yaesha |
| Flesh Barb | Craft Mantle Of Thorns | Defeat Gorefist |
| Blink Spear Shard | Craft Blink Token | Defeat Onslaught |
| Blazing Heart | Used to craft Spitfire | Defeat Singe |
| Black Tear | Can be used to craft Veil of the Black Tear | Can be obtained by defeating Shade and Shatter |
| Ancient Core | “The Anointed- the Vyr- were created to be perfect soldiers, living constructs that could fight, survive, and ultimately liberate the Black Sun. They have fallen far from their purpose.” | Dropped by the Ancient Automaton on Rhom following activation with the Vyr Control Rod. |
This marks the end of our Remnant: From The Ashes key items and crafting guide. You can also check out our How to level up fast, weapon stats, where to find iron, and secret achievements and trophies.
