Phantom Blade Zero Blackstone Shard Locations

A key, an archer camp, and a grapple all went into these shards on a PS5 run for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero 100% guide with every map follows the set region by region. Each Blackstone makes the fights guarding the next shards easier, so collecting early pays back quickly.

How Blackstone Shards Work in Phantom Blade Zero: Four Make a Blackstone

A Blackstone only forms on the fourth shard, so three in your bag add nothing yet, and your running total matters more than where each shard came from. The Sha-Chi Amber Shards that grow Sha-Chi instead work the same way, so a region’s sweep usually moves both sets forward together.

Guard Break is the half that’s easy to overlook. Sanguine starts at 200 damage and 100 Guard Break, so if the bonus applies to those numbers, one Blackstone takes it to 220 and 110, and the Sanguine base stats and other main weapons show where your blade starts. Breaking a guard sooner means more openings in every fight.

Weeping Creek Valley Blackstone Shards in Phantom Blade Zero: A Key, a Camp, and a Grapple

The first shard is behind the Cell Key door in the Outpost Courtyard, and the Cell Key, one of the valley’s Key Items, waits on the dead Mandate Disciple in the middle of the courtyard north of the Outpost. The second drops from the final Featherbow Archer in the Ruthless Archer Camp, the camp the Old Archer sends you to in Purge the Sect.

The third waits in a metal chest on a wooden platform in the lower canyon south of Waterfall Bridge, and only the Hunter’s Chain Sickle grapple from The Hunt reaches it. Another is reported to drop from the monks in the cave under the tower near the Lóng Pillar Overlook Bell, so clear that cave when you’re in the area.

Crimson Forest Blackstone Shards in Phantom Blade Zero: Poison Pool, Hilltop House, and Lodge Cage

The forest’s first shard lies at the bottom of the narrow canyon north of the Abandoned Main Road, guarded by a Flame-Crazed Bandit. The second is in a chest in a poisoned pool, inside the cave you search for the crank that frees Quick Hand Zhang, so wear the Preservation Jar from the Butchers’ talisman halves before you wade in.

The third is in a chest inside the house on the hill west of the Forest Outpost Courtyard Gate, the same house where the gate’s key lies on a table. The fourth hangs in a cage above three Baishan Disciples in the Cliffside Lodge basement, through the trapdoor on the ground floor, and the Phantom Blade Zero Crimson Forest region map pins each one.

Blackstone Shards After Crimson Forest: Village of Lu, Pangzhen, and Beyond

The Village of Lu has its own shards, one of them listed as a Blackstone Fragment, and the Phantom Blade Zero Village of Lu region map places each one. Leftover shards from the forest count toward the next Blackstone, so a village sweep is often where your next one forms.

Pangzhen is reported to have more shards than any other region, and the Phantom Blade Zero Pangzhen & Mirage Estate region map pins the ones in the city and the estate. Shards are also reported in the Mandate Encampment, Meigu Lake, and the Mountain of Imprisonment, so the set keeps growing until the late game.

Phantom Blade Zero Blackstone Shard Total and the Best Order to Collect Them

The reported total of 40 shards makes ten Blackstones, and since leftovers never go to waste, the order you find them in doesn’t change the bonus. What matters is reaching each fourth shard early, because every Blackstone you form makes the next region’s fights easier.

For the shortest route, collect the valley’s shards in this order: the Outpost door once you have the Cell Key, the archer camp while Purge the Sect is active, the monks under the tower, then the grapple chest after The Hunt. In Crimson Forest, finish the Preservation Jar before the poisoned pool, and rest at a Bell before each fight that guards a shard.