Phantom Blade Zero Mechanical Gear Locations

Every gear on this page was collected on PS5 for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero map and edge-upgrade guides cover the materials for the other four edge types. One Crimson Forest chest beats every valley stack on its own, which changes how you should spend Remnant Dust on gears.

Phantom Blade Zero Mechanical Gear and the Artifice Phantom Edges

Mechanical Gear is reported to raise Artifice edges up to level 10 and nothing else, not your main weapons and not the other edge types. Edge upgrades are reported to skip Solvent, so gears and Remnant Dust are the whole cost, and new arts are reported to unlock at levels 5 and 10.

Past level 10, the refined tier takes over. The Precision Mechanical Gear for higher Artifice levels handles that stretch, and the Artifice edges and the rest of Soul’s Phantom Edges show which secondary weapons the gears actually help, so check an edge’s type before you spend.

Weeping Creek Valley Mechanical Gear in Phantom Blade Zero: Tower Floors and Gated Pickups

The Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base hides several of the valley’s gears, on its upper floors between the Powderkegs and at the end of the corridor past the Crawl Space. Others wait in front of the wooden wheel at the end of the lower canyon, on a small altar, and behind a Powderkeg at the end of a ravine.

One tower stack hangs in a bag you have to shoot down, so it waits until you own a bow, the same trick the Ancient Timber bow bags use. The valley Peddler also sells three gears at 1,040 Dust each, 3,120 for the lot.

The Phantom Blade Zero Cliff of Longing Chest: Mechanical Gear by the Dozen

Crimson Forest’s drop-down chest on the way to the Cliff of Longing Bell gives a stack of 24 Mechanical Gears, far more than any valley pickup. It’s the same chest that gives 12 Incense Ash and 11 Darkfire Charcoal, so a single detour stocks three edge types, the Darkfire Charcoal from that same chest included.

Make this chest a priority stop. The Phantom Blade Zero Crimson Forest detailed map pins the drop-down point, and opening it early means your first Artifice edge can level up quickly instead of waiting on the valley’s scattered ones and twos.

Village of Lu and Pangzhen Mechanical Gear Stacks in Phantom Blade Zero

The Village of Lu gives stacks of nine, one of them in a wooden chest in the clearing northwest of the Well of the Three Puppets Bell as you climb the hill. The Village of Lu detailed map for Phantom Blade Zero places each stack.

Pangzhen follows with stacks of eight, steady top-ups for an Artifice edge nearing level 10. The Pangzhen & Mirage Estate detailed map in Phantom Blade Zero places each one, so keep collecting them as the edge closes in on its refined tier.

Phantom Blade Zero Mechanical Gear Mistakes to Avoid

Don’t buy the Peddler’s gears early. The 3,120 Dust for his three is better spent elsewhere when the Crimson Forest chest gives 24 for free one region later, and the Peddler and Quick Hand Zhang inventories show what that Dust buys instead.

Don’t spend gears on an edge you haven’t checked. Levels under 10 are reported to refund for free, but moving upgrades past that is reported to need a Phantom Reforge Talisman for Artifice respecs, so settle on your Artifice edge before the refined tier.