Brandstone Multitool

Used to detect and dig up chunks of Brandstone that fall on Istan. Costs 3 Volatile Magic per 5-minute charge. — In-game description

Brandstone Multitool

Item type

Gizmo

Rarity

BBasic

Binding

Account Bound

Game link

API

86205

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Used to detect and dig up chunks of Brandstone that fall on Istan.
Costs 3 Volatile Magic per 5-minute charge.

— In-game description

The Brandstone Multitool is a gizmo that allows you to find and harvest Brandstones that fall from the sky in Istan.

Acquisition

• Scholar Fatima
  • The tool can be reacquired from her for free if lost.

Mechanics

Brandstone meteorites flying visible from the large telescope on top of Astralarium. At night time it can be difficult to spot.

Follow the directional indicators (green in this image) until you find a pillar of blue light. Then use skill 2, then skill 3.

The Brandstone Meteorites fall roughly every 15-25 minutes at one of the Brandstone Impact Sites. As soon as one touches the ground it lasts for about 5 minutes, whether someone finds it or not.

There's no map-wide notification. If the player is standing near the top of the Astralarium by the waypoint, it can be seen and heard coming through the sky, and Scholar Fatima will announce its landing.

Visually, meteorites look like a gooey purple puddle on the ground or occasionally a large crystal in a crater.

Using the Multitool item in your inventory will give you a special action skill and consume 3 Volatile Magic. Activating the skill while mounted will spawn a directional indicator that points to the meteorite if one has landed. Activating the skill while on foot equips the Multitool bundle, which is used to mine brandstone nodes.

Initially the Brandstone Multitool gives access to two basic skills:   Brandstone Scan and   Surface Brandstone, which allow to find the impact site and brings a Brandstone Chunk to the surface. Three additional skills, which upgrade the multi-tool, are locked and may be bought from Scholar Fatima separately:

•   Extraction Beam replaces a mining tool and allows to keeps the gems intact — 1000 Volatile Magic.
•   Reconfigure Multitool (Weaponize Multitool when locked) allows to use the tool as a weapon — 2000 Volatile Magic.
•   Impact Site Marker marks the impact location and increases the yield of gathered resources — 3000 Volatile Magic.

Meteorite landings spawn a group of Branded Earth Elementals. Consider defeating these as well as other nearby enemies before mining meteorites. They interrupt meteorite farming. Along with these hazards, the meteorite impact sites apply Confusion and Impact Sickness to players standing on them.

List of possible brandstone impact sites

Mining Buried Brandstones

To mine the brandstones, use your special action key to bring up the Multitool skills and:

• If you have it unlocked, use Impact Site Marker (skill 5), which will improve the rewards for everyone (up to tier 5) as well as marking the Brandstone on the world map for everyone else.
  • Chronomancers can use Impact Site Marker inside Continuum Split to apply 2 marker stacks by themselves.
• Use Brandstone Scan (skill 1) to show directional indicators which point to the hidden node - follow the direction they point and keep using skill 1 until you find a pillar of blue light.
• When standing adjacent to the pillar of light, use Surface Brandstone (skill 2). This brings a Brandstone Chunk to the surface.
• When the Brandstone Chunk appears, interact with it or use Extraction Beam (skill 3) to gain Kralkatite Ore, Powdered Rose Quartz and Rose Quartz. This skill does not work if you are standing directly on the brandstone chunk. Move off of it before using skill 3. You may get multiple productive uses of skill 3.
  • If you haven't unlocked skill 3 yet, a mining pick will be used instead, but you will get worse rewards more frequently, particularly Dragonite Ore.

Mining Surface Brandstones

Occasionally, a meteorite that lands in the Plains of Jarin will spawn a large targetable Brandstone on the surface along with the event Destroy the crystal encasing the Brandstone before it disintegrates (80). At this site, skills 1 and 2 will do nothing. Instead:

• If you have it unlocked, use Impact Site Marker (skill 5) on the landing site.
  • Chronomancers can use Impact Site Marker inside Continuum Split to apply 2 marker stacks by themselves.
• Use Extraction Beam (skill 3) to mine it. This can be done several times until the Brandstone gives no more loot.
  • If you are too far from the Brandstone, you will have to approach it to pick up the loot from mining.
• As the Brandstone reaches 75%, 50%, and 25% HP, crystal shells break off. At 0% HP, the last shell will break off, revealing the core, and leaving only a few seconds to mine the site if you have not already fully mined it.
• To fully take advantage of this event, the stone should be marked 5 times, and then everyone mining it spams 3. Every 45 seconds, do just enough damage to break off a section, then continue to spam 3. Just before the timer runs out, destroy the stone to complete the event and mine the last bit. Successfully performing these steps will yield 60 to 75 Kralkatite Ore and comparable Rose Quartz, a 200% increase over normal sites.

Daily Cap

You can mine up to 30 brandstone impact sites per day. You can continue to mark the impact site with Impact Site Marker, but Brandstone Scan will not pickup any brandstone location.

Skills

#	Skill			Description
	Equip Brandstone Multitool			Use to equip the Brandstone Multitool.
	Locate Impact Site	0.25¼	3	Points toward Brandstone impact sites in the Domain of Istan.
1	Brandstone Scan	0.25¼		Indicates the location of a buried Brandstone chunk. Use when within proximity to a Brandstone impact site to direct you toward an extractable chunk.
2	Surface Brandstone	10.5½		Use to surface a buried Brandstone chunk so it can be mined.
3	Extraction Beam	50.25¼		Use in replacement of a mining tool to extract Kralkatite from Brandstones and keep their gems intact.
4	Reconfigure Multitool	1	300	Reconfigure the multitool into a weapon, replacing three functions with damage capabilities.
5	Impact Site Marker	0.75¾	300	Use on the impact site to mark the location, and boost Kralkatite yields and gem-finding chance. Impact site markers can be empowered with the help of allies up to 5 times for greater resource yields.

After using Reconfigure Multitool

#	Skill			Description
1	Extraction Beam	20.5½		Channels damage.
2	Dig	10.5½	30	Damages and knocks back foes.
3	Falling Star Ping	0.25¼	15	Strikes and blinds foes in a radius.
4	Restore Standard Functions	1		Restore original multitool functionality to allow for finding and extracting Brandstone chunks.

Notes

Bug:

If the Destroy the crystal encasing the Brandstone before it disintegrates event fails, subsequent brandstone impacts in that map instance will be bugged. The Brandstone Multitool will not work on impact sites, and Scholar Fatima will not announce impacts.