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Nightingaleis a survival crafting game where you explore the Fae realms as a Realmwalker, alone or with friends. A unique feature in Nightingale is the ability to traverse different realms using portals, which can be discovered or crafted. You can set the type of biome you’d like to explore by inserting a biome realm card into the portal.
Not only can you set the biome of the realm; you can also set the conditions of the realm by combining your biome realm card with a major realm card. Each major realm card will introduce unique structures and encounters for each biome, and one of these major realm cards is the Astrolabe card.
What Is The Astrolabe Card
The Astrolabe is amajor realm cardthat you’re able to use tomodify the structure of a biomerealm card.
An Astrolabe realm will containdangers greater than an Antiquarian or an Abeyance card, so you’ll need to make sure you’re geared up before entering this type of realm.
In an Astrolabe realm, you’ll find those of theCalcularia factionand an environment littered with airfield constructs left by humans. You’ll also findAstrolabe Essence Traders, who have fresh schematics in stock that you can use to unlock new craftables.
While the Astrolabe Essence Traders have new schematics,you won’t find schematics for workbenches above the simple tier here. You’ll only find those in theProvisioner Realms.
How To Unlock The Astrolabe Card
You’ll be tasked with unlocking theAstrolabe Major Cardin a quest.
In order to begin the quest, you’ll need to locate anAstrolabe Site of Power. These can be found inAbeyance Realms.
In order to pinpoint the location of an Astrolabe Site of Power in your Abeyance Realm,open the map by hitting your M key. The sites of power use atemple icon, so look for these on your map.
Once you find the Astrolabe Site of Power, you’ll find that the entrances to the site areblocked by an electric field. You’ll only be able to cross if yourgear score is at level 30.
You can raise your gear score bycrafting higher-leveled gear, or by upgrading your current gear using theSimple Upgrade Bench.
Once you reach the required gear score, you’ll be able to enter the site of power. On each level of the site, you’ll beattacked by various enemies guarding the floors. Clear the enemies in order to safely progress to the next floors, until you find agiant mechanism with three beamsfiring into its center.
You’ll need to look for a button nearby toactivate the mechanism. Activating this will trigger a boss fight against aFabled Automaton Bishop. This boss can shoot projectiles at you, andsmaller automatons will fight alongside it.
It’s helpful tohave a recruit fighting with youso that they can help in lessening the number of enemies.
The Fabled Automaton Bishop can alsoteleport, and you’ll need to pinpoint its location in order toavoid its projectile attacks.
Hit the Fabled Automaton Bishop’s weak point, which isthe orb at the top of the staffit’s holding.
Once you destroy the boss, the mechanism will deactivate, and you’ll be free torelease the Hope Echo floating on the pedestal. Releasing this willunlock the ability to craft the Astrolabe card.
Once you unlock the Astrolabe card, you’ll receive anew quest to unlock the Provisioner card.
How To Craft An Astrolabe Card
to craft an Astrolabe Card, you’ll need to use aSimple Enchanter’s Focus. To craft this workbench, you’ll needone piece of lumber, two ingots, and five pieces of glass.
You can buy the schematics for a Simple Enchanter’s Focus from anEssence Trader.
Under Realm Cards, you’ll find all thedifferent biome, minor, and major cardsyou can craft. Search for theAstrolabe Cardon the list.
To craft the Astrolabe Card, you’ll need three ingredients:one piece of paper, one ink, and 25 Essence Dust.
Paper can be made usingtwo wood bundleson aSimple Saw Table. Ink is actually namedAlchemical Ink, and you can make this usingGlass and Refined Pigmenton aSimple Mortar Station. Essence Dust can be farmed fromcollecting resources, killing mobs, or by extracting it from itemsin your inventory.
Once you create the Astrolabe Card, you’ll find it in yourRealm Cards tab in your inventory.
How To Open An Astrolabe Realm
To open an Astrolabe Realm, you’ll need aportal. you’re able to craft aCrude Realm Portal or you can use a Fae Portal.
To make a Crude Realm Portal, you’ll needfive pieces of lumber, seven ingots, three wires, and one Synchronous Lotus.
You’ll also need abiome Realm Card, which you can also craft on the Simple Enchanter’s Focus.
Once you have yourAstrolabe major realm card, your chosenbiome realm card, and yourportal, you’ll be able to traverse into an Astrolabe Realm byputting your cards into the portal.
Is The Astrolabe Card Worth It?
When it comes toupgrading your gear score, the Astrolabe Realm isnot worth visiting. The Essence Traders here do not offer anything newwhen it comes to the crafting stations.
If you’ve already maxed out your gear score with everything you’ve found in theAbeyance Realm and the Antiquarian Realm, you’ll find the next tier of crafting station schematics being sold byEssence Traders in the Provisioner Realms.
However, if you’re not after increasing your gear score and are more interested in justgetting new schematics in general, an Astrolabe Realm is definitelystill worth visiting.
The Essence Traders may not have schematics for new crafting stations, but they’ll have new schematics for other things, such asaugmentations, cooking recipes, decor, and more.
Also, Essence Traders in the Astrolabe Realms fromdifferent biomeswill have different things in stock. If you’re afterunlocking all the recipes available for crafting, you should definitely have this realm card on you.
Not all Essence Traders in a single realmwill have the same stock. You may have totalk to all the Essence Tradersto see what each different Astrolabe biome has to offer.
Another reason you might want to visit the Astrolabe realm, is togain experience facing more difficult dangers.
As you unlock more realms, you might find that thelater major cards will offer a more difficult experience. The Astrolabe realms offer amore challenging experiencecompared to the Abeyance and the Antiquarian realms. Visiting and exploring the Astrolabe realms will allow you togauge if you’re well-equippedagainst the stronger enemies, or if you should consider changing your load-out.
With the new challenge of more powerful mobs, you can gauge ifswitching out your melee weapon for a ranged oneis better. You might also find that you need to startequipping your gear with infusionsthat provideresistance to different types of damage, or buffs that can help in battle.
