Emerald Shards and Pieces are added in from the LegendGear mod. They are the shattered remains of Emeralds that can be found in many places, and are very common to come across. While useless in the Shard or Piece form, you can craft them back up to a full Emerald to trade with NPCs or use in recipes. With the addition of this mod, you now hear distinctive sounds when you pick up any Emerald Shards, Pieces, or even Emeralds themselves, and the respective sound when you use 8 of any Shard or Piece to create the next level.
Emerald Shards can be crafted into Emerald Pieces by right clicking with 8 of them in your hand. 8 Emerald Pieces can be right clicked into a vanilla Emerald, using a total of 64 Emerald Shards. You can take 9 Emeralds and turn it into a Block of Emerald, using 576 total shards to make the block.
You can reverse-engineer Emeralds into Pieces, and Pieces into Shards. The only useful purpose of this is for inventory space, if you are able to contain all the Emerald Pieces/Shards in a single slot, or if you are doing player-to-player trading online.
Eight emerald shards can be right-clicked into one emerald piece, and 8 emerald pieces can be right clicked into an emerald as shown in the picture to the right.
Emerald Shards are sometimes dropped upon the death of a mob as well as upon destroying the top layer of a Mystic Shrub. You may find Emerald Pieces when breaking an Energized Mystic Shrub, or very rarely, a few full Emeralds.
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