Nightingale Antiquarian Card and how to craft one

It's just one card, Realmwalker - how long could it take?

Crafting your first Nightingale Antiquarian card seems like a breeze at first, but Inflexion’s survival game has some surprises in store for you. Before you can even think of crafting an Antiquarian card, you need to make an entire new set of clothes, explore a temple, and smash a giant robot. After that, you’ve got a fair amount of item collecting to do and then some more crafting and grinding before you can finally finish the job.

Our Nightingale Antiquarian card guide explains all the steps you need to craft your first Antiquarian card with some tips for making life easier.

If you’re after more Nightingale help, check out our guides for where to find stone blocks and how to play multiplayer with friends.

Contents

1. How to unlock Nightingale Antiquarian card
2. How to raise Nightingale gear score
3. Nightingale: Find Echo of Hope to unlock Antiquarian card
4. How to craft the Nightingale Antiquarian card

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How to unlock Nightingale Antiquarian card

The exact location might differ in your realm, but look for these clusters of icons to find the Antiquarian card's Echo of Hope

Once Puck tells you to craft a forest and Antiquarian card, your objective changes to raising your gear score to 20, which is fine – except Nightingale doesn’t tell you how gear scores work. Every piece of equipment has a gear score, and equipping something better bumps your overall score up. The logic isn’t as clear as it could be, though. Changing a rank 6 item for a rank 20 item only raises your gear score by 1, for example.

How to raise Nightingale gear score

Anyway, the point is that Nightingale wants you to craft an entire new set of clothes. You’ll need a sewing table and tanning station, so head to the nearby outpost and purchase whatever blueprints you don’t already have. If you’re short on essence to make the transaction, convert some of your unwanted or extra materials to essence.

You’ll also need plenty of leather, which requires animal pelts. Track down wolves and wild pigs for those.

I recommend starting with gloves, a pack, and a hat. Once you have a full set of clothing, you’ll complete a challenge that rewards you with 100 essence. Take that back to the trader, and use it to purchase as many pelts as you can. This method cuts out a lot of time spent hunting pigs for hides and leather.

Purchase a Maul blueprint from the trader as well. Nightingale doesn’t tell you, but crafting a maul or the crossbow is the essential final piece that bumps your gear score up to 20 or higher. You don’t have to keep the weapon equipped afterward, but the maul is a useful item in the coming battles.

Nightingale: Find Echo of Hope to unlock Antiquarian card

Look for this chest on the floor above the cavern with water. It has some health potions inside :: Inflexion/GLHF

The specific Echo of Hope you need for the Antiquarian card is under the pyramid-shaped building where the trader is. Make sure to complete the nearby side quest and recruit a follower first, and bring some healing salves along.

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Climb to the top of the building, and enter the portal that previously barred your way. What follows is a series of battles against the Bound, with several of them swarming on each floor. This is where your follower comes in handy. They’re not brilliant in battle, but they can revive you if you fall.

Once you finally reach the bottom, you’re in for another fight against an automaton knight. The knight’s attack pattern is to follow you and unleash a wave of energy, but after it attacks, its open for a few seconds before it spews more energy again. Eight or so hits with the maul plus some help from your follower will see the knight vanquished in short order.

How to craft the Nightingale Antiquarian card

Makes sure to keep at least 25 spare essence dust around :: Inflexion/GLHF

You’re not done yet. Unlocking the Antiquarian card only gives you the option to craft it. What you need next are a lot of new crafting tables and some fresh materials.

While you’re in the area, purchase these blueprints from the vendor:

• Simple mortar
• Simple smelter
• Simple saw table

Purchase the Simple Enchanter’s Focus as well, if you don’t have it already.

The point of all this is to craft paper and ink, though ink needs glass, hence the need for a smelter.

Use any gem to make glass in the smelter. You should be able to find quartz near where you get your stone blocks from. You can turn wood bundles into paper at the sawing table, and tin ore into refined pigment at the mortar station.

Use glass and refined pigment to make your ink, and then take the ink and paper to an Enchanter’s Focus table to craft your cards. Slap the cards in the realm relay – which should be near the vendor – and you’re good to go.

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