Horizon Forbidden West: The Best Ways To Farm Metal Shards

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Metal Shards are some of the most invaluable materials you can farm in Horizon Forbidden West. Used to buy from merchants, craft upgrades, and even make ammo, it’s vital that players maintain a healthy stockpile of them, especially in the late game, when upgrades and ammo increase in cost.

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This guide will showcase the best ways to farm Metal Shards in order to help players brave the new world that Horizon Forbidden West has to offer.

Arguably the best way to farm Metal Shards is by taking down many of the various machines which litter the open world. All the machines offer their own unique challenges which scale in difficulty as Aloy ventures further west; they also all drop varying amounts of Metal Shards upon their destruction, with the most dangerous machines providing the best loot.

Depending on where players are in the story, how high their level is and how far they have traveled, they may consider taking on a Thunderjaw – a difficult fight, to be sure, but not one without reward. To get machines to spawn, simplyhead to their sites on the map, and once defeated, they will respawn immediately once players have left the area and returned.

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Other high yield machines include Slaughterspines and Shellsnappers, but even if players aren’t equipped to take on these high-level beasts yet, they can always tackle herds of weaker machines instead. However, it’s important to keep in mind how many Metal Shards Aloy is expending when crafting ammo to take the machines down.

When approaching the many question marks that litter the map, players can come across Metal Flowers and red crystals called Firegleam that