One of the roadblocks in Len’s Island is Iron Shards. Alongside Gold, Iron Shards are a very difficult resource to obtain naturally — they are only found as rare drops from Stone nodes, and only found as rare spawns down in The Ancient Caves. This makes obtaining Iron a pain, and unfortunately, almost all middle to higher level construction recipes require a large amount of them. Thankfully, there are ways to obtain Iron Shards in bulk more easily.
The first option is to simply buy Iron Shards
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