Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth – How To Get Geodes & Crystals For Crafting

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To craft the best gear in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, you’ll need rare materials called Geodes and Crystals. Geodes become easier to find in the very late portions of the story, but Crystals are always hard-to-find. If you’re looking for an easier and earlier way to get Fragments, Geodes, or Crystals — there’s a hidden vendor you need to check out. Here’s what you need to know about crafting late-game weapons and getting infinite crafting materials.

NOTE: Geodes and Crystals can also be found in the Hawaii Haunt or the Ijinicho Dungeon — Geodes are a random drop in the Tier 2 dungeon while Crystals appear in the Tier 3 dungeon. You can also trade points earned to collect weapon crafting materials.

Early in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, you’ll be introduced to Julie’s Gearworks. This crafting shop allows you to upgrade weapons, or craft new weapons into elemental variants. You can also equip powerful buffs to your weapons to increase the rate of status effects or elemental power. The first Julie’s Gearworks is located on Hula Avenue in east Hawaii, and another is in the Anaconda Shopping Center in west Hawaii.

To construct new weapons, you’ll need weapons you can purchase from shops and crafting materials. Fragments are drops from enemies and can be found in dumpsters all over Hawaii. They’re extremely common. There are four types of crafting materials with three tiers of rarity.

Whenever you craft a new weapon, you’ll need one of more of these elemental fragments. But, later in the game, you’ll also need to acquire rare Geodes and Crystals.

The further you progress in the game, the more these higher level materials will become available through scrounging in trash. Garbage bins are the easiest way to find Fragments, and Geodes will begin to appear after Chapter 9 when Hawaii’s level increases. But still, these are still rare. If you have a stockpile of Fragments, you can convert those into Geodes and Crystals with a hidden vendor.

High-level weapon crafting