Use Visions to find Starsplinter Iron: Complete Genshin Impact quest guide

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Starsplinter Iron is an essential item to find in Genshin Impact's Bygones Times Like Dust Passing, but using Visions to do so isn't the most obvious.

This portion of the quest involves the player searching a wide area for two Starsplinter Iron (commonly misspelled as Starsplitter Iron). It's not a normal material that the player collects, and it only spawns during this quest.

Luckily, the player only has to collect two of them to proceed with Bygones Times Like Dust Passing. The "Use Visions" part refers to the active character's Vision shining yellow as they are near these special ores.

Both of these spawns will be in the same location for all players, so they can forego the "Use Visions" part and simply find the items right away.

The Traveler can find the Iron rocks in any order. Despite their ore-like appearance, they don't require the player to break them open to collect them. Instead, approach them and collect them like any normal item.

The intended way to find these items is by checking the active character's Vision and seeing if there is any reaction to it. It does not involve Elemental Sight. If the active character is close to the Starsplinter Iron, their Vision will radiate a yellow sparkle.

Keep in mind that the following Genshin Impact characters won't be affected by this due to lore reasons:

Hence, players are recommended to swap to any other character that isn't one of those four.

If the player doesn't care to look at their character's Vision, they can head to the Starsplinter Iron's location anyhow. It won't change how the quest works, and these rocks spawn in the same areas for every player.

Travelers can collect the first one on a large rock with leaves protruding from it near the middle of the quest location.