Harp Isles Survival Guide

What is on the list

The community weather page lists eleven events, including Day/Night, Rain, Storm, Fog, Tornado, Earthquake, Meteor Shower, Flood, Volcanic Eruption and Acidic Meteor Shower, plus the weekly and monthly disaster missions that make them part of the reward loop. Nothing in that list was timed or measured for this site, and none of those events was captured in this project’s own recordings.

The one you can act on

Shelter is the recurring answer in the community description: meteors, eruptions and acidic meteors are all described as missing players who are under cover. The full per-event list, with a source note on every row, lives on the maps and systems reference rather than being copied here.

Players can kill players

The community wiki states plainly that players are capable of killing each other, and the Ashes Awakening recordings hold multiple instances of a grown creature being hunted mid-mission. Plan for contact instead of assuming the island’s only threats are NPC-driven.

The item that undoes a death

A Revive Vial was recorded in the in-game shop at 15 Cores. That is the route back into a session with the creature you just lost, and it is the reason Cores are worth banking even when your research path does not need them.

What this page will not claim

Per-species combat matchups, turn radii, bleed stacking, or an out-of-combat regeneration rate. None of those was measured for this site, so they are not stated here — a page that lists them is describing a claim, not a reading.

Where it drops

Obsidian comes from the volcanic area — the same hot zone that holds the smelter and forging stations. It is a gathered material: you collect it from the environment with the grab input, the same way you collect silk, moss, rock and mushrooms.

How to tell the right rock apart

Not every large black shiny rock in the volcanic zone yields obsidian. Community testing describes the correct nodes as the more cube-shaped black rocks, and the practical tell is a “shake” prompt when you attack the rock — if you get that reaction, you found a gatherable node.

What obsidian is used for

Obsidian feeds the high-value smelter recipes. Recorded examples from community testing include obsidian + a deathcap mushroom → 450 DNA, and obsidian + a fly trap leaf → 3 cores. Cores are the second currency and buy chips, vials and palettes.

Evidence status

Observed — single creator source

These steps come from one community tutorial video covering gathering and smelting, observed 2026-09-16. The location and the “shake” tell have not been independently cross-checked, and the recipe yields are version-bound. Treat both as current-build observations and re-verify in game after an update. The dedicated obsidian reference carries the footage timestamps, the G-versus-E collection rule and the open questions this summary leaves out.

1. Survival tab (early priority)

The recorded Survival tab carries the drain and traversal values: Swim speed 1, Hunger Drain 1 and Water Drain 1. Those are the levers a growing creature uses to stay mobile between meals, and they are the nodes this page relies on most.

2. Health and Growth tabs (mid-to-late)

Health Regen 1 sits in the recorded Health tab, while Weight 1 and Egg Gestation sit in Growth. Node percentages are not shown in the recordings, so confirm the current numbers on your own panel before planning around them.