Observed materials and currencies, Forging Shrine recipes, Smelter recipes, and shop prices recorded from creator footage in August and September 2026.
Materials in Harp Isles come from three sources: pressing E on ground objects (moss, tar, mushrooms), attacking rocks and plants until a SHAKE! prompt appears (obsidian, rocks, silk, bones), or killing hostile plants and creatures (plant dart, flytrap leaf, meat chunks). Forging Shrines turn two materials plus 50 DNA into a salve or throwable; Smelters turn two materials into Research Vials, Advanced Research Vials, 450 DNA, or 3 Cores.
Evidence boundary: Every row below was read from creator footage recorded on 2026-08-30 and 2026-09-13 and analyzed on 2026-09-17. That makes it an observation of one client build, not a published rule. Material names were read from on-screen UI at 720p, so a spelling may be off; recipe amounts and station behaviour can change in any patch.
The Method column matters more than the location: several materials will not drop unless you attack the object first, and hostile plants have to be killed rather than harvested.
| Material | Method | Where it was found | Footage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moss | Pick up | Ground moss piles; also recorded in the Evergreen Forest and Tundra areas. | yseYlEw0WCc 07:09 · sUrn2YSi5zg 05:53 |
| Tar | Pick up | Black tar pit near the Old Faithful landmark. | yseYlEw0WCc 07:44 |
| Angel Fern Leaf | Pick up or eat | Segmented green plant on the ground; the interaction menu offers Eat and Grab. | yseYlEw0WCc 07:56 · sUrn2YSi5zg 01:56 |
| Deathcap Mushroom | Pick up | Small mushroom cluster with a green poison cloud. Reported to not respawn on the same server after it is taken. | yseYlEw0WCc 03:05 |
| Medica' Mushroom (spelling unconfirmed) | Pick up | Mushroom cluster with a pink-purple glow. | yseYlEw0WCc 03:24 · sUrn2YSi5zg 05:53 |
| Exploding Mushroom | Pick up | Red mushroom at ground level and along lava edges, with a red-orange glow. | yseYlEw0WCc 03:38 |
| Obsidian | Attack until SHAKE!, then grab | Cube-shaped smooth black boulders in the volcano region — not every black rock is one. | yseYlEw0WCc 04:29 |
| Rocks | Attack until SHAKE!, then grab | Angled columnar black crystal rock. | yseYlEw0WCc 04:51 |
| Silk | Attack until SHAKE!, then grab | Blue-white cotton-like plant below the plateau crystal cave. | yseYlEw0WCc 05:09 |
| Coglownut | Attack the trunk | Palm-like tree; keep hitting the trunk until the fruit drops, then Eat or Grab. | yseYlEw0WCc 05:26 |
| Plant Dart | Kill the source | Drops from the hostile red flower Dart Plant after you kill it. Being attacked without killing it can drop one rarely. | yseYlEw0WCc 05:33 · sUrn2YSi5zg 00:42 |
| Flytrap Leaf | Defeat the source | A large flytrap plant that bites back. Defeat it, then Eat or Grab. | yseYlEw0WCc 06:07 |
| Bones | Attack until SHAKE! | Large animal skeleton remains on the surface. | yseYlEw0WCc 06:42 |
| Meat Chunk | Kill or grab | From killing another creature, or grabbed from remains on the ground. | yseYlEw0WCc 07:28 |
Pearls are the Ashes Awakening event reward — not a material you mine, and not a promo-code reward. Roblox’s official Part 2 event description states that players “slay the Dragon to obtain its Pearls and unlock these blazing subspecies”. The developer changelog entry dated 2026-09-26 records that the Pearls event had ended and that Pearls were removed from the shop and the HUD, and the Part 2 event window closed at 2026-09-27T03:00:55Z.
No second source of Pearls is recorded on this page. Dragon spawn locations, summon requirements, health values and Pearl drop counts were never published, so the checkable path stays the official event description plus the Pearl recording listed in the sources below. Read the current event state on the Ashes Awakening page, and the species Pearls were spent on in the creature roster.
Forging Shrines are the broken white pod structures firing a blue-green vertical beacon. Each recipe below was shown costing 50 DNA on top of the two materials.
| Output | Materials | Footage |
|---|---|---|
| Webbed Tar ×1 | 1 Silk + 1 Tar | yseYlEw0WCc 08:48 |
| Hunger Salve ×1 | 1 Angel Fern Leaf + 1 Flytrap Leaf | yseYlEw0WCc 09:34 |
| Bacteria Flesh ×1 | 1 Silk + 1 Meat Chunk | yseYlEw0WCc 09:59 |
| Growth Salve ×1 | 1 Coglownut + 1 Silk | yseYlEw0WCc 10:24 |
| Healing Salve ×1 | 1 Medica' Mushroom + 1 Moss | yseYlEw0WCc 10:48 · sUrn2YSi5zg 05:53 |
| Boomshroom ×1 | 1 Tar + 1 Exploding Mushroom | yseYlEw0WCc 11:05 |
| Mineshroom ×1 | 1 Moss + 1 Exploding Mushroom | yseYlEw0WCc 11:28 |
| Splintered Bone ×1 | 1 Bone + 1 Rock | yseYlEw0WCc 11:53 |
Smelters sit over orange lava and fire a red-orange beacon. Their queue is shared across the map: opening a different Smelter shows the same progress. Smelting does not finish into your bag on its own — you press Smelt again at 100% to collect.
| Output | Materials | Time shown | Footage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Vial ×5 | 1 Angel Fern Leaf + 1 Plant Dart | 1200s shown | yseYlEw0WCc 13:14 · sUrn2YSi5zg 00:31 |
| Advanced Research Vial ×1 | 1 Healing Salve + 1 Plant Dart | 400s shown | yseYlEw0WCc 12:48 · sUrn2YSi5zg 00:31 |
| DNA ×450 | 1 Obsidian + 1 Deathcap Mushroom | 1500s listed on the community wiki; not timed in our footage | yseYlEw0WCc 13:24 · community Ovens table read 2026-09-27 |
| Cores ×3 | 1 Obsidian + 1 Flytrap Leaf | 800s shown | yseYlEw0WCc 13:34 · sUrn2YSi5zg 00:31 |
Prices read from the in-game shop and bundle screens. Treat them as one build's pricing, not a permanent rate.
Cores are the premium-side currency and DNA converts into them in one direction: an in-game Currency Transfer screen recorded on 2026-09-07 shows 550 DNA = 1 Core. An earlier version of this page listed what Cores are spent on as unknown. That was wrong, and the rows above are the correction.
| Item | Price shown |
|---|---|
| Research Vial ×1 | 350 DNA |
| Extra research slot | 500 DNA, shown as good for 3 uses |
| Research speed-up to 2× | 1200 DNA |
| Mini Research Bundle | 450 R$ — 20 Research Vials, 15 Advanced Research Vials |
| Science Collection | 850 R$ — 40 Research Vials, 30 Advanced Research Vials, 6 Cores |
| Beginner Bundle | 999 R$ — 5000 DNA, 20 Cores, 20 Research Vials, 10 Advanced Research Vials, 6 Revive Vials |
| Revive Vial | 15 Cores |
| Large Growth | 10 Cores |
| Random Mutation | 10 Cores |
| Chips (Invisichip, Telechip, Spinechip, Hyperchip, Armorchip, Explodachip, Jumpchip, Burstchip, Swimchip) | 10–30 Cores each |
| Cores themselves | also sold for Robux — one recording shows 1 Core = 50 R$ and 30 (+5) Cores = 1500 R$ |
Use these notes while you play, then follow the related pages for codes, rankings, tools, or route-specific help.
Creator footage shows DNA, Cores, Research Vials, Advanced Research Vials, Avatar Shards, Pearls (event reward), and Revive Vials as separate holdings in the same UI strip. That list replaces earlier notes on this page that named a single "Tech Points" currency. DNA is the common cost; Cores, Vials, and Shards are the research and unlock tokens.
Most materials are not gathered from a plant node with a pickup prompt. Three distinct methods show up in the footage: pressing E on a ground object, attacking a rock or plant until a SHAKE! prompt appears and then grabbing, and killing a hostile plant or creature for its drop. The table below records which method applies to which material.
Forging Shrines are the broken white pod structures that fire a blue-green vertical beacon; Smelters sit over orange lava and fire a red-orange beacon. Both let you pick the same visible map filter, so the colour of the beacon is the only quick way to tell them apart before you arrive.
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Creator footage from 2026-08-30 shows a Smelter recipe that turns 1 Obsidian and 1 Deathcap Mushroom into 450 DNA. The same footage notes the Deathcap Mushroom is reported not to respawn on a server after it is taken, so players farm it on low-population servers. The Ashes Awakening event missions were also shown paying 750–2500 DNA each.
In the volcano region. It is a cube-shaped smooth black boulder, and you have to attack it until a SHAKE! prompt appears before you can grab it. Not every black rock gives Obsidian — the same footage shows columnar black crystal rocks that yield Rocks instead.
Both are map stations you find by a vertical light beacon. Forging Shrines fire a blue-green beam and turn two materials plus 50 DNA into a salve or throwable. Smelters fire a red-orange beam over lava and turn two materials into Research Vials, Advanced Research Vials, DNA, or Cores.
Two ways were shown: smelt 1 Angel Fern Leaf with 1 Plant Dart for 5 Research Vials, or buy 1 for 350 DNA from the in-game shop. Research Vials are spent to fill Techtree skill slots, so this is the main bottleneck on the research loop.
Earlier versions of this page listed botanical and salve names we could not trace to any official, community, or creator source. Those rows have been removed and replaced with materials and recipes read directly from dated creator footage, with the source and timestamp for each row.
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