Shards: Exchanges and Recycling

How to start

Open /pets → Shard Workshop or use /pets shards. Read Your Shards to see carried Common, Uncommon, Rare, and Epic balances. Choose Open Workshop Guide to compare every Spend and Receive requirement. Return to Exchanges to perform an available recipe. A recipe click exchanges once. Repeated exchanges require enough shards for each use.

For recycling, use Recycle a Pet inside the workshop or Recycle Pets in the hub. Choose the pet and read its exact reward on the confirmation screen. Locked pets are excluded. The recycling selection uses collection pets, not loose decorative pet heads, and the chosen pet is permanently removed after successful confirmation.

Steps

Keep exchanges and deletion decisions separate in your mind. A conversion spends shards. Recycling spends the pet itself.

1. Open Shard Workshop and inspect Your Shards.
2. Open Workshop Guide to find the desired input and output recipe.
3. Collect any needed shards from Pet Delivery into your inventory.
4. Return to Exchanges and click the affordable recipe once.
5. Collect the resulting shard output from Pet Delivery.
6. If you want to recycle, open Recycle a Pet and choose an eligible pet.
7. Read the exact shard reward and permanent-deletion warning before confirming.

Reference

The recipes operate on exact shard quantities. Combining toward Epic and splitting Epic back to Uncommon preserve the listed conversion steps, while Common has no reverse split recipe from Uncommon.

When an exchange or recycling fails

An exchange button disappears when you do not hold enough input shards. If your inventory changes after opening the menu, the workshop checks again and tells you that your shards changed. Return to the guide, collect or obtain enough inputs, and reopen the exchange list. The guide explains missing quantities but does not spend shards by itself.

Pet selection can fail to load. Reopen the workshop to check eligible pets again. A locked pet cannot be recycled. If a pet becomes unavailable between selection and confirmation, do not select a substitute based on slot position alone. Reopen the list and verify its name and exact reward. Recycling a different pet cannot restore one you already deleted.

Worked example

Use your Pebble Whelp for this example.

You hold 4 Uncommon shards and want a Rare shard for an upgrade. The combine recipe spends those 4 Uncommon shards and saves 1 Rare shard to Pet Delivery. Collect that output before opening Rarity Upgrade. Leaving it in delivery does not supply the carried shard required by the quote.

For recycling, the level bonus is the pet’s level divided by 25, rounded down. Add that whole-interval bonus to the base shard count for its rarity. A pet exactly at that interval earns an additional shard. A pet just below the interval has not completed it, so the next bonus has not yet been earned.

Limits and rules

The workshop’s conversion recipes stop at Epic. It does not combine Epic into Legendary or Mythic rarity shards, and there is no Uncommon-to-Common split button. Read the complete recipe table instead of assuming every rarity has symmetric exchanges.

Recycling uses the pet’s current level for the bonus and its rarity for the shard selection. It is a permanent collection operation. Favorites and a pet’s display name do not turn deletion into temporary withdrawal. If you want to keep ownership while moving a pet out of the collection, read Withdrawing Pets instead of using Recycle. Exchange rewards and recycle rewards are collected through Pet Delivery.

Recycling a Legendary or Mythic pet yields Epic rarity shards. Its base shard count still follows the pet’s current rarity, with the ordinary completed-level-interval bonus added before payout. Check that exact reward on confirmation instead of expecting a Legendary or Mythic shard item.

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