Conan Exiles Crystal Locations: The Caves Worth Clearing For It

Crystal breaks the pattern the rest of your gathering follows. There is no crystal biome and no crystal hillside. It grows underground, in a short list of specific caves, which means farming it is really a question of whether you can clear the thing living in each one. The reward at the far end is glass, explosives and the Map Room, so it is not a material you can skip.

The caves that hold it

On the Exiled Lands, five caverns carry the bulk of it:

• Hanuman's Grotto
• Warren of Degenerates
• Cavern of Fiends
• Scuttler's Shortcut
• The Passage

Hanuman's Grotto is the one our camps and NPC locations page marks as full of imps with a statue deep inside, which tells you what to pack. On the Isle of Siptah the deposits cluster near the vaults instead, and the Refuge of the Gremlins and the Asylum of the Outsiders are the two that reward a detour. If you are already clearing those, our sigil dungeons walkthrough covers what is waiting inside.

Crystal can be picked off by hand at a pinch, which is useful when you are caught without tools, but a pick is what makes the trip worth making. There is also a sorcery answer: the Mass Cull spell, cast in a dense pocket of crystal, harvests on a scale no pick will match. Our sorcery guide covers what learning that costs you.

Three things worth making

Crystal goes into a furnace and comes out as glass, and glass becomes the glass flasks you make at a casting table along with a handful of decorative pieces. That is the quiet use.

The loud use is dragonpowder. Our leveling guide walks through it as an experience engine: steelfire, demon blood, crystal and brimstone make dragonpowder, dragonpowder makes explosive jars and traps, and crafting those is the fastest levelling in the game past the mid thirties. It is also what you will be throwing at meteorites when you go after star metal.

The third use is the one people forget. The Map Room takes crystal, and the Map Room is what makes the ten obelisks function as fast travel at all. Everything on our obelisk locations page is downstream of a cave trip. The resources guide has the rest of the chain.