Eerie Stone

Biodata

Properties

Uses

Eerie Fire Fuel

• An Eerie Fire must be continuously supplied with Eerie Stones; if it goes out, its bulky base breaks automatically. 1
• Three stones could sustain Chen Fan’s original station fire for at most three days. 1
• Eerie Fire is the foundation of a station’s Safety Zone, protecting humans from the darkness and most Strange Entities. 1 3
• Higher-level Eerie Fires also power linked defenses and extended Copper Pipe networks, increasing their fuel consumption. 34 47

Currency and Trade

• Travelers without Chen Family passage tokens must pay one Eerie Stone to stay at a station overnight. 2 4
• Eerie Stones are used to purchase food, water, construction services, and other survival supplies. 6 7
• A conventionally produced Eerie Fire sells for roughly sixty Eerie Stones on the market. 5 13

Cultivation

• Absorbing an Eerie Stone strengthens a person’s physique and may allow them to become a Cultivator. 3
• A small number of users awaken as special Cultivators, such as Builders, Nightwalkers, or Alchemists. 3
• For Chen Fan, cultivation through Eerie Stones improves physical ability but does not enhance the construction functions of his Lord Panel. 10 49

Construction and Defense

• Chen Fan’s Endless Night Lord Panel uses Eerie Stones to construct, upgrade, repair, and strengthen buildings within his domain. 2 3
• A Level 1 Beast-Trap Snare costs two Eerie Stones; it can damage low-level Strange Entities. 2 3
• A Level 1 Arrow Tower costs ten Eerie Stones and requires an embedded stone as ammunition for its automatic ballista. 7 9
• A full circular Level 1 City Wall around a ten-meter Safety Zone costs 320 Eerie Stones. 7 19
• Eerie Stones can repair damaged structures; restoring a damaged section of Chen Fan’s City Wall cost one stone. 34
• After the Eerie Fire reached Level 3, its rare Qualitative Change upgrade reduced the construction cost of each camp building by one Eerie Stone, up to 10,000 times per day during the rainy season. 42

Acquisition

• Hunting Strange Entities — The principal source of Eerie Stones; corpses must be dissected to recover them. 1 5
• Beast Traps — Chen Fan used reusable traps to capture low-level Monkey-Head Ghosts and harvest their stones safely within the Eerie Fire’s protection. 7 8
• Defensive battles — Arrow Towers and Ground Spikes allow the camp to collect stones dropped by larger attacks and Strange Tides. 22 27
• Abandoned stations — Destroyed outposts may contain their former residents’ stored Eerie Stones. 22 42
• Ghoststone Vein Seed — This Exotic Treasure matures in farmland after three days and grows Eerie Stones when fertilized with Strange Entity corpses. 11
  • Eight Eerie Stone plants later yielded eighty Eerie Stones. 36
• Breeding Farm — Chen Fan captures Doppelganger Wraiths alive so their rapid reproduction can eventually provide mature creatures for Eerie Stone harvesting. 45 48

Limitations

• Eerie Stones are scarce and often force survivors to choose between maintaining the Eerie Fire, cultivating, building defenses, or saving resources for emergencies. 1 9 20
• Impostor Ghosts do not contain Eerie Stones and instead burn after death, despite having a comparatively high chance of dropping Exotic Treasures. 10
• An Eerie Fire alone is not absolute protection: powerful Strange Entities and Strange Tides can still approach or overwhelm a station without sufficient defenses. 4
• A Builder cannot construct a new Eerie Fire after Eternal Night has already descended, making stored Eerie Stones useless for establishing a replacement Safety Zone outside the camp. 26