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Nightingale Realm Cards explained

Nightingale Realm Cards are the keys to the survival game’s open world, so here are all the Realm Cards, their effects, and how to get them.

A friendly giant in Nightingale, who you can encounter when using the relevant Nightingale Realm Cards.

What are the Nightingale Realm Cards? If you plan to leave the home comforts of your Respite Realm’s estate behind and strike off into the great Faewilds, then Realm Cards are your first port of call. These cards put the power of procedural generation directly in your hands, allowing you to tailor any prospective expedition to your needs. With endless possibilities at your fingertips, we’re here to walk you through all the Nightingale Realm Cards at your disposal.

Realm Cards give you control over the setting and theme of Nightingale’s procedurally generated worlds, allowing you to impose modifiers to gather unique resources or encounter rare bosses. The crafting game’s deck is also set to expand as Inflexion Games continues to add new content during early access. Once you close a portal, the exact specifications of that realm are lost forever. If you want to make the most out of this core mechanic, here’s every Nightingale Realm Card we know so far, their effects, and how to use them.

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All Nightingale Realm Cards

There are three different types of Nightingale Realm cards: Biome Cards, Major Cards, and Minor Cards.

Biome Realm Cards

Biome Cards serve as the foundation of the Realm’s setting, including the creatures and resources you’ll encounter.

Here are all the Nightingale Biome Cards we know so far:

Biome Card Effect
Byway A small transient Realm that serves as a pathway between larger Realms.
Desert A Realm of arid desert.
Forest A Realm lush with forest.
Swamp A Realm of swamp and moor.

Major Realm Cards

Major Realm Cards set the Realm’s difficulty and establish its theme, generating certain NPCs and points of interest.

Here are all the Nightingale Major Cards we know so far:

Major Cards Effect
Abeyance A Realm of minimal damager, suitable for the construction of an estate.
Antiquarian A Realm of middling danger, settled by Druids and rife with Fae ruins.
Estate Address Go directly to a specific player’s Abeyance Realm. Gift to other players to allow them to visit your estate while you’re offline.

Minor Realm Cards

Minor Realm Cards govern specific variables like weather patterns, spawn rates, resource yield, and even gravity. Minor Cards often come with a penalty to offset their bonus effects. Inflexion Games CEO Aaryn Flynn has confirmed that over 50 Minor Realm Cards are available in the initial early access build, with more to come.

Here are all the Nightingale Minor Cards we know so far:

Minor Cards Effect
Angler Improve your fishing skill and yield, hiding you from hostile sight while fishing.
Artisan Improve the durability of crafted items and have crafting stations always augmented by the ideal environment, regardless of placement.
Blood Moon Ferocious creatures emerge under the red moon’s light.
Combatant’s Workshop Craft tool that deal greater damage, but offer reduced yield.
Explorer Travel more quickly, improving your resistances to most forms of damage while reducing the damage you can deal.
Explorer Eminent Travel more quickly, extending the benefits of meals and improving resistance to most forms of damage while reducing the damage you can deal.
Feast Prolong the effects of a meal, grow hungry more slowly and heal more quickly.
Harvester’s Workshop Craft tools that offer greater yield and more efficient stamina usage, but lower damage.
Hunter Increase the yield gathered from slain creatures while increasing the damage you deal to weak points and decreasing your damage elsewhere.
Industry Increase the yield of crafted ammunition and ingots as well as the crafting time of all refinement.
Lumber Mill Increase wood yield from felled trees in the environment.
Maleficiate Card Plunge a Realm into eternal night and increase the yield of the Bound’s resources.
Quarry Increase stone yield, reduce the time needed to refine stone products, and improve the quality of stone items at the cost of other materials’ effectiveness.
Tempest Card Bring perpetual rains and increase the potency of your magick.
Thinly Veiled Alter the physics of the world and jump higher and further.
Treasury Increase the chance of finding Essence.
Weighted Increase the damage you deal and the efficiency of your harvesting while weighing down your body and limiting the efficiency of your stamina.

The Simple Enchanter's Focus crafting menu displaying the ingredient list for Nightingale Realm Cards.

How to get Nightingale Realm Cards

You can get Nightingale Realm Cards by looting Fae chests, completing quests and Sites of Power, or crafting them yourself at a Simple Enchanter’s Focus crafting bench.

Before you can craft Nightingale Realm Cards, you need to have its crafting recipe first. Your first port of call should be the Nightingale Essence Dealer, who sells a range of Realm Card crafting recipes starting at 30 Essence Dust.

Here are the Nightingale Realm Card crafting requirements.

  • Alchemical Ink
  • Paper
  • Essence Dust

All Realm Cards require these three crafting ingredients, though the amount required varies depending on the card. You can craft Alchemical Ink at a Simple Mortar Station with Refined Pigment and Glass, while Paper can be crafted using Wood Bundles at the Simple Saw Table.

The Nightingale Realm Cards as they appear in the Realm Card Machine.

How to use Nightingale Realm Cards

You can use Nightingale Realm cards by interacting with a Realm Card Machine or Realmic Transmuter, depending on the type of Realm Card you want to use.

Realm Card Machines resemble an old-fashioned Victorian printing press and can be found near portals in the open-world game. To activate a portal with Nightingale Realm Card, simply drag and drop a Biome Card and Major Card from your collection onto the empty slots in the Realm Card Machine’s menu, and open the portal.

Nightingale Realmic Transmuters are elaborate golden orreries that are typically found at the top of Fae Towers. These machines are where you use your Minor Cards, and unlike Realm Card Machines, these changes take place instantaneously. Only one Minor Card can be active at a Realmic Transmuter at a time, though it’s possible to craft your own Realmic Transmuter Remote Control to adjust parameters without making the trek back and forth.

Now that you’re an expert in Nightingale Realm Cards, you can begin to explore the farthest reaches of the Faewilds in Nightingale multiplayer. We’ve also got the Nightingale system requirements so you can take in the survival game’s stunning visuals with minimal hardware strain.