# Melted Platinum Shard

**Item ID**: 4257
**Type**: Resource
**Grade**: White
**Weight**: 0.3 LT
**NPC Buy**: 39,500 silver
**NPC Sell**: 1,580 silver
**Marketable**: yes

## Flavor

Material that has been processed and may be used during crafting. It may also be changed to a different form through Alchemy or Processing.


## Usage

Platinum Ingot, Accessories, House Crafting, etc.




## Obtain

Heating (Platinum Ore x5)


## From the Knowledge Book

**Melted Platinum Shard**

Processing Material: Platinum Ore (Mining)

A Melted Platinum Shard made by Heating. Mostly used for Alchemy and Crafting. To acquire knowledge in Processing, you can build Amity with certain NPCs or complete specific quests.

See [Melted Platinum Shard](/knowledge/7598.md) for the full entry.

## Used in Exchanges

Consumed by 11 exchange recipes. Top 9 by quantity:

- [Special Penestraria Crate](/item/7624.md) — ×10 _(Mining)_
- [Sunflower](/item/7308.md) — ×48 _(Processing Node)_
- [Apprentice's Alchemy Box](/item/9819.md) — ×10 _(Processing Node)_
- [Hump Mushroom Crate](/item/7516.md) — ×2 _(Processing Node)_
- [Special Pepper Crate](/item/7579.md) — ×1 _(Processing Node)_
- [White Flower Mushroom Box](/item/7531.md) — ×1 _(Processing Node)_
- [High-quality Bouquet Mushroom Crate](/item/7619.md) — ×10
- [High-quality Leccinum Crate](/item/7620.md) — ×10
- [Special Nolina Crate](/item/7623.md) — ×10