Crop rotation in Mirage and interaction with new alternate currency

Does the harvest keystone crop rotation allow you to access the new alternate currency? I have only seen crystallized rancour in non crop rotation harvest mirages.

I have noticed very similar results. Maybe we are unlucky. I hope it's just a bug and will be fixed soon :)

It has to be a bug or they intend it to work this way. Either way, I hope they change it 'cause it makes no sense that we don't get the mirage bonus with CR.

What is the normal reward for harvest in the mirage with out the keystone? You get regular harvest mats, but occasionally get the crystalized mat? Does it transform all of them when it spawns, or drops together with the others, from a specific plant?

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Belegur85#5784 wrote:

What is the normal reward for harvest in the mirage with out the keystone? You get regular harvest mats, but occasionally get the crystalized mat? Does it transform all of them when it spawns, or drops together with the others, from a specific plant?

Without the crop rotation keystone active you will on occasion find a rancour in the slot a t3 mat/monster would normally be in. It will read as a different type of monster and will have a quantity next to it just like the other mats do

Yep cheers. I'm about to allocate the keystone, so I'll update if I find any. Though I'm not specked into harvest so probably won't be getting much spawns.

Managed to get one with the keystone allocated. (Edit: incorrect, keystone allocated was not crop rotation when this dropped.)

Can you show a screenshot or something? I'm at over 100 Crop Rotations now and I'm pretty sure they are still disabled with the keystone

Sorry, you are correct, my post was made in error. Keystone I was using was Refiners bargain, which I guess it does interact with, but likely not crop rotation.

I found a thread by websearch outside of forrum, with post claiming they do not work together and giving their reasoning. I don't know that they are correct, but they seem to know more about it than me.

"The mob that drops the rancour is a T2 harvest mob.

Crop Rotation only evolves mobs into their next mob type, and the Mirage types are entirely separate mobs. They'll never evolve into them, and since you start with all T1's, you'll never see it.

Not broken, it's intended."

Seems like what they are saying is that they need to spawn naturally, not from evolving the plants, and the crop rotation starting plants are too low for that to happen.

I agree that it may not be a bug, but that it is not clear why it wouldn't work without having the knowledge that this player appears to have from somewhere. Can see why players would be frustrated about that, assuming that the would work together. I see no reason why the design shouldn't let players have a chance at spawning them while evolving the plants, other than maybe it is a technical limitation in when the rancour spawn is decided. Perhaps it is when the mirage is generated.