Locate all Life Stone Shards and Full Life Stones in Darksiders. Collect all 16 shards and defeat bosses to maximize War's health with 10 bars.
Walkthrough
- 1Full Life Stones: Defeat the following bosses to obtain a full Life Stone: Tiamat (Twilight Cathedral), The Griever (The Hollows), Stygian (Ash Lands), Silitha (Iron Canopy), and Straga (The Black Throne).
- 2Life Stone Shards - The Crossroads: In the building behind Vulgrim, swim through an underwater tunnel found in a pool to the left of the main room. Open the chest at the end.
- 3Life Stone Shards - The Choking Grounds: Destroy all Gravestones in the area around Vulgrim's location to spawn a chest.
- 4Life Stone Shards - The Choking Grounds (with Tremor Gauntlet): Inside the small building left of where the Gatekeeper was, climb to the second floor and destroy the blue crystal to find a chest.
- 5Life Stone Shards - The Broken Stair: In the cave complex with Vulgrim's location, dive into an underwater tunnel near a pool of water and open the chest at the far end.
- 6Life Stone Shards - The Broken Stair (Overpass): Jump from the office building to the raised highway. At the top of the ramp, look in the opposite direction of your objective to find a chest.
- 7Life Stone Shards - Twilight Cathedral: In the second courtyard, use a bomb growth to throw through a window on the opposite wall. Destroy the crystal behind it and open the chest.
- 8Life Stone Shards - Drowned Pass (Raiseable Platform): On the west side of the lake, hit the crystal on the raiseable platform with your blade to raise it. Head up the ramp, jump to the platform, and then to the ledge opposite to find a chest.
- 9Life Stone Shards - Drowned Pass (with Abyssal Chain): Warp to Vulgrim's location in the Drowned Pass. Use the Abyssal Chain on the nearby grapple points to cross the gap and find the shard.
- 10Life Stone Shards - The Hollows: In the train tunnel with the locked blue door, look behind the two trains to the right of the red crystal to find a chest.
- 11Life Stone Shards - The Dry Road (Crossroads): Follow the road until you reach a crossroads. Look to the left on a ledge to find a chest.
- 12Life Stone Shards - The Dry Road (Tunnel): After exiting the room with three hanging demonic plants above a rope, climb the ramp. Look over the hole in the wall you entered from; there is a blue crystal to destroy, which hides a chest.
- 13Life Stone Shards - The Ash Lands: After dropping down the drill hole, enter a room with hanging demonic plants. Facing the exit, look right for a shadow flight geyser. Use it to land on a raised platform and open the chest.
- 14Life Stone Shards - The Black Throne: In the second tower, after the room with suspended platforms and stone blocks, use the shadow flight geyser to reach the platform above. Follow the tunnel, smash the blue crystal, and open the chest for the Hoard Seeker Trinket. Activate the portal, head to the top of the stairs, activate the portal pad, and jump to the ledge to open another chest for a Life Stone Shard.
- 15Life Stone Shards - Serpent Holes (with Mask of Shadows): Use a serpent hole to fast travel to the Twilight Cathedral. Before exiting the portal, equip the Mask of Shadows and find an invisible shadow flight geyser nearby. Follow the path to a chest.
- 16Life Stone Shards - Vulgrim Rewards: Bring Vulgrim all 20 Soldier Artifacts for a Life Stone Shard. Bring Vulgrim all 6 Champion Artifacts for another Life Stone Shard.
Tips
- Collecting all 16 Life Stone Shards and the 5 full Life Stones will grant War a maximum of 10 health bars.
- Some Life Stone Shard locations are hidden behind breakable blue crystals.
- The Hoard Seeker Trinket is found in The Black Throne shard location.
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