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Nightingale checks all the survival-crafting boxes, but you shouldn’t confuse it with Enshrouded and similar titles. Nightingale introduces a unique card-based system for biome creation, allowing you to tailor maps to your needs. Whether you want a desert where the sun never sets or a forest where the fishing is always good, you can use Realm Cards to customize the game to your liking. Some make the game easier or harder, while others are more for flavor than anything else. Here’s a list of all Realm Cards in Nightingale and where you can find them.
Nightingale Realm Cards List
If you want to unlock all the Realm Cards in Nightingale, it’s going to take a bit of work. In addition to those you unlock during the tutorial, there are many others you can purchase from various Essence Traders. Others you can find in chests or unlock via POI puzzles. Keep in mind that once you find the recipe for a card you’ll still need to craft it. For that, you’ll need an Enchanter’s Focus. Here are all the Realm Cards in Nightingale:
Major Realm Cards
| Card Name | Type | Effects | How To Unlock |
| Desert | Biome | Creates a Desert map | Unlocked during tutorial |
| Forest | Biome | Creates a Forest map | Unlocked during tutorial |
| Swamp | Biome | Creates a Swamp map | Unlocked during tutorial |
| Abeyance | Major | Creates a low-level, peaceful map for you to settle, create a base, and complete dungeons. | Unlocked during tutorial |
| Antiquarian | Major | Tier-1 card that adds archaeological POIs to the map | Complete the Antiquarian dungeon in your Abeyance Realm |
| Astrolabe | Major | Tier-1 card that adds astronomical POIs to the map | Complete the Astrolabe dungeon in your Abeyance Realm |
| Provisioner | Major | Tier-1 card that adds industrial POIs to the map | Complete the Provisioner dungeon in your Abeyance Realm |
| Herbarium | Major | Tier-2 card that adds druidic POIs to the map | Complete the Herbarium dungeon in your Abeyance Realm |
| Gloom | Major | Tier-2 card that adds ominous POIs to the map | Complete the Gloom dungeon in your Abeyance Realm |
| Hunt | Major | Tier-3 card that allows you to take on Apex Hunts and biome bosses | Complete the Hunt dungeon in your Abeyance Realm |
| The Watch | Major | Brings you to an end-game co-op area | Complete the main questline |
| Astrolabe Ascended | Major | An end-game version of Astrolabe with stronger enemies | Purchase from the Ascended Desert, Forest, or Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Antiquarian Ascended | Major | An end-game version of Antiquarian with stronger enemies | Purchase from the Ascended Desert, Forest, or Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Provisioner Ascended | Major | An end-game version of Provisioner with stronger enemies | Purchase from the Ascended Desert, Forest, or Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Herbarium Ascended | Major | An end-game version of Herbarium with stronger enemies | Purchase from the Ascended Desert, Forest, or Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Gloom Ascended | Major | An end-game version of Gloom with stronger enemies | Purchase from the Ascended Herbarium Essence Trader |
| Hunt Ascended | Major | An end-game version of Hunt with stronger enemies | Purchase from the Ascended Gloom Essence Trader |
Minor Cards
| Card Name | Type | Effects | How To Unlock |
| Alchemist | Minor | Increases the yield of crafted potions, chance of finding Essence, and magick power of crafted items | Bought from the Ascended Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Amphibious | Minor | Increase swimming speed, disease resistance, and ability to recover stamina while in water | Bought at the Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Angler | Minor | Buffs fishing | Bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader |
| Artisan | Minor | Improves crafting stations and augments all crafting stations to the ideal environment. Decreases refinement time by 10 seconds and increases comfort rating by 1 | Bought from the Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Blood Moon Apogean | Minor | Further increases drop chance for rare materials from enemies, with worse penalties for max health and regeneration speeds | Bought from the Ascended Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader and the Ascended Desert Gloom Essence Trader |
| Blood Moon Eminent | Minor | Further increases the drop chance of rarer items on enemies and further lowers your total max health and regeneration rate | Bought from the Desert Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Blood Moon | Minor | Increases the chance that enemies drop rare items but decreases your maximum health | Bought from the Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Blunderbuss | Minor | Increase shotgun damage, the yield when crafting shotgun ammo, and the damage you deal with magickal shotgun ammo. Reduces the damage you deal with other gun types | Bought at the Swamp Hunt Essence Trader |
| Bulwark’s Workshop | Minor | Crafted tools have superior blocking and efficiency. All tools crafted while the card is active gain Durability +++, Blocking Efficiency +++, Weight ++, and Stamina Efficiency ++ | Bought from the Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Combatant’s Workshop | Minor | Crafted tools deal increased damage but have reduced yields. Crafted tools while under this effect gain the Damage++ trait. Also reduces crafting time by 10 seconds. | Looted from Fae Chests |
| Deep Fae Wilds | Minor | Decreases the damage you deal, but increases your health, stamina, and the rate health and stamina recover | Bought from the Swamp Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Dragon’s Hoard Apogean | Minor | Greatly increases the chance of finding rare gems but further decreases your maximum HP. | Bought at the Ascended Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader and the Ascended Forest Gloom Essence Trader |
| Dragon’s Hoard Eminent | Minor | Further increases the chance of finding rarer gems in chests but further lowers your damage resistance. | Bought at the Forest Gloom Essence Trader |
| Dragon’s Hoard | Minor | Increases the chances of finding rare gems in chests but slightly increases the damage you take | Bought at the Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Duelist | Minor | Slightly increase the damage you deal and take. | Bought at the Desert Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Estate Address Card | Minor | Visit another player’s Abeyance Realm. Players you’ve given this card to can visit your Abeyance Realm while you’re offline | Bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader |
| Explorer Eminent | Minor | Increases food duration and decreases the damage you take, while decreasing the damage you deal | Bought from the Forest Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Explorer | Minor | Slightly increases food effect duration, decreases the damage you take, and slightly decreases the damage you deal | Bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader |
| Farm | Minor | Increases the speed of crop growth, improves the yield, and increases the chance of finding Essence when harvesting | Bought from the Forest Hunt Essence Trader |
| Feast | Minor | Increases the benefits of food buffs, food duration, health regen increase, and decreases hunger rate | Bought from the Abeyance Essence Trader |
| Forge | Minor | Increases ore yield, reduces the time needed to refine ore into products, and improves the quality of metal items. Decreases the cost of other material’s effectiveness. | Bought from the Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader |
| Fortitude | Minor | Increases your resistance to injuries, improves blocking, and increases the fortitude of your structures. Tools and clothing have reduced durability | Bought from the Desert Herbarium Essence Trader |
| Ghost | Minor | Improve your stealth and increase the yield of resources and Essence. Reduces the damage you deal. | Bought from the Ascended Forest Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Greenhouse | Minor | Increases plant yield, reduces the time needed to refine fiber products, and improves the quality of plant-based items. Crafted clothes gain improved cold, fire, and rain resistance, and improve stealth. Slightly increases the weight of the items | Bought from the Swamp Hunt Essence Trader |
| Harvester’s Workshop | Minor | Decreases the time to refine tools by 10 seconds, and improves all tools crafted during this time with +++ efficiency, — weight, and ++ damage | Looted from Fae Chests |
| Hearth | Minor | Further increases yields from slain creatures, better damage to weak points, and worse damage to hits on other parts of a creature’s body. | Bought from the Swamp Herbarium Essence Trader |
| Hunter Eminent | Minor | Further increases yields from slain creatures, improves weak point damage, and improves damage to hits on other parts of a creature’s body | Bought from the Ascended Desert Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Hunter | Minor | Increases the yield of items gathered from skinning creatures, increases the damage you deal to weak points, and decreases your damage dealt to other body parts | Bought from the Desert Hunt Essence Trader |
| Industry Card | Minor | Increase the yield of crafted ammunition and ingots and the crafting time of all refinement. Doubles ammo and ingot yield | Bought from the Desert Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Lumber Mill | Minor | Increase wood yield, reduce the time needed to refine wood products, and improve the quality of wooden items, at the cost of the material’s effectiveness | Bought from the Forest Herbarium Essence Trader |
| Maleficiate | Minor | Makes it always night in the realm and increases the yield of Bound resource drops | Bought from the Desert Gloom Essence Trader |
| Marksman | Minor | Increases the damage you deal with rifles and pistols and increases the effectiveness of their ammo. Decreases the effectiveness of shotguns | Bought from the Forest Hunt Essence Trader |
| Might | Minor | Increase your strength and carrying capacity. Clothing and tool durability decreases | Bought from Desert Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Outlaw | Minor | Increases the damage you deal with pistols, the yield of crafting pistol ammunition, and the damage you deal with magickal ammunition. Reduces the damage of other guns | Bought from Desert Hunt Essence Trader |
| Quarry | Minor | Increases the yield of stone blocks and lowers the time needed to refine stone blocks into useful items. Further improves the quality of stone items and betters the cost efficiency of stone items | Bought from Desert Herbarium Essence Trader |
| Settler Apogean | Minor | Further improves growing speed card and increases crop yields. Further debuffs stamina | Bought from Ascended Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Settler Eminent | Minor | Further increases the yield of refined building materials and crops, while increasing the durability of building pieces. Further debuffs Stamina recovery | Bought from Forest Herbarium Essenex Trader |
| Settler | Minor | Increases the yield of refined building materials and crops, while increasing the durability of building pieces. Debuffs Stamina recovery | Bought from Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Tavern | Minor | Increases meal duration, reduces tired rate, and increases stamina regeneration | Bought from Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Tempest Apogean | Minor | Further improves magickal damage | Bought from Ascended Swamp Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Tempest Eminent | Minor | Further increases your magickal powers | Bought from Swamp Gloom Essence Trader |
| Tempest | Minor | Improves magickal damage | Bought from Swamp Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Thinned Veil | Minor | Increases movement speed, stamina efficiency, and jumping velocity. Slightly decreases durability | Bought from Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Treasury Eminent | Minor | Further increases the chance of finding Essence | Bought from Forest Provisioner Essence Trader |
| Treasury | Minor | Increases the chance of finding Essence | Bought from Forest Astrolabe Essence Trader |
| Trickster | Minor | Increases jumping height and strength. Lowers injury rate and decreases damage dealt. Resource yields are “not what you expect” | Bought from Forest Gloom Essence Trader |
| Utopia Apogean | Minor | The realm is always day, and you become invisible to enemies. | Bought from Swamp Hunt Essence Trader |
| Utopia | Minor | The realm is always daytime | Bought from Forest Antiquarian Essence Trader |
| Weighted Eminent | Minor | Further increases the damage and efficiency of your harvesting tools while further altering gravity and lowering your stamina. | Bought from Swamp Gloom Essence Trader |
| Weighted | Minor | Increases the damage and efficiency of your harvesting tools while altering gravity and lowering your stamina | Bought from Swamp Antiquarian Essene Trader |
Unlocking new crafting recipes to upgrade your gear is the main way to improve your Gear Score. Major Realm Cards play a vital part in that process. That’s one reason why unlocking all Realm Cards is so important in Nightingale. Minor Cards offer smaller effects, but they’re still useful. You should always activate one after clearing the Fae Tower on each map. With all Realm Cards in Nightingale at your disposal, you’ll have far more options for farming and combat.
Nightingale is available for PC in early access.
