Thread:Thamior1/@comment-25280252-20160517231620/@comment-25280252-20160518111551

Shard farming is a little counterintuitive on Ether. I'm not good at explaining this simply/clearly but I'll give it a shot. A few of the single elements max at 300 (5 beds). The best double elements max at 384 (10 beds). The best way to populate Ether for shard production is to place reebros, humbugs & Jeeodes. You still need to have each of the doubles for goals & happiness %, but I throw most of mine in storage. The wubbox is the worst bed to shard producer. 2 Reebros = 600 max (10 beds total) 1 Whisp = 384 max (10 beds total) Net gain of 216. And a few double elements only come in at 360 max, so the gain would be 240. The rare single ethers are generating even more.

It's better to know this now if that's the track you want to take because you're starting fresh. It took me months to redo Ether on the main account. That said, I pull in 20k+ shards when they're maxed (only once I day, overnight... I harass my monsters all day. They never get to max unless I'm sleeping.)