Shards

Shards

see also: Frequently Asked Questions and Containers

Shards are an in-game currency used for purchasing containers. You can obtain them for free, and exchange them for a container once you have accumulated enough.

Obtaining Shards

Completing Daily Missions

Completing each daily mission will reward shards in addition to the mission's other rewards (Stars, Supplies, Crystals). The shards earned are in proportion to the mission's difficulty:

Easy: 30
Medium: 50
Hard: 70

Watching Ads

Mobile players can watch an ad to earn 10

. After watching an ad, a player must wait for an hour or finish a Matchmaking battle to watch another.

Note

This method of accumulating Shards is only applicable on the mobile version!

Passive Accumulation

If a player has less than 100 Shards, they will earn 1

every 800 seconds (every 13 minutes, 20 seconds) until they have 100

. To maximize this passive earning, exchange your shards for a container as soon as you reach 100

.

You can collect as many shards as you like (by watching ads and completing missions), but passive accumulation will stop when you have more than 100 .

Exchanging Shards for Containers

Once a tanker earns 100 shards, they can exchange them for 1x .

Mobile tankers can see their progress towards a container with the progress bar in the containers tab.

A red dot will appear when the player has enough Shards to purchase a container.

The display looks like this for desktop tankers, with a countdown to a full 100 displayed along with the number of shards:

Interesting Facts

Shards first appeared in the game on January 29th, 2021.
Shards are the third currency in the game, after crystals and tankoins.
Passive accumulation can earn you one container every 80,000 seconds, or every 22 hours, 13 minutes, and 20 seconds. If you immediately exchange all passive shards for a container, that equates to 394 per year!
Completing all daily missions can earn the tanker 547 containers per year - three containers every two days.
If a player constantly earns passive shards (i.e. always purchases a container when able to afford one), and also completes all daily missions, they will earn 941 containers in a year, in addition to any they earn from watching ads.