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How to Get Metal and Locations

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Honkai Star Rail - How to Get Metal

Here are Metal locations and how to get it in Honkai: Star Rail. See how to use Metal and its effects in this guide!

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How to Get Metal

Locations - Where to Get Metal

Locations ・Herta Space Station: Destructible Objects
・Administrative District Shop

Bought From the Administrative District Shop

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Honkai Star Rail - Administrative District Shop
Honkai Star Rail - Administrative District Shop Location

Metal can be bought from the store the in middle of the Administrative District in Jarilo-VI for 260 credits.

Jarilo-VI Guide

Destroy Objects in Herta Space Station

Honkai Star Rail - Destructible Objects in Herta Space Station

Metal can be obtained by destroying objects throughout Herta Space Station.

Herta Space Station Guide

How to Use Metal

Use in the Lab Assistants In Position Event

Star Rail - Lab Assistants In Position Event

Metal is one of the experimental materials needed to unlock a research topic to get rewards in the Lab Assistants In Position Event!

Lab Assistants in Position Event Guide

Used to Synthesize Items

Star Rail - Enhancement Paste: Physical Item Enhancement Paste: Physical Star Rail - High-Tech Protective Gear Item High-Tech Protective Gear Star Rail - Simple Protective Gear Item Simple Protective Gear
Star Rail - Simple First-Aid Device Item Simple First-Aid Device Star Rail - Enhancement Paste: Lightning Item Enhancement Paste: Lightning Star Rail - All Good Potion Item All Good Potion
Star Rail - Monarch Monarch's Maneuver

Metal Information

Metal
Star Rail - Metal Item
Rarity ★
Effect Tier 1 Synthesis Material

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All Synthesis Materials

Synthesis Materials
Fresh Seed of Dawn ItemFresh Seed of Dawn Interdimensional Leaf ItemInterdimensional Leaf Mechanical Cube ItemMechanical Cube
Mythus Knots ItemMythus Knots Phase Flame ItemPhase Flame Tear Crystal of Glorious Death ItemTear Crystal of Glorious Death
Weary ItemWeary Ambergris of Abundance ItemAmbergris of Abundance Dragon Scale Coral ItemDragon Scale Coral
Hard Chip of Nihility ItemHard Chip of Nihility Preservation Construction Material ItemPreservation Construction Material Silk Spindle ItemSilk Spindle
Slime of Harmony ItemSlime of Harmony Stone of the Hunt ItemStone of the Hunt Strange Matter of Destruction ItemStrange Matter of Destruction
The Sound and the Fury ItemThe Sound and the Fury Thermal Gel ItemThermal Gel Tree Bark of Erudition ItemTree Bark of Erudition
Bough of Thought ItemBough of Thought Confounding ItemConfounding Core of Ice ItemCore of Ice
Deep Marrow Rock Salt ItemDeep Marrow Rock Salt Extract of Medicinal Herbs ItemExtract of Medicinal Herbs Eye of Lightning ItemEye of Lightning
Feather of Flame ItemFeather of Flame Hunger ItemHunger Jade Abacus Unit ItemJade Abacus Unit
Leaf of Imaginary ItemLeaf of Imaginary Mechanical Parts ItemMechanical Parts Meteoric Alloy ItemMeteoric Alloy
Old Molar ItemOld Molar Protein Rice ItemProtein Rice Quantum Ripples ItemQuantum Ripples
Tian Dong ItemTian Dong Virtual Particle ItemVirtual Particle Vortex of Wind ItemVortex of Wind
Basic Ingredients ItemBasic Ingredients Broken Dreams ItemBroken Dreams Discarded Ingenium Parts ItemDiscarded Ingenium Parts
Distinctive Tattered Feather ItemDistinctive Tattered Feather Gaseous liquid ItemGaseous liquid Human-Height Auspicious Crops ItemHuman-Height Auspicious Crops
Metal ItemMetal Phlogiston ItemPhlogiston Rusty Gear ItemRusty Gear
Seed ItemSeed Solid Water ItemSolid Water Tranquility ItemTranquility

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