Death Stranding - Farming Chiral Crystals 5000 at a Time

Farming 5000 Chiral Crystals per Boss Fight. Need to be playing on Very Hard setting to get bosses to drop this amount but not that difficult once you learn their attacks and stay out of the tar. Usually about a 3-4 minute rest period to restock your weapons etc. before the next round starts.

I chose the Old Volcano Observatory site for farming as you can simply stay on that rock outcrop and take on all 3 lions without having to slog through the tar as in other locations. After each round, I'll put my empty weapons in the private locker of a nearby safehouse and grab fresh weapons and blood bags from the same private locker. Wait between 3 and 4 minutes and the BT's will respawn and off you go again for another 5000 crystals. Repeat until you have whatever amount of crystals you desire (up to 99,999 max).

While rocket launchers are effective, you can only use them once, a major drain on materials to fabricate new ones for each round. Use refillable weapons such as rifles, shotguns, & grenade launchers, etc. so you can refill your empties in a private room rather than recycling and fabricating new ones. I use the shotgun as I'm not that good with the rifle and quite a bit of the battle is up close and personal where the shotty shines.

You don't need to go the private room to refill after each round either, fabricate enough weapons to last multiple rounds and you can refill them all with just one trip to the private room (saves on deterioration of roads/structures as each trip to a private room adds about 30 minutes worth of timefall degredation to them). Here's how I refill over 200 shottys with just one trip to the private room :    • Death Stranding - Replenish Ammo In A...  

If you do happen to run out of ammo during a boss fight, don't forget to "callout" and help will soon arrive (online mode only).    • Death Stranding - Use Callout If Caug...  

Update: Now using the LVL2 Anti-BT Handgun for farming, all 3 lions with less than 2 full guns. Takes more blood bags but those are inexpensive to fabricate.    • Death Stranding - Anti BT Handgun Lvl...