Stardust

Stardust
Stardust is a fundamental component in progressing further into Astral Sorcery. (Mid-Game)

Astral Tome Entry
''While Starmetal has many applications for channeling Starlight, the dust from Starmetal is even more reactive. Due to the magical energy contained with it, this metal is both simultaneously hard and soft. While it can sustain direct impact with little deformation, attempting to grind or cut it results in the metal behaving more like a putty and smearing out of shape. Disrupting the magical energies in the metal is necessary to create grains of metal dust instead, and the Academy's Starmetal Cutting Tool is particularly suited to this.''

''By striking a starmetal ingot with swift swings of the cutting tool, the sharp impact to both the physical object as well as its magical field will cause the ingot to rapidly destabilize, shattering into a pile of Stardust, instead. The speed and force required to accomplish this is more than can be leveraged with a crafting table and must be done in-world instead. This is a skill that should be practiced, as it will be used more often during later studies.''

How To Obtain
Stardust is the outcome of cutting a Starmetal Ingot with the Starmetal Cutting tool. The player must obtain this tool before the creation of Stardust is possible. As the Astral Tome dictates, Starmetal is not possible to grind it into dust, and must be dropped in-world before processing.

Drop a Starmetal Ingot on the ground, and with the Starmetal Cutting Tool equipped in you hand, left-click it. The ingot will then transform into stardust, and can be picked up from the ground.