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🗃 The Collector

The Collector

A shadowy dealer deep in the Diamond Mine who trades rare artifacts for Pure Diamonds, hands out a chain of quests, and is the fastest way to grow your artifact collection.

Overview #

The Collector is an NPC found in the depths of the Diamond Mine, the same area you unlock alongside diamonds at Time Leap tier 12 (Diamond Breaker). He deals in the rarest artifacts in the game and pays out a series of quests that widen your artifact storage.

Artifacts normally drop only about 1 in 2,000,000 per mine, so the Collector's rotating shop is the single most reliable way to actually get your hands on them. Everything he sells is bought with Pure Diamonds, the scarce currency you refine at the Diamond Forge.

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Talk to the Collector to open his shop or continue his quest chain. Once you've completed his first quest, an Open Shop option appears whenever you speak to him.

The Collector's Shop #

After you finish the first quest below, the shop opens. It offers 3 random artifacts every day. The selection reloads on a rolling 24-hour timer, and the info book in the menu shows exactly how long until the next refresh. Each artifact is priced in Pure Diamonds, from 1 up to 25, roughly tracking its rarity.

What's on offer
3 artifacts, pulled at random from the pool below. Buy any you can afford; purchased slots stay visible (and glow) until the daily refresh.
Refresh
The whole shop rerolls once per day. If you don't buy an artifact before the reset, it may be gone the next day, so grab the good ones while they're up.
Payment
Pure Diamonds only. The cost is deducted the moment you purchase.

These are the artifacts the Collector can offer, with their fixed Pure Diamond price:

ArtifactRarityCost
Pocket WatchCommon1 PD
Golden BellCommon1 PD
Flesh TrinketCommon2 PD
Brass PendulumUncommon3 PD
Dust VialUncommon4 PD
Warm EmberCommon5 PD
Pale StoneRare5 PD
Bronze CoinCommon7 PD
Iron WeightUncommon8 PD
Diamond ChipRare10 PD
Chipped BladeRare10 PD
Arcane LensEpic15 PD
Sharp FangEpic20 PD
Titan CoreLegendary25 PD
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Not every artifact appears in the shop. A handful of the rarest ones (like the Titan Core here) can only ever be pulled from the daily rotation. See the full Artifacts page for what each one boosts.

The Quest Chain #

The Collector offers a chain of quests, unlocked one at a time as you complete the previous. The first opens his shop; the rest reward the Collector's Cloak relic and permanent expansions to how many artifacts you can store and equip.

QuestGoalsReward
Proving Your Worth Obtain 1 Pure Diamond · mine 250 Diamond Fragments Unlocks the Collector's Shop
The Collector's Prize Obtain 10 Pure Diamonds · kill 25 Cave Crawlers Collector's Cloak
Restocking the Shop 10 Undead Cores · 100 Pure Diamonds · kill 200 Cave Crawlers · mine 250 Diamond Blocks +10 artifact storage slots & a 2nd Collector's Cloak
Room for More 50 Undead Cores · 5,000 Pure Diamonds · mine 500 Compressed Diamond Blocks +1 Active Artifact slot

The Undead Cores the later quests ask for drop from the Undead Miner back in the Iron Mine, while the Cave Crawler kills and diamond mining all happen right here in the Diamond Mine. The final quest's extra Active Artifact slot lets you keep one more artifact's boost running at once, a permanent power increase that, like all items, is never lost to any reset.

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Completing the Collector's first two quests also unlocks the Auto Diamond Forge, which purifies and restarts your forge slots automatically while you're online for a small extra Coal cost per batch.

The Collector's Cloak #

The signature reward of the quest chain is the Collector's Cloak, an armor relic. Relics are applied to a gear piece at the Relic Smith and amplify that piece's own boost. The Cloak is a mobility trade: it raises your +15–25% Move Speed on the armor it's attached to, at the cost of some −15 to −30% 🗡 Defense.

RelicRarityEffect
Collector's Cloak Rare +15–25% Move Speed · −15 to −30% 🗡 Defense

You earn one from The Collector's Prize and a second from Restocking the Shop, so you can outfit more than one armor set for speed. Like every item on Timelords, a relic is never lost to any reset. Seconds, Chrono Dust, Time Leap, the Intelligence Generator, or an Era reset all leave your gear untouched.

Tips #

  • Check the shop daily. Since it rerolls every 24 hours, a habit of stopping by the Collector on each login is the steadiest way to complete your artifact set.
  • Bank your Pure Diamonds before opening the shop so you can grab a pricey pull (like the 25 PD Titan Core) the moment it appears.
  • Prioritize the artifacts that boost whatever you're pushing right now: a Pale Stone for XP early, or the Titan Core once you're deep into combat.
  • Finish the first two quests early to unlock the Auto Diamond Forge. It snowballs your Pure Diamond income, which in turn feeds the whole Collector economy.
  • Save the huge Room for More quest (5,000 Pure Diamonds) for when Pure Diamonds are flowing; the extra Active Artifact slot it grants is permanent and well worth the haul.

For where the Collector sits in the bigger picture, see the Mining overview, the Diamonds and Pure Diamonds pages, and the Artifacts page. Type /guide anytime to open this wiki in your browser.