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Great solution. By far the quickest and easiest method. Took about 10 mins for all 50!

Easiest and fastest method. Great guide and video.

Great guide! Super quick and easy.

the best solution. took 10 minutes max - even got 8 in 1 run which felt good. Thank you so much!

BEST SOLUTION!

Great guide +1 this by far is the best solution :)

Mayhem 11 says it has lower bonuses, but actually it has exactly the same bonuses as 10. So swapping between 9 and 10 actually would give you very slightly less eridium.

But yeah awesome solution :D

Good solution! But I have a problem, the achievement does not unlock, I got the in-game pop up saying I smashed 50 mysterious eridium piles, but nothing happens and the achievement tracker never showed any progress. Does anybody have heard of a solution to this? I tried to recync data with cold reset and deleting local saves, didn't do anything.

EDIT Finally it's kind of unlocked on xbox.com and here on TA, but for some reason it hasn't updated on my series X. Will probably update one day...

I unlocked this today after finally getting bored enough to return to the game and had the same problem as snoop my in game tracker popped but achievment didn't so I figured it was a bug like gears 4 achievemens do so I checked compare games with someone else that I knew played bl3 and the achievement unlocked as soon as it went to compare screen sometimes going to official club then progress has unlocked buggy achievements but great guide barely took 10 minutes to get 50

Great guide. The only thing I'd change is to flip back and forth between Mayhem level 10 and Mayhem level 9. It doesn't affect this specific achievement, but it will increase the amount of Eridium you'll get as there are no bonuses on Mayhem level 11.

EDIT: An even better way lets you keep it on Mayhem 10. Bring up the Mayhem screen & just press "X". That will reroll the modifers, then just "Apply" as normal & it'll reload with you still having the max bonuses.

Is it normal that I don't have the challenge that appears in the game? I just have jack's

I think when you quit out you only spawn near the auto-save/respawn stations. I don’t think there’s one at either of those areas. And I did the quest line first and didn’t get an item that lets me see the deposits.

The mysterious artefact from the end of the podcast questline makes them visible

The Mysterious artifact you get upon completing Ava's murder mysteries will allow you to see the invisible eridium blocks

Oh man I completely forgot about that thing! I'll add that to the solution. I was going so quick I thought it was just some quest item.

It's way faster to change your Mayhem level to reload the game than to Save/Quit.

Thanks!

So do you need to not have the amulet on for it to count and they must be invisible? or does it also count if you see them with the amulet on?

So I'm fairly certain that I sold the amulet if it was equippable, as I just mass sold all the crap after that mission. Anyway to get it back?

Also, the Carnivora location has 3 and is rather a pain to get to 27 times. Has anyone located a better spawn place yet?

i just tested it both count towards the achievement the amulet just makes them easier to see!

Yeah I got all 50 without knowing what the amulet did so it’s not needed if you lose it.

I also recommend before heading out to the Eridium Pledge Drive area, take the elevator back down to the Tink area and do a quick lap around. I have found 1 or 2 hidden ones in there as well. Only takes 30 seconds or so.

Loading times are atrocious.

Best place I've found is on the grand opening section of the handsome jackpot dlc. A run from the start to the end netted me about 15, play it on 0 mayhem and just run through. Also open the VIP doors as they are in there. Mostly find the eridium canisters and are in either 1/2/3

^^^^ I second killertheme's strat. I got 40 in about 2.5 runs thru easily

TheKillerTheme, awesome guide, thx!

I added some alternate farming methods at the bottom. Added KillerTheme's and gave him credit.

I co-op each pile counts for all players.

One thing that helped me go a little faster using the Eden-6 farm was instead of saving and quitting, after hitting the respawn point re-roll the mayhem mods and it'll refresh the map, respawning the piles and still keeping me at the spot up above on spawning in

Definitely go with the Handsome Jackpot/Grand Opening route. Much, MUCH faster than the way listed in the solution. Three runs of Handsome Jackpot and I was done.

Anyone help !
In the game challenge, I can’t track this progress and havn’t display this challenge.

Do you have to start a quest before earning credit for this challenge?

There are two more deposits right next to the catch-a-ride by the Carnivora desert checkpoint. They're sometimes invisible, sometimes not but worth a check.

Oh my god I lost the amulet .. this is the last achievement I needed 😩
Can someone please let me use it 🤦‍♂️

I have done the mission, wearing the amulet but the bar wont go up. The in game challenge is not showing either. Anybody have any idea as to why its happening?

It could be a tracker issue. If the challenge isn’t showing up try uninstalling and reinstalling the DLC.

Achievement bugged for me atm. I broke 50+ and no cheevo. My achievement tracker doesnt work and is still at 0%. Ingame progress worked like a charm

You likely were affected by the achievement outages yesterday @I Mr Smirnoff I.
Achievement tracking doesn't seem to work for this anymore but it popped at 50 when it was supposed to for me

I have broken 10 or 12 invisible eridium piles and my achievement tracker is at zero. I also don’t have the in game challenge.

I have broken 10 or 12 invisible eridium piles and my achievement tracker is at zero. I also don’t have the in game challenge.

I have broken 10 or 12 invisible eridium piles and my achievement tracker is at zero. I also don’t have the in game challenge.

That’s really weird. I’m seeing in other comment sections that there are ones that don’t sparkle and those don’t count. I’m not entirely sure because I broke them while they were invisible. I’m assuming you own the dlc and such so that’s the only other thing I can think of to why you wouldn’t have the challenge. Are you at 0% for the achievement?

I didn’t have the challenge nor was my tracker showing any progress. But just a note like others have said. Once you get to that checkpoint and restart head back down to the tinks as there’s a few invisible deposits in there sometimes as well as near the catch a ride before you hit the iridium deposit location

Voracious Canopy reload solution is much quicker.

Hi Bartlebee. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I took the liberty of improving my solution thanks to your comment. I looked up the method on YouTube and added a new guide using this zone, and gave you credit.

Quicker to spawn in the Guts and exit to the desert maybe? Theres a catch a ride right there and you're close to the spot there anyway.

Maybe we get something in Ava's quests to spot them but haven't done those yet.

I think wearing the amulet might make this more confusing. My understanding is that room has a chance to spawn invisible piles AND regular piles. So if you can see them all with the amulet, you won't really know which ones were intended to BE invisible. Not the end of the world but just a heads up to either pay attention to the tracker OR just keep smashing til it unlocks.

Nevermind. The "invisible" ones appear differently on-screen when wearing the amulet.

You should have it, but it might not matter. Are you still able to break the invisible eridium piles and the tracker goes up?

You technically don't need the amulet, as the rocks are still there, so if you know where some spawn you can still farm them. I didn't know what the amulet did until I had the achievement.

I prefer using the Voracious Canopy on Eden-6 to grind through the hidden Eridium except not exactly as described by Killarpong. Instead of back tracking like he does to reset my spawn point, I continue to climb up the wall. At the top in front of you is the Science Outpost. Run inside and quit/save. You spawn outside the Science Outpost and only need to drop down into the Eridium area and climb back out. On respawning the Eridium area is a quarter turn to your left. I like this as it's a shorter run and you also have the option of killing the boss King Bobo who is just inside the Science Output. If you only want to grind Eridium ignore him and quit/respawn but if you want extra XP kill him while there. No real science tracking for this area but I'd say it was something like 40% of the time two hidden Eridium were found, 40% three, 15% one, and 5% 4 found.
While in the Science Output I've had some luck getting 1 more hidden Eridium (once in this spot 2 were here). I'd say it's a 50/50 chance to find hidden Eridium. I've always found it in the far back right area - behind the house in the further back right section. There is a yard/field behind the house and the edge of map (cliff). One can sometimes be next to the wall on the left before the cliff or eye shot of the same spot but right behind the same house. You'll understand the spot cause if hidden Eridium is not here then a majority of time normal Eridium will be in same spot. Sometimes none of either but usually one or the other Eridium type is here. Note that I did tour the Science Output a bit thinking hidden Eridium would always be found somewhere in this section but, at least for me, if it wasn't in either spot behind the house there was none in the Science Output.

The challenge didn't show for me on the Galaxy Map, even after I completed it and got the onscreen popup for 50 piles. I also had 0 shiny piles show up for me relatively often too, so it took a bit longer... but to make the most of it, theres a neat trick.

If you're after Eridium, instead of using the Mysterious Amulet, equip an artifact with the "Stone" prefix (ie, Cryo Stone Static Charge). For some reason, this artifact will double the amount of Eridium you get out of smashing a pile. It doesn't need to be a Legendary, just so long as it has the "Stone" prefix.

With this location, moreso than the others, the shed always contains 3 piles making it super easy to find them without equipping the Mysterious Amulet, just look for when the crosshair changes to the Melee (RS) icon.

Great guide. I found the ones that weren't sparkling didn't count for me so don't be discouraged if you're counting along and it doesn't pop. This is a very quick path so it doesn't take long, thank you!

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Great guide. Another tip to make it even faster is to just toggle mayhem mode on/off and hit apply to force a reload instead of going to the main menu and then back in.

The toggle mayhem on the level helps alot, way faster than the quit/load or sanctuary and back. (Even on XSX)
Note: may take longer than 10-15 minutes, took me around 35-40mins because of the 1 or 0 per reload

I will add in case it’s not obvious (because it wasn’t for me at first), run mayhem 11.
The eridium drops are higher on higher mayhem levels. The dropped “value” doesn’t count for the achievement, but at least you’re maximising your earning while doing this.
And not sure if it was a placebo or not, but moment I switched to a higher mayhem, seemed to increase the amount of canisters that spawned as “mysterious” each run. Managed to reliably get 2-3 every run.
So yeah, just alternate between 10/11 to trigger respawns.

This run seems to have been nerfed, was only finding 4 sometimes even 3. I can also confirm that only the ones sparkling count.