Crimson Watchstone

This article describes historical game content.

Crimson WatchstoneThe memories and emotions of countless victims of the Elder,
locked in stone for eternity.Socket this into a Citadel on your Atlas to increase the Tier of Maps and reveal hidden Maps in that Citadel's Region. You can only socket one Crimson, Viridian, Cobalt or Golden Watchstone into each Citadel.

Acquisition
Not in game
Drop level: 1Metadata
Item class: Watchstone
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/AtlasUpgrades/AtlasRegionUpgrade1_8

Crimson Watchstone is a watchstone.

In item filter (and the text copied in-game by using Control + C keybind in PC), it belongs to Atlas Region Upgrade Item item class, despite GGG declared it belongs to Quest Items item class.

It has the green border in-game, just like other quest item , and cannot be traded.

Item acquisition

Crimson Watchstone is drop disabled.

Crimson Watchstone are tied to the region of the Atlas. Each region only drop one Crimson Watchstone. The first watchstone requires to follow the questline Chasing a Dream, The Elderslayers and The Crusader to spawn Baran in the corner region of the Atlas (before the change in 3.16). And the second watchstone requires to spawn Baran in a new region, with that region has +1 watchstone socketed, and so on. The fifth to eighth Crimson Watchstones requires to socket 4 watchstones in a new region in order to spawn Baran and drop Crimson Watchstone.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	Removed from the game
3.16.0	The number of atlas regions has been reduced from 8 to 4. Thus the number of Crimson Watchstones is also reduced. The corresponding questline is also modified as there is no "corner" region of the atlas
3.13.0	Fixed a bug where quest Watchstones could be seen and picked up by party members.
3.9.0	Introduced to the game.