OR it was just coincident anw , good luck with the sword and the shard.
FYI : i had my magic forge in my kingdom all the time but didnt get the shard until yesterday so ...
I have never got any shards from the tablet even though I've had it for 2months. This game has become boring now that I'm to getting any mor goals. Just stockpiling stuff is no fun
Nooo! Don't give up! You WILL get the shard! I was starting to think it was a myth, or my game was glitched or something, but then I got it 2 days ago, finally! I am nearly a level 26. It will come, I promise!
FYI, I did recently return my tablet to its original position. Then I got the shard the 2nd time collecting from it. Not sure if it's a coincedence or not...
Since I got the tablet, I never had it in its original spot. Within 2 weeks I got all 4 of them. Its just luck. And don't worry about the 4th shard I think it's useless 10 coals to make a jewel, 10 iron ores to make a silver, 50 silvers to make a mithril.
Just got my third shard (from the original position)! Less than two days after my second shard finally dropped. Guess I need to start amassing jewels for the fourth shard in case it ever shows up. I'm always maxed out on silver so it would be nice to have the mithril recipe just to get rid of my silver (have two beast statues already and am limited by jewels to make royal blocks and beams).
Yeh it's all based on percentages (not sure exactly how it's calculated) but sometimes you hit a sweet spot where every week/day you're getting rare stuff then all of a sudden you don't see anything for weeks, or months in some cases that I've read.
So it is all very much 'luck of the draw' based. I guess it's designed that way to give players something to keep striving for, rather than get everything all at once which would make the game too easy and players would lose interest.
I got my second shard! The nice thing was I had all the materials needed to complete the goal, on hand. So while it took weeks to drop, there was the advantage of completing the goal immediately.
Oh, I guess I should add, that when my shard dropped, the tablet was not in its original position.