Belsavis Datacrons Guide

Belsavis has four hidden datacrons and on matrix shard to find, all of which can be found by Republic or Imperial players. There’s a blue datacron known as the Indian Jones datacron hidden across an invisible leap of faith bridge, a green datacron hidden in a secret cave, a purple datacron up a secret path, a yellow datacron hidden n the cliffs of a volcano, and a matrix shard that needs to be powered up by four cubes hidden around Belsavis. Beslavis is really hard to get around if you have not explored all the special taxi points yet, so I recommend saving it until after you’ve explored the planet through your class quest first and picked up some quick travel points along the way.

Getting to Belsavis – Fly to Belsavis, or to save time, click the icon of “three little people” near your minimap to open the Activities panel, then choose Solo from the tabs at the top, then choose Heroic Missions: Belsavis and click travel to go directly to Belsavis’s surface and skip the space station.

  •  Shuttle:  [HEROIC 2+] The Tyrant
  •  Shuttle:  [HEROIC 2+] The Engineer’s Tale
  • Belsavis Mastery +4 Datacron (Both Factions)
  • Quicktravel: Automated Checkpoint / Imperial Remote Post
  • Taxi: Lower Transport Center / Lower Prison Outer Transport
  • Shuttle: [HEROIC 2+] The Tyrant
  • Location: The Tomb - lava pit with an invisible bridge crossing it
  • Difficulty: Medium - Fall and Walk carefully
  • Codex: Galactic History 68: The Mandalorians Return

Quick Travel / Taxi

[HEROIC 2+] The Tyrant republic is closer if you don’t have Automated Checkpoint quick travel.

If you are unable to use the quicktravel and are unable to use the Heroic shuttle, you can taxi there, it’s just complicated.

Find the Invisible Bridge

This datacron is sometimes known as the older “Indiana Jones” or “Leap of Faith” datacron, due to a scene in an Indiana Jones movie where the hero must step out onto what appears to be thin air to cross a chasm and reach a treasure. In this version, the bridge is a holographic projection you must step out onto, even if you can’t see it.

Cross the Bridge

If you zoom in and slowly move your camera around you’ll eventually be able to see the thin blue lines of the invisible bridge!

 

  • Belsavis Endurance +4 Datacron (Both Factions)
  • Quicktravel: Republic Watchtower / Imperial Command Post
  • Taxi: Republic Watchtower / Imperial Command Post
  • Location: High Security Section - very north section in a hidden cave
  • Difficulty: Hard - Guarded by a tough enemy
  • Codex: Galactic History 69: The Mandalorian Wars

Quick Travel / Taxi

Find the Secret Tunnel

Fight the Monster

This creature is quite strong, so make sure to have your companion out and use Heroic Moment if you need it.

  • Belsavis Green Matrix Shard Datacron (Both Factions)
  • Quicktravel: Automated Checkpoint / Imperial Remote Post
  • Taxi: Lower Transport Center / Lower Prison Outer Transport
  • Location: The Tomb - Cave Under-Tree, unlocked by four cubes
  • Difficulty: Hard - no jumping, but looting cubes can take time
  • Codex: Galactic History 71: The Muur Talisman

This datacron is one of the harder ones to get, as it requires first finding four randomly hidden cubes around Belsavis.

Quick Travel / Taxi

Find 4 Rakata Energy Cubes

To unlock this matrix shard, you’ll need to find four of the hidden Rakata Energy Cubes, which look like small blue glowing cubes with yellow dots, sitting on the ground of Belsavis.

They are hidden in the Tombs area in the northern section of Belsavis, in the same area as the Indiana Jones leap of faith datacron with the holographic bridge.

As far as I can tell, there will only be one cube available on the map, in one of the various locations. Once it gets clicked, give or take around a minute later, a new cube will spawn in one of the locations.

The easiest way to gather your cubes seems to be to travel in a loop between all the locations. If you find a cube, right-click it, then wait about a minute to see if it respawns before moving on, since it has a random chance of respawning right where you are. If it does spawn, continue your loop until you can find the next place it spawned. If someone else is also searching and getting in your way, don’t forget you can use the big Map to change instances with the drop down in the bottom right of the big map.

In the map I’ve made here, I was able to confirm for myself the green locations, and the yellow locations seem to be other confirmed locations. There’s a great thread on the SWTOR.com forums where players were sharing locations back from the game’s launch, and apparently these cubes are also hidden in the High Security Station in the southern part of Belsavis, though I didn’t go searching there.

Once you find and pick up a Rakata energy Cube, it will show up as an item in your inventory. They can be traded to a friend or put in a guild bank, but they can not be sold or bought on the GTN. This means you can go hunting for the cubes with your friend, and combine your four cubes on one character, but all still get the matrix shard in the end together.

If you have already gotten this matrix shard for your legacy, you will be able to see the cubes, but won’t be able to right-click them to pick them up.

Find the Hidden Elevator

Activate the Rakata Energy Cubes

Once you get off the elevator, head forwards in the underground tunnel until you find a terminal that has four blue rectangle buttons and one larger blue button on the right.

If you are doing this as part of a group, you’ll want to make sure your whole group is nearby before you activate the terminals.

To activate the matrix shard, right click each of the rectangle blue buttons and choose “Insert Rakata energy Cube”. They will eventually de-activate, you don’t need to rush but make sure to put in all four and don’t log off or wander away before you finish. After you put all four in, use the bigger blue button on the right which will unlock the matrix shard for a short time!

When the Matrix Shard is not active, it will look like a Rakata energy Cube and not be clickable.

  • Belsavis Mastery +4 Datacron (Both Factions)
  • Quicktravel: Republic Watchtower / Imperial Command Post
  • Taxi: Republic Watchtower / Imperial Command Post
  • Location: High Security Section - grassy plateau accessed by a hidden path
  • Difficulty: Easy - can walk right up to it
  • Codex: Galactic History 72: The Fall of the Covenant

You can see this datacron up on a mushroom while exploring Belsavis, but you will need to find another way up to it.

Quick Travel / Taxi

Find the Secret Entrance

Follow the Path

Follow the grassy path to the datacron.

  • Belsavis Presence +4 Datacron (Both Factions)
  • Quicktravel: Maximum Security Ops Center / Imperial Frontline Camp
  • Taxi: Ops Center / Imperial Frontline Camp
  • Shuttle: [HEROIC 2+] The Engineer's Tale
  • Location: Maximum Security Section - end of a hidden tunnel on the north cliff
  • Difficulty: Easy - can walk right up to it
  • Codex: Galactic History 70: The Covenant Acts

Quick Travel / Taxi

[HEROIC 2+] The Engineer’s Tale is closer republic side.

Find the Secret Entrance

Follow the path along the lava chasm