{"id":3038,"date":"2018-02-21T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T22:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/hoth-red-matrix-shard\/"},"modified":"2022-07-14T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T13:22:42","slug":"hoth-red-matrix-shard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/hoth-red-matrix-shard\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoth Red Matrix Shard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Matrix Shard is trapped in a pocket of ice, and you must use a special item to free it.<\/p>\n<h2>Pick up a Hydro-thinner<\/h2>\n<p>In the cantina in the base where you first load into the planet, visit the Cantina and purchase a Hydro-thinner from the Vendor behind the bar. The Hydro-thinner item is required for this datacron, and costs 18,000 credits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3338\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/02\/2674200758_3276974231.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This item can not be bought, sold, or traded but it can be put into a guild bank for others to use.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-datacron-guide-10291.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1470\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-datacron-guide-10291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Quicktravel \/ Taxi \/ Heroic Shuttle<\/h3>\n<p>Republic side, the [HEROIC 2+] Gamorrean Menace heroic shuttle is faster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-quicktravel-highmount-road.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1447 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-quicktravel-highmount-road.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1404\" height=\"1436\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/datacron-quicktravel-_0022_hoth-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2718\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/datacron-quicktravel-_0022_hoth-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1407\" height=\"1440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Get to the Ice Overhang<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-matrix-shard-map.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1472 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-matrix-shard-map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1386\" height=\"1421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Use Hydro-thinner to free the Matrix Shard<\/h3>\n<p>Run to the far south of the Highmount Ridge map. While running along the trail, marked as an orange dotted line on the map, you&#8217;ll see a glowing white matrix shard trapped in ice, under an icy overhang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-datacron-guide-10295.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1469\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-datacron-guide-10295.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have the Hydro-thinner in your inventory, you will be able to go free the Matrix shard just by right-clicking the ice-trapped datacron.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-datacron-guide-10294.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1468\" src=\"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/02\/hoth-datacron-guide-10294.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Matrix Shard is trapped in a pocket of ice, and you must use a special item to free it. Pick up a Hydro-thinner In the cantina in the base&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"pageSingleDatacron.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-datacrons","category-hoth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swtorista.com\/articles\/datacrons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}