Genshin Impact: In the mountains – how to thaw the fragments.

In the Genshin Impact quest “In the mountains” you have to thaw three ice fragments. Since these fragments are hidden in different places in the Dragon’s Ridge area, completing the quest can be a bit difficult.

Genshin Impact: In the mountains – the first fragment

The quest begins in a camp just outside the Dragon’s Ridge area. Talk to the adventurer Iris there to start the quest. As this is a snowy area, you have to warm up at fireplaces or teleportation points every now and then in order not to freeze to death.

• The first fragment that needs to be thawed can be found quite easily via the map. While normal ice blocks can be melted with a pyro character, there is a different way for the so-called “strange ice”.

• Red veins of ore can be found in the area around the fragment and all over Dragon’s Burr. The best way to mine these is with a two-handed weapon. If you collect the red quartz you get in the process, you will get cold protection for a short time. With the collected red quartz, you must then quickly run to the strange ice and strike it.

• After four hits with the red quartz on the ice fragment, it will break. You can now go a little further up the mountain, but a snowstorm prevents you from advancing any further. They therefore have to turn around and return to the camp in front of Dragon’s Ridge to talk to Iris again.

The Second Fragment

After you report back to Iris, you need to find the two more ice fragments and thaw them as well.

• The first of the two fragments is underground. The entrance to the cave is to the southwest of the Statue of Seven in the Dragon’s Ridge area. Once you have entered the cave, you must go all the way down to the lowest level.

• The ice there, however, is surrounded by a barrier. To deactivate this, you have to pass the challenge that is located directly in the water in front of the fragment. Then, as before, you have to find four red ores and use them to thaw the strange ice with four hits.

The third fragment

The last thing you need to do to complete the quest is to find the third fragment.

• In the northwest of Dragon’s Ridge lies the last part of the strange ice. You can easily see the location on the map, as there is a large, round area of ice there. To get to the fragment, you have to open the slab of ice, which you can do by solving the riddle there.

• Activate the cube-shaped device first. The warming soulie that is above it now starts to move and fly down the sealed ice pillars in a certain order. Once it has returned to its starting point, the seals open.

• With a cryo character such as Kaeya, you can now activate the ice pillars. However, you have to be careful to follow the order that the Seelie showed you before. If you have done everything correctly, three ruin guards will appear, which you have to defeat to open the ice plate.

• Under the ice slab is the last ice fragment, which must be thawed again with red quartz. Since the ore is behind a locked grate, you must first lead the two Seelias to their statues. One of the Seelies lies hidden enclosed in ice, which you can easily thaw with a Pyro Character. Afterwards the gate will open and the strange ice can be destroyed again by four hits with the red quartz.

• Now the way to the top of the mountain is completely clear and you can advance to the top. Once you have made it to the top, the last part of the quest begins. You now have to thaw the ice fragments again, but now they are floating in the air, in the middle of the peak.

• The easiest way to thaw the fragments again is to choose a character with a bow after smashing the red ore and shoot at the ice with it. After all the pieces are destroyed, you can activate the sphere “Vindagnyr’s Peak” and return to Iris to finish the quest.