By the middle of last week I had finished up the reward track for the 2026 Crimson Harvest event, having hit the 1,000 points required.
Crimson Harvest 2026 – Open the Bloodgates
I collected the remaining prizes from the track, including the blueprint copy for the Akoman, the new Bloodraiders battlecruiser.
The initial reward track complete
The SKINs I have redeemed, and the SKINNR design elements. The boosters will probably all just expire unclaimed and the blueprint will likely sit in a hangar in a station until the end of New Eden unless it gains some huge value or the Akoman turns out to be even more OP than usual for new ships in the game. And the event currency, that I am socking away for now.
Having done the hacking path first, which earned 500 of the 1,000 required points for the reward track, and then another round of that, which brought me to 600, it became a matter of finding which collection of rewards would get me to exactly 1,000 because any excess is lost.
That was a bit annoying because the large increments that the company has chosen this year means that you can, as I had done, put yourself in a situation where you will end up with some waste, and I personally detest waste. (Except, obviously, when it comes to words. This whole blog might be fairly characterized as a waste of words.)
As I mentioned last time, I decided to hit the Hollow Outbreak sites, alternating between class 1 and class 2 sites initially. That seemed to get me into a routine of only seeing one type of site when I was in the wrong ship, so eventually I just committed to the class 1 sites as I also worked on the exploration achievement for Amarr space.
My Tristan chasing that final ship in a site… the one kill you need
That got me 250 more points for the first run, putting me at 850 on the board, so I did another round of Hollow Outbreak sites for 50 points and another round of hacking where 40 gets you 100 points.
So on the event front, it is now a wait for the final week when CCP/Fenris extends the rewards track, likely by another 500 points. That is expected to land on the 27th.
I already have 150 points queued up for that, having done another round of hacking and Hollow Outbreak sites which I did not turn in. That will leave me with 350 points to gain, 250 of which might be the vendor task… but probably not.
Like all of the other tasks, this one is no longer available in interim steps. Instead you have to receive 150 items from the event vendor.
150 items received required
That feels like… kind of a lot of items. And they have to be paid for in mutated blood samples. I have enough of those. The cheapest item in the store is 15 mutated blood samples and I have about 3,000, so I can get it done. But it means not buying any of the better items… though some of those run to 30K in price, so that didn’t seem likely in the first place. I like the hacking mining game for the event, but maybe not that much.
The event store for the Order of St. Tetrimon
If I do that I will just need another 100 points on the event track to get whatever the final prize will be. It might not even be worth the effort. We shall see.
Meanwhile, on the exploration achievement side task, which I have been manually tracking as I do the event, which has gotten me into some quiet corners of Amarr space where event sites seems to sit untouched… a big help… has found me with six of the eight regions of Amarr space fully explored according to my sophisticated calculation… which is me checking them off the list.
Amarr – Blessed Pilgrim Achievement Progress
As I mentioned before, the achievement in game does very little to help you track your progress beyond a raw count of systems visited. Missed one? Good luck figuring it out!
494 systems visited, but which ones?
That said, at least the new map in the game has been somewhat helpful in this venture. Having gone to a logical map… and going with something very similar to the DOTLAN map layout… has made setting waypoints to plot a route less painful than it would have been with either of the previous two in-game maps.
So I look at my tracking map in Paint.net, where I mark each system with a red dot… again with the red dots… as I visit them.
One of my regional tracking maps… this one for The Bleak Lands
When I want to setup the route to the next few systems to visit, at least the in-game map looks enough like the DOTLAN map that I can easily find the system I want at a glance.
That same section of space in The Bleak Lands as above
Also, I have apparently not spent a lot of time in The Bleak Lands region, though with that name it is not hard to guess why.
I have the map set to show the systems I have visited, which gives me a count… and there are some systems I have visited quite a few times in Amarr space.
905 visits to Ebtesham… there is a level IV Amarr Navy mission agent there
The systems that show as gray circles are ones I have never visited. It does seem to take a few days for the last visited date to update. It doesn’t not show up after just one downtime cycle, but will show up eventually. So now The Bleak Lands shows I was there last week in all the systems.
A visit counted on October 14, 2026
Now I just have Aridia and Domain left to explore.
Aridia isn’t so bad. It is a low sec region so I have to take some care. But if I am out there in my covert ops Helios it shouldn’t be much of a problem.
Domain, on the other hand… that is where the bulk of the remaining 195 systems are. I’ve already visited chunks of it, but with 189 total systems… well, you can barely squeeze them all into a single map over at DOTLAN and have the system names remain readable.
Anyway, I am in a bit of a holding pattern for the event. But a lot of people have finished the initial bit and, while some people will just farm them all through the run of things… there are valuable drops… now is probably a good week to catch up. Next week, when the final track drops, there will be a second rush to wrap things up.
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- CCP/Fenris – Crimson Harvest: Open the Bloodgates
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- CCP/Fenris – Don’t Miss the Biggest Rewards!
- CCP/Fenris – Patch Notes for Crimson Harvest
- TAGN – Crimson Harvest 2026 Lands in EVE Online Today
- TAGN – Hacking and Exploring My Way into the Crimson Harvest Event
- EVE University – Crimson Harvest 2026