Core Keeper: Best Necklaces, Ranked

Key Takeaways

• The Valentine Necklace offers +7% more healing during health recovery, mainly available during the seasonal Valentine’s event.
• The Atlantean Worm Necklace provides health regeneration and damage boost against bosses, dropped by defeating the Atlantean Worm.
• The Black Necklace is ideal for mining, giving significant boosts to mining damage and speed but lacks combat benefits.

Core Keeper is an indie sandbox game where players can mine, craft, and farm in a complex subterranean world, both in single and multiplayer mode. While the world of Core Keeper is created through procedural generation, it is full of elaborate details, including accessories like necklaces.

Necklaces are a key item for players to collect throughout gameplay. There are 47 necklaces available, all of which offer different stat boosts or benefits. Players can only hold one necklace at a time in the designated inventory spot, meaning the tricky choice of which necklace to hold depends upon a player’s current aims. These are some of the best necklaces to look out for in Core Keeper.

10 Valentine Necklace

A Beautiful Healing Necklace

• +7% more healing from health over time

Players using the Valentine Necklace experience great healing benefits. However, this necklace can only be found during the seasonal Valentine’s event, which players should make the most of when the opportunity appears. There’s a 4% chance of finding this necklace in any Valentine’s Gift.

The secret to maximizing the efficacy of the Valentine Necklace is to use it alongside the Cupid Tunic and Valentine Ring, creating a 100% increase in the duration of charm effects.

9 Atlantean Worm Necklace

Hard To Find, But Essential For Combat

• +1.4–1.6 health every sec
• +17–19% damage against bosses

The Atlantean Worm Necklace is vital in combat, particularly when players are fighting bosses. Not only does it replenish health at a helpful rate, but it also aids in damaging bosses during combat, allowing players to progress in the game.

Players will be lucky to obtain this necklace, as it’s only dropped during successful combat with the formidable Atlantean Worm, the boss that travels in a circular path around the Sunken Sea. Players will also notice that the necklace resembles the Atlantean Worm in its design.

8 Black Necklace

Part Of The Mining Accessory Set

• +62–107 mining damage
• +4–5.1% mining speed

The Black Necklace differs from many necklaces in this list, in that it won’t help at all in combat scenarios. It is, however, a great choice for players focusing on mining. The Black Necklace provides impressive increases in mining stats, making the exploration process a lot quicker.

What’s more, combined with a set of other mining accessories, including the Black Ring, Miner’s Protective Helm, Labour Suit, and Worker Pants, there are even more benefits to be gained.

7 Eostre Necklace

The Best Farming Necklace In The Game

• +10.3% larger harvests
• +4.9% movement speed

The Eostre Necklace is part of Core Keeper‘s Easter-Only content and is dropped by Awakened Azeos, an Easter variation of one of the iconic Titan bosses, Azeos the Sky Titan.

An essential accessory for keen farmers, the Eostre Necklace symbolizes growth and fertility, increasing harvests and movement speeds significantly. This makes the Eostre Necklace a rather unusual necklace; most Core Keeper accessories benefit combat skills, so this is an essential pick-up for those more focused on their subterranean farms.

6 Wildwarden Necklace

Best For Players With Pets

• +5 armor
• +3% critical hit chance
• +4% critical hit chance for the player’s pet

This rare necklace can be found from fishing or dropped from a Clay Pot. It is an especially beneficial necklace if players have a pet, but it has some sweet combat benefits regardless. The necklace is particularly great for defensive combat, with a minimum +5 armor bonus, increasing further with higher-level necklaces.

The Wildwarden Necklace works best when combined with other Wildwarden items, the mask, pauldron, pants, and ring.

5 Ancient Guardian Necklace

A Surprisingly Easy Necklace To Find

• +14% reduced damage taken from bosses

The Ancient Guardian Necklace is essential when fending off high-level bosses in combat. It provides the player with at least 14% damage reduction and even more for higher-level necklaces.

This super helpful necklace is actually relatively easy to find. It can be grabbed from the mysterious Ancient Guardian statue at the Ancient Guardian Ruins in Azeos’ Wilderness. All players must do is press the statue to obtain it.

4 Heart Berry Necklace

A Necklace for Health Replenishment

• +0.7-3.5 health per second

This is one of the best necklaces for early-mid-game advancement, automatically regenerating health every second. If a player’s priority is exploration, and taking damage is a risk, the Heart Berry Necklace ensures constant replenishment of health, allowing for longer adventures.

The Heart Berry Necklace is rare but can be found in dig spots (where x marks the spot!) across a variety of biomes or in randomly spawned chests.

3 Rusted Necklace

A Mining Necklace That’s Beginner Friendly

The Rusted Necklace is an essential necklace for any Core Keeper player, increasing mining damage drastically. This is an especially good find for players who are early in the game and looking for a boost to their mining skills.

Unlike the rarer Black Necklace, the mining benefits of the Rusted Necklace are easily found. This necklace can be picked up in Large Driftwood Crates and Locked Octarine Chests, as well as in the occasional Beached Jelly on the shores of the Sunken Sea.

2 Polished Gold Crystal Necklace

Rare, But Excellent In Combat

• +19% magic damage
• +20.1% minion damage

The Polished Gold Crystal Necklace is an upgraded version of the simpler Gold Crystal Necklace, found only by polishing the Gold Crystal Necklace or in the Desert Prince Chest.

An excellent combat accessory, this increases damage using magic, one of the key skills developed throughout Core Keeper, as well as increasing Minion damage. Minions, small creatures that can be summoned to fight for the player, have short lifespans but serve as great companions for fighting bosses, especially with extra damage scores.

1 Glass Bead Necklace

A Challenging Accessory, But Highly Rewarding

• +75% critical hit damage
• +30% damage taken

This necklace is an extremely helpful combat accessory. It hugely increases critical hit damage, lowering enemy defenses at a rate unseen in other necklaces. However, this powerful necklace should be used with caution and is best suited to seasoned players with extensive combat experience, because it also significantly increases player damage.

The glass bead necklace is found only in the Shimmering Frontier, in both Alien Tech Chests and Large Alien Destructables.