Mistfall Hunter Collection Pedestal

It is a display case, not an upgrade

The Collection Pedestal shows off rare finds. No published source credits it with a stat, a multiplier, a crafting bonus, storage or any combat effect, and the accounts that disagree about everything else agree about this. If you are working through camp deciding what to build next, this is the one structure that can wait — the Goddess Statue, the Warehouse and the Scavenger Squad all change how your runs go, and this changes how your camp looks.

The part that is not reversible

Placing an item consumes it. Launch-week players report the placement cannot be undone and that the same materials are wanted by higher-tier camp upgrades, so every copy you display is a copy you cannot spend on a building that does something. This is the actual decision the pedestal asks you to make, and the in-game warning is easy to click past.

• Read the permanence warning in full before confirming — it is the only point at which the game tells you.
• Do not spend a scarce material purely to close a task. Wait until the task is active and you have a spare copy.
• If a material is on a camp upgrade’s requirement list, the upgrade is the better home for it.

What a finished pedestal actually costs

One database publishes the ladder: 1 copy to place a collectible, 3 to reach the second level, 5 for the third — nine copies for one finished pedestal, and none of the fifteen collectibles stack, so that is nine stash slots held for a display. It also reads the camp-build data per collectible, and this is the part that decides whether the pedestal is worth starting: thirteen of the fifteen are also on a camp upgrade's requirement list. Filling a pedestal with one of those means finding the nine it wants plus the two to five that a Warehouse, Gyldenblod Pool, Goddess Statue, Workshop, Tavern, Soulcatch Tree, Auction House or Scavenger Squad level wants as well — eleven to fourteen copies of an item whose best listed drop chance is between 0.20% and 1.25%. Note this conflicts with the other account on this page, which reads the same structure as three placements per collectible rather than nine copies; the figures below assume the ladder.

• Two collectibles are cheap to commit to: Faded Divine Tree Heart and Stardust Bloom each block only two upgrade levels, so a pedestal built on either costs eleven copies rather than thirteen or fourteen.
• Soulbound Serpent Crystal is the only one on no upgrade list at all — the same database says it does not drop and is bought, which makes it the one collectible a pedestal costs you nothing in camp progress to display.
• Gem of the Gods is the worst pick on both counts: the lowest listed drop chance of the fifteen at 0.20%, and Goddess Statue L8 plus three Warehouse levels want it.