Mortal Shell II: Top 5 Best Farms & Glitches for Gloom, Gold Coins, Grisha Remnants and More

🚨 MORTAL SHELL II’S ECONOMY IS BASICALLY BEGGING TO BE BROKEN!

Players have found farming loops that can turn harmless sheep into thousands of Gold Coins, while other tricks can stack Gloom at absurd speed — and then there’s a Grisha Remnant exploit that can potentially turn a normally limited resource into an endless supply. 😳

But here’s the dangerous part: some of these aren’t intended farms at all, and at least one exploit is already being targeted for a patch. So which methods still work right now, and which ones are actually worth your time?

🔥 Here are the TOP 5 Mortal Shell II farms and glitches you need to know before they disappear 👇

There is a point in almost every Mortal Shell II playthrough when the game stops asking whether you can survive and starts asking whether you can afford to keep upgrading everything.

You need Gloom to level your Harbinger and gain Shell Points.

You need Gold Coins for vendors, equipment and expensive Tarforge upgrades.

And then there are rarer resources such as Grisha Remnants, which can become surprisingly powerful when accumulated.

The problem is that simply playing normally doesn’t always provide these resources at the speed players want.

That has led the community to discover a collection of farming loops — ranging from completely legitimate enemy routes to outright exploits that appear to manipulate respawns and beacon behavior.

A recently updated farming roundup identifies several of the strongest methods currently circulating, including the Proxima Collector coin farm, the Sunken Village sheep loop, Gloomshade Grove, the Gate of Mammon coffin farm, an unlimited Grisha Remnant exploit, and a late-game Brother’s Court Gloom glitch.

But there is an important warning.

This is a moving target.

Mortal Shell II has already received its first major balance patch, which doubled Gold drops from enemies in Mammon, significantly reduced weapon-smelting costs and changed the way Shell maps are acquired.

And some of the exploits currently being circulated are explicitly described by guide authors as unintended behavior that could disappear in a future update.

So, as of the latest community reports, here are five farming methods worth knowing.

1. Proxima + Collector: The Gold Coin Machine

Best for: Gold Coins

If you’re specifically looking for money, there is one strategy that keeps appearing across current guides:

Proxima + Collector + Extracted Specimens.

Proxima, the Broodseeker has a passive ability called Collector that can cause enemies killed while using her to produce Extracted Specimens.

Those specimens aren’t simply another crafting material.

They can be sold to Merrick for 100 Gold Coins each.

That fundamentally changes the economics of farming.

Instead of repeatedly killing enemies and hoping their normal Coin drops are enough, every eligible kill has another potential payout attached to it.

And that is why Proxima has quietly become one of the most valuable Shells for players who need to fund expensive upgrades.

How to set it up

The important requirement is Proxima’s Collector ability.

Current guides place Collector behind Tier 3 Shell Bond for Proxima, meaning this isn’t an immediate level-one farming trick. You need to invest in Proxima before turning her into a dedicated economic machine.

Once Collector is available:

Equip Proxima.
Head to a dense enemy area.
Kill enemies yourself.
Collect the Extracted Specimens.
Return to Merrick.
Sell the specimens for 100 Coins each.
Repeat.

The most popular version of the farm, however, uses something far less dangerous than hostile enemies.

It uses sheep.

2. The Sunken Village Sheep Farm

Best for: Safe early Gold + Gloom

Yes.

Sheep.

One of the most efficient repeatable Coin farms currently documented in Mortal Shell II involves walking into a pasture near the Sunken Village Beacon and slaughtering a flock of completely harmless animals.

Current guides report nine sheep in the pasture. They respawn after resting at the Beacon, allowing the player to repeatedly clear the same small area.

With Proxima’s Collector active, the sheep can generate Extracted Specimens.

Each specimen sells for 100 Coins.

That makes the route extremely simple:

Sunken Village Beacon → sheep pasture → kill nine sheep → collect specimens → rest → repeat.

One current guide reports roughly 4,000 Coins worth of specimens in around five minutes, although the actual rate depends on Collector’s RNG and how quickly the player clears the pasture.

Another farming test claims significantly higher rates with an optimized setup, so players should treat hourly figures as demonstrations rather than guaranteed income.

The important advantage isn’t necessarily the exact Coins-per-hour figure.

It’s consistency.

The sheep barely fight back.

There are no difficult elites.

There is almost no meaningful death risk.

And the Beacon is right there.

For a player who needs money without turning the game into another boss fight, this is arguably the cleanest farm currently available.

And there’s a bonus

The sheep aren’t only useful for Coins.

They also provide Gloom.

That means the same loop can contribute to both your level progression and your Gold reserves.

Current farming guides specifically recommend the sheep route as an early option for combining safe Gloom and Coin generation.

It’s difficult to complain about a farm where your opponents literally refuse to fight back.

3. Gloomshade Grove: The Fast Early Gloom Loop

Best for: Fast Gloom before the late game

If Gold isn’t your problem and you simply want to level faster, Gloomshade Grove becomes a much more attractive target.

The current community-favored route starts from the Gloomshade Grove Beacon and focuses on the hostile group located extremely close to the Beacon.

The idea is brutally simple:

Spawn → kill the group → collect Gloom → rest → repeat.

One recently updated farming guide estimates around 1,000 Gloom per run from the nearby enemy group.

Another current guide independently identifies Gloomshade Grove at night as one of the best repeatable Gloom farms, specifically because the Grisha Hunters are close to the Beacon and can be killed repeatedly.

And there is another mechanic worth remembering:

Night Mode increases Gloom rewards.

That makes the route more attractive for players willing to accept the additional visibility challenge.

The trade-off is obvious.

Unlike the sheep, these enemies fight back.

Hard.

So the Gloomshade Grove farm is better suited to players who already have a functioning combat build.

For a fresh character, the sheep route is safer.

For an established character, Gloomshade Grove can be much faster.

4. Gate of Mammon Coffin Farm

Best for: Mid-game Gloom

Once your character becomes stronger, there is little reason to remain in the beginner farming areas.

One of the most lucrative mid-game routes currently documented is located around the Gate of Mammon.

The method involves heading from the Gate of Mammon Beacon toward a nearby area filled with coffin enemies.

And here’s where things get interesting.

Instead of fighting the enemies individually, players can group them together.

Current farming reports describe pulling roughly five to ten coffin enemies into one cluster, allowing their attacks to damage each other while you finish them off. Individual enemies are reported to provide roughly 400–500 Gloom, pushing a complete run beyond 3,000 Gloom depending on the exact number of enemies cleared.

That is a substantial upgrade over early-game farming.

The loop is roughly:

Gate of Mammon Beacon → coffin courtyard → group enemies → clear them → collect Gloom → reload → repeat.

The current guide recommends quitting to the main menu and reloading rather than making the entire journey back on foot.

And this is where the game’s first balance patch becomes relevant.

Gold drops from enemies in Mammon were doubled in Balance Patch 1.

So even though the Gate of Mammon route is primarily discussed as a Gloom farm, the area is now more attractive for players who also need Gold.

The game effectively improved the payout of the region while players were already discovering ways to make the enemy density work in their favor.

5. The Grisha Remnant Exploit

Best for: Grisha Remnant stacking

Now we get into the methods that are much harder to call ordinary farming.

Grisha Remnants are valuable.

The item can be equipped as an active or passive effect, and collecting more copies improves the scaling of the associated Grisha summon. Current guides describe the active version as summoning a Grisha ally, while the passive version gives melee attacks a chance to trigger a summon automatically.

Normally, Remnants are relatively limited.

Several come from specific Grisha encounters, while another can be purchased from a merchant under particular circumstances. The problem for players who want to build around the summon is that many of those sources do not simply respawn forever.

Then players discovered the exploit.

The basic setup

The route involves a hidden dungeon accessed through Marrow Keep.

Current guides describe obtaining the Slayer Seal, entering the training area, breaking through a hidden wall and using the Commune with Chaos interaction to reach the hidden dungeon.

Inside is a Grisha encounter that can provide another Remnant.

Then:

Kill Grisha → reload → return → repeat.

That already creates a renewable source where the intended supply is limited.

But the community discovered an even more extreme version involving Bellkeeper’s Corner near the Abandoned Outpost.

The player equips a Grisha Remnant as a passive effect and uses the environment around a bell and nearby pit to repeatedly generate Grisha deaths.

The resulting loop can award additional Remnants without requiring another conventional boss kill.

This is where the word “exploit” is appropriate.

It is not simply an efficient enemy route.

It is behavior that appears to be abusing the game’s spawning and environmental-death systems.

And players should be aware that it may not survive the next balance update.

One guide updated on August 26 specifically describes the technique as unintended behavior and warns that an update is already being rolled out that could close the exploit.

So if you’re planning to use it, the situation is simple:

It may work today. It may not work after the next patch.

Bonus: The Brother’s Court Gloom Glitch

There is actually another exploit that deserves attention.

The Brother’s Court route appears to manipulate a beacon payout after a specific on-foot progression trigger.

Current reports describe a process involving the Ova progression, an NPC event and then a journey from Marrow Keep to Brother’s Court on foot.

Once the required death trigger activates, repeatedly opening and closing the Brother’s Court Beacon can reportedly award Gloom without another conventional enemy-clear cycle.

This is potentially much more powerful than the normal Gloom farms.

But it also comes with the biggest warning of all:

Do not assume it works simply because you fast-traveled there.

Current documentation specifically warns that fast-traveling directly to the Beacon can bypass the trigger.

The player needs to perform the required route and activate the underlying event first.

And because this behavior is clearly outside the intended economy loop, it is exactly the kind of thing that can disappear without warning.

Which Farm Should You Actually Use?

That depends entirely on what you’re trying to accomplish.

Goal
Best Current Method
Difficulty

Early Gold
Proxima + Collector + sheep
Very low

Early Gloom
Sunken Village sheep
Very low

Fast early/mid Gloom
Gloomshade Grove
Medium

Mid-game Gloom
Gate of Mammon coffins
Medium

Grisha Remnants
Desolate Keep / Bellkeeper exploit
High / exploit

Late-game Gloom
Brother’s Court glitch
Exploit

The key point is that there isn’t one universally superior farm.

The best method changes as your character progresses.

The Most Important Update: Don’t Follow Launch-Day Farming Guides Blindly

This is perhaps the biggest lesson for players watching older Mortal Shell II videos.

The game’s economy has already changed.

Balance Patch 1 replaced Glimpses with Gloom for Shell map acquisition, refunded previously spent Glimpses and reduced weapon smelting costs at the Tarforge by 75%. It also doubled enemy Gold drops in Mammon and made several enemies and bosses less punishing.

That means a farming route that made perfect sense at launch may no longer be optimal.

And the opposite is also true.

A route that looked mediocre at launch may now be significantly better because of the improved economy.

The Mammon Gold buff is a perfect example.

Players now receive substantially more Gold from enemies in the region than they did previously.

So farming decisions need to be based on the current build of the game, not a launch-week spreadsheet.

The Proxima Farm Is Probably the Safest Long-Term Choice

If you don’t want to exploit glitches, the answer becomes much simpler.

Use Proxima.

Unlock Collector.

Go to the Sunken Village Beacon.

Kill the nine sheep.

Rest.

Repeat.

Sell the Extracted Specimens to Merrick.

Current guides consistently identify this as one of the strongest repeatable Coin methods because the specimens have a fixed 100-Coin value and the sheep are easy to reset.

And unlike an exploit, this is an actual gameplay system.

You’re using a Shell ability exactly as designed.

The same route can also provide Gloom.

That makes it particularly useful for players who are still developing their first serious build.

But If You’re Farming Gloom, Move On

There is one point where the sheep become less attractive.

They are incredibly safe.

But they’re not necessarily the fastest source of Gloom once your character becomes powerful.

Current guides note that the sheep farm becomes less efficient for leveling around the mid-teen levels, while remaining useful for Coins because the specimen value doesn’t scale downward with progression.

That means the logical progression is:

Early game: Sheep.

Early-mid game: Gloomshade Grove.

Mid game: Gate of Mammon.

Late game: High-density routes or, if you’re willing to exploit the game, Brother’s Court.

That is much more efficient than mindlessly farming the same sheep for the entire campaign.

And Then There’s the Grisha Problem

The Grisha Remnant exploit is arguably the most interesting of all these methods because it isn’t merely about getting rich.

It changes a build.

Current documentation says that additional Remnants increase the effectiveness of the Grisha summon, including its damage and passive activation potential.

So a player who deliberately stacks Remnants isn’t just collecting a rare item.

They’re building toward a completely different combat strategy.

The more Remnants you accumulate, the more valuable the summon becomes.

That is why the exploit has attracted so much attention.

It takes what was designed to be a relatively scarce progression resource and potentially turns it into a repeatable scaling mechanic.

But again:

It is an exploit.

And unlike a legitimate farm, there is no reason to assume Cold Symmetry intends it to remain.

Should You Actually Use These Glitches?

That’s ultimately a personal choice.

If your goal is to experience the intended progression, there is little reason to use them.

The normal farming loops are already strong enough.

If you’re on a second playthrough, experimenting with builds or simply don’t want to spend hours repeating the same encounters, the exploits can dramatically reduce the grind.

But there is one obvious downside.

They can destroy the economy of your save.

Once you’re swimming in Gloom or have accumulated a ridiculous number of Grisha Remnants, ordinary progression can lose some of its meaning.

The question becomes less:

“Can I afford this upgrade?”

and more:

“Why wouldn’t I buy everything?”

That can be fun.

It can also remove a major part of the game’s progression loop.

The Bottom Line

Mortal Shell II currently has an unusually generous selection of farming opportunities.

For Gold Coins, the undisputed star is Proxima’s Collector, particularly when combined with the harmless sheep at Sunken Village. Extracted Specimens sell for 100 Coins each, making the loop extremely reliable.

For Gloom, early players can use the sheep, while stronger characters can move to Gloomshade Grove or the Gate of Mammon for substantially larger payouts.

For Grisha Remnants, the hidden-dungeon and Bellkeeper’s Corner methods are currently the big exploits — but they’re also the most likely to disappear in a future update.

And for the truly determined farmer, Brother’s Court appears to offer one of the most extreme Gloom exploits currently circulating.

But there is one common thread running through all of them:

The game’s economy is changing fast.

Cold Symmetry has already made major adjustments to Gold, Glimpse/Gloom acquisition, weapon upgrading and enemy difficulty.

So today’s “broken” farm may be tomorrow’s patch note.

For now, though, if you’re staring at a brutally expensive upgrade screen and thinking “There has to be a faster way…”

There probably is.

And somewhere in Mortal Shell II, there is almost certainly a sheep that is about to have a very, very bad day.