Elemental Crystals are the key to the newest area in Fish It, and no amount of casting will get you one. They are handed out as quest rewards on Elemental Island, one per elemental zone, and all three are needed before the gate to Hydra’s Throne Room will move.
Quick answer: Complete the quest from Ignis in the fire zone, Tempest in the ice zone, and Frozen soul in the storm zone to receive the Fire, Ice, and Storm Elemental Crystals, then place each crystal on its matching podium at the entrance to Hydra’s Throne Room.
Elemental Crystals are quest rewards, not fishing drops
The three crystals never appear on a line. Each one is tied to an elemental event quest in the zone that matches its element, so fishing in the lava pools all day will not produce a Fire Elemental Crystal. You have to walk into the zone, find the quest NPC standing there, and finish what they ask for.

Here is how the three quests line up with their zones and rewards.
| Zone | NPC | Quest | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | Ignis | Fix the Magma Regulator | Fire Elemental Crystal |
| Ice | Tempest | Fix the Atmospheric Regulator | Ice Elemental Crystal |
| Storm | Frozen soul | Fix the Glacial Regulator | Storm Elemental Crystal |
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Place the crystals on the podiums to unlock Hydra’s Throne Room

If the gate stays shut, it is almost always because one podium is still empty or a crystal went onto the wrong element. Three matching crystals, three matching podiums, and the gate moves.
What is inside Hydra’s Throne Room
The chamber adds 15 new fish that exist nowhere else in the game, spread across Mythic, Legendary, and Epic rarities and across all three elements. The Bluehood Nautilus is one of the catches waiting in the pool, sitting at a 1 in 80 rate and turning up in the 40kg range.
The headline catch is the Elemental Hydra, a Forgotten fish that cannot be hooked solo. It needs at least three players to activate, with one person standing in each elemental zone, and it scales up to 15 players.
| Condition | Detail |
|---|---|
| Minimum players | 3, one in each elemental zone |
| Maximum players | 15, with better odds as the group grows |
| Most combinations | 1 in 40,000,000 |
| 1 Fire + 1 Ice + 1 Storm | 1 in 45,000,000, the rarest |
Keeping the three zones balanced is what pushes you toward the rarest combination, so spreading a larger group evenly matters more than piling everyone into one corner.
The crystals themselves are a one-time chore. Once the gate is open, Elemental Island turns into a long-term farming spot, and the rest of the expansion’s rewards, including the Hydra Fishing Pet and the Elemental Convergence ability, come from the Elemental Spin rather than the podium puzzle.






