If you keep pulling Broken Arrow or Broken Glass out of the ground instead of something good, this is why.
What Is Broken Arrow / Broken Glass
Broken Arrow / Broken Glass sits in the game's Unremarkable rarity tier — and unlike every other item on this site, it isn't really "an item" you're trying to collect. Community sources describe it as duplicate-protection filler: once you've already found or displayed every unique item available at your current tier, the game substitutes these unremarkable results in place of re-rolling something you already have. It's the game's way of saying "nothing new here" rather than handing you a genuinely new find.
Where to Find Broken Arrow / Broken Glass
Like most Workstation results, Broken Arrow / Broken Glass shows up as a Workstation cleaning result after digging up and cleaning a dirty object — but the trigger condition matters more than the location here. It surfaces specifically when the drop pool has nothing new left to give you, which is why it tends to show up in clusters once your museum and inventory are filling out, rather than being tied to a specific island or dig zone.
Value & What to Do With It
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Rarity | Unremarkable |
| Source | Workstation cleaning result (duplicate-protection filler) |
| Value | Low Cash |
Data confidence note: "Low Cash" is the only value description found in current sources — no specific Coins figure is documented, so we're not estimating one.
There's no strategy play here beyond selling it for its small Cash value — it's not museum material and it's not a Storage Crate candidate. If you're seeing a lot of it, that's a signal you've cleared the current drop pool for your tier: it's a cue to explore a new area or wait for new content, not a sign you're doing anything wrong.
See Also
- FAQ — the full answer to "why do I keep finding Broken Glass?"
- Museum Tracker — see which unique items you're still missing (the actual fix for seeing too much filler).
- Rarity Odds — how the Unremarkable tier compares to the rest of the drop table.