Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Enchantments & Weapon Forging

This guide details how to utilize the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley 1.6, including forging weapons and enchanting tools. It's located at the end of Ginger Island's Volcano Dungeon.

Obtaining Cinder Shards:

The forge requires Cinder Shards. Obtain them by:

• Mining Cinder Shard nodes (pink-orange specks) in the Volcano Dungeon.
• Receiving them as drops from Magma Sprites, Magma Duggies, Magma Sparkers, and False Magma Caps (with varying drop rates).
• Harvesting them from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance).

Cinder Shards cannot be created in a Crystalarium.

The Mini-Forge:

After achieving Combat Mastery, craft a Mini-Forge:

• 5 Dragon Teeth
• 10 Iron Bars
• 10 Gold Bars
• 5 Iridium Bars

It functions identically to the Volcano Forge.

Weapon Forging:

Forge weapons up to three times using gemstones and Cinder Shards (10, 15, and 20 shards per level, respectively). Gemstone effects:

• Amethyst: +1 knockback per forge level.
• Aquamarine: +4.6% critical hit chance per level.
• Emerald: +2/+3/+2 speed per level (stacks).
• Jade: +10% critical hit damage per level.
• Ruby: +10% damage per level.
• Topaz: +1 defense per level.
• Diamond: Three random upgrades (10 shards).

Best Weapon Upgrades: Emerald and Ruby for damage and speed; Aquamarine or Jade for critical hits; Topaz and Amethyst for survivability.

Unforging Weapons: Place the weapon in the left slot and select the red X to remove all forging (recovers some shards, not gemstones).

Infinity Weapons:

Upgrade Galaxy Sword, Dagger, or Hammer into Infinity Weapons using three Galaxy Souls (20 shards each). Keeps existing upgrades/enchantments.

Galaxy Souls: Obtain from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems), Big Slimes (Dangerous Mines/Quests), Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars), or as drops from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

Enchantments:

Enchant tools/weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Effects are random.

Weapon Enchantments: Artful, Bug Killer, Crusader, Vampiric, Haymaker. Bug Killer and Crusader are generally most useful.

Innate Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth for additional random enchantments (Slime Slayer, Crit Power, Attack, Speed, Slime Gatherer, Defense, Weight).

Tool Enchantments: Twelve enchantments, tool-specific. Examples include Auto-Hook (fishing rod), Bottomless (watering can), Efficient (all tools), etc. See the original text for a complete list and recommendations.

This revised guide provides a clearer and more concise explanation of the Volcano Forge's functionalities. Remember to consult the original text for detailed lists of enchantments and their effects.