Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Enchantments & Weapon Forging

This guide explores the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley, detailing how to enhance tools and weapons with magical enchantments. The 1.6 update expanded this feature, adding the Mini-Forge and innate weapon enchantments.

Obtaining Cinder Shards: The Volcano Forge requires Cinder Shards. These are obtained by:

• Mining Cinder Shard nodes (pink-orange specks) in the Volcano Dungeon.
• As drops from Magma Sprites (50%), Magma Duggies (40%), Magma Sparkers (50%), and False Magma Caps (50%).
• From a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% chance of 2-5 shards).

Cinder Shards cannot be created in the Crystalarium.

The Mini-Forge: After achieving Combat Mastery, craft a Mini-Forge (5 Dragon Teeth, 10 Iron Bars, 10 Gold Bars, 5 Iridium Bars) for convenient forging anywhere.

Weapon Forging: Gemstones enhance weapons (up to three times). Each forge level requires more Cinder Shards (10, 15, 20) and a gemstone:

• Amethyst: +1 Knockback per 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 Cinder Shards).

Best Weapon Upgrades: Prioritize Emerald and Ruby for high DPS, combining with Aquamarine or Jade for critical hit boosts. For survivability, Topaz and Amethyst are useful.

Unforging Weapons: Place the weapon in the forge's left slot and select the red X to remove all forging (recovering some shards, but not the gemstone).

Infinity Weapons: Upgrade Galaxy Sword, Dagger, or Hammer into Infinity versions using three Galaxy Souls (each requiring 20 Cinder Shards).

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

Enchantments: Apply random effects using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Re-enchant to try for a different effect.

Weapon Enchantments:

• Artful: Halved special move cooldown.
• Bug Killer: Double damage to bugs, kills Armored Bugs.
• Crusader: Double damage to undead, permanently kills mummies.
• Vampiric: Chance to regain health on kill.
• Haymaker: Double fiber/hay chance from weeds.

Innate Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth to add one enchantment from each of two sets to melee weapons.

Tool Enchantments: Various enchantments (Auto-Hook, Archeologist, Bottomless, Efficient, etc.) are randomly applied to tools (axe, pickaxe, watering can, hoe, fishing rod, pan). See the original article for a complete list and recommendations.

This revised guide provides a concise yet comprehensive overview of the Volcano Forge's functionalities, updated for Stardew Valley 1.6. Remember to consult the original article for detailed breakdowns of each enchantment and its effectiveness.