Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Enchantments & Weapon Forging

This guide details how to use Stardew Valley's Volcano Forge to enhance tools and weapons. The forge, located at the end of Ginger Island's Volcano Dungeon, allows for forging and enchanting.

Obtaining Cinder Shards:

Cinder Shards are crucial for all forge functions. Acquire them by:

• Mining Cinder Shard nodes (pink-orange specks) in the Volcano Dungeon.
• Obtaining them as drops from Magma Sprites, Magma Duggies, Magma Sparkers, and False Magma Caps (with varying drop rates).
• Harvesting from a fishing pond containing 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

This functions identically to the Volcano Dungeon forge.

Weapon Forging:

Gemstones enhance weapon stats (up to three times per weapon). Costs increase with each forge: 10, 15, then 20 Cinder Shards.

• 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).

Unforging: Place the weapon in the left slot and select the red X to remove all forging (some Cinder Shards are recovered, but not the gemstone).

Infinity Weapons:

Upgrade Galaxy Sword, Dagger, or Hammer into Infinity Weapons using three Galaxy Souls (20 Cinder Shards each). Forged upgrades and enchantments are retained.

Galaxy Souls:

Obtain Galaxy Souls via:

• Purchase from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems each).
• Drops from Big Slimes (Dangerous Mines, Mr. Qi quests).
• Purchase from the Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars, last day of season).
• Drops from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

Enchantments:

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

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: 9% chance to regain health upon killing a monster.
• Haymaker: Double fiber/33% hay chance from weeds.

Innate Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth for additional enchantments (one from each set guaranteed):

• Set 1: Slime Slayer, Crit Power, Attack, Speed
• Set 2: Slime Gatherer, Defense, Weight

Tool Enchantments: (Random, tool-specific)

See the original text for the complete list of tool enchantments and their effects.

Best Enchantments: The "best" enchantment depends on playstyle. The original text provides recommendations for each tool.