Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Enchantments & Weapon Forging

This guide details how to use the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley 1.6, including forging weapons, enchanting tools, and obtaining necessary resources.

Obtaining Cinder Shards

The Volcano 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 (50%), Magma Duggies (40%), Magma Sparkers (50%), and False Magma Caps (50%).
• Harvesting from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance, yielding 2-5 shards).

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

The Mini-Forge functions identically to the Volcano Dungeon forge.

Weapon Forging

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

• Amethyst: +1 knockback per forge level.
• Aquamarine: +4.6% critical hit chance per level.
• Emerald: +2/+3/+2 speed per level (total +7).
• 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 DPS; Topaz and Amethyst for survivability.

Unforging Weapons: Place the weapon in the left slot and select the red X to remove all forging (some shards are returned, but not the gemstone). Enchantments remain.

Infinity Weapons

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

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

Enchantments

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

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

Innate Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth to add one enchantment from each of two sets. One set is guaranteed; the second is random.

Tool Enchantments: Twelve enchantments, each tool-specific. (See table in original text for details).

Best Tool Enchantments: Axe (Shaving, Swift, Efficient); Watering Can (Bottomless); Hoe (Generous, Archeologist, Reaching, Efficient); Pickaxe (Swift, Powerful); Fishing Rod (Preserving, Master); Pan (Generous, Reaching).