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 materials.

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 them from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance, 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, then 20 shards per forge).

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

Best Weapon Upgrades: For maximizing damage, combine Emerald and Ruby. For survivability, use Topaz and Amethyst.

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

Enchantments:

Enchant tools and melee weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Enchantments are random.

Weapon Enchantments:

• Artful: Halved special move cooldown.
• Bug Killer: Doubles damage to bugs, kills Armored Bugs.
• Crusader: Doubles damage to undead, permanently kills mummies.
• Vampiric: 9% chance to regain health on kill.
• Haymaker: Double fiber/33% hay chance from weeds.

Bug Killer and Crusader are generally the most useful.

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

Tool Enchantments:

Twelve enchantments, tool-specific. See the original text for a complete list and their effects.

Best Tool Enchantments: Choose based on playstyle; Bottomless (Watering Can) and Shaving (Axe) are generally highly valued. See the original text for specific recommendations for each tool.