Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Enchantments & Weapon Forging

This guide details the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley 1.6, explaining how to enhance tools and weapons.

Obtaining Cinder Shards: The Volcano Forge requires Cinder Shards. Obtain them by:

• Mining Cinder Shard nodes (pink-orange specks) in the Volcano Dungeon.
• As drops from Magma Sprite (50%), Magma Duggy (40%), Magma Sparker (50%), and False Magma Cap (50%).
• From a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (2-5 shards, 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

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

Weapon Forging: Enhance weapons with gemstones and Cinder Shards (10, 15, then 20 shards per forge level).

• Amethyst: +1 knockback per forge level.
• Aquamarine: +4.6% critical hit chance per level (cumulative).
• Emerald: +2/+3/+2 speed per level (cumulative).
• Jade: +10% critical hit damage per level (cumulative).
• Ruby: +10% damage per level (cumulative).
• Topaz: +1 defense per level (cumulative).
• Diamond: Three random upgrades (costs 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 recovered, gemstone lost). 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 by:

• Purchasing from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems each).
• Dropping from Big Slimes in the Dangerous Mines or Qi's quests.
• Purchasing from the Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars, last day of season).
• Dropping from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

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

Weapon Enchantments: Randomly selected from: 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.

Tool Enchantments: Twelve enchantments, each tool-specific. Examples include Bottomless (Watering Can), Efficient (various), Preserving (Fishing Rod), and more. See the table in the original text for a complete list.

Best Tool Enchantments: Choose based on play style. Bottomless (Watering Can), Shaving (Axe), Generous or Archeologist (Hoe), Swift or Powerful (Pickaxe), Preserving (Fishing Rod), Generous or Reaching (Pan).