Stardew Valley: A Complete Guide To Enchantments & Weapon Forging

This guide details how to utilize the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley 1.6, focusing on weapon forging, enchantments, and obtaining Cinder Shards.

Obtaining Cinder Shards:

Cinder Shards are crucial for the Volcano Forge. Acquire them by:

• Mining Cinder Shard nodes (pink-orange specks) in the Volcano Dungeon.
• Defeating enemies: Magma Sprite (50%), Magma Duggy (40%), Magma Sparker (50%), False Magma Cap (50%).
• Using a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% chance of 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:

Enhance weapons (up to three times) using gemstones and Cinder Shards:

• First Forge: 10 Cinder Shards + Gemstone
• Second Forge: 15 Cinder Shards + Gemstone
• Third Forge: 20 Cinder Shards + Gemstone

Gemstone effects:

• 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: 10 Cinder Shards for three random upgrades.

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

Infinity Weapons:

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

Galaxy Souls:

Obtain Galaxy Souls by:

• Purchasing from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems).
• Killing Big Slimes (Dangerous Mines, Mr. Qi's quests).
• (After 50 Dangerous Monster kills) Purchasing from the Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars).
• (After 50 Dangerous Monster kills) Chance drop from Dangerous Monsters.

Enchantments:

Apply random enchantments to tools/weapons 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: Doubles damage to bugs, kills Armored Bugs.
• Crusader: Doubles damage to undead, permanently kills mummies.
• Vampiric: Chance to regain health on kill.
• Haymaker: Double fiber/hay chance from weeds.

Innate Enchantments (Dragon Tooth): Apply one enchantment from each set to melee weapons. Sets include effects like increased damage to slimes, critical power, attack, speed, slime gathering, defense, and weight reduction.

Tool Enchantments: Various enchantments for Axe, Pickaxe, Watering Can, Hoe, Fishing Rod, and Pan, offering effects like auto-hooking, artifact finding, bottomless water, efficiency, and more. See the original text for a complete list and recommendations.