Enchantments and Weapon-Crafting Mastery: Stardew Valley Guide

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.
• Receiving them as drops from Magma Sprites (50%), Magma Duggies (40%), Magma Sparkers (50%), and False Magma Caps (50%).
• Producing them in a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance, 2-5 shards).

Cinder Shards cannot be replicated 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

It 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% critical hit chance per forge.
• Emerald: +2/+3/+2 speed per forge (stacks).
• Jade: +10% critical hit damage per forge.
• Ruby: +10% damage per forge.
• Topaz: +1 defense per forge.
• Diamond: Three random upgrades (10 shards).

Best Weapon Upgrades: Prioritize Emerald and Ruby for damage and speed. For survivability, use Topaz and Amethyst.

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

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

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

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

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 on kill.
• 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 effects; re-enchant as needed. Examples:

• Auto-Hook (Fishing Rod): Instant hook.
• Bottomless (Watering Can): Endless water.
• Efficient (Various): No energy drain.
• Preserving (Fishing Rod): 50% chance to save bait/tackle.
• Reaching (Various): 5x5 area of effect.
• Swift (Various): 33% faster.
• Shaving (Axe): Increased wood/hardwood/crop drops.

Best Tool Enchantments: Choose based on play style. Bottomless for Watering Can is highly recommended. Shaving for Axe and Preserving for Fishing Rod are also strong contenders.