Enchantments Enhance Stardew Valley Gameplay

This guide explores the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley, detailing how to obtain Cinder Shards, forge weapons, and enchant tools and weapons. The 1.6 update added significant changes, including the Mini-Forge and innate weapon enchantments.

Obtaining Cinder Shards:

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

• Mining Cinder Shard nodes (pink-orange specks) in the Volcano Dungeon.
• Obtaining them as drops from Magma Sprites, Magma Duggies, Magma Sparkers, and False Magma Caps (with varying drop rates).
• Harvesting from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (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

This 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). Gemstone effects:

• 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: 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 (recovering some shards, but not the gemstone). Enchantments remain.

Infinity Weapons:

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

Galaxy Souls:

Obtain Galaxy Souls by:

• Purchasing from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems each).
• Dropping from Big Slimes in 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:

Enchant tools/weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Effects 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 guaranteed, one possible).

Tool Enchantments: Twelve enchantments, each tool-specific. Examples include Bottomless (Watering Can), Efficient (various), Preserving (Fishing Rod), and more.

Best Tool Enchantments: Generally depend on playstyle, but Bottomless (Watering Can), Shaving (Axe), and Preserving (Fishing Rod) are strong contenders. Consider the tool's function and your needs.