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

Cinder Shard Node 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 Sprite (50%), Magma Duggy (40%), Magma Sparker (50%), and False Magma Cap (50%).
Harvesting from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance, yielding 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

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 (stacks).
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: Emerald and Ruby for DPS; Topaz and Amethyst for survivability.

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

Infinity Weapons

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

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

Enchantments

Enchanting Tools Enchant tools/weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Effects are random.

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 (Dragon Tooth): Apply one enchantment from each set:

Set 1: Slime Slayer, Crit Power, Attack, Speed
Set 2: Slime Gatherer, Defense, Weight

Tool Enchantments: Random effects, tool-specific. Examples include:

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: Bottomless (Watering Can), Preserving (Fishing Rod), Shaving (Axe), Reaching/Efficient/Archeologist (Hoe), Swift/Powerful (Pickaxe), Generous/Reaching (Pan). Choose based on play style. Re-enchant as needed.