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
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%).
- Harvesting them from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance, 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
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.
- 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 and select the red X to remove all forging (some shards recovered, gemstone lost). Enchantments remain.
Infinity Weapons
Upgrade Galaxy Sword, Dagger, or Hammer to 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 50 kills).
Enchantments
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, kills Mummies.
- Vampiric: 9% chance to regain health on kill.
- Haymaker: Double fiber/33% hay chance from weeds.
Innate Enchantments (Dragon Tooth): One from each set is guaranteed.
- Set 1: Slime Slayer, Crit Power, Attack, Speed.
- Set 2: Slime Gatherer, Defense, Weight.
Tool Enchantments: Random effects, tool-specific. See table in original text for details.
Best Tool Enchantments: Axe (Shaving, Swift, Efficient); Watering Can (Bottomless); Hoe (Generous, Archeologist, Reaching, Efficient); Pickaxe (Swift, Powerful); Fishing Rod (Preserving); Pan (Generous, Reaching).
