Enchantment Mastery: Forge Divine Weapons in Stardew Valley

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 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 (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

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% 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: For maximum damage, combine Emerald and Ruby. For survivability, use Topaz and Amethyst.

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

Infinity Weapons:

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

Obtaining Galaxy Souls:

• Purchase from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems each).
• Drop from Big Slimes in Dangerous Mines, or Mr. Qi's quests.
• Purchase from the Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars, last day of season).
• Drop from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

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, permanently kills mummies.
• Vampiric: 9% chance to regain health on kill.
• Haymaker: Double fiber/33% hay chance from weeds.

Innate Weapon Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth for additional enchantments (at least one from each set guaranteed):

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

Tool Enchantments: Twelve enchantments, 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.

Best Tool Enchantments: Bottomless (Watering Can) is highly recommended. Other choices depend on play style.

This updated guide covers all aspects of the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley 1.6. Remember that enchantment results are random, so experimentation is key!