Stardew Valley: Boost Your Enchantments and Weaponry

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 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

Weapon Forging Weapons can be forged 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% 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

For maximizing damage, prioritize Emerald and Ruby. For survivability, choose 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 Weapons using three Galaxy Souls (20 shards each). Galaxy Souls are obtained from:

Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems each).
Big Slimes (Dangerous Mines, Qi quests).
Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars, last day of season).
Drops from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

Enchantments

Enchantment Enchant tools/weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Effects are random; 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 innate enchantments. Guaranteed enchantments: Slime Slayer, Crit Power, Attack, Speed. Possible enchantments: Slime Gatherer, Defense, Weight.

Tool Enchantments

Twelve tool enchantments; effects are random and tool-specific. See the original text for a complete list of enchantments and compatible tools.