Enhancing Your Valley: Master the Art of Enchanting and Forging in Stardew

This guide details the Volcano Forge in Stardew Valley 1.6, explaining how to enhance tools and weapons.

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 from a fishing pond with 7+ Stingrays (7-9% daily chance, yielding 2-5 shards).

Cinder Shards, unlike gemstones, cannot be replicated in the 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: Enhance 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% critical hit chance per forge.
• Emerald: +2/+3/+2 speed per forge (total +7).
• Jade: +10% critical hit damage per forge.
• Ruby: +10% damage per forge.
• Topaz: +1 defense per forge.
• Diamond: Three random upgrades (10 shards).

Best Upgrades: Emerald & Ruby for damage/speed; Aquamarine or Jade for critical hits; Topaz & Amethyst for survivability.

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

Infinity Weapons: Upgrade Galaxy Sword, Dagger, or Hammer into Infinity versions 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), or as drops from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

Enchantments: Apply random effects to tools/weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. 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), Haymaker (double fiber/hay chance from weeds).

Innate Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth for additional enchantments (Slime Slayer, Crit Power, Attack, Speed, Slime Gatherer, Defense, Weight).

Tool Enchantments: Various effects for Axe, Pickaxe, Watering Can, Hoe, Fishing Rod, and Pan (see guide for details). Choose based on playstyle.

This updated guide covers all aspects of the Volcano Forge, including the new enchantments and additions from Stardew Valley's 1.6 update.