Mini-Forge
| Mini-Forge | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Combat Mastery |
The Mini-Forge is a portable copy of the dwarvish Forge that sits at the top of the Volcano Dungeon on Ginger Island. Once crafted, it can be set down at home or anywhere else, and it does everything the original does. That means enchanting tools and weapons, forging gems into weapons, combining rings and building Infinity weapons without the long climb through the volcano. The recipe is a reward for Combat Mastery, so it belongs firmly to the end of the game. For a farmer who forges often, it saves a great deal of travel.
Recipe
Claiming Combat Mastery teaches the recipe. Masteries only open up after every skill has reached level 10. From then on, fresh experience fills a separate mastery bar, and each full bar earns one mastery to claim.
The machine itself is made of Dragon Teeth with Iron, Gold and Iridium Bars. The Dragon Teeth come from the Volcano Dungeon, where they lie near old bones on the cave floors. The three kinds of bar come from smelting ore with Coal in a Furnace, and the Iridium Ore is easiest to find deep in the Skull Cavern.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Dragon Tooth | 
|
5 |
| Iron Bar | 
|
10 |
| Gold Bar | 
|
10 |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
5 |
Use
The Mini-Forge works exactly like the Forge in the volcano. Most of its jobs cost Cinder Shards, which come from shard nodes and monsters inside the Volcano Dungeon.
Forging gems into a melee weapon improves its stats. A weapon can take up to three gems, and each one costs more shards than the last. Each gem has its own effect. A Ruby adds damage, an Emerald adds speed, an Aquamarine raises the critical hit chance and a Jade raises critical hit damage. An Amethyst adds knockback and a Topaz adds defence. A Diamond fills every remaining slot at once with random upgrades.
Enchanting takes a Prismatic Shard and a stack of Cinder Shards. It adds a random enchantment to a weapon or a tool. Tool enchantments include Efficient, which removes the energy cost, Swift, which makes the tool faster, and Powerful, which makes it stronger. A watering can can also roll Bottomless for endless water. A new enchantment can replace an old one at the same price.
The Forge can also merge two rings into one, so the farmer can wear the effects of four rings at once. Feeding three Galaxy Souls into a Galaxy weapon turns it into an Infinity weapon. The Forge can change a weapon's appearance too.
Notes
The Mini-Forge does not remove the need to visit the volcano. Cinder Shards still come mainly from the Volcano Dungeon, so it pays to gather a large stack on each run. Placing the Mini-Forge beside the chest that holds gems, shards and spare weapons keeps every reroll within a few steps.
Rerolling tool enchantments is where the Mini-Forge saves the most time. Hunting for one exact enchantment can take many tries. Doing that at home avoids a trip back up the volcano every time the Prismatic Shards run out.
All Crafting
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
