How to Master Enchantments & Enhance Your 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

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, 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 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 & Ruby for DPS; Topaz & 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).

Infinity Weapons

Upgrade Galaxy Sword, Dagger, or Hammer into Infinity Weapons using three Galaxy Souls (20 shards each).

Galaxy Souls: Obtain from Mr. Qi (40 Qi Gems), Big Slimes (Dangerous Mines, quests), Island Trader (10 Radioactive Bars), or as drops from Dangerous Monsters (after killing 50).

Enchantments

Enchant tools/weapons using a Prismatic Shard and 20 Cinder Shards. Effects are random.

Weapon Enchantments: Artful, Bug Killer, Crusader, Vampiric, Haymaker. Bug Killer and Crusader are generally most useful.

Innate Enchantments: Use a Dragon Tooth for guaranteed enchantments (Slime Slayer, +Crit Power, +Attack, +Speed) and a chance at a second set (Slime Gatherer, +Defense, –Weight).

Tool Enchantments: Twelve enchantments, each specific to certain tools. See the original text for a complete list. Generally, Bottomless (Watering Can), Shaving (Axe), Generous/Archeologist (Hoe), Swift/Powerful (Pickaxe), Preserving (Fishing Rod), and Generous/Reaching (Pan) are considered the most useful.