{ "schemaVersion": 20, "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }, "count": 15, "crafting": [ { "id": "affix-reroll", "name": "Affix Reroll", "status": "unverified", "operation": "modify", "outcomes": [ "random" ], "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station", "modification-budget" ], "definition": "Spending a consumable item, a fee, or materials on an item already held to replace one or all of its random properties with new ones drawn at random from the pool the item can carry", "aliases": [ "stat reroll", "modifier reroll" ], "media": [ "video" ], "mechanics": [ "commodity-currency", "item-modification", "loot-tables", "rerolls" ], "examples": [ { "title": "Diablo II", "year": 2000, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard North", "requirements": [ "materials", "station" ], "note": "Three perfect gems of any type and one magic item, transmuted in the Horadric Cube, give a new random magic item of the same type. Blizzard's guide offers the formula as a way to get specific statistics on a magic item.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Diablo III", "year": 2012, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station" ], "note": "The Mystic, added with the Reaper of Souls expansion, rerolls one chosen property of a rare or legendary item for gold and crafting materials. The old property is offered beside the new ones, and once one property is enchanted the others are locked and the item is bound to the account.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Path of Exile", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Grinding Gear Games", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "The Orb of Alteration reforges a magic item, and the Chaos Orb a rare item, with new random properties, replacing all of them at once. The Divine Orb keeps the properties and rerolls only their numeric values. Orbs are applied from the inventory, with no station or fee.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Tiny Tina's Wonderlands", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Gearbox Software", "requirements": [ "currency", "station" ], "note": "After the main story an enchanting table in Brighthoof rolls a new enchantment on a piece of gear for Moon Orbs, and the player keeps either the new enchantment or the old. The price rises with each reroll of the same item, by rarity after an update, up to a cap of 4,000 Moon Orbs.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Diablo IV", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station" ], "note": "The Occultist's Enchant Item rerolls one chosen property of an item for gold and materials, a Veiled Crystal for rare items and Fiend Roses as well for legendaries. The same property can be rerolled any number of times at a rising gold cost, a No Change option keeps the old property, and enchanting binds the item to the account.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Last Epoch", "year": 2024, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Eleventh Hour Games", "requirements": [ "currency", "materials", "modification-budget" ], "note": "A Glyph of Chaos applied while upgrading an affix with its shard changes that affix to a random other affix one tier higher. Every craft spends a random amount of the item's forging potential, and an item with none left can no longer be crafted.", "latest": true } ], "provenance": { "title": "Diablo II", "year": 2000, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "The earliest documented use cited is the Horadric Cube formula on Blizzard's Diablo II strategy-guide page of August 2000, in which three perfect gems and a magic item give a new random magic item of the same type. That is the whole-item form of the definition, not an excluded variation: in the game's data, as kept in Diablo II: Resurrected, the formula builds the result on the input's base type at the input's item level and draws its magic properties anew, so only the rolled properties change, even though the data makes a new item of that type where recipes that alter the input itself, such as adding a socket, keep it. No earlier reroll is cited in role-playing games before 2000, and the Korean and Japanese online games of 1998 to 2000 remain unsurveyed, so confidence is low. Path of Exile (2013) made in-place rerolling with consumable orbs the centre of its itemisation, and Diablo III's Mystic (announced October 2013) popularised the single-property form." }, "established": null, "sources": [ { "key": "diablo-ii-strategy-guide-items-the-horadric-cube-2000", "canonical": false, "title": "Diablo II Strategy Guide - Items: The Horadric Cube", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2000, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20000816004630/http://www.battle.net:80/diablo2/items/cube.shtml", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Transmuting Formulas", "note": "The formula of three perfect gems and a magic item for a new random magic item of the same type, offered to get specific statistics on a magic item." }, { "key": "d2data-cubemain-json", "canonical": false, "title": "d2data: cubemain.json", "author": "blizzhackers", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/blizzhackers/d2data/master/json/cubemain.json", "accessed": "2026-10-27", "locator": "3 Perfect Gems (Any) + 1 Magic Item -> Re-rolled Magic Item", "note": "Diablo II's Horadric Cube recipe table, converted from the text files of Diablo II, Resurrected; the three-perfect-gem formula takes any magic item and outputs a magic item of the input's type (usetype) at the input's item level, while recipes that alter the input, such as adding a socket, output the input itself (useitem)." }, { "key": "item-data-currency-2013", "canonical": false, "title": "Item Data: Currency", "author": "Grinding Gear Games", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20131108075608/http://www.pathofexile.com:80/item-data/currency", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Chaos Orb, Divine Orb, Orb of Alteration", "note": "The Chaos Orb and Orb of Alteration reforging rare and magic items with new random properties, and the Divine Orb randomising the numeric values of an item's random properties." }, { "key": "reaper-of-souls-first-look-the-mystic-2013", "canonical": false, "title": "Reaper of Souls First Look: The Mystic", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20161212114441/http://us.battle.net:80/d3/en/blog/11337855", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Enchanting; How Enchanting Works; Further Enchanting Details", "note": "Rerolling one property of a rare or legendary item for gold and crafting materials, the previous property kept among the options, the other properties locked, and the item bound to the account." }, { "key": "how-to-re-roll-item-passives-in-diablo-iv-2023", "canonical": false, "title": "How to Re-Roll Item Passives in Diablo IV", "author": "Kazuma Hashimoto (Siliconera)", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.siliconera.com/how-to-re-roll-item-passives-in-diablo-iv/", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Enchanting at the Occultist, one property per item, unlimited rerolls at rising gold cost, Veiled Crystals and Fiend Roses, and account binding." }, { "key": "diablo-iv-patch-notes-2-0-2024", "canonical": false, "title": "Diablo IV Patch Notes (2.0)", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2024, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24140808/diablo-iv-patch-notes-2-0", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "2.0.5 (Build #59712, November 19, 2024)", "note": "No Change made the default option when enchanting an item, which keeps the old property." }, { "key": "what-are-enchantments-and-how-they-work-tiny-tina-s-wonderlands-2022", "canonical": false, "title": "What are Enchantments and How They Work (Tiny Tina's Wonderlands)", "author": "Shane Williams and Jarrod Garripoli (Gamer Guides)", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.gamerguides.com/tiny-tinas-wonderlands/guide/gameplay/basics/what-are-enchantments-and-how-they-work", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "The enchanting table in Brighthoof after the main story, keeping the new or the old enchantment, and a Moon Orb price that rises with each reroll, set by rarity after an update and capped at 4,000." }, { "key": "crafting-changes-coming-to-eternal-legends-update-0-8-4-2021", "canonical": false, "title": "Crafting Changes coming to Eternal Legends Update (0.8.4)", "author": "Trasochi (Eleventh Hour Games)", "year": 2021, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": "Last Epoch forums (Eleventh Hour Games)", "url": "https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/crafting-changes-coming-to-eternal-legends-update-0-8-4/45597", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Forging potential replacing fracture chance, a random cost per craft, no crafting once it runs out, and the Glyph of Chaos rerolling an affix when it is upgraded." }, { "key": "last-epoch-crafting-explained-2023", "canonical": false, "title": "Last Epoch crafting explained", "author": "Alan Gadbois (Gfinity)", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.gfinityesports.com/guides/last-epoch-crafting-explained", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "The Glyph of Chaos randomly changing an affix and upgrading its tier one stage, and an item that cannot be crafted on once its forging potential reaches zero." }, { "key": "last-epoch-1-0-patch-notes-2024", "canonical": false, "title": "Last Epoch 1.0 Patch Notes", "author": "Eleventh Hour Games", "year": 2024, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": "Last Epoch forums (Eleventh Hour Games)", "url": "https://forum.lastepoch.com/t/last-epoch-1-0-patch-notes/62536", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "The release of 21 February 2024, and a 1.0 skill-node fix naming the Glyph of Chaos as a crafting item." }, { "key": "chaos-orb", "canonical": false, "title": "Chaos Orb", "author": "Path of Exile 2 Wiki", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "The Path of Exile 2 Chaos Orb removing one random modifier from a rare item and adding one random modifier; 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A copy job in a laboratory slot makes copies licensed for a set number of production runs, the player choosing how many copies and how many runs; copies carry the original's efficiency levels, cannot be researched, and are sold to other pilots.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Star Wars Galaxies", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts", "requirements": [ "recipe", "materials", "station" ], "note": "A crafter assembling an item at a crafting station can make a manufacturing schematic instead of a prototype, choosing the number of items it will make; a factory then turns out that many, in crates sharing one serial number, from the listed ingredients multiplied by the quantity.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Dual Universe", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Novaquark", "requirements": [ "recipe" ], "note": "A designer's Core Blueprint of a ship or building made any number of Blueprint Copies, item types named in release notes of January 2023. By the official wiki each copy was single use, building one construct, and could be sold while the Core Blueprint stayed with its owner; copies were DRM-protected by default.", "latest": true } ], "provenance": { "title": "EVE Online", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "The earliest documented use cited is EVE Online (2003). A CCP article dated June 2003 on the developer's site finds the difference between blueprint originals and copies \"too little\" and proposes letting the maker of a copy declare how many items it can produce. CCP's patch notes of August 2003 then let the maker of a copy set a cap on the items it can make, so that copies \"will have a limited use\", leaving copies already in the game unlimited; a guide of 2006 still lists \"a few very, very old BPCs\" with infinite runs. Star Wars Galaxies, launched in June 2003, seven weeks before that patch, is the other candidate: its launch manual and 2003 strategy guide describe manufacturing schematics fed to factories for mass production, but the chosen quantity is documented only from 2005. If it was present at launch it would come first, hence low confidence. EVE's unlimited launch-era copies are an antecedent." }, "established": { "title": "EVE Online", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "EVE Online. Its terms, blueprint original, blueprint copy and licensed production runs, name the operation, and press of 2009 describes public copy slots \"packed for months\" and copies traded for sale. No source cited ties Dual Universe's copies to EVE, so confidence is low." }, "sources": [ { "key": "blueprint-copies-2003", "canonical": false, "title": "Blueprint copies", "author": "CCP Hellmar (CCP Games)", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.eveonline.com/article/blueprint-copies", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": null, "note": "The difference between originals and copies called too little, the proposal that the maker of a copy declares how many items it can produce, and the example of controlled subcontracting." }, { "key": "new-features-config-changes-and-bug-fixes-2003", "canonical": false, "title": "New Features, Config Changes and Bug Fixes", "author": "CCP CAPSLOCK (CCP Games)", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/new-features-config-changes-and-bug-fixes-8", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": "Other Changes", "note": "Patch notes of August 2003 letting the maker of a blueprint copy set a cap on the items it can make, so that copies have a limited use, without affecting copies already in the game." }, { "key": "eve-evolved-research-tech-1-blueprints-2009", "canonical": false, "title": "EVE Evolved: Research: Tech 1 blueprints", "author": "Brendan Drain (Engadget)", "year": 2009, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2009-12-13-eve-evolved-research-tech-1-blueprints.html", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": null, "note": "Originals producing without limit, copies licensed for a limited number of production runs with the original's ME and PE levels, copies that cannot be researched, packed public copy slots, and copies for sale." }, { "key": "eve-guide-science-and-industry-guide", "canonical": false, "title": "EVE Guide Science and Industry Guide", "author": "GC13 (ZAM)", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "Licensed production runs, originals that never run out, infinite runs shown on originals and a few very old copies, and the choice of how many copies and how many runs when copying; revision of 2006." }, { "key": "e-on-the-official-eve-online-magazine-issue-4-2006", "canonical": false, "title": "E-ON: The Official EVE Online Magazine, issue 4", "author": "MMM Publications", "year": 2006, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/download/e-on-the-official-eve-online-magazine-issue-004/E-ON%20-%20The%20Official%20EVE%20Online%20Magazine%20-%20Issue%20004_djvu.txt", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": "Kali preview; careers feature, from p. 42", "note": "Tech I blueprint copies evolved into Tech II copies with the necessary materials, tools and knowledge, and invention as an attempt to turn a Tech I copy into a Tech II one." }, { "key": "star-wars-galaxies-an-empire-divided-adventures-manual-2003", "canonical": false, "title": "Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided, Adventures Manual", "author": "Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "type": "rulebook", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/download/star-wars-galaxies-an-empire-divided-adventures-manual-standard-edition/Star%20Wars%20Galaxies%20-%20An%20Empire%20Divided%20Adventures%20Manual%20Standard%20Edition_djvu.txt", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": "Crafting and the Bazaar: Prototypes and Manufacturing Schematics", "note": "A manufacturing schematic made at a crafting station instead of a prototype, used with specific structures to mass-produce the item." }, { "key": "star-wars-galaxies-the-total-experience-prima-official-game-guide-2005", "canonical": false, "title": "Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience, Prima Official Game Guide", "author": "Prima Games", "year": 2005, "year_approx": false, "type": "book", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/download/star-wars-galaxies-total-experience-prima-official-guide/star%20Wars%20galaxies%20total%20experience%20prima%20official%20guide_djvu.txt", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": "Crafting 401: Factories, p. 161", "note": "Choosing a schematic rather than a prototype and then the number of items to make, the factory's ingredients multiplied by that number, and crates of identical items sharing one serial number." }, { "key": "dual-universe-to-add-ip-protection-for-constructs-and-blueprints-2020", "canonical": false, "title": "Dual Universe to add IP protection for constructs and blueprints", "author": "Marc Marasigan (MMOs.com)", "year": 2020, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://mmos.com/news/dual-universe-to-add-ip-protection-for-constructs-and-blueprints-shows-off-player-made-voxel-structures", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": null, "note": "The planned master blueprint, or Core Blueprint, of a construct, and DRM-protected copies that create a limited number of constructs, with removable protection." }, { "key": "dual-universe-release-1-2-7-2023", "canonical": false, "title": "Dual Universe - Release 1.2.7", "author": "NQ-Deckard (Novaquark)", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://api.steampowered.com/ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp/v2/?appid=2000270&count=500&maxlength=0", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": "Release 1.2.7, 24 January 2023, Hints", "note": "Blueprint hints updated to cover Core Blueprints and Blueprint Copies; read through the Steam news feed for the game." }, { "key": "blueprints", "canonical": false, "title": "Blueprints", "author": "Official Dual Universe Wiki", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "The Core Blueprint making any number of copies, DRM protection by default, and the Blueprint Copy as a single-use item, made only from a Core Blueprint, that produces one construct and can be sold." } ], "n_examples": 3, "n_sources": 10, "word_count": 504, "updated": "2026-10-28", "url": "/crafting/blueprint-copying" }, { "id": "card-crafting", "name": "Card Crafting", "status": "unverified", "operation": "create", "outcomes": [ "fixed" ], "requirements": [ "currency" ], "definition": "In a digital collectible card game, turning unwanted or surplus cards into a crafting currency and spending that currency, at a price set by rarity, to create a chosen card for the collection", "aliases": [ "Dusting", "Soul Summoning" ], "media": [ "video" ], "mechanics": [ "loot-boxes", "resource-conversion" ], "examples": [ { "title": "Hearthstone", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "Expert cards, which come from packs, are disenchanted into Arcane Dust by rarity, and dust crafts a chosen card, golden versions included; in the 2013 beta a common gave 5 dust and cost 40, a legendary gave 400 and cost 1,600.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Shadowverse", "year": 2016, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Cygames", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "Cards are liquefied into vials, one at a time or all extra copies at once, and the yield is set per card, as when a 2017 update returned Shadow Reaper to 250 vials, or 600 for an animated copy; special legendary cards can be neither created nor liquefied.", "latest": false }, { "title": "The Elder Scrolls: Legends", "year": 2017, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Dire Wolf Digital", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "Cards are soul trapped for soul gems, and soul gems craft new cards; a premium, animated card traps for as much as a regular card of its rarity costs to make.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Gwent: The Witcher Card Game", "year": 2018, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "CD Projekt Red", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "Milling a card returns scraps, and scraps craft a chosen normal card; from January 2019 premium cards are crafted only with meteorite powder, and a card reworked by the developers can be milled for its full value during a refund period.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Magic: The Gathering Arena", "year": 2019, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Wizards of the Coast", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "A fifth copy of a common or uncommon adds to Vault progress, and the opened Vault gives wildcards of set rarities, which are redeemed for the specific cards a player wants; the developers left out a dusting system for excess cards, saying it would have limited how generous card rewards could be.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Legends of Runeterra", "year": 2020, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Riot Games", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "A wildcard makes one copy of a card of its own rarity, and shards, earned through play, craft any card, from 100 for a common to 3,000 for a champion in early 2020; a fourth copy of a common or rare is converted into shards, and no card can be disenchanted by choice.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond", "year": 2025, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Cygames", "requirements": [ "currency" ], "note": "Vials come from missions or from liquefying extra cards, and are spent to create cards of the player's choosing.", "latest": true } ], "provenance": { "title": "Hearthstone", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "Provenance is scoped to the form with a currency kept for making cards. Blizzard set out disenchanting into Arcane Dust and crafting chosen cards in a post of 20 June 2013, during the game's beta, with dust values by rarity; the game was released in 2014. It is the earliest instance cited, and the form is often credited to it, but digital card games of 2010 to 2013 remain only partly surveyed. An antecedent is the browser game Elements, whose players by 2009 sold unwanted cards and bought chosen ones, rares excepted, at its bazaar with the coins also won in play: a shop sale in the general currency rather than a crafting currency. No physical precedent in which a shop or publisher exchanges duplicate cards for a chosen card is cited; in physical collectible card games collectors meet the same need by trading, which the developers of Magic: The Gathering Arena named as what their wildcards replace." }, "established": { "title": "Hearthstone", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "Hearthstone, the provenance game, is the reference against which later systems are described: a 2019 preview of Legends of Runeterra says its shards \"work like arcane dust from Hearthstone\" and notes that, unlike Hearthstone's, its cards cannot be disenchanted, and in 2018 the developers of Magic: The Gathering Arena called the dusting system they declined \"traditional\". No developer of a later game is cited saying the form was taken from Hearthstone." }, "sources": [ { "key": "deck-creation-card-battles-gameplay-shadowverse-worlds-beyond-2025", "canonical": false, "title": "Deck Creation, Card Battles, Gameplay: Shadowverse: Worlds Beyond", "author": "Cygames", "year": 2025, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://shadowverse-wb.com/en/system/cardbattle/deck/", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Use Vials to Craft Cards", "note": "Vials obtained from missions or by liquefying extra cards and used to create chosen cards." }, { "key": "hearthstone-crafting-in-dust-we-trust-2013", "canonical": false, "title": "Hearthstone Crafting: In Dust We Trust", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://hearthstone.blizzard.com/en-us/news/10245930", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "Disenchanting Expert cards into Arcane Dust by rarity, crafting chosen cards and golden versions with dust, the dust values for each rarity, and values subject to change during the beta; 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null, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://mikesrpgcenter.com/ultima7a/walkthrough.html", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "Antecedent; the sword blank heated on the fire pit with the bellows, hammered on the anvil and cooled in the trough, repeated \"until you've done the best you can\"." }, { "key": "puzzle-pirates-arrrr-2004", "canonical": false, "title": "Puzzle Pirates: ARRRR!", "author": "Steve Jackson", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": "Steve Jackson Games (Daily Illuminator)", "url": "https://sjgames.com/ill/archive/June_21_2004", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Player-owned shops that turn raw materials into goods, and a job worked with the Distilling puzzle, in June 2004." }, { "key": "labor", "canonical": false, "title": "Labor", "author": "YPPedia", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": 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snapshot of June 2013." }, { "key": "dyes-in-the-new-account-wardrobe-2014", "canonical": false, "title": "Dyes in the New Account Wardrobe", "author": "The Guild Wars 2 Team (ArenaNet)", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://guildwars2.com/en/news/dyes-in-the-new-account-wardrobe", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "Dye unlocks moving from per character to per account in April 2014, with unlimited access to an unlocked colour for all characters, and the Dye tab of the Hero Panel." }, { "key": "general-creating-eso-identity-and-update-3", "canonical": false, "title": "General:Creating ESO: Identity and Update 3", "author": "UESP", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "Copy of the developers' article of 22 July 2014 on dye stations, achievement unlocks, about 40 new achievements, up to three colours per armour piece, and free dyeing." }, { "key": "destiny-2-forsaken-l-st-endlich-das-nervige-einweg-shader-problem-2018", "canonical": false, "title": "Destiny 2: Forsaken löst endlich das nervige Einweg-Shader-Problem", "author": "Sven Galitzki (MeinMMO)", "year": 2018, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://mein-mmo.de/en/destiny-2-collections-shader,244025/", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "German-language article; shaders as consumables used up when applied to armour or a weapon, and the collections planned for Forsaken from which found shaders could be drawn again." }, { "key": "baldur-s-gate-3-how-to-dye-clothes-and-armor-2023", "canonical": false, "title": "Baldur's Gate 3: how to dye clothes and armor", "author": "Alex Wawro (Tom's Guide)", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/baldurs-gate-3-how-to-dye-clothes-and-armor", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "Dyes found in play or bought from vendors, the Combine menu opened from the dye, clothing, armour and shields as targets, no tool or NPC needed, and no preview." }, { "key": "how-to-dye-clothes-baldur-s-gate-3-2023", "canonical": false, "title": "How to dye clothes - Baldur's Gate 3", "author": "Sam Chandler (Shacknews)", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://shacknews.com/article/136608/dye-clothes-baldurs-gate-3", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "The dye consumable combined with an item, and a dye used up even when it leaves the colour unchanged." } ], "n_examples": 6, "n_sources": 11, "word_count": 537, "updated": "2026-10-26", "url": "/crafting/dyeing" }, { "id": "imbuing", "name": "Imbuing", "status": "verified", "operation": "modify", "outcomes": [ "fixed" ], "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station", "recipe", "skill-rank", "reputation", "modification-budget", "time" ], "definition": "Adding a stated property to an item already held by spending a consumable source on it, such as a filled soul gem, a formula's reagents, an enchanted book, or a bought augment, with the same result each time", "aliases": [ "Imbuement", "Augmenting" ], "media": [ "tabletop-rpg", "video" ], "mechanics": [ "equipment-loadouts", "item-modification", "reputation-factions", "resource-gathering" ], "examples": [ { "title": "Dungeons & Dragons", "year": 1974, "year_approx": false, "medium": "tabletop-rpg", "creator": "Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson (TSR)", "requirements": [ "currency", "skill-rank", "time" ], "note": "Magic-users of Wizard level may manufacture magic items, with costs and game time \"commensurate with the value of the item\"; the cost examples include enchanting armour to +1 for 2,000 gold pieces and two months, a fixed result set by the price list.", "latest": false }, { "title": "The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall", "year": 1996, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Bethesda Softworks", "requirements": [ "currency", "reputation", "station" ], "note": "The ItemMaker, open only to guild members above the lowest rank, enchants an item from the inventory with chosen spells for a total cost in gold. Added side effects or bound spirits raise the item's enchantment potential, and the manual warns of few safety mechanisms.", "latest": false }, { "title": "The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind", "year": 2002, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Bethesda Game Studios", "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "skill-rank" ], "note": "A filled soul gem, a known spell effect and an unenchanted item are combined into an enchanted item. An NPC enchanter always succeeds for a gold price; the player's own attempt succeeds by Enchant skill, Intelligence and Luck, and a failure destroys the soul gem.", "latest": false }, { "title": "World of Warcraft", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "recipe", "materials", "skill-rank" ], "note": "The Enchanting profession uses formulas learned from trainers, vendors or loot and spends dusts, essences and shards, mostly got by disenchanting gear, to augment armour and weapons permanently; an enchantment can also be put on a vellum to sell.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Minecraft", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Mojang (Markus Persson)", "requirements": [ "station", "currency" ], "note": "Enchanted books, added in version 1.4.6 (2012), are placed with an item in an anvil and applied for experience levels, enchanting the item and consuming the book. The books come from the enchanting table, librarian villagers or fishing.", "latest": false }, { "title": "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Bethesda Game Studios", "requirements": [ "materials", "station", "recipe" ], "note": "At an arcane enchanter a learned enchantment and a filled soul gem are applied to an unenchanted item. Enchantments are learned by disenchanting items, which destroys them, and the soul's size and the Enchanting skill scale the magnitude.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Grim Dawn", "year": 2016, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Crate Entertainment", "requirements": [ "currency", "reputation" ], "note": "Augments, described by the developer as powders, enchantments, tinctures and poisons, are bought from faction vendors once a faction grants access. An item holds one augment at a time, and applying a new one overwrites the old after a confirmation.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Elden Ring", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "FromSoftware (Bandai Namco)", "requirements": [ "station", "recipe" ], "note": "At a Site of Grace an Ash of War is put on a weapon, replacing its skill, and an affinity is chosen from those the held whetblades allow, changing damage and scaling. The ash is not consumed and can be moved to another weapon; weapons upgraded with somber smithing stones take none.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Hogwarts Legacy", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Avalanche Software (Warner Bros. Games)", "requirements": [ "recipe", "materials", "station" ], "note": "At the Enchanted Loom in the Room of Requirement a trait found in the story or in bandit-camp chests is added to the one trait slot of a gear piece for materials from magical beasts. Tier I to III traits match the gear's rarity, and a trait can be swapped for further materials.", "latest": true }, { "title": "Last Epoch", "year": 2024, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Eleventh Hour Games", "requirements": [ "materials", "station", "modification-budget" ], "note": "At the forge an affix shard adds the chosen affix to an empty prefix or suffix slot at tier one, spending a random amount of the item's forging potential; an item at zero potential can no longer be crafted on.", "latest": false } ], "provenance": { "title": "Dungeons & Dragons", "year": 1974, "year_approx": false, "medium": "tabletop-rpg", "confidence": "medium", "note": "The earliest documented use is the Men & Magic cost list (1974), under which Wizard-level magic-users enchant items for gold and game time, including 20 arrows and armour to +1 for 2,000 gold pieces and two months. Chainmail's fantasy supplement (second edition, 1972) gives enchanted arrows, magic swords and magic armour point values but no rule for making them. Unpublished campaign play before 1974 remains unsurveyed, and the property is a numeric bonus that shades into tiered upgrades. 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success by Enchant skill when done oneself, and paid enchanting services that never fail." }, { "key": "grim-misadventure-60-faction-rewards-2014", "canonical": false, "title": "Grim Misadventure #60: Faction Rewards", "author": "Zantai (Crate Entertainment)", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://forums.crateentertainment.com/t/grim-misadventure-60-faction-rewards/28766", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Augments as powders, enchantments, tinctures and poisons bought from faction vendors; one augment per item, a new one overwriting the old with a confirmation." }, { "key": "elden-ring-ashes-of-war-explained-2022", "canonical": false, "title": "Elden Ring: Ashes Of War Explained", "author": "Charles Burgar (TheGamer)", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.thegamer.com/elden-ring-ashes-of-war-infusions-guide", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Ashes of War changed at a Site of Grace, the choice of infusion on applying one, whetblades unlocking infusions, free switching, and duplication with a Lost Ash of War." }, { "key": "ash-of-war", "canonical": false, "title": "Ash of War", "author": "Elden Ring Wiki (wiki.gg)", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "Ashes not consumed when applied and transferable between weapons; 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written for the 0.9 beta." }, { "key": "last-epoch-beginner-crafting-guide-2026", "canonical": false, "title": "Last Epoch Beginner Crafting Guide", "author": "McFluffin (Maxroll)", "year": 2026, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://maxroll.gg/last-epoch/resources/beginner-crafting-guide", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "In the current game, an affix added to an open slot for a matching shard, a forging-potential cost rolled within a range, and no further crafting at zero." }, { "key": "morrowind-enchant", "canonical": false, "title": "Morrowind:Enchant", "author": "The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "The soul gem, item and known spell effect needed; NPC enchanters' certain success for gold; the player's skill-based chance and the loss of the soul gem on failure." }, { "key": "skyrim-enchanting", "canonical": false, "title": "Skyrim:Enchanting", "author": "The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "The arcane enchanter, learned enchantment and filled soul gem; 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Three gems of one type and grade below Perfect make one gem of the next grade, and three rings make a random amulet; patch 1.10, reportedly of 2003, added three low runes for the next rune, with a gem added for higher runes.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Triple Town", "year": 2010, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Spry Fox", "requirements": [ "sacrificed-item" ], "note": "When three pieces of the same type are placed side by side on the board they disappear and leave one more valuable piece, so three grasses make a bush, three bushes a tree, and three trees a house.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Diablo III", "year": 2012, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "sacrificed-item", "station" ], "note": "The Jeweler artisan, Covetous Shen, combines lower-quality gems into superior ones; training him with gold and materials unlocks further recipes.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Dota 2", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Valve", "requirements": [ "sacrificed-item", "recipe" ], "note": "Items bought from the shop combine automatically into a larger item once all its components are held. 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A pair merged into one item that supersedes it is the mechanic as defined, which asks for two or more finished items and names the grade ladder only as its usual form: the pair is the Pair combination variation, not an excluded one. The game reportedly reached Japan in February 2000, and a GamesFirst review of 22 May 2000 gives its North American release as that month, before Blizzard announced on 28 June 2000 that Diablo II had started shipping; its Horadric Cube guide of August 2000 merges three gems of one grade into one of the next. Earlier video games remain plausible and are only partly surveyed, and no tabletop or board form is cited, so confidence is low. 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The repair icon in a workbench's menu restores items without spending any resources, one item per click, and is greyed out when nothing needs repair. Playable in early access from 2021.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Palworld", "year": 2026, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Pocketpair", "requirements": [ "materials", "station" ], "note": "A Repair Bench, unlocked with a Technology point and built from wood and stone, lists the materials needed to fix a damaged weapon, armour or tool. A repair costs fewer materials than crafting the item, a Cloth Outfit taking 1 Cloth against 2, and is quicker. Playable in early access from 2024.", "latest": true } ], "provenance": { "title": "Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss", "year": 1992, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss (1992) is the earliest instance cited. 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Diablo (1996), in its manual, and Ultima Online (1997), in a 1999 snapshot of its official guide, are the next dated forms cited." }, "established": null, "sources": [ { "key": "ultima-underworld-the-stygian-abyss-player-s-guide-1992", "canonical": false, "title": "Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss Player's Guide", "author": "ORIGIN Systems", "year": 1992, "year_approx": false, "type": "rulebook", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/ultima-underworld-the-stygian-abyss-players-guide", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Armor, p. 23; Repairing Items, p. 25; Skills, Repair, p. 30", "note": "Armour degrading and eventually destroyed, repair by characters in conversation, repair at an anvil set by the Repair skill with the risk of ruining the item, and the time and noise of repairs." }, { "key": "might-and-magic-iii-isles-of-terra-cluebook-1991", "canonical": false, "title": "Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra Cluebook", "author": "New World Computing", "year": 1991, "year_approx": false, "type": "book", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/Might_and_Magic_III_Isles_of_Terra_Cluebook", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Items, opening narration", "note": "Blacksmiths' shops that forged weapons and repaired the broken implements of warriors, the antecedent named in the provenance note; no wear or condition value is described." }, { "key": "diablo-manual-1996", "canonical": false, "title": "Diablo manual", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 1996, "year_approx": false, "type": "rulebook", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/details/diablo-manual-e", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Tutorial, Repair skill; Character Classes, The Warrior and The Sorcerer; Items, Durability", "note": "Wear until items break and are destroyed, the blacksmith's paid repair without loss of long-term effectiveness, the Warrior's field repairs that lower quality, and the Sorcerer's recharging of spell staves; the scan is a later printing of the 1996 text." }, { "key": "ultima-online-guide-blacksmithy-1999", "canonical": false, "title": "Ultima Online Guide: Blacksmithy", "author": "Origin Systems", "year": 1999, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/19991128144447/http://guide.uo.com/skill_7.html", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Repairing an item", "note": "Blacksmithy making and repairing weapons and armour near a forge, the anvil option, and a failed attempt that can damage the item further; 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A project needs the item in stores, and by the rules OpenXcom reproduces only a live alien is used up, so the artefact is kept.", "latest": false }, { "title": "EVE Online", "year": 2003, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "CCP Games", "requirements": [ "materials" ], "note": "From the Apocrypha expansion of 2009, a reverse-engineering job on a Sleeper relic, with datacores, a decryptor and a hybrid R.A.M., can yield a Tech 3 blueprint; the job has a chance to fail, and a failed job often consumes all its items.", "latest": false }, { "title": "The Elder Scrolls Online", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "ZeniMax Online Studios", "requirements": [ "station", "time" ], "note": "Trait research destroys an item at the Research tab of the matching crafting station; when a real-time timer ends, the character can craft that trait on that item type. 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The yield depends on the station, the player's standing with its owners and refining skills.", "latest": false }, { "title": "World of Warcraft", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "skill-rank" ], "note": "Disenchanting belongs to the Enchanting profession, which breaks existing magical items down into materials and spends them to enhance weapons and armour.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Diablo III", "year": 2012, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "station" ], "note": "The Blacksmith artisan, Haedrig Eamon, salvages crafting materials from unwanted magic items, the alternative to selling them to a merchant for gold; normal items cannot be salvaged and yield nothing.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Fallout 4", "year": 2015, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Bethesda Game Studios", "requirements": [ "station" ], "note": "Junk items hold fixed components, a desk fan gears, screws and steel; building at a workstation salvages the needed components from junk in the inventory or workshop, and weapons and armour are scrapped at their workbenches, the Scrapper perk adding uncommon and rare components.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Starfinder", "year": 2017, "year_approx": false, "medium": "tabletop-rpg", "creator": "Paizo", "requirements": [ "skill-rank", "station" ], "note": "At the game master's discretion, a character crafting an item may scavenge similar items for parts, each counting for 10% of its value toward the UPBs the new item costs; crafting needs skill ranks equal to the item level, tools, and a workshop.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Fortnite", "year": 2017, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Epic Games", "requirements": [ "no-cost" ], "note": "In Save the World, Recycle is one of the ways to get rid of an unwanted item from the menu; from late 2019 recycled common and uncommon items return Designs and Manuals.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Diablo IV", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "station" ], "note": "Gear is salvaged at any Blacksmith for materials by rarity, such as Veiled Crystals from rare items and Baleful Fragments from legendary ones, and salvaging an item adds its appearance to the player's transmogrification options.", "latest": true }, { "title": "Last Epoch", "year": 2024, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Eleventh Hour Games", "requirements": [ "currency", "station" ], "note": "A Rune of Shattering, sold by vendors, is applied to an item at the forge; the item is destroyed and yields Affix Shards for its affixes, a random number between one and each affix's tier. 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Earlier MUDs and tabletop scavenging rules remain unsurveyed, so earlier instances are plausible." }, "established": null, "sources": [ { "key": "world-of-warcraft-info-trade-skills-2004", "canonical": false, "title": "World of Warcraft: Info - Trade Skills", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20050102011832/http://www.worldofwarcraft.com:80/info/professions/", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Enchanting", "note": "Enchanting supported by disenchanting items, with the materials used to enhance weapons and armour; Wayback snapshot of January 2005." }, { "key": "diablo-iii-game-guide-crafting-2012", "canonical": false, "title": "Diablo III Game Guide: Crafting", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2012, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20120526010609/http://us.battle.net:80/d3/en/game/guide/items/crafting", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Overview; 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Wayback snapshot of August 2002." }, { "key": "all-that-they-survey", "canonical": false, "title": "All That They Survey", "author": "Lore's Raat (Asheron's Call wiki)", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "The update of October 2004 introducing the Salvaging skill, with a gem to forget item tinkering." }, { "key": "ultima-online-guide-blacksmithy-2001", "canonical": false, "title": "Ultima Online Guide: Blacksmithy", "author": "Origin Systems", "year": 2001, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20010615193214/http://guide.uo.com:80/skill_7.html", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Smelting Items", "note": "Smelting old weapons and armour back into ingots at a forge and anvil from the blacksmith menu, the yield set by the Mining skill, the item's condition and its metal; Wayback snapshot of June 2001." }, { "key": "ultima-online-publish-10-1-february-2001-and-publish-11-14-march-2001-2001", "canonical": false, "title": "Ultima Online, Publish 10 (1 February 2001) and Publish 11 (14 March 2001)", "author": "Origin Systems (uo.com archive)", "year": 2001, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://uo.com/wiki/ultima-online-wiki/technical/previous-publishes/2001-2/2001-publish-11-14th-march/", "accessed": "2026-10-27", "locator": null, "note": "Publish notes of early 2001, neither of which mentions smelting items into ingots; 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Publish 10 is at the same archive (2001-publish-10-1st-february)." }, { "key": "recycler", "canonical": false, "title": "Recycler", "author": "System Shock Wiki", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "The System Shock 2 recycler turning items into small numbers of nanites; seen only in a search summary." }, { "key": "eve-online-player-guide-interface-wayback-capture-2005", "canonical": false, "title": "EVE Online Player Guide: Interface (Wayback capture)", "author": "CCP Games", "year": 2005, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20050305232802/http://www.eve-online.com:80/guide/en/g05.asp", "accessed": "2026-10-28", "locator": "5: Interface, Station Services, Reprocess", "note": "Reprocessing ore, modules, drones and ships into minerals at a station, with the yield set by the station, standings with its corporation and refining skills, and looted low-end modules commonly reprocessed." } ], "n_examples": 10, "n_sources": 15, "word_count": 549, "updated": "2026-10-28", "url": "/crafting/salvage" }, { "id": "tiered-upgrade", "name": "Tiered Upgrades", "status": "unverified", "operation": "upgrade", "outcomes": [ "fixed" ], "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station", "skill-rank", "time" ], "definition": "Raising an item held by the player one numbered step at a time, from +0 to +1, +2 and on, or up a fixed scale of grades, by spending a consumable, materials or a fee on it, so the item keeps its identity while its level climbs", "aliases": [ "Item Enhancement", "Refining" ], "media": [ "video", "tabletop-rpg" ], "mechanics": [ "equipment-loadouts", "item-modification", "resource-conversion", "resource-gathering" ], "examples": [ { "title": "Rogue", "year": 1980, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, and Ken Arnold", "requirements": [ "materials" ], "note": "A scroll of enchant armor, used up on reading, improves the worn armour by one point, and a scroll of enchant weapon adds one to the wielded weapon's hit or damage bonus, chosen at random. The 3.6 source sets no upper limit and no chance of failure.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Hack", "year": 1985, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Andries Brouwer", "requirements": [ "materials" ], "note": "Enchant armor adds one to worn armour, but above +3 the armour evaporates instead, three times in four at +4 and more often at each further step; enchant weapon above +5 evaporates the weapon two times in three. Behaviour cited from the 1.0.2 source code.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Lineage", "year": 1998, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "NCsoft", "requirements": [ "materials" ], "note": "In the 2002 North American guide, enchant scrolls bought from merchants or dropped by monsters add 1 to armour or a weapon, blessed ones 1 to 3, while cursed ones subtract 1. Armour is safe to +4 and most Elven armour to +6, weapons to +6; past that limit the item may glow \"for a while and then evaporate away\".", "latest": false }, { "title": "Dungeons & Dragons, 3rd edition", "year": 2000, "year_approx": false, "medium": "tabletop-rpg", "creator": "Wizards of the Coast", "requirements": [ "materials", "skill-rank", "time" ], "note": "A creator can add abilities to an existing magic item at the cost they would carry on an unenchanted one, and a weapon's enhancement bonus is priced at its square times 2,000 gp, so higher bonuses cost disproportionately more. Raw materials cost half the base price, and work takes a day per 1,000 gp.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Ragnarok Online", "year": 2002, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Gravity", "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station" ], "note": "Upgrade NPCs in Prontera, Morroc, Payon and Al De Baran add +1 at a time, up to +10, for an ore and a zeny fee, Phracon to Oridecon by weapon level and Elunium for armour. Weapons are safe up to +7 at level 1 down to +4 at level 4, armour to +4; a failed upgrade destroys the item, the fee and any cards in it.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Monster Hunter", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Capcom", "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station" ], "note": "Village craftsmen forge and upgrade weapons and armour for listed monster parts and ores, and upgrades also cost money, so a Bone Axe or Bone Blade becomes a Bone Axe+ or Bone Blade+.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Dark Souls", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "FromSoftware", "requirements": [ "materials", "station" ], "note": "Blacksmiths raise weapons a level at a time with titanite, and embers let them ascend a weapon onto an elemental path, so a normal +10 weapon becomes Lightning +5 at the Giant Blacksmith and a normal +5 becomes Magic with Blue Titanite.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Fortnite", "year": 2017, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Epic Games", "requirements": [ "materials", "station" ], "note": "From Chapter 2 of Battle Royale (2019), Upgrade Benches on the island raise an equipped weapon one rarity at a time, Common to Uncommon for 50 each of wood, stone and metal, rising to 350 of each for Epic to Legendary.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Elden Ring", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "FromSoftware (Bandai Namco)", "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station" ], "note": "Smithing Stones in eight grades raise regular weapons step by step to +25, the last step taking an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone, while unique weapons take one Somber Smithing Stone per level to +10. The Church of Elleh table reaches +3; smiths such as Master Hewg in Roundtable Hold go further for runes.", "latest": true } ], "provenance": { "title": "Rogue", "year": 1981, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "The scrolls of enchant armor and enchant weapon in Rogue's 3.6 source, its scrolls.c dated June 1981, are the earliest documented step-by-step ladder cited: each scroll adds one, without limit or risk. The year is that of the source; Rogue was released in 1980, and whether that release behaved the same is unconfirmed. The Men & Magic cost list (1974) prices \"Enchanting Armor to +1\" as a single step, an antecedent. Hack's 1.0.2 source (1985) is the earliest cited form with destruction past a soft limit. Earlier computer role-playing games remain only partly surveyed: the Temple of Apshai manual (1979) and the Dungeon Masters Guide (1979) give no step ladder on a held item, but the PLATO games of the 1970s remain unsurveyed, so confidence is low." }, "established": null, "sources": [ { "key": "rogue-3-6-source-code-scrolls-c-1981", "canonical": false, "title": "Rogue 3.6 source code, scrolls.c", "author": "Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman", "year": 1981, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RoguelikeRestorationProject/rogue3.6/master/scrolls.c", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "scrolls.c, cases S_ARMOR and S_ENCH", "note": "The armour and weapon enchant scrolls, one point per scroll, with no cap or failure; the file is dated 6/15/81." }, { "key": "hack-1-0-2-usenet-posting-part-7-1985", "canonical": false, "title": "Hack 1.0.2 (Usenet posting, part 7)", "author": "Andries Brouwer", "year": 1985, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/1.0.2-part7", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "hack.read.c, case SCR_ENCHANT_ARMOR", "note": "Armour above +3 evaporating with a chance that rises with its enchantment." }, { "key": "hack-1-0-2-usenet-posting-part-9-1985", "canonical": false, "title": "Hack 1.0.2 (Usenet posting, part 9)", "author": "Andries Brouwer", "year": 1985, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/games/hack/1.0.2-part9", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "hack.wield.c, chwepon()", "note": "The soft upper limit on weapon enchantment and the two-in-three evaporation above +5." }, { "key": "ncsoft-lineage-game-guide-scrolls-2002", "canonical": false, "title": "NCsoft: Lineage, Game Guide: Scrolls", "author": "NCsoft", "year": 2002, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20020628130707/http://www.lineage.com:80/guide/equip_scrolls.html", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Scroll of Enchant Armor; Scroll of Enchant Weapon", "note": "Normal, blessed and cursed enchant scrolls, the safe limits by item type, evaporation past them, and the blessed-scroll method; Wayback snapshot of June 2002." }, { "key": "system-reference-document-creating-magic-items-2002", "canonical": false, "title": "System Reference Document, Creating Magic Items", "author": "Wizards of the Coast", "year": 2002, "year_approx": false, "type": "rulebook", "publisher": "Wizards of the Coast", "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20040922200138/http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/srdmagicitemscreatingmagicitems.rtf", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Creating Magic Items: Table: Calculating Magic Item Gold Piece Values; Adding New Abilities", "note": "Enhancement bonuses priced at the bonus squared, abilities added to an existing item, raw materials at half the base price, and a day per 1,000 gp. The file is the 3.0 SRD, dated August to October 2002, before the 3.5 revision; that it matches the 2000 rulebook word for word is unconfirmed." }, { "key": "ragnarok-game-guide-enjoy-ragnarok-upgrading-system-2004", "canonical": false, "title": "Ragnarok - Game Guide - Enjoy Ragnarok: Upgrading System", "author": "Gravity Interactive", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20040605070057/http://iro.ragnarokonline.com:80/game/refinesystem.asp", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Upgrading System", "note": "Official North American guide, Wayback snapshot of June 2004. Upgrade NPCs in four towns, +1 per success to +10, ores and zeny fees by weapon level and for armour, safe limits, and destruction of the item, fee and cards on failure." }, { "key": "monster-hunter-official-strategy-guide-2004", "canonical": false, "title": "Monster Hunter Official Strategy Guide", "author": "BradyGames", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "type": "book", "publisher": null, "url": "https://archive.org/download/mh-1-brady-games/MH1BradyGames_djvu.txt", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Introduction to village life; weapon tables, Bone Axe+ and Bone Blade+", "note": "Craftsmen who forge and upgrade weapons and armour from listed materials, and upgrades that require money." }, { "key": "dark-souls-remastered-weapon-upgrade-guide-ember-locations-and-all-elemental-upgrades-explained-2018", "canonical": false, "title": "Dark Souls Remastered Weapon Upgrade Guide: ember locations and all elemental upgrades explained", "author": "RPG Site", "year": 2018, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://rpgsite.net/feature/7208-dark-souls-remastered-weapon-upgrade-guide", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Titanite and embers, and the ascension of +5 and +10 weapons onto elemental paths by Andre, Vamos, Rickert and the Giant Blacksmith." }, { "key": "how-to-upgrade-weapons-in-fortnite-chapter-2-2019", "canonical": false, "title": "How To Upgrade Weapons In Fortnite Chapter 2", "author": "Joe Pring (We Got This Covered)", "year": 2019, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://wegotthiscovered.com/gaming/upgrade-weapons-fortnite-chapter-2/", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Upgrade Benches in Chapter 2, upgrading an equipped weapon by rarity, and the wood, stone and metal costs per step." }, { "key": "how-to-find-smithing-stones-and-upgrade-weapons-in-elden-ring-2022", "canonical": false, "title": "How to find Smithing Stones and upgrade weapons in Elden Ring", "author": "Marshall Honorof (Tom's Guide)", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-find-smithing-stones-upgrade-weapons-elden-ring", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Smithing Stones for regular weapons and Somber Smithing Stones for unique ones, one Somber stone per level over 10 ranks, the +3 limit at the Church of Elleh, and Master Hewg's fee in runes." }, { "key": "elden-ring-smithing-stone-locations-bell-bearings-and-ancient-dragon-stones-2022", "canonical": false, "title": "Elden Ring Smithing Stone locations: Bell Bearings and Ancient Dragon stones", "author": "Sean Martin (PC Gamer)", "year": 2022, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/where-to-get-smithing-stones-elden-ring", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Eight grades of Smithing Stone to +25 with an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone for the last level, and Somber stones to +10." }, { "key": "dungeons-dragons-volume-1-men-magic-1974", "canonical": false, "title": "Dungeons & Dragons, Volume 1, Men & Magic", "author": "Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson", "year": 1974, "year_approx": false, "type": "rulebook", "publisher": "Tactical Studies Rules", "url": "https://archive.org/download/dd-white-box-rules-set/TSR%202002%20-%20V1%20-%20Men%20%26%20Magic_djvu.txt", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "Characters, Magic-Users, examples of costs, p. 6", "note": "The antecedent of enchanting armour to +1 for 2,000 gold pieces and two months." } ], "n_examples": 9, "n_sources": 12, "word_count": 503, "updated": "2026-10-27", "url": "/crafting/tiered-upgrade" }, { "id": "transmogrification", "name": "Transmogrification", "status": "unverified", "operation": "transfer", "outcomes": [ "fixed" ], "requirements": [ "materials", "currency", "station" ], "definition": "Applying the appearance of one item, or of a look already unlocked, to another item the player holds, so the target keeps its stats and properties and changes only how it looks, usually for a fee at a service character", "aliases": [ "Transmog", "Glamour", "Change Appearance" ], "media": [ "video" ], "mechanics": [ "equipment-loadouts", "inventory-encumbrance", "item-modification" ], "examples": [ { "title": "World of Warcraft", "year": 2004, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "currency", "station" ], "note": "Patch 4.3 (2011) added Transmogrification vendors in Stormwind and Orgrimmar that copy the appearance of one magical item onto another for a gold fee while it keeps its stats. Plate can only look like plate and a sword only like a sword, and the item whose look is copied must be in the bags; it is kept, but becomes soulbound and non-tradable.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Aion", "year": 2008, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "NCsoft", "requirements": [ "station" ], "note": "Appearance change at an NPC takes the look of an item placed in an extraction slot onto the item placed in the target slot. Test-server notes for update 1.1, reported in February 2009, extended it to head armour and unique, Abyss and Draconic items and added a remover that restores an item's original look.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Diablo III", "year": 2012, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "currency", "station" ], "note": "Myriam the Mystic, added with Reaper of Souls (2014), gives an item any unlocked appearance with the same animation set for gold without lowering its power. Appearances unlock account-wide as the Mystic levels or as legendary and set items are identified, and a transmogrified item binds to the account.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Square Enix", "requirements": [ "materials" ], "note": "Glamours, added in patch 2.2 (2014), spend a crafted glamour prism to project the look of one piece of gear onto another of the same or lower equipment level that occupies the same slots; the base item keeps its stats, and the copied piece may then be stored or discarded.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Grim Dawn", "year": 2016, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Crate Entertainment", "requirements": [ "currency", "station" ], "note": "The Illusionist, announced in 2017 alongside the first expansion, stores the appearance of every item the player discovers and casts one onto an item for a cost that scales with character level; item level requirements still apply, and reverting to the original look is free.", "latest": false }, { "title": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla", "year": 2020, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Ubisoft Montreal (Ubisoft)", "requirements": [ "currency", "station" ], "note": "Title Update 1.2.0 (2021) added Change Appearance at Gunnar's blacksmith in Ravensthorpe, which changes the appearance of a gear piece or weapon within the same category of items for 50 silver; changed items are marked with a star in the inventory.", "latest": true }, { "title": "Diablo IV", "year": 2023, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "creator": "Blizzard Entertainment", "requirements": [ "station" ], "note": "Appearances are unlocked by salvaging gear at a Blacksmith and applied at the Wardrobe beside the stash upstairs in an inn, where whole looks can also be saved as ensembles; extra ensemble slots cost gold, from 2,500.", "latest": false } ], "provenance": { "title": "Aion", "year": 2009, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "low", "note": "The earliest documented use cited is Aion's item appearance change at an NPC, already in use when test-server notes for update 1.1, reported by Gamemeca on 6 February 2009, extended it to more item types; the year is that of the report. The game launched in Korea in November 2008, and whether the service was present at launch is unconfirmed. Earlier Korean and Japanese online games remain unsurveyed, and separate cosmetic slots, which change the look without an operation on an item, are an adjacent form whose history is also unsurveyed, so confidence is low. World of Warcraft's patch 4.3 (November 2011) gave the operation its name, transmogrification, and is the widely cited form." }, "established": { "title": "World of Warcraft", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "medium": "video", "confidence": "medium", "note": "Patch 4.3 (November 2011) gave the operation its name and the form later games describe: a fee at a service character, the target keeping its stats, and limits on which looks it may take. WoW Insider's 2013 comparison calls Diablo III's transmogrification better than that of \"the game it was stolen from, World of Warcraft\", and the name recurs, shortened to \"transmog\", in coverage of Assassin's Creed Valhalla's Change Appearance (2021). Aion's earlier appearance change has no documented line to later games, and outside Blizzard the line from patch 4.3 rests on the shared name rather than a stated debt, so confidence is medium." }, "sources": [ { "key": "1-1-2009", "canonical": false, "title": "드디어 만레벨 제한 풀리다! 테스트서버 1.1업데이트", "author": "ssullungk (Gamemeca)", "year": 2009, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.gamemeca.com/view.php?gid=232633", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "Aion test-server notes for update 1.1, 6 February 2009; appearance change extended to head armour and unique, Abyss and Draconic items, the appearance change NPC with a target slot and an extraction slot, and a remover restoring the original look." }, { "key": "world-of-warcraft-patch-4-3-0-notes-2011", "canonical": false, "title": "World of Warcraft Patch 4.3.0 notes", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20111201105522/http://us.battle.net:80/wow/en/game/patch-notes/4-3-0", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": "New Feature: Transmogrification", "note": "The feature copying the appearance of one magical item onto another, and its vendors in Stormwind and Orgrimmar; Wayback snapshot of December 2011." }, { "key": "blizzard-s-official-transmogrification-preview-2011", "canonical": false, "title": "Blizzard's official Transmogrification preview", "author": "Adam Holisky (WoW Insider)", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2011-08-17-blizzards-official-transmogrification-preview.html", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "The gold fee, the original stats kept, the armour and weapon type restrictions, and the source item held in the inventory." }, { "key": "blizzard-clarifies-transmogrification-rules-2011", "canonical": false, "title": "Blizzard clarifies transmogrification rules", "author": "Mathew McCurley (WoW Insider)", "year": 2011, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2011-09-19-blizzard-clarifies-transmogrification-rules.html", "accessed": "2026-10-26", "locator": null, "note": "Blizzard's rules for patch 4.3 as reproduced; both items equippable by the character, same armour or weapon type, and an item used for its look made soulbound, non-refundable and non-tradable." }, { "key": "reaper-of-souls-first-look-the-mystic-2013", "canonical": false, "title": "Reaper of Souls First Look: The Mystic", "author": "Blizzard Entertainment", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20161212114441/http://us.battle.net:80/d3/en/blog/11337855", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": "Transmogrification; How Transmogrification Works", "note": "Transmogrification at the Mystic for gold without sacrificing power, account-wide unlocks, the animation-set restriction, and binding to the account; Wayback snapshot." }, { "key": "how-diablo-3-has-improved-transmog-and-why-wow-should-steal-it-2013", "canonical": false, "title": "How Diablo 3 has improved transmog and why WoW should steal it", "author": "Matthew Rossi (WoW Insider)", "year": 2013, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2013-10-25-how-diablo-3-has-improved-transmog-and-why-wow-should-steal-it.html", "accessed": "2026-10-27", "locator": null, "note": "Diablo III's transmogrification called better \"than that of the game it was stolen from, World of Warcraft\", with account-wide unlocks set against World of Warcraft's need to hold the item and its exclusion of legendaries." }, { "key": "letter-from-the-producer-lv-2014", "canonical": false, "title": "Letter from the Producer LV", "author": "Naoki Yoshida (Square Enix)", "year": 2014, "year_approx": false, "type": "website", "publisher": null, "url": "https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/showthread.php?p=1943208", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Glamour prisms projecting the look of one piece of gear onto another, the equipment-level and slot restrictions, and the copied gear left free to store." }, { "key": "glamour", "canonical": false, "title": "Glamour", "author": "Console Games Wiki", "year": null, "year_approx": false, "type": "wiki", "publisher": null, "url": null, "accessed": null, "locator": null, "note": "Glamour added in patch 2.2 on 27 March 2014, one prism per cast, stats kept, the copied gear free to discard or store, and Glamour Dressers added in patch 4.2." }, { "key": "grim-dawn-s-new-illusionist-npc-will-let-you-change-your-look-for-a-price-2017", "canonical": false, "title": "Grim Dawn's new Illusionist NPC will let you change your look, for a price", "author": "Andy Chalk (PC Gamer)", "year": 2017, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/grim-dawns-new-illusionist-npc-will-let-you-change-your-lookfor-a-price/", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "Discovered item appearances stored automatically, Illusionists in Devil's Crossing and Fort Ikon, item level requirements, a cost scaling with level, and free reverting." }, { "key": "assassin-s-creed-valhalla-title-update-patch-1-2-adds-ostara-festival-appearance-options-and-more-2021", "canonical": false, "title": "Assassin's Creed Valhalla title update patch 1.2 adds Ostara Festival, appearance options, and more", "author": "Adam Vitale (RPG Site)", "year": 2021, "year_approx": false, "type": "article", "publisher": null, "url": "https://www.rpgsite.net/news/10880-assassins-creed-valhalla-title-update-patch-12-adds-ostara-festival-appearance-options-and-more", "accessed": "2026-10-25", "locator": null, "note": "The patch notes on Change Appearance within the same category of items at Gunnar's blacksmith for 50 silver, with changed 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