The Forge Crafting Guide: How to Use Ores, Traits, and Multipliers to Make Strong Gear

The Forge in Roblox is all about crafting powerful weapons and armor, but the system can feel a bit tricky at first. You might wonder how to pick the right ores, what those multipliers mean, or how to get cool traits on your gear. Let’s break it down so you can craft like a pro without wasting your rare materials.

First things first, crafting in The Forge needs at least three different types of ores to start. You can add up to four different ore types, but the total number of ores can be much higher, especially for larger weapons and armor. The number of ores you add decides what kind of weapon or armor you get — more ores mean bigger or heavier gear, but it doesn’t directly boost stats. The real power comes from the ores’ multipliers and traits.

How Does Ore Amount Affect Your Gear?

Every weapon and armor piece requires a certain minimum number of ores to craft. Adding more ores increases your chances of getting bigger weapons or heavier armor, which usually have higher base stats but different playstyles. Here’s a quick look at some minimum and optimal ore counts:

Armor works similarly, with light armor needing fewer ores and heavy armor needing more. Heavy armor gives the best defense but slows you down.

What Are Ore Multipliers and Why Do They Matter?

Each ore has a multiplier that boosts your gear’s base stats like damage or defense. Higher rarity ores usually have higher multipliers. When you mix ores, the game calculates a weighted average multiplier based on the quantity of each ore, not just a simple average of ore types. For example, if you use 3 ores with a 6× multiplier and 1 ore with a 1× multiplier, your overall multiplier is calculated as:

[frac{(3 \times 6) + (1 \times 1)}{3 + 1} = \frac{18 + 1}{4} = 4.75]

This nuance is important for crafting optimization.

Some of the best multipliers come from ores like Darkryte (6.3×), Demonite (5.5×), Magmaite (5×), and Fireite (4.5×). These values are approximate and can vary slightly with game updates, so always check the latest patch notes.

Ore Traits: The Secret Sauce

Certain ores come with special traits that add unique effects to your weapons or armor. But there’s a catch: to activate a trait, that ore must make up at least 10% of your total ores used in crafting. The trait effect scales with the percentage of that ore, reaching full effect around 30%.

Here are some popular trait ores and what they do:

If you don’t keep the trait ore percentage above 10%, you won’t get the trait at all. So, mixing a tiny bit of a rare ore with a lot of common ores won’t help.

Traits can have nuanced effects, so it’s a good idea to check the latest in-game descriptions or official patch notes for full details.

Trait Combinations and Interactions

When crafting with multiple trait ores, their effects can stack or interact depending on the ores used. To benefit from multiple traits, each trait ore must meet the 10% minimum threshold. Balancing these percentages is key — for example, having 30% Obsidian and 30% Uranium can give you both extra defense and AoE damage on armor. However, diluting trait ores below 10% causes you to lose those traits entirely, so plan your ore ratios carefully to maximize combined benefits.

Variations in Weapons and Armor

Within each weapon or armor category, there are different variations. For example, the Dagger category includes Daggers, Gladius Daggers, and Hooks. Each has its own chance to appear when you craft.

Some special armor sets like Dark Knight (heavy armor) and Samurai (medium armor) only appear on Island 2. Additionally, some weapon variations require certain player levels or crafting progress to unlock. These variations give more health or other bonuses than their base versions and are worth aiming for if you’re there.

Runes and Enhancements

After crafting your gear, you can add runes to improve it further. Runes drop from monsters and can be slotted into your weapons or armor at the Rune NPC. But first, you need to enhance your gear at the Enhancer.

Important: Enhancing gear removes any equipped runes, so be sure to unequip your runes before enhancing to avoid losing them.

Runes add all kinds of bonuses, from extra damage to cooldown reductions, so keep an eye out for good ones.

Mini-Games Affect Your Crafting Quality

Crafting isn’t just about picking ores. The Forge has four mini-games during crafting that affect your gear’s quality: bellows pumping, casting, hammering, and cooling. Doing well in these will give you higher quality gear like Masterwork or Legendary, which significantly boosts stats.

The Four Mini-Games Explained

1. Bellows Pumping:
   You need to click and hold the green button with up and down arrows, then move your mouse up and down rapidly to fill the meter on the right. Smaller, quicker movements help fill the bar faster. The fuller the bar before time runs out, the better your final crafting quality.

2. Casting:
   Keep the small white wedge inside the moving yellow zone on the bar by clicking the left mouse button to push it up. The wedge naturally falls when you don’t click. The yellow zone moves unpredictably, so try to keep the wedge near its center to maximize time inside the zone.

3. Hammering:
   This is a timing mini-game where you click the left mouse button when the inner and outer circles align perfectly. Perfect hits improve your crafting quality. Because of input delay, click just before alignment to get perfect timing.

4. Cooling:
   Control the cooling gauge by clicking to keep it within the optimal temperature zone. If it goes too high or too low, your gear quality suffers. Pay close attention to the gauge and adjust clicks accordingly.

Mastering these mini-games is crucial for crafting top-tier gear.

Crafting Chances and Percentages

Each weapon and armor type has a percentage chance to appear based on the ores you add. Adding more ores increases your chance of crafting larger or heavier gear. For example, adding more ores raises your chance to get a Colossal Sword over a Dagger.

Within each category, there are variations with their own chances. For instance, if Straight Swords have a 14% chance and the Rapier variation has a 1/8 chance within that category, your effective chance to get a Rapier is 1.75%.

Knowing these percentages helps you decide how many ores to add to optimize your chances without wasting materials.

How to Farm Gold, Cash, and EXP Efficiently Using Crafted Gear

Crafted gear with high multipliers and activated traits not only makes you stronger but also helps you farm gold, cash, and EXP faster. Use your best crafted weapons and armor to defeat tougher monsters more efficiently, which drop better loot and more experience.

Focus on crafting gear with traits that boost damage or survivability, like Rivalite for crit chance or Obsidian for defense. This lets you stay longer in combat and kill enemies quicker.

Also, upgrading your gear with runes and enhancements further boosts your farming efficiency. The better your gear, the faster you can progress and earn in-game currency.

Tips to Craft Like a Pro

• Use mostly high multiplier ores (Legendary and Mythical) to keep your stats high; avoid using Epics for endgame gear as they lower multipliers.
• Keep trait ores at or above 10% to activate their effects; aim for 30% for full effect.
• Add enough ores to reach the optimal amount for the gear you want.
• Don’t mix too many low-value ores with high-value ones.
• Aim for heavy armor if you want the best defense.
• Try to craft on Island 2 for special armor variations.
• Practice the mini-games to boost your final gear quality.
• Use crafting calculators or community tools to optimize ore combinations.
• Save rare ores for high-tier gear to maximize multipliers and traits.

Understanding how ore multipliers, traits, crafting chances, and mini-games work together makes a huge difference. It took a few tries to get the hang of balancing ore percentages, but once you do, your gear will be way stronger than random drops. Keep refining your crafting strategy, and you’ll be set to take on tougher challenges in The Forge.