Making progress in The Forge can be a grind, so this page will run you through the best weapons recipes for making quality weapons for speeding up your progression through quests.
Roblox’s latest hot exploration and crafting adventure The Forge tasks you with mining rare ores, minerals and gemstones from dangerous caves and active volcanoes, before bringing your spoils back to town to fashion into weapons and armor to support your next expedition.
However, while you can only use 4 different materials when making an item, the amount of resources you can choose from, and how using varying amounts can make all the difference, means that choosing exactly how to combine the metals and ores in your inventory can be a difficult and dizzying task.
Here are some of the best weapon recipes in The Forge to see you through the early, mid and late-game. If you need a Luck Boost to help gather the materials you need, definitely take a look at our up-to-date page on The Forge codes, which currently includes Rerolls and a Luck Totem.
The Forge Best Weapon Recipes
The main thing about weapon recipes in The Forge is restraint. To maximize your chances of getting a powerful weapon that packs a punch but swings relatively fast requires you to think a little bit more than just dumping all of your strongest ores into a pot.
That is until the very end game, where you basically just throw as much of the best ore in the game into the mix as you can!
When putting together a forging recipe, there are a few things you need to consider:
- Items you forge have a large range of base damage based on luck and how well you do in the forging mini-game, so you may need to try multiple times to get the best results possible
- The rarity of the materials you use will affect the rarity and power of the weapon you make, the higher the multiplier, the better the weapon
- The more material you use, the more base power a weapon will have, but it will swing slower
- Certain Epic and Legendary materials will imbue the forged item with additional effects when they comprise more than 10% of the materials used
With those things in mind, here are a few of our favourite recipes for making great weapons in The Forge.
Best Early Game Weapon Recipes
In the early game, it’s best not to worry too much about what you’re using as it will quickly become outdated. However, when it comes to weapons, focus on saving up a few of the Epic tier Aite and save your Poopite for armor because of its “Bad Smell” passive trait which releases a damaging gas cloud when you’re injured.
Aite Straight Sword:
Aite Katana:
- 6 Aite
- 6 of any other material
Best Mid-Game Weapon Recipes
As you reach the mid-game you will start to be able to use Legendary materials like Eye Ore. While weapons made with Eye Ore can be a double-edged sword, literally, because they both reduce your maximum health and give your physical damage a massive +15% buff, you still come out on top from the trade so they’re well worth using.
To get the effects of traits, you only need to include 10% of a particular material in the mix. At this point in the game you won’t have much Eye Ore, so use that fact to your advantage.
Eye Ore Straight Sword:
- 1 Eye Ore
- 5 Epic Materials (Emerald, Cuprite)
Epic Katana:
- 2 Eye Ore
- 10 Epic Materials (Emerald, Cuprite)
If you want weapons with a higher base attack, increase the ratio of Eye Ore depending on how many you have.
Best Late-Game Weapon Recipes
Once you reach the late-game, you start to be able to access most of the available materials in the game and find them with increasing regularity. This means you can then stack powerful traits onto the best base metals possible.
To make the highest base damage weapon in The Forge, you need to make a Colossal Sword made out of pure Darkryte. However, this would take a long time to grind and doesn’t take advantage of any traits.
Therefore, the absolute best weapons in The Forge make Darkryte Colossal Swords, but cut with the minimum amount of Fireite, Rivalite and Eye Ore possible to get their passive effects without dropping the base damage potential too much.
With Colossal Swords however, you also need to remember that dumping more ore into the mix will result in a better chance to forge them. The recipe listed below is the minimum amount of Darkryte you need to make your most likely weapon a Colossal Darkryte Sword.
Darkryte Straight Sword:
- 3 Darkryte
- 1 Eye Ore
- 1 Rivalite
- 1 Fireite
Darkryte Katana:
- 6 Darkryte
- 2 Eye Ore
- 2 Fireite
- 2 Rivalite
Darkryte Colossal Sword:
- (At least) 20 Darkryte
- 4 Fireite
- 4 Rivalite
- 4 Eye Ore
If you’re adding more Darkryte to increase your chances of getting the Colossal Sword, make sure you add an extra of all the other materials when you reach 29 Darkryte, 36 Darkryte, 43 Darkryte, 50 Darkryte and so on to maintain the ratio needed for the traits.
To mine Darkryte, you will need a base mining strength of at least 100. This means you’ll need one of the best pickaxes in The Forge, which is why it’s a late game item.
But if you need help finding any of these materials, take a look at our list of every ore location in The Forge.