¶ Overview
Gemcrafting is a Strage Earth custom feature where crafters can apply up to 3 additional properties to crafted and imbued weapons and armor. Looted and artifact armor cannot be upgraded via Gemcrafting. Additionally, items that have been tempered through runic reforging cannot be Gemcrafted.
The process to collect and apply the gemstones requires several different crafting skills and special tools. The gemstones will always apply one of the properties they list in their description, and the flawless/perfect gemstones can apply additional random properties.
¶ Obtaining Gemstones
There are a few ways to collect gems:
- Flawed Gems can be obtained from mining, treasure maps, dungeon chests, and a small chance from boss level monsters.
- Flawless Gems are rare drops from boss monsters. You can also fuse 3 flawed gems into a flawless gem using a bottle of solvent, crafted by alchemists.
- Perfect Gems will only come from upgrading with solvents.
¶ Upgrading Gems with a Bottle of Solvent
In order to upgrade your gemstones to the next level, you will need to craft a bottle of solvent, which can be found under the alchemy crafting menu under “Strange Brew”. You will need 100.0 skill in alchemy, as well as the following ingredients:
- 5 Acidic Slime
- 1 Concentrated Sap
- 1 Empty Bottle
Once crafted, you can double click the bottle which will bring up the crafting gump:
Each use will consume 1 bottle of solvent and 3 gems.
- 3 flawed gems = 1 flawless gem
- 3 flawless gems = 1 perfect gem
¶ Applying Gems to Armor and Weapons
To apply gemstones you will need a gem crafter's kit, and 3 gemstones of the tier you'd like to apply. The gem crafter's kits are craftable through the mythical crafting recipe book, under the “mythical tool” tab. After double clicking the kit you will be presented with this gump:
Simply select the option for the gem you'd like to apply, and then target you crafted piece you want to apply them to. This will consume:
- 1 Charge of the gem crafter's kit
- 3 of the selected gem you are applying
You can apply gemstones to crafted/imbued items regardless of what tier your gemstone is. Flawed gemstones will apply lower intensities than flawless and perfect gemstones. Additionally, flawless and perfect gemstones will apply additional random properties on top of their listed properties.
- Flawed:
- Low intensity property
- Flawless:
- Medium intensity property
- +1 random property
- Perfect:
- High intensity property
- +1 random property
- +1 random property
note - if the properties end up being the same, they will stack.