Crafting
Crafting in Ponor turns a good find into your item. It works on what you bring up from the shaft, never on a recipe list, and it tells you every chance before you pay.
How does crafting work in Ponor?
Crafting is in development. It comes in four steps, from the drop to the seal, and two people in Kamenica do the work.
Crafting In development
Find
You, on the way down
Everything starts with a drop. The best items in Ponor are found, never bought, and crafting only ever improves what the Ponor gave you.
Weave
Kosara
Choose a property you want and weave it onto an item: one on a Magic item, two on a Rare. Weaving is not a gamble; you pick the line.
Refine
Tvrtko
Push the item’s numbers up, step by step. The first steps are sure; the last ones are not, and every failure leaves a crack in the item. Too many cracks and it can take no more.
Seal
Kosara
One final gamble that closes the item for good. A sealed item carries a red knot, and the seal can bless it, gift it, open a socket, bind it, wither it or unravel it.
Who crafts in Kamenica?
Kosara
The wise woman weaves the properties you choose onto your items and seals them when you are done.
Tvrtko
Tvrtko does more than refine. He breaks down what you do not need into materials, opens sockets on plain white bases, and later will reforge a base one tier up, so a favorite item can follow you deeper.
Fair by design
- Odds up front
- Every chance is on the screen before you spend a single material.
- No save-scumming
- An item’s luck is seeded from the item itself, so reloading never changes a result.
- No recipes
- No recipe lists to memorize and no tables of ingredients to convert.
What materials does crafting use?
Three materials, kept in a pouch of their own with no limit, so they never crowd your bag.
- Iron
- For the smith’s work at the anvil.
- Thread
- For Kosara’s weaving and sealing.
- Thunderstone Chip
- Chips of thunderstone, which the old folk called Perun’s arrows.
Follow the descent
Ponor is in development. Wishlist it, and get dev updates by email.