Introduction

Crafted Items are sort of like Rare items, but are not dropped by monsters. You make Crafted Items with the Horadric Cube, putting in various ingredients and turning them into a Crafted Item. Crafted Items have orange names made of random words, like Rares do.

Crafted Items have semi-random stats. Each Crafted item is tied directly to the recipe used to make it, and that recipe will always produce an item of that type, with stats from the same allowed mods. The mods on the item (if it's magical) you use to make the crafted item are irrelevant and are erased when the mods for the crafted item are rolled.

Crafted Items are not all identical like Uniques, and they are not totally random, like Rares. Instead each Crafted Item recipe will always produce an item with from 1-5 preset modifiers, and 1-5 random modifiers. The preset mods are listed on our recipes page, but the random mods are just that, random. This is where luck comes in, as you might need to do the same recipe several times to get a good roll of random mods, to go with the preset mods that will always be on that recipe.

Example: One of the most popular recipes is the Blood Weapon. There are two of these, both require a perfect ruby, a jewel, the item you want to craft, and a rune. Blood weapon #1 requires the Ort rune, which is pretty common, especially since you get one as a quest reward in Act Five. Blood Recipe #2 has slightly better preset mods, but it requires the Fal rune, which is #19, and found maybe 1/100th as often as Ort. So of course recipe #1 is more often used.

Typical Blood Weapon #1 results

Every time you do the Blood Weapon #1 recipe, you'll get the weapon with:

1-4% Life Leech
10-20 Vitality
34-67% Damage
+ Up to 5 other random affixes (not including magic-only mods)

So you could end up with a weapon that had 1% life leech, +10 life, +34% damage, and a couple of other junk mods, or you could get a weapon with 4% life leech, +67% damage, and for the random mods you might get Kings and Merciless and Slaughter, and end up with a 267% damage weapon with +20 max damage as well. This would beat any Rare possible, due to the 34-67% damage from the crafted adding to the random mods. And you can try that recipe as many times as you have ingredients for it, so eventually you'll get lucky and stack up some good damage. Easier than making new Clvl 29 characters to imbue with, eh?

Crafted items are treated like Rares by the game code, and will only get mods that can occur on Rares, not the larger magic-only mods.

In theory a Crafted Item could have five preset mods, and allow from 1-5 random mods for a total of ten mods, more than a Rare can ever have. No crafted items have been seen with this many affixes though, so either it's very rare, or there is some limiting code in the game that's not known about yet.

Special Mods

One of the best aspects of Crafted Items are that their preset mods are often things that magical and rare items can never have, such as Deadly Strike, Open Wounds, Fire Absorb, Demon Heal, and many more. You can also get modifiers that aren't otherwise possible on a particular item type, such as mana steal on Amazon class rings, life steal on Blood Amulets, and many more.

So you are not just making Rares from expensive ingredients, you are making items with stats that you can never find otherwise, other than on some Unique and Set Items.

Recipes

Check the recipe page for all recipies. Generally speaking, the recipes are a mixture of items, with usually something magical, a perfect gem, a jewel, and a rune. The Runes are always certain ones, not just any Rune, and the same Rune is used in many different recipes. Hel is very popular in making class-specific rings, for example. This should boost the popularity and value of some Runes greatly, as people learn which recipes turn out quality items and try to save up Runes to make them.

Some recipes require a magical item, and others will work with a normal or magical item, and some will let you reuse the crafted item you just made. These are noted on the recipe pages.

Socketing

You can put a crafted item into the socketing quest in Act Five and get 1 socket added only, same as Rare, Unique, and Set items. During the beta Crafted items were allowing up to three sockets, but this was due to a bug and has been fixed.

Blood Weapon

Safety Weapon

A "Blood Weapon" recipe #2 with a Balrog Blade, the elite version of a Giant Sword. Recipe is +2-6% life leech, +20 Life, and +40-80% Increased Damage. This item has been through the socketing quest, which is in the beta adding max sockets for the item type. This is a bug, in the final game this will only add 1 socket to a Crafted Item. The random mods on this one worked incredibly well, with bonus damage, bonus to demons, and even min and max damage added. The Shae rune adds IAS, and there are two sockets to go.

"Safety Weapon" recipe #1 with a Great Axe. The interesting thing here is that this item has been used in the Socketing Item Quest Reward, and has gained 3 sockets. This is a bug in the beta, Crafted Items should only get 1 socket from this, and it will be fixed in the final game. So we have here the huge list of Preset and random mods on the Crafted Item, along with the results of Thul (3-9 Cold Damage, 3 sec Cold time) and Eld (175% Damage to Undead, +50 AR against Undead), along with a Perfect Skull, giving this just a ridiculous amount of mods. Obviously the total damage isn't that good, but imagine good random mods with a blood weapon and 6 sockets!

General Information

Most Crafted recipes require a Jewel and one or more Runes, and often a Gem as well. Jewels are pretty common so save up a dozen or so for future crafting use, but you'll continue to find them, so don't worry if you are short.

Crafted items come in distinct types; Caster, Bloody, Safety, and Hitpower are a few common types, where there are many types of weapons, armor, and jewelry with similar properties. Any characters can make or use these.

There are specific weapon recipes, where only one particular weapon, like a Grim Wand or a Colossus Crossbow, will work with the exact required Runes and other ingredients. All of these weapons have very similar preset mods.

There are also class-items, which can only be made by a particular class. All Class item types have very similar stats for every character. See the recipe pages and you'll understand how they work.

Clvl Requirements: These are said to be the Clvl req of the highest Ilvl random mod + 3 Clvls for each additional random mod. If you use an Excep or Elite weapon, there will be an item level requirement for it that might be higher than the crafting adds. Just how the Clvl requirement is set needs to be studied more.

Ingredients: You can use any quality of the ingredients unless otherwise stated. Some recipes require a specific Elite item, others require a rare item of exactly the correct type, while other recipes are more lenient and allow just about any item of the correct type. There are some weapon recipes that will allow any weapon in the entire game.

You must use a perfect one for all recipes that require a gem. Crafted recipes are basically semi-random imbues of the item you use in the recipe, so you want to get the biggest damage weapon or best Def armor, and Superior as well, if possible, since the superior is preserved on the item, unlike with Charsi Imbues.

Preset Mods: Mods listed with a range will select one value from inside that range, not put a random range on the item; 1-4% life leech will yield 1, 2, 3, or 4% leech on your weapon, not 1-4%.

Random Mods: All Crafted items can have from 1-5 random affixes. We don't yet know if there is a varying range per specific recipe, (If some Crafted items will always get 2 or 3, or 1-4, or 3-5, etc) nor how they pick the random affixes in terms of ilvl. It could be based on your Clvl, the item you use in the recipe, or something else. These mods will be the ones allowed on Rare items, not the bigger magic-only mods.

Socketing: Crafted Items get one socket added by the socket an item quest reward.

Stacking Affixes: You can get random affixes with the same bonuses as preset properties. For example if a weapon has +40-80% enhanced damage you could also get Merciless (+81-100% Damage) as a random affix and the damage would stack. You can get bigger damage with a crafted + kings + merciless + slaughter than you could possibly get on a Rare item alone.

Magical Item Ingredients: When a magical/Rare/Crafted item is used in the recipe, the stats on it are erased when the crafted pre-set and random mods are applied. So don't use a Cruel weapon with 250% damage and expect the result to have that plus the presets and new random mods. Look at it like an Imbue of of the item, you only get the base item type, not any mods on the item.

Click here to view [recipes.shtml the recipes page] with more details on recipes, or use the navigation table on the top right to click to any particular page in the section.