POE Crafting for Valheim

POE-inspired crafting currencies and 12 equipment enchants for Epic Loot. Right-click currency to craft anywhere.

Improve your gear with extra effects, targeted essences and shard slots. Crafting currencies drop alongside Epic Loot rewards and can also be crafted using Epic Loot materials.

How to craft

1. Right-click a currency in your inventory to open POE Crafting anywhere.
2. Select an unequipped weapon, shield or piece of armour. Hover over a currency to see what it does.
3. Click Enchant to spend one currency and apply its effect.

You can also open the menu using POE Crafting at an enchanting table, or F8 nearby. Opening the menu costs nothing. Currencies must be in your inventory, weigh zero and stack to 999.

Craft Transmutation and Augmentation at a workbench; other currencies and essences use the forge.

Orbs and shard slots

Currency	What it does
Transmutation	Turns ordinary gear into Magic gear with one effect
Augmentation	Adds an effect to Magic gear, up to two
Regal	Upgrades Magic gear to Rare and adds an effect
Exalted	Adds an effect, and can upgrade full Rare/Epic gear up to Legendary
Perfect Exalted	Adds an effect, upgrading full gear as needed up to Ancient
Chaos	Replaces one random effect
Divine	Rerolls effect values; results can get worse
Annulment	Removes one random effect; costs only one orb
Alchemy	Makes ordinary or Magic gear Rare with four replacement effects
Gemcutter's Prism	Adds one shard slot, up to three, at any rarity
Vaal	Permanently corrupts an item; see below

Chaos, Divine and Annulment work from Magic through Ancient, including named/set gear. They preserve shard slots and protected effects. Divine leaves tempered values intact.

Exalted orbs keep your existing rolls. Regular Exalted stops at Legendary and cannot upgrade a full Magic item. Perfect Exalted can upgrade any full enchanted item to the next rarity with room, up to Ancient. Both follow your Epic Loot effect limits. A full Ancient item cannot consume an orb.

Identify equipment before crafting. Corrupted equipment cannot be crafted again. Some currencies have additional equipment restrictions, shown in the menu.

Essences for your build

Choose Agile, Tanky or Caster essence. Each guarantees a different bonus depending on the equipment you use it on. The menu shows that bonus before you press Enchant.

Equipment	Agile	Tanky	Caster
Physical combat weapon	Critical chance	Health on kill	—
Magic/summoning staff	—	—	Lower casting eitr cost
Shield	Lower blocking stamina cost	Block power	Shorter harmful ailments
Helmet	Maximum stamina	Maximum health	Maximum eitr
Chest	Stamina recovery	Armour	Eitr recovery
Leggings	Movement speed	Maximum health	Lower casting eitr cost
Cape	Maximum stamina	Health recovery	Eitr recovery

Each family has three strengths, making nine essence items:

Strength	What it does
Normal	Adds its effect to Magic gear and upgrades it to Rare
Greater	Adds its effect while preserving rolls; upgrades full gear as needed, up to Legendary
Perfect	Adds its effect while preserving rolls; upgrades full gear as needed, up to Ancient

An existing matching effect prevents spending. The effect must suit the equipment, and unsuccessful attempts consume nothing. New values depend on the item's resulting rarity.

Caster essences only drop in Mistlands, Ashlands and Deep North. Visiting those biomes does not unlock them elsewhere. Their recipes also require Refined Eitr.

Existing essences remain usable at the same strength: Vigor counts as Agile, Sorcery as Caster, and Battle/Guard/Vitality as Tanky. The old items no longer drop or have crafting recipes. Their stacks count towards the matching new essence in the menu.

More ways to build your character

The mod adds 12 enchants alongside Epic Loot's existing effects:

• Health, stamina or eitr recovery on kills, depending on your weapon.
• Critical chance and critical damage.
• Extra fire, frost or lightning damage on physical weapons.
• Stronger burning and poison on weapons that deal those damage types.
• Shorter burning, poison and frost effects on armour, capes and shields.
• Larger explosions for weapons whose projectiles already explode.

These effects can appear through Epic Loot drops and enchanting as well as POE crafting. Critical damage needs critical chance to take effect. Kill recovery uses the weapon you are holding when kill credit is awarded, including shared kills.

Gear that suits your build

POE crafting favours effects that suit your armour:

Armour style	Favoured effects
Agile, such as troll and Fenris	Stamina, recovery and lower movement costs
Defensive, such as iron and carapace	Armour, resistances and protection
Magical, such as mage armour	Eitr, recovery and lower casting costs

These are preferences, so you can still mix builds. Health is available across armour slots. Movement speed rolls on leggings only, reaching 30% at Ancient rarity.

Weapon skill bonuses match the weapon: bows can roll Bows, elemental staves Elemental Magic, and shields Blocking. POE crafting also excludes unsuitable effects, such as melee/parry bonuses on magic staves or parry bonuses on tower shields. Existing gear keeps its effects.

Currency drops

Currencies are bonus rewards; they do not replace Epic Loot drops. The quality below is the minimum needed to start dropping, so lower-tier currencies remain available in endgame.

Currency	Starts dropping at	Default chance
Transmutation, Augmentation	Magic	50% each
Regal, Annulment, Alchemy, Normal Agile/Tanky/Caster essences	Magic	5% each
Chaos	Magic	5–30%, increasing with loot rarity
Vaal	Rare	5%, when enabled
Exalted, Gemcutter's Prism, Greater Agile/Tanky/Caster essences	Legendary	5% each
Divine, Perfect Exalted, Perfect Agile/Tanky/Caster essences	Mythic	5% each

Chances apply once per Epic Loot reward batch, rather than every monster kill. Each currency rolls separately, using the highest quality in that reward.

Chaos defaults to 5% / 10% / 15% / 20% / 25% / 30% for Magic through Ancient rewards. All drop chances are configurable. Existing settings are kept when updating; see the included config example for defaults and the Chaos scaling setting.

Recycle spare currency

Use Epic Loot's Sacrifice tab to turn each orb, essence or prism into 1 Dust + 1 Essence of its minimum drop tier. For example, Greater Agile/Tanky/Caster essences return Legendary materials and Perfect Agile/Tanky/Caster essences return Mythic materials. Crafting recipes use the same material tiers.

Vaal corruption

Vaal is optional and disabled by default. Enable Crafting.EnableVaal in BepInEx/config/local.valheim.poecrafting.cfg to allow its use and drops.

Vaal works on equipment of any rarity. It has four equally likely outcomes: unchanged effects, an extra effect, rerolled values or replacement effects. Items are not destroyed.

Corruption is permanent. It blocks further currency crafting and Epic Loot enchanting, augmentation, disenchanting, rune changes and tempering. Repairs, ordinary upgrades and existing shard use remain available.

Requirements and compatibility

Requires Epic Loot 0.14.13, BepInExPack Valheim, Jotunn and JsonDotNET. Your mod manager installs these dependencies. All players and the server need matching mod versions.

The crafting menu supports keyboard and mouse. Utility items and trinkets use Epic Loot's usual enchanting menu. Currency models reuse Valheim models with Epic Loot glow effects. Multiplayer, larger mod packs and save/load still need playtesting.

Credits

Epic Loot by RandyKnapp supplies the enchanting system. Jotunn supplies item registration and interface support.

Code was developed with AI assistance, and the currency icons were generated with AI. No downloaded game artwork or dependency binaries are bundled.