The Crafting Bench and Blacksmith are essential for creating various items:
- Crafting Bench: Used to craft ascension materials (e.g., converting lower-tier materials to higher-tier), convert elemental gems, and create certain gadgets. You can also use the Strongbox here for artifacts.
- Blacksmith: Used to forge weapons and weapon enhancement materials. You'll need weapon billets (rare drops from Weekly Bosses) and various ores (Iron Chunk, White Iron Chunk, Crystal Chunk, Amethyst Lump, Starsilver) to forge 4-star weapons.
Always collect ores during exploration and process them at the blacksmith daily to ensure you have enough weapon enhancement materials.