Gold (material)

*For the currency item, see Gold.*

**Gold** is a material in *Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night*.

## Characteristics

One of the rarest and most expensive materials in the game. Besides being used for crafting advanced gear, it can also be used to enhance a number of Shards.

Gold is extremely expensive; without a discount, a single unit costs 15,000G in the store. Crafting it requires 50 units of Mercury and 10 Dark Matter, the latter not being particularly easy to prepare due to the required ingredients. Making it available in the store generally requires that the player 'Dismantles' and then re-makes a unit of Gold.

It is significantly cheaper just to buy Hofuds from the store and dismantle them with farmed Alkahest: A Hofud costs 19,200G but yields 2 Gold, which would normally cost 30,000G. Store-bought Gold Breastplates are another good source of Gold, though this requires the player to craft a fairly mediocre armor rather than an extremely useful sword. Another method to obtain a stable source of Gold is to farm and dismantle Ayamurs (dropped by Glashtyn in the Forbidden Underground Waterway), which will yield one Gold per weapon. Dismantling either a Hofud or an Ayamur costs 10 Alkahest.

Things get worse when enhancing the Alchemic Bounty Shard to increase the chance of receiving duplicate items during food preparation and crafting, as each of the Rank 5-7 upgrades requires 9 Gold.

Gold also has a rare chance to spawn in blue chests in the Hidden Desert. One such blue chest is in the same room as the entrance to The Tunnels, a secret area unlocked after reaching the Den of Behemoths. By entering and exiting the Tunnels, the blue chest respawns, allowing the player to obtain steady amounts of Gold (and large quantities of other valuable materials such as Crystal) without resorting to dismantling or crafting.

## Availability

* Rare drop from blue chests the Hidden Desert.
* ×1 obtained by dismantling Ayamur.
* As with all other materials, it can later be obtained by buying any item that used it during its crafting and then dismantling it.
* Can be made purchasable at the shop by crafting it. This can be done by first dismantling the item itself and then crafting it again with the materials obtained.

## Usage

Like almost all materials, Gold is only useful for crafting via Johannes' Alchemy menu in Arvantville.

Gold is one of the materials required for crafting:

* Main Gauche (x1 Gold, x1 Swordbreaker, x1 Steel)
* Kazikli (x1 Gold, x1 Crystal, x1 Misericorde)
* Joyeuse (x1 Gold, x1 Orichalcum, x1 Bixbite, x1 Kazikli)
* Fragarach (x2 Gold, x1 Sword Fragment, x7 Holy Water)
* Hofud (x2 Gold, x1 Sword Fragment, x2 Demon Fang)
* Kaladanda (x1 Gold, x1 Gambanteinn, x1 Mahogany)
* Ayamur (x1 Gold, x1 Mahogany)
* Betelgeuse (x1 Gold, x1 Crystal, x1 Mahogany)
* Ancient Tiara (x1 Gold, x1 Crimsonite, x1 Bixbite)
* Gold Breastplate (x2 Gold)
* Flame Mail (x1 Gold, x1 Bixbite, x5 Flame Rounds, x4 Flame Ring)
* Augment Gold (x1 Gold, x1 Augment LCK (not consumed))

### Enhance

Gold can be used to enhance the following Shards:

* Jackpot Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold)
* Riga Storæma Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Ruby)
* Va Ischa Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Sapphire)
* Va Schia Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Sapphire)
* Teps Salrenda Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Emerald)
* Gold Bullet Ranks 2, 3, 4 (x1 Gold)
* Gold Bullet Ranks 5, 6, 7 (x2 Gold)
* Gold Bullet Ranks 8, 9 (x3 Gold)
* Fald Ciu Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Dark Matter)
* Teps Oceus Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Emerald)
* Fald Taiab Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Dark Matter)
* Riga Dohin Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x2 Ruby)
* Alchemic Bounty Ranks 5, 6, 7 (x9 Gold)
* Augment Gold Ranks 8, 9 (x1 Gold, x1 Ectoplasm)
* Money is Power Ranks 2, 3, 4 (x1 Gold)

It takes a whopping 80 base Gold to craft and enchant everything in the game. This does not include the 12 Gold theoretically needed for crafting ingredients for other items (all of which are weapons, such as eight separate Hofuds); it is recommended to simply buy these weapons instead of crafting them from scratch.