Craftsman

The **Craftsman** is a blacksmith NPC who will randomly appear in rooms while traveling through each stage. They will always appear in a boss stage.

The Craftsman is capable of performing several different actions that improve your weapons, at the cost of  Copper?.

## Enhance

For a certain amount of copper based on the weapon's level, they will enhance an equipped weapon of choice to the next level, which increases its base damage by +15% (Example, a +4 weapon has +60% base damage).

Enhancements can be done up to 2 times at each Craftsman.  Skilled Craftsman talent increases this limit to 3. The  Foundry cannot be enhanced, due to it automatically copying the lowest level currently held weapon.

Weapon Upgrade Costs

## Reforge

For  300? (or  100? in Daily Challenges), they will randomly reforge a ✦ Gemini Inscription of an an equipped weapon into another one. This can be done as long as you have copper, but requires the weapon to already possess a Gemini Inscription.

If a weapon is unable to have a certain Gemini inscription, an icon will appear next to the option. Mousing over the icon will show all inscriptions that cannot be applied.

## Etch

 Legendary Craftsman talent allows the craftsman to etch an extra inscription onto a weapon, up to a maximum of 1 per weapon. It costs  200? for every level the weapon has ( 1000? for +5, for example. The +0 weapon is free to etch.). Early level inscriptions are cheaper, but are often lower rarity. If the weapon is at least level +5 or has 4 existing inscriptions, and has no ✦ Gemini Inscription, the new inscription will always be Gemini.

Temporary levels, such as from  Essence Chain and  Top Gun are also taken into consideration when etching a weapon, making it possible to apply a Gemini inscription at a much lower level than normal.

## Reroll

On Reincarnation difficulty,  Supreme Craftsman allows the player to reroll all inscriptions on a weapon, up to 3 times for each weapon, per Craftsman. Rerolling a weapon does not cost any copper.

## Other Effects on the Craftsman

* Hidden Transaction grants a 33% chance that enhancing a weapon will increase its level by 2, instead of 1. The enhanced version also increases the number of times a weapon can be enhanced by +1.
* Arms Trafficker increases the cost of enhancing weapons to 1000, regardless of the original cost.
	+ If this scroll is chosen in Interdependent Fortune, enemies with this scroll may provide a stackable effect, such that players enhancing weapon will consume the effect and gain 1 extra level.
* Craftsman's Inheritor makes all weapon modifications at the Craftsman cost no  Copper?, at the cost of punishing the player when they carry more than 20 occult scrolls. Maximum number of upgrades, etches and rerolls are still applied.

## Notes

* In Multiplayer, each player gets their own enhancement limit. This allows a single weapon to be shared around and enhanced, making its level very high.
	+ This can be similarly used by giving weapons to a player with  Supreme Craftsman or  Craftsman's Inheritor, letting them reroll inscriptions for the weapon, or reforge and etch it for free.

## Trivia

* The Craftsman is a creature known as a "Pangolin".

## Update History

* 10/21/2023 update: Interacting with Craftsman will now make a sound of hammer and anvil.