Smith Yourself

Intro
This mod adds a craftable anvil that lets you upgrade tools, weapons, boots and open geodes. Handle all your blacksmithing needs yourself.

• After receiving the rusty sword, Marlon will mail you a pair of old boots to help you get started.
• After joining the Adventurer's Guild, Marlon will mail you an anvil.
• You can also buy one from the Guild Shop for 2,500g.
• Rusty weapons and starter boots are upgradable and available in the Guild Shop.

Main Features

• Upgrade tools, weapons, and boots using a timing-based mini-game.
• Break open geodes and mystery boxes at your own anvil.
• Your skill level reduces difficulty and can save materials on high scores.
• Supports axes, pickaxes, hoes, watering cans, fishing rods, scythes, pans, trash cans, backpacks, and trinkets.
• Custom weapons and boots with full upgrade paths.
• Four mini-game difficulty settings: Normal, Simple, Hard, and Skip.
• Fully configurable through Generic Mod Config Menu.

How to Use

• Equip the item you want to upgrade.
• Make sure you have the required materials in your inventory.
• Interact with the anvil and play the mini-game to build your score.
• A high score can save 25% of the required materials.
• Failure does not upgrade the item but still costs 25% of the materials.
• Interacting with the anvil while holding nothing opens a manual showing all upgrade costs — updated live based on your config.

To open geodes: hold a geode or mystery box and interact with the anvil. 

Mini-game Difficulty
Choose your preferred difficulty in the config menu:

• Normal – standard number of hits per tier.
• Simple – single hit only.
• Hard – 2 extra hits per tier, and the bar speeds up after each hit. The speed increment is configurable.
• Skip – upgrade instantly without the mini-game.

Upgrade Paths
Basic tools follow the same material tiers as vanilla, but all costs can be changed in the config.

Fishing Rods

• Bamboo Pole → Training Rod → Fiberglass Rod → Iridium Rod → Advanced Iridium Rod
• The Training Rod upgrade is skipped by default and can be re-enabled in the config.
  
  Requirements: 
• Bamboo → Training: 100 wood
• Training → Fiberglass: 10 refined quartz
• Fiberglass → Iridium: 5 iridium bars
• Iridium → Advanced: 40 iridium bars 

Scythes

• Scythe → Golden Scythe: 25 gold bars
• Golden Scythe → Iridium Scythe: 40 iridium bars

Trash Cans

• Each tier costs the standard material (e.g. 5 copper bars). Hold a trash item when interacting.

Backpacks

• 12 Slots → 24 Slots: 50 fiber
• 24 Slots → 36 Slots: 3 cloth

Trinkets

• Each upgrade costs 3 iridium bars (configurable).
• Upgrades can jump levels randomly — stats only ever improve, staying within vanilla limits.
• Magic Quiver paths:
• Regular → Rapid / Heavy / Perfect
• Rapid → Rapid / Perfect
• Heavy → Heavy / Perfect
• Perfect cannot be upgraded further.

Weapons

• Three rusty starter weapons — sword, mace, and dagger — can be bought from the Guild Shop and upgraded.
• Each tier costs the same as standard tools (5x copper bars → 5x iron bars, etc.).
• The final tier requires 20x iridium bars and 10x star shards.

Boots

• Starter boots can be upgraded through five tiers, each improving defence and movement speed.
• Each tier costs the same as standard tools (5x copper bars → 5x iron bars, etc.).

Skill Requirements
Your relevant skill level reduces mini-game difficulty and can lower material costs on high scores.

• Axe → Foraging
• Pickaxe & Pan → Mining
• Hoe, Watering Can & Scythe → Farming
• Fishing Rod → Fishing
• Trash Can & Backpack → Overall Farmer Level
• Weapons, Boots & Trinkets → Combat

Installation

• Install the latest version of SMAPI.
• Install Generic Mod Config Menu.
• Unzip this mod into Stardew Valley/Mods.
• Run the game through SMAPI.

Credits

• Deedlit82 – ideas, art, testing, and motivation to keep improving the mod
• chu/e (Stardew Valley Discord) – support
• No3371 – mini-game concept
• donutbunnybunny – Korean translation

See Also

• Source Code
• Enchanted Galaxy and Infinity Weapons