As you might have already guessed, the basic starting equipment you get in Soulframe is far from the best the game has to offer, and replacing it with more powerful armour, and different weapons, is a vital aspect of progressing and improving your character.

However, the game doesn’t currently do much to explain how you can obtain new equipment, and you don’t find any by looting enemies or treasure chests. So what are you supposed to do?

In this quick guide, we will explain how you can obtain new weapons, armour and talismans in Soulframe. This guide is up to date with Soulframe Preludes 11.

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How to Get Better Equipment in Soulframe

Unlike many games, Soulframe doesn’t typically allow players to get new weapons and armour directly from looting containers or enemies that they encounter. This can leave some players feeling a bit unsure after they play the game for a couple of hours and don’t have any new gear to show for it.

In Soulframe, (almost) all equippable items are obtained by crafting them. This is a multi-stage process, and before you can get started, you’ll need to recruit the Blacksmith Tuvalkane to your Nightfold camp.

Once you’ve recruited her, you can visit her at any time in the Nightfold to view the items that you can craft.

Crafting an item has the following prerequisites:

  • Fragments – Each item requires a certain number of fragments to be found before it can be crafted. These are found randomly when looting containers in Soulframe, particularly the rare treasure chests (with a flower painted on them), the large Ode’n Chests (found in enemy camps) or boss chests (often located near a Bannaret boss, requiring a key to open). Fragments can also be farmed in the Crypt of the Circade, but this process can be a little inconsistent. Rarer items (which are usually more powerful) require more fragments to craft. The most common items only require one fragment, so you can craft them pretty early on.
  • Crafting Materials – Every item requires three crafting materials (in quantities) in addition to the Fragments. There is a wide range of crafting materials, including scrap metals, wood, rare stones and quenching acids. I’ll explain a bit more about how you can obtain them later in the guide, but the tldr is to loot everything, harvest plants and smash every breakable container you come across.
  • Dracs – Each item Tuvalkane crafts also costs some Dracs, usually a few thousand. Dracs are easily obtained by simply playing the game and looting everything.
  • Tuvalkane’s Rank – Every item she crafts will add XP, eventually ranking up Tuvalkane. Some items can be crafted immediately, but the best ones are locked behind higher ranks. Keep crafting new items to increase her rank, as this is currently the only way to obtain most of the equipment in the game. You can XP farm by crafting lots of cheap duplicate items.

Once you have everything you need, get Tuvalkane to craft the item for you. You’ll need to wait some time for it to complete, usually between 4 and 26 hours, depending on how rare the item is. The timer keeps ticking even when you are offline. When the timer is complete, return to Tuvalkane and view the Assembled tab, where you can claim your new items.

Some classes are also unlocked via crafting, along with a plethora of powerful weapons and armour, so it’s worth getting this stuff done – the sooner, the better.

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How to Upgrade Weapons

You can go to the Reforge tab to upgrade your weapons with Joineries, a special type of crafting material that can increase a weapon’s damage, apply additional weapon effects and even change which of the three Virtues your weapon is attuned to.

Reforging will also consume the same crafting materials that were initially used to craft the item. Unlike regular crafting, Reforging is completed instantly

For more detailed information about Reforging and Joineries, including a list of all Joineries in Soulframe along with their effects, please see our Reforging & Joineries Guide.

Where to Obtain Crafting Materials in Soulframe

You’ll need to find a lot of Crafting Materials in Soulframe if you want to craft everything, and there is currently no in-game guide explaining where you need to look to find items.

In general, looting everything you come across will earn you a wide variety of crafting materials in good quantities. I recommend farming the Faction Tale quests, particularly the two and three star ones, because they will naturally lead you to locations with lots of loot, increasing your Faction Standing in the process (another vital progression system which we discussed in our Soulframe Factions Guide).

However, here are some pointers on where you should look for different kinds of items:

  • Common Crafting Materials – Common items such as Knotwood and Patch Leather are very easy to find. They drop from regular treasure chests, enemies (loot the small sack that sometimes drops next to a fallen enemy) and sometimes fall out of crates, barrels and other containers when you break them with your weapon. Loot everything and break every container, and you’ll soon accumulate a large stockpile of these materials.
  • Ode’n Crafting Materials – Such as Corrupt Onyx and Ode’n Synsilk. These are very similar to Common Crafting Materials, but they only drop from Ode’n sources, such as looting them from their bodies or from treasure chests found in their encampments. They are visually distinct from other treasure chests, being made from black metal, so they can be easily identified.
  • Rare Crafting Materials – Items such as Gossamer Quartz, Moranite and Sappheline. These look similar to the common materials but have a much lower drop rate. They don’t normally drop from regular loot, but will only be found in rare treasure chests or in the Crypt of the Circade. Avakot will sometimes sell them – he can often be found outside the Undercity (well entrance) and Faction Tale quests sometimes lead you to him. It is common to run into the problem of lacking these items when you begin crafting rare weapons and armour. Farming them is possible, but it can be time-consuming and frustrating.
  • Scrap Metal – Many items require Scrap Iron, Scrap Steel or Scrap Brass. These can be obtained by looting the weapon racks commonly found in dungeons (particularly the Undercity) and around enemy encampments. Fort Curlail is a great location to farm these, as there are lots of weapon racks in the fort. But the enemies there are around Level 25, so new players will struggle (you can run away from the enemies and loot everything while on the run, though).
    • Scrap Brass seems to drop more often from weapon racks in Ode’n Encampments (including Fort Curlail), but I haven’t tested this enough to confirm it for certain.
  • Quenching Acid – Some of the harvestable plants in the game yield Quenching Acid when you harvest them. The plants usually glow red or yellow and are a bit smaller than the other plants that give dye ingredients.
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