Essential Tips for New Miners: Crafting Recipes and Gear Upgrades in The Forge

The Forge—a blend of RPG and mining sim on Roblox—throws a lot at you right from the start with its quests, cave exploration, and crafting mechanics. It leans more heavily into the RPG elements than I expected, and when the tutorials wrapped up, I found myself a bit lost.

After numerous attempts and a fair share of blunders, I’ve finally grasped the mechanics and am ready to share some essential tips for newcomers looking to level up and master mining in The Forge.

You’ll find that many quests in The Forge have overlapping goals, and I haven’t hit a limit on how many you can take on at once. To streamline your experience, chat with every NPC you encounter and accept all the tasks they offer.

Most quests are straightforward and serve as a great introduction to the game’s mechanics—like learning to mine Stone—while others will require some serious grinding. As I write this, I have three active quests that involve taking down Rogue Skeletons, but every skeleton I defeat with my katana brings me closer to completing them.

For those familiar with Roblox, it’s no surprise that the cash shop is packed with various mining bonuses and inventory upgrades. Luckily, The Forge frequently releases new codes that grant free items like Luck Totems (boosting your mining Luck by 25%) and Rerolls (which allow you to randomly change your character’s race).

One crucial piece of advice I keep hearing is to avoid buying every pickaxe upgrade available in the shop. Trust me, I made that mistake and ended up wasting resources. You’ll naturally progress to the Iron Pickaxe through Sensei Moro’s quests, then you can upgrade to the Cobalt Pickaxe for $10,000 at Miner Fred’s Forgotten Kingdom shop. After that, hold off until you can afford the Mythril Pickaxe for $67,500, and skip the others. You can also obtain the Arcane Pickaxe after completing another quest, and it outperforms everything else in the shop.

For those looking to optimize their crafting, I recommend using a resource calculator for ore recipes. Just select a resource goal from the top bar (like planning or DPS), input your inventory numbers, and let the calculator do the heavy lifting.

This tool is especially useful for optimizing ore recipes when your inventory is full. I often farm nodes mindlessly as a secondary task, then input the data afterward to craft and boost my earnings.

I wish I had figured this out sooner, but yes, the crafting minigame in The Forge affects the quality of your creations. Poor performance can hurt your profits, so make sure to time your hammer hits carefully.

Crafting in The Forge resembles a rhythm game, so my experience with rhythm titles came in handy, but it might be challenging for those unfamiliar with the mechanics. You can skip the first two steps with the Fast Forge pass, but that costs Robux and may not be worth it since the fourth sequence is the toughest, and you still have to complete it.