Idle Forge — The Ultimate Blacksmith Idle RPG

Configurable auto-sell, and a power indicator that tells the truth
Sep 6, 2026
⚒️ Three player reports, three fixes
Thanks to everyone who took the time to report these in game — all three items below come straight from your messages.

The inventory ▲/▼ indicator was lying
Reported in game: an item flagged as an UPGRADE could actually lower your power. That wasn’t your imagination.

The inventory slot compared items using a simple price table, while your power follows a model where stats multiply and initiative counts for nothing. Measured on

a real case: +55 announced, −24 in reality. Capes were the worst offenders, since they almost always roll initiative.

The game now simulates equipping the item and compares your power before and after. That is the only comparison that cannot be wrong — and it matters, since power

drives the weekly leaderboard and invasion access.

A dedicated article explains the maths: Menu ▸ Encyclopedia ▸ Power.

Auto-sell is properly configurable
A ⚙ button now sits next to the rarities in the Forge.

Every rarity has three states:

Keep — never sold
Filter — sold, unless the item meets your exceptions
Sell — always sold
Your exceptions stack: number of affixes, a specific affix (“at least 2 Attack affixes”), and “its power beats the item you have equipped”.

So you can finally express: sell everything, except divines with at least 2 affixes including 2 Attack.

Most importantly, the screen tells you what your rule produces — “≈ 3 items per 1,000 forged”, with a per-rarity breakdown, before you apply anything. An

auto-sell rule destroys continuously and with no undo: you should not have to guess. Some combinations keep just one item in 20,000, and you cannot tell by reading them.

The Workshop — Lab and Kitchen
The Forge Lab becomes the Workshop: one screen, two stations, a selector to switch between them.

The Kitchen turns 2 fish and 2 seaweed of matching rarity into a dish of that rarity.
A dish restores a percentage of your maximum health over 10 to 12 seconds — unlike a potion, which is instant. A flat-value potion falls off in the late game; a percentage follows your character forever.
Consumables — what was fixed
Dishes were never used in automatic mode. Auto-heal matched items by name rather than by effect, so dishes were simply never candidates.
Everything can now run at the same time, as long as the effects are of different types: a dish, a potion, an attack buff and a defence buff. Never two of the same type.
Luck elixirs did nothing at all. They are now properly applied, and the Forge rates banner shows their effect.
The “while you were away” summary no longer reopens in the middle of a session.

Three linked systems: Fishing, the Mount and Cooking
Sep 3, 2026
Fishing
A new screen at forge level 6. You cast hooks onto the water to bring up fish, seaweed and horseshoes.

The reserve holds up to 50 hooks and refills one every 30 minutes, even while you are offline. Nothing is lost by not sitting in front of the screen.
Three increasingly rich zones, selected by your fishing level. Only the last one yields legendary resources.
Some tiles ripple or wriggle: hitting the right one at the right moment lands a special catch worth three times the experience. A given occurrence only pays once — no point emptying your whole reserve onto it.
A creel sums up what you have caught, and a card shows the real rates of the zone you are in.
The Mount
It feeds on the horseshoes you fish up, and it survives ascension — it never restarts from scratch.

+0.2% damage per level (up to +20%) in the Tower, in PvP and against guild bosses.
-0.5% upgrade time per level (up to -50%). The upgrades panel now shows the duration actually applied, not the raw one.
Ten creatures, hand-drawn and hand-animated, one per 10-level tier: war hound, sphinx, fire drake, griffin, pegasus, cerberus, royal griffin, ice dragon, phoenix, eternal dragon.
Each has its own setting — from a dirt kennel to a cosmic sanctum. Crossing a tier is something you can see.
Changing shape requires an Evolution Core, crafted in the Lab. Experience earned before you have one is never lost: it piles up and pours in at once.
A medallion on your character sheet shows your mount and its level, and takes you to its screen in one click.

Beginner Objectives
The seven-day screen is the first thing a new account sees, and it looked like nothing worth claiming. It now carries the forge’s own atmosphere: rising embers, a medallion on the selected day, turning rays on the tier you can actually claim, a progress chain under the seven plates, and a burst of sparks when you claim.

All of it is purely decorative, and it switches off entirely if your device is set to reduced motion.

Tutorial
The tutorial now walks you through the player menu and its three screens that have no other entry point: patch notes, the roadmap, and bug reports. Clicking the highlighted entry no longer derails the rest of the tour.
The step counter no longer changes its total halfway through: it used to show “1 / 18” then “2 / 17”.
The highlight ring no longer stays parked on an unrelated element when its target disappears.
The forge level-up celebration no longer swallows the first click of the next step.