Welcome to Elderfield Best Weapons — Forge Recipes and Top Gear

There is no developer-blessed tier list for Welcome to Elderfield, so the honest answer to "best weapons" is: the community wiki lists every weapon with the stats pulled from the game database, and the top of that list sits around item level 5. What you actually want depends on whether your build leans on physical Attack or on Magic Attack and rituals, because the strongest blades and the strongest staffs trade very different stats.

How Weapons Work in Elderfield

Weapons are crafted at the Forge, and each tier upgrades the previous one rather than starting from scratch: an Iron Shortsword consumes a Copper Shortsword, four Iron Bar and two Leather, and the Copper Shortsword before it consumes a Stone Shortsword, three Copper Bar, one String and four Wood. That chain means the metal bars, String and Leather you gather early decide how fast you climb the tiers. The community wiki's Forging page is flagged as possibly outdated, so treat individual recipes as to confirm until you check them in your current build.

Weapon	Item level	Key materials	Recipe source
Stone Shortsword	1	6 Stone, 4 Wood	Automatic at the Forge
Copper Shortsword	2	1 Stone Shortsword, 3 Copper Bar, 1 String, 4 Wood	Automatic at the Forge
Iron Shortsword	3	1 Copper Shortsword, 4 Iron Bar, 2 Leather	Automatic at the Forge
Wooden Staff	1	2 Stone, 6 Wood	Automatic at the Forge
Iron Staff	3	1 Copper Staff, 4 Iron Bar, 2 Leather	Automatic at the Forge
Metal Bat	2	4 Copper Bar, 4 Wood, 2 Leather	Automatic at the Forge
Staff of Darkness	3	5 Iron Bar, 3 Gold Bar, 2 Void Crystal Bar, 15 Wood, 4 Leather	Automatic at the Forge
Blade of Darkness	3	5 Iron Bar, 3 Gold Bar, 2 Void Crystal Bar, 15 Wood, 4 Leather	Automatic at the Forge
Verdite Greatsword	4	6 Verdite Bar, 4 Green Crystal, 4 Void Crystal Bar, 10 Spiritwood, 8 Leather	Requires Forge Upgrade (t2)

The Top End of the Weapon List

The strongest documented weapons are the Verdite and Platinum lines, both gated behind Forge Upgrade (t2). Verdite opens at item level 4 with the Verdite Greatsword, Verdite Quickblade and Verdite Staff, and Platinum sits above it with the Platinum Quickblade and Platinum Staff, which consume their Verdite counterparts plus Void Sphere or Beating Heart. Above attacking gear, the utility weapons are worth knowing because a few carry effects no sword can match.

Weapon	Documented effect	Source
Staff of Darkness	Attacks deal Darkness; may cause Fear; Basic Attack becomes Energy Shot	Craft at Anvil
Staff of Valtris	Attacks deal Insight; Basic Attack becomes Energy Shot	Mine Armor Roll lv2
Large Wrench	+25% chance for Basic Attacks to add +1	Found in Mall F1 Office 4
Pumpkin-Carver	Damaging attacks have a 5% chance to generate +1 AP	Greystone Estates - Rooftop
Rapier of the Dead God	Large Attack and Magic Attack, from an Ancient Totem	From Ancient Totem
Axe of Misfortune	Attack +25 but Luck -100	God Shrine Sewer f1

The extra AP effects are the ones that quietly change fights. Action points drive the turn economy, so a Large Wrench or Pumpkin-Carver can be worth more than a higher raw Attack number if your plan depends on squeezing out one more action.

Upgrade Gems and Stat Trade-offs

The Weapons wiki page keeps upgrade gems in their own section, split into four bands: item level 0–5, item level 0–10, item level 10–15 and any item level. Those gems are how a finished weapon is pushed past its base numbers, and because the page groups them by level band rather than by weapon, the practical rule is to match the gem band to the weapon's current item level and re-check after any patch.

• Blades buy Attack with Agility, Hit Rate and Magic Attack; the Triangle and Poison Greatswords push Attack near the top while cutting Agility hard.
• Staffs trade raw physical Attack for Magic Attack and MP Cost Rate, and several reroute your Basic Attack into Energy Shot.
• Utility weapons are the only source of the +1 AP effects, so keep one even after you outgrow its Attack.
• Weapons that deal Light, Darkness, Curse or Insanity damage are worth keeping for enemies that resist your main damage type.

The practical buying order that falls out of the table: clear the Stone and Copper tier at the Forge while you learn the combat system, bank Iron Bars and Leather for the item level 3 blades and staffs, then push Forge Upgrade (t2) so the Verdite recipes appear before you start spending Gold Bar and Void Crystal Bar on anything else.

• Stone and Copper tier: cheap, automatic at the Forge, and enough for the starting areas.
• Iron tier: needs Leather, so run the Bloody Skin chain first.
• Verdite tier: requires Forge Upgrade (t2) before any recipe appears.
• Platinum tier: consumes the Verdite version plus a Void Sphere or Beating Heart.
• Utility tier: keep a Large Wrench or Pumpkin-Carver for the +1 AP effects.

What "Best" Actually Means Here

Because the wiki publishes raw database stats, "best" resolves into three separate questions: highest Attack, highest Magic Attack, and best effect per action. Pick the frame that matches your build, then let the tips page's rule about supplies decide how deep you push. Armour and accessory pages are referenced from the same wiki but are not part of this page, and exact gem rolls per level band are not documented yet, so verify them in-game.