MapleStory Classic Arcforge Guide: Gems, Scrolls and Leveling

Checked against v1.0.0 on October 29, 2026.

Arcforge is MapleStory Classic World's jewel and magic craft. Chrishrama teaches it in Sleepywood. It refines ore into gems, turns Leather into Processed Parchment, combines both into 100% Lesser scrolls, and makes Magician wands and staves from level 15 to 40. This MapleStory Classic Arcforge guide lists every recipe you can make at launch, explains where the gem money goes, compares crafted scrolls with Tulcus's shop, and prices two routes from craft level 1 to 8. For how the six crafts fit together, see our crafting guide.

Quick summary

• Chrishrama is in Sleepywood at (1089, 434). His level 10 starter asks for 30 Dark Stumps and 1 Garnet Ore. A weekly quest pays an Arcforging Kit, and a level 25 quest pays a Scroll Crafting Catalyst (MapleStory Quest).
• 39 craftable recipes: 10 gem and parchment materials, 18 Lesser scrolls and 8 wands and staves (266,200 mesos in fees and 1,906 craft EXP, one of each; MapleStory Quest), plus 3 house items added at Grand Launch (henesys.gg).
• Gems are mostly break-even. Each gem's fee equals its NPC sell price, so refining costs only the ore. Black Crystal is the exception: a 1,200 fee for a gem that sells for 2,500 (client data).
• Reaching craft level 8 takes 4,583 craft EXP on the release table (MapleStory Quest), about 330 gem ores on the cheapest route (our math).
• Eleven Lesser scrolls can't be bought anywhere recorded, including all four Earring stat scrolls. Arcforge is the only recorded source (MapleStory Quest; NiaMeowDB).

How to unlock Arcforge: Chrishrama's quests

Chrishrama stands in Sleepywood, the dungeon town south of Ellinia (map: our Sleepywood guide).

Quest	Level	Needs	EXP (CoT2 → release)	Mesos	Reward
Chrishrama in Need of an Apprentice	10	30 Dark Stumps, 1 Garnet Ore	171 → 188	351	Unlocks Arcforge
Chrishrama in Need of Help (weekly)	15	Arcforge 2; 25 Green Mushrooms, 10 Fragments of Magic	705 → 669	497	Arcforging Kit; "1 of 6 offered per weekly rotation"
An Arcforger in My Own Right!	25	Arcforge 5; 30 Horny Mushrooms, 1 Topaz	2,587 → 3,060	804	Scroll Crafting Catalyst
A Price to Pay (Citizenship)	47	Henesys Grade 8; 50 Drake Skulls	11,400	1,477	20 Blue Potions, 180 contribution
A Man Atoning (Citizenship)	47	After A Price to Pay	11,400	1,477	180 contribution

Arcforge EXP table: craft levels 1 to 8

Craft level	Craft EXP to next	Total EXP	Character level needed
1	50	0	10 (quest)
2	166	50	10
3	319	216	15
4	521	535	20
5	787	1,056	25
6	1,138	1,843	30
7	1,602	2,981	35
8	cap at launch	4,583	40

Recipe EXP follows a fixed pattern in the client data: gems pay 3 × the recipe level, wands and staves pay 20 × the level, and scrolls pay 10 × the level, except the level 2 Hat scrolls, which pay 40. Crafting still stops at craft level 8 after Grand Launch; the craft level 9 and 10 recipes are in the files but can't be made yet (henesys.gg).

Arcforge gem refining and Black Crystal profit

Every gem recipe takes 1 ore. This is client data: MapleStory Quest's item pages and the wiki's recipe table both show "× 1."

Gem	Craft Lv	Fee = gem's NPC price	Ore's NPC price	Craft EXP	Ore drops from (wiki, pre-launch)
Garnet	1	200	40	3	Snail, about 1/103
Aquamarine	1	200	40	3	Octopus, about 1/23
Emerald	2	400	80	6	Stump about 1/207; Green Mushroom about 1/620
Topaz	2	400	80	6	Pig about 1/249; Horny Mushroom about 1/317
Sapphire	3	600	120	9	Slime, about 1/385
Opal	4	800	160	12	Red Snail, about 1/91
Amethyst	5	1,000	200	15	Blue Snail (no rate listed)
Diamond	6	1,200	240	18	Drake, Croco, Fire Boar (MapleStory Quest older tables, 0.7%)
Black Crystal	6	1,200	2,500 gem / 500 ore	18	Malady, Stone Golem, Wild Kargo (MapleStory Quest older tables, 0.7%)
Processed Parchment	2	200	Leather ×3 (10 each)	6	Pigs, Boars, Lupins (20%)

Rowen the Fairy's level 36 quest "Collecting 70 Cursed Dolls" pays 10 random ores (wiki). Every ore's drop sources and Smithing's ingot recipes are in our ore guide.

Gems feed other crafts too. Weaponcrafting's Niam axe takes 3 Emeralds and The Rising takes 6 Diamonds, so a Fighter who also runs Arcforge supplies their own weapon line (see our axes guide).

What the fee means for your mesos (our math): a refined gem sells for exactly its fee, so a 400-meso Topaz craft pays 400 back if you vendor it. The real cost is the ore you didn't sell (80 mesos). Black Crystal pays 2,500 for a 1,200 fee, so each refine earns 1,300 mesos over the fee, or 800 more than vendoring the ore. Processed Parchment sells for 10 mesos, so making it to sell loses 190 per craft. Only make it for scrolls.

Arcforge scroll crafting: 18 Lesser scrolls

Every Lesser scroll is 1 Processed Parchment + 10 Fragments of Magic + 3 gems, plus a fee. Lessers "succeed 100% of the time" (MapleStory Quest). Fragments of Magic drop from Octopus (about 1 in 23) and Green Mushroom (about 1 in 124) (wiki).

Scroll	Craft Lv	Gem ×3	Effect	Fee	Craft EXP	Tulcus price (NiaMeowDB)	Craft cost (fee + parchment + gems, our math)
Hat Accuracy	2	Garnet	+1 accuracy	10,000	40	20,000	10,800
Hat HP	2	Topaz	+10 max HP	10,000	40	20,000	11,400
Hat MP	2	Emerald	+10 max MP	10,000	40	20,000	11,400
Topwear HP / MP	3	Topaz / Emerald	+10 max HP / MP	10,000	30	not sold	11,400
Bottomwear HP / MP	4	Topaz / Emerald	+10 max HP / MP	10,000	40	not sold	11,400
Overall Armor DEF	5	Diamond	+2 weapon def.	10,000	50	40,000	13,800
Shield DEF	5	Diamond	+2 weapon def.	10,000	50	20,000	13,800
Shield Accuracy	5	Garnet	+1 accuracy	10,000	50	not sold	10,800
Shoes Jump / Speed	6	Aquamarine / Amethyst	+1 jump / +1 speed	10,000	60	not sold	10,800 / 13,200
Cape Weapon Def.	7	Diamond	+2 weapon def.	10,000	70	40,000	13,800
Cape Magic Def.	7	Sapphire	+2 magic def.	10,000	70	40,000	12,000
Earring STR / DEX / INT / LUK	8	Black Crystal	+1 stat	20,000	80	not sold	27,700

Our "craft cost" counts the fee, the 200-meso parchment fee, and each gem at its NPC sell price. Leather and Fragments are counted as farmed. Tulcus stands in The Swamp of Despair II near Kerning City. "Not sold" means NiaMeowDB's and MapleStory Quest's recorded shops don't stock it. Earring scrolls cost 10,000 in the test builds and 20,000 since v1.0.0; the cape Weapon Def. and Magic Def. scrolls stayed at 10,000 (henesys.gg).

Scroll Crafting Catalyst: using it while you craft a Lesser gives a chance that the scroll comes out Intermediate, Greater or Chaos of the same category instead (NiaMeowDB item text). That makes Arcforge one of the few launch sources of Chaos scrolls; the Monstrous Tree Stumpy quest is another, with a Gloves Crit. Rate Scroll: Chaos as its reward (NiaMeowDB). Odds and families are in our scrolling guide. Earring and cape picks are in the earrings and capes guides.

Arcforge wands and staves for Magicians

Weapon	Craft Lv	Req. level	Magic / weapon attack	Materials	Fee = NPC price	Craft EXP	Flora's price (NiaMeowDB)
Sapphire Staff	3	15	31 / 25	3 Silver Ingot, 2 Sapphire, 9 Screw	2,500	60	5,000
Emerald Staff	3	15	31 / 25	3 Silver Ingot, 2 Emerald, 9 Screw	2,500	60	5,000
Metal Wand	4	20	41 / 21	4 Iron Ingot, 30 Blue Mushroom Cap, 12 Screw	3,500	80	10,500
Ice Wand	5	25	48 / 24	5 Mithril Ingot, 1 Piece of Ice, 15 Screw	4,500	100	13,500
Wizard Staff	5	25	45 / 35	5 Silver Ingot, 1 Topaz, 2 Amethyst, 15 Screw	4,500	100	13,500
Mithril Wand	6	30	55 / 27	6 Mithril Ingot, 4 Aquamarine, 18 Screw	5,500	120	not listed
Wizard Wand	7	35	62 / 43	7 Mithril Ingot, 5 Topaz, 21 Screw	7,500	140	not sold at release
Fairy Wand	8	40	69 / 48	8 Topaz, 3 Sapphire, 3 Diamond, 1 Fairy Wing, 24 Screw	9,500	160	not sold

All eight have 7 upgrade slots (MapleStory Quest). Ingots come from Smithing at 5 ore each, and Screws come from Weaponcrafting (1 Bronze + 1 Iron Ingot makes 10). How these compare with shop and drop wands is in our wands and staves guide, and Magician training spots are in our Magician guide.

Arcforge house items added at Grand Launch

Grand Launch gave every discipline a station and some furniture for player housing. Arcforge's three (henesys.gg, launch client):

Item	Craft Lv	Materials	Fee	Craft EXP
Arcane Station	3	5 Gold Ingot, 50 Fragment of Magic, 20 Processed Wood, 20 Screw	100,000	60
Brass Candlestick	3	10 Bronze Ingot, 10 Fragment of Magic	15,000	60
Flower Bud Ceiling Light	4	5 Silver Ingot, 25 Fairy's Tentacle, 10 Fragment of Magic	20,000	80

None of them is a good EXP recipe: at craft level 3, 60 EXP for a 15,000 or 100,000 fee is far worse than gems, which pay their fee back. Make them for your house, not for levels. Our housing guide covers what stations and furniture do.

Arcforge leveling guide: 1 to 8

Both routes use the release table (4,583 EXP). "Net" is fees minus the NPC sell price of what you make, with farmed materials counted as free. Ore value you give up is listed separately. All figures are our math from client data.

Route A, the gem ladder (fewest materials)

Craft Lv	Craft	Count	EXP	Fees (all paid back on sale)
1	Garnet or Aquamarine	17	51	3,400
2	Emerald or Topaz	28	168	11,200
3	Sapphire	36	324	21,600
4	Opal	43	516	34,400
5	Amethyst	53	795	53,000
6–7	Diamond	152	2,736	182,400
Total		329 ores	4,590	306,000 fees, net 0

The ore you'd otherwise vendor is worth about 61,200 mesos, close to planet-helper's 61,600 net. Swap Diamonds for Black Crystals at levels 6–7, and the same 152 crafts sell for 197,600 mesos more than their fees. The catch is supply: Black Crystal Ore drops at 0.7% from level 55+ monsters in the older tables. Carry about 1,200 mesos per craft as float, since each fee is paid before the gem sells.

Route B, the Magician gear ladder

Craft Lv	Craft	Count	EXP
1–2	Aquamarine (kept) and Topaz (kept)	36 + 60	468
3	Sapphire + Sapphire Staff	4 + 2	156
4	Metal Wand	6	480
5	Ice Wand	8	800
6	Mithril Wand	9	1,080
7	Wizard Wand	12	1,680
Total			4,664

Fees come to 235,100 mesos. Vendoring the 37 weapons returns 201,500, so the net is about 33,600: the gem fees, since those gems end up inside the wands. Materials are far heavier: 178 Mithril Ingots (890 Mithril Ore), 624 Screws (63 Screw crafts) and 180 Blue Mushroom Caps. Pick Route B only if you're already running Smithing and Weaponcrafting, or you're selling wands to other players.

Mixed advice (our assessment): level on gems, and craft scrolls and wands only when you'll use them. A crafted Overall DEF or Cape scroll saves about 26,000 mesos over Tulcus, and a crafted Ice Wand saves 9,000 over Flora before materials.

Example: a level 28 Magician with Arcforge 4 needs a Metal Wand and has a stack of gem ores saved. Refining Opals to craft level 5 costs only the ore value, after which the Ice Wand recipe (level 25 to equip) opens. Five Mithril Ingots and a Piece of Ice later, the Magician has a 48 magic attack wand for a 4,500 fee instead of Flora's 13,500.

Arcforge for alts and returning players

• Magician alts: a crafted Ice Wand costs a 4,500 fee (paid back if you vendor it), compared with Flora's 13,500 (MapleStory Quest; NiaMeowDB).
• Funding alts: a Black Crystal refine earns 1,300 mesos over its fee. More money-making ideas are in our mesos guide.
• Returning from original MapleStory: Lesser scrolls here are 100% scrolls, not the old 10% or 60% tiers, and gems take 1 ore, not 10 (MapleStory Quest).
• Run the weekly: Chrishrama's weekly is "1 of 6" crafting weeklies, so you won't see it every week (MapleStory Quest).

Want a hand with this?

If you would rather not grind this part yourself, MapleStory Classic powerleveling services are listed on FullBoosts. Read Nexon's Terms of Service before you buy any service from anyone, FullBoosts included — a marketplace listing isn't publisher permission.

What changed for Arcforge at Grand Launch

Grand Launch (v1.0.0, October 21, 2026) left the Arcforge recipes in this guide unchanged and kept the craft level 8 cap. It added the three house items above. The one fee change is older: nine Lesser cape, earring and glove scroll recipes rose from 10,000 to 20,000 mesos at Founder's Access (October 6), not at Grand Launch, per henesys.gg's update notes. In Arcforge that covers the four Earring stat scrolls and the cape stat scrolls at craft level 10, which can't be made yet; the cape Weapon Def. and Magic Def. scrolls stay at 10,000 (henesys.gg; Nexon's Grand Launch release notes and the launch client).

FAQ

Where do I learn Arcforge in MapleStory Classic? From Chrishrama in Sleepywood, at level 10. Defeat 30 Dark Stumps and bring 1 Garnet Ore (MapleStory Quest). Each gem then takes just 1 ore plus a fee equal to the gem's NPC price.

Is Arcforge profitable? Mostly break-even. Gems sell for exactly their fee, except Black Crystal, which sells for 2,500 against a 1,200 fee. Scrolls save mesos only if you'd otherwise buy them from Tulcus (our math).

Where do Fragments of Magic drop? Octopus (about 1 in 23) and Green Mushroom (about 1 in 124), per the wiki. Every scroll recipe needs 10.

How do I craft Chaos scrolls? Use a Scroll Crafting Catalyst while crafting a Lesser scroll, for a chance at Intermediate, Greater or Chaos (NiaMeowDB). The catalyst is the reward for "An Arcforger in My Own Right!"

How much craft EXP does Arcforge level 8 take? 4,583 in total on the release table, and your character must be level 35 to earn EXP at craft level 7 (MapleStory Quest; wiki). Earring stat scrolls, sold in no recorded shop, unlock at craft level 8.

Related guides

• MapleStory Classic crafting guide: all six professions
• MapleStory Classic scrolling guide: scroll tiers
• MapleStory Classic wands and staves guide
• MapleStory Classic ore guide: ores, drops, ingots and gems
• MapleStory Classic earrings guide
• MapleStory Classic hub