Exotic Affix Forge¶

The Exotic Affix Forge is the endgame refinement station. Where the Affix Forge rolls dice for you, the Exotic Forge lets you choose: pick an affix to refine or remove, pick an empty slot to fill, or reforge the whole item. Each operation costs millions of FE and several Exotic Affix Catalysts, and every operation on the same item makes the next one more expensive.

The Exotic Forge refines items only. Placed machines still use their own Refinement tab.

Obtaining¶

Crafting¶

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Notes
Exotic Affix Forge Ascension Matrix + Nullifier Coil + Naquadah Plate + Exotic Machine Frame + Chaos Crystal + Nullite Coil		Requires the Nullite material to be enabled.
Exotic Affix Catalyst Ascension Matrix + Nullifier Coil + Naquadah Plate + Chaos Crystal + Nullite Coil		Requires the Nullite material to be enabled.

Neither the forge nor the catalyst rolls rarity or affixes. Both recipes need the Nullite material to be enabled.

Breaking¶

Mine a placed Exotic Affix Forge with a pickaxe. It drops itself and everything in its slots, including the Battery Cell.

Usage¶

Running an operation¶

Supply FE to any side of the forge.
Put a refinable item in the target slot and Exotic Affix Catalysts in the catalyst slot. The forge accepts the same items as the Affix Forge: machine items, machine parts, Battery Cells, and other identified gear that is neither Unique nor Corrupted. The status readout shows Corrupted for a Corrupted target.
Choose an operation. Operations that work on one affix or one empty slot also need you to select it.
Click Apply. The forge does not start on its own.

While the operation runs, the operation and selection controls are locked. When it finishes, the forge uses up the target and catalysts, spends the item's Refinement Potential, and puts the refined item in the output slot. Empty the output slot before the next operation.

Power failure¶

The forge draws FE every tick while it works. Each tick it cannot draw enough fills the power-failure meter a little, and each powered tick drains it again. After 100 unpowered ticks (5 seconds) the meter is full: the operation fails with an audible cue, progress resets, and the button changes to Retry.

A failure keeps your item, catalysts, and RP. Only the FE already spent is lost. Make sure your supply, plus the internal buffer and Battery Cell, can carry the whole operation.

Operations¶

Operation	Effect	Selection
Refine All	Rerolls the value of every affix within its current tier.	None
Upgrade Random	Upgrades one random affix, like an Affix Upgrader.	None
Refine Selected	Rerolls the value of one affix within its current tier.	One affix
Remove Selected	Removes one rolled affix. Fixed identity traits cannot be removed.	One affix
Add Modifier	Adds a legal affix to an empty prefix or suffix slot.	One empty slot
Reforge	Rerolls rarity, Refinement Potential, and affixes as if the item were newly crafted. Stored energy and the item's Exotic Forge history are kept. Works even on an item with 0 RP.	None

If a reforged Battery Cell rolls a smaller capacity, any stored energy above the new capacity is lost.

The forge refuses to start, and uses nothing, if the item cannot be refined, has too little RP, lacks a selection, or the operation is not legal for it.

Rising costs¶

The forge records how many times it has worked on each item, both in total and per operation. Every successful operation raises the FE and catalyst cost of the next one on that item, up to 16 catalysts per operation. Each earlier operation adds 35% to 75% of the base cost, depending on the operation, and each earlier use of the same operation adds another 50% to 100%. For example, a second Reforge on the same item costs 2.5 times the first. The time does not grow, so the FE drawn per tick rises with the cost. A fresh item costs the base amounts shown in the table below, unless the server config scales FE or time.

Gear¶

The Gear tab has one optional Battery Cell slot. Any Battery Cell fits. The forge also has a 2,000,000 FE internal buffer and no input limit of its own: it takes FE as fast as its buffer and cell have room and your supply or connector tier allows. A large cell lets a long operation keep running when your supply cannot match the draw.

Automation¶

Side	Behavior
Any	Accepts FE, for example from a Universal Cable.

The forge has no item automation.