Sunken Realms Camp Guide: Crafting, Potions, Smithy and Soul Forge

Start with the camp stations, not the crafting menu guesses

The introduction explicitly offers a bedroll, smithy, cooking pot and Soul Forge. This is the main between-run workflow. It makes the most sense to identify each station by purpose before trying to decode individual recipe counts from someone else’s screenshot. Steam’s store description independently confirms that crafting, cooking potions and strengthening your character are core game systems.

The smithy is where recorded gameplay shows weapon crafting and materials such as scraps/ingots. The cooking station shows food and potion crafting, with craft-station upgrades mentioned in a demo tooltip. The Soul Forge is presented as the place to use gold for character attribute improvements, such as health or stamina. The inventory/stash and merchant affect what materials are available or safely kept.

These roles are more durable than the exact recipe list. The screenshots visible online include old image timestamps and demos were adjusted throughout summer 2026. This page therefore treats the station descriptions as demonstrated and leaves numerical recipes, permanent unlock prices and stat formulas unclaimed.

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Crafting at the smithy: equipment first

The recorded smithy menu contains weapons and materials, and one player compares sword-and-shield equipment with a spear while considering reach. That gives a useful practical framework: select a weapon you can operate reliably rather than purchasing an unfamiliar option solely because it appears higher on an old demo list.

If your problem is losing trades with ordinary enemies, a weapon with comfortable timing can matter more than small unknown stat differences. If ranged combat lets you approach a risky group more safely, check how the current build equips and supplies it. Avoid committing all materials to a recipe you have not confirmed is available.

A crafting interface screenshot can illustrate where the smithy is, but it cannot prove present-day values or that every beta item exists in the release. The site keeps no invented recipe table: exact ingredient counts require verified September menu captures, item names, version and confirmation of whether station upgrades alter availability.

Cooking, potions and preparation

The cooking pot is demonstrated in multiple demo playthroughs, including food and a potion. Video tooltips describe upgrading crafting stations with gold to unlock further options, though those menu details can change. For a first run, you are better served by learning which provisions you can actually prepare than assuming a community build’s ingredient cost remains valid.

Before leaving camp, check the consumables currently in your inventory and your ability to use them during combat. There is a meaningful difference between owning an ingredient, having a recipe unlocked and carrying a finished consumable. The run loop punishes entering a new fight while expecting the wrong item to be ready.

Plan a simple before-run routine: decide on one meal or potion objective, inspect its current recipe, verify your available materials, craft it if possible and confirm it is equipped or accessible. That procedure works even if patch notes change an ingredient. We do not publish exact HP-restoration values or duration figures without an observed retail truth source.

Soul Forge and merchant: spend to fix your bottleneck

A recorded tutorial explains that the Soul Forge spends gold on Alric’s attributes. A player opens a menu with health, intelligence, ranged and melee improvements, stamina and strength. We can document the existence of that upgrade loop without declaring an optimal build, a precise point cap or the value of a particular stat across all weapons.

Use the cause of your last defeat as a guide. If you consistently run out of stamina before dodging, look at the stamina options currently offered. If you survive the approach but cannot finish fights, inspect equipment and attack timing before making a blind attribute purchase. If you cannot afford a purchase yet, prioritise extracting a modest haul instead of gambling every run on a boss.

The merchant and stash should be understood as parts of the resources flow; exact inventory rules, prices and which items persist must be verified against the playable retail build. Treat any saved player spreadsheet or screenshot as versioned, not as timeless fact.

Week 2–3 changes at camp and in the inventory

v1.08 (3 October) rebuilt the potion bar: there are now three quickslots, bound to keys 1, 2 and 3 by default on keyboard, with a D-pad selection wheel on controller. Food can be slotted alongside potions, and the inventory window was rebuilt around the new slots.

v1.09 (4 October) raised the camp overworld's colour saturation — the developer called it a little washed out — and v1.11 (8 October) added two more save slots plus Steam Cloud saves, so camp can now hold separate runs for separate build experiments.

Week 4 (16 October): amulets at camp, and the announced Infusion system

Amulets are now part of the camp routine: each one takes its own inventory slot, and v1.11 (8 October) fixed a bug where moving an amulet into the stash with the Stash Item buttons stripped its rarity and perks and left a regular amulet behind. If an old stash transfer appeared to downgrade an amulet, that was the bug — the transfer itself is fixed since v1.11.

The announced next camp-facing system is Infusion. In the developer's plan, Infusion Cores with randomized stats will be found in the dungeon, carried back to camp and infused onto your gear, with traits described as deeper than plain stat buffs. It is announced, not live — no current build has it.

v1.12 (17 October): station and menu fixes

The 17 October v1.12 patch fixes two camp-facing problems: crafting stations can no longer be levelled above their maximum level, and upgraded stations no longer lose their models. It also clears an overlap in the Soul Forge menu, where the price could sit on top of the Upgrade button.

The same patch added a cooldown to the kick attack — a combat change the developer says will make more sense once the Infusion system in the previous chapter arrives.