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Ingot Arborum is the highest-tier enchanted ingot in Windrose's Early Access launch. It is crafted at the Enchanting Table from 1 Mire Metal Ingot, 2 Essence Arborum, and 1 Tainted Bile. Ingot Arborum is required for the most advanced endgame weapons, jewelry, and armor enchantments in the launch build, making it the gating resource for fully optimized late-game builds.

Recipe

Uses

Ingot Arborum is consumed by endgame crafting recipes including:

• Enchanted weapon variants (specific named weapons gated by reputation and dungeon completion)

• High-tier accessories at the Jewellery Table (rings and necklaces with multiple supernatural buffs)

• Endgame armor enchantments that boost specific stats beyond standard upgrade levels

• Specific late-game ship gear (cannon enchantments, hull bracing variants)

The full list of Ingot Arborum recipe consumers continues to be community-documented during Early Access. Check the in-game Curios menu and the Enchanting Table interface for the current recipe list as you discover new materials.

Production Pipeline

Each Ingot Arborum requires gathering and processing materials from across the Cursed Swamps:

1. Mire Metal Ingot: Smelt 2 Ancient Scraps + 1 Quagmire Powder at the Large Smelting Furnace. Quagmire Powder drops from Plague enemies (witches, hunters, warriors)

2. Essence Arborum: Smelt plague-wood (gathered from corrupted Cursed Swamps trees) at the Smelting Furnace. Drop rate of 2 per Ingot Arborum

3. Tainted Bile: Drop from Plague Crocodiles in the deep Cursed Swamps. 1 per kill on average; 1 required per Ingot Arborum

Plan farming runs around all three resources simultaneously to minimize travel time. A typical Cursed Swamps run yields enough materials for 3 to 5 Ingot Arborum per session.

Endgame Position

Ingot Arborum is the launch's highest-tier crafting material. With Legendary and Mythic rarity tiers existing in the rarity system but having no items at launch, Ingot Arborum-enabled gear is the practical ceiling for current Early Access builds. As Kraken Express adds Legendary and Mythic items in later Early Access updates, additional materials may be added above Ingot Arborum, but at launch Ingot Arborum is the top of the crafting tree.

Lore

Ingot Arborum (Latin: "ingot of trees") combines three corrupted Cursed Swamps materials into a single refined product. The metallurgy is alchemical rather than purely physical: Mire Metal provides the structural base, Essence Arborum the supernatural binding, and Tainted Bile the active catalyst. The result is an ingot that channels the swamps' supernatural corruption into a constructive form, suitable for forging weapons that can stand against Blackbeard's undead fleet and the older powers behind it.

Thematically, Ingot Arborum represents the player's mastery of turning corruption into capability. Where Blackbeard pacted with dark powers for raw strength, the player learns to refine the same supernatural forces into measured, controlled tools.

See Also

• Enchanting Table - the crafting station

• Mire Metal Ingot - structural base material

• Essence Arborum - supernatural binding component

• Tainted Bile - active catalyst component

• Cursed Swamps - source biome for all three components