This mod rebalances the material costs required to enhance weapons, rings, and other equipment. removing Abyssal Artifacts And Aeserion’s Scale and replacing them with coins and gold bars.
This mod rebalances the material costs required to enhance weapons, rings, and other equipment. In the vanilla game, a large number of enhancement stages require Abyssal Artifacts — a high-demand resource — making the enhancement progression feel gated and time-consuming even at lower levels. Additionally, the highest covered stage requires Aeserion’s Scale as a secondary material.
Refinement Cost Reforged replaces those costs with more accessible alternatives scaled to the difficulty of each enhancement tier:
– All affected enhancement stages now cost Copper Coins, with amounts scaling progressively from 200 up to 1,300 coins as the stage increases.
– Both the standard and alternate upgrade paths that reach the same enhancement levels share identical costs — no path is more expensive than another for the same outcome.
– The secondary material slot on the highest affected stage is changed from Aeserion’s Scale to 1 Gold Bar.
What Changes
– All enhancement stages previously requiring Abyssal Artifacts are rebalanced to Copper Coins:
200 → 550 → 700 → 820 → 1,000 → 1,300 coins (scaling by stage)
– The alternate upgrade path to those same stages uses the exact same Copper Coin costs as the standard path.
– The secondary material slot on the highest covered stage is rebalanced from Aeserion’s Scale to 1 Gold Bar.
– Applies to both refinement and fusion paths.
– Abyssal Artifacts and Aeserion’s Scale are no longer consumed by any of the affected stages.
What Does Not Change
– Enhancement success rates are not modified.
– Gear stats, bonuses, or drop rates are not affected.
– Only the material cost of specific enhancement stages is changed.
Installation
This mod requires the Crimson Desert JSON Mod Manager.
– Open Crimson Desert JSON Mod Manager.
– Drag and drop the mod ZIP file into the mod manager, or use the “Add Mod” option to import it.
– Enable the mod from within the mod manager and apply.
– Launch the game as usual.
To uninstall, simply disable or remove the mod from the mod manager.
Note: This mod comes in two separate files — install only one at a time:
– Refinement_cost_reforged — standard pricing as described above.
– Refinement_cost_reforged_expensive — all costs tripled, for a harder economy experience while still avoiding Abyssal Artifacts.
Compatibility
– May conflict with other mods that alter enhancement stage costs.
– If using alongside other cost-modifying mods, load order may matter — place Refinement_cost_reforged accordingly in the load order.
Changelog
v1.5
– Fixed fusion upgrade path still requiring Abyssal Artifacts on all stages beyond the first. Applied the short original fix consistently to both the standard and expensive versions.
v1.4
– Fixed level 9 upgrade showing “no required item” in the normal version. The Gold Bar slot was being overwritten with Copper Coins on each script run. Gold Bar entries are now protected from re-processing.
v1.3
– Fixed fusion upgrade path stages beyond the first not applying copper coin costs. The vanilla Abyssal Artifact quantity increases on those stages, causing the original byte check to fail. Originals now verify only the material type code, not the quantity.
v1.2
– Fixed incomplete Kuku removal: a case-sensitive bug left all KuKu spear families (Lightning, Fire, Bismuth, Wind, EMP) still patched by this mod. All Kuku entries are now fully removed.
v1.1
– Removed Kuku Pot upgrade entries from this mod. Kuku upgrades are now handled separately by the Kuku Refinement Reforged mod.
v1.0
– Initial release.
– Replaced Abyssal Artifact costs with Copper Coins across all affected enhancement stages (scaling 200 → 550 → 700 → 820 → 1,000 → 1,300).
– Applied identical Copper Coin costs to the alternate upgrade path, ensuring cost parity between both paths to the same enhancement level.
– Replaced the secondary material slot on the highest affected stage from Aeserion’s Scale to 1 Gold Bar.
– Included separate expensive version with all costs multiplied by 3.
