The Veil Enchanting and Gems Guide

An enchant is bought with a gem and 100 silver, and it is not attached to the weapon — it becomes an effect your character owns and can put on any weapon it holds. That one fact is missing from every other guide, including the game’s own dialogue, which talks about enchanting "your weapon" throughout. A third thing, enhancing, is a separate system with a different NPC and a different currency, and it is covered further down.

You are buying a buff for the character, not a coat of paint for one sword

This is the part every guide gets wrong, and the game hands you the wrong idea itself: the blacksmith says he will "enchant your weapon", and when you strip one he says he "removed the enchant on your weapon". Neither describes what happens. Paying him adds an effect to your character — Ice, Light, whatever the gem was — and from then on you apply that effect to whichever weapon you are holding. Swap to a weapon that has never been near a blacksmith and the effect is still there. Tested on September 13 by doing exactly that: the panel went on reading Ice.

Effects accumulate. Buy an enchant with a Topaz after buying one with a Sapphire and you own both Light and Ice, and you pick which one is live. Only one runs at a time, so this is a wardrobe rather than a stack — there is no combining fire and ice into one hit.

Three consequences worth acting on:

• Stop hoarding gems for a better weapon. The weapon the effect lands on is irrelevant, so the first gem you find is worth spending the day you find it. Every weapon you pick up for the rest of that character’s life inherits it.
• A second gem is not wasted on a duplicate purchase. It widens the wardrobe instead of overwriting what you already own, which makes a second effect worth real silver once you have a first.
• Judge a weapon on its own passive, cast and ability. Your enchant adds the same thing to every candidate, so it never breaks a tie between two weapons.

His name is Jonathan, and he wants the gem, not the weapon

The dialogue header reads Jonathan, Blacksmith. No published guide gives his name, which matters less than what he asks you to hold: “Hi, I am able to enchant your weapon for a price. Simply hold out a gem you want to enchant your weapon with.” Put the gem in your hand — the weapon is irrelevant, as above — and the price appears on the first option. He stands at an anvil with a lit blade on it, under an armour display and beside a crate of silver.

One warning about reading his sign. The in-game display font uses a single-storey a that is almost identical to its o — the two differ by a one-pixel notch in the top and bottom strokes, which disappears at normal size. It says Blacksmith. If you have seen it written as “Blocksmith” anywhere, including on this page for a few hours on September 13, that is the font rather than the game.

The two costs, kept apart

Almost every write-up of this system quotes one silver figure and leaves you guessing which step it pays for. They are different steps:

• 100 silver — turning one gem into one enchant. Read off option 1 of his menu on September 13, which is the first time anyone has confirmed it since the September 12 content patch. The figure has held through three builds: a September 5 patch note reads "Made enchant price be 100", down from the 200 charged at release, and none of the notes since has touched it.
• 500 silver (or 32 Robux) — one random gem from the Gem Gacha. Optional. You never have to roll; the common gems drop for free while you play.

So an enchant from a gem you already own costs 100 silver, once, for the rest of that character’s life. An enchant from a gem you rolled for costs 600 and up, and "up" is the realistic number, because the pull is random.

Removal is free. The gem is not.

Option 2 on the same menu is Remove my enchant, and it carries no price for a reason: it does not charge you anything. Tested on September 13 against a real enchant, the silver counter did not move. The reply is “I removed the enchant on your weapon.”, End Dialogue is the only follow-up, and the character’s Enchant line reads No Enchant afterwards.

The practical rule that follows: do not reach for this option just because you want a different effect live. Effects accumulate on the character and you choose between the ones you own, so switching from Ice to Light is a selection, not a purchase and not a removal. What removal is actually for has not been established.

Until that is settled, treat the free label carefully. Silver is the cheap part of this system and gems are the scarce part, so an option with no price tag is not automatically the harmless one.

This page previously listed removal as an open question and warned against assuming it behaved like the Goblin Tinkerer's stripping service, since the two are separate systems. That caution earned its keep: the Tinkerer charges for his and calls it cheap, while this one is free and destroys the input. Two different answers, as expected.

Where gems come from

The game's own Q&A channel answers this directly: gems come from trinket spawns, chests and various other means, and you can also roll for them with silver. That means the four common gems are not a paywall — you will pick them up while doing the Disease Era main quest, and the opening quest line hands you the enchant step early on purpose.

Rolling only matters once you want a specific effect, or the rare and legendary gems that never turn up in ordinary chests.

The Gem Gacha route

The gacha is not in town. Getting to it the first time is a maze problem, and the one step people skip is the one that decides whether they ever go back.

1. Find the Shimmering Sanctum in the maze. Two independent recordings say the same thing — it spawns somewhere random and neither creator found a route that reliably leads there. It is recognisable rather than findable: coloured crystals, gems and glowing light. A Radar turns on the coordinate readout, which helps you retrace, but the Radar is itself a rare drop.
2. Hand the NPC inside one gem. Any gem works. He teleports you to Sky's Reach, also called Sky Island.
3. Activate the waystone before you do anything else. It sits in the central part of the island. Skip it and every future visit costs another Shimmering Sanctum hunt plus another gem. Both recordings stop mid-route to say this.
4. Climb to the merchant above the waystone. The Gem Gacha is in the upper section of the island. 500 silver or 32 Robux per roll.

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A September route showing the Shimmering Sanctum inside the maze, the gem hand-in that teleports you to Sky's Reach, the waystone to activate on arrival, the Gem Gacha merchant and a Weeping Crypt silver farm for funding rolls.

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Video chapters

• 0:12Finding the Shimmering Sanctum
• 0:33Hand a gem over, reach Sky’s Reach
• 0:41Take the waystone first
• 1:01The Gem Gacha merchant
• 1:43Weeping Crypt silver farm

Every number the Gem Gacha lists

This is the shop panel itself, read off a September 6 recording in shop order, not a rarity summary. It matters because the summaries in circulation are wrong: they compress fourteen entries into four rarity bands and lose the gem names.

The two ??? entries stay hidden until you pull one. One of them is the Shadow Diamond, confirmed on camera. The other has not been shown by anyone we checked.

What each gem actually does

Effects are read from in-game tooltips and live hits, not from a datamine. Only five of the fourteen gems have been demonstrated so far.

The creator who tested all four common gems ranked them Topaz, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald, with the reasoning that a blind plus a burn beats raw damage and that the 8-second ice slow is worth more than it looks in a game with this much movement. He also confirmed there is no chaos gem in the pool. That is one player's ranking of a beta build, not a tier list — the nine gems nobody has shown yet could reorder it completely.

An enchant is a separate effect layered on top of whatever the weapon already had. One recorded ice weapon kept its cold passive and gained poison damage from an Emerald, so read the enchant as an addition when you are comparing two weapons.

Paying for rolls

At 500 silver a pull this turns into a silver problem rather than a gem problem. The recorded method is looting runs out of the Weeping Crypt waypoint: pick up every item on the ground, kill what spawns on you, fill the inventory, return to the merchant and sell the lot. One creator puts three full runs at roughly 3,000 silver. That is the same location as the Sin and Offerings farm, so the two runs stack — do not make a dedicated trip for either.

Enhancing is a second system, and it runs on Ichor

Everything above is about gems. There is a separate upgrade line handled by the Goblin Tinkerer, at a station labelled Enhance, and none of the silver costs on this page apply to it. His own words when you ask for work: “Show me the item you would like to enhance. A weapon, an outfit, or an accessory.” That is already wider than gems, which go on weapons — accessories sit in his economy, not in this one.

Asked what Ichor is, he answers: “The essence of the creator.. You can get it from killing things, or achieving great feats. Ichor clings to you like the blood from your foes, I can harness such a thing, for a price of course!” So Ichor accumulates from ordinary play rather than from a shop, and the Tinkerer is the thing that converts it into stats. That also explains why the UPDATEFINALLY code, which expired with the Halloween update, paid 1,000 Ichor alongside its silver: it was a head start on this system, not on the gem one.

Enhancements can be taken off again, and he says it is cheap. Choose the removal option and the reply is “Scraping a thing clean is crude work, but it is cheap. Hold out what you want stripped clean.” The blacksmith removes for free but keeps the gem, so the two are still separate systems — his takes gems off weapons, the Tinkerer's takes enhancements off weapons, outfits and accessories.

Enhancement tomes at the 20 Shelves library

A side quest at The Twenty Shelves — the hidden library deep in the Pale that also holds the Spellweaver hand-in — pays out in an enhancement tome rather than a gem. The quest panel names it and states the reward outright:

The panel reads Side Quest — Quiet Around The Shelves (2/2), the objective is “Go back into the Twenty Shelves and tell Paige it is quiet.”, and the reward line is 1 Enhancement Tome.

So the quest has a name, the NPC to report back to is called Paige, and the payout line is exactly one tome. The panel was caught at stage 2/2, which means the first stage — whatever starts the quest and whatever "quiet" refers to — is not shown and no step-by-step route can be given from it.

What we could not confirm

• Effects for nine of the fourteen gems. Diamond, Rot Gem, Star Gem, Blood Gem, Azure Ruby, Onyx, Opal, Aquamarine and the second hidden legendary have not been shown.
• What a second gem does. Removal itself is settled — the menu option, the free price and the lost gem were all read in game and are above. What has not been tested is walking up with a second gem while an effect is already live: whether it is accepted, refused, or requires a removal first. That needs two gems in hand.
• What enhancing and stripping actually cost. Both prompts want an item in hand before they quote a number.
• Which NPC you want. Jonathan the blacksmith, at the anvil, is the gem path — 100 silver to put one on, and a removal option with no posted price. The Goblin Tinkerer, under the Enhance sign, is the Ichor path, and he quotes for both directions. The Disease Era quest text calls the first one the enchanter; it is the same NPC.
• Whether "Remove my enchant" un-equips or destroys. If it only clears what is currently live, the effect stays in your collection and the option is harmless. If it deletes the effect outright, the gem that bought it is gone for good. Remove a known effect, then check whether you can still select it — that one reading settles it.