Diablo 4: Guide to Crafting Materials

Diablo 4's crafting system is simple. There are vendors throughout the world and if you bring the right herbs, ores, and other materials to them, they can help you create gears, potions, and more. While the crafting system is pretty straightforward, the challenge lies in finding the materials of course.

This guide will help you scour every nook and cranny of Sanctuary a lot easier. Whether it's herbs or ore you're looking for, this guide is the one for you.

Herbs

These are quite probably the most essential materials you can find in Diablo 4. You can take plants to an alchemist to create a variety of elixirs that give you bonus XP, as well as other stat bonuses. Perhaps most importantly, plants are used to help you improve the potency of the potions you carry around. You'll have access to the alchemist once you reach level 10.

The best way to stock up on these is simply by exploring the world. If you're on your first playthrough and you've yet to unlock your mount, there's a good chance that you can get a lot of these plants simply by exploring.

Aside from these, you can also get plants from herb caches that are rewarded through events and quests. If you're planning on maxing out your potions as soon as you can, here are the materials that you need to prepare beforehand.

Ores

Upon reaching level 10 you unlock the blacksmith vendor, which is the vendor that will help you upgrade, repair, and salvage your gear from here on out. Ores are used as a means to upgrade your equipment and gear. 

There are numerous ore veins that you can find around Sanctuary. Interact with them to get more ore, which you'll then use for your equipment.

Scattered Prisms are used to help you add sockets to your gear. If you want to make your Legendary gear even better, then you need to have a ton of Scattered Prism in your inventory. Unfortunately, the ways of getting them aren't as simple as the other ores.

One way to find them is by finding Treasure Goblins on the map. These are rare enemies that shouldn't pose any threat to you. In fact, the only hard thing about them is actually locating them.

The other way to get Scattered Prisms is by defeating World Bosses. The three world bosses in Diablo 4 right now are Ashava, Avarice, and Wandering Death. They will only appear on your map once you beat the main campaign.

Skins

Skins are also crucial for upgrading gear. The key difference is that they're used exclusively for pieces of armor. Getting them is simple but the sources for skins aren't as abundant as other resources in the game.

One of the best sources of Superior Leather early in the game is in Scosglen. The area is filled with Goatmen enemies which can drop both Rawhide and Superior Leather. Since Act 2 sees you exploring this area, that will be a great opportunity to farm both resources.

Alternatively, you can farm dungeons that are filled with beast-type enemies. Two such dungeons are Raethwind Wilds and Feras' Den. Both are in Scosglen too. Give these dungeons a run but if you want to save time, don't fight the last boss and just reset the dungeon.

Monster Parts

Like plants, monster parts are mainly used for alchemy and potion purposes. The main difference is that to find monster parts, you'll need to fight and kill certain enemies in the game. Luckily, they're all basic enemies to slay.

Salvage Parts

Once you start upgrading your gear, you're going to need salvage parts as well. As the name suggests, you can get most salvage parts by salvaging other items.

If you have any excess or unused gear, your choices with it are either to sell it or to just throw it away. As much as possible, salvage all of the unused gear that you have even in the early game. Earning gold is relatively easy as you progress through the story so there's no point in selling it.

Salvaging Legendary, Sacred, and Ancestral items might seem wasteful but keep in mind that you're going to get better gear in the long run. As such, you could use more salvage materials instead. If you really like the Aspect of a certain gear, just extract it instead of salvaging the gear for parts.

Of all these materials, the hardest to find arguably are Sigil Powders.These are used to create Nightmare Sigils which are in turn used to access Nightmare Dungeons. You can get Sigil Powders by salvaging Nightmare Sigils of any level. The problem is that Nightmare Sigils themselves are hard to come by.

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Start Farming Those Crafting Materials

Aside from salvage parts, you're bound to get most of the crafting materials above simply by playing through the game and exploring Sanctuary. These won't seem important during the early stages of Diablo 4 but once you hit the endgame, you'll find that there's actually a lot of use for these crafting materials.

Now that you know where you can find these crafting materials, start farming away!