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Enhancing your pan’s capabilities through enchantments in Prospecting involves consuming rare materials, with results determined randomly. To prevent wasteful resource use, this guide covers essential details about the process and ranks enchantments by effectiveness in a tier list below. Let’s explore!
Enhancement Process Walkthrough


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To apply enhancements to your pan:
- Obtain either Aetherite (Legendary) or Aurorite (Epic)
- Locate the Mysterious Altar near town, positioned between Fortune River and Rubble Creek.
- Hold the material and activate the altar while your pan is equipped.
- The resource will disappear, granting your pan a random enhancement.
- Continue repeating until achieving your preferred effect.
Alternative Method: Enchantment Tomes


Enhancement Tomes offer another pathway, purchasable from the wandering vendor appearing at major locations during specific times. These books often range from 50M to 200M. After acquisition, activate the book from your inventory to directly apply its effect to your equipped pan.
Available Enhancements Overview
This table outlines all potential enhancements, their effects, rarity, and performance rankings. Higher rarity generally indicates better utility, though exceptions exist as noted in the tier analysis.
Enchantment | Effect | Roll Chance | Tier |
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Infernal | Luck +80 Capacity -20 Size Boost -10% |
Traveling Merchant | S+ |
Prismatic | Capacity +20 Shake Strength +2 Luck +10 Size Boost +10% Modifier Boost +10% Shake Speed +10% |
Traveling Merchant | S+ |
Cosmic | Capacity +50 Shake Strength +3 Size Boost +25% |
Aetherite Traveling Merchant |
S+ |
Divine | Capacity +40 Luck +20 |
Aetherite | S |
Titanic | Size Boost +20% Capacity +30 |
1% | S |
Destructive | Shake Strength +5 | 5% | S |
Blessed | Capacity +25 Luck +10 |
1% | A |
Midas | Sell Boost +50% | 1% | A |
Forceful | Shake Strength +2 | 20% | A |
Gigantic | Capacity +50 | 5% | A |
Greedy | Sell Boost +25% | 5% | B |
Unstable | Modifier Boost +25% | 2% | B |
Glowing | Shake Speed +25% | 5% | B |
Boosting | Size Boost +10% | 5% | B |
Lucky | Luck +5 | 10% | B |
Strong | Capacity +20 | 20% | C |
Swift | Shake Speed +10% | 20% | C |


Enhancement Rankings Breakdown
Tier | Enchants |
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C | • Swift: Insufficient impact for resource investment. • Strong: Marginal capacity boost offers limited advantage. |
B | • Lucky: Useful early-game stat improvement. • Boosting: Minor size increase often negligible. • Greedy: Early economic benefit, outclassed later. • Glowing: Decent speed boost if lacking elsewhere. • Unstable: Niche modifier improvement. |
A | • Forceful: Valuable early-game strength enhancement. • Gigantic: Significant capacity gains. • Midas: Strong financial perk, though less useful long-term. • Blessed: Dual stat boost ideal for initial progression. |
S | • Destructive: Early dominance with strength boosts. • Titanic: Exceptional for material collection. • Divine: Top-tier capacity/luck combination. |
S+ | • Infernal: Specialized luck boost for late-game pans. • Prismatic: Well-rounded but slightly inferior to Cosmic. • Cosmic: Unmatched multi-stat superiority. |
Common Enhancement Queries
Yes. Aetherite enables access to exclusive, powerful enhancements unavailable with Aurorite.
Currently, Fortune River yields the highest Aurorite returns.
Focus on applying enhancements to high-tier pans like the Meteoric Pan or superior models due to resource costs.