No matter how good you are at Black Myth: Wukong, you’re still going to struggle against the game’s harder bosses unless you upgrade your equipment and craft new weapons and armor. The defense and attack boosts you get from crafting new gear are huge, but you’ll need to source the necessary upgrade materials yourself.

Since certain crafting materials inBlack Myth: Wukongcan only beobtained in specific regions or by defeating specific enemies, it can be frustrating to track down the last few ingredients you need to craft a new piece of gear. To make matters worse, sometimes the game will ask for items that you’re able to’t get until further in the game, which leaves many players stumped.

How to get every upgrade material in Black Myth: Wukong

Thankfully, each crafting material in Black Myth: Wukong isfairly easy to farmonce you learn where to obtain them. We’ll update this guide as we discover more materials in Black Myth: Wukong.

Most crafting materials can be farmed just by defeating enemies, but the rarer ones won’t drop as frequently until you progress further in the main story.Silkand Refined Iron Sand, for example, won’t start to drop frequently until you reach chapter two and chapter three respectively. At that point, they’ll start to drop from enemies in past regions that you’ve previously explored as well.

Diego Perez

Currently serving as a Senior Staff Writer at PC Invasion, Diego Perez has been writing about video games since 2018, specializing in live service games like Destiny and Final Fantasy XIV. His work is featured at publications like Game Rant and Attack of the Fanboy (where he served as Associate Editor), but PC Invasion is home to his best work. When he’s planning content or writing guides, he’s yelling about Ape Escape or grinding Lost Sectors in Destiny. Plus, he has a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunication Media Studies for Texas A&M University.