Diablo 4: Horadrim Cube – All Recipes and What They Do

With Lord of Hatred, Diablo 4 receives numerous new features. This also includes the Horadric Cube, which allows you to modify your items in specific ways. You can find out what recipes the cube holds and how to use them here.

What is the Horadric Cube? In the Lord of Hatred campaign, you discover the Horadric Cube. This feature already existed in Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 (there it was known as “Kanai’s Cube”). Essentially, you place items and materials into the cube, and different recipes yield various effects. These modifications can significantly enhance your builds and enable entirely new strategies.

For most recipes, you will need special crafting materials from various sources. We have summarized the functions we know so far below.

Update, May 27, 2026: The article has been reviewed and is up to date.

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Horadric Cube: Unlocking and Using Recipes

How do I unlock the Horadric Cube? The Horadric Cube is part of the new campaign of Lord of Hatred. This means: The DLC is required to utilize this feature. What you can play for “free” and what you need the DLC for, you can find out here. Once you have unlocked the Horadric Cube, it will be available to you in Temis. This is the first region in Skovos that you will visit.

How does the Horadric Cube work? Simply put, you can adjust, modify, and craft equipment, consumables, socket items, and talisman spells. For this, you use so-called “recipes” that the Horadric Cube has stored.

The following recipes are available:

Equipment Modifications

• Add affix: Adds a random affix to an item.
• Chaotic reroll: Replaces an affix with another affix of the same category.
• Focused reroll: Replaces an affix with another affix of the same category.
• Remove affix: Removes a random affix from an item.
• Transmute item: Grants a random modification. The item may become unmodifiable, similar to the “Holy” from Season 11.
• Reroll unique property: Randomly resets the value of the unique property of a legacy item.

Item Mutation

• Transmutation 3 to 1: Transmutes three identical equipment, talisman, or rune items into a random new item of the same type.
• Return unique items: Transmutes three of the same unique equipment items or talisman spells into a new version of that unique item.
• Upgrade to unique: Transmutes a regular equipment item into a random unique item of the same type.
• Upgrade to legendary: Transmutes a rare equipment item into a legendary one with a random legendary property.
• Reroll set talisman spells: Transmutes a set talisman spell into another talisman spell from the same set.
• Create unique talisman spell: Transmutes a unique equipment item into a unique talisman spell.
• Fusion: Transmutes multiple copies of the same item to upgrade it.

Additionally, you can craft legendary runes from a specific magical rune, 5 any rare runes, and 5 any legendary runes of the same category (Invocation or Ritual). You can obtain escalation seals from Nightmare seals and you can fuse tributes into rarer tributes.

In addition to the standard recipes, there are hidden “secret recipes” according to Blizzard, whose ingredients you can find in unusual places in the world.

Horadric Cube: Crafting Materials and Locations

What materials do I need for the Horadric Cube? Like any crafting system, the cube requires specific materials. There are a total of eight different materials, from magical to unique, that you can obtain in various locations:

• Fulfilled Horadric Resin (magical)
  • Use: Crafting talisman spells and seals.
  • Location: Recycling talisman spells and seals.
• Raw Primordial Dust
  • Use: For most transmutations.
  • Location: Elite monsters, cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree.
• Coarse Primordial Dust (magical)
  • Use: For transmutations that add affixes.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Refined Primordial Dust (rare)
  • Use: For transmutations that change or remove affixes.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Unpredictable Primordial Dust (legendary)
  • Use: Transfiguring items.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Pure Primordial Dust (legendary)
  • Use: For transmutations that create legendary items.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Improved Primordial Dust (unique)
  • Use: For transmutations that create unique items.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Tuned Primordial Dust (unique)
  • Use: For rerolling the value of the property of a unique.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.

Additionally, there are optional materials like tuning prisms, which you can use to influence the outcome when crafting – so-called tuning prisms. They remove the riskiest but also the most powerful outcomes. You can find them throughout Sanctuary. Unlike crafting mats, they are stored in your inventory as consumables.

Also, ordinary, magical, and rare items drop again at Torment levels. You can use them as materials for crafting in the cube, expand their affixes, or simply increase their rarity.

In addition to the cube, Lord of Hatred also brings other new features to Diablo 4, such as fishing and the talisman system. At the same time, there are fresh content and adjustments to the base game that make your daily life as a monster slayer in Sanctuary easier. Which content you can play “for free” in Diablo 4 and for which you need to purchase the DLC, you can find out in our overview.