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

With Lord of Hatred, Diablo 4 receives several new features. One of them is the Horadric Cube, which allows you to modify your items in specific ways. What recipes the cube holds and how to use them, you will find out here.

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

For most recipes, you need special crafting materials from different sources. We have summarized the functions we currently know for you below.

Update, May 19, 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 for Lord of Hatred. This means: The DLC is necessary to use this feature. What you can play for “free” and what you need the DLC for, you will find out here. Once you have unlocked the Horadric Cube, it will be available to you in Temis, which is the first region in Skovos that you visit.

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

There are the following recipes:

Equipment Modifications

• Add Affix: Adds a random affix to an item.
• Chaotic Rerolling: Replaces one affix with another affix of the same category.
• Focused Rerolling: Replaces one affix with another affix of the same category.
• Remove Affix: Removes a random affix from an item.
• Transfigure Item: Grants a random modification. The item could thus 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 of the same 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 normal 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 Spell: 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 several copies of the same item to upgrade it.

Additionally, you can create legendary runes from one specific magical, 5 random rare, and 5 random legendary runes of the same category (Invocation or Ritual). From Nightmare seals, you can obtain escalation seals and you can merge 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 also requires certain mats. There are a total of eight different materials, from magical to unique, that you can obtain in various locations:

• Fulfilled Horadric Resin (magical)
  • Uses: Crafting talisman spells and seals.
  • Location: Recycling of talisman spells and seals.
• Raw Primordial Dust
  • Uses: For most transmutes.
  • Location: Elite monsters, cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree.
• Rough Primordial Dust (magical)
  • Uses: For transmutes that add affixes.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Refined Primordial Dust (rare)
  • Uses: For transmutes that change or remove affixes.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Unpredictable Primordial Dust (legendary)
  • Uses: Transfiguring items.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Pure Primordial Dust (legendary)
  • Uses: For transmutes that create legendary items.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Improved Primordial Dust (unique)
  • Uses: For transmutes that create unique items.
  • Location: Cube loot from war plans, chest rewards from the Whispering Tree, elite monsters.
• Tuned Primordial Dust (unique)
  • Uses: 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 of crafting – so-called tuning prisms. They remove the riskiest but also the strongest results. You will find them throughout Sanctuary. Unlike crafting mats, they are stored in your inventory as consumables.

Ordinary, magical, and rare items now also drop again at Torment levels. You can use them in the cube as crafting material to enhance their affixes or simply to 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 will make your everyday life as a monster slayer in Sanctuary easier. What content you can play “for free” in Diablo 4 and for which you need to buy the DLC, you will find out in our overview.