Dishonored 2 bonecharm crafting: costs and corruption
A stronger crafted bonecharm can cost more whalebone and carry more risk. The bonecharm forge lets you compare the charm before spending materials. Choose the game first; Dishonored 2's crafting purchases must not be applied to Death of the Outsider.
Compare the materials and risk together
Try 
Swift Shadow with
Strong Arms. Then add
Undertaker and compare the result
before and after Master Crafting.
- Two different traits
- 3 whalebone; No Chance of Corruption
- Three traits, base crafting
- 4 whalebone; Chance of Corruption: Medium (40%)
- Three traits, Master Crafting
- 4 whalebone; No Chance of Corruption
- Four Swift Shadow, Master Crafting
- 6 whalebone; Chance of Corruption: Low (10%)
Witch Crafting and Master Crafting change the corruption risk, not the whalebone price. Two traits do not corrupt at any crafting level. Master Crafting removes the risk for three traits, while four still carry a low risk. The forge shows the risk band the journal names and the percentage the game's crafting table gives for it.
When do repeated traits work?
Trait Synergy is a separate rune purchase. It permits up to 4 copies of the same trait in a crafted charm. Without it, a repeated-trait example stays visible but cannot be treated as a valid craft. View a repeated trait without Trait Synergy to compare that state; this replaces the Dishonored 2 charm saved in your browser.
Four Swift Shadow instances have a stated effect: crouched movement can reach ordinary walking speed. Do not apply the same multiplication to an unrelated trait whose description only says “slightly faster.” The forge keeps each trait's effect wording rather than manufacturing a new numerical bonus. Load four Swift Shadow traits to inspect the four-copy craft. The main button below opens the forge without replacing a saved trait selection.
Which purchases spend runes?
Bonecharm Crafting and its upgrades are bought
with runes. The charm itself consumes raw whalebone. Keep those budgets separate.
- Bonecharm Crafting
- 1 rune
- Witch Crafting
- 2 runes, requires Bonecharm Crafting
- Master Crafting
- 2 runes, requires Witch Crafting
- Craft Runes
- 4 runes, requires Master Crafting
- Trait Synergy
- 3 runes, requires Bonecharm Crafting
Craft Runes lets you spend raw whalebone to create runes. It is a separate
purchase, and the forge does not perform that conversion. Use the
Bonecharm Crafting page and
rune-planning guide when comparing those unlock costs.
Normal bonecharms teach traits; black and corrupted charms are not substitutes
for normal traits in the crafting list.
What changes in Death of the Outsider?
Billie crafts at the Witch Crafting level from the start, and repeated traits are already permitted; there is no crafting upgrade or Trait Synergy to buy. Four Swift Shadow traits cost 6 raw whalebone, and three or four traits keep a low corruption risk.
Swift Shadow in Death of the Outsider
does not state the four-copy walking-speed result from Dishonored 2. The forge
keeps those game variants apart, including their available traits and effects.
Switch games before comparing a charm you found with a craft you plan to make.