Mozart Chip forging in Illuvium Overworld

Mozart Chip Forging

Forging is a key feature within the Illuvium Overworld. The weapons and armours that you use to fight Illuvials can be constructed here, as well as Mozart upgrades that increase your expedition efficiency. In the first iteration of the overworld, forging is not as intuitive as we may like. For this reason we will go over Mozart upgrade forging as an example for you to become familiar with the system.

Who is Mozart?

Mozart is your buddy drone that accompanies you on your expeditions. He helps your ranger to scan and extract materials from the overworld and even stabilizes the dimensions that you fight Illuvials in. Because of this, Mozart is a critical figure during your expeditions and should be equipped with the best upgrades.

Upgrades for Mozart?

Mozart is able to have three additional chips that increase the efficiency of your runs. The chips that upgrade Mozart have effects ranging from increasing the accuracy of the Heat Map to a higher capturing power among others. Each of the upgrades cost minerals that can be obtained in the overworld. 

Tiers of upgrades

When forging chips, it is important to look at the tiers within the images. In this image above, you can see that each chip has a different tier, ranging from three, to zero back to four and then five for the last chip. The tier determines the chip’s rarity and usually also heavily influences the use-case of the upgrade. A low tier’s effect may give you a higher detection range on the environmental scanner that regular players tend not to use. Instead, the scanning power may give you a more accurate idea of the contents of a rock or singularity.

Tier-based materials

If you have taken into account the tier of the chip, you may save yourself a lot of resources because you have to deconstruct some equipment to make a higher stage of the same equipment. When choosing which chip you want to deconstruct, you have to take appropriate care of the required resources. Some chips take very little ores to be made, but still are of the same tier and thereby make for some cheap forging materials.

In this image you can see that each tier, from 0 to 5 requires different forging components. Do be careful when deconstructing your chips to ensure that you get the right items!