A Diablo classic returns: transform, combine and upgrade your loot in Lord of Hatred.
With the Lord of Hatred expansion, Blizzard brings back one of the most iconic artifacts in Diablo history. The Horadric Cube is far more than a nostalgic nod to Diablo II — it is a full new system that lets you modify your gear in ways that weren’t possible in Diablo IV before.
As a Nephalem you use the cube to transform, combine and upgrade items. Combined with the new Talisman system, it opens up completely new build possibilities for every class.
Convert items into other forms — e.g. low-tier loot into higher-tier gear, or generic items into special variants.
Merge multiple items to transfer properties or craft new ones. Craft set items or apply aspects with intent.
Improve existing items — higher affix rolls, added sockets or a new role within your build.
Pick a recipe, drop the required ingredients into the cube and trigger the transmutation to see what comes out. A playful preview — no real items are changed.
Note: the simulator is for illustration only. Ingredient amounts and results may still change before release.
The Horadric Cube becomes available as you progress through the Lord of Hatred campaign and stays part of your crafting toolkit from then on. Its fixed station sits in Temis, where you feed it items, materials and currencies to process them.
The Cube itself has no character-level requirement — recipes are gated only by the materials you own. Simple reagents come early, the rarest ones take longer to farm, so plan your crafting around your stockpile.
The core loop is always the same: a recipe defines which ingredients you need and what comes out. Four steps to a finished result:
Decide what you want to achieve — change an affix, upgrade rarity, merge several items or craft a rune.
Insert the base item and the required materials. Some recipes also let you add a Tuning Prism to steer the result in a certain direction.
Trigger the process. Materials are consumed and the recipe is applied — for random effects you only see the result afterwards.
Review the result. Many recipes are repeatable as long as you have materials — others make the item permanently unmodifiable (see below).
The cube’s functions fall into four broad groups:
Add affixes, reroll them in a focused or chaotic way, remove them or transfigure an item. This is where you fine-tune a single piece until it fits your build perfectly. Transfiguration is the evolution of Season 11’s Sanctification system.
Turn items into others: three identical pieces into a new one, Common into Unique, Rare into Legendary — or craft Set and Unique Charms.
Bundle five of the same item into a higher tier — runes, tributes, sigils, or gems (creating the new Horadric and Flawless Horadric Gem tiers), or boss trophies that turn into a guaranteed Unique.
Craft the Legendary Ritual and Invocation Runes for the Talisman’s runeword system from their components, instead of relying on drops.
Browse every recipe the Horadric Cube can craft, with required inputs, outputs and material costs.
Four material families power the cube’s recipes. A searchable list of every variant is right below.
The base reagent for almost every transmutation. It comes in several tiers — from raw dust for simple actions to rarer grades needed for high-end recipes like Transfiguration or upgrading an item to Unique.
Optional steering materials. Each prism nudges the result toward an affix category (offensive, defensive, resource, mobility/utility, skill ranks) — or, during transfiguration, controls whether the change is safe or risky.
A special reagent for the Charm and Seal recipes. You need it, for example, to reroll Set Charms or craft a Unique Charm matching your gear.
Summoning materials from endgame bosses (e.g. Living Steel, Malignant Heart, Exquisite Blood). Five of the same trophy amalgamate into a guaranteed Unique from that boss’s loot pool.
Crafting reagents the Horadric Cube uses across its recipes — Tuning Prisms, Primordial Dust, Horadric Resin and Boss Trophies.
Rerolling and adding affixes follows fixed rules. Knowing them wastes less material:
Every affix belongs to a category. The cube draws new affixes from the pool that fits the slot — an item can’t gain the same affix twice, and some are mutually exclusive.
A Tuning Prism narrows the result pool to its category — the exact affix is still random. "Focused Reroll" stays within the same category, "Chaotic Reroll" deliberately switches to a different one.
Greater Affixes come from specific recipes, not from a dust tier: Transfiguration has roughly a 15% chance to upgrade a normal affix to a Greater one, the 3-to-1 Transmutation can roll GAs, and Set Charm rerolls have about a 4% chance per affix.
The "Transfigure Item" recipe usually makes the item unmodifiable (only about a 1/16 chance it stays modifiable). So apply sockets, masterworking and aspects FIRST — and transfigure only at the very end, once the item is otherwise finished.
A few rules of thumb to spend your materials wisely:
The new Talisman is the backbone of your build. It provides passive bonuses and lets you customize gear beyond the classic slot boundaries.
In combination with the cube, the Talisman becomes the central tool to optimize items and unlock set bonuses that return for every class in Lord of Hatred.
Want all Lord of Hatred mechanics at a glance? Our LoH overview guide covers it in one place.
