# One-time crafts in the Soulforge **URL:** https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/one-time-crafts-in-the-soulforge/76275 **Category:** Official News **Created:** [July 27, 2022, 6:04am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/one-time-crafts-in-the-soulforge/76275 "2022-07-27T06:04:12Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 14
### Author: ![jdk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/jdk/32/58002_2.png) [@jdk](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/jdk) #### Post date: [July 27, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/one-time-crafts-in-the-soulforge/76275/14 "2022-07-27T23:34:58Z")
> [@CaptainAwesome](#): > > Tbh nothing prevents you from spending gems on leveling soulforge. Not exactly. If you have cursed runes in inventory, game forces you to use runes to upgrade and you cannot use gems. Just tested on my acct and confirmed this is still true. You can only spend gems if you use up all your runes , at which point you have no runes to spend on crafting stuff. I didn’t spend 6k gems to upgrade forge on day 1 and have been hoping for a fix so I could use gems over time to upgrade, and save my runes for crafting > [@6.1 Update: Dark Smith's Curse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/6-1-update-dark-smiths-curse/73326/43): > > @Julli-of-North I can quickly answer this, as I had a similar question. You can choose between Gems or Cursed Runes as long as you don’t have the required amount of Cursed Runes for the upgrade (or more than enough). Once you have enough Curse Runes, it will only offer the upgrade using Cursed Runes only. But I have passed this on to the team! As Cursed Runes are new, I understand the value of wanting to save them for recipes and the option to choose between Gems or Cursed Runes would be be… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/one-time-crafts-in-the-soulforge/76275)._