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Dungeon Crafting

Jonathan Brooks

B74/100
Sandra had been a merchant, but what she always wanted was to be a crafter — master of every trade. When she dies and is reborn as a Dungeon Core, she finally gets her wish in the most unexpected way: a dungeon built entirely around crafting. With a Gnome apprentice enchanter as her ally and the ruins of a world that desperately needs what only she can provide, Sandra must defend her dungeon from orcs, rival cores, dangerous elves, and her own rapidly expanding influence — all while trying to get back to what she loves most: making things.
Goodreads4.21· 3K
CraftingCrafting PowerDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MCSecondary World+1

Engineering, Magic, and Kitsune

SteelTrim

B74/100
John Hall did everything right — got his degree, landed his dream job in process engineering. Then, not even a week in, he woke up in a strange fantasy world steeped in Japanese mythology. Driven away by fireball-throwing locals, he retreated to the monster-infested woods, took residence in an abandoned fort, and rebuilt it — while teaching himself magic from scattered tomes. Five years of survival have slowly shaped the stranded engineer into an artificer carving out a more comfortable life, but the isolation is wearing on him. Danger and opportunity arrive together in the form of an injured kitsune. Aiding her drags John into a world in conflict, where his unique knowledge and perspective become his greatest weapons.
Royal Road4.70· 698
CraftingGenius MCHard MagicIsekaiOverpowered MCSecondary World+1

Hidden: Class Handyman

Cassio Ferreira

B74/100
When Jack's girlfriend breaks up with him and his father demands he start paying rent, his world seems to crumble. Bored at every job he's ever held, Jack stumbles upon New Earth, an MMORPG where players — craftsmen especially — can earn real money. He throws himself into the game, hoping to win back his girlfriend and prove himself. But New Earth will put Jack to work like never before. What starts as a get-rich scheme becomes a journey from immature brat to hardworking man.
Goodreads4.47· 350
CozyCraftingLitRPGVRMMOWeak to Strong

System Reset - Forged in Nightmare

Elessar44

B73/100
Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end minimum wage job, an estranged sister, and friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality—but Alex's life still did not change. After fifteen long years surviving the Integration, his life came to an end against an enemy he could never hope to beat. When fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.
Royal Road4.64· 1.3K
CraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticRegression+3

Ideworld Chronicles: The Art Mage

OneDropRain

B73/100
Alexa is a woman in her early twenties shaped by a brutal upbringing into the ultimate thief — precise, fearless, adaptable, and passionate about art as a form of truth. When her reality shatters and an immortal being capable of unraveling matter begins hunting her, that same passion awakens a dominion over Artistic Creation. With newfound magic and a hidden parallel world lurking beyond the veil — a twisted reflection of our own — Alexa must adapt quickly to survive. For her, it's simply another challenge. She has always loved those. The story follows her progression from daredevil thief to reality-bending archmage, including an eventual ability to split her consciousness across multiple bodies.
Royal Road4.74· 258
Anti-heroCozyCraftingCrafting PowerIsekaiSci-fi+4

From Londoner To Lord

Kuzunalis

B72/100
Steven awakens to a nightmare. Transported to a brutal medieval kingdom on a faraway world, he wakes up as Kivamus — the exiled third son of a Duke, now the newly made Baron of a crumbling village called Tiranat. In a bandit-ridden frontier surrounded by untamed forests, survival is a daily battle and resources are scarce. Yet he sees potential where the villagers only see struggle. He dreams of using his knowledge to forge a new future for Tiranat, fueled by industry. But managing a starving village through the coming winter and navigating the cutthroat world of medieval nobility is just the beginning of a very long road.
Royal Road4.12· 2.1KGoodreads4.17· 6
Base BuildingCozyCraftingGenius MCIsekaiMilitary+4

The Gift of Loot

Jack_Golightly

B72/100
Thomas just wants to keep his skin intact during the System integration, and maybe carve out a life more interesting than the one he's had so far. When he steps inside a dungeon, he receives his magical gift: every monster kill drops weapons, mana crystals, and powerful gear. While others struggle to survive in a new world, Thomas begins to build something far more dangerous — an advantage.
Royal Road4.68· 935
CraftingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

Voidknight Ascension

James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer

B71/100
Sam was surfing with his cat when the world ended. Suddenly enlisted into a battle to fend off annihilation, Sam seizes the strength of the Void to survive. In the aftermath, he and his cat are thrown into a new world shattered into floating islands, alongside other survivors from Earth. Training with his giant sword and apocalyptic Void magic, Sam is unusually quick to adapt to this deadly realm of monsters and magic. With endless threats to face and countless powers to attain, his journey of Ascension climbing has only just begun — but first, he'll have to forge a Legend of his own.
Goodreads4.42· 1.1K
Base BuildingCraftingLitRPGSystem ApocalypseTower ClimbingWeak to Strong

The Order of Architects

Oleg Sapphire

B71/100
Theodore the Babylonian was once the greatest Earth Mage in his world — head of the Order of Architects, two thousand years old, and finally ready to retire. In the course of his long life, however, he had accumulated too many enemies, and they ensured his retirement was fatal. His death was not final. Reborn in a strange new world with all his memories and experience but none of his power, he must climb back to the top — before this world is consumed by the beasts of the Shadow Plane.
Goodreads4.40· 1.7K
Base BuildingCompetent MCCraftingIsekaiOlder MCReincarnation+1

Painting the Mists

Patrick Laplante

B70/100
Once, there was nothing, and the Mists were lonely. A simple brush painted all of creation. The Clear Sky Brush vanished for countless ages — and now it's back. Life for Cha Ming is a daily grind. When he asks the universe for something more, fate answers: a talisman brush older than time sends him to another world where magic, fortune, and danger await. He has a new life, a new body, and the power to wield the five elements. His new home is a place where might makes right and immortal cultivators fight demons at the drop of a hat. A game of universal proportions is unfolding, the Clear Sky Brush at its center — and the power to choose comes at a heavy price.
Goodreads4.40· 1.7K
CraftingCultivationIsekaiSecondary WorldSoft MagicTransmigration

True Calling

Thad Ward

B70/100
As a programmer, Ike knows all about Virtual Dive Experiences — but when he suddenly wakes up in a virtual game he has never heard of, he is too busy struggling to survive to worry about how he got there. Luckily, he has a trick up his sleeve: the ability to program custom enchantments for his gear. He will need that and more to figure out what is going on, since there is no tutorial and True Calling plays by its own rules: your class and race are chosen for you, the NPCs are indistinguishable from the players, every quest is unique, and the GMs keep leaving Ike's prayers unanswered.
Goodreads4.43· 626
CraftingCrafting PowerGameLitMysteryVRMMO

Beers and Beards

JollyJupiter

B69/100
Pete is a simple man who likes good beer and good company. Now he's trapped in a fantasy world inside the body of a smelly dwarf — and the local brew is flat, watery, and barely alcoholic. Altering dwarvish beer is a deeply serious cultural offense. Pete has a lot to prove. This cozy progression fantasy blends crafting, slice-of-life, and found family in a story that doesn't require you to like beer — just to need something comforting.
Goodreads4.41· 981
ComedyCozyCraftingIsekaiTransmigration

Rivera's Repairs: Dungeon Repairwoman

M.S. Davidson

B69/100
Nineteen-year-old repair technician Tess Rivera lives on Tertius-Prime, a crumbling megacity built atop a dungeon that has been "cleared" for twenty years. The power grid fails nightly, her father's health is declining, and their freighter-home is one broken component away from becoming a coffin. When desperation drives her into the dungeon's outdated tutorial system, it malfunctions—and Tess fixes it herself, accidentally acquiring a {null} class no one has ever heard of. No combat skills, no normal leveling. Just the ability to see dungeon code, interface with broken systems, and talk to an AI that has been alone for far too long. The "cleared" dungeon is not empty. It has just been abandoned. And Tess's "broken" class might be exactly what is needed to wake it back up.
Royal Road4.67· 750
Base BuildingCompetent MCCozyCraftingDungeon CoreLitRPG+2

The Archmage Is Baking Now!

RC Joshua

B69/100
Jane was supposed to become an archmage. Born with once-in-a-generation talent, she spent her childhood mastering impossible spells and was on track to join the handful of mages who shaped the fate of the kingdom. Then she burned out. Now she's in a remote mountain village, trying to turn a dusty cottage into a working bakery. As she makes new friends, masters the craft of baking, and stumbles through her first-ever romance, she begins to discover what her all-magic life was missing. But when the town develops problems that only magic can solve, Jane must figure out how to make the magical and the mundane work together — or risk losing parts of herself forever.
Royal Road4.71· 241
CozyCraftingOverpowered MCSecondary WorldSoft MagicWholesome

Path to Prosperity

HideousGrain

B67/100
Percy is a poor child with nothing to his name — no power, no family, only an old mentor who soon dies and leaves him truly alone. But everything changes when he gains access to mana and manifests an [Ego]: a rare ability that lets him consume what he owns and reforge the ordinary into the extraordinary. A wooden shovel can transform into a weapon of legend; a tattered coat into something impenetrable. He claws his way from poverty to power, but the higher he climbs, the darker the world becomes. Powerful Adventurers vanish without a trace, and Percy is pulled straight into the heart of the mystery.
Goodreads4.44· 283
Class SystemCraftingCrafting PowerLitRPGMysteryWeak to Strong

The Way Ahead

NorskDaedalus

B66/100
Edwin never really felt many connections to other people, but as a physics student, that was fine. He was content to peel back the mysteries of the universe — though modern-day research was too well-trodden for any single enthusiast to make real headway. That doesn't apply to other worlds. Not ones where magic and Skills run rampant, where well-defined roles and Classes dominate society with little room for novel experimentation. That kind of world would be perfect for an overeager, newly-minted Alchemist to make his mark. A slice-of-life progression fantasy following someone trying to find his place in a world that doesn't know what to do with him. Expect lots of science, lots of alchemy, a few sarcastic quips from the System, and plenty of exploration.
Royal Road4.23· 1.9KGoodreads3.73· 468
AlchemyCraftingGameLitGenius MCIsekaiLitRPG+3

Irwin's Journey - The Cardsmith

Carrarn

B65/100
The young, sickly Irwin has seen nothing but bad luck in his short life. When his brother returns with a magical card for him, his luck is about to change — but not necessarily for the better. Irwin is sent off with a group of youths to placate a group of sorcerers, armed with only a strange utility card granted by his brother and a prayer to stay alive long enough. A card-gathering story with crafting that grows increasingly central as the series progresses. Slow-paced, starts dark, with a weak-to-strong arc.
Royal Road4.60· 1K
CraftingGameLitGrimdarkIsekaiPost-apocalypticSecondary World+2

System Reset: Forged in Nightmare

Elessar44

B64/100
Alex Smith had many regrets: a dead-end job, an estranged sister, friends who had left him behind. Then the apocalypse happened and fantasy became reality — except Alex's reality did not change. After surviving the Apocalypse for 15 years, his life came to an end with a betrayal. But when fate sends him back to the very beginning, Alex is faced with a choice. He will not hold back this time.
Royal Road4.53· 1.1K
CraftingGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+5

Blacksmith of the Apocalypse

Arkusar

B63/100
When not one apocalypse but all of them strike simultaneously, humanity faces its hardest hour. A playful god shows mercy — or something like it. Follow Seth on his journey to survive whatever his world has become.
Royal Road4.22· 1.3KGoodreads4.36· 11
CraftingDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGPost-apocalypticSecondary World+2

Leaving A Legacy (A Xianxia story)

212perseus

B61/100
What happens when a young master from a declining cultivator clan decides to simply be a decent human being? Zhao Ren is not a typical young master — no arrogance, no entourage, no random face-slapping. He prefers books to throwing his weight around, and was raised to turn around his family's fortunes. But instead of following convention, he found his own way to the Dao. A cultivator who favors sustainable herb-growing, leaves behind inheritances instead of looting, and spares a thought for those who come after? Who even plants a tree that won't bear fruit until long after he's dead? Everyone thinks he must be crazy. So how does he keep getting stronger?
Royal Road4.64· 687
ComedyCozyCraftingCultivationSecondary WorldWuxia