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36 series

Phantom Star

Seras

S+90/100
Katherine has grown up again — in the far and distant future, on a space station where her family scrapes a living by salvaging broken-down spaceships. Living in space is exciting for a former modern girl, but something deeper calls to her: the glimmering stars beyond the viewport. She wants to see them all. To do that, she'll need to grow up, and build her future with her own hands. Fortunately, technology sings to her — guiding her in repair and construction as she builds helpers, builds a ship, and builds a life among the rough-and-tumble frontier stars.
Royal Road4.79· 2.8K
CraftingCrafting PowerReincarnationSci-fi

The Runic Artist

Ellake

S88/100
Nate is a kid from Sydney whose passion for graffiti art catapults him into a new world filled with danger and magic. Finding himself alone in a forest that is clearly not on Earth, he must learn to navigate this strange world and the System that governs it. Armed with nothing but his trusty penknife and a Legendary Class, Nate will conquer dungeons, discover runes, and be drawn into battles against enemies he didn't even know he had — all while making new friends along the way. Torn between returning to his old life and making a new home in a world full of magic, no matter what he chooses, he'll leave his mark.
Goodreads4.51· 1.5K
Crafting PowerDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGSkill Collection

Rise of the Living Forge

Actus

S87/100
Ever since Arwin was summoned as a child, all he has known is war. To claim the demon queen's life and end the conflict, he must sacrifice himself — but at the moment of the final blow, the Hero of Mankind is betrayed. Caught in a magical explosion thought to end him, Arwin awakens a month later to find everyone has already moved on. His [Hero] class has changed to a unique blacksmith class called [The Living Forge], empowered by consuming magical items. Some of his old passive Titles remain, giving him the power to forge a new future exactly as he chooses. Arwin isn't going to settle for anything less than completely surpassing the powers he wielded as the Hero. After all, you are what you eat — and Arwin's diet just became legendary.
Royal Road4.53· 2.8KGoodreads4.46· 2.6K
Class SystemCraftingCrafting PowerGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+5

Tunnel Rat

Walrus King

S87/100
Milo lives in a steel cave within a man-made mountain of concrete. He spends his days repairing machinery and tinkering with the prosthetics that help his twisted body navigate the small tunnels that are his world—as much a piece of discarded machinery as the equipment he maintains. An escaped lab experiment living in a hole. Given a chance at being someone different, Milo may become a hero. But there are secrets buried in the ground: ancient mysteries left by races that delved deep and stayed below. Maybe only a tunnel rat can discover them.
Goodreads4.55· 626
ComedyCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingLitRPGSkill CollectionWeak to Strong

Hawkin's Magic Beers

James Ghoul

S85/100
Hawkin rejected adventure to pursue a slower pace of living. Isolated in the wilderness far from civilization, he fends for himself using the axe he earned on the Lumberjack quest path — the quest path he'd gladly disabled long ago. After ten rugged years alone in the northern forests, visitors begin to appear: first an ancient, overpowered monster who becomes more friend than foe, then a lost trio of monks who share a beer so good that Hawkin is moved to return to the dreaded system. Dellia, one of a thousand gods, seeks Hawkin's help to expand her influence among humans, promising to guide him to becoming one of the greatest brewers the world has ever known. Hawkin's only condition: he never leaves his woods. When goblins encroach on his territory, he forges an alliance with unlikely companions and sets forth on a journey to brew magic beer.
Goodreads4.49· 1.5K
Class SystemCozyCraftingCrafting PowerSecondary WorldSkill Collection

Super Sales on Super Heroes

William D. Arand

S85/100
In a world full of superpowers, Felix's ability to modify any item he owns sounds great — until you realize the power cost is far beyond his reach. Settling for a normal life, everything changes when a Super Villain conquers his city and creates a city-state. Amid the chaos, Felix discovers a way to make his power useful and seizes the opportunity with both hands. Using his ability to upgrade Super Heroes and Villains as an investment, Felix builds a corporate empire called Legion — navigating a world of corrupt politicians, rival supers, and enemies who want everything he has built.
Goodreads4.25· 7.9K
Base BuildingCompetent MCCrafting PowerGoreHaremSuperpowers+1

Chaotic Craftsman Worships The Cube

ProbablyATurnip

S85/100
Summoned after an unfortunate accident in hopes they could protect the world from a coming threat, Ben and his classmates are given another chance at life. With fame and fortune promised to whoever is willing to fight, the deal seems reasonable — except Ben wasn't blessed with magic or combat skills. Only crafting and enchanting. His skills are not useless, but they are not seen as necessary to the coming war. Cast aside and alone, Ben tries to find his place in the world while meeting some of its colorful characters along the way.
Royal Road4.59· 4.3KGoodreads4.22· 89
CraftingCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingGameLitIsekaiLitRPG+3

Magical Fusion

Jonathan Brooks

A82/100
Larek Holsten is different from most people — his seven-foot frame draws suspicion in the Kingdom of Androthe, but as long as it helps him fell trees in the magical forest, he doesn't mind. His best friend is an axe imbued with a powerful Fusion that makes it sharper and stronger than any normal tool. A deliberate misunderstanding lands Larek in trouble, and he is taken from his family and ordered to attend an academy for Mages. He has no desire to become a Mage; all he wants is to return home. But when he discovers a unique talent stemming from his newly unlocked latent power, he might just have to stick around. A weak-to-strong story with LitRPG progression, statistics, and a heavy crafting emphasis.
Goodreads4.45· 3.1K
CraftingCrafting PowerHard MagicLitRPGSchoolStats+1

Path of the Slayer

Hunter Mythos

A81/100
They laughed when Arden got stuck at Rank 0. Then he discovered the hidden path that monsters and rankers fear most. Arden gave everything to rise as a guild adventurer, pushing his warrior training and artificer talents to their limits. For four soul-crushing years, his Rank 0 Epiphany remained locked at 99%. Now, with his dreams fading and health collapsing, he undertakes one final quest — a simple goblin extermination in the city's sewers — and discovers a rare Hell Portal: the only path to unlock his true potential. Beyond lies limitless power and realms stretching far past the borders of his empire. In this System, there can only be one Slayer.
Goodreads4.48· 889
Competent MCCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingIsekaiLitRPGWeak to Strong

The Runesmith

Kuropon

A81/100
What happens when a man with knowledge of hardware technology is transported into a foreign world filled with magic — and discovers a deep correlation between his expertise and the words of power? As the lowly fourth son of a noble house, he must find his footing in a world where skills and stats equal power and status. A crafting-focused progression story about knowledge, adaptation, and carving out a place in a world built around strength.
Royal Road4.36· 6.8KGoodreads3.97· 137
Base BuildingCozyCraftingCrafting PowerDungeon CrawlingGameLit+4

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

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

The Fallen World

Playwars aka Alex S. Weber

B73/100
Alexandra Rousseau, an engineer from the European Federation Star Navy, is launched into hyperspace when an FTL jump goes wrong. She wakes in a world of magic and monsters — and when a mysterious Order makes a catastrophic mistake, she is transformed into a dungeon core. The transformation grants her the power to bring back long-lost technology and take revenge on those who wronged her. But first she must survive those who would steal her core, all while keeping her true identity secret from the adventurers delving her dungeon.
Goodreads4.44· 861
Base BuildingCrafting PowerDungeon CoreIsekaiLitRPGMilitary+1

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

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

Dungeon Core Chat Room

Bluelightning42

B66/100
In this world, each race was gifted a System by the gods to compensate for their shortcomings — humans received the Skill System, elves the World Tree System. Dungeon Cores, however, were given the Dungeon Connection System: a magical internet allowing cores to barter monsters, traps, and knowledge, and to entertain each other with adventure streams. This is the story of a dungeon core unluckily spawned far from any adventurers, forced to innovate beyond its peers to find its place in the world. A slower-paced tale of experimentation, magical crafting, and steady progression — closer to slice-of-life than frantic combat, with a focus on building something extraordinary from scratch.
Royal Road4.56· 1.1K
Base BuildingCozyCrafting PowerDungeon CoreLitRPGNon-human MC+1

Artisan

Literal Folly

B62/100
It is 2054 and unemployment is at an all-time high. In the era of the quantum computer, autonomous systems have taken over as the backbone of the workforce. Justin, twenty years old and unemployed, has nothing holding him back — so when his government stipend covers the cost, he signs up to play Imagitech's brand new full-immersion virtual reality game: A Time of Heroes. Justin plays Artisan, an alien AI trapped on Earth — inventor, hacker, and gadgeteer to a team of heroes navigating an alternate America where superheroes and villains are on the rise and forces of good and evil battle for the future.
Royal Road4.61· 899
Crafting PowerLitRPGNon-human MCSci-fiSuperpowersUrban Fantasy+1

Blueprint for Immortality: a Crafting Xianxia

NoDragons

B60/100
Booker has woken up in the wrong body — one ruined by drug use, trapped in a dead-end life as the lowest possible apprentice in a massive sect. But that doesn't faze him. When he looks at the mountains, he sees a climb waiting. Better yet, he carries the assistance of a magical book that lets him craft any pill in existence perfectly — a skill alchemists would fight and die for. With his crafting skills, patient soul, and relentlessly upbeat attitude, Booker sets out to climb the first of many mountains. A slow-life xianxia with a focus on crafting and character-driven exploration of the genre's world and people.
Royal Road4.51· 988
AlchemyBase BuildingCozyCraftingCrafting PowerCultivation+6

The Brink and Back - Tinker of Fiction

MetaBettaOmegaLetta

C57/100
Between the violent gangs, greedy corporations, and corrupt governments, nowhere is really safe in Night City. But when Jackson is torn from his world and dropped into the world of chrome — armed with the Tinker of Fiction — what path will he take?
Royal Road4.63· 557
Base BuildingCraftingCrafting PowerIsekaiSci-fiUrban Fantasy

The Nine Tails of Alchemy

Taniko K Williams

C57/100
The year is 2375. With the world drained of natural resources, the government places those deemed of low economic value into cryogenic sleep, their minds connected to virtual worlds as digital citizens. Kadia Greene had no interest in virtual worlds — she was top of her class and on the fast track to university. When she is horrified to receive a notice of digitalization, her life begins to fall apart. But as she enters Kaledon, the newest and most realistic fantasy world on the market, Kadia finds her dreams and passion rekindled. A slice-of-life story following the struggles and successes of a Kitsune protagonist, with a focus on alchemy and crafting.
Goodreads4.35· 741
AlchemyCrafting PowerGameLitNon-human MCVRMMO