@killerkea Crafted item levels are determined by the level of the stage where their recipe was on the reward wheel. The 3 recipes you see for Red’s weapons were obtained from the last 3 Chronicle Caves, which were levels 37, 39, and 41. The Cheese Hammer came from the 37 cave; the Feather Lance from the 39 cave, and the Cobalt Saber from the 41 cave. That’s why they have increasing stats.

The base value for a crafted item’s stat is determined by the formula `scale_factor * (level + 3)`, where the `scale_factor` is a different scaling factor for each bird and item type. Chuck’s weapons have a scale factor of 6, Matilda’s offhands have a factor of 16.25, etc. Red and Matilda’s weapons share the same factor, 4.

This lets us calculate the base stat of Red’s weapons at levels 37/39/41.

`Level Base_stat
37 160
39 168
41 176
`

These don’t match the values you see in the anvil interface; that’s because the anvil interface shows the 3* value.

Each star on a crafted weapon adds 10% (rounded-to-even) of the base stat; e.g. `base_stat + stars * bround(0.1 * base_stat)`. Now we can calculate the numbers you see at the anvil.

`Level Base_stat 1*-stat 2*-stat 3*-stat
37 160 176 192 208
39 168 185 202 219
41 176 194 216 230
`

As I said before, the 2* stat from crafted items is identical to the 2* stat of items from the GPM. A 2* GPM weapon for Red or Matilda at level 41 has a stat of 216; a 0* GPM weapon for Red or Matilda at level 41 has a stat of 202, the same as a 2* crafted item at level 39. These numbers have been recorded in the GPM thread.

Because of this concurrence between 2* items, I decided to treat 2* GPM items as the representative item for each level. I make sure to point this out every time I post a table of stats, as I did twice in the “Health of banner items” thread.

I agree that being able to peg 0* items to the level would be more convenient, but then you’d have the 0* GPM items of a given level corresponding to the 2* crafted items at two levels lower, which would make less sense.