Base building and crafting up a storm is a big part of the gameplay cycle in7 Days to Die. Naturally, it’s very important to make sure you’re on the cutting edge, discovering new technologies and improving your crafting stations to make them the very best that they can be. This is crucial when you get to higher game stages and start encountering the most difficult hordes.
The forge is a key component in many projects, whether it’s ammo crafting, vehicle crafting, or building up your base to defend against a massive sea of zombies. The Crucible is an important item to retrieve for this, and it’s quite difficult to obtain.

How To Get A Crucible
The Crucible is an enhancement to the Forge that unlocks the most complex and high-level recipes - with a Crucible, the Forge is limited to its base collection of recipes.
There are only two ways to obtain a Crucible:
Themore Forge Ahead magazines you read, the better your chances of finding more in loot boxes, especially those that are book-related, so this huge number of magazines isn’t as intimidating as it seems.
The Crucible must also be crafted at aWorkbenchand requires the following items:
100
Created in theforgeusing Iron and Clay.
Mechanical Parts
20
Found in many loot locations but can also be easily obtained bysalvaging mechanical itemswith a Wrench or other salvage tool.
1,200
Picked up and mined fromrock veins.
900
Oil
Often found intrash and in cars, and can be obtained by salvaging cars too. Can also be crafted at a Chemistry Station using Oil Shale.