Horadric Cube
Socket recipes
This page covers recipes that add sockets or reroll items into socketed magic items. The rune-plus-gem socket recipes require a normal white item that is not superior, low quality, or already socketed; the socket count is random within the item's maximum. A Stone of Jordan recipe grants one socket to rare items, while Larzuk's Act V quest reward is the guaranteed alternative.
| Put in the cube | Result | Notes | Since |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Perfect Skulls + 1 Rare Item + Stone of Jordan | Add 1 Socket To a Rare Item | Rare Items can only have one socket. You cannot add sockets to items which don't normally have sockets. You cannot use this on a Rare Item which already has one socket, and you can only add one socket to a zero-socket Rare Item. | 1.09 |
| 3 Standard Gems (normal) and 1 Socketed Weapon (Any Type) | 1 Socketed Magic Weapon (of same type) | This takes a socketed weapon and makes it a magic socketed weapon with 1-2 sockets. This allows you to get new magic bonuses on an otherwise non-magical weapon. The original weapon properties will be "rerolled" when the new weapon is created. ilvl=30. | 1.10 |
| 3 Chipped Gems + 1 Magic Weapon | Socketed Magic Weapon | This adds 1-2 sockets to a magic weapon. The original magic weapon properties will be "rerolled" when the new weapon is created. If you use this formula with a weapon that is not normally socketed such as a Javelin, this recipe will create a new magical weapon without any sockets. ilvl=25. | 1.10 |
| 3 Flawless Gems + 1 Magic Weapon | Socketed Magic Weapon | Same as previous recipe except ilvl=30. | 1.10 |
| 1 Tal Rune + 1 Thul Rune + 1 Perfect Topaz + Normal Body Armor | Socketed Body Armor of same type | The item must be normal and unsocketed. Low-quality items and superior items do not work. The item gets 1-4 sockets, randomly. However, the number of sockets is then restricted by the maximum number of sockets that base item with that ilvl can have. | 1.10 |
| 1 Ral Rune + 1 Amn Rune + 1 Perfect Amethyst + Normal Weapon | Socketed Weapon of same type | The item must be normal and unsocketed. Low-quality items and superior items do not work. The item gets 1-6 sockets, randomly. However, the number of sockets is then restricted by the maximum number of sockets that base item with that ilvl can have. | 1.10 |
| 1 Ral Rune + 1 Thul Rune + 1 Perfect Sapphire + Normal Helm | Socketed Helm of same type | The item must be normal and unsocketed. Low-quality items and superior items do not work. The item gets 1-3 sockets, randomly. However, the number of sockets is then restricted by the maximum number of sockets that base item with that ilvl can have. | 1.10 |
| 1 Tal Rune + 1 Amn Rune + 1 Perfect Ruby + Normal Shield | Socketed Shield of same type | The item must be normal and unsocketed. Low-quality items and superior items do not work. The item gets 1-4 sockets, randomly. However, the number of sockets is then restricted by the maximum number of sockets that base item with that ilvl can have. | 1.10 |
| 1 Hel Rune + Scroll of Town Portal + Any Socketed Item | Remove items from sockets | WARNING: This will destroy any gems, runes, or jewels you have socketed. | 1.10 |
Recipe lines compiled from the Diablo Wiki (CC BY-SA 3.0) and checked against Blizzard's Arreat Summit; see data/SOURCES.md. Last verified patch 3.3, 2026-09-12.