Deeper and Darker Gear: Resonarium and Warden Sets

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Deeper and Darker adds two tiers of tools and armor above vanilla, both applied through smithing. This guide covers the Resonarium and Warden lines.

Resonarium gear

Resonarium is the mid-tier upgrade, applied to diamond equipment with a Resonarium Plate and a smithing template. The full line covers tools and armor:

Tools — Resonarium Sword, Resonarium Pickaxe, Resonarium Axe, Resonarium Shovel and Resonarium Hoe, each from the diamond tool plus a Resonarium Plate.
Armor — Resonarium Helmet, Resonarium Chestplate, Resonarium Leggings and Resonarium Boots.

Warden gear

Warden equipment is the top tier, upgraded from netherite with a Reinforced Echo Shard and a smithing template:

Tools — Warden Sword (and the matching Warden Pickaxe, Warden Axe, Warden Shovel and Warden Hoe), each from the netherite tool plus a Reinforced Echo Shard.
Armor — Warden Helmet, Warden Chestplate, Warden Leggings and Warden Boots.

Progression

Build the Resonarium set first from diamond, then convert your netherite gear to the Warden line as you accumulate reinforced echo shards. Because both tiers reuse the same smithing flow, the limiting factor is the Otherside materials — resonarium plates and echo shards — rather than the crafting itself.

The gear line is eighteen smithing recipes

Smithing Transform carries 18 recipes on both versions — an unusually stable number for this mod, whose processing categories differ so much between builds. Whatever your version, the gear path is the same.

Against 87 items in total, those eighteen upgrades are the mod's endgame.

Material processing depends on your version

The routes for turning raw material into usable form are broader than the base recipe list suggests. Two Crushing categories (50 recipes for Mekanism, 16 for Create) and Enriching (48) work on either build. Cutting is 11 recipes on 1.21.1 and 10 across two categories on 1.20.1. Only Sawing (8) is exclusive to 1.21.1.

They are compatibility recipes for other mods' machines, so a heavily modded 1.21.1 pack has far more processing options than a 1.20.1 one.

The constants

Blasting at 16 recipes and smelting at 23 (22 on 1.20.1) handle the vanilla route on either build, which is always available regardless of what else is installed.