The Dream Furnace - Path of Exile

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Map Beneficial Mods Map Detrimental Mods Gimmick Mods

Upgrade the Blood Crucible with the Dream Furnace and unlock an extra Map slot.

What is The Dream Furnace?

The Dream Furnace is a device that grants you the ability to place Maps in the Blood Crucible, alongside your equipment. When you get this quest item, take this item to The Last To Die. Then, the Blood Crucible adds a new map slot.

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When a Map absorbs enough corruption and transforms, it gains a beneficial and detrimental effect in the same way that a piece of equipment does, but can also gain a modifier that changes the behaviour of Scourge league in that map entirely.

The following is an example. It gains a few new modifiers:

  • Shift into nightmare for 15 seconds on slaying a rare or unique enemy
  • Cannot manually shift into nightmare
  • Monsters in nightmare deal 20% more damage
  • Rare scourge monsters drop 1 additional basic currency item

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After all, when you combine two types of alternate realities together, the results are bound to be unpredictable.

Maps can be transformed up to ten times, increasing their risk and reward substantially each time. When a map is transformed a second or subsequent time, there’s a chance that the new beneficial or detrimental modifiers stack alongside the existing ones, enhancing their power, or a chance that new modifiers are added.

Be careful not to transform your maps too many times as they may become too dangerous to complete.

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+1 Dream Furnace slot

  • Restless Nightmares

Restless Nightmares is a Blood Crucible skill. It grants +1 Dream Furnace slot.

+1 Dream Furnace slot

Blood Crucible can have up to 5 slots.

Name Type How to get
Default Slot Item Act 1 Quest: A Glimpse Beyond
Extra Slot1 Item Blood Crucible Skill: Crushed Organs
Extra Slot2 Item Atlas Endgame Quest: Altered Flesh
Map Slot1 Map Blood Crucible Skill: Restless Nightmares
Map Slot2 Map Atlas Endgame Quest: Twisted Dreams

Map Beneficial Mods

# Beneficial Modifiers Spawn Weight
1 Monsters in Nightmare grant 15% more Experience 22500
2 10% increased Pack size in Nightmare 11250
3 20% increased Quantity of Items found in Nightmare 22500
4 20% increased Rarity of Items found in Nightmare 22500
5 Area contains an additional Scourge Boss 1000
6 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Tainted Currency Item 5000
7 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Scourged Item 5000
8 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Map 7500
9 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Influenced Item 2500
10 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Basic Currency Item 10000
11 Rare Scourge Monsters drop items 1 level higher 1000
12 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Abyssal Jewel 7500
13 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Blight Oil 5000
14 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional stack of Breach Splinters 7500
15 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional stack of Simulacrum Splinters 5000
16 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Fossil 5000
17 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Enchanted Item 7500
18 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Essence 7500
19 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional stack of Expedition Currency 5000
20 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Fractured Item 2500
21 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Gem 7500
22 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Incubator 5000
23 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional stack of Legion Splinters 5000
24 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Catalyst 5000
25 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Scarab 2500
26 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Stacked Deck 5000
27 Rare Scourge Monsters drop 1 additional Unique Item 7500

Map Detrimental Mods

# Detrimental Modifiers Spawn Weight
1 Players lose 300 Life per second while in Nightmare 1000
2 Players lose 300 Energy Shield per second while in Nightmare 1000
3 Players have -15% to Physical Damage Reduction while in Nightmare 1000
4 Players have -15% chance to Evade Attack Hits while in Nightmare 1000
5 Players have -20% chance to Block Attack Damage while in Nightmare 1000
6 Players have -30% chance to Suppress Spell Damage while in Nightmare 1000
7 Players have 20% reduced Movement Speed while in Nightmare 1000
8 Monsters in Nightmare have 35% more Maximum Life 4000
9 Monsters in Nightmare deal 20% more Damage 4000
10 Monsters in Nightmare take 15% less Damage 4000
11 Monsters in Nightmare Regenerate 10% of Life per second 2000
12 Take 3000 Physical Damage when you Shift into or out of Nightmare 1000
13 Take 3000 Fire Damage when you Shift into or out of Nightmare 1000
14 Take 3000 Lightning Damage when you Shift into or out of Nightmare 1000

Gimmick Mods

Level Description
1 Only Shift into Nightmare on Killing a Rare or Unique Enemy
1 Only shift into Nightmare on reaching maximum Blood
Blood is not lost over time
Lose 0.5% of Blood on Killing a Scourge Monster
1 Only Shift into and out of Nightmare randomly
1 Gain Exposed to Corruption stacks twice as frequently
Lose 1 stack of Exposed to Corruption every 5 seconds
1 Lose Blood from Blood Crucible 25% slower
Take Physical Damage equal to 0.2% of Life plus 0.2% of Energy Shield per Second per
1% Blood in the Blood Crucible while you are able to Shift into Nightmare

How to get the Dream Furnace?

  • Quest: Twisted Dreams

Kill boss in Nightmare will random drop a Dream Furnace. Boss has special minimap icons and pauses the blood drain. It pauses for five seconds for every 5% of life lost by the boss - so at 95%, 90%, 85% etc. The pauses don't stack. So if for example you get the boss to 50% life very quickly, it would still only pause for 5 seconds rather than 50.

Twisted Dreams is a quest in the Atlas of Worlds. You have come across a device comprised of a strange mixture of technologies. Pick it up.

1. Pick up the Dream Furnace

You have come across a device comprised of a strange mixture of technologies. Pick it up.

  • Pick up the Dream Furnace

Pick up the Dream Furnace

2. Give the Dream Furnace to The Last to Die

The device you found appears to be a mix of Vaal technologies and unknown designs. Bring it to the Last to Die to learn more.

  • Give the Dream Furnace to The Last to Die

3. Quest Complete

Quest Complete - You have upgraded the Blood Crucible with the Dream Furnace and unlocked an extra Map slot.

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