The stats and skills on gear you craft - weapons, Life Tools, armor, shields, clothes and accessories - can vary depending on a number of factors, including your crafting skill relative to the item’s difficulty, your performance during the minigame and in the case of skills, pure RNG. For most of the game this isn’t that big of a deal - materials aren’t rare enough that you need to worry about wasting them, generally speaking, and if you don’t get the outcome you want you can just keep crafting until you do. Late game, however, it can become a real chore to get materials, especially legendary materials from Ginormosia bosses and Treasure Grove exclusive drops. The game is already grindy enough without fussing over the perfect piece of endgame equipment, but fortunately the developers have shown us players some small measure of mercy by allowing us to reroll this hard-to-craft gear without having to use the aforementioned materials. This page will discuss how Remaking gear works and how to find 
Redux Stones in Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time!
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Unlock the “Remake” skill in various crafting skill trees,
and you’ll unlock the “Remake” option at crafting benches.
How to Remake Gear¶
In order to Remake gear you will need to purchase the aptly-named “Remake” skill node, which can be found in the Blacksmith, Carpenter, Tailor and Alchemist skill trees. If you unlock the “Remake” skill node in the Blacksmith tree, you will be able to Remake Blacksmith recipes, but not the recipes for any other Lives, and the same applies for each of the aforementioned crafting Lives, so if you want to Remake bows or staves you’ll need to unlock “Remake” in the Carpenter skill tree, if you want to Remake robes you’ll need to unlock “Remake” in the Tailor skill tree, and if you want to Remake accessories and flasks you’ll need to unlock “Remake” in the Alchemist skill tree.
Once these “Remake” skills are unlocked, you’ll see the Remake option appear any time you interact with a crafting bench. Remaking gear will allow you to recreate an existing piece of gear without using the materials it originally required - you will need to replay the crafting minigame again, and if you do better or worse at it (or if you have higher or, somehow lower stats) you may get a different result; if you get a little impatient and craft a legendary “of Time” weapon and fail to get a “perfect” result, don’t fret - you haven’t wasted those materials, as a good Remake could see you get the “perfect” result you want.
In addition to potentially getting a better crafting result via Remake, you will also roll up to two new skills for the remade gear, and you can choose any two skills - old or new - to apply to the Remade gear. In conjunction with Appliques and Stickers this allows you to functionally reroll your skills (with your thumb on the scales) to help you get what skills you want without having to burn through the rarest materials in the game - immensely helpful when it comes to those “True [gear] of Time” weapons and Life Tools!
Of course, it’s not all good news - you won’t use the materials the recipe originally required, but you will have to expend Redux Stones every time you Remake an item. That said, Redux Stones can be considerably easier to get than endgame materials, as explained below:
You can find Redux Stones in Treasure Groves or by trading Goddess Fruits to Marco,
or you can exchange unwanted gear to the Redux Stone Exchange in the Capital of Mysteria.
Where to Find Redux Stones¶
Redux Stones are the currency of Remaking gear, and Remaking quality equipment generally will set you back 5 Redux Stones per attempt. You can get Redux Stones by completing quests, from chests inside Treasure Dungeons, from Goddess Statues (also found within Treasure Dungeons) and you can trade 
Goddess Fruits to 
Marco at Base Camp for Redux Stones on a one-for-one basis. Goddess Fruits are rewarded for clearing… Treasure Groves, and the higher the Treasure Grove difficulty, the more Goddess Fruits you’ll get, although frankly the extra time and effort required generally isn’t worth getting another one or two Goddess Fruits.
At a glance, it seems like Treasure Grove runs are the way to go? Fortunately, that’s not the case, as there are other, more reliable, faster ways of getting Redux Stones. The most exploitable is by visiting the Redux Stone Exchange vendor in the Capital of Mysteria - you’ll find her on the western edge of the castle’s lowest tier. She’ll trade you Redux Stones for unwanted gear - weapons, Life Tools, armor, clothes, shields, etc., with each of these being valued on a scale from 10-50 (technically 0-50, but you can’t exchange gear worth 0). For every 100 points of gear you offer up you’ll be given one Redux Stone.
This might not sound like a great rate of exchange, especially considering you can sell some of this unwanted gear for hundreds or thousands of 
Dosh, but there are better ways to earn Dosh. Even better, you can head to the eastern side of the castle and buy gear from the Armor Shop, then run back over and trade this gear for Redux Stones. Perhaps the best bang for you buck are 
Long Capes, which are worth 50 Redux Stone points and can be purchased for 360 Dosh each - every two of them (720 Dosh) will get you a Redux Stone, which, while a bit tedious, is a fairly fast way to accumulate Redux Stones!
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