The Portal Tool is the point where The Forge quietly turns from a closed starter cave into a true multi-island RPG. Until you unlock it, you are locked into Stonewake’s Cross and its early-game ores; once you have it, the Forgotten Kingdom and later areas open up, along with better pickaxes, ores, and late-game quests.
What the Portal Tool does in The Forge
The Portal Tool is a reusable item that lets you open a teleport portal to other unlocked locations, including the Forgotten Kingdom. You don’t buy it with Robux and it isn’t a random drop; it is a progression reward tied to early quests and your character level.
Two things matter for using portals:
- You must have unlocked the tool itself.
- You must meet the level or quest requirements for the destination (for example, level 10 for the Forgotten Kingdom).
Once both are true, you can place and use a portal to jump between islands instead of running through the starter cave every time.
Prerequisites before you can get the Portal Tool
Before touching portals, the game expects you to clear the basic onboarding loop in Stonewake’s Cross:
- Mine starter ores with the free Stone Pickaxe.
- Forge your first weapons and armor at the main forge.
- Buy at least one upgraded pickaxe from Miner Fred.
- Follow early quests that teach you mining, forging, selling, and enhancing.
During that stretch, you also gain access to two key systems that directly affect your portal progress:
- Leveling: gaining character levels by mining, forging, completing quests, and claiming Index rewards.
- The Bard’s Guitar questline: a short side quest that eventually hands you a portal-related reward.
Tip: press T to open your Index and claim every completed entry. That single habit gives large chunks of XP and money and is one of the fastest ways to hit early milestones.
How to get the Portal Tool
There are two threads that come together here: your character level and a specific early quest. The game uses level 10 as the first hard gate for leaving Stonewake’s Cross, and ties your first functional portal to a quest reward.
Step 1: Reach level 10. Mine ores, forge items, complete any available quests, and repeatedly claim rewards in the Index menu. Level 10 is the first major breakpoint; until you hit it, you cannot use a portal to the Forgotten Kingdom.
Step 2: Progress the Bard’s Guitar quest. Speak to the NPC who starts the “lost guitar” objective in Stonewake’s Cross. Follow the instructions to locate the Bard’s Guitar, return it, and complete the quest chain.
Step 3: Accept the portal-related reward. When the Bard’s Guitar quest resolves, you are given a key item tied to portals. This reward is what turns portals from a story element into something you can deploy to move between areas.
From this point, you have what you need to actually talk to the Wizard and start using a portal as transport rather than flavor.
How to unlock the Forgotten Kingdom
The Forgotten Kingdom is the first true “second island” in The Forge. It houses stronger enemies, higher-tier ores like Basalt and Volcanic Rock, and a second Miner Fred shop stocked with mid- and late-game pickaxes such as Cobalt, Mythril, Lightite, Magma, and Demonic pickaxes.
Getting in is straightforward but gated:
Step 1: Reach level 10 if you haven’t already. Level 10 is non‑negotiable; below that, the portal won’t send you to the Forgotten Kingdom.
Step 2: Find the Wizard in Stonewake’s Cross. The Wizard stands near the tower area reached on the path out of the starter zone. Speak to this NPC once you are level 10.
Step 3: Talk to the Wizard to obtain your first usable portal. The Wizard gives you a portal that can be used to travel to the Forgotten Kingdom. This is the in-world moment where the Portal Tool becomes useful.
Step 4: Use the portal to teleport. Interact with the portal and choose the Forgotten Kingdom as your destination. After a short load, you arrive at the Forgotten Kingdom spawn, facing another forge.
Once you have entered the Forgotten Kingdom this way, you can continue to use your portal to return there whenever needed, instead of repeating early-road traversal.
Using the Portal Tool to move between islands
With the first portal unlocked, island travel stops being a one-time story beat and becomes a core utility. The same tool underpins later jumps, such as returning to Stonewake’s Cross or visiting other islands that become available further into the game.
Step 1: Open the portal interface. Use the bound key or interact prompt assigned to the Portal Tool to bring up the destination list.
Step 2: Select an unlocked location. The Forgotten Kingdom appears once you meet the level requirement and have visited it at least once. Later islands and special areas appear as you clear their prerequisites.
Step 3: Confirm teleportation. The game spawns a portal and transfers your character to the chosen location.
Why the Forgotten Kingdom matters once you have portals
Unlocking the Forgotten Kingdom is more than a change of scenery. It is where the Portal Tool starts to feel indispensable rather than cosmetic, because almost every mid-game system is centered there.
- Better ores: Basalt Core, Basalt Vein, and Volcanic Rock live here, and they carry low but important chances to drop Topaz, Diamond, Emerald, and Ruby. Those gemstones feed Goblin King quests and sell for solid money.
- Upgraded pickaxes: Miner Fred’s second shop in the Forgotten Kingdom sells a line of stronger pickaxes, from Cobalt and Titanium to Mythril and Lightite, and eventually Magma and Demonic through deeper content.
- Advanced NPCs: The Enhancer and Rune Maker shops sit just off the spawn path and let you turn early weapons and pickaxes into serious tools once you have essences and runes.
- High-yield farms: The Volcano and Volcanic Depths area provide fast-respawning rocks and some of the best AFK‑friendly money farming in the current game.
None of this is practical to grind if you had to manually backtrack through Stonewake’s Cross each time. The portal keeps those loops short and repeatable.
Using portals to reach the Goblin Cave and Tomo’s Cat
Once the Forgotten Kingdom is unlocked, portals also become your shortcut into some of the more involved questlines, especially anything tied to the Goblin King or the “lost cat” objective.
Step 1: Use your portal to teleport to the Forgotten Kingdom. You always spawn facing the main forge.
Step 2: Walk toward the forge, then turn left past the Enhancer and Rune Maker shops. Follow the main pathway.
Step 3: Continue until you see two goblins holding axes on your right. Walk between them to reach the Goblin King.
Step 4: Speak with the Goblin King to start his five-part questline. These quests require escalating amounts of gold and specific gemstones (Topaz, Diamond, Emerald, Ruby) mined from Basalt and Volcanic rocks around the kingdom.
Step 5: After completing all five Goblin King quests, use the rewarded key on the door to the right of the Goblin King to unlock the Goblin Cave.
Step 6: Enter the Goblin Cave and walk until you find a waterfall. Step through the waterfall to reach the hidden area where Tomo’s Cat waits, completing the lost cat quest.
Without the Portal Tool, that whole loop—mining gemstones, repeatedly talking to the Goblin King, running back for Tomo—would be slower and more error-prone. With portals, you can bounce in and out of the Forgotten Kingdom quickly whenever you have enough gold or minerals to advance another quest stage.
Portal Tool, pickaxes, and why progression is tied together
The Portal Tool sits alongside your pickaxe progression rather than outside it. Reaching and exploiting the Forgotten Kingdom depends heavily on what you can actually mine there.
| Stage | Key tool | What it unlocks |
|---|---|---|
| Starter (Stonewake’s Cross) | Stone / Bronze / Iron / Golden Pickaxe | Basic ores, first forging attempts, Index leveling. |
| Level 10 break | Portal from the Wizard | Teleport access to the Forgotten Kingdom. |
| Early Forgotten Kingdom | Cobalt / Titanium / Uranium / Mythril / Lightite Pickaxe | Faster mining of Basalt and Volcanic Rock, better ore luck. |
| Volcanic Depths | Magma Pickaxe | High mine power and luck for late-game ores. |
| Endgame | Demonic Pickaxe | Top-tier mine power and multiple rune slots for long-term farming. |
Portals are what keep this ladder practical. As soon as you can warp to the Forgotten Kingdom, Miner Fred’s upgraded catalog becomes realistic to chase, volcanic farming spots become reachable, and quest chains that demand expensive gems stop being purely theoretical.
Once the Portal Tool is unlocked and the Forgotten Kingdom is part of your rotation, The Forge stops feeling like a linear tutorial cave and starts behaving like an open, repeatable grind with clear goals. Hit level 10, talk to the Wizard, secure your first working portal, and the rest of the game’s systems—from Goblin King keys to demonic pickaxes—start to line up behind it.
