The Crafter's Dungeon

The author has a very clear and detailed idea of how magic, crafting, and dungeons work in his world and will explain it all in painstaking detail. Unfortunately there is very little actual plot to go with it.

We meet Sophia when she is still a human, with two club hands and a loving and protective faster. She learns crafting wherever they go but cannot craft anything herself due to her disability. And then she's dead, two hundred years have passed, she's a dungeon core, and who cares. I know time skips are a common dungeon core trope but I still hate it.

As a dungeon core, Sophia levels, expands, and figures out how to craft various things. That's 80% of the book. She has an exposition fairy and eventually an outcast from a nearby village joins up. They all have the same personality, same voice.

If you want a detailed dungeon leveling system, Crafter's Dungeon is great. But that's about it.

Content Warning: Fantasy racism