Exhale destructive energy in a 15-foot cone, dealing 2d6 acid, lightning, fire, or poison damage on a failed Dexterity save, or half on a success.

You can channel arcane fire through a prepared weapon strike or spell, using Intelligence for attack and damage rolls with magic weapons.

Your steel defender takes its turn immediately after yours and follows your verbal commands or defensive routines.

You can magically imbue tiny nonmagical objects with simple magical effects such as recording sounds, shedding light, or delivering messages. You can maintain a number of infused objects at once equal to your Intelligence modifier.

You can prepare and cast artificer spells using Intelligence as your spellcasting ability. You prepare a number of artificer spells equal to your Intelligence modifier plus half your artificer level, rounded down. You also gain cantrips and spell slots as shown by the artificer table.

You can imbue objects with magical infusions, creating items such as enhanced armor, enhanced weapons, or utility gear. You know four infusions and can have two infused items active at once.

You can use any item bearing one of your infusions as a spellcasting focus for your artificer spells, and you can perform necessary artificer spellcasting with tools you are proficient with.

You gain proficiency with martial weapons and smith’s tools, and your combat training allows you to use your Intelligence modifier for attack and damage rolls with magic weapons. You can also use a magic weapon as a spellcasting focus.

At 4th level, you gain an Ability Score Improvement or feat. This build preserves the provided ability scores exactly, but the feature is still available by rules.

You have an excellent memory for maps and geography, and can always find food and fresh water for yourself and up to five others, provided the land offers any at all.