Elden Ring's smithing stones and gloomy smithing stones serve as upgrade resources for your weapons. Players will not be able to enter Elden Ring until they upgrade their weapons and equipment. Running past opponents and summoning other players for assistance is always an option, but you'll eventually have to face adversaries on your own.
To improve your performance, you'll need to use Smithing Stones to modify your weapons, but these things can be difficult to come by. Fortunately, you can earn the ability to buy them, and some are available in different spots throughout the game.
What are Smithing Stones in Elden Ring?
Leveling up your character to improve your qualities and stats can only get you so far in Elden Ring. You'll still need a good weapon or catalyst, whether you like strength, magic, health, or endurance, and you may boost the potency, damage, and how well it scales with your own attributes by using Smithing Stones at a Smithing Table or with a Master Smith.
Smithing Stones are classified into two types: regular and somber, and there are various rankings for each. Level 1 Smithing Stones can give your weapon a +3 effect, while higher-ranking stones allow you to improve it even more. Certain weapons with specific attributes or skills that cannot be changed out require Somber Smithing Stones instead.
Where to Find Smithing Stones in Elden Ring?
Smithing Stones (as well as Somber Smithing Stones) can be found all over the Lands Between. They are primarily discovered on random humanoid bodies that can be looted throughout the open world, inside mini dungeons, off the beaten track in Legacy Dungeons, and elsewhere. You'll normally discover Smithings Stones that are adequately leveled for the difficulty of the location you're in - sometimes a little higher, occasionally lower but in larger abundance. Smithing Stones, on the other hand, can only be looted once.
They can also be found in tunnel mines, which serve as mini-dungeons. Inside these locations, enemy diggers will be mining, and you can engage with the golden clumps of ore along the walls to obtain Smithing Stones, or the glowing white ore to obtain Somber Smithing Stones. A few tunnels that hold stones are:
Limgrave Tunnels - Contains Smithing Stone 1
Morne Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 1
Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 2
Ruin-Strewn Precipice - Contains Smithing Stone 4
Gael Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 4
Sellia Crystal Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 5
Altus Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 5
Old Altus Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 5
Yelough Anix Tunnel - Contains Smithing Stone 8
Which enemies drop Smithing Stones in Elden Ring?
Though more difficult to track down, select foes have a chance to drop smithing stones. Some foes will vanish when you fight them, while others might be "farmed" for a small chance of obtaining them. This includes the following known enemies:
Bladed Lion, Stormveil Castle (one time) - Somber Smithing Stone 1
Exiled Soldiers, Stormveil Castle - Smithing Stone 1
Godrick Soldiers, Raya Lucarian Soldiers - Smithing Stone 1
Summoned Raya Lucaria Soldiers - Smithing Stone 2
Giant Hands at Caria Manor, Liurnia - Somber Smithing Stone 2
Stone Diggers at Ravine-Veiled Village, Liurnia - Smithing Stone 4
Leyndell Soldiers, Altus Plateau - Smithing Stone 4
Fanged Imps, Caelid Dungeons - Smithing Stone 4
Giant Hands, Mt Gelmir - Somber Smithing Stone 4
Bladed Lions, Caelid (one time) - Somber Smithing Stone 4
Giant Hands, Leyndell Royal Capital - Somber Smithing Stone 4
Mausoleum Soldiers, Deeproot Depths - Smithing Stone 5
Flame Chariots, Mt Gelmir - Smithing Stone 5
Fanged Imps, Subterranean Shunning-Grounds - Smithing Stone 5
Fallingstar Beast, Altus Plateau (one time) - Somber Smithing Stone 5, Smithing Stone 6
Fallingstar Beast, Caelid (one time) - Smithing Stone 7, Somber Smithing Stone 6
Giant Hands, Subterranean Shunning-Grounds - Somber Smithing Stone 7
Stone Miners, Yelough Anix Tunnel - Smithing Stone 6, 7
Which Merchants Sell Smithing Stones in Elden Ring?
Several merchants, mainly Nomadic Merchants or Smithing Master Iji, will sell you a limited number of varying-level smithing stones. The best way to get Smithing Stones is to buy them from NPCs, but this isn't as simple as approaching them and taking all they have.
A selected group of merchants will now sell limited numbers of Smithing Stones for you to buy and utilize with the 1.03 Patch Update for Elden Ring. These include the merchants listed below in specific locations:
Nomadic Merchant (West Limgrave Beach): Smithing Stone 1 x3 (200 Runes)
Nomadic Merchant (East Limgrave Saintsbridge): Smithing Stone 1 x3 (200 Runes)
Nomadic Merchant (East Limgrave Mistwood): Smithing Stone 1 x3 (200 Runes)
Nomadic Merchant (Weeping Peninsula Castle Morne Rampart): Smithing Stone 1 x3 (200 Runes), Smithing Stone 2 x1 (400 Runes)
Isolated Merchant (Weeping Peninsula Isolated Merchant's Shack): Smithing Stone 2 x3 (400 Runes)
Nomadic Merchant (Liurnia Lakeshore): Smithing Stone 1 x5 (200 Runes), Smithing Stone 2 x3 (400 Runes)
Master Smith Inji (Road to Caria Manor): Somber Smithing Stone 1 (unlimited) (2,000 Runes), Somber Smithing Stone 2 (unlimited) (3,000 Runes), Somber Smithing Stone 3 x3 (4,000 Runes), Somber Smithing Stone 4 x3 (6,000 Runes)
FAQs
Q. Does anyone sell smithing stones?
A. Several merchants, mainly Nomadic Merchants or Smithing Master Iji, will sell you a limited number of varying level smithing stones.
