The Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones for Elden Ring and Somber are extraordinary, one-of-a-kind goods that cannot be purchased, farmed, or acquired indefinitely in any other way. Your weapons can only be upgraded so far using Elden Ring Smithing Stones and Elden Ring Somber Smithing Stones. You need the Ancient version to complete the level.
Players must continue carefully because there are only 13 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones and 8 Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in the entire Elden Ring, making it impossible to upgrade more than a small portion of their weapons to their maximum potential of +25 or +10. The weapons you improve to +24 will, of course, not be very weak, but you’ll need the Ancient Stones to bring back to Hewg and have him Smith them into the final tier of upgrades if you want the entire upgrade.
So, Tarnished, it’s time to go hunting. The locations of all the Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in Elden Ring, including the Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones, are listed here.
All Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones’ locations in Elden Ring
There are 21 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in all, 8 of which are Somber, to be uncovered. Simply select the links you require by clicking on them or by scrolling down. The majority of these Ancient Stones are either found in late-game regions that require you to know how to reach the Consecrated Snowfield in Elden Ring or as the result of quests and questlines that span the entire campaign, so players will undoubtedly need to be in the late-game stages of Elden Ring to find them. Simply put, you won’t be acquiring these late-game goodies any time soon if you’ve just defeated Godrick or are still exploring Caelid for the first time. We’re sorry to have to break this to you.
For information on where to find them, scroll down and click on the relevant links. You may also use them to learn how to craft more Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones than the few that are already included in the game.
ANCIENT DRAGON SMITHING STONES LOCATIONS
The locations of each Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone in Elden Ring are listed below:
Southeast of the Church of Repose in Mountaintops of the Giants, on a corpse inside the giant’s skull’s mouth.
A prize for defeating the lightning-wielding dragon with no name who attacked you at the beginning of Crumbling Farum Azula’s twisting route.
a prize for killing the second unnamed dragon that assaults you southeast from the Dragon Temple Rooftop with crimson lightning.
stumbled upon on a dead body north of the Dragon Temple. From the North exit, turn left and proceed up the narrow hallway with the dragon statues. From there, turn right and proceed up the curved staircase. At the top, turn south and leap on a floating pillar to reach the room across from the corpse.
An incentive for eliminating the two Night’s Calvary on the Consecrated Snowfields’ southwest border who are on duty at night to protect the caravan.
Past the Onyx Lord miniboss in the Yelough Anix Tunnel, on a corpse in its own room.
Outside the Cave of the Forlorn, halfway up the frozen waterfall on a corpse above the boss Great Wyrm Theodorix. To get to the Ancient Stone, leap off the cliffs.
A Leonine Misbegotten standing guard over a statue on the southern side of Miquella’s Haligtree is armed with a massive axe. The Stone is on the body that is resting up against the statue.
Once Knight of the Haligtree Loretta has been dispatched, proceed past the arena and descend the steps to a tower that contains an elevator. Go to the tower roof and open a chest there to obtain the Stone rather than utilising the elevator.
An incentive for Nepheli Loux’s mission. Visit this page for information on how to complete the Elden Ring Nepheli Loux questline.
Gostoc the Gatekeeper, the towering elderly man who gave you the Elden Ring Stormveil gate option, will also be in Godrick’s Throne Room to give you an Ancient Stone for 20000 Runes if you finish Nepheli Loux’s mission, Kenneth Haight’s quest, and slay Morgott.
The Elden Ring Sorceress Sellen questline’s potential prize. When given the option to support Witch-Hunter Jerren or Sellen, choose Jerren because you will ultimately receive the Stone.
Gurranq the Beast Clergyman in North Caelid will accept them once you have fed all of the Elden Ring Deathroot locations. Alternately, after defeating Maliketh, just go after Gurranq in the Stone temple and kill him.
SOMBER ANCIENT DRAGON SMITHING STONES LOCATIONS
The locations of each Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone in Elden Ring are listed below:
Southeast from the Dragon Temple Rooftop, behind the second nameless dragon that strikes you with crimson lightning (who drops the aforementioned regular Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone).
once it becomes the Ashen Capital, specifically on the southwest edge of Leyndell. To see a corpse in the ash with the Stone on it, drop off the right edge of the destroyed area and climb up the dragon corpse to the ladder.
In a chest at the base of a statue outside Mohg’s arena at Mohgwyn Palace, a reward for slaying Anastasia, Tarnished-Eater for the third and last time. She is currently in Consecrated Snowfield on the north side of the river’s curve. It is being protected by numerous foes, so beware.
Run down to the first path after the Prayer Room Site of Grace in the Haligtree, jump down to the gazebo, and then run up the sloping support beam to a small room with a chest within. There is a Stone in the chest.
Using the connecting chambers once more, exit the Prayer Room and proceed to the outer ring on your left, which is guarded by the Putrid Avatar. You can simply sprint to the body on the far Southern side and loot it for the Stone without having to kill it.
A Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone is awarded to those who complete the Elden Ring Millicent questline and gain Miquella’s Needle through the scarlet flower, even though it wasn’t technically obtained by killing Malenia. We can show you how to defeat Malenia in Elden Ring if you’re having problems.
Latenna will present you with a reward for finishing her questline in the Apostate Derelict.
How to use Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones for upgrades
No matter if you utilise Somber ones or not, Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones only ever require you to use one for the last step of improvements. So, for instance, upgrading a weapon from level 24 to level 25 will always take a single Ancient Dragon Stone and never more.
Make sure you have all the Elden Ring Smithing Stones and Elden Ring Somber Smithing Stones you need for that. If your weapons are not at +24 (or +9 if they are unique Somber Weapons), you’ll need to make sure they are as improved as they can be without them.
The actual process for upgrading your weapons with these stones is the same as it is for upgrading any other Smithing Stones: take your ready-to-be-upgraded weapons to Hewg, and in exchange for the Stones and some runes as payment, he’ll give them the final upgrade. You should know that this cannot be reversed! Any type of Ancient Stone that is used to improve a weapon cannot be reversed; the Stone is destroyed in the process.
How to get more Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in Elden Ring
The only way to replenish your supply of Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones, Somber or not, is to launch Journey 2, also known as New Game Plus. You must start over, resetting the world and moving everyone back to their original locations because Elden Ring can only ever have the 21 Stones indicated above in one playthrough. In our guide to everything there is to do in Elden Ring before NG+, we also include information on whether the ones you already have in your bag will carry over.
