Elden Ring crafting guide – how to make stuff and survive
Any good RPG needs a good crafting mechanic and a whole host of good recipes of items to make
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Elden Ring is a big old game and a large part of said big old game is utilizing what you find on the land and crafting it into essential items you will need on your travels. These items range from weaponry that you can enhance and make even more deadly to remedies that might help save your life in a tricky situation.
That said this is a Souls game so you are going to need more than a few little potions to stop you from frequently dying.
Using a crafty (no pun intended, well not much anyway) combination of foraged items and cookbooks you have purchased from a merchant, you will soon become self-sufficient and able to live largely off the land. So let’s now have a look at some of the things you will soon be knocking together like the master craftsperson you are.
Elden Ring crafting recipes
Some of the more common things you will need to constantly be crafting in Elden Ring are listed below. You will need to purchase the Crafting Kit from Merchant Kale to make anything below and this should be one of the first tasks you tick off your list as soon as the opportunity arises.
| RECIPE | TYPE | INFO | REQUIRED ITEMS |
| BONE ARROW | Arrows | Arrow whittled from the bones of animals. Not overly accurate | Deserter’s Cookbook Thin Animal Bones x3 |
| BONE ARROW (FLETCHED) | Arrows | Arrow whittled from the bones of animals Same as above but the addition of feathers increases accuracy and range | Deserter’s Cookbook Thin Animal Bones x3 Flight Pinion x1 |
| BONE KNIFE | Consumable | Throw at an enemy to inflict damage. | Thin Animal Bones x2 |
| CURED IMMUNIZING MEAT | Consumable | Short term immunity boost | Armorer’s Cookbook Rowa Fruit x5 Sliver of Meat x1 Great Dragonfly Head x1 |
| DRAWSTRING FIRE GREASE | Consumable | Coats arrow making it flammable | Armorer’s Cookbook Root Resin x1 Smouldering Butterfly x1 String x1 |
| EXALTED FLESH | Consumable | Short term attack boost | Deserter’s Cookbook Rowa Fruit x10 Lump of Flesh x1 Arteria Leaf x1 |
| FIRE GREASE | Consumable | Coats your weapon with flammable material increasing fire damage | Armorer’s Cookbook Root Resin x1 Smouldering Butterfly x1 |
| FIRE POT | Consumable | Exploding consumable able to cause considerable damage | Mushroom x1 |
| FIREBONE ARROW | Arrows | Arrow whittled from the bones of animals. The firey tip causes extra fire damage | Armorer’s Cookbook Thin Animal Bones x6 Smouldering Butterfly x1 |
| FIREBONE ARROW (FLETCHED) | Arrows | Arrow whittled from the bones of animals. The firey tip causes extra fire damage, but the addition of feathers increases accuracy and range | Armorer’s Cookbook Thin Animal Bones x6 Smouldering Butterfly x1 Flight Pinion x1 |
| FIREPROOF DRIED LIVER | Consumable | Short term damage negation boost | Armorer’s Cookbook Rowa Fruit x5 Beast Liver x1 Smouldering Butterfly x1 |
| FURLCALLING FINGER REMEDY | Multiplayer Item | Reveals cooperative and competitive summon signs | Erdleaf Flower x2 |
| GOLD-PICKLED FOWL FOOT | Consumable | Short term rune aquisition boost | Missionary’s Cookbook Rowa Fruit x5 Four-Toed Fowl Foot Silver Firefly |
| HOLY WATER POT | Consumable | Deals Holy damage | Missionary’s Cookbook Mushroom Tarnished Blossom |
| NEUTRALIZING BOLUSES | Consumable | Cures poison ailment | Armorer’s Cookbook Herba Cave Moss Great Dragonfly Head |
| PICKLED TURTLE NECK | Consumable | Short term stamina recovery boost | Deserter’s Cookbook Rowa Fruit x5 Turtle Neck Meat |
| POISONBONE ARROW | Arrows | Arrow whittled from the bones of animals. With a tip coated with venom it inflicts poison damage to any enemy it hits | Deserter’s Cookbook Thin Animal Bones x3 Poisonbloom |
| POISONBONE ARROW (FLETCHED) | Arrows | Arrow whittled from the bones of animals. With a tip coated with venom it inflicts poison damage to any enemy it hits, but the addition of feathers increases accuracy and range | Deserter’s Cookbook Thin Animal Bones x3 Poisonbloom Flight Pinion |
| RAINBOW STONE | Consumable | A colored guiding light that shines brightly | Ruin Fragment |
| ROPED FIRE POT | Consumable | Explodes when thrown behind, dealing fire damage. | Mushroom String |
| ROWA RAISIN | Consumable | On horseback, feed to spectral steed to restore HP. | Rowa Fruit |
| SCRIPTSTONE | Consumable | Reveals messages from other worlds. | Missionary’s Cookbook Ruin Fragment |
| SLEEP POT | Consumable | Emits a soporific purple haze | Fevor’s Cookbook Mushroom Trina’s Lily |
| STAUNCHING BOLUSES | Consumable | Relieves hemorrhage. | Deserter’s Cookbook Herba Cave Moss Bloodrose |
How to craft in Elden Ring
Once you have chosen your class and created your character and then obtained the crafting kit from Merchant Kale that will cost you 50 runes, you will be able to begin to harvest resources from the land that you can use. Many things can be collected on your travels in Elden Ring including various items of flora and fauna that will later come in useful.
Once you have the crafting kit you will still require items known as cookbooks which contain the recipes for the items you are attempting to make. Think of them like the instructions in a piece of flat-pack furniture from Ikea, but hopefully a little more helpful.
These cookbooks are not consumable, so once you have purchased them the knowledge will remain with your character throughout the game and the rest of your journey.
