Smithing Stones are the most important item in Elden ring, used to upgrade weapons and make your character more powerful. You can get greater damage and increase your attributes by upgrading your weapon.
Smithing stones include Regular stones and Somber stones. Regular stones for upgrading normal weapons, somber stones for upgrading special weapons. They also have several ranks for different upgrade levels. Upgrade a weapon to the max level. You need a lot of smithing stones. But we can help you to find those stones more easily.
In this guide, we will explain where to find both Regular stones and Somber stones. We will also explain how to buy those smithing stones in Elden ring, so that you can upgrade your weapon easily. After getting enough smithing stone, and if you want to know How To Upgrade Weapons in Elden Ring, you can also check the guide we made earlier.
Where to get smithing stones
You can find Smithing Stones in all mining caves in Elden ring, Those smithing stones found in caves will not respawn, but you can kill enemies to farm them. Since the enemies respawn, you can farm smithing stones unlimited. Those are the locations where to farm smithing stones:
● Smithing Stone 1 and 2: Can farm miners in Limgrave Tunnels. Located at the Northern edge of Agheel Lake in Limgrave.
● Smithing Stone 3 and 4: Can farm Soldiers and Miners in Gael Tunnel.
● Smithing Stone 5: Can farm Imps in the Subterranean Shunning.
● Smithing Stone 6 and 8: Can farm Miners in the Yelough Anix Tunnel
● Smithing Stone 7: Can farm Haligtree Soldiers at Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree.
How to buy smithing stones
FInd Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearings and hand them to the Twin Maiden Husks in the Roundtable Hold. Then it will allow you to purchase smithing stones with Elden ring runes. below is the location where to get each level Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearings：
● Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing 1: Allows you to purchase Smithing Stones1 and 2. You can find it in the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel.
● Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing 2: Allows you to purchase Smithing Stones 3 and 4. You can find it in the Sealed Tunnel.
● Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing 3: Allows you to purchase Smithing Stones 5 and 6. You can find it in Zamor Ruins, located in the Mountaintops of the Giants region.
● Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing 4: Allows you to purchase Smithing Stones 7 and 8. You can get it by killing the Godskin Duo main boss in Crumbling Farum Azula.
How to get Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone
It will need an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone to upgrade a normal weapon to the last level. It is the best smithing stone that allows you to upgrade your normal weapon to level 25. and it's harder to get also the amount you can obtain is limited. So it would be best if you considered which weapon to upgrade to the max level.
Here is the way how to get all 13 Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones in Elden ring:
1. Complete Nepheli Loux's sidequest will reward Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
2. After completing Nepheli Loux's sidequest, speak to the Stormveil Castle. Gatekeeper, will allow you to buy an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
3. Choose to kill her at the end when on the Sorceress Sellen's quest. Jerren will give you an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone as a reward.
4. Obtained in the Yelough Anix Tunnel.
5. You will find an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone in a giant skull. in the South of the Church of Repose in the Mountaintops of the Giants
6. You can get an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone when you hand in the 9th Deathroot to Gurranq.
7. You can get one by killing the Night's Cavalry bosses in the Consecrated Snowfield.
8. Found in the waterfall near Great Wyrm Theodorix.
9. Kill the dragon on the way to Crumbling Farum Azula will drop an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
10. After the Dragon Temple, to the higher ledge. You will find an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone on a corpse.
11. Kill the dragon in Crumbling Farum Azula will drop an Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
12. You can find it on a statue in Miquella's Haligtree. Not far from the Haligtree Town Plaza Site of Grace.
13. After killing Loretta, you can find one in a chest nearby.
Where to get Somber Smithing Stone
● Somber Smithing Stones 1 and 2: No need to kill enemies. You can purchase Somber Smithing Stones 1 and 2 from Smithing Master Iji at the Kingsrealm Ruins. You can also purchase some 3 and 4 . He is located at the western edge of Liurnia of the Lakes.
● Somber Smithing Stones 3, 4, and 5: You can farm the Glintstone Miners in Sellia Crystal Tunnel.
How to buy Somber smithing stones
Same as regular smithing stone, FInd Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearings and hand them to the Twin Maiden Husks in the Roundtable Hold. Then it will allow you to purchase Somber smithing stones. Below is the location where to get each level Somber Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearings：
● Somber stone Miner's Bell Bearing (1): Allows you to purchase Somber Smithing Stones 1 and 2. You can get it by killing the Fallingstar Beast boss inside the Sellia Crystal Tunnel in Caelid.
● Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing (2): Allows you to purchase Somber Smithing Stones 3 and 4. You can get it by Killing Crystalian boss(es) inside the Altus Tunnel in the Altus Plateau
● Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing (3): Allows you to purchase Somber Smithing Stones 5 and 6. You can find it near the First Church of Marika on the Mountaintop of Giants.
● Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing (4): Allows you to purchase Somber Smithing Stones 7 and 8. You can find it Inside the Crumbling Farum Azula legacy dungeon in the Mountaintop of Giants.
● Somberstone Miner's Bell Bearing (5): Allows you to purchase Somber Smithing Stones 9. You can also find it Inside the Crumbling Farum Azula legacy dungeon in the Mountaintop of Giants. Not too far from the Beside the Great Bridge Site of Grace.
How to get Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone
Same as normal weapons. It will need a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone to upgrade the special weapon to the max level. here is the way how to get
Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone:
1. Completing Latenna the Albinauric's quest will reward a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
2. Kill the wounded dragon that calls down the red thunderstorm will get a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone.
3. Killing the invader Anastasia three times will get a reward of Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone reward.
4. Near Dynasty Mausoleum Midpoint, you can get a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone from a chest under a huge statue.
Heading to Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree, you can find 3 Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stones here:
5. The first one you can find in a chest near the Prayer Room Site of Grace. The chest is hidden in a room between columns.
6. The second one, you can find near the Putrid Avatar on a corpse.
7. You can get the last one here by completing Millicent's questline.
8. You can find it west of the Leyndell, Ashen Capital grace, climb up the dragon corpse to the building, and find a Somber Ancient Dragon Smithing Stone on a corpse.
