Dung Eater is one of the many NPCs you'll encounter that has a side quest to complete in Elden Ring. For this part of our Elden Ring guide, you'll find details of where to find this NPC, how to begin their questline and the outcomes of your choices.

Where to Find Dung Eater

You can first find Dung Eater at the Roundtable Hold. This will happen later in the game when you've made it to Leyndell, Royal Capital. The room next to the Twinhusk Maidens will open, revealing the red apparition of Dung Eater.

In order to progress his quest, you'll need Seedbed Curse otherwise, he will tell you to leave him alone.

When you deliver the first Seedbed Curse to Dung Eater, he'll give you a Sewer-Gaol Key that can be used to unlock the sewer beneath Leyndell, Royal Capital.

How to Find the Sewer-Gaol in Leyndell

Head north from the Lower Capital Church, near the destroyed part of the city beyond the wings of the dragon. There's a well here you can drop down into. Right by the ladder of the well, you'll see a cell to open. Unlock this and walk through and climb down the ladder. Head right and down into the rat-infested room and clear this. Go through the door to the southeast, then take the ladder on the left down and head for the Site of Grace that's in the second alcove to the left (northwest).

Go left from this Site of Grace, and drop down through the open grate in the floor also on the left. Take the path to the right, go past the poisonous flowers and climb up the ladder. Be careful as you reach the middle of this room, as a giant hand will appear from the ground (and two smaller hands will also appear). You want to run to the cell on the right, and open this with the Sewer-Gaol Key.

Speak to Dung Eater

Talk to Dung Eater and he'll ask who you are. Choose Leave you gaol! and then return to the Roundtable Hold and head to the room where you first spoke to Dung Eater. He'll have disappeared, but a message remains that says "I'll defile you next. Come to the outer moat."

How to Find the Outer Moat

The outer moat that Dung Eater is referring to, is the small body of water on the map just northwest of the Capital Rampart Site of Grace. As you walk into the water, you'll be invaded by Dung Eater. Kill him and he'll drop a Sword of Milos.

Return to the Roundtable Hold

Go back to the Roundtable Hold and Dung Eater will be there again. Speak to him again and he'll ask you to defile his flesh with the Seedbed Curse. This will require you to collect Seedbed Curse and keep taking it to him.