This page contains information on how to gain the proper resources to be able to craft your own items in Elden Ring, as well as where you need to go craft, and how you can collect more materials and recipes.

How to Get the Crafting Kit

Upon starting your adventure in Elden Ring, your character will not able to craft items, but you won't have to wait long. After entering Limgrave following the tutorial dungeon, take the path ahead to the Church of Elleh, and speak with the Merchant to see that he has a Crafting Kit available for sale. You can buy it for a few souls, which you can obtain by killing nearby enemies in the forest to the East.

With the Crafting Kit, you will gain a new menu option that you can pull up at any time, which allows you to pull up a menu and use materials you gather to create consumable items for both offense and defense.

How to Obtain Crafting Recipes

With the Crafting Kit, you'll have access to a few different items, but there are many more recipes to learn as you explore the Lands Between. These recipes come in various "cookbooks" located all over the world. Some are hidden in chests guarded at enemy camps, and others can be bought from merchants you find while traveling.

Most cookbooks are themed, and some can teach you about infusing weapons with fire or gaining fire resistance, or learning new types of bombs to store in Cracked Pots.

How to Find More Materials

Crafting more items will require more materials, and there are several ways to go about getting more.

Some items require plants and flowers to craft, and many can be found all over the Lands Between. Some like mushrooms and moss are found in damp caves, while others like Fulgurbloom only appear where lightning strikes.

Other items require parts from creatures you kill, which can be hunted all over the regions. You'll find slow moving animals to hunt both predator and prey, as well as slow moving birds perched on ruins, or solitary turtles by the water.

Some materials are more rare, and can only be found in secluded spots or guarded by fierce enemies. Luckily, merchants will also sometimes sell these items, but at a limited quantity.