Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel is one of the Minor Dungeons found in the Liurnia Region in Elden Ring. It is an optional dungeon that is home to a few treasure items and a miniboss Foe. This page contains information on the location, walkthrough, and guide to traverse this dungeon, locate all of its treasure, and tips to defeat the enemies within.

How to Get to Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel

North of the Church of Vows in Eastern Liurnia, along the right side of the alcove with the Wandering Mausoleum, head through the trees and the brush to find a cave entrance.

Passing down the tunnel, you'll arrive at a lift. Ride it down and progress forward to find a Site of Grace.

Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel Walkthrough

Moving on from the Site of Grace, you'll come across a room with a patrolling Crystal Miner, which will require either a blunt weapon or two-handed attacks to ensure your weapon doesn't bounce off with each strike and deal decreased damage. Critical strikes from behind are also an effective strategy, as their slow movement makes it easy to get around the back of them. Up the steps to the right, you'll find another Crystal Miner resting next to a chest that contains Somber Smithing Stone (2).

Heading northeast down the path, grab the Cracked Crystal deposits on the walls, and you'll emerge into an enormous cavern illuminated with blue crystals. The small platform to the left has a Crystal Miner and a couple of Cracked Crystal deposits, and to the right, you'll find three Crystal Miners; one patrolling and two mining. Take them out and grab the Smithing Stone crystals that they were mining on the floor.

Beyond them is a lever for a lift to the left, and a tunnel to follow to the right. As the lift isn't yet operable, go through the tunnel and face a Crystal Miner on the right-hand side. Any that are mining and have their backs to you are easy to sneak up on and critical strike, so take advantage where you can. Down the first flight of stairs are two Crystal Miners sat down, but be careful, as you fight them you'll likely aggro the Sorcerer in the alcove to the right. This sorcerer will fire dozens of glintstone crystals that can repeatedly hit you without reprieve, so keep your eye in that direction.

Heading into that alcove on the right, you'll find a Smithing Stone (3) on the left and a corpse with another Smithing Stone (3) on the right. Backtracking, pass underneath the wooden stairs and platforms you've descended from, and you'll face a Crystal Miner sorcerer and a regular Crystal Miner. Along the back wall, you'll find Smithing Stone (3) and multiple Cracked Crystal deposits. There is also a corpse on the right that holds a Golden Rune (3).

Proceeding down the tunnel to the left, you'll arrive at another lift. Descend the lift and head through into a large cavern with a chasm in the middle. There is a platform halfway down the lift you can roll off onto to obtain a Somber Smithing Stone should you wish! Defeating the Crystal Miner on the left, cross the wooden beam to reach the other side of the chasm and defeat the two sorcerers on the other side. It is recommended to sneak across and try to avoid the sorcerers detecting you until you are safely across, as their glintstone spells can knock you off if you aren't careful. Collect the various Smithing Stone crystals and Cracked Crystal deposits, and note a lift on the left-hand side, or a tunnel to the west. Ride the lift up, and then back down again to activate it as a shortcut option in case of the need for future runs/re-runs of this area.

Going through the tunnel, you'll be presented with two paths. From the path to the right, a Marionette fighter will emerge. In that alcove, there will be a corpse holding a Smithing Stone, as well as a Smithing Stone deposit in the back right corner. Now taking the left path, two Marionette fighters will drop from the ceiling, one with rapid-firing bows so prioritize that one.

You can then spot two Marionette fighters in a room to the right, guarding a chest. Though you can sneak up to one and critical strike it, the other will aggro and two additional fighters, both with bows, will appear - one will be behind you so ensure you don't get overwhelmed or surrounded. Inside the chest you'll find the Crystal Knife.

Continue south and you'll enter a room with multiple Crystal Miners mining a cluster of Smithing Stones to your lower left. There will be a sitting Crystal Miner down the first flight of stairs, as well as two sorcerers on the floor below. The good news is that you can attack and defeat the sorcerers without making the Crystal Miners that are mining hostile. If you loot the multiple Smithing Stone deposits they are mining however, they will aggro. This is recommended though as you can get a good number of Smithing Stones or various qualities here.

Looping underneath the platform you've just descended from, you can loot the Cracked Crystal deposits on the wall, as well as the Smithing Stone crystals in the collapsed tunnel section to the west, though you will have to deal with two additional Crystal Miners who are mining in the area.

You can now either head east through a small tunnel or north through a wider tunnel. Going through the wider tunnel (pictured to the left), you'll find the Shatter Earth spell on a corpse tucked to the right. Now heading through the smaller tunnel to the east, you'll reach yet another lift. Riding it down you'll meet a mist wall, though there is a platform to the northwest halfway down that you can roll off onto that has a Somber Smithing Stone at the end of a small tunnel. Grabbing the Somber Smithing Stone on the path to the mist wall, you're ready to face the boss.

Boss Fight - Crystalian

This boss is similar in strategy to its brethren that can be encountered in the Academy Crystal Cave, yet where those two variants held a staff and a spear, this Crystalian wields spinning disc weapons.

The boss will often initiate the fight by throwing two discs, one at a time, that lock-on to your position. These can be tricky to dodge your first time, as you'll need to roll later than you think to prevent them from hitting you.

The Crystalian can also extend its arms out to the side and begin spinning furiously, acting as a spinning top darting around the arena. So long as you keep your distance, it's uncommon for this move to target you so directly that it will definitely hit you. A few dodge-rolls or seconds of sprinting in the opposite direction to the boss will give you the space that you need.

Another combo attack is a three-move combo, where the Crystalian will swipe its larger disc slowly from side to side, then winding up to launch the disc along the floor in your direction. The swipes are slow enough that you can gain space before they make contact, and if you dodge-roll diagonally towards the Crystalian as it winds up for the disc roll you can guarantee you won't get hit, as the disc spins wildly enough trying to stay locked on to you that you can easily get behind the boss and perform a critical strike.

Critical strikes will be your best friend here, as they deal the most efficient and guaranteed damage, but as aforementioned, the Crystalian moves slowly enough (both in general traversal and with its attacks, bar the spin) that it is a reliably repeatable method to down this enemy easily. Summoning any Spirit Ash can be useful too, as they can draw the lock-on effect of the Crystalian's discs off of you during the beginning of the fight. Jumping heavy attacks can also stagger the Crystalian after just two strikes, opening you up to a frontal critical strike, expediting the fight even further.

Once defeated, the Crystalian drops a Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing.