Elden Ring guide: Crafting, cookbooks, and crafting materials (2024)

In this Elden Ring crafting guide, we’ll teach you how to get started with the new crafting mechanic in Elden Ring including where to buy the crafting kit, where to pick up your first few cookbooks, what you’ll be crafting, and where to gather crafting materials.

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Once you reach West Limgrave, one of the first places you’ll find is the Church of Elleh. Inside the ruined church, you’ll find a smithing table (where you can use smithing stones to upgrade your weapons) and a vendor named ~~Santa~~ merchant Kalé.

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He’ll sell you a crafting kit for 300 runes. Purchasing it unlocks the Item Crafting menu.

Elden Ring Kalé Cookbooks and recipes

As soon as you buy the crafting kit from Kalé, you’ll know a handful of recipes.

Elden Ring Crafting Kit recipes

Name	Required items	Description
Name	Required items	Description
Fire Pot	1 Mushroom, 1 Smoldering Butterfly	Throw at enemies to inflict fire damage.
Roped Fire Pot	1 Mushroom, 1 Smoldering Butterfly, 1 String	Throw behind to inflict fire damage.
Bone Dart x 5	2 Thin Beast Bones	Throw at enemies to inflict damage.
Rowa Raisin	1 Rowa Fruit	On horseback, feed to Torrent to restore HP.
Rainbow Stone	1 Ruin Fragment	Shines with colored light when placed, serving as a guide.
Furlcalling Finger Remedy	2 Erdleaf Flower	Reveals co-op and hostile summoning signs.

Elden Ring Nomadic Warrior’s Cookbook 1

Name	Required items	Description
Name	Required items	Description
Bone Arrow	3 Thin Beast Bones	Arrow whittled from thin animal bone.
Bone Arrow (Fletched)	3 Thin Beast Bones, 1 Flight Pinion	Thin, whittled animal bone with feather fletchings.
Bone Bolt	2 Thin Beast Bones	Thin, whittled animal bone bolt

Elden Ring Nomadic Warrior’s Cookbook 2

Name	Required items	Description
Name	Required items	Description
Glowstone	1 Ruin Fragment, 1 Dewkissed Herba	Emits a faint light from the location it is placed.
Invigorating Cured Meat	3 Golden Rowa, 1 Sliver of Meat, 1 Crab Eggs, 1 Land Octopus Ovary	Temporarily boosts robustness.
Invigorating White Cured Meat	3 Golden Rowa, 1 Strip of White Flesh, 1 Crab Eggs, 1 Land Octopus Ovary

Elden Ring Missionary’s Cookbook 1

Name	Required items	Description
Name	Required items	Description
Holy Water Pot	1 Mushroom, 1 Tarnished Golden Sunflower	Uses FP. Throw at enemies to inflict holy damage.
Roped Holy Water Pot	1 Mushroom, 1 Tarnished Golden Sunflower, 1 String	Uses FP. Throw behind to inflict holy damage.

Elden Ring Armorer’s Cookbook 1

To the northwest of the Church of Elleh and the Gatefront Ruins, there’s a small, unmarked bandit camp.

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It’s patrolled by a couple demi-humans on horseback, a couple more on foot, and several dogs (wolves?), so it’s well-guarded and you might have to level up a bit before heading there.

Inside the camp’s palisade, you’ll find a corpse with the Armorer’s Cookbook 1.

Armorer’s Cookbook 1

Name	Required items	Description
Name	Required items	Description
Fire Grease	1 Root Resin, 1 Smoldering Butterly	Coats armament, inflicting fire damage.
Drawstring Fire Grease	1 Root Resin, 1 Smoldering Butterfly, 1 String	Quickly coats armament, inflicting fire damage.
Fireproof Dried Liver	3 Rowa Fruit, 1 Beast Liver, 1 Smoldering Butterfly	Temporarily boosts fire damage negation.

Elden Ring Crafting Materials

You’ll find countless crafting materials in Elden Ring. We’ve listed the ones we’ve found so far in the table below along with their in-game descriptions and hints on where to find them.

Elden Ring Crafting Materials

Name	Description	Lore
Name	Description	Lore
Sliver of Meat	A slice of thinly carved beast flesh. Found by hunting herbivorous Beasts.	The dried meat toughens the constitution.
Strip of White Flesh	Thin strips of flesh taken from a bloodless creature.	The dried meat toughens the constitution, boosting resistance. It's known for its long-lasting effect.
Beast Liver	The fresh liver of a beast; a luscious fruit of life. Found by hunting herbivorous beasts.	Dried liver boosts damage negation.
Lump of Flesh	A lump of beast flesh filled with rich juices. Found by hunting carnivorous beasts.	Meat suitable for a rustic feast.
Turtle Neck Meat	A splendid, lengthy cut of turtle neck meat.	Considered an especially nutritious ingredient in the south of the Lands Between.
Budding Horn	A rarely-seen specimen of a young, budding horn. Found by hunting herbivorousbeasts.	This horn began to sprout on a beast that typically bears no horn. Perhaps it's a vestige of the primordial crucible.
Flight Pinion	Flight feather of birds.	Commonly used for arrow fletchings.
Stormhawk Feather	A feather from a hawk that lived as one with the storms.	These feathers, enveloped in swirling winds, are often used for arrow fletching.
Four-Toed Fowl Foot	A four-toed fowl's foot.	In the Lands Between, having three digits is seen as a bad omen. As such, the four-toed fowl's foot is a gift of great luck indeed.
Slumbering Egg	Owl eggs that will never hatch.	Prized as a symbol of the most sublime slumber.
Crab Eggs	Eggs of large crabs which dwell in the shallows.	A nutritious foodstuff that warms from within. The flavor is exquisite. Only those of comfort and means know the truth; a crab's eggs are more delectable than its meat.
Hefty Beast Bone	Thick, solid beast bones. Found by hunting particularly large beasts.	Commonly used to make disposable weapons.
Great Dragonfly Head	Head of a large dragonfly.	Long believed to have the ability to neutralize poisons.
Silver Firefly	Firefly that gives off a silvery light. Found near bodies of coId water untouched by sunlight.	The light of fireflies is believed to have an alluring magic. Silver light is considered to invite riches.
Smoldering Butterfly	An eternally burning butterfly found near wildfires and elsewhere. [Also campfires.]	Serves as the kindling for a number of items.
Gold-Tinged Excrement	Someone's excrement. It has a golden tinge. Often hidden in woods and thickets.	Gold-tinged excrement is a highly stable substance; it doesn't dry out, nor does it lose its customary warmth or scent. For better or for worse, it remains as it is.
Rowa Fruit	Berry-like red fruits that grow in shrubs.	Easily found everywhere in the Lands Between, it has a wide variety of uses.
Herba	Evergreen leaves that give off a faint light.	This very common medicinal plant can be found in thickets and elsewhere.
Mushroom	A tungal growth that thrives in damp thickets and elsewhere.	Its thick, spongy flesh makes it a key component in throwing pots.
Erdleaf Flower	A dusky yellow flower that has started to fade to brown, found throughout the Lands Between.	Said to be fed by leaves that fell from the Erdtree in days of antiquity.
Poisonbloom	Flower that grows in toxic terram.	Dripping with a deep-green poisonous liquid.
Tarnished Golden Sunflower	A large flower that blooms facing the Erdtree. Found near Minor Erdtrees.	Though wilted and faded, it still retains holy essence.
Trina's Lily	A light-purple water lily that is on the verge of wilting. Exceedingly rare to find.	A symbol of faith in St. Trina. Dulls the senses, preventing agitation.
Miranda Powder	Pollen from a man-eating miranda flower.	Throughout history, pertumers have prized this extremely fragrant form of miranda pollen, not yet scattered into the air.
Root Resin	Resin secreted from the roots of the Greattree. Can also be found near trees on the surface.	The roots of the Greattree were once linked to those of the Erdtree, or so they say, and it is for this reason catacombs are built around Greattree roots.
Cave Moss	Faintly luminescent moss that grows in dark caves.	A fundamental ingredient tor medicinal boluses.
Sanctuary Stone	A rare piece of stone tragment found near places where ruins have fallen from the sky.	It feeds and strengthens the light as it shines.

Elden Ring guide: Crafting, cookbooks, and crafting materials (2024)

Elden Ring unlock item crafting

Elden Ring Kalé Cookbooks and recipes

Elden Ring Crafting Kit recipes

Elden Ring Nomadic Warrior’s Cookbook 1

Elden Ring Nomadic Warrior’s Cookbook 2

Elden Ring Missionary’s Cookbook 1

Elden Ring Armorer’s Cookbook 1

Armorer’s Cookbook 1

Elden Ring Crafting Materials

Elden Ring Crafting Materials

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