Elden Ring Glitch May Let Some Players Walk on Lava

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Gamers have long embarked on an endless quest to find exploitable glitches in their favorite titles. This is as true of FromSoftware fans as any others, and Elden Ring is far from exploit-free. For example, one creative player recently discovered a way to skip a frustrating section of the Haligtree Area. That’s far from the only instance either, with players discovering an unusual way to explore the Volcano Manor.

One recently discovered glitch allows some Elden Ring players to run across lava. However, it is proving very difficult for other players to replicate, and it seems that not everyone is able to sprint across the waves of molten rock.

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Reddit user Rhyfel kicked off the discussion by sharing a clip of their character running across the lava outside Elden Ring’s Volcano Manor. According to them, they achieved this by equipping the game’s Frenzied Flame body alteration, not to be confused with the similarly named Frenzied Flame Seal weapon. After removing the character’s armor to cut down on weight, Rhyfel runs across the churning lava as if the molten rock were any other patch of solid ground. At first, most commenters seemed to think that this was an intended function, though it appears to be a bug rather than a feature.

Commenters had different answers to how Rhyfel pulled it off, with Reddit user Lyberatis testing several and posting the results in the comments. Their attempts included adding or removing equipment to increase or decrease their character’s Load or having the Dancer’s Castanets item in their inventory. Why some thought an otherwise quest item might trigger the bug isn’t clear apart from its connection to the Volcano Manor's leader. Regardless, carrying it