Elden Ring: How To Get Smithing Stones

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Elden Ring is chock-full of weapons. There are more weapon types in Elden Ring than there are weapons in most games. One of the highlights of the game is being able to swap and change your loadout at any time and have a vastly different combat experience. There is a resource cost that hangs over the intricate weapon selection, however.

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Smithing Stones and Somber Smith Stones are required to upgrade your arsenal, and you are going to need a bunch of them if you want to fully explore the vast lineup of tools. Early on, this can be an issue since resources are limited. You could stretch them too far, and have too many weak weapons, or limit yourself too much, and get pigeonholed into one playstyle. Neither is ideal.

Smithing Stones are required to upgrade your regular weapons from the base, to +25. Each level your weapon goes up, the more powerful it becomes. Base stats increase, Attribute Scalings go up, and yes, so does the cost of the next upgrade.

Somber Smithing Stones are rarer and are required to upgrade special weapons. These are weapons with unique attributes or crafted from Boss Remembrances. These weapons can only go to +10, but each level is more of a power boost than your standard weapons and stones.

Thankfully, Smithing Stones, as of patch 1.03, are much more common than they were at launch. Not only are enemies going to drop them more often in regular combat, but many nomad merchants have a small stockpile of Smithing Stones ready to sell.

The easiest way to gather a healthy stockpile of Smithing Stones is to explore the various mines that litter The Lands Between. There’s at least one mine per major area in Elden Ring, and you are bound to find a bountiful supply of le