Elden Ring Rune Farm: Get 80K Runes For Killing A Defenseless Dragon, You Monsters

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Elden Ring rune farming is the key to leveling your character from a lowly Tarnished to a boss-slaying champion, and there are several viable places to farm runes, even as soon as you get to the Lands Between. We've covered several great early rune farming locations in Elden Ring already, but arguably the best of them is so good that we worry it may be patched out soon. With that in mind, take your best sword, staff, or axe and head to Fort Faroth to slay a very generous dragon. Here's how to nab 80,000 Runes with one morally dubious trick.

Typically in a From Software game, everything wants you dead. Sure, some human NPCs may be friendly (or at least they appear that way), but if it looks like a beast, it's probably content to kill you. That's not the case with the Fort Faroth dragon, however. This apparent mother dragon is surrounded by her babies, and strangely puts up no fight when you go to kill her.

Doing so will net you 80,000 Runes, though she won't respawn like most other enemies after you rest at a Site of Grace. Still, a bounty of 80,000 Runes is massive at any point, especially early in the game. That's good for several character levels. What's more, if you elect not to harm the mother dragon and instead focus on the offspring, they each net you 3,500 Runes and they do respawn after resting at a Site of Grace. They will, however, stop spawning if you kill their mother.

This setup gives you two options:

Really a third option would be to walk away and leave these creatures be--they didn't do anything to you!--but if you've made it this far, I imagine you're hellbent on slaying the group in some fashion. Truth be told, assuming this simple Rune farm isn't bugged, it may very well prove that killing this dragon