Elden Ring: What Are Rainbow Stones For?
Elden Ring features a myriad of consumables serving many functions that help the player in a variety of circumstances. With each item given descriptions ranging from impressively detailed to exceptionally vague, it can be hard for Tarnished venturing into FromSoftware's beautiful Lands Between to know how useful an item is without pouring over descriptions, reading wiki pages, and a lot of trial and error.
One item, acquired relatively early in Elden Ring, is the Rainbow Stone; provided the brief description, ‘Shines with colored light when placed, serving as a guide,’ players may wonder about the applications of a nicely colored stone in the unforgiving landscape of Elden Ring. However, this little stone hides an incredibly useful utility, making it an invaluable item for exploration.
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Rainbow Stones serve to highlight hidden and dangerous paths in The Lands Between. As players have bemoaned, Elden Ring's threshold for a fatal fall is often finicky and difficult to judge.
With the Rainbow Stone in hand, they no longer have to worry about deadly drops — they may simply use a Stone near a ledge they deem dangerous, and it will reveal how likely a player’s survival will be.
When the Stone makes contact with a surface,it will make a sound and change its color to indicate how precipitous the drop is.
Low tones and colors on the purple end of the spectrum highlight the drop will do little to no damage, whereas high pitches and red colors show the drop will hurt. If a fall will kill the player, the stone will shatter.
Players familiar with the Prism Stone from Dark Souls III will understand how the Rainbow Stone works, and will also know that it can be used to map out otherwise
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