To unlock the crafting menu, you must first purchase the Crafting Kit from Merchant Kalé at the Church of Elleh for 300 Runes. Once unlocked, finding Cookbooks across the world will expand your repertoire of craftable items, from lethal bombs to powerful body buffs.
1. Essential Consumables (Must Craft)
These are the most powerful offensive and buffing items you can craft. Keep them in your quick-pouch.
Exalted Flesh
Boosts physical attack power by 20% for 30 seconds. Incredibly powerful for burst damage before a boss fight.
- 5x Rowa Fruit
- 1x Lump of Flesh
- 1x Hefty Beast Bone
- 1x Arteria Leaf
Sleep Pot
Throws a pot that releases sleep-inducing smoke. Essential for putting the Godskin Duo and Runebears to sleep instantly.
- 1x Mushroom
- 1x Trina's Lily
- 1x Empty Cracked Pot
Uplifting Aromatic
Grants you and nearby allies a shield that negates 90% of damage from the next hit received, plus a 10% attack buff.
- 1x Altus Bloom
- 1x Budding Cave Moss
- 1x Silver Tear Husk
- 1x Arteria Leaf
Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot
Increases Rune acquisition by 30% for 3 minutes. Pop this immediately after defeating a boss before they finish their dying animation.
- 3x Rowa Fruit
- 1x Four-Toed Fowl Foot
- 1x Gold Firefly
Freezing Pot
Causes massive Frostbite buildup. Throwing this at Malenia while she jumps in the air will instantly cancel her Waterfowl Dance.
- 2x Rimed Crystal Bud
- 1x Empty Ritual Pot
Swarm Pot
Throws a pot that spawns a swarm of bloodflies. They track the enemy and deal massive continuous Bleed buildup over time.
- 1x Mushroom
- 1x Blood-Tainted Excrement
- 1x Empty Cracked Pot
2. The Medic Tent (Status Cures)
Status effects in Elden Ring are lethal. Knowing how to craft these Boluses will save your life in swamps and boss fights.
| Bolus Name | Cures | Required Cookbook | Key Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preserving Boluses | Scarlet Rot | Armorer's Cookbook [6] (Siofra River) | Dewkissed Herba, Crystal Cave Moss, Sacramental Bud |
| Neutralizing Boluses | Poison | Armorer's Cookbook [2] (Nomadic Merchant near Coastal Cave, 600 runes) | Herba, Cave Moss, Great Dragonfly Head |
| Stanching Boluses | Hemorrhage (Bleed) | Nomadic Warrior's [7] (Stormveil Bridge) | Herba, Cave Moss, Land Octopus Ovary |
| Thawfrost Boluses | Frostbite | Nomadic Warrior's [16] (Ainsel River) | Herba, Cave Moss, Crab Eggs |
| Clarifying Boluses | Madness | Frenzied's Cookbook [1] (Frenzied Flame Village) | Dewkissed Herba, Crystal Cave Moss, Eye of Yelough |
| Rejuvenating Boluses | Death Blight | Missionary's Cookbook [7] (merchant in the eastern Mountaintops of the Giants, 7,500 runes) | Dewkissed Herba, Crystal Cave Moss, Golden Centipede |
3. Key Base Game Cookbooks
The most important cookbooks you should go out of your way to collect in the Lands Between.
| Cookbook Name | Unlocks | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Nomadic Warrior's [2] | Glowstone, Invigorating Cured Meat, Invigorating White Cured Meat | Bought from Merchant Kalé (Church of Elleh) |
| Nomadic Warrior's [11] | Crystal Dart, Spellproof Dried Liver, Shattershard Arrow | Bought from Nomadic Merchant near Liurnia Lake Shore |
| Nomadic Warrior's [24] | Swarm Pot, Roped Fly Pot | Mohgwyn Palace, near the blood swamps |
| Armorer's Cookbook [1] | Fire Grease, Drawstring Fire Grease, Fireproof Dried Liver | Kaiden Sellsword camp northeast of Agheel Lake North |
| Armorer's Cookbook [3] | Exalted Flesh | Bought from the Nomadic Merchant in East Limgrave |
| Armorer's Cookbook [6] | Preserving Boluses (Rot Cure) | Siofra River, on a corpse near the Siofra River Bank grace |
| Missionary's Cookbook [2] | Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot, Scriptstone | Bought from Patches in Murkwater Cave |
| Missionary's Cookbook [4] | Holy Grease, Drawstring Holy Grease, Haligbone Arrow, Haligbone Bolt | Minor Erdtree Church (Capital Outskirts) |
| Fevor's Cookbook [1] | Sleep Pot | Graveyard in Limgrave, south of Summonwater Village |
| Perfumer's Cookbook [1] | Uplifting Aromatic, Spark Aromatic | Perfumer's Ruins (Altus Plateau) in a chest |
| Perfumer's Cookbook [2] | Bloodboil Aromatic, Poison Spraymist | The Shaded Castle (Altus Plateau) |
| Glintstone Craftsman's [6] | Freezing Pot | Caria Manor, on a corpse in a small room |
| Ancient Dragon Apostle's [2] | Lightning Pot, Roped Lightning Pot | Bought from the merchant near the Forest-Spanning Greatbridge grace |
4. DLC Cookbooks (Shadow of the Erdtree)
The Realm of Shadow introduces Hefty Pots (massive throwables) and new powerful items.
| Cookbook Name | Unlocks | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Greater Potentate's [1] | Hefty Fire Pot | Scorched Ruins (Gravesite Plain) |
| Greater Potentate's [2] | Hefty Furnace Pot (Essential for killing Furnace Golems) | Run-Down Traveler's Rest (Gravesite Plain) |
| Greater Potentate's [3] | Hefty Oil Pot | Fog Rift Fort |
| Greater Potentate's [4] | Hefty Magic Pot | On a corpse east of the Cathedral of Manus Metyr |
| Greater Potentate's [5] | Hefty Lightning Pot | On a corpse in the lightning-struck forest of Gravesite Plain |
| Forager Brood Cookbook [2] | Fireproof Pickled Liver | Given by a non-hostile Kindred of Rot in Gravesite Plain, east of Prospect Town |
| Antiquity Scholar's [1] | Fire Spritestone | Dropped by a Shadow pot-headed enemy in Rauh Base, in a cave north of the Temple Town Ruins grace |
| Igon's Cookbook [1] | Dragon Communion Grease, Dragon Communion Harpoon | Jagged Peak Foothills, on a corpse in the broken tower just before the Grand Altar of Dragon Communion |
5. Rare Material Farming Guide
The biggest issue with crafting in Elden Ring is that some materials do not respawn when you rest. Here is how to farm the rarest materials infinitely from enemies or respawnable spots.
Arteria Leaf
Used for: Exalted Flesh, Uplifting Aromatic
Farm Spot: Snow Trolls in the Mountaintops of the Giants (near the Giants' Gravepost site of grace) have a solid chance to drop them.
Trina's Lily
Used for: Sleep Pots, Sleep Arrows
Farm Spot: Cleanrot Knights. The easiest one to farm is just outside the Prayer Room site of grace in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree.
Sacramental Bud
Used for: Preserving Boluses (Rot Cure)
Farm Spot: Drops from Rotary Dogs (Rot-infected dogs). Farm them in Writheblood Ruins or outside the Church of the Plague in Caelid.
Bloodrose
Used for: Cursed-Blood Pot
Farm Spot: Rose Church in Liurnia. There are several bushes here that respawn when you rest at the nearby grace. Just run in, pick them, and repeat.
Gold Firefly
Used for: Gold-Pickled Fowl Foot
Farm Spot: The small pond full of Land Octopuses just east of the Mistwood, south of the Limgrave Tower Bridge. Around 10 respawning fireflies per run.
Silver Tear Husk
Used for: Uplifting Aromatic
Farm Spot: These actually DO respawn! Just run through Nokron, Eternal City or Night's Sacred Ground and pick them off the floor over and over.
Aeonian Butterfly
Used for: Rot Pots, Rot Grease
Farm Spot: Basilisks (giant rats with big eyes) in the Lake of Rot or Deeproot Depths frequently drop these butterflies.
Four-Toed Fowl Foot
Used for: Fowl Foot (Runes/Discovery Buffs)
Farm Spot: The beach west of the Fourth Church of Marika (Weeping Peninsula). Use an AoE spell or bow to kill the flocks of birds resting on the sand.
Eye of Yelough
Used for: Clarifying Boluses (Madness Cure)
Farm Spot: Frenzied Flame Village in Liurnia. Can also be farmed by killing Frenzied Trolls on the path leading up to the village.
Sources
Cross-checked on 26 September 2026 and re-checked on 1 October 2026 against EliteGuias and the Elden Ring Fextralife wiki.