Kill Dung Eater Elden Ring

For your first several dozen hours in Elden Band, the Roundtable Hold will taunt you lot with a locked door only past the Twin Maiden Husks merchant. Naught you practice will open that door, until yous've reached Altus Plateau — at which point, the chamber beyond is revealed.

It hosts the Loathsome Dung Eater, who talks of footling besides killing innocent people and defiling their corpses so that all their descendants volition be cursed forever. In this guide, we'll explain how to help him and where to find the Seedbed Curses you'll need.

Affiliate 1: Making (Friends With) a Murderer

Step 1: Meet the Dung Eater

All you lot demand to exercise for Dung Eater to appear in Roundtable Hold is attain the Altus Plateau, which ways either climbing up the Ruin-Strewn Precipice at the northern tip of Liurnia, or finding the two halves of the Dectus Medallion and taking the Grand Lift upward. If yous aren't at that point in the game however, merely proceed playing and come back hither when you're prepare.

Step 2: Obtain a Seedbed Expletive

In social club to progress the Dung Eater's story, you must obtain at least 1 Seedbed Curse. There are six of these items total in the game, and yous'll demand to locate at least five of them to see the Dung Eater'due south story through to its decision.

Elden Ring screenshot of a Seedbed Curse in a player's inventory. — You lot'll need v Seedbed Curses to consummate the Dung Eater's questline.

Luckily, two are hands accessible in the Purple Capital, Leyndell, which y'all'll need to explore as part of the game's main story:

From the East Upper-case letter Rampart Site of Grace, take the normal path into the city by the Envoys and the flame-spewing Cleaved Statue enemy. Ride the elevator down, and head into the room ahead with a Perfumer. Become up the ladder and the staircase, and you'll discover this Seedbed Expletive on a corpse tied to a chair.
In the Fortified Estate — the part of Leyndell that looks similar a deserted Roundtable Hold — you'll find a Seedbed Curse in the same room that Dung Eater uses in the real Roundtable Hold.

Grab both of these, then return to the Roundtable Hold.

Step 3: Speak to Dung Eater once more

Our loathsome friend will finally open up to you when you return with a Seedbed Curse in paw. He'll give you the Sewer-Gaol Fundamental and request that you free his corporeal class from the sewers below the Capital.

Getting there is a bit of an ordeal, though.

Chapter 2: Unspeakable Things

Footstep 4: Locate Dung Eater'south prison

Elden Ring player in Leyndell, Royal Capital approaching the well leading to the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds. — Archway to the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds.

To enter the Capital letter'due south sewers — the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds — you lot demand to detect a nondescript-looking well in Leyndell itself. Start at the Avenue Balcony site of grace and caput downstairs and out the door. Plough left and walk forth the railing until you're past the commencement set of rooftops below you. Spring down into the shadowed plaza. Watch out for Itch Albinaurics and look for the well here.

Head down and explore the sewers until you lot reach the Undercover Roadside Site of Grace. Utilise care, equally the Omen enemies here are particularly deadly.

From the Underground Roadside, nuance left toward the 2 Omens and jump downward a hole in the floor to an area filled with rats. Follow this corridor by the Miranda Sprouts (poisonous substance flowers) and upwardly a ladder. Your last obstacle is a quartet of Fingercreepers, including one biggun. Use fire to make them roll around helplessly.

At last, the Dung Eater'due south prison is dead ahead.

Stride 5: Set the Dung Eater free

Elden Ring screenshot of the Dung Eater in his sewer jail cell. — Speak to the Dung Eater in his cell.

Unlock the door and speak to the Dung Eater, commanding him to go out his prison cell. It can be tempting to kill him hither, given what he informs you he's planning to do, but you must resist the urge if y'all're going to consummate this quest.

Step six: Return to the Roundtable

Elden Ring player interacting with a message from the Dung Eater inviting them to the outer moat. — I'll defile you next.

Dorsum in the Roundtable Hold, you'll find a message in the Dung Eater's quarters kindly requesting that yous head to Leyndell'southward outer moat and then that yous, besides, tin can receive the wondrous blessing of the Dung Eater's defilement.

Stride 7: Go Blackguard Large Boggart in place

I of Elden Ring's funniest characters is a ruffian named Blackguard Big Boggart. You may accept met him already in Liurnia; if not, head to his shack, a brusk jaunt northwest of the gazebo next to the telescope icon on your map.

Elden Ring map showing the location of the Boilprawn Shack where you'll find Blackguard Big Boggart. — Speak to Blackguard Big Boggart at the Boilprawn Shack.

Speak with him, buy everything he has to offering, and then speak with him once again until his dialogue is exhausted, and he'll move to Altus Plateau.

Next, travel to the Uppercase Rampart site of grace, but instead of heading into the Majuscule, retrace your steps back to the expanse where you lot fought Draconic Tree Sentinel and the two Golem Archers. Detect the path downwardly from in that location into the deep moat surrounding the city, and you lot should find Boggart nearby.

Elden Ring map showing the location of Boggart in the moat around Lyndell, Royal Capital in the Altus Plateau. — Y'all'll find Boggart at the eastern end of the moat around Leyndell.

Frazzle his dialogue here; you may need to reload the surface area after receiving the message from Dung Eater. Boggart should say something to you most seeing evidence that Dung Eater is in the area; that'due south your ticket to reload the surface area and prepare for a fight.

Oh, and buy some crab from Boggart if you want to, because he won't be around much longer.

Affiliate 3: Defiance Through Defilement

Step 8: Defeat the Dung Eater

Elden Ring screenshot of a defeated Boggart next to a pot of boiled crab. — He died doing what he loved.

The next time you render to Boggart's military camp, you lot'll find him at expiry's door. Speak to him until he expires, and pick upward your third Seedbed Curse, plus the Blackguard'south Iron Mask, Blackguard's Bell Bearing, and the Iron Ball fist weapon.

Elden Ring screenshot of the Dung Eater invading and running across the Leyndell Moat. — Dung Eater invasion.

Be quick, though, because the Dung Eater will before long invade you. He isn't too hard to defeat, although y'all do have to watch out for the Giant Crab that pops upwardly out of the water here.

Once Dung Eater's tending of, return to Roundtable Agree yet again.

Step nine: Speak to the Dung Eater

Dung Eater volition be back in his usual spot, still in his red phantom grade. Speak with him several times and he'll asking that you feed Seedbed Curses to his physical form, which can once over again be establish in the sewers under the Upper-case letter.

Elden Ring screenshot of the red phantom version of the Dung Eater inside his room in Roundtable Hold. — Dung Eater has big plans.

He'll also reveal more than of his programme, which involves defiling enough corpses that anybody who gets reborn through the Erdtree is cursed, and then all their children and their children's children will be cursed, and so on until the stop of fourth dimension. He's nothing if not aggressive.

Step ten: Seluvis' Potion

You have a choice hither. If yous have Seluvis' Potion in your inventory still from the Nepheli questline, having not yet given information technology to either Nepheli or Gideon, you can choose to requite it to the Dung Eater at this stage. If you do, this storyline will terminate here, though you lot'll be able to buy the Dung Eater puppet as a Spirit Ash from Seluvis, which is extremely cool. Y'all can also attack Dung Eater direct after giving him the potion, which allows you lot to merits his armor as well equally the Spirit Ash — according to the character's Wiki entry at least (nosotros were unable to exam this particular outcome).

Step 11: Assemble Seedbed Curses

If you'd rather continue Dung Eater'southward quest, have note that you'll need to have access to the Haligtree.

You lot'll find the remaining Seedbed Curses in the following locations:

From the Temple of Eiglay site of grace in Volcano Manor, proceed toward the teleporter that takes you lot to the Rykard boss fight until you find a Stonesword Fundamental fog door. Within, drib downward to the ground, where you'll find this Seedbed Expletive on a corpse surrounded by foes. Check our comprehensive Volcano Manor guide for more detailed directions here.
From the Prayer Room site of grace in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree, follow the path north until you reach the northernmost room on the path, an enclosed infinite with two Haligtree Soldiers. Jump over the railing onto a narrow walkway, and then down to the platform with the floating Crimson Scarab. Spring to another narrow walkway on the other side, and caput up to a narrow ledge. Follow the ledge north to a seated corpse holding this Seedbed Curse.
For the final Seedbed Curse, accept the same path from the same site of grace, but continue following the stairs downward instead of jumping over the railing when yous reach the small room with the ii soldiers. You'll reach a room with two Cleanrot Knights, one of which you lot can see from the doorway. Don't enter. Instead, bound over the railing onto a narrow walkway to the east, and and then drop down to a lower platform from there. Caput down some flights of stairs here and y'all'll find yourself in a nighttime room with a Seedbed Curse on a corpse backside a colonnade. Effort to avoid falling all the way down, as the Rotted Crystalians and Revenants beneath you are no joke.

Pace 12: Feed the Creature

Once you take all the Seedbed Curses in your inventory, visit the Dung Eater in his sewage-filled prison and hand them over to receive the Mending Rune of the Brutal Curse. Reloading the area volition cause the Omen Armor set to announced in his place.

With that, you've completed the Dung Eater's side quest and unlocked an alternate ending for the game.

For more Elden Ring NPC quest goodness, check out our guides to feeding Hyetta eyeballs, getting revenge against Patches, and learning everything Sellen has to teach.