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Smithing Stone [3] is an Upgrade Material in Elden Ring. Smithing Stone [3] is a material used for upgrading equipment to a higher level with better stats. Upgrade Materials can be acquired through exploration, looting it from specified areas of a Location, dropped by a specific Enemy or Boss, given by an NPC, or sold by a Merchant.
Stone used to smith a variety of armaments. A particularly hard specimen.
Strengthens armaments up to +9.
Smithing stone is found throughout the Lands Between, and mining galleries built to excavate it can be found everywhere.
Smithing Stone [3] Location in Elden Ring
See Smithing Stone [4] for upgrades past +9.
Where to find Smithing Stone [3]:
Shadow of the Erdtree
- Belurat Tower Settlement: Can be found in the Ulcerated Tree Spirit arena. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] []
- Belurat Gaol: As you exit the Jar labyrinth, turn right and can be found near a Living Jar []
- Ruined Forge Lava Intake: Take the first ladder down, and go up the set of stairs on the right, you will find it on the ground. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] []
- Ruined Forge Lava Intake: Take the first ladder down. You will the item on the ground in front of you, where you find the second golem. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] []
- Ruined Forge Lava Intake: Take the first ladder down. You will the item on the ground in front of you, where you find the second golem [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] [Video Link]
- Ruined Forge Lava Intake: Take the first ladder down. You will the item on the ground in front of you, where you find the second golem. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] [Video Link]
- Ruined Forge Lava Intake: Take the first ladder down, past the golem. After the fire blob, turn left and you will find a round with a golem sitting. In this room, you will find this item slightly to the right, alongside a Smithing Stone [4]. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] [Video Link]
- Ancient Ruins of Rauh: From the Site of Grace, enter through the small archway on the right side of the bridge. It is recommended to ride Torrent here as you cross the bridge so you can move faster and loot as you travel. There will be giant bats on this bridge but you will move fast enough and they shouldn't be able to reach you. You will find bootable corpses here, the first one to the left which is a Smithing Stone [3]. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] [Video Link]
- The Ruined Forge of Starfall: A total of 12 Smithing Stone [3] can be found in the Ruined Forge of Starfall Past location. x5 can be looted from a body near the site of grace. Turn left as you enter the doorway to find the body by the pots. The rest of the upgrade materials are looted from the ground. [See Shadow of the Erdtree Map] [Video Location] [Video Location] [Video Location] [Video Location] [Video Location] [Video Location]
Base Game
In the World
Liurnia of the Lakes
- 8 total can be found throughout Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel. Look for the yellow colored stones on the walls.
- 3 in a gazebo with a statue, southeast of the Academy Gate Town grace. Beware of Giant Crayfish hiding in the water to the south. The gazebo can be seen on the map. [Map Link]
- 3 on a corpse sitting on a chair surrounded by flower enemies, in the woods southwest of Eastern Liurnia Lake Shore grace. [Map Link]
- 3 in a gazebo with a statue, in the woods west of Eastern Liurnia Lake Shore grace. The gazebo can be seen on the map.
- 3 in a gazebo with a statue just north of the Crystalline Woods grace (note: this gazebo doesn't show on the map).
- 3 in the caves that go through Ruin-Strewn Precipice.
- One held by a corpse in the second area of the caves.
- A second one also held by a corpse, on the roof with the Giant Land Octopus.
- Third stone is under a tent on your right when coming across the second harpy.
- One on a corpse sitting outside the gazebo in the center of the Laskyar Ruins. [Map Link]
- One on a corpse in the road up from Academy Gate Town, near a Flame Chariot and several Raya Lucaria Soldiers. [Map Link]
- One in the cliffside graveyard near Caria Manor. [Map Link]
- One at a gravesite where you fight Tibia Mariner in Liurnia of the Lakes. [Map Link]
- One on a corpse in the rooftops section of Raya Lucaria Academy. [Map Link]
Ainsel River
- 3 found on a corpse behind the large stone building housing the map piece for Ainsel River. [Map Link]
- 2 found on a corpse lying on the edge of one of the standing column structures in Ainsel River. Can be accessed by climbing up the tipped over pillar next to it. [Map Link]
- Found on a corpse in a dead end of the Ainsel River caves. [Map Link] Video Location
- Found on a corpse in a mountain of bodies in Ainsel River, guarded by giant ants. [Map Link] Video Location
- Found on a corpse at the base of a ramp going up in Ainsel River. [Map Link]
- Video Location
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Other Locations
- Stormveil Castle. One on a corpse around the southwestern cliffs. Watch out for the Bladed Talon Eagles in the area. [Map Link]
- Stormveil Castle. One on a corpse outside the western walls, beside the golden message with Rogier's apparition.
- Redmane Castle: A total of 2 can be found inside the castle:
- Siofra River: One on a corpse sitting at the top of a stone ruin. [Map Link]
- Siofra River: 2 can be found on the second floor of the house next to the wooden scaffolding used to reach the Abandonned Merchant. [Map Link]
- Nokron: One on a corpse on a ledge overlooking the water. [Map Link]
- Night's Sacred Ground: One in a room locked behind an imp statue. [Map Link]
- Video Location, Nokron Eternal City
- Video Location, Nokron Eternal City
Purchase From
Twin Maiden Husks at the Roundtable Hold after offering them a Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing (2). They cost 600 runes.
Dropped By
- Miners.
- Raya Lucaria Soldiers.
- Radahn Soldiers.
- 5.0% chance to drop from Gravebird.
- 6.8% chance to drop from Living Magma.
- 5.0% chance to drop from Messmer Soldiers.
- 2.5% chance to drop from Putrid Flesh
Farming Locations:
- Bellum Church site of grace: Ride down the ramp in the church and past the Nomadic Merchant.
Two miners at a campsite further down drop Smithing Stone (2) and (3).
(With weapons that deal Strike Damage this appears to be the fastest farming spot currently discovered). - South Raya Lucaria Gate site of grace [Map Link]: Head down the bridge, the Raya Lucaria Soldiers here drop Smithing Stone (2) and (3).
Easiest to farm with the two soldiers immediately left or right before the barricades and the around the corners, since they are alone and can be killed quickly from horseback. (After riding to the other side and killing the second soldier teleporting back to the grace is fastest). - Impassable Greatbridge site of grace: Trigger the fight between Radahn Soliders and Giant Dogs.
Low level players can wait on one of the hills for the fight to end, otherwise it is advisable to pick of Redmane Knights while they are distracted.
With sufficient AoE damage via Skills or Spells this can be the most efficient farming spot.
(If farming passively, picking up Smithing Stones and pieces of the Redmane Knight and soldier sets from horseback while summons distract the survivors is the safest method). - Gael tunnel: This location Traps the player until the site of grace at the end has been reached! (Boss is optional).
The Radahn Soldiers drop Smithing Stone (2), Smithing Stone (3), and Smithing Stone (4). The Miners drop Smithing Stone (4).
Smithing Stone [3] Elden Ring Guide
- Used in smithing to strengthen armaments. Specifically, to +7 through +9.
- At a smithing table, you can spend Runes and Smithing Stones to strengthen your armaments.
- 12 stones are required to progress a weapon through tier 3: 2 for +7, 4 for +8, and 6 for +9.
Elden Ring Smithing Stone [3] Notes & Tips
- You can hold up to 999 Smithing Stone [3].
- You can store up to 999 Smithing Stone [3].
- Sell Value:
300
Anonymous
- Anonymous
How is it that the flame chariot farm after all this time has still not been added to this page? As far as I'm aware, it is THE most efficient farming method for early game 3s, barring just rushing for the bell bearing.
- Anonymous
Unless you have some reason to not trigger the Redahn festival, just go get the bell bearing. In all my playthroughs these are the worst to try to farm besides the 8s. 30 minutes of farming Redahn Soldiers you'll get forty 2's and twenty 4's and only like two or three 3's and the miners have like an actual 1 in 100 drop rate.
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Doesn't seem to be listed on this page, but you can also find 3 of these on a rooftop in Jarburg. You have to carefully drop down from the cliff above, thanks to a series of tombstones, then jump from the last tombstone to the roof instead of dropping directly on the ground.
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"3 in a gazebo with a statue just north of the Crystalline Woods grace (note: this gazebo doesn't show on the map). ", This is wrong its Smithing Stone 2 (Still three of them).
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I recommend Gael Tunnel, lots of soldiers and you can also farm 4s from the miners, bring an upgraded strike weapon to kill the miners fast. I was able to do the route in a little less than 2 minutes with a +6 flail. Otherwise I suggest just getting the ball bearing.
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It's honestly easier to just rush to the bell bearing than to farm these. The amount of 3s in the world you can pick up without farming is absurdly lower than the rest for some dumba** reason.
- Anonymous
I've farmed for about one hour and just got 20 of these with an Item Discovery of 176 killing the Flame Chariots at Caelem Ruins. I have all kinds of weapons, so i need a lot of them.
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If you have or plan on using more than one weapon that upgrades with smithing stones, just grab the bell bearing in the sealed cave. It'll be way less trouble to rune farm.
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Why are multiple of the things in liurinia of the lake smithing stone[2] instead of 3?
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Farming location: Caelem Ruins. Sneak up and get the flame chariots one by one. They drop smithing stone 3 regularly. Good rune farming too at that stage.
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Getting about 1-2 of these on average killing flame chariots in Caelid, with discovery around 120.
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UGH no matter what some people say, farming is pain. I should probably just rush the bell bearing.
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Gale Tunel is super fast, next to the bonfire lots of Miners and Soldiers, just made 15 stones in like 10 min (Silver Tear Mask and Marikas Scarseal) to get a bit more Arcane
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Not sure if arcane has anything to do with it but I actually found 10 smithing stone 3s in the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel
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The 3 of them north of the crystal woods grace in the gazebo are smithing stone 2
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These things are such a damn choke in the upgrade process. They're FAR rarer than they should be for how early you need them (3 out of 8, not counting Ancient Dragon) and you don't get the bell bearing for them until you get to the Capital. Really makes it hard to experiment with different non-unique weapons because they all get stuck at +6, making them simply unusable compared to the single +15 weapon you were able to make with the amount of stones you can get naturally. And UNREASONABLY hard to farm efficiently.
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I love how I have 30 (4) stones, 16 (5) stones, 12 (6) stones, and yet i am sitting with +7 sword because I don't have (3) stones
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I love how I have 30 (4) stones, 16 (5) stones, 12 (6) stones, and yet i am sitting with +7 sword because I don't have (3) stones
- Anonymous
Impassable Greatbridge? I made 20 runs, killing everybody got exactly 0 smithing stones at 20 arcane. At the end I had 24 helmets 15 chests god knows how many legs and gloves but one thing I sure never seen is smithing stone of any quality.
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Do not waste your time on the two miners north of Bellum Church. I farmed them over and over and over and over again, and even when using a Silver Fowl's Foot I got NOTHING from them. Nothing at all. Completely pointless.
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"1 southwest of the Highway Lookout Tower" that's actually a smithing stone 2
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Three can be found on the first roof top you come to in Jarburg.
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You can easily find way more Stonesword Keys than you could possibly use in a playthrough, but Miyazaki forbid you find a few more smithing stones.
- Anonymous
the gazebo surrounded by crayfish has smithing stones 2 not 3
- Anonymous
Also dropped by imps. Just got one from the very first imp in Roads End Catacombs.
Depending on the drop rate it might be a good farming spot since that first imp is literally around the corner from the sight of grace
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There are a total of 10 at Raya Lucaria Crystal tunnel, not 8.
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For the farming locations, if you use a silver pickled fowl foot, you can keep going back to the site of grace to reset and the effect will remain. It goes away if you fast travel though.
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There's a Flame Chariot that sits right next to the Fort Gael North site of grace that I've confirmed will drop (3)s. You just run over, backstab it, then run back to the grace to reset. Takes roughly 25-30 per kill and reset, making it nice and quick.
- Anonymous
The Mausoleum soldiers around the Mausoleum outside of Raya Lucaria Crystal tunnels also seem to drop these. As long as the Mausoleum isn't grounded, they will respawn.
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I've found that Flame Chariots Only Drop Smithing stone (3) (so no other loot fodder on drop) and are quite easy to kill in my experience. My preffered farming spot when needing (3) was killing the two at Caelem Ruins
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Crazy how long you have to wait to get this if you plan on playing the game in “order”. You can do all of Caelid and Rannis quest underground before being able to buy smithing stone 3
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In Liurna of the Lakes, just a bit north-west to the 3 you get from the corpse sitting on a chair in a middle of flower enemies north-east of Academy Gate Town's site, there is a gazebo full of flowers. There are 3 more inside that gazebo.
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For me personally I've found Gael Tunnel is a decent place to grind these. There are 8 Soldiers and 8 Diggers total.
The [3] is still rare but the Diggers are somewhat generous with the [4], on occasion the Soldiers sometimes drop a [2] and on 1 occasion a [4]
With the Night's Calvary Flail +7 I'm clearing it all in 2 mins, so it's a decent place to farm. Bonus for farming [4] if you need them later.
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There are 3x Smithing Stone (3) on the roof you land on after descending the gravestones to Jarburg
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it's the other way around for gael mine. the soldiers drop 3 (and sometimes 2). i've only gotten 4's from the miners, but maybe they can drop 3 as well.
- Anonymous
Just found the drop from the soldiers just west of the 'First Mt. Gelmir Campsite' site of grace.
They also drop Smithing stones 4 and 5. (i get 4 and 5 more than 3). Droprate seems pretty high, and get decent xp at the same time.
The soldiers will only attack if you attack first. (I'm 1 shotting from horse, so it's really fast to farm)
- Anonymous
Distribution of these is so out of wack. By the time I got the bell bearing for these, I had only found 23 in total. Meanwhile I have 32 level 4 stones and 28 level 5. It makes no sense and you get no freedom for upgrading. If you decide to upgrade more than items with these you are screwed for a large portion of the game. Why they would lock these from being bought all the way until deep into Altus Plateau is beyond me. They could have at least added more as pickups or made them easier to farm. *Yes* you can technically get these early but that completely goes against the natural progression of the game and doesn't excuse this.
Fort Gael is another place you can farm these. You'll have to lead the dogs to the soldiers but it works pretty well sometimes. Also those green flamethrower tanks drop these but the drop rate seemed all over the place. I got 3 in a row on a character with only 7 arcane but i could get a single one on a character with 40.
Something tells me next update a few merchants are gonna start selling these, because right now if you mess up upgrading, or decide you want to change weapons you're pretty much stuck with a +6-8 weapon until you get to the Atlus Plateau. Meanwhile all 30+ Smithing Stones (4) in for bag are busy gathering dust.
- Anonymous
Have Radahn soldiers stopped dropping these after an update or something? Previously I could run through Gael Tunnel to farm both 3's and 4's but now I'm just getting 2's (from the soldiers) and 4's (from the miners).
If yes, where to now for [3]'s? lol
Just farmed 6 of these (Smithing Stone (3)) in 45 minutes or so. Go to South Raya Lucaria Gate Grace - head south and kill 5-7 soldiers there AS WELL as the Flamethrower. It can be backstabbed for easy kill if treading lightly. Flamethrower dropped 4 of the 6 for me. Enemies in the area drop Smithing Stone (1-2) as well and not bad Rune Farm.
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took two hours but i got the knights at the impassable bridge who fight the dogs to drop 6 smithing stone 3s. probably a better way, but gael tunnel proved useless. and they were the first enemies i found to drop them. luckily, i had accumulated so many more smithing stones that after farming these i upgraded to +15 in one go.
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Whoever is saying Radahn soldiers drop these is trolling unfortunately.
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Gael tunnel needs an update:
Currently says: "The Miners drop Smithing Stone (3) the Soldiers drop Smithing Stone (4)."
It's the other way around. The Soldiers drop (3) & the Miners drop (4).
Pretty good spot if you have some Silver fowl things, I managed to get 8 in about 40 minutes, with Silver fowl buff only.
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been farming gael tunnel for a while and have only gotten a 4 and a 2. sucks because i've spent the past while on a +7 weapon and i need 6 more. lol, because i've been farming, if i can get 6 more 3's i'm gonna be able to spam upgrade my weapon. annoying
- Anonymous
Rahdan Soldiers never drops sithing stone 3, they drop smithing stone 2, and miners at gael tunnel drops smithing stone 4.
I farmed for about two hours, i got everything but smithing stone 3.
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Miners in Gael Tunnel drop Smithing Stone 4. No Smithing Stone 3 drops there.
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Got 2 from the imps when clearing the Cliffbottom Catacombs. You can easily farm the first 4-5 imps in there.
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In Gael tunnel, the soldiers drop the lv3 stones and the miners drop the lv4
Leveling Armament from +7 to +10 requires 12 Smithing Stone ( 3 )
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My weapon has been stuck at +8 and at this point I may as well press on to sealed tunnel to get the bell bearing. More than once, I have found stones 2 and 4 in the same dungeon or cave. I don't know what the developer-intended path was to get an adequate number of these, but I sure didn't find it
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On NG, Caelid Radahn soldiers drop them. I farm them at Impassable Greatbridge gracepoint. Head west and you'll find a bunch of soldiers fighting giant dogs. I have 15 arcane and I get 2 pretty often without any enhancements
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On NG, Caelid Radahn soldiers drop them. I farm them at Impassable Greatbridge gracepoint. Head west and you'll find a bunch of soldiers fighting giant dogs. I have 15 arcane and I get 2 pretty often without any enhancements
- Anonymous
Dropped by Radahn soldiers near Fort Gael North Site of Grace, seems pretty common
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Liurnia of the Lakes: Not far from the fella in the chair surrounded by poison plants, there's another gazebo with a plus three stone in it. Almost directly to the north, still in the wooded area. Shows up as a hexagon on the map.
- Anonymous
Smithing stones will drop from fanged imps in some catacombs, the one I've solidly found [3]s is Cliffbottom Catacombs in South East liurnia
- Anonymous
Another location 3 can be farmed is just North of Bellum church site of grace on the path leading down into the ravine... Just past the merchant you will find 2 miners standing near a campfire, and they drop smithing stones 3.
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Another location 3 can be farmed is just North of Bellum church site of grace on the path leading down into the ravine... Just past the merchant you will find 2 miners standing near a campfire, and they drop smithing stones 3.
- Anonymous
"South Raya Lucaria Gate and head down the hill into the town the enemies and the fire cart thing have a good drop rate of both the grade 1 and 3 stones" who the f edited that?
- Anonymous
Possible drop from miners in the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel (Liurnia of the Lakes), but Smithing Stone (2) is a more common drop.
- Anonymous
Great farm is in Caelid.far south at Impassable Greatbridge grace.A big battle between giant dogs and knights.You can walk up to the groups fighting and blast them all with dragon ice breath killing many at once.So far they have dropped smithing stone 2,3 and 4 and lots of them.When done rest at grace and repeat.
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Just found out that the lordsworn on the Altus plateau drop smithing stones 3. Albeit rarely.
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They drop from imps, at least I got one in Cliffbottom catacombs
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Getting these somewhat frequently killing the blue ghosts that spawn on the roof of fort faroth in eastern Caelid where you get the dectus lift piece. Went up there to grab that and the talisman. Had 2 of the blue guys on the roof drop a 3. Was pleasantly surprised. Downside is the grace isn't super close, but you can safely book it by the bat dudes in the basement.
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I Got a handful of Smithing Stone 3's from the Phantom Soldiers in Caria Manor
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I recommend Gael tunnel to farm. Just clear the room from Grace. You will get (3) from soldiers and get (4) from miners plus 2900~ each run.
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anyone located any new merchant selling those after new update?
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The Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel accually holds 10 shards, not 8.
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Why are these so difficult to find? I have plenty of all the other levels but lv3 are extremely rare. I spent at least an hour on the two soldiers at Raya Lucaria south and I dropped only lv1 and 2, not a single lv3
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I found 3x Smithing Stone [3] on a rooftop in Jarburg when jumping down the tombstones. These tombstones are the only access to Jarburg afaik, you can find them just south of the Carian Study Hall in Liurnia (the study hall is where the huge bridge leads even further out to the eastern sea).
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The smithing stone ball bearing 2 lets you buy the +3 and +4 smithing stones. It can be found in a cave 'sealed tunnel' near the capital city outskirts. To me this makes sense as, after beating godrick and rennala the round table npcs do tell you to go to the capital city.
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There are three in the gazebo just north of the crystalline woods grace to the left of the academy of raya lucaria
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Giving the twin husks gave me access to SOMBER smithing stone 3+4
Not normal.
- Anonymous
I could take my weapon straight from +8 to +14 after farming 4 of those damn things at Lucaria South.
I think it also dropped from the spirit carian soldiers on carian manor for me
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3 of these can be found just slightly southeast of the academy gate grace point in Liurnia. They're in front of a statue in the gazebo looking thing.
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If you're in need of +3 and +4 stones:
Get the two halves of the Dectus Medallions. The Left side is in Mistwood/Fort Haight. The Right side is in Caelid/Fort Faroth (doesn't require any mob clearing to get, thankfully). Go to Northern Liurna (Bellum Highway) -> Grand Lift of Dectus -> Altus Plateau -> Sacred Tunnel, get the Smithing-Stone Miner's Bell Bearing (2) from a chest, and then turn it into the Twin Maiden Husks to make the stones purchasable.
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I tried all of these locations for about 2 hours and not a single drop. They used to drop for me before the latest patch... makes me wonder.
- Anonymous
Knights around the Grand Lift of Dectus drop these - Knights in other areas might too but those ones definitely do.
- Anonymous
These drop from the blue apparition guys atop the long walkways in Caria Manor!
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Smithing Stone (3) can be farmed in Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel dungeon northeast of thye Academy in Liurnia, they are the yellow rocks on the walls, not all will be (3) but they respawn every you reset the world (resting at Grace/Fast Travel/Die)
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Gargoyles in Cliffbottom Catacombs drop em. Probably similar level gargoyles will do the same.
- Anonymous
Start at the South Raya Lucaria Gate and head down the hill into the town the enemies and the fire cart thing have a good drop rate of both the grade 1 and 3 stones
tested multiple times
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If you explore thoroughly, including running through areas you are underdeveloped in to get all items you'll likely find that you have alot of every stone except this one. I have the feeling From limited these to keep players from getting past +7 on weapons too early in the game.
- Anonymous
Raya Lucaria Guards also drop Smithing Stone [3]. (The blue guards that throw the Gliterstone bombs)
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For the Waypoint ruins graves, I think someone confused smithing stones with golden runes
can someone tell me where this "open grave" below waypoint ruins is? I see all the coffins with Runes but not shards
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Ok so I finally found a great spot for these!
It's in Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel, check on interactive map it's north east of the Raya Lucaria Academy. There's also a couple tier 2 but close to boss I've got like 5-6 of them probably best place to get them.
How do I have multiple +4 stones yet I've never seen a single +3 stone
I found 10 [3] in raya lucaria cristal tunnel instead o 8
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