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Material used for crafting items
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Sacramental Bud is a Crafting Material in Elden Ring. Crafting Materials are resources that can be obtained throughout the Lands Between, and are used to create a wide variety of items.
An immature bud containing fresh blood.
Material used for crafting items.
Believed to originate long ago from a strain of buds cultivated with youthful, sacramental blood.
Where to find Sacramental Bud in Elden Ring
Sacramental Buds found in the overworld do not respawn after resting at a site of grace.
IN THE WORLD
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Caelid:
- 1 northeast of the Smoldering Wall site of grace, next to the Giant Crow. [Map link]
- 15 around the Church of the Plague: 7 inside, and 8 in the graveyard outside.
- 2 northwest of the Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank site of grace, on a corpse sitting in a chair.
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Altus Plateau:
- 1 far to the south of the Bower of Bounty site of grace.
- 11 around Writheblood Ruins: 9 inside the ruins, and 2 southeast.
- 10 near the Amber Starlight.
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Mt. Gelmir:
- 1 close to the Nomadic Merchant, but on a different cliff. From the Ninth Mt. Gelmir Campsite site of grace: go across the rope bridge, then down the ladder to the northeast, then south. [Map link]
- 4 on a cliff below the Nomadic Merchant. From the merchant: climb down the long ladder to the east, then go southwest.
- 4 east of the Corpse-Stench Shack, sprouting from small mounds of corpses [Elden Ring Map link]
- 6 near the Hermit Village: 2 southwest and 4 on a cliff northeast. [Map Link 1] [Map Link 2]
- 4 east of the Wyndham Catacombs entrance.
- 3 near the base of the watchtower, west of the First Mt. Gelmir Campsite site of grace.
- 4 can be gathered on the cliffs behind Fort Laiedd in Mt. Gelmir [Elden Ring Map Link]
- 3 can be gathered in Mt. Gelmir, guarded by two foot soldiers [Elden Ring Map Link]
- 4 can be gathered north of Mt. Gelmir, in an area west of the Minor Erdtree (Mt. Gelmir) surrounded by bow wielding Marionette Soldiers [Elden Ring Map Link]
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Leyndell Catacombs:
- 2 next to the boss door lever.
- Video Location Shunning Grounds
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Mohgwyn Palace:
- 1 north of the Dynasty Mausoleum Entrance site of grace.
- Video Location
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Miquella's Haligtree:
- 3 southeast of the Haligtree Canopy site of grace. [Elden Ring Map Link]
- Video Location
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Dropped by
| Enemy | Drop rate | Additional info |
| Millicent (NPC Invader version) | 100% | Drops 5 |
| Rotten Stray | 3.00% | In Writheblood Ruins |
| Land Octopus | 3.00% | Only a specific group |
| Revenant (Confirmed: The Shaded Castle) | ? | Further testing needed |
Farming locations
- Writheblood Ruins: There are nine Rotten Strays among the ruins:
-One in the Eastern most building.
-One just outside to the west of the same building.
-One lying in the entrance to the middle building with the stairs to the basement.
-One lying north of that same building.
-One is walking back and forth between the west side and the north side of the middle building.
-One is lying down south of the east building.
-One is running in circles south-east of the middle building.
-One is sharing food with a skeleton slime to the south of the middle building
-One is hidden in the bushes just south of the building with the big slime.
...as well as the Giant Skeletal Slime that drops a Sacramental Bud once (needs confirmation) - The Shaded Castle: Rarely drops from Revenants, although further testing and confirmation is needed.
- Altus Plateau: Northeast from the Altus Highway Junction Site of Grace. Head east and then the road will break off north into an narrow canyon which becomes a tunnel and then opens back up a bit. In the canyon is the statue where the Amber Starlight was found. The several small land octopus here can drop the bud.
Sacramental Bud Guide
Sacramental Bud can be used to craft the following items:
Sacramental Bud Notes & Tips
- You can hold up to 999 Sacramental Buds.
- You can store up to 999 Sacramental Buds.
- Sell value:
100 Runes
Anonymous
- Anonymous
4 on a cliff below the Nomadic Merchant. From the merchant: climb down the long ladder to the east, then go southwest.
4 can be gathered north of Mt. Gelmir, in an area west of the Minor Erdtree (Mt. Gelmir) surrounded by bow wielding Marionette Soldiers [Elden Ring Map Link]
These are also the same thing.
There are 3 in the same area as the Minor Erdtree, but they are directly north of the Road of Inequity Site of Grace behind a large rock on a pile of corpses, with 3 foot soldiers guarding them.
- Anonymous
3 can be gathered in Mt. Gelmir, guarded by two foot soldiers [Elden Ring Map Link]
3 near the base of the watchtower, west of the First Mt. Gelmir Campsite site of grace.
Seem to be the same thing.
- Anonymous
I hope these become a respawning resource in whatever DLC zone we get, lol.
- Anonymous
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With DSMapStudio, it seems Large Stray, Stray, Small Land Octpus (3%) and Giant Putrid Flesh (20%) drop this, but not Revenant. Royal Revenant (no Revenant rows exist under ItemLotParam_enemy) seems to only drop Sacrificial Twig (3%). Since the two items can look similar and both start with S, are we sure it's not misread by the player?
Can't find any mentioning of this item from unnamed rows, or NpcParam > Revenant Follower & Royal Revenant rows either.
- Anonymous
One dropped for me from an octopus where the Amber Starlight is found in Atlus Plateau. I didn't know these could be farmed, so cool
- Anonymous
If covenants existed, these would be a great covenant reward item
The ones at the church of plague may respawn if Millicent is there, i was able to get two rounds of buds from the church and ended up with 26 buds from Caelid alone. Not 100% confirmed, but i collected a whole bunch then rested at the site of grace after giving Millicent the needle and they seemed to respawn afterwards.
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Those buds can also drop from Skeletal Slime in Writheblood Ruins !
- Anonymous
I wouldn’t hate Scarlet Rot so much if these things respawned
But no, I have to go kill some small octopuses to get my reliable supply
- Anonymous
I got one from a regular skeletal slime in Writheblood Ruins
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
It wouldn't be so bad farming these things at WritheBlood Ruins if there was a site of grace in the room where you kill the Sanguine Noble.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
If they made it a minimum of a craftable item pickup to 5, the crafting system would actually worth using without duping.
- Anonymous
Can confirm that this drops from the little octopi near the Amber Starlight location, like what the previous anon said.
Got it after 3 runs
- Anonymous
These buds should be able to regrow, the game pretty much just encourages players to duplicate items.
- Anonymous
These drop from the baby Land Octopi near where you can find the Amber Starlight shard. The drop rate seems higher than other places. I have a video of it.
- Anonymous
Yah when it comes to sacramental bud I think it should regrow but have a timer on it like maybe ever 48 hours in real time or sumthing cuz I don't think player should have to rely on flame cleanse me even it is 12 faith those extra points could be used else where or at least make it a less painful farm off of mobs.
- Anonymous
Can however just now confirm that the dogs in Writheblood Ruins drop sacramental buds.
- Anonymous
Man so much fun crafting system, it's really fun farming these for hours to craft enough to deal with rot breath spam...oh wait there's flame cleanse me just another thing that makes this as some reviewers put it "deep and expansive crafting system" completely pointless.
- Anonymous
Yep one of the few reasons to even mess with crafting and the items to make it is limited 10/10 game design revolutionary open world game design
- Anonymous
Man so much fun crafting system, it's really fun farming these for hours to craft enough to deal with rot breath spam...oh wait there's flame cleanse me just another thing that makes this as some reviewers put it "deep and expansive crafting system" completely pointless.
- Anonymous
Yep one of the few reasons to even mess with crafting and the items to make it is limited 10/10 game design revolutionary open world game design
- Anonymous
There are 4 of them just outside the front door to Volcano Manor to the right
- Anonymous
3 found past the first bonfire from the road of iniquity site of grace in mt gelmir (facing a north, a little to the right). There are a few soldiers laying in ambush
- Anonymous
3% drop rate? Why is making preserving boluses so difficult with how easy it is to catch scarlet rot?!
- Anonymous
Random dev: So, boss, I had an idea...
Miyazaki: yeah?
Random dev: Let's make a new status ailment that's just like toxic from DS...
Miyazaki: okay?
Random dev: and make sure it's present in like half of the game...
Miyazaki: *barely containing excitement* a-and?
Random dev: and make the only item that can cure it crafted from an ultra hard to find material that's limited to just a handful per playthrough
Miyazaki: *weeping; places his hand on the dev's shoulder* this is why I hired you, Takeshi-kun...
- Anonymous
Rot is much too frequent an occurrence to make the only way to cure it be a non-renewable resource. And good lord, PVP with antspur rapiers and rotten breath is EVERYWHERE
- Anonymous
What the page doesn't tell you is that you do NOT want to waste these on anything at all until you reach the Lake of Rot, because you'll need ever Preserving Boluses you can get in order to both cross it, as you can't use your horse. Trying to beat the Dragonkin field boss (far back left from where the Grace is), beat the Alabastor Lord, and then finish crossing to the Cloister? Without any? Is *painful* in the extreme. To make matters worse, there's only one summoning location at the 1st grace you encounter at the Lake. The Cloister only has a grace, no summoning stake, and the hidden Astel boss beyond the Cloister? Only a Stake of Marika, no summoning pool OR grace. So if you used incantations to cross, you likely are most of the way through your FP unless you went as a hardcore mage build.
So any earlier locations? Just use Flame, Cleanse Me. As it takes forever to farm for these at Writheblood Ruins. That or just stay on your horse if you're in Caelid.
- Anonymous
In the farming location it says there are seven rotten strays at Writheblood Ruins. That is incorrect. There are 9.
-One in the Eastern most building.
-One just outside to the west of the same building.
-One lying in the entrance to the middle building with the stairs to the basement.
-One lying north of that same building.
-One is walking back and forth between the west side and the north side of the middle building.
-One is lying down south of the east building.
-One is running in circles south-east of the middle building.
-One is sharing food with a skeleton slime to the south of the middle building
-And the last one is hidden in the bushes south of the building with the big slime.
- Anonymous
I bet my ass this youthful sacramental blood was from Miquella
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
There are 4 of these in Hermit village near the star shard location and 2 more located on a corpse near the abductor virgin.
- Anonymous
There are 4 of these in Hermit village near the star shard location and 2 more located on a corpse near the abductor virgin.
- Anonymous
There are 4 of these in Hermit village near the star shard location and 2 more located on a corpse near the abductor virgin.
- Anonymous
Can be farmed where you get the amber starlight, it drops from the little octopuses there.
- Anonymous
I bet these are created from Miquella's blood based on the description and the fact that it's used to cure scarlet rot, probably by mohg or his servants since you find them near writheblood ruins
- Anonymous
There are about 12 around the church of the plague. Do not respawn
- Anonymous
There are 4 right outside to the East side of the Corpse-Stench Shack, 4-5 to the North from the Wyndham Catacombs entrance by the cliff wall.
I'm going to guess that, if these respawn like people say they do, they probably have a respawn timer. How long? Who knows. I'll try grabbing one and note the time then come back periodically. Will report with results.
- Anonymous
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Can be obtained as a rare drop from the land squid spawn from where you found the Amber Starlight.
- Anonymous
Can be obtained as a rare drop from the land squid spawn from where you found the Amber Starlight.
- Anonymous
A few can be found on the right side of the entrance to volcano manor (Right if you are coming from inside). Don't know if they respawn though.
- Anonymous
The little squid-billies in the area where you pick up the amber starlight drop these very rarely. Not a very useful farming spot but not the worst either.
- Anonymous
There is a small cave just north east of the Altus Highway Junction that you can reach via a break in the cliffs just before the Stormcaller Church that's up above. It's where you get the Amber Starlight item, and that little alcove has about 10 Sacramental Buds growing in it.
Just to clarify, they also drop very rarely from Haligtree Knights. Got one randomly and tested it by killing them over and over, and it worked. Same as the dogs, they'll be a purple drop.
- Anonymous
Guy who reported that the dogs don't drop the Sacramental Bud here. The guy below me that said I was wrong and me getting ratioed made me check again.
Turns out I'm wrong. They DO drop.
Sorry for the accidental misinformation. I was 100% convinced that I was in a "Why are you booing me? I'm right!" situation because I went through the area a good 20-30 times and didn't get a drop; just a bunch of thin beast bones and beast blood. I'm convinced 1.03 increased the drop rate.
Thank you to everyone who ratioed me and especially the person below me that called me out. Thanks to you, I collected something important:
Proof.
https://imgur.com/a/TPkJ58Z
Apologies though to the person below me. I reactively downvoted you because I thought you were lying since, as stated, I did 20-30 runs, and I can't undo it, which is dumb. So be sure to upvote them to crush my mistaken downvote, everyone.
Here's a few tips to farm the dogs:
* If a Sacramental Bud drops, it's a purple-colored drop, as seen in the pics. White-colored drops are either thin beast bones or beast blood.
* There appears to be a total of eight dogs.
* Watch out for the larger dog guarding the doorway right before the basement area with the slimes behind him. He's got about twice the HP as the other dogs.
* If you can kill the dogs at range, do so, because currently one of their bite attacks is bugged (or at least, I THINK it's a bug) that will stack bleed instantly. If this happens, you will simply explode and die instantly.
* You can do it without Silver Pickled Fowl Feet, and may want to--otherwise you'll burn through them since there's not a good nearby grace as teleporting or dying makes the buff disappear. Raise Item Discovery through different methods, like temporarily respecing into Arcane.
* Do NOT try to speed up the run by respawning at the take of Marika by jumping off the nearby cliff. You may think it's a good idea because you're within the Stake's sphere of influence and have the stake buff denoting that at the time of the jump. But the stake buff disappears midway through the fall. You need some other way to suicide, and the slimes take a long time to kill you if you're higher level.
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
Despite the guy below me reports, the dogs at Writheblood Ruins DO drop these, though it is very rare. Tested with Silver Scarab and Silver Tear mask, I only netted 1 per 2 run-throughs of the area. 100% confirmed from a dog corpse, and not from a material pickup.
- Anonymous
Despite previous reports, the dogs at Writheblood Ruins do NOT drop these. I am convinced the people stating this accidentally picked the buds that were growing around the area while looting the dogs. If I'm wrong, then the dogs don't drop them frequently enough to be a worthwhile farming spot, since I was testing with both the Silver Tear Mask and Silver Pickled Fowl Feet.
They do respawn like most gathering mats but I suspect the only repopulate after a boss(possible just mini boss) death.
I accelerated time through multiple days went to different zones came back to the church and they still weren't respawn.
About to kill
- Anonymous
can confirm these respawn, at least at church of the plague. haven't tested how long it takes.
- Anonymous
Do they respawn at all? If so how long does it take, been camping out at Mount Gelmir.
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You can also find this bud in one place guarded in miqullas haligtree
- Anonymous
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In have discovered that these may be farmed on the bleed blight dogs in the Wyndham Ruins on the Altus Plateau.
I assume they can be farmed from the same enemies elsewhere.
- Anonymous
I’ve found that the Church of the Plague (central Caelid) has quite a few. Not sure if they respawn there either though.
- Anonymous
I found 4 of them above "Wyndham Ruins" (coordinates on the interactive map: -92.375 : 75.05469)
It's a skeleton area and between the ruins around this coordinates are they.
- Anonymous
you can cleanse scarlet rot with 'Flame,Cleanse Me' spell (12 faith)
- Anonymous
Can you farm them? How are you suppose to get threw the lake of rot with out them ?
- Anonymous
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Several can be found in the Church of the Plague, Which is North East of Gowry's Shack
Funny that the biggest incentives to just say "**** it" to the PvE experience in the interest of PvP are a stupid flower, some string, and magic great arrows. We shouldn't need cheat engine to get essential items in a reasonable amount of time.
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