How to Get Somber Smithing Stone [5] For Elden Ring Special Upgrades

Here’s our guide to help you find where you can get the item Somber Smithing Stone 5 in Elden Ring.

What is Somber Smithing Stone [5] in Elden Ring and where to get it?

Elden Ring is the latest game by FromSoftware, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, and it includes a very similar weapon forging system as the one found in Dark Souls: Players need to find upgrade materials to enhance their equipment. Furthermore, certain special pieces of equipment can only be upgraded with specific materials.

Somber Smithing Stone [5] is one of these special upgrade materials. The [5] indicates it’ll allow you to upgrade your equipment to +5. These items are in limited quantity in the game, so you should use them on your favorite special pieces of equipment only.

Moreover, these items can be easily missed, so here are some of the areas discovered so far in Elden Ring where you can get Somber Smithing Stone [5].

How to get Somber Smithing Stone 5, locations found so far

• On a corpse in the large stone ruins at the highest level of the Siofra River.
• On a corpse in a ruined building east of Woodfolk Ruins, at the far northwest of the world map.
• Right near the Site of Grace in Atlus Plateau, Old Atlus Tunnel

The Somber Smithing Stone [5] found in Old Atlus Tunnel is by far the easiest to find as it’s in the dead-end passage right near the Site of Grace. So you can just teleport there and get it now.

Note that if you haven’t gotten your special equipment to +4, you can buy Somber Smithing Stone [1] to [4] from Smithing Master Iji in Northern Liurna, near the Site of Grace of Road to the Manor.

Be it the way its open-world is built, or how several bosses reuse patterns from past Souls games, Elden Ring is a celebration of all the expertise FromSoftware gathered over the decades. So it’s not surprising to notice the similarities with the crafting and forging systems. Elden Ring is currently one of the highest-rated games of all time on Metacritic and it’s very likely it will be remembered as the best game of 2022.