All Furnace Golem locations in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree

Here’s where to find and how to kill Furnace Golems in Shadow of the Erdtree

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Want to know all Furnace Golem locations in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? You’ll likely encounter a Furnace Golem as soon as you start Shadow Of The Erdtree . There are 8 Furnace Golems in total in Elden Ring and they can be fearsome beasts with few weaknesses.

If you’re after a challenge, or simply want to farm for the Furnace Visages and Crystal Tears that they drop, we have listed all Furnace Golem locations in the DLC along with top tips on how to kill Furnace Golems . With this, you should be ready to explore the Land of Shadow map and take on these fiery giants.

• All Furnace Golem locations in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree
• How to kill Furnace Golems in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree

All Furnace Golem locations in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree

This map shows the locations of all Furnace Golems in the Land Of Shadow. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco

There are 8 Furnace Golems scattered across the map in the following locations:

• Gravesite Plain : This Furnace Golem is right in the centre of the Gravesite Plain, near the road leading to Ellac Greatbridge. Chances are, it’ll be one of the first things you see upon entering the Shadow Realm.
• Ellac River : You’ll encounter this Furnace Golem when traversing the river that leads to the Cerulean Coast .
• Charo’s Hidden Grave : This Furnace Golem is tucked away in the westernmost portion of Charo’s Hidden Grave , a hidden sub-region of the map. You’ll have to climb over a dragon’s carcass in the Jagged Peak to make it here.
• Scadu Altus : There are two Furnace Golems in the Scadu Altus region. The first is guarding a camp north of the Highroad Cross Site of Grace, which you’ll encounter as soon as you enter Scadu Altus.
• Scadu Altus : The second Furnace Golem in Scadu Altus is along the northeastern road that leads to the Cathedral of Manus Metyr .
• Ancient Ruins of Rauh : You’ll encounter this Furnace Golem on the other side of a bridge at the Miquella Cross in the Ancient Ruins of Rauh.
• Castle Watering Hole : There are two Furnace Golems in close proximity of each other at the Ruins of Unte . One of them is lying in the water by the Ruins of Unte entrance. We recommend you tackle this fellow first before waking his “sleeping” companion up.
• Ruins of Unte : The second Furnace Golem is unlit and dormant, blocking the entrance into the ruins. You’ll have to throw a Hefty Furnace Pot onto this golem to wake it up and force it to move.

How to kill Furnace Golems in Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree

To take a Furnace Golem down, follow these steps:

• Target their face plates , the opening on the backs, or their legs (but only if the legs are unarmoured).
• Use Torrent to weave in and out and jump over their fire attacks.
• If the legs are armoured, get on elevated ground and chuck a Hefty Fire Pot or Hefty Furnace Pot into the Furnace Golem’s back opening.

Let’s break these points down in greater detail. In short, Furnace Golems are huge, intimidating, and totally invulnerable to all damage on most of their lumbering bodies except for a few key areas. If you try target locking a Furnace Golem you’ll notice that you can only target the face plates on their front, the flaming opening on their upper backs , and sometimes their legs . These are the places where you can actually land attacks - and as you progress further into Shadow of the Erdtree, you’ll run into Furnace Golem with armoured legs, meaning that you’ll have to go for the face plate and the back.

See that face plate right in the center? That’s what you want to be aiming at. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco

This is easier said than done, since Furnace Golems can spot you from quite a distance away. Torrent is essential for dealing with these mighty foes, as they’ll often acknowledge your arrival by stomping their feet and unleashing a wave of fire that’ll wreck your health bar and catch you off guard if you’re on foot. Other times, particularly if you approach them from behind, they’ll shoot off a multitude of fireballs that cascade down upon your Tarnished like rain. If that wasn’t enough, Furnace Golems can also leap into the air and cause an explosion upon landing, which is avoidable via Torrent’s double jumps, but just barely.

Fireballs galore! Half of the challenge of dealing with a Furnace Golem is just getting close. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco

If you do manage to get close enough to a Furnace Golem to hit the legs, bring out your strongest weapons and smash away. If you get lucky and can make them stagger three times in a row, the Furnace Golem will suffer a Stance Break and topple. You’ll be able to get a critical hit on its face plate if this happens, dealing a huge chunk into its health. You can also target the legs and face plate with sorceries like Night Comet or projectiles like Greatarrows, which is a bit easier if you manage to meet the Furnace Golem on slightly elevated terrain.

Bring out your best magic, or if you have them at your disposal, Hefty Fire Pots and Hefty Furnace Pots will do the trick. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco

When it comes to Furnace Golems, you can ironically fight fire with fire - as long as you have Hefty Fire Pots or Hefty Furnace Pots at your disposal. If you manage to chuck one of these pots directly into the vulnerable opening on a Furnace Golem’s back (once again, this is immeasurably easier if you’re standing above the golem rather than beneath it), the resulting explosion will be super effective.

Once you kill a Furnace Golem, it’ll drop a Crystal Tear that you can mix in your Flask of Wondrous Physick. Ironically, they’ll also drop Furnace Visages , which can be used to craft Hefty Furnace Pots, which you can then use to kill more Furnace Golems. In that sense, farming Furnace Golems for Crystal Tears is a worthwhile, self-sustaining process.

How to get a Hefty Fire Pot

To craft a Hefty Fire Pot, you’ll first need to pick up the Greater Potentate’s Cookbook 1 . This Cookbook is located within the Scorched Ruins in the Gravesite Plain, so should be simple enough to acquire. Afterwards, you can craft the throwable with the following ingredients:

• Redflesh Mushroom x3: These are fairly common in the Land Of Shadow. In particular, they spawn on several corpses in the Fort of Reprimand and on Shade enemies in Belurat, Tower Settlement.
• Black Pyrefly x2: Can be purchased from Moore or looted from corpses in various regions including Belurat, Tower Settlement.
• Empty Hefty Cracked Pot x1: Found in various dungeons and areas in the Land of Shadow including the Scorched Ruins, Belurat Gaol , Lamenter’s Gaol , Bonny Village and more.

How to get a Hefty Furnace Pot

The recipe for the Hefty Furnace Pot is within the Greater Potentate’s Cookbook 2 . This Cookbook is located on a corpse inside the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest , north of the Three-Path Cross and just below the Greatbridge entrance to Castle Ensis. Once you have this, you need the following ingredients to craft a Hefty Furnace Pot:

• Redflesh Mushroom x2: See the above ingredients list.
• Ember of Messmer x2: Found throughout the Shadow Keep or farmed from the soldier encampment near the Moorth Ruins.
• Furnace Visage x1: Dropped from defeated Furnace Golems and a possible drop from Messmer Foot Soldiers. You can also acquire 2 from the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest and you will get 3 from Hornsent if you give him Hornsent Grandam’s Scorpion Stew .
• Empty Hefty Cracked Pot x1: See the above ingredients list.

With these tips in your arsenal, hopefully your fight against Shadow of the Erdtree’s lumbering fire giants is just a tad bit easier! For more on Elden Ring’s massive expansion, check out our tips on how to start Shadow Of The Erdtree as quickly as possible . We’ve also got a guide on the locations of all 78 bosses in the Shadow Realm, as well as a guide to the best order to tackle the main bosses . And if you’re hankering for new weapons, take a peek at our guides to acquiring the Great Katana and the Beast Claw .

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All 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints and where to get them

These areas have the highest chance of giving you Blueprints

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Looking for more Arc Raiders Blueprints? It’s a special day when you find a Blueprint, as they’re among the most valuable items in Arc Raiders. If you find a Blueprint that you haven’t already found, then you must make sure you hold onto it at all costs, because Blueprints are the key to one of the most important and powerful systems of meta-progression in the game.

This guide aims to be the very best guide on Blueprints you can find, starting with a primer on what exactly they are and how they work in Arc Raiders, before delving into exactly where to get Blueprints and the very best farming spots for you to take in your search.

We’ll also go over how to get Blueprints from other unlikely activities, such as destroying Surveyors and completing specific quests. And you’ll also find the full list of all 75 Blueprints in Arc Raiders on this page (including the newest Blueprints added with the Cold Snap update , such as the Deadline Blueprint and Firework Box Blueprint), giving you all the information you need to expand your own crafting repertoire.

In this guide:

• What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?
• Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes
• Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders Blueprints obtained from quests Blueprints obtained from Trials Best Blueprint farming locations

What are Blueprints in Arc Raiders?

Blueprints in Arc Raiders are special items which, if you manage to extract with them, you can expend to permanently unlock a new crafting recipe in your Workshop. If you manage to extract from a raid with an Anvil Blueprint, for example, you can unlock the ability to craft your very own Anvil Pistol, as many times as you like (as long as you have the crafting materials).

To use a Blueprint, simply open your Inventory while in the lobby, then right-click on the Blueprint and click “Learn And Consume” . This will permanently unlock the recipe for that item in your Workshop. As of the Stella Montis update, there are allegedly 75 different Blueprints to unlock - although only 68 are confirmed to be in the game so far. You can see all the Blueprints you’ve found and unlocked by going to the Workshop menu, and hitting “R” to bring up the Blueprint screen.

It’s possible to find duplicates of past Blueprints you’ve already unlocked. If you find these, then you can either sell them, or - if you like to play with friends - you can take it into a match and gift it to your friend so they can unlock that recipe for themselves. Another option is to keep hold of them until the time comes to donate them to the Expedition.

Full Blueprint list: All crafting recipes

Below is the full list of all the Blueprints that are currently available to find in Arc Raiders, and the crafting recipe required for each item:

Note: The missing Blueprints in this list likely have not actually been added to the game at the time of writing, because none of the playerbase has managed to find any of them. As they are added to the game, I will update this page with the most relevant information so you know exactly how to get all 75 Arc Raiders Blueprints.

Where to find Blueprints in Arc Raiders

Below is a list of all containers, modifiers, and events which maximise your chances of finding Blueprints:

• Certain quests reward you with specific Blueprints .
• Completing Trials has a high chance of offering Blueprints as rewards.
• Surveyors have a decent chance of dropping Blueprints on death.
• High loot value areas tend to have a greater chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Night Raids and Storms may increase rare Blueprint spawn chances in containers.
• Containers with higher numbers of items may have a higher tendency to spawn Blueprints. As a result, Blue Gate (which has many “large” containers containing multiple items) may give you a higher chance of spawning Blueprints.
• Raider containers (Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, Medical Bags, Grenade Tubes) have increased Blueprint drop rates. As a result, the Uncovered Caches event gives you a high chance of finding Blueprints.
• Security Lockers have a higher than average chance of containing Blueprints.
• Certain Blueprints only seem to spawn under specific circumstances: Tempest Blueprint only spawns during Night Raid events. Vulcano Blueprint only spawns during Hidden Bunker events. Jupiter and Equaliser Blueprints only spawn during Harvester events.

Raider Caches, Weapon Boxes, and other raider-oriented container types have a good chance of offering Blueprints. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints have a very low chance of spawning in any container in Arc Raiders, around 1-2% on average. However, there is a higher chance of finding Blueprints in particular container types. Specifically, you can find more Blueprints in Raider containers and security lockers.

Beyond this, if you’re looking for Blueprints you should focus on regions of the map which are marked as having particularly high-value loot. Areas such as the Control Tower in Dam Battlegrounds, the Arrival and Departure Buildings in Spaceport, and Pilgrim’s Peak in Blue Gate all have a better-than-average chance of spawning Blueprints somewhere amongst all their containers. Night Raids and Electromagnetic Storm events also increase the drop chances of certain Blueprints .

In addition to these containers, you can often loot Blueprints from destroyed Surveyors - the largest of the rolling ball ARC. Surveyors are more commonly found on the later maps - Spaceport and Blue Gate - and if one spawns in your match, you’ll likely see it by the blue laser beam that it casts into the sky while “surveying”.

Surveyors are quite well-armoured and will very speedily run away from you once it notices you, but if you can take one down then make sure you loot all its parts for a chance of obtaining certain unusual Blueprints.

Blueprints obtained from quests

One way in which you can get Blueprints is by completing certain quests for the vendors in Speranza. Some quests will reward you with a specific item Blueprint upon completion, so as long as you work through all the quests in Arc Raiders, you are guaranteed those Blueprints.

Here is the full list of all Blueprints you can get from quest rewards:

• Trigger Nade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Sparks Fly”.
• Lure Grenade Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Greasing Her Palms”.
• Burletta Blueprint: Rewarded after completing “Industrial Espionage”.
• Hullcracker Blueprint (and Launcher Ammo Blueprint): Rewarded after completing “The Major’s Footlocker”.

Alas, that’s only 4 Blueprints out of a total of 75 to unlock, so for the vast majority you will need to find them yourself during a raid. If you’re intent on farming Blueprints, then it’s best to equip yourself with cheap gear in case you lose it, but don’t use a free loadout because then you won’t get a safe pocket to stash any new Blueprint you find. No pain in Arc Raiders is sharper than failing to extract with a new Blueprint you’ve been after for a dozen hours already.

One of the best ways to get Blueprints is by hitting three stars on all five Trials every week. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Embark Studios

Blueprints obtained from Trials

One of the very best ways to get Blueprints is as rewards for completing Trials in Arc Raiders. Trials are unlocked from Level 15 onwards, and allow you to earn rewards by focusing on certain tasks over the course of several raids. For example, one Trial might task you with dealing damage to Hornets, while another might challenge you to loot Supply Drops.

Trials refresh on a weekly basis, with a new week bringing five new Trials. Each Trial can offer up to three rewards after passing certain score milestones, and it’s possible to receive very high level loot from these reward crates - including Blueprints. So if you want to unlock as many Blueprints as possible, you should make a point of completing as many Trials as possible each week.

Best Blueprint farming locations

The very best way to get Blueprints is to frequent specific areas of the maps which combine high-tier loot pools with the right types of containers to search. Here are my recommendations for where to find Blueprints on every map, so you can always keep the search going for new crafting recipes to unlock.

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Dam Battlegrounds

The best places to farm Blueprints on Dam Battlegrounds are the Control Tower, Power Generation Complex, Ruby Residence, and Pale Apartments . The first two regions, despite only being marked on the map as mid-tier loot, contain a phenomenal number of containers to loot. The Control Tower can also contain a couple of high-tier Security Lockers - though of course, you’ll need to have unlocked the Security Breach skill at the end of the Survival tree.

There’s also a lot of reporting amongst the playerbase that the Residential areas in the top-left of the map - Pale Apartments and Ruby Residence - give you a comparatively strong chance of finding Blueprints. Considering their size, there’s a high density of containers to loot in both locations, and they also have the benefit of being fairly out of the way. So you’re more likely to have all the containers to yourself.

Buried City

The best Blueprint farming locations on Buried City are the Santa Maria Houses, Grandioso Apartments, Town Hall, and the various buildings of the New District . Grandioso Apartments has a lower number of containers than the rest, but a high chance of spawning weapon cases - which have good Blueprint drop rates. The others are high-tier loot areas, with plenty of lootable containers - including Security Lockers.

Spaceport

The best places to find Blueprints on Spaceport are the Arrival and Departure Buildings, as well as Control Tower A6 and the Launch Towers . All these areas are labelled as high-value loot regions, and many of them are also very handily connected to one another by the Spaceport wall, which you can use to quickly run from one area to the next. At the tops of most of these buildings you’ll find at least one Security Locker, so this is an excellent farming route for players looking to find Blueprints.

The downside to looting Blueprints on Spaceport is that all these areas are hotly contested, particularly in Duos and Squads. You’ll need to be very focused and fast in order to complete the full farming route.

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Blue Gate

Blue Gate tends to have a good chance of dropping Blueprints, potentially because it generally has a high number of containers which can hold lots of items; so there’s a higher chance of a Blueprint spawning in each container. In my experience, the best Blueprint farming spots on Blue Gate are Pilgrim’s Peak, Raider’s Refuge, the Ancient Fort, and the Underground Complex beneath the Warehouse .

All of these areas contain a wealth of containers to loot. Raider’s Refuge has less to loot, but the majority of the containers in and around the Refuge are raider containers, which have a high chance of containing Blueprints - particularly during major events.

Stella Montis

On the whole, Stella Montis seems to have a very low drop rate for Blueprints (though a high chance of dropping other high-tier loot). If you do want to try farming Blueprints on this map, the best places to find Blueprints in Stella Montis are Medical Research, Assembly Workshop, and the Business Center . These areas have the highest density of containers to loot on the map.

In addition to this, the Western Tunnel has a few different Security Lockers to loot, so while there’s very little to loot elsewhere in this area of the map, it’s worth hitting those Security Lockers if you spawn there at the start of a match.

That wraps up this primer on how to get all the Blueprints in Arc Raiders as quickly as possible. With the Expedition system constantly resetting a large number of players’ Blueprints, it’s more important than ever to have the most up-to-date information on where to find all these Blueprints.

While you’re here, be sure to check out our Arc Raiders best guns tier list , as well as our primers on the best skills to unlock and all the different Field Depot locations on every map.

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