Upgrade weapons in Elder Ring requires Forgestones or Gloomy Forgestones depending on weapon type. You’ll find plenty in the Lands Between, but only enough to fully upgrade a weapon or two of either type. But if you want to know how to buy blacksmith stones or somber blacksmith stones, you need to find bell bearing.
Bell Bearings are key items that you give to this Twin Maiden Husks in the Round Table, which allow you to buy Forge Stones and Gloomy Stones for a small amount of Runes. The cost increases as the stones offer higher and higher upgrade values.
However, don’t expect to find most of the bell camps you need quickly, as even the earliest of them date back a long way Godrick the Grafted or in the rotten hellhole of Caelid. But no fear. This guide will tell you where to find each Forge version.
One note: Lots of NPC traders everywhere Elder Ringlike the wily Patches, Kale or even Rogier or Bernahl, will drop their personal Bell Bearing if and when they die and give you access to their inventory when made available to the Twin Maidens.
Warning: Some lore/critical path spoilers follow.
Where to find all Forgestone Bell Bearings in Elden Ring
Most mundane weapons use standard level 1-9 forgestones. Boss weapons and other unique weapons use Sinister Forgestones. Upgrading a mundane weapon requires multiple stones per level. Weapons that upgrade with Somber only require one stone per level. This is because standard weapons can be upgraded to +25 and unique weapons go to +10.
With all four Forgestone miner bell bearings, you can buy up to Forgestone 8, which boosts weapons to +24. You need all five Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearings to buy up to Somber Smithing Stone 9, which boosts Somber weapons to +9.
Smithing-Stone Miner’s Bell Camp 1 location
The first Smithing-Stone Miner Bell Bearing is in the Raya Lucaria Crystal Tunnel on the northeast corner of Liurnia of the Lakes. At the end of the tunnel is the first of many Crystalian bosses in various mines around the world. Killing it will give you the Bell Bearing 1. You can now buy up to Smithing Stone 2 and upgrade your weapons up to +6
Location of Smithing-Stone Miner’s Bell Bearing 2
The Smithing-Stone Miner’s second bell bearing is located in the capital outskirts outside the capital city of Leyndell, on the southern tip of a small lake just outside the western wall of the city. called the Sealed Tunnel, it is marked on your map as a red-black spot. From the grand staircase leading to Leyndell, head southeast and stick to the waterway below the cliff. You will find the bell camp in a chest on the right as you go through the tunnel.
You don’t have to kill the boss for this. These allow you to buy up to Smithing Stone 4 and upgrade your weapons to a maximum of +12.
Smithing-Stone Miner’s Bell Bearing 3 position
You won’t find this bell camp until much later in the game, in the mountain peaks of the giants, indeed, after your defeat of Morgott, Omen King on the top of Leyndell. From the mountaintop side of the Grand Lift of Rold, enter the Ruins of Zamor and look for a stairwell below.
The Bell Storage is in a chest at the bottom of the stairs behind a lift door. With this you can buy up to Smithin Stone 6, which maxes out weapons at +18.
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Smithing-Stone miner’s bell bearing 4 position
The Final Forgestone Bell Storage is a reward for one of the most annoying mandatory bosses out there Elder Ring: The Godskin Duo. You are in The crumbling Faram Azula, accessible after setting fire to the Earth Tree in Giants’ Mountaintops. Should you manage to defeat the Godskin Duo, you will be rewarded with Forge-Stone Miner’s Bell Bearing 4. You can buy up to Forge Stone 8 with this item, bringing Weapons to +24.
Where to Find All Somberstone Bell Storages in Elden Ring
All unique weapons in Elder Ringof boss armors like the blasphemous blade To reach specific enemy weapons, use Somberstone to level them up. There are a total of five Somberstone Bell Bearings in the Lands Between, initially scattered from Caelid to the ends of the earth.
Somberstone Miner’s Bell 1 location
Northwest of Sellia lies the City of Magic Sellia Crystal Tunnel. As you make your way down, you’ll be battling the Fallingstar Beast in an arena far too small for the distance its attacks travel. However, defeating it will grant you the Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 1, which can be used to buy up to Somberstone 2. With it you can upgrade your unique weapons to +2.
Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 2 location
In the northwest of the Altus Plateau lies the Altus Tunnel, a deep mine full of powerful enemies. At its base you will face a pair of Crystalians, one with a spear and the other with a ring of blades.
The spear user has a few attacks, but prefers to leap at you and stab over and over again. The ring blade Crystalian keeps his distance, throws smaller ring blades and performs some spinning attacks. Try taking out the spear boss first, as he’s annoying enough on his own and it doesn’t take much for the Ringblade version to kill him.
Defeating this double boss will give you Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 2, allowing you to buy Somberstone 4.
Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 3 location
At the extreme eastern edge of the mountain peaks of the giants is a sizable lake. At the southern tip of this lake is the First Church of Marika, and the Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 3 rests on a corpse just outside the front door of the church. With this you can buy up to Somberstone 6.
Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 4 location
Both Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 4 and 5 are located in The crumbling Faram Azula. You’ll find this first, number 4, on the way down from where you originally entered the area. It’s on a corpse on a cliff overlooking a giant sleeping dragon, with a church further north. With this you can buy up to Somberstone 8.
Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing 5 location
The Last Somberstone Miner’s Bell Bearing is beyond the Godskin Duo boss fight. Exit through the north door and follow the path down past the Crucible Knight, behind the glowing dragon, and into a small chapel.
A white-furred beast rests on the altar at the opposite end of the chapel, and two of its friends hide in alcoves to the right and left. Kill them all and pick up the bell camp, which will grant you access to Somberstone 9.
Neither of these bell camps will give you the ultimate upgrade material: Forgestone 9 or Somberstone 10. These are the ones you need to find out in the world. You would do well Use our map fragment guide to find them easier. If you really want that use all the weapons you can find in a single playthrough, You need to know how to respec. Our Elder Ring Guides Hub has more and more, so check back often. Thank you for reading!
