How to get smithing stones and upgrade weapons in Elden Ring Nightreign

You’ll need smithing stones to upgrade your weapons in Elden Ring Nightreign. If you want to reach the final boss of each day with the strongest weapons available, it’s well worth seeking these items out. But considering the pace of the game, you’ll want to do so quickly.

In our Elden Ring Nightreign guide, you can learn exactly where you can find smithing stones and how to upgrade weapons using with them.

Smithing stones are considered consumables, which means they occupy one slot in your pouch. There are two tiers of smithing stones in Elden Ring Nightreign.

Below, we’ll show you where you can find ample supply of both Smithing Stone [1] and Smithing Stone [2] in Elden Ring Nightreign.

You can obtain Smithing Stones [1] in Elden Ring Nightreign via two methods: shopping or looting.

First, you can buy up to two stones from merchants throughout Limveld. Although these sellers appear in preset locations, which merchants spawn during a match is completely randomized. Like almost everything in Elden Ring Nightreign, the items available in a merchant’s shop vary at random too, but most of the time, they sell Smithing Stone [1] for 6,500 runes each. (That said, we don’t recommend spending runes on smithing stones unless you don’t have another option.)

Your second option when it comes to obtaining Smithing Stone [1] is loot them from chests or defeated enemies. In our experience, this has been rare but not impossible.

There is only one way to find Smithing Stones [2] in Elden Ring Nightreign: You need to visit the mines.

The location of the mines is indicated on the map by a symbol of an opening formed by rocks hold by beams. Once inside, you want to get to the lowest level of mine.

In our experience hunting Smithing Stones [2], you want to look for a room with a wood footbridge and a patrolling soldier. Jump from it and follow a corridor with a couple of miners. You’ll find a sleeping troll, a minor boss who according to our testing always drops a Smithing Stone [2].

To upgrade a weapon from common to uncommon, or from uncommon to rare, you need to have their respective smithing stones and access to a Smithing Table. (Note that upgrading a weapon to legendary is only possible by using the special Smithing Table available only during the Crater Shifting Earth event. See our guide on how to get legendary weapons for more details.)

Any rarity upgrade in Elden Ring Nightreign remains for the extension of the match. But if you upgrade a character’s default weapon, it does translate between matches — they weapon will be back at common rarity when you start a new match.

Regular Smithing Tables are always found beside a merchant. So you want to keep your eyes open for the smoke that indicates the presence of a merchant close by. When you interact with the Smithing Table, the upgrading menu opens and you can select the weapon you want to level up.

Although the damage output of a weapon increases when you upgrade it, other traits, such as skills, don’t change.

For more Elden Ring Nightreign guides, here’s how to get legendary weapons, how to increase flask charges, a list of all church locations, and how to unlock remembrances.