Dung Eater Quest Walkthrough In Elden Ring

How To Start The Dung Eater Quest

The Dung Eater first appears inside the locked room near the Twin Maiden Husks in the Roundtable Hold. His door only opens after reaching the Altus Plateau.

You can reach the plateau by:

• Using the Grand Lift of Dectus
• Climbing through the Ruin-Strewn Precipice

Once there, return to the Roundtable Hold and speak with him.

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Obtain Your First Seedbed Curse

You need at least one Seedbed Curse before the quest properly progresses, but you eventually need five total to finish the storyline.

Two easy early curses are located in Leyndell, Royal Capital.

East Capital Rampart Seedbed Curse

From the East Capital Rampart Site of Grace:

• Follow the main city path past the enemies
• Ride the lift downward
• Enter the nearby room with a Perfumer
• Climb the ladder and staircase
• Loot the corpse tied to the chair

Fortified Manor Seedbed Curse

Inside the Fortified Manor, locate the room mirroring the Dung Eater’s chamber in the real Roundtable Hold.

The curse is found inside that room.

After collecting one, return to the Dung Eater.

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Free The Dung Eater

After showing him a Seedbed Curse, he gives you the Sewer-Gaol Key and asks you to free his real body beneath the capital.

To reach the sewers:

• Start at the Avenue Balcony Site of Grace
• Head outside and turn left
• Drop into the lower plaza area
• Find the well leading underground

This takes you into the Subterranean Shunning-Grounds.

Progress through the area until reaching the Underground Roadside Site of Grace.

From there:

• Head left toward the Omens
• Drop into the hole
• Move through the rat tunnels
• Climb the ladder
• Defeat or avoid the Fingercreepers

The prison cell is directly ahead.

Use the Sewer-Gaol Key to free him.

Do not kill him here if you want to complete the questline.

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Outer Moat Invasion

Return to the Roundtable Hold after freeing him. A message inside his room tells you to visit the outer moat near Leyndell.

Before continuing, you should move Blackguard Big Boggart to the moat area.

First:

• Meet him at the Boilprawn Shack in Liurnia
• Buy his items
• Exhaust his dialogue

Later, find him near the moat outside Leyndell and speak to him repeatedly.

Eventually, return to find Boggart dying after being attacked by the Dung Eater. Loot the nearby Seedbed Curse and prepare for an invasion fight.

The Dung Eater invades shortly after.

Fortunately, he is far less terrifying in combat than he is in conversation.

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Feed The Seedbed Curses

After defeating the invasion, speak to the phantom version of the Dung Eater again at the Roundtable Hold. He asks you to feed Seedbed Curses to his real body back in the sewers.

At this point, you need five total curses.

Additional locations include:

Volcano Manor Seedbed Curse

From the Temple of Eiglay Site of Grace:

• Move toward the Rykard teleporter
• Enter the Stonesword Key fog area
• Drop downward to find the corpse

Haligtree Seedbed Curse 1

From the Prayer Room Site of Grace in Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree:

• Follow the northern route
• Jump onto the narrow walkways
• Reach the seated corpse on the ledge

Haligtree Seedbed Curse 2

Again from the Prayer Room:

• Continue downward instead of jumping early
• Reach the room with Cleanrot Knights
• Drop onto the eastern walkway
• Descend the stairs carefully
• Loot the corpse behind the pillar

The enemies here are extremely dangerous, especially the Revenants.

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Seluvis Potion Alternative

If you still possess Seluvis’ Potion, you can give it to the Dung Eater instead of completing his storyline normally.

This prematurely ends the quest but unlocks the ability to purchase the Dung Eater Puppet Spirit Ash later.

Most players only choose this route during specific build or collection runs.

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Final Reward And Ending

Once you deliver five Seedbed Curses to the imprisoned Dung Eater, you receive the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse.

This unlocks an alternate ending during the final moments of Elden Ring.

Reloading the area afterward also grants the full Omen Armor Set.

Congratulations. You successfully helped one of the most horrifying NPCs ever written achieve his dream. Truly a classic FromSoftware experience.