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Elden Ring: How to Get to Deeproot Depths

Just like in previous Souls games and Bloodborne, Elden Ring features a handful of optional areas that players could miss entirely if they don’t know what they’re looking for. They’re certainly well worth visiting, though, as some of them are closely tied in with NPC questlines. Here’s how to get to Deeproot Depths in Elden Ring.

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Getting to Deeproot Depths in Elden Ring

  1. Progress through the game until you reach Caelid and beat Radahn.

  2. Go back to east Limgrave and drop down the large crater to enter Nokron, the Eternal City.

  3. Progress through this area until you reach the Ancestral Woods.

    You’ll arrive at the Ancestral Woods/Siofra area after beating the Mimic Tear boss.

  4. Head north until you see some jellyfish, and look for a ledge you can drop down to.

    This will lead you to the Siofra Aqueduct, where you can meet D’s brother and fight a boss.elden ring deeproot depths

  5. Keep heading through the level until you reach the Valiant Gargoyles boss fight.

  6. After beating the Valiant Gargoyles, go towards the waterfall to find a coffin you can interact with.

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  7. Rest in the coffin to trigger a cutscene, and you’ll arrive in the Deeproot Depths.

The Deeproot Depths is home to a bunch of ant and basilisk enemies, and it’s also an area you need to visit if you’re planning on completing Fia’s questline and unlocking one of the game’s alternate endings.

It’s a fairly tough area, but it’s also one of the smaller zones in the game so shouldn’t take too long to clear.

That’s all you need to know about how to get to the Deeproot Depths in Elden Ring. Be sure to check our guide wiki for more tips and information on the game.


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Zhiqing Wan
Zhiqing is the Reviews Editor for Twinfinite, and a History graduate from Singapore. She's been in the games media industry for nine years, trawling through showfloors, conferences, and spending a ridiculous amount of time making in-depth spreadsheets for min-max-y RPGs. When she's not singing the praises of Amazon's Kindle as the greatest technological invention of the past two decades, you can probably find her in a FromSoft rabbit hole.