How do you complete the dung eaters quest?

Dung Eater is one of the NPCs you'll encounter that has a main quest to complete in Elden Ring. For this part of our Elden Ring guide, you'll find details of where to find him, how to begin his questline, and how to get the ending associated with him.

Where to Find Dung Eater

You can first find Dung Eater at the Roundtable Hold. This will happen later in the game when you've made it to Leyndell, Royal Capital. The room next to the Twin Maiden Husks will open, revealing the red apparition of Dung Eater.

In order to progress his quest, you'll need Seedbed Curse otherwise, he will tell you to leave him alone.

When you deliver the first Seedbed Curse to Dung Eater, he'll give you a Sewer-Gaol Key that can be used to unlock the sewer beneath Leyndell, Royal Capital.

How to Find the Sewer-Gaol in Leyndell

Head north from the Lower Capital Church, near the destroyed part of the city beyond the wings of the dragon. There's a well here you can drop down into. Right by the ladder of the well, you'll see a cell to open. Unlock this and walk through and climb down the ladder. Head right and down into the rat-infested room and clear this. Go through the door to the southeast, then take the ladder on the left down and head for the Site of Grace that's in the second alcove to the left (northwest).

Go left from this Site of Grace, and drop down through the open grate in the floor also on the left.

Take the path to the right, go past the poisonous flowers and climb up the ladder. Be careful as you reach the middle of this room, as a giant hand will appear from the ground (and two smaller hands will also appear). You want to run to the cell on the right, and open this with the Sewer-Gaol Key.

Speak to Dung Eater

Talk to Dung Eater and he'll ask who you are. Choose Leave your gaol! and then return to the Roundtable Hold and head to the room where you first spoke to Dung Eater. He'll have disappeared, but a message remains that says: "I'll defile you next. Come to the outer moat."

NOTE: Once you have found his corporeal form in the Subterranean Shunning Grounds, you now have the option to give him the potion from Selvius, which will net you the Dung Eater Puppet Spirit Ashes. However, doing so will lock you out of the rest of Dung Eater's quest.

How to Find the Outer Moat

The outer moat that Dung Eater is referring to, is the small body of water on the map just northwest of the Capital Rampart Site of Grace. As you walk into the water, you'll be invaded by Dung Eater. Kill him and he'll drop a Sword of Milos.

Return to the Roundtable Hold

Go back to the Roundtable Hold and Dung Eater will be there again. Speak to him again and he'll ask you to defile his flesh with the Seedbed Curse. This will require you to collect Seedbed Curse and keep taking it to him.

Where to Find Seedbed Curse

Leyndell, Royal Capital

When you first enter the capital, from the East Rampart Site of Grace, you'll make your way into a room with a lift on the right-hand side. Take this down, then enter the room with the Perfumer. Climb the ladder here, then go all the way to the top. There's a corpse in a chair here that has the first Seedbed Curse you need to make Dung Eater give you the Sewer-Gaol Key.

Blackguard at the Outer Moat

If you've started the Rya Questline, you should have encountered the Blackguard at Boilprawn Shack in Liurnia of the Lacks. Eventually, the Blackguard will move to the Outer Moat near Leyndell, Royal Capital. You can talk to him and he'll warn you about Dung Eater at the moat. Leave the area and return, to find the Blackguard dying. He'll drop a Seedbed Curse when he does, and Dung Eater will invade you.

Fortified Manor, Leyndell, Royal Capital

Inside the Fortified Manor, you'll see a room that resembles the one the Dung Eater can be found in at the Roundtable Hold. To get here, leave the Fortified Manor, go right and use the wooden shacks to climb up onto the second floor. This will take you to a replica of the Roundtable Hold. Locate the room that Dung Eater is in at the normal Roundtable Hold, to find the corsep with the Seedbed Curse.

Volcano Manor Corpse

Getting to this room requires you to unlock one of the Imp Seal Statues. To reach this, start at the Temple of Eiglay Site of Grace, where you'll need to defeat the Godskin Noble. From here, take the lift up to the second floor and go outside on to the balcony.

Follow this round until you can drop down onto a ledge to the right, with the lava and slugs. Take this path up, to the left, with the volcano waterfall, then into the building with a jail cell door near the Abductor Virgin. There's a broken window you can jump in, then open the cell door.

When you've opened this door, continue along this path until you come to another part of the manor. Open the door on the right to reveal an altar. Go up the stairs to the left, turning back on yourself and up. Through this door is an Imp Statue Seal that requires twoStonesword Keys.

When inside here, drop down safely from the crates to reach the bottom of the room. You should see a corpse in a chair at one end of the room that has the Seedbed Curse on it.

Miquella's Haligtree Corpse 1

From the Prayer Room Site of Grace go northeast until you reach the section where there are stairs going up and down. Take the stairs down, and jump onto the slanted archway to the right of the enemy looking out from the balcony. Then jump over to the left, where the scarab is. There is another archway on the other side here, leading up to the left. Go up here and the corpse is at the far end of this ledge, to the northwest.

Miquella's Haligtree Corpse 2

From the Prayer Room Site of Grace, go northeast and take the stairs down until you reach the room with the two knights. Don't go inside this room, jump off the ledge to the right (which is just below the first slanted archway you jumped on for the above Seedbed Curse). Drop down to your right, to land on the roof. Then turn around and go in the doorway underneath the arch. Go down the stairs to the right, then in the northeast corner of the room, at the very end on the ledge, there's a corpse.

After Giving Dung Eater Enough Seedbed Curse

You'll need five of the Seedbed Curse to unlock one of the additional endings in the game. This is the Blessing of Despair Ending. Once you have given over five of the Seedbed Curse to Dung Eater, he'll give you the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse. You can use this after the final boss battle, to see the Blessing of Despair Ending.

Up Next: Jar-Bairn Questline

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How do I get the end of dung eater?

Find the human form of the Dung Eater and let him out of his cell. Go back to Roundtable Hold and speak with the Dung Eater. Defeat him in the outer moat. Collect four more Seedbed Curses and give them to the human form of the Dung Eater below the capital for the Mending Rune of the Fell Curse.

How do you free the dung eater Elden ring?

All you need to do for Dung Eater to appear in Roundtable Hold is reach the Altus Plateau, which means either climbing up the Ruin-Strewn Precipice at the northern tip of Liurnia, or finding the two halves of the Dectus Medallion and taking the Grand Lift up.

Is the dung eater quest worth it?

While it may sound repulsive enough to put one off ever going near it, the Dung Eater's questline is well worth the effort required by virtue of the rewards it offers players. It not only leads to a set of armor and a new weapon, but it also gives players an item needed to unlock one of the game's endings.

What is the dung eaters curse?

The Dung Eater cultivates the seedbed curse on corpses. By doing so he prevents dead souls returning to the Erdtree, leaving them forever cursed.