Tricks and Glitches
Easier Bosses
If you can't beat a boss, leave the game running (not paused, with automatic standby disabled) for about 12 hours, then resume.
Recovering Blood Echoes
When you die, as soon as the title appears immediately press the PS button in the middle of the controller, then Options and choose "Close Application". Restart the game and choose "Continue": instead of returning to the lamp, you reappear where you died with all your Blood Echoes. The enemy that killed you will still be there. If it is a boss you find yourself just outside the area, and you will have to cross the fog again to recover the Blood.
Easy Insight
Buy Madman's Knowledge from the Bath Messenger. They cost Blood Echoes, so buy them only when you don't need to level up.
Duplicating Items (version 1.01, no longer available)
It was a glitch for duplicating Quicksilver Bullets and Blood Echoes. Create a second character and teleport it to the Hunter's Dream; put a Pebble in the chest, quit the game and return to the title. With the main character go to the Hunter's Dream, sell everything in the chest and put in its place the item to duplicate (for example Coldblood for Blood Echoes). All the Pebbles in the chest are converted into that item.
Unique Weapons and How to Find Them
- Beast Claw (75 attack): in a chest in the Chalice Dungeon.
- Blade of Mercy (60 + 30 Arcane): complete Eileen the Crow's quest for the Crow Hunter Badge, then buy the weapon from a Messenger.
- Burial Blade (80): defeat the boss Gehrman.
- Chikage (92 + 92 Blood): join the Cainhurst Vilebloods covenant and buy the weapon from a Messenger for 50,000 Blood Echoes.
- Kirkhammer (105): defeat the Cleric Beast and buy the weapon from a Messenger.
- Logarius' Wheel (100 + 25 Arcane): given by Alfred when you hand him the letter found in Cainhurst Castle.
- Ludwig's Holy Blade: 20,000 Blood Echoes from a Messenger, after the Radiant Hunter Badge.
- Reiterpallasch (75 Blood): in a chest in Cainhurst Castle, reachable with the Cainhurst Summons from the first floor.
- Rifle Spear (85 + 85 Blood): in a hidden building in Old Yharnam; defeat the first NPC, go down where the tracks are missing at the corner, kill the enemies in the dark structure and climb the stairs: the weapon is on a corpse.
- Whirligig Saw: from a Messenger after defeating Father Gascoigne, or as treasure in the Central Yharnam Sewers, on a ledge above the dead end with the boats (cut the hanging corpses).
- Stake Driver: defeat Gyula in Old Yharnam and buy it from a Messenger.
- Tonitrus (40 bullets): get the Light Hunter Badge by defeating Darkbeast Paarl and exchange it with a Messenger.
- Cannon: in the Forbidden Woods, in a large wooden structure before the foggy area with the big snakes.
- Evelyn (60 Blood): in a chest in Cainhurst Castle.
- Flamesprayer (45 fire): from Gilbert in Central Yharnam, by talking to him through the window after climbing the ladder that appears when you press the lever.
- Hunter's Torch (45 fire): at the start of Old Yharnam, follow the lizard to the roof.
- Repeating Pistol (90 Blood): defeat the Cleric Beast.
- Wooden Shield: in the Cathedral, at the top of the large staircase near the gate.
Hunter Badges
- Cainhurst: join the Cainhurst Vilebloods covenant. Rewards: Chikage and the Cainhurst Set.
- Crow Hunter: complete Eileen the Crow's quest and kill her (or let her die). Rewards: Blade of Mercy and the Crow Feather Set.
- Barrel Hunter: defeat Gyula. Rewards: Rifle Spear, Stake Driver, Molotov and Oil Urn.
- Radiant Hunter: defeat the Blood-Starved Beast, return to the Hunter's Dream and talk to Gehrman. Then take the elevator from the Cathedral Ward lamp, go through the door unlocked on the right and kill the Afflicted Citizen with the machine gun. Rewards: Ludwig's Holy Blade, Ludwig's Rifle, Fire Paper and Bone Marrow Ash.
- Saw Hunter: from a corpse in the Central Yharnam Aqueduct (in the tunnel there is a giant boar: act as bait and look in the center). Rewards: Saw Cleaver, Saw Spear, Hunter Axe, Threaded Cane, Hunter's Pistol and Hunter Blunderbuss.
- Sword Hunter: defeat the Cleric Beast. Rewards: Kirkhammer, Chief Hunter Emblem, Repeating Pistol and Lantern.
Chalices and Dungeons
They are needed for the ritual that creates a Chalice Dungeon, together with materials (Ritual Blood, Blood Echoes and others).
- Pthumeru Chalice: obtained by defeating the Blood-Starved Beast (depth 1 dungeon). The Central Pthumeru Chalice (depth 2) comes from the Pthumeru boss (depth 1, layer 3); the Lower Pthumeru Chalice (depth 3) from the boss of Central Pthumeru (depth 2, layer 3).
- Defiled Chalice (depth 4): defeat the boss of Lower Pthumeru (depth 3, layer 4). You use Ritual Blood (4) x9, Bastard of Loran x2, Blood Echoes 5,500 and Arcane Haze x22.
- Ailing Loran Chalice (depth 4): defeat Amygdala. Lower Loran Chalice (depth 5): defeat the Abhorrent Beast.
- Great Isz Chalice (depth 5): defeat Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos.
- Sinister Chalice (depth 2): in a side chest in Pthumeru, depth 2.
Insight
- How to earn it: enter a boss arena (1), defeat a boss (3), defeat a boss as a multiplayer guest (1), consume a Madman's Knowledge (1), be grabbed by a lesser Amygdala in the Cathedral Ward (1), send a quest NPC to Iosefka's safe house, kill a player with the Beckoning Bell (1), talk to Master Willem (2), use a third of the Umbilical Cord.
- How to lose it: dying after an invasion with the Beckoning Bell (-1), using the Bell's summon (-1) or spending Insight on Messenger items after 10 points. Some enemies steal it.
- Effects: it is needed to activate the Plain Doll in the Hunter's Dream and to level up. At 10 points Messengers sell items, above 20 some enemies become stronger, at 40 the lesser Amygdala appear.
- What you buy: Pungent Blood Cocktail (attracts beasts), Small Resonant Bell (join another player), Sinister Bell (invade another hunter), Fire Paper and Bolt Paper.
Endings
- Good ending: accept Gehrman's offer (trophy Yharnam Sunrise).
- Bad ending: refuse Gehrman's offer (trophy Honoring Wishes).
- True ending: collect the three pieces of "One Third of Umbilical Cord" (kill Mergo; find it in the Abandoned Workshop; save Arianna, who gives birth in Oedon Chapel, then kill the child in the Cathedral Ward) and kill Iosefka in her clinic. Consume them before refusing the final offer.
- Plain Doll: in the Hunter's Dream, with at least 1 point of Insight, perform the Bow gesture: she bows. With the Hunter's gesture she claps.
