Bloodborne: Cheat Sheet – Complete Edition

1st Floor Sickroom

• Kill or run past the Scourge Beast
• In the next room to the left are Blood Vial x2
• Open the door to the courtyard and grab Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Open the gate to Central Yharnam

Hunter's Dream

• If you died to the Scourge Beast at the start, you will wake up here. Otherwise access this area through the Central Yharnam Lamp in a bit
• Choose your Weapon (Saw Cleaver, Hunter Axe, or Threaded Cane) from the Messengers on the stairs
• Choose your Firearm (Hunter Pistol or Hunter Blunderbuss) from the Messengers on the stairs
• Collect the Notebook from the Messengers on the stairs
• Talk to Gehrman
• Interact with the first Headstone of Awakening to the right of the stairs and awaken either at the 1st Floor Sickroom Lamp or the Central Yharnam Lamp

Central Yharnam

• Once you have visited the Hunter's Dream, return to the 1st Floor Sickroom and go up the stairs to speak with Iosefka, and she will give you Iosefka's Blood Vial
• Head outside and down the short stairs to the terrace and grab Blood Vial x4 to your left. Admire the Great Bridge ahead
• Turn back, and now your path will take you to some old carriages. The gate on your right is locked so go down the path to the left to the end of the road to grab Molotov Cocktail x6
• Activate the nearby lever to drop down a ladder. Don't forget to grab near the lever Blood Vial x2
• Light the Central Yharnam Lamp
• Talk to Gilbert, Critically Ill Man. His window is the one with a red lantern directly in front of the Lamp
• From Gilbert's window, head right and down the stairs to grab Pebble x8
• Up ahead take a left through the broken fence onto the upper level of the street and grab Molotov Cocktail x4
• Head down the stairs onto the main street then head left until you reach the closed gate from before. Pull the lever to the left of the gate to open it, then head back up the street and take a right to the carriage in front of the steps you descended earlier. Head up the stairs and then take the stairs to your right and grab Blood Stone Shard x1
• Head back down the stairs to the upper street level and head to the right. Continue until you can grab Quicksilver Bullets x5
• Drop down through the broken fence at the end of the upper street. There is a locked gate at the end of the main street where you can grab Blood Vial x2
• Take the stairs on your left while facing the locked gate up to the upper street and at the start of the path is Coldblood Dew (1)
• Head through the archway and immediately to your left will be some barrels hiding Blood Stone Shard x1
• Directly in front of you past the tree you can grab Blood Vial x2
• NOTE: To your left where there are many crates piled up past the stairs there is a broken fence you can go through. We get to the area it leads to later so DON'T roll through it yet but do remember its location
• Down the stairs and to your left are coffins you can destroy to grab Oil Urn x2
• Turn around and face where the locked gate was. Here you can grab Molotov Cocktail x4 and the Torch
• Turn around and head to the fountain. To your right will be stairs that you can go up. Turn right again, and head forward to a gate and grab Coldblood Dew (1)
• Turn back and walk to the stairs you just went up on, then take a right up some more steps to an area with a well and a bench with Blood Vial x6
• Go up the stairs to be led up to the Great Bridge and to your left hidden behind some statues will be Blood Stone Shard x1
• From where you took the stairs up, head forward and turn left to go down some stairs. To your right on a ledge overlooking the burning effigy from the main street will be Pebble x10
• Turn around, and there will be some crates you can roll through to grab Blood Stone Shard x1
• To your left while facing the burning effigy will be some crates and bags shielding Blood Stone Shard x1
• Go back to the broken fence that you were told NOT to roll through. Roll through it and go down the stairs and take a left to a pathway that leads to Coldblood Dew (3)
• Cross the small bridge, and there will be a door with a red lantern and a Dog barking at said door. Interact with the door to speak with the Lonely Old Woman. Exhaust her dialogue, and answer 'No' for now. An alternative option will present itself later
• Go back across the small bridge, and up the stairs until there is a fork in the path. Take the left path going up and pick up Coldblood Dew (1)
• Go back down and take the right path going forward under an archway. Walk through the archway and open a door to a house. To your left in the dark will be Pungent Blood Cocktail x2
• Turn around and to your left will be a door that leads outside and up the first set of stairs and to your left will be Blood Stone Shard x1
• Up the next set of stairs will be a gate that can be opened to the Lamp. Talk to Gilbert if you haven't already
• Head back down the stairs through the gate you just opened and head back into the house. Go upstairs and turn right to grab Coldblood Dew (1)

Great Bridge (Optional)

• Go out the upstairs door to the left of the stairs you just ascended to end up on the Great Bridge. Heading to your left is an arch that leads to the Cleric Beast boss fight. If you have the Old Hunter Bell which you can get in the Hunter's Dream from the Messengers once you've gained 1 Insight, you may summon Old Hunter Father Gascoigne by the fountain in the Fountain Plaza past the locked gate on the main street. Additionally, you may also summon Old Hunter Alfred near the stairs through the gate at the Central Yharnam Lamp near Gilbert's window
• Defeat the Cleric Beast to acquire the Sword Hunter Badge
• Congratulate yourself on beating the first boss of Bloodborne and light the Great Bridge Lamp

Central Yharnam (Continued)

• Go back across the Great Bridge and down the stairs to your right, going past the stairs leading into the house. Take a left and destroy the coffins on your left to access a ladder. Drop down onto the next level of rafters. Look out towards the Sewers and drop down one more level, being careful not to fall off. To your right will be a ladder. Drop down onto the stony walkway where the ladder meets it. Walk to the end of this pathway and there will be a beam you can drop onto to pick up Thick Coldblood (5)
• Walk to the end of this part of the Sewers, and at the ledge to your left will be the Hunter Set
• Drop down into the Sewer and then into the sewage to grab Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Take the ladder in front of you up onto a wooden platform. Then take the tall ladder up to a small area with coffins and a bridge. Take a right to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and go across the small bridge. There will be a ladder to your left. Go up the ladder, and at the top is a lever you can pull to open the gate that leads to the Fountain Plaza from before. Here is a window with a red lantern near the gate. Speak to the Young Girl and agree to find her mother. She will give you the Tiny Music Box
• Go through the gate you just opened and make your way to the area with the Lonely Old Woman and go into the Dry Docks. To your right will be several barrels you can destroy to access a window. Go through this window to drop onto some rafters. Stick to the right until you find an open window. Go through it and you will find Eileen the Crow near the terrace. Talk to her and she will give you Bold Hunter's Mark x4. Talk to her again and she will grant you the 'Shake off Cape' gesture
• Go back through the open window to the rafters area. Here there are two corpses you can cut down. Grab Coldblood Dew (1) from here as well
• Here you must jump down onto the main area below. Near the Rifle Huntsman against the wall you can grab Coldblood Dew (1)
• Go through the doorway on the other end that leads out into the Sewers area. At the start of the walkway you can grab Coldblood Dew (1)
• At the end of the walkway that opens to the large Sewer area with the tall ladder will be some coffins hiding Oil Urn x2
• Go back through the doorway and drop down onto the stone walkway parallel to the canal. Facing in from the doorway and depending which side you drop down onto you will be able to grab either the Saw Spear or Blood Stone Shard x2 from the corpses you cut down earlier
• Drop down into the Sewers and at the end you will find Madman's Knowledge x1
• Head out through the canal back into the main Sewer area outside. Take a right and go up the first ladder. Take a right around the walkway to grab Coldblood Dew (1)
• Walk around to the last small bridge overlooking the large Sewer area, and here you will be able to drop down onto a rafter with Blood Stone Shard x1
• Drop down into the Sewer Canal and turn around to go up the ladder leading back into the Dry Docks. Drop down onto the stone walkway opposite to the one you previously dropped down onto. Pick up either the Saw Spear or Blood Stone Shard x2 from the corpses you cut down earlier
• Go out into the Canal and drop down into the large open Sewer area. Go down the stairs to your right and in the first room to your right to grab Blood Stone Shard x1
• At the end of the outdoor Sewers will be a ladder to the right of an archway. Take the ladder up to find a large bridge. To your left will be a shortcut lift you can take up to Central Yharnam
• Take the lift back down. Make your way across the bridge with the burning boulder. Past that to your left up a couple flights of stairs is a ladder you can climb down to an entrance that will let you sneak up behind the Maneater Boar and backstab it for an easy kill. Collect here the Saw Hunter Badge
• Grab from here as well Coldblood Dew (2)
• Going forward, there will be a doorway to your left that leads to a ladder. At the top to your left will be some stairs you can go up on to grab Bold Hunter's Mark x2

Tomb of Oedon

• Go up the stairs that lead to a large graveyard. Defeat Father Gascoigne to acquire the Oedon Tomb Key
• Light the Tomb of Oedon Lamp
• On a rooftop near the gate is the Red Jeweled Brooch. You may crush it for a Red Blood Gem or give it to the Young Girl to immediately end her questline
• Unlock the gate using the Oedon Tomb Key and go up the stairs and to the right then through a tunnel into a water-filled room and up the ladder into a small Library. There will be a chest here with the Blood Gem Workshop Tool
• Unlock the gate using the Oedon Tomb Key and go up the stairs and to the right then through a tunnel into a water-filled room and up the ladder into a small Library. There will be a chest here with Kin Coldblood (12)

Oedon Chapel

• As you enter Oedon Chapel, there will be the friendly Oedon Chapel Dweller to your right. Talk to him to allow the sending of survivors to the Chapel. Additionally, you may talk to the now-impostor Iosefka in Iosefka's Clinic and she will also offer you the option to send survivors to her
• Go back to the Lonely Old Woman in Central Yharnam. Talk to her and tell her to go to Oedon Chapel or to Iosefka's Clinic. If you send her to Oedon Chapel, talk to the Oedon Chapel Dweller to receive the 'Triumph' gesture. If you send her to Iosefka's Clinic, talk to Iosefka to receive Numbing Mist x2
• Talk to the Young Girl. If you did not give her the Red Jeweled Brooch, which ends her questline, choose to send her either to Oedon Chapel or to Iosefka's Clinic. If sent to the Clinic, Iosefka will reward you with Lead Elixir x2. If sent to Oedon Chapel, reload the area and kill the Maneater Boar in the tunnel in the Central Yharnam Sewers and it will drop the Red Messenger Ribbon
• Talk to Gilbert in Central Yharnam to receive the Flamesprayer
• Back in Oedon Chapel head outside the doorway directly in front of the Lamp and go around to the right to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go up the stairs to grab the Wooden Shield
• Go back into Oedon Chapel and go out the side entrance. Down the stairs and behind you to the right you can grab the Top Hat Hunter Set
• Here you can also grab Blood Vial x6
• Go up the stairs to your right by the well. There will be a gate and lever to your left. Pull the lever to lift the gate
• By this lever will be Blood Stone Shard x2
• If you like, you may return to the Hunter's Dream and buy the Hunter Chief Emblem for 10,000 Blood Echoes from the Bath Messengers. Requires Cleric Beast defeated. NOTE: The Cathedral Courtyard Gate does not require the Emblem if you open it from inside, which we will do shortly after the Healing Church Workshop
• Go down the stairs through the gate to an area with a carriage and to the right behind the carriage is a Monocular
• Continue down the pathway to grab Blood Stone Shard x3
• Further along the path will be a Church Giant and a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x3
• In this area you can grab Blood Stone Shard x5
• Go down some stairs to the right of the pathway to a room with large urns. Just beyond the room is a chest with a Tempering Blood Gemstone (1)
• Go down the large stairs to a courtyard and head to the right to grab Coldblood Dew (2). Grab Molotov Cocktail x4 from here as well
• Walk into the building with a tomb and at the back will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go outside and facing the building head to the left and up the stairs. At the top to your right will be a door to open, and inside take another right to an overlook with a lever. Pull the lever. From here to the left will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go back to where you took a right to get to the lever and head forward outside. Take a right outside and walk all the way forward to find Alfred, Hunter of Vilebloods. Talk to him and choose to 'Cooperate'. Receive Fire Paper x3 and the 'Pray' gesture
• Go back to the lever overlook and drop down. Go down the stairs that were opened by the lever. At the bottom will be a Tempering Blood Gemstone (1)
• Go down the stairs to a dark area then down the wooden stairs to a ladder. Descend the ladder and go up the stairs behind it. Here will be Antidote x4
• Go down the stairs and take a right into an alcove with some large urns. Destory these to find Pungent Blood Cocktail x3
• Light the Old Yharnam Lamp
• From here we will head into Old Yharnam. If you wish you can come to explore Old Yharnam later. Here we will proceed as it will be a bit easier now rather than later, and the same for some other optional areas we will visit before fighting Vicar Amelia

Old Yharnam (Optional)

• Open the door near the Old Yharnam Lamp that leads into Old Yharnam
• On the terrace ahead of you will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x3
• To your left among the statues is Blood Vial x6
• Go back to where the Wandering Nightmare was and drop down onto a rooftop with Blood Stone Shard x1
• Drop down onto the next rooftop, then to your left drop down again. In an alcove to your left will be the Hunter's Torch
• Walk back to where you dropped down and drop down onto a tower ledge, then again onto a walkway with a locked door. Walk down this walkway then take a right to some stairs to reach a ladder. At the top of this ladder you will find Coldblood Dew (2)
• Go over the bridge next to the burning crosses to an area with smoldering corpse piles. In the far left will be Coldblood Dew (2)
• Mirroring this on the right side will be Blood Stone Shard x2
• Go down the stairs to right of the bridge to an area with large statues. Be careful here as Djura will open fire on you. On the right side will be a staircase you can descend to take a left and another left and one more left to find Antidote x3
• To your right will be a door you can pass through to grab Blood Stone Shard x1
• There will be another doorway leading outside to a planked area. Against the broken section of wall you can grab Antidote x3
• Cross the wooden bridge to grab Blood Stone Shard x2
• To the right of the doorway to the stone building will be a narrow passage where you can grab Fire Paper x2
• In the room from where you are jumped by the Ashen Blood Beast Patient will be a Bloodtinge Gemstone (1)
• Against the door leading outside will be Antidote x1
• To your right out the door will be a statue where you can grab Coldblood Dew (3)
• Going down the wooden walkway, you will be attacked by Djura's Ally. Killing him will grant you Bone Marrow Ash x6
• In this area will be some stone stairs to your right that lead down to Coldblood Dew (2)
• In a small area with tall statues will a ledge you can drop down onto. Then drop down onto a narrow walkway. Lastly drop down onto the brick area. Go into the dark room with several enemies and to your left will be Blood Vial x6
• There is a chest by the stairs from which you can grab a Tempering Blood Gemstone (1)
• Go up the first set of stairs and on the walkway to your right will be the Rifle Spear
• Up the stairs and to the left then left again will be the Charred Hunter Set
• Exit the window into the area where we fought Djura's Ally. Go back down the wooden stairs and climb the first ladder up Djura's Tower on your left. If you wish, you may climb the second ladder to the top of the tower and fight Retired Hunter Djura. Killing him will drop the Powder Keg Hunter Badge, unlock the Insight Bath Messengers selling the Ashen Hunter Set, and end his questline. However, to progress his questline we will avoid him for now and come back after defeating Darkbeast Paarl
• Drop off onto a wooden platform from the first ladder you just climbed. Go into the building and cross the narrow wooden bridge. Drop down into the hallway. At the end of the hall just before the stairs is an alcove with Antidote x3
• Down the stairs and to your right will be a doorway that opens to a balcony. To your left you can grab Blood Stone Shard x2
• Go down the stairs to the ground floor with the altar. From the altar grab Ritual Blood (1) x2
• Turn around and in an arching alcove you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go back up the stairs all the way to the corridor. To your left will be a doorway that leads to some wooden rafters. To your left you can drop down onto some more wooden rafters. Turn around and drop down one more time to grab Coldblood Dew (2)
• Drop down to the altar and behind it is a doorway that leads outside. Take a left here down some stairs to an area where you can grab Blood Stone Shard x2
• Turn around and go up then down some stairs to grab Blood Vial x6 by some statues
• Go up the ladder here to open a door that leads to Djura's Tower. Climb the ladder and make your way back to the rafters in the altar building. At the far end of the rafters here you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Carefully drop down onto the lower set of rafters and grab Molotov Cocktail x4
• Run and jump onto the balcony below these rafters to grab the Bloody Messenger Head Bandage
• From here drop down onto the ground floor and go out the walkway behind the altar and just before the ladder you can turn right down a corridor to an area with smoking corpse piles. Here you can kill the Wandering Nightmare for Blood Stone Shard x3
• Go down the stairs to an open muddy area. Go down the path to a locked gate and to your right you can grab Blood Stone Shard x2
• Go back up the path and in an alcove facing the stairs to your right will be Pungent Blood Cocktail x2
• Go down the path under the archway across the bridge and take a left to a small area with a small alcove to your right where you can grab Beast Blood Pellet x6
• Go back down the path and take a left. Go through the door that the Scourge Beast breaks through and grab Antidote x1
• Go up the spiral stairs till you can turn left and head onto a terrace where you can grab Blood Stone Shard x2
• Go up the stairs and open the shortcut door. Continue up the stairs and grab Fire Paper x2
• Go down the stairs and out onto the street. Continue down the street and just before the upward slope grab Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Continue forward and to your right will be Bold Hunter's Mark x2
• Going down the stairs you will find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x3
• Continue down the path to a courtyard with burning crosses and tall grasses. To your far right will be Coldblood Dew (3)
• On the other side behind some rocks will be Coldblood Dew (3)
• You can summon Old Hunter Alfred for this boss fight if you agreed to cooperate with him earlier. His summon sign will be on the bottom of the stairs as you enter the courtyard
• Defeat the Blood-starved Beast to acquire the Pthumeru Chalice
• Light the Church of the Good Chalice Lamp
• Go behind the altar here to grab Antidote x3

Healing Church Workshop (Optional)

• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and go out through the now-open door to your right and take the lift up. Ahead in front of you in the room will be a chest with the Communion Rune (Tier 1)
• Take the lift down and while its going down here will be a window you can roll through. Take a left then another left heading down a corridor. Drop down onto a terrace then go through the doorway to end up on the Oedon Chapel Balcony with a chest with the Formless Oedon Rune (Tier 4)
• On the left side of the Balcony you can grab the Messenger Urn Festival
• Drop down and take the lift back up. Cross the bridge towards the Workshop. Before entering, take a left all the way around to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Enter the Workshop and against the back wall will be a chest with a Bloodtinge Gemstone (2)
• Go up the stairs and out onto the walkway. Take a left to grab Thick Coldblood (6)
• Continue forward and climb the ladder. Head left all the way and grab Thick Coldblood (6)
• Go back and enter the Workshop. Ahead of you to the right of the inner doorway is a chest with the Radiant Sword Hunter Badge
• Go outside and head all the way down to the first level of the Workshop. Head left and drop down through the broken walkway. Go forward and take a left to enter an area with several rafters. To your left will be a narrow platform you can fall far onto. Drop down onto the platform below it and open the door. Enter the Abandoned Old Workshop
• Go to where the Bath Messengers would be and open the chest to grab the Doll Set
• Go to the gravestone where the Doll occasionally prays and grab the Old Hunter Bone
• Go into the Workshop and light the Abandoned Old Workshop Lamp
• On the Rune Altar you can grab the Third Umbilical Cord
• To the right of the fireplace grab the Small Hair Ornament. You may give this ornament to the Doll to acquire a Tear Stone, which may be crushed for a Tear Blood Gem
• Go back to the rafters in the Workshop and drop down onto the platform with barrels. Drop down onto a beam, then another beam to grab the Messenger Top Hat
• Drop down onto a wooden platform then onto another beam to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Drop down onto a rafter then drop your way down onto the ground floor. Kill the Beast-possessed Soul to acquire the Beast Rune (Tier 1)
• Open the door to the Village Alleyways. Head down the Alleyways and to your right in an open area will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and head down the stairs to your left then follow left and grab the Common Yharnam Set
• Head back to the open area and turn left to continue forward. Turn right and head down the stairs to grab a Fire Blood Gemstone (3)
• Turn around and head up the stairs and through the archway and take the lift up. At the top will be Thick Coldblood (6)
• Drop down and open the gate leading to Oedon Chapel

Hypogean Gaol (Optional)

• Head down the stairs towards Oedon Chapel, but go the left at the bottom of the stairs. Alternatively, return to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and head straight outside and take a right. Here will be a Kidnapper that appears once you've defeated Blood-starved Beast. Allow it to kill you, and you will be transported to the Hypogean Gaol. NOTE: Being killed by any Kidnapper in the game (i.e. the Kidnapper in the Healing Church Workshop) will also take you to Hypogean Gaol
• Open the door to the cell you're in and turn right and go into the broken bars to grab Thick Coldblood (6)
• Go down the stairs and turn right to grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Turn around and in the corner you will find Adella, Nun of the Healing Church. Talk to her while wearing Healing Church garb (such as Gascoigne's Set or the Black Church Set) and she will give you Madman's Knowledge x1. You may send her to Oedon Chapel and she will grant you the 'Church Bow (Female)' gesture once you talk to her there. If you send her to Iosefka's Clinic, Iosefka will reward you with Numbing Mist x2. If you do not send her to either location, after defeating the Shadow of Yharnam her body can be found here with the Oedon Writhe Rune (Tier 1)
• Go back up the stairs and turn left and continue up the spiral stairs. On the left set of stairs will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Go up the stairs all the way and light the Hypogean Gaol Lamp. NOTE: If you were killed by a Kidnapper earlier in the guide, you may now warp back to where you were and continue from there, or you may finish Hypogean Gaol now; neither choice will affect overall progression
• In the center of the hall you can grab the Moon Rune (Tier 1)
• Go outside and take a left up some stairs then another left and to your right will be Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Turn around and go back down the stairs and take a right down a corridor. Here will be a Wandering Nightmare you can kill for Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Go up the stairs and to the left to open the door to the Lamp. Go back down the corridor and take a left on the road then take a left to an alcove under a small bridge to grab Bolt Paper x5
• Continue down the road and at the end you can grab the Tonitrus
• Turn around and walk all the way back to the large staircase and descend it. At the bottom by the gate you can grab a total of three Madman's Knowledge x1
• To your left will be a small staircase. Climb it and to your left will be Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• On the carriage here you can grab the Yahar'gul Black Set
• Go back to the doorway that leads into the hall with the Lamp and take the left facing the door. Continue until you can descend some stairs. Head down and to the left and grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Turn around and grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Open the door that leads to a prison-type room. To your left will be Blood Vial x6
• In the center of this room against the wall will be Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Go into the room with two tables via the left or right entrances. Go through the broken bars and take a right through a tunnel to drop onto a stony pathway leading to an open area. To your right you can summon Defector Antal. You may also summon Old Hunter Yamamura the Wanderer if you have killed him in the Hunter's Nightmare and have joined the League, but neither Antal nor Yamamura can be summoned simultaneously
• Defeat Darkbeast Paarl to acquire the Spark Hunter Badge
• Light the Graveyard of the Darkbeast Lamp
• Open the gate leading to Old Yharnam

Cathedral Ward

• Go through the Old Yharnam Gate and head up the stairs to your left, making your way to Djura without him detecting you. If done successfully, he will be friendly. Speak with him and choose to 'Spare the beasts of Old Yharnam', and he will give you the Powder Keg Hunter Badge and the 'Brush off Dust' gesture and remain friendly. If you wish, you may now kill him to unlock the Insight Bath Messengers selling the Ashen Hunter Set. Note that if you attack any of the enemies in Old Yharnam after earning his trust, he will turn aggressive with no chance of reconciliation
• Approach Djura in secret up the tower. If you make peace with him, he will give you Bold Hunter's Mark x1 if you already have his Badge
• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and go up the stairs where we opened the gate to Oedon Chapel. Climb the ladder near this gate and at the top grab Numbing Mist x6 at the top
• Here you can drop down onto a roof, then another roof to grab the Black Messenger Hat
• Drop down onto the stairs. Go up into the area with the ladder, then up some narrow stairs to grab Thick Coldblood (5)
• Go back down the narrow stairs and take a right. Open the gate via lever to access the Grand Cathedral Courtyard. Turn around to find behind you Thick Coldblood (5)
• To the right of the gate facing the Grand Cathedral Courtyard and behind is an area with a Dog. Grab Thick Coldblood (5) from here
• Enter the Grand Cathedral Courtyard. From here you can grab from a total of five Madman's Knowledge x1
• Head forward to open the gate that would have required the Hunter Chief Emblem
• Turn around and to your left will be Thick Coldblood (4)
• To your right from where you passed the gate will be Thick Coldblood (5)
• Go through the doorway with the candles to the left of the second gate facing in. To your right will be some coffins hiding Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• To your left going in is a small room with Shining Coins x12
• Continue through the room to end up outside on a small circular area. Here on an altar will be a Tempering Blood Gemstone (2)
• To your right will be Antidote x1
• Go back all the way to the area to the left of the Emblem gate. Near this area will be a pathway and at the first stop down some stairs will be Poison Knife x12
• Go down the stairs into the Foggy Alley and take a left. At the end will be Arianna, Woman of Pleasure. She won't request a safe haven until you've defeated the Witch of Hemwick, the Blood-starved Beast, or Vicar Amelia. Talk to Arianna and send her either to Oedon Chapel or to Iosefka's Clinic. If sent to the Clinic, Iosefka will reward you with Numbing Mist x2. If she moves to Oedon Chapel, talk to Arianna there and she will give you Blood of Arianna if you are not already carrying Blood of Arianna, Adella, or Adeline. If Adella has moved to Oedon Chapel as well, avoid receiving Blood of Arianna more than three times in Adella's presence. However, you may receive Blood of Adella an unlimited number of times
• Across from Arianna's window will be the Bigoted Old Man. He won't request to go anywhere until Arianna does. Now, be careful where you choose to send him. If you tell him to go to Oedon Chapel, he will go to Iosefka's Clinic and Iosefka will reward you with Numbing Mist x2. If you tell him to go to the Clinic, he will go to Oedon Chapel
• Going down the Alley in an alcove to the left will be the Black Church Set. NOTE: If you have encountered Adella, Nun of the Healing Church already but were unable to send her anywhere, now you may do so after equipping the Black Church Set and talking to her
• At the end of the Alley just before the stairs to the left will be Poison Knife x18
• Go up the stairs at the end of the alley and up some more stairs at the left wall to an area with Blood Vial x2
• Here behind some coffins will be Thick Coldblood (4)
• Here will be a ladder in a small room with coffins that you can climb. At the top of the tower you can drop down onto a roof where you can grab Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Go up the Grand Cathedral Stairs. Up these stairs halfway and to the right will be Blood Vial x6
• Heading to the left of the Grand Cathedral doors and just before some stairs leading to a grassy area will be Bloodshot Eyeball x1

Hemwick Charnel Lane (Optional)

• Continue forward and descend into the grassy area. In front of you will be Bold Hunter's Mark x3
• Go through the archway into a tunnel and head forward into the Hemwick Woods. Stick to the right until you reach an area with a bonfire and a circle of gravestones to grab Bone Marrow Ash x9
• From here grab Thick Coldblood (4)
• From here grab another Thick Coldblood (4)
• Continue down the path here to grab Pebble x4
• Further along the path to your right up a hill and behind a boulder will be Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Continue down the path to find a gate at the end. Open the gate and light the Hemwick Charnel Lane Lamp
• Go down the path to your left. Head again to the left and on a guillotine you can grab Bloodshot Eyeball x1
• Go around the central rock formation to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Take a left here and go up some wooden stairs then turn right to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and go back then up the stairs past the guillotine. Pass under the arch and in front of you at a tree will be Thick Coldblood (4)
• Go up the first set of stairs, then the second. Take an immediate right to a ledge to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Go up the third set of stairs and take a right from the locked gate and go down some stairs ahead. To your right in the grassy gravestone area you can grab Pebble x4
• To your right a bit away will be a lift you can take down then back up. Continue forward to a wooden bridge and to your right will be Bone Marrow Ash x8
• Cross the bridge and enter the barn. Continue forward and go up the ladder. Ahead in front of the ladder will be Bloodshot Eyeball x1
• To your right is a Wandering Nightmare that drops Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Turn around and go past the ladder whilst sticking to the left. Go down some stairs then cross the beams to a room. In here to your left you can grab an Adept Blood Gemstone (1)
• Further ahead at the window you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and proceed until you exit the barn. Continue forward, holding right until you reach an area where you can grab Coldblood Dew (3)
• Continue towards the tower and to your left around the bonfire will be Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Head into the tower and descend the stairs out the door. To your left among gravestones will be Thick Coldblood (4)
• A bit further to your left will be a lever that opens the gate shortcut on the main path. Turn around and continue down the main path all the way to the broken bridge where you can grab the Lake Rune (Tier 1)
• Turn around and to your right will be Thick Coldblood (4)
• Head back down the path and to your left will be Bone Marrow Ash x8
• Turn right at the fork in the road and head up the hill. To your right a bit up will be an alcove with an Executioner and a chest with a Tempering Blood Gemstone (1)
• Turn around and continue up the hill to enter the building. To your left will be some barrels hiding Madman's Knowledge x1
• Destroy these barrels and kill the Wandering Nightmare for Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Defeat the Witch of Hemwick to acquire Bloodshot Eyeball x4
• Light the Witch's Abode Lamp
• Go down the stairs in front of the Lamp. Open the door and grab the Rune Workshop Tool
• Go down the stairs in front of the Lamp. Open the door and grab Kin Coldblood (12)

Grand Cathedral

• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp. Go out the door in front of you and take a left to find Eileen the Crow. Talk to her and she will warn you about Old Hunter Henryk and grant you the 'Shhh!' gesture. Afterwards head to the Tomb of Oedon and fight Henryk. Eileen will arrive halfway through to asssist. Defeat Henryk and talk to Eileen to learn the 'Approval' gesture and enable Henryk as an Old Hunter Summon. NOTE: If Eileen dies during the fight Henryk will no longer be available as a summon and her quest will end
• Make your way to the Grand Cathedral doors. Defeat Vicar Amelia to acquire the Gold Pendant, which you may crush for a Gold Blood Gem
• Interact with the skull on the altar to receive the password to the Forbidden Woods

Forbidden Woods

• Make your way to the Grand Cathedral Courtyard and go through the doorway with the Brainsucker and take a left then a right to find Alfred, Hunter of Vilebloods. Continue down the spiral stairs and interact with the door. Give the password and interact with the corpse to receive Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go down the stairs and enter the Forbidden Woods. Down the first set of stairs and to your right behind a tree will be Thick Coldblood (6)
• Turn around and continue along the path. At the fork hold right for a bit to where you can grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Turn and resume down the path to grab Pebble x2
• Go up the path to your right and continue on past the Executioner and into a cave to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• From here as well grab an Adept Blood Gemstone (2)
• Turn around and head back down the path all the way to light the Forbidden Woods Lamp
• To your right around the building will be Antidote x3
• Turn around and go across the bridge. To your left will be some gravestones where you can grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Continue down the path with lanterns and a bit to your left will be Thick Coldblood (6)
• Down the path by the bonfire you can grab Blood Vial x2 and Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Just ahead you can grab Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Continue to an area with flowers that makes a three-way fork in the road. Take the rightside path to a rocky hollow to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Twin Blood Stones Shards x3
• Turn around and go back to the fork in the road. Take the path to your left through the flowers to reach a broken house with a Large Hunstman where you can grab Beast Blood Pellet x3
• Turn around to go out the house and head straight forward to some small gravestones to grab Thick Coldblood (6)
• Drop down here into a small valley that leads to a wall with a doorgate. Pass through it and to your right in the house you can grab Pungent Blood Cocktail x4
• Go back outside to grab Blood Vial x5
• Walk to the right over a covered pit and fall into it. At the bottom grab Antidote x4
• Climb the ladder out of the pit. Turn around and take the leftmost path between some houses and to your left through a broken wall will be Pungent Blood Cocktail x3
• Go back outside and head forward to a path between some houses and the cliff. At the end to your left enter a house where you can grab Beast Blood Pellet x6
• Go back to the doorgate that we initially passed through into this area. Take a right to go a bit uphill, sticking to the right. At the end on a ledge facing the pit will be Quicksilver Bullets x6
• Continue uphill and talk to the house on your left with the red lantern to receive the Tonsil Stone
• From here will be a small fork in the path. Take the right fork to where the gate drops to close on you. In the house on your left you can grab Blue Elixir x4
• Go outside and take a right past the cages and go around the house. To your right will be a ladder you can climb to grab the White Church Set
• Go back down and continue forward and take a right around a boulder and pull the lever to lift the gate. Turn around and head right and enter the house on your left to grab the Beast Roar
• Head back outside and to your left around the house behind a tree you can grab Blood Vial x6
• Head down the ramp onto a rooftop and continue along the rooftops. At the end to your right you can drop off onto a platform with Molotov Cocktail x11
• Drop down into the swampy area and continue forward then turn left and grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Turn around and behind you in a cave you can grab two Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Ahead of you will be a shortcut gate you can open. Then turn around and head back down the tunnel and take a right down the path and to your right in the house you can grab Blood Vial x6
• Roll through the barrels here through a hole in the wall then again through another hole. Exit the house and take a right up the path then a left just before the cannon into a house where you can grab Beast Blood Pellet x4
• Turn around and exit the house and head left and take a right to the entrance of the large building and around the corner to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Enter the Large Windmill and head downstairs to the ground floor and in the corner you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and go up some stairs than up again and take the exit outside. Drop down onto the wooden platform and head left. Climb up the ladder to your left and cross the narrow bridge across the Windmill gears to grab Poison Knife x8
• To your right go up the ramp and outside turn right and grab Poison Knife x3
• In the corner behind you will be the Afflicted Beggar. Talk to him and send him to Iosefka's Clinic, and Iosefka will reward you with Beast Blood Pellet x2. Be warned, if you send him to Oedon Chapel, he will immediately begin killing any survivors there, first when you send him there, and an additional survivor for every boss defeated. For each survivor he kills, he will grant you Beast Blood Pellet x2, and once he hass killed his fifth and final victim, he will vanish from the game
• Go back inside and drop down onto a platform near the small gear where you can grab the Cannon
• Make your way to the ground floor and down the small stairs and to your left is a doorway leading outside. Go across the bridge and to your right will be an uphill path and at the top you can grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Turn around and go through the large entrance to take the lift up. Go up the stairs and grab Antidote x4
• Speak with Valtr, Master of the League and he will give you the Impurity Rune, allowing you to join The League and obtain Vermin. Speak with him after crushing one Vermin to receive the League Staff and the 'League Oath' gesture. Speak with him after crushing five Vermin to receive an upgraded 'League Oath' gesture
• Open the shortcut door leading to the Forbidden Woods Lamp
• Go back down the lift and head down the hill till to your left you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Turn around and drop down onto a rocky ledge by a tree with a lantern. Jump over the hole and head forward to find an area with an Executioner and Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Go back and drop down near the hole you just jumped. Continue down the hill and to your left in front of a large gravestone will be Shining Coins x6
• A bit further down the path to your left among some trees you can grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Go around the right of these gravestones to find on your left Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Continue forward whilst sticking to the left to find behind another large gravestone Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go down towards the muddy path and just before the bonfire turn around to the left and go up the slope to find on the edge of the ravine Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Go back to the start of the path where we picked up the Coins and turn right to a large gravestone where you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Stick to the right here and go forward to a cliff ledge to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Continue forward, sticking to the right, and around the next large gravestone against a tree will be Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Ahead is another large gravestone. Go behind it and take a right up a small slope to a tree to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Continue forward, sticking as much to the right as possible. Here will be a fork in the side path. Take the slope pathway on the right leading to a large gravestone with a faint blue glow. To the right in the midst of several tree is Thick Coldblood (6)
• Turn around and exit the trees to the left going uphill. To the right of this rocky shelf will be Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Go back to the large blue gravestone and behind it will be the Clear Deep Sea Rune (Tier 1)
• Make your way down to the path where the fork was and to your left overlooking the pit with the two Large Snake Balls will be Shining Coins x5
• Turn around and go into the shallow hollow to find Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Go back to the Large Snake Ball hollow and drop down to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• From here as well grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Also grab here the Deep Sea Rune (Tier 2)
• Leave the hollow and take a right onto the muddy path. Go between the massive tree and large gravestone to your right to find Frenzied Coldblood (2)
• Continue forward along the main path. Once you leave the great tree there will be a fork in the road with the right path going uphill where you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Go back down all the way to the main cobbled path to the four-way Crossroads, with the path going back leading under an arch of tree roots. Make a way up the rocky slope between the left and front path. On the rocky shelf to your left will be a fallen tree that you can cross. Take a left off the tree to find the Graveguard Set
• Go back to the Crossroads and take the forward cobbled path. Stick to the right here until your reach a small grassy area with an iron fence and Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Continue down the cobbled path till it splits into two at some lightposts. Take the left muddy path going uphill and at the crest of the path will be a tree where you can grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Continue along this path to reach the Firefly Swamp. Take a right up the slope and then take the lift to open up a shortcut
• Return to where we picked up the Blood Stones above the ravine. Jump across the ravine here and head forward. Then take a left to find the Graveguard Mask
• Drop down into the ravine. Here will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Further ahead will be another Madman's Knowledge x1
• Continue forward and to your left in a small corner will be the Anti-Clockwise Metamorphosis Rune (Tier 1)
• At the end of the ravine on a small island of gravestones will be one more Madman's Knowledge x1
• Return to the Firefly Swamp. Continue forward opposite from where we entered the ravine and go up the muddy slope. Activate the lift to open up a shortcut
• Go back to the Firefly Swamp and take a left into the Boar Creek. Continue through the Creek and go under the tree roots here to find the Dissipating Lake Rune (Tier 1)
• Continue forward and out from under the tree roots, sticking to the left to find at the end of the swamp a Sharp Blood Gemstone (3)
• Proceed through the ravine and take a right up some stairs. At the end will be a gate you can open to a graveyard with the Clockwise Metamorphosis Rune (Tier 1)
• Go back down the stairs and continue through the two obelisks. Defeat the Shadow of Yharnam to acquire the Blood Rapture Rune (Tier 1)
• Light the Forbidden Grave Lamp

Lecture Building, 1st Floor (Optional)

• Warp back to the Cathedral Ward Lamp. Talk to the Lonely Old Woman three times and select 'I have my share of woes' each time to receive Sedatives x1 /x2 / x3, respectively. Once you've spoken to her three times, reload the area twice and speak with her again to receive an additional Sedative. Talk to her again and select 'I have my share of woes' one last time. Reload the area and her body will be found outside the Oedon Chapel Side Entrance with one last Sedative
• Warp to the Grand Cathedral Lamp and head down the first sets of stairs outside and take a left and down some stairs onto ground. Take the stairs down to the few houses and around to your left will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x3
• Kill the Tonitrus Yahar'gul Hunter for Bolt Paper x4
• Kill the Rifle Spear Yahar'gul Hunter for Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Go back up the stairs and at the start of the upper ground area and here you can drop onto a rooftop where you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Drop to the ground and go down the stairs ahead of you. At the bottom will be another Wandering Nightmare that also drops Blood Stone Shard x3
• Turn around and go back up the stairs, sticking to the right. Here you will find a path with a Kidnapper at the top. Drop off here onto a ledge to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Drop down all the way and at the entrance of the great building will be two Wandering Nightmares that both drop Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Walk into the building and to your left will be Lead Elixir x3
• Walk to the closed door and touch the blue portal that sweeps down to grab you and transport you to the Lecture Building. NOTE: If you did not pick up the Tonsil Stone in the Forbidden Woods, this will do nothing but hurt you
• Light the Lecture Building Lamp
• Open the door that leads to the Main Hall. Walk down the hall and open the first door you can on the left. To your right in here will be another door that leads to a Lecture Hall. At the front of the room on the lecturer's body you can grab the Lecture Theatre Key
• In here you can grab the Student Set
• Go out the door on the other side of the Hall and take a right while sticking to the left and open the door to a circular room and here you can grab two Madman's Knowledge x1
• Exit the room and go across the Main Hall into the Storage Room. Here in the back you can open a chest with Red Jelly x2
• Exit the room and walk down the Main Hall and to your left will be a door you can open with the Lecture Theatre Key. Open the door on the right side will be a door that leads to a room with a chest that holds the Augur of Ebrietas
• To the right of the chest will be a door you can open that leads to the Main Hall. At the end of the Hall will be a door that you can open to a portal that leads to the Nightmare Frontier

Nightmare Frontier (Optional)

• Light the Nightmare Frontier Lamp
• Head out the tunnel and in a crevice at the cliff will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Continue uphill and to your left will be Madman's Knowledge
• Go to the right of the open ravine to drop down onto a ledge and grab Lead Elixir x2
• Head out of the valley and crest over the hill and take a left to find a Large Wandering Nightmare that drops Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Continue forward and there will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Continue to the green lantern and here will be the Hunters of Despair that you can kill for two Lead Elixir x1
• A bit ahead is a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Turn around a head up the ramp to a ledge pathway that breaks then continues to the Fading Lake Rune (Tier 1)
• Drop down between the broken path parts to find Madman's Knowledge x1
• Head out then take a left to a depression in the ground and at the tunnel entrance you can grab Blood Vial x2
• Head into the tunnel with the green lantern and at the end will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Continue up the first slope. To your left behind the Giant Lost Child will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Turn around and walk into the cliff-face. Take a right and up a narrow pathway that leads to Coldblood Flowerbud x1
• Resume your path up the hill while sticking to the right wall and behind an obelisk will be Bolt Paper x2
• Turn around and continue along the path along the Swampy Gorge. Cross the rock bridge past the Loran Silverbeast and to your left will be Lead Elixir x2
• Turn right and continue up the hill all the way to a short tunnel. Just past it will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Ahead of this Wandering Nightmare is a fallen obelisk that you can walk on to break it and form a shortcut
• Turn around and take the left uphill path that leads to a Large Wandering Nightmare that drops Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Turn around and head down the hill and cross the rock bridge and to your right up a hill will be Blood Vial x2
• A bit ahead will be another Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Drop down and head under the archway where we just grabbed the Blood Vials. Turn around at the bottom of the slope and go to the ledge overlooking the Swampy Gorge to grab the Clockwise Metamorphosis Rune (Tier 2)
• Exit the tunnel back the way you came. Follow the path of Shining Coins to be thrown by Patches the Spider into the Swampy Gorge. From here grab Lead Elixir x2
• Grab here also Antidote x3
• Kill the Wandering Nightmare here for Blood Stone Shard x2
• Head through the ravine into the large open area. Ahead in the middle will be a Large Wandering Nightmare and the three Wandering Nightmares that drop Twin Blood Stone Shards x3 and three Blood Stone Shard x2, respectively
• Head through the tunnel with the Lumenflowers and the Winter Lantern to find at the back the Messenger's Gift
• Turn around and make your way through the Gorge till you reach the end into the open lake. Take a left onto the stone bank to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• On this same bank will be Antidote x4
• Take an immediate left from the Antidote into the swamp and go up to the shore. On the right of the shore will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• From here make your way back to the obelisk we broke to make a shortcut. Go to where Patches pushed you and grab from here Coldblood Flowerbud x1
• Go into the tunnel that lead to the Metamorphosis Rune and take a right from the Giant Lost Child to drop down onto a ledge with the Stunning Deep Sea Rune (Tier 2)
• Head into the cave here to find Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Drop down into the swamp from this cave and on your right on a shore will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Just ahead is a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• On an island on your left Coldblood Flowerbud x2
• Take a left towards the tall rock with a Giant Lost Child. At the top are two Wandering Nightmares that both drop Blood Stone Shard x2
• Here will also be the Clear Deep Sea Rune (Tier 2)
• Drop off where you grabbed the Rune just now and in the cave behind you will be Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Head towards the tunnel with the Giant Lost Child past the island with the Flowerbud. Continue forward till you reach a Winter Lantern. Turn around at this point to find a Large Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Further from the Wandering Nightmare will be Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Past the Winter Lantern on your right will be an alcove with Madman's Knowledge x1
• Continue down the path into a wider open platform with a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Looking out over the cliff, take a left through a narrow ledge to find Lead Elixir x3
• Return to the path of fallen obelisks that leads into the Obelisk Swamp. Drop down to your right at the first obelisk bridge to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• Here on the bridge leading to Amygdala's Chamber will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Head to the right towards the Loran Silverbeast to grab Blood Vial x3
• Continue uphill to find the lift shortcut
• Go back downhill to look over the Swamp. Go down the path to your left, then turn around immediately to your right to find a Large Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Ahead of you will be a small island of large obelisks. To the right around the island will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Shard x2
• On this island on a fallen obelisk will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Head back to the slope we took to reach the Large Wandering Nightmare. Just ahead of where the slope reaches the Swamp against the left cave wall will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• In the middle of this cavern between three pillars will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Ahead from the Coldblood through a long passage will be the Great Deep Sea Rune (Tier 2)
• Turn around and head back out, sticking to the left to reach Kin Coldblood (10)
• Head outside and cross the bridge. Defeat Amygdala to acquire the Ailing Loran Chalice
• Light the Amygdala's Chamber Lamp

Iosefka's Clinic (Optional)

• Warp to the Forbidden Woods Lamp and make your way to the dog cages area in the village. To your right will be a path you can take to reach a tunnel with blue flowers that leads to Antidote x2
• Continue down this tunnel to reach a massive cavern with poison water and a massive glowing gravestone in the center. Take a right around the rocky outcrop to grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• Turn around and head forwards whilst sticking to the cave wall to reach an island on your left where you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (7)
• At the center island with the glowing tower grab a Dirty Blood Gemstone (3)
• Behind the black scraggly rock formation you can grab a Nourishing Blood Gemstone (2)
• Head to the right into a large opening that gradually turns into a narrow tunnel. At the end you can grab an Arcane Blood Gemstone (2)
• Exit the tunnel and head towards the other side of the cavern. There will be a smaller cave entrance with a torch on the entryway. Go up the pathway that leads to a tall ladder. Climb it into a room with another ladder. Climb that as well to enter a graveyard where you can grab Coldblood Dew (1)
• Pull the lever to open the gate here to Central Yharnam
• Turn around and to your right will be a gate you can pass through. Ahead will be some stairs you can descend that lead to a path under some arches to an area with a Brainsucker and a ladder by which you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Climb the ladder to the rooftop. Go across the roof to enter the Clinic
• NOTE: Depending on the survivors, if any, that were sent to the Clinic, you will find Small Celestial Emissaries throughout the hallways that drop various Items corresponding to those survivors
• Take the left hallway. Per this guide, if you sent the Afflicted Beggar to the Clinic, kill the Small Celestial Emissary here for the Beast Rune (Tier 2)
• Just in front of you is a room with a chest containing the Communion Rune (Tier 3)
• Go out and turn left into a smaller hallway and open the doors at the end. At the top operating theater will be Impostor Iosefka. If you leave you will become her accomplice, and sending her survivors will earn you 2 Insight instead of 1, and you will receive Blue Elixir x3 from that point on. If you fight her now, she will drop the Oedon Writhe Rune (Tier 2). Since you'll only ultimately need three Cords, if you want this Rune, she is your best Cord candidate to sacrifice
• Go back out and take a left down the hallway. At the end open the doors to the Sickroom where we woke to the nightmare. In here will be a Small Celestial Emissary you can kill for Iosefka's Blood Vial
• On an operating table here grab the Cainhurst Summons
• Open the door that leads downstairs to the 1st Floor Sickroom Lamp

Forsaken Cainhurst Castle (Optional)

• Warp to the Witch's Abode Lamp and head outside and down the hill and reach the large obelisk with patrolling Executioners. Interact with the carriage after the cutscene to be taken to Forsaken Cainhurst Castle
• Enter the Castle and light the Forsaken Castle Cainhurst Lamp
• Head right to the tower and behind it you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• By the fountain heading left from the Lamp will be Numbing Mist x2
• Head down the hill into the rocky crevice to grab a Tempering Blood Gemstone (3)
• Head back up to the fountain and to the left a bit ahead in the area with a Large Bloodlicker will be Numbing Mist x4
• Here will also be Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Likewise here will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Head up to the door but stick to the wall heading right and at the end you will find Numbing Mist x4
• Head through the door that opens for you and in the large Entry Hall to your left behind a pillar will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• On the right side of the hall in the middle will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• At the back of the right side will be a chest with the Reiterpallasch
• Head up the stairs and to the right and at the end of the balcony will be Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Go back down the first set of stairs and head to the left balcony. Pass through the doorway here and in the middle of the room you can grab Quicksilver Bullets x4
• On the right side of the room will be a chest with the Noble Dress
• Head outside and up the tower stairs to your left. Continue through the walkway and up the stairs, then take the tower stairs on your left up to grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Go down the stairs and continue right of the walkway stairs across the broken rampart and up the inside stairs to a hallway and then back outside. Take the right between the statues and at the end you can grab the Executioner Set
• Turn around and head forward to take a right into the Library. To your left will be a chest with the Vileblood Register
• To the left of the chest will be a lift shortcut that you can activate
• On the right side of the Library behind some tables that can be jumped via the nearby book-stairs will be a chest with the Evelyn
• Go up the large staircase to the second floor of Library. Go across the first bridge to your left and head forward to a corner to grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Stick to the wall here and walk all the way to the back to find an open window. Exit here and take a left on the ledge to drop onto another ledge with Quicksilver Bullets x6
• Drop down onto the platform here and enter through the doorway here and to your right in the back will be a chest with the Executioner's Gloves
• Turn around and at the other end will be a chest with the Knight's Set
• Go back outside and to your left will be another ledge you can drop down onto. Head forward to a rooftop then onto another ledge that leads to another rooftop where you can grab Kin Coldblood (10)
• Head back to the ledge and take the window in to a room where you can pull a lever to unlock a ladder going up
• Climb the ladder then the stairs and in the back left corner will be a chest with a Warm Blood Gemstone (3)
• Head left across the balcony and in the back you can kill a Wandering Nightmare for Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head back and ascend the stairs to a wooden spiral staircase to a rooftop where in the back left corner you can grab the Knight's Wig
• To the right of the rooftop you can drop down onto another rooftop to drop onto a narrow rooftop to walk across and drop onto a tower rooftop to drop down onto a narrow bridge where you can grab Kin Coldblood (10)
• Climb the ladder here and walk across the rooftop to grab Bold Hunter's Mark x2, then continue up the center through the archway
• Defeat Martyr Logarius
• Light the Logarius' Seat Lamp
• Grab the Crown of Illusions near the Lamp
• Approach Logarius' Seat and reveal the Queen's Chamber. Enter and climb the stairs and light the Queen's Chamber Lamp
• Speak to Annalise, Queen of Castle Cainhurst to join the Cainhurst Vilebloods and receive the Corruption Rune + Cainhurst Badge + 'Respect' gesture. You may also offer her a Blood Dreg to receive the 'Deep Respect' gesture
• To the right of the room grab the Unopened Summons
• You may give the Unopened Summons to Alfred in the Cathedral Ward to receive the Wheel Hunter Badge + 'Church Bow (Male)' gesture. Then warp to the Queen's Chamber Lamp and talk to him to learn the 'Roar' gesture. Afterwards, warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and make your way down to the Lower Chapel where we first met Alfred. Here you will find the Radiance Rune
• Retrieve the Queenly Flesh from Annalise's throne. If you would like, you may offer it at the Altar of Despair after Ebrietas to revive the Queen

Byrgenwerth

• Warp to the Forbidden Grave Lamp and head out under the arch through the path of trees and to your left on this path will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• At the end of the path light the Byrgenwerth Lamp
• Next to the Lamp off the little plateau between two trees in front of you will be an Old Hunter Summon for Younger Madaras Twin if you are wearing the Impurity Rune and have not killed him in the Forbidden Woods
• Stick the left wall and go up the stairs to an area with a Brainsucker where you can grab the Arcane Lake Rune (Tier 2)
• Drop to the Campus and go down a few stairs to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Under the Lunarium will be Great One's Wisdom
• At the other end of the plaza will be Sedatives x5
• Turn around and to your left will be a lever you can pull to open the shortcut gate
• To the right of the gate is an open door that leads into the College. Enter and head left to find a chest with Pearl Slug x1
• On the other side of the Lower Floor is a shortcut door that can be opened
• Head up the stairs to the Second Floor. Kill Yurie, the Last Scholar for Blue Elixir x3
• Up the stairs and to the right between the sofas is a chest with the Student Set (Cape)
• Here you can summon Old Hunter Henryk if you are wearing the Impurity Rune and have defeated him in Tomb of Oedon with Eileen the Crow surviving. Note that you may summon Younger Madaras Twin with Henryk, but not Mensis Scholar Damian
• To the left of the stairs going around is a ladder that leads to the Lunarium Key
• Head up the stairs and at the top is a chest with the Empty Phantasm Shell
• Head downstairs and down the ladder to unlock the door in front of the stairs. Here you can summon Mensis Scholar Damian. Note that you may not summon him with either Henryk or Younger Madaras Twin
• Speak with Master Willem to acquire 2 Insight, then kill him for the Eye Rune (Tier 2)
• Jump into the water to reach the Moonside Lake. Defeat Rom, the Vacuous Spider to acquire Kin Coldblood (12)
• Approach Queen Yharnam to reveal what is hidden and trigger the Blood Moon

Yahar'gul, Unseen Village

• Head down the stairs through the open door where you were kidnapped to the Lecture Building. Continue down the stairs and to your right behind you will be Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Continue down this path down some stairs to a plaza and light the Yahar'gul, Unseen Village Lamp
• Warp to Central Yharnam and make your way to the window of the Young Girl, where now her Older Sister will reside. Talk to her and give her the Red Messenger Ribbon. Reload the area and descend the ladder near the window. Sadly retrieve the White Messenger Ribbon. NOTE: If you would like to keep both Ribbons, give the Red Ribbon to the Older Sister but do not reload the area. Kill the Boar in the Sewers to receive the Red Ribbon a second time. Reload the area and the White Ribbon will be found at the base of the ladder near the window. Retrieve it and you will have both Ribbons
• Kill the Beast Patient at Gilbert's window in Central Yharnam for the Clawmark Rune (Tier 2)
• If you became Iosefka's accomplice, head to the Clinic where she told you to leave, and upstairs you will find her incapacitated. Kill her for the Third Umbilical Cord
• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and make your way to the front of the Grand Cathedral doors to find an injured Eileen the Crow. Speak to her to learn the 'Wait' gesture. Enter the Grand Cathedral and defeat the Bloody Crow of Cainhurst to acquire the Blood Rapture Rune (Tier 3). Speak to Eileen afterwards to receive the Crow Hunter Badge + Hunter Rune. Note that if you did not defeat Henryk before proceeding to the Forbidden Woods, you will find Eileen hostile and waiting inside the Grand Cathedral. Killing her drops the Crow Hunter Badge
• If you have crushed five or more Vermin and spoken with Valtr, Master of the League, warp to the Forbidden Woods Lamp and go to where he stood and grab the Master's Iron Helm
• Kill Younger Madaras Twin to acquire the Madaras Whistle. NOTE: Do not kill Younger Madaras Twin if you wish to keep him available as an Old Hunter Summon
• Warp back to the Unseen Village Lamp. Go down teh stairs and take a right. Hold right to find behind a statue Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Continue back down the stairs to a fountain where you can grab the Iron Yahar'gul Helm
• Head back up to the Lamp and take the stairs down on your left into the building with the Bell Ringer. Up on the second floor level will be a gate you can open to a cell with a Bolt Damp Blood Gem (4)
• Head outside and descend the stairs and at the bottom take a left then right through the broken wall and head down the hall and take a right to grab the Heir Rune (Tier 2)
• Open the door here and head to the back in this cell and take a left to open the door and in this cell you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• At the back open the door back to the staircase we used to enter. Head up the stairs and to your left is a broken fence we can drop down through and to your right will be Bolt Paper x3
• Drop down again onto a small plaza with a chair in the center. Head up the stairs to your left to a plaza and to your right will be a broken fence you can fall through. To your right will be a door that leads into a dark room with a Bell Ringer. Drop down into the cell in the middle and grab the Upper Cathedral Key
• Open the door here and in front of you will be a chest with the Tiny Tonitrus
• Exit here to a short bridge that leads to some stairs going up to the plaza we dropped down onto. Head back to the plaza we ascended to and go down the first stairs and to your left behind you will be Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Head forward and descend the stairs past the laser Amygdala to light the Yahar'gul Chapel Lamp
• Head out to your left to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head out to your left and take a right after the short bridge to drop down through a broken fence to grab Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Descend the stairs ahead and take a left to grab Blood Vial x8
• Head across the narrow bridge and open the door leading to Hypogean Gaol from earlier, minus the Lamp. In the center of the hall you may kill the Yahar'gul Hunter for the Clawmark Rune (Tier 1)
• Kill another Yahar'gul Hunter for Madman's Knowledge x1
• Kill one last Yahar'gul Hunter for Quicksilver Bullets x20
• Go down to where we found Adella in Hypogean Gaol to find the corpse of a Kidnapper with Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Go all the way to the tunnel that leads to Darkbeast Paarl to find another corpse of a Kidnapper with Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head out the door that leads to the street and take a left up some stairs and hold to the left until you reach a lift. Take it to the top, then as it's descending roll out a window behind it onto a rooftop. Continue forward and descend some stairs to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• A bit forward here you will find against a railing Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Head back and to your left will be a room with a glowing bath. Interact with it to be transported to another area of the Village. Head out the door to your left and along the walkway to your left will be Blood Vial x6
• Go through the doorway to the right and descend the stairs and take a left behind you to grab a Tempering Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Head back up the stairs and cross the bridge and take a right to descend some stairs to grab Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Continue into the street and under the small bridge we crossed to reach the lift will be Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Turn around and head left here to grab Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head back into the hall with the three Hunters you fought and descend the spiral stairs and head to the area where Adella was to grab Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head back and ascend the first set of spiral stairs to the additional cells room. Head out the door to your left and behind a corner you can grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Head back into the cells room and by the tunnel that leads to the Graveyard of the Darkbeast will be Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head back to the tunnel and out onto the street. Descend the large stairs and go through the gateway and to your left behind a bright shining corpse will be the Arcane Lake Rune (Tier 1)
• On the right walkway of the street here towards the end behind a corner will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• On the left walkway here will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Descend to the street and pass under the large archway. Defeat The One Reborn to acquire Yellow Backbone x3
• Light the Advent Plaza Lamp

Upper Cathedral Ward (Optional)

• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and make your way to the highest floor of the Healing Church Workshop. Head to the locked door in the room with the many urns and open it. Head up the stairs to your left and to your left by the wall will be Blue Elixir x1
• Head across the bridge and light the Upper Cathedral Ward Lamp
• Head up the stairs and take a right past the locked gate to find the Great Lake Rune (Tier 2)
• From the stairs head left and go past the stairs going up to grab Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Go up the stairs past the bonfire into a dark room and to your left you can grab the Choir Set
• Head through the door and take a right. At the end of the hall you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and head down the hallway and open the door on your right. Head down the spiral stairs and take a right into a narrow corridor where you can grab the Cosmic Eye Watcher Badge
• Exit the corridor and at the end of the hall you can grab Ritual Blood (5) x3
• Enter the corrdor on the left near the spiral stairs and here you will find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Climb the ladder at the end of the corridor and turn around and enter the upper left corridor to grab Blue Elixir x1
• Further down you can grab the Blindfold Cap
• Further down you can grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Further down you can grab another Madman's Knowledge x1
• At the end of the corridor you can grab Pearl Slug x2
• Open the door here. Head back down the corridor and to your right will be a balcony that leads to another door you can open. Kill the Brainsucker here to acquire the Orphanage Key
• Open the large door here and interact with the burnt corpse here to learn the 'Make Contact' gesture
• Make your way down the ground floor and open the locked door here and grab Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Open the gate, then head up the stairs to your left past the Small Celestial Emissary to find the Lumenflower Gardens. Defeat the Celestial Emissary to acquire the Communion Rune (Tier 4)
• Light the Lumenflower Gardens Lamp

Orphanage (Optional)

• Break through the window behind the Lumenflower Gardens Lamp to enter the Grand Cathedral. On the right side of the walkway you can grab the A Call Beyond
• Descend the lift at the end and enter the Altar of Despair. Defeat Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos to acquire the Great Isz Chalice
• Light the Altar of Despair Lamp

Lecture Building, 2nd Floor

• Warp to the Advent Plaza Lamp. Go up the stairs past the Lamp and interact with the corpse of Micolash to be transported to the Lecture Building
• Light the Lecture Building, 2nd Floor Lamp
• Open the door to the Main Hall and head forward to open another door to a circular room with Sedatives x6
• Head down the left side of the Hall (the side with the Lamp) and at the end take a right then another right down the right walkway to find Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Turn around and head back down the walkway and take a right to a door that leads to a Lecture Theatre walkway. On the other side you can open a door that leads to a chest with the Communion Rune (Tier 2)
• Head back out into the Main Hall and on the right from the door will be a ladder that descends to Patches' Lab. Talk to Patches the Spider to receive the 'Beg for Life' gesture + Anti-Clockwise Metamorphosis Rune (Tier 2). You may also kill him for Great One's Wisdom x1
• Ascend the ladder and open the door to be transported to the Nightmare of Mensis

Nightmare of Mensis

• Head outside and up the hill. Kill the Wandering Nightmare for Blood Stone Chunk x3
• Further up and to the left will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Continue forward and light the Nightmare of Mensis Lamp
• Head forward to grab Blood Vial x8
• Head up the path to your right by the Lost Giant Child to grab the Eye Rune (Tier 1)
• Up ahead you can light the Mergo's Loft: Base Lamp
• Head back and go across the bridge. To your left will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Continue forward and at the path curve take a left. Behind a Giant Lost Child will be Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Head to the Infested Chapel stairs and to the left behind a corner will be Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Open the large door to the Chapel and take a right around the corner. Go up the stairs and at the first balcony on the right in the corridor will be Kin Coldblood (10)
• At the end of the corridor will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go into the Chapel and at the altar ahead will be Shaman Bone Blade x6
• Go outside on the right to the Lower Bridge and kill Choir Intelligencer Edgar for Sedatives x3
• Head into Mergo's Lost and to the left on the walkway will be a chest with Yellow Backbone x2
• Go down the stairs and to your right in the corner will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Activate here the lift shortcut down to the Loft Base Lamp
• Continue into the next hall with several of Mergo's Attendants and to your right behind some mirrors will be Beast Blood Pellet x1
• On the left of the staircase is a narrow walkway with Blue Elixir x2
• Drop down and to your left by the pit will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Continue ahead and make your way to the next lift. To the left of the lift will be Lead Elixir x2
• Take the lift up and head outside and to the right. Head up the stairs and take a right onto a large flat space. Here will be a cage you can roll into to grab a Tempering Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Drop down and continue ahead to activate the lift down to the Loft Base Lamp
• To the left of the lift are stairs to an area with two Dogs with Crow heads. Around the pillar here you can grab Kin Coldblood (10)
• Here you can also grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Head into the Loft. At the end of the hallway take a left to grab Quicksilver Bullets x6
• Once Micolash reaches half-health, a door will open that leads to some spiral stairs. Take a left to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x3
• Proceed down the stairs to find Sedatives x3
• At the very bottom of these stairs will be the Moon Rune (Tier 2)
• Go up the stairs and along the way you can grab Blood Vial x8
• Once you reach the top of the spiral stairs, go into the area with fog where you will continue to fight Micolash. Go up the first flight of stairs in front of you and take a left onto a balcony with scattered papers. Here you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Go back out and take a left up the second flight of stairs. Take a right past the bridge and grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Take a right into a room with a hole. Drop down and defeat Micolash, Host of the Nightmare to acquire the Mensis Cage
• Go out through the opened gate and grab Here will be Quicksilver Bullets x6
• Continue forward and take a right down a flight of stairs. At the bottom take a right and at the corner to your left will be Kin Coldblood (10)
• Ahead by a mirror will be Iron Door Key
• Make your way back up and cross the bridge that was lifted. Light the Middle Loft Lamp
• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp and head towards the Tomb of Oedon. Go down the ladder in the Library to the water-filled room. Here will be Arianna with a Celestial Child. Kill them to receive Third Umbilical Cord + Arianna's Shoes and to conclude her questline
• Warp back to the Middle Loft Lamp. Head out the side door and up the stairs. To your right where the Crows are is Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head up the stairs and take the cage lift down. Roll out into the window on your way down. At the end of this hallway will be a chest with Inflicted Organ x1
• Head across the first half of the Upper Bridge with a single Winter Lantern and on the right will be Kin Coldblood (11)
• Further along the bridge by a Winter Lantern will be a Tempering Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Head into the Loft. Take a right and go through the doorway down some stairs and at the end of this path will be a lever. Pull the lever to drop the Brain of Mensis into the Abyss
• Turn around and drop down through the pit. Across the beams will be a Winter Lantern guarding a chest with the Choir Bell
• Head outside onto the Middle Bridge and here you can grab four Great One's Wisdom x1
• Ahead will also be an Arcane Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Descend the stairs at the end of the Middle Bridge and to your left behind you will be a Damp Bloodtinge Gem (5)
• Continue to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Ahead will be a door you can open
• Turn back and drop down into the holding cage of the Brain of Mensis. Here you can grab a Blood Rock
• Behind you will be a hole in the wall to the Lower Bridge. Head inside all the way to the area will the large pit. In the middle of this room to your right will be a lift you can take down to the now-harmless Brain of Mensis. Perform the 'Make Contact' gesture until your arms switch positions to receive the Moon Rune (Tier 3)
• Kill the Brain of Mensis for Living String x1
• Make your way back up to the Middle Loft to the area with the Shadows of Yharnam. Climb the stairs past them. Just before the next set of stairs, stick to the absolute left between the fence and the wall to find Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Head back to climb the stairs and to your left you can roll through the broken stone railing to a muddy area. Here you can kill a Wandering Nightmare for Blood Stone Chunk x3
• Continue and at the end will be some stairs you can climb to find more Shadows of Yharnam. Here will be Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Continue forward and climb the stairs to find more Shadows of Yharnam. Turn right and head towards the Maneater Boars and to your right by a tree will be two Kin Coldblood (11)
• A bit further will be a Nourishing Damp Blood Gem (4)
• Head back and climb the stairs past the Shadows to find Queen Yharnam. Descend the stairs past her and take a right to find a chest with Iosefka's Blood Vial
• In the room past the stairs will be a shortcut lift
• Take the lift in front of Queen Yharnam. Defeat Mergo's Wet Nurse to acquire the Third Umbilical Cord
• Light the Wet Nurse's Lunarium Lamp

Hunter's Nightmare (The Old Hunters DLC)

• Warp to the Cathedral Ward Lamp after acquiring the Eye of a Blood-drunk Hunter. This can be done by defeating Vicar Amelia and returning to the Hunter's Dream and taking it from the Messengers at the base of the stairs. Walk out of the Oedon Chapel Side Entrance and take a right. The Amygdala will sweep down and grab you and take you to the Hunter's Nightmare
• Light the Hunter's Lightmare Lamp
• Walk outside and take a left around the corner to grab Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Turn around and run up the stairs to the closed gate. To your left will be the Old Hunter Cap
• Go back down the stairs and take a left near the Chapel door and up the rocky hill to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Continue up the hill and where the path goes left, hold to your left and drop off onto a roof to grab the Old Hunter Gloves
• Go back up the hill past where you dropped off and continue forwards past the tower a bit to grab Blood Vial x3
• Turn around to your right and proceed onward, slighting right to pick up Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Turn around and go forward towards the Nightmare Cathedral Courtyard to drop off onto a ledge with a gravestone and Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Drop down into the Courtyard and to your left will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn slighty right and walk forward to grab another Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn left a bit and run ahead to a raised dais looking the Chapel to grab Blood Vial x6
• Turn around and hold right to take a path back up to where we dropped off into the Courtyard. Head forward and then turn around to your left at the topside gated archway to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• Resume your trek up the path and take a hard right at the fork. At the end will be a dropoff point where you can grab the Old Hunter Trousers
• Drop down onto the pavement and pull the lever to open the gate leading to the Chapel
• Turn around and go up the first then second flight of stairs to reach the Nightmare Cathedral stairs. Cross the stairs and to your left on the raised watchpoint will be Blood Vial x3
• Drop off here onto the rocky ground and go forward onto a rooftop, next to which is the Beast Cutter
• Drop down onto the pavement and to your left will be Quicksilver Bullets x4
• Go up the first flight of the Nightmare Cathedral stairs and to your right will be Molotov Cocktail x4
• Climb the second and third flights of stairs, then turn around to your left and walk to the rocky area to grab the Old Hunter Garb
• Climb the fourth flight of stairs and take a left to find Molotov Cocktail x3
• Turn around and go across the stairs to the right side to grab Blood Vial x6
• Ascend the last flight of stairs and enter the Nightmare Cathedral. Approach Laurence and grab the Eye Pendant
• Exit the Cathedral and head down the first flight of stairs. Take a left into a tunnel passage. Walk through it and exit onto a long walkway with many gravestones and a carriage. At the end turn right and go down the stairs onto a paved walkway. Go down the stairs to your right onto a smaller walkway with Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Go back onto the upper walkway and turn right. Head into the house and inside at the back is Delayed Molotov x5
• Go down the wooden stairs in the house and turn around to your left to find the Boom Hammer
• Survive the explosion and turn around to exit to your left onto a paved walkway. Kill the Bestial Hunter to receive the Firing Hammer Badge
• Go up the first flight of stairs here to find Beast Blood Pellet x3
• Go back into the house and go up the wooden stairs. Exit to your left and drop down to a stony ledge where you can grab the Old Hunter Top Hat
• Slide down the roof into the River of Blood. Turn right at the carriage and cross the River to grab Frenzied Coldblood (8)
• Turn to the right and go up the River to the two carriages. Behind the carriages will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Continue down the River and pass through the tunnel into a cavern with the bloody corpses. Kill Djura's Disciple to acquire the Gatling Gun
• Ahead from where you entered the cave next to a dropoff point is Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Turn around and next to another tunnel entrance is Twin Blood Stone Shards x1
• Enter into the next cavern and go down the slope. Turn around to your right find a nook with another Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Continue forward into the area with a Blood-starved Beast. Here you can grab two Twin Blood Stone Shards x2 and the Amygdalan Arm
• Exit the caves back to the River of Blood. Continue down the River until you reach the bridge. Take a left and by the stairs going up to the bridge you can grab Blood Vial x3
• Climb the stairs onto the bridge and in front of you will be Quicksilver Bullets x6
• Go across the bridge and into the building. Here you will find Simon, Seeker of Secrets. Talk to him and tell him you find the Nightmare fascinating. Exhaust his dialogue, then take a left to find a set of doors that open into the Chapel
• Turn around and go all the way back to the bridge. Take a right up the pathway between two buildings. Look to the right to find Constable's Gloves
• Go back to the bridge and take the stairs down to your right into the River of Blood. Head right down the River to the end to grab Constable's Trousers
• Turn around and head into the tunnel to your right. Exit the tunnel and take a hard left past the fallen tower. Hold left into a narrow alley which at the end has Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Turn around and go back out. Head forward under the fallen tower spire and take a right. Climb the ladder that will be on your left and at the top turn left. Here will be and opening in the railing which will let you fall down onto a beam. Cross the beam onto a walkway and at the end to your left will be Constable's Garb
• Drop back down into the River of Blood area and climb the ladder back up. Take a left once more and drop down onto a grassy shelf. Here you can grab the Beasthunter Saif
• Drop down into the River of Blood area and take a left. Head forward to the ladder and climb up. Head forward up the path and drop down into the wider River of Blood. Head forward and take a left under some large skull structures to find the Butcher Set
• Here you can summon Younger Madaras Twin if you have the Impurity Rune equipped. Be aware that if you killed him in the Forbidden Woods he will not be available as an Old Hunter Summon. He will also be unavailable if you summon Old Hunter Henriett. However, both Younger Madaras Twin and Valtr, Beast Eater can be summoned together
• Go back out in the River of Blood and cross the River to an alcove to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Go forward here back into the River and take a right up a grassy slope with flowers. Enter the Nightmare Church and light the Nightmare Church Lamp
• Head down the stairs in the center of this room to end up outside. Here will be a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• At the bottom of the stairs to your left will be a summon for Old Hunter Henriett. Note that summoning Henriett will prevent you from summoning Younger Madaras Twin or Valtr, Beast Eater
• Head forward and cross the wooden planks to grab Twin Blood Stone Shards x2
• Drop down to the blood and corpses to grab Blood Vial x2
• Turn around and head forward to find Oil Urn x3
• To your left is a tunnel that leads past some large skull structures to a gravestone and branches. Here you can grab the Whirligig Saw
• Drop down here into the River of Blood and climb the ladder back up. Head forward and drop down into the wider River of Blood. Head all the way to the ruined gates and take a left up the rocky slope to grab Blood Vial x6
• Head forward under the rocky archway to grab Pebble x1
• Here you can summon Valtr, Beast Eater if you have the Impurity Rune equipped. Note that if you killed him in the Forbidden Woods he will not be available as an Old Hunter Summon. He will also be unavailable if you summon Old Hunter Henriett. However, both Valtr and Younger Madaras Twin can be summoned together
• Enter the Underground Corpse Pile. Defeat Ludwig, the Holy Blade to acquire the Guidance Rune (Tier 2)
• Light the Underground Corpse Pile Lamp
• Speak with Ludwig here after defeating him. If you are wearing Healing Church garb, he will give you the Holy Moonlight Sword freely. Otherwise you may kill him for the Sword
• Head up the stairs here and to the right is Blood Vial x3
• After you pick up Laurence's Skull here in a minute, return to the Nightmare Grand Cathedral where we picked up the Eye Pendant. Defeat Laurence, the First Vicar to acquire the Beast's Embrace Rune
• Light the Nightmare Grand Cathedral Lamp

Research Hall (The Old Hunters DLC)

• Go up the wide stairs and take a left into the doorway and go up the stairs. Turn right down the hallway and in the first room on your left will be Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Continue down the hallway and take a left through the open door down some stairs. At the end you will find Brador, Church Assassin. Speak with him
• Go back up the stairs and take a left to continue down the hallway. In a room to your right will be the Fist of Gratia
• Exit the room and take a right down the hallway. Climb the stairs at the end and take a left to reach the Recovery Room. Turn around and in an alcove with Rats will be Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Turn around and continue forward. On the bed to your left will be Great One's Wisdom x1
• Up ahead is the Black Church Doctor. Kill her for Quicksilver Bullets x10
• Kill the White Church Doctor for Madman's Knowledge x1
• Place the Eye Pendant on the altar to activate the elevator and ascend into the Research Hall
• Light the Research Hall Lamp
• Turn around and take the elevator back down. Step on and off the elevator to send it back up to reveal the hidden Surgery Altar. Inspect the Altar to pick up Laurence's Skull
• Pull the lever and immediately hop back on the elevator as it begins to descend. At the bottom you will find a chest containing the Church Cannon
• Take the elevator back up and disembark on the Recovery Room floor. Pull the lever to bring the elevator down again, then take it back up to the Research Hall
• Climb the stairs into the Research Hall proper. On this floor will be two Wandering Nightmares that both drop Blood Stone Chunk x2
• In the middle of the hall in the milky pool will be Blue Elixir x2
• Begin climbing the Grand Staircase. At the first landing take a left, and then at the top to your right will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Turn around and go down the walkway. To your right halfway down will be Elevator Room. At the back of this Room will be Beast Blood Pellet x6
• Immediately by the Pellets is a ladder you can descend. In this room you can grab the Decorative Old Hunter Set
• Exit the room into the Research Hall. Take a left to the very end of the walkway where you can grab Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Head back into the room where we grabbed the Decorative Old Hunter Set and take the ladder back up into the Elevator Room. Here to your left will be a lever you can pull to summon the lift. Take the lift down into a room with a door that opens onto the first floor of the Research Hall
• Here you will find Adeline, Research Hall Patient. Talk to her until she mentions needing Brain Fluid. We will come back to her later, so do not fret right now. After giving her the first Brain Fluid, she will now offer you Blood of Adeline. You may receive her Blood an unlimited number of times until the end of her quest provided you are not carrying Blood of Arianna or Blood of Adella. Reload the area three times and give Adeline a second Brain Fluid, and she will give you the Balcony Key. Afterwards, reload the area three more times, and you will find her transformed by the door inside her room. Kill her for the third and final Brain Fluid, and she will immediately revive. Give her the third Brain Fluid, and she will grant you the Milkweed Rune
• Go out in the Research Hall and ascend the Grand Staircase. At the first landing take a right instead of left like before. At the top turn left, and at the end of the walkway will be Blood Vial x2
• Near here will be a door leading to a dark and foggy room. In this room is a ladder you can climb up into another room with Blood Vial x5
• If you face the stairs then look left, you will see a ladder that descends into a short hallway and into a room full of enemies and Sedatives x3
• Go back up the ladder and climb the stairs, then one more flight. Turn and walk to the right and on a ledge to your left will be Antidote x2
• Continue down the walkway and at the end in a room on your right will be Quicksilver Bullets x3
• Turn right and go up the stairs. Turn right at the ledge to grab a Dirty Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Go back out in the main Research Hall and climb the Grand Staircase in front of you. At the first landing take the right staircase down. At the bottom take a right and continue forward towards the Wheelchair Huntsman who killed you as you ascended the Grand Staircase. Exact your revenge, then continue down the walkway to your right. Take another right and in a door to your left about halfway down will be a room with an Enlarged Head and Blue Elixir x1
• Go back outside and take a left to the end of the walkway where you can grab Blue Elixir x4
• Go all the way back to where we took the stairs down onto the walkway initially. In front of those stairs is a door to a small room with a lift that takes you down to the Elevator Room. As you go down there will be a doorway you can roll through. Exit into the Hall, then take a left and descend down the Grand Staircase. At the landing will be an Enlarged Head that drops Brain Fluid
• Here will be another Church Doctor that drops Sedatives x5
• Go back up the stairs into the corridor that we rolled through. Here you can drop down into the elevator and take it back up. At the top go back and ascend the Grand Staircase once more. Take the right stairs at the landing and at the end is a ladder you can climb. Take a left and on the rafters ahead of you will be Great One's Wisdom x1
• Go to the other side with the massive glass windows and to your right against the wall will be Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Go back onto the rafters and in the middle is the lever that controls the Grand Staircase. Activate the lever to raise the Grand Staircase
• At the top will be additional rafters. In the corner opposite the windows will be another Enlarged Head that drops Brain Fluid
• Turn around and go to the other side with glowing green candlelight and a ladder. Take the ladder down and at the landing descend back onto the Grand Staircase. Take the left stairs and at the bottom to your left will be a chest with a Finestrike Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Go back up the Staircase and take a left down the other stairs. Go left all the way around to reach the narrow corridor with the lift that goes down to the Elevator Room. Going down will be a hidden passage you can roll through. Walk through and take a left, and then descend the Grand Staircase to the landing. Take a left up the stairs then a left on the walkway. At the end on a railing will be Quicksilver Bullets x4
• Turn around and a bit to your left will be a door to a dark room with the Underground Cell Key
• Go back to the Grand Staircase and at the landing take a left down the last flight of stairs to grab the Loch Shield
• Drop down onto the first floor of the Research Hall with the milky pool. In the pool will be a Lethal Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Here in the pool as well will be Kin Coldblood (10)
• If you have not done so yet, give Adeline the Brain Fluid for the Milkweed Rune
• At the opposite corner of Adeline's room is the 1st Floor Balcony. Open this door with the Balcony Key and go outside. Drop down all the way to the pavement and on the other side on a ledge will be Kin Coldblood (10)
• Drop down into the Lumenflower Garden and on a sunken dais will be a chair with the Blacksky Eye
• Flee in fear towards the window mirroring the dais. Break through window and roll out onto the balcony of the Recovery Room. Take a left to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Go to the right side of the balcony. Mind the gap and open the chest on the other side that contains a Pulsing Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Carefully drop down through the gap onto the Recovery Room floor. Go down into the Underground Cells that we climbed at the beginning. Open the first door on your right to get to a room with the Yahar'gul Hunter. Kill him to receive the Church Pick
• Continue down the hallway and to your left will be a door that unlocks a room with Frenzied Coldblood (9)
• Go out in the hallway and at the end you can unlock the cell holding Yamamura the Wanderer. Kill him to enable him as an Old Hunter summon and to receive the Yamamura Hunter Set
• Go back to the Research Hall and take the elevator up in Adeline's room. Exit into the main Research Hall and take a right up the Grand Staircase. Take another right and at the top you can open the doors leading to the Lumenwood Garden. Here you may summon Old Hunter Yamamura the Wanderer if you have the Impurity Rune equipped
• Defeat the Living Failures to acquire the Astral Clocktower Key
• Light the Lumenwood Garden Lamp
• Open the door leading into the Astral Clocktower and approach the corpse
• Defeat Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower
• Light the Astral Clocktower Lamp
• Near the entrance will be the Celestial Dial
• Approach the clock and hold up the Celestial Dial to reveal the secret

Fishing Hamlet (The Old Hunters DLC)

• Step out into the Fishing Hamlet. Head forward along the path and to your right will be Lead Elixir x1
• Continue forward to grab Madman's Knowledge x1
• Ahead will be the Fishing Hamlet Priest. Talking to him while having equipped the Milkweed Rune and he will give you the Accursed Brew
• Up ahead you can light the Fishing Hamlet Lamp
• Take a right to head into the Hamlet. At the first turn to the right against the barnacled wall will be Blood Vial x3
• Continue forward towards the Hamlet Well. About halfway to the Well to your left will be some stairs leading into a house with a green lamp and a Tempering Damp Blood Gem (6)
• Go outside and by the Well will be Lead Elixir x2
• Head down the Well and kill the Giant Fishman to acquire the Rakuyo
• Climb back out of the Well and head into an alcove by several orange lamps to grab Kin Coldblood (10)
• Turn around and head forward to a boat between some bushes to grab Oil Urn x4
• To the left of the boat is a uphill path that leads to a rooftop. Where the path connects to the roof will be Great One's Wisdom x1
• Continue forward on the roof and take a right to find a ladder you can kick down to the Lamp
• Enter the broken wall of the house by the ladder. Walk through the house to find the Harrowed Set
• By here are some broken stairs with Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Drop down and go outside to the Well. To the right of the Well is a barnacled set of stairs that leads into a house where you can grab Oil Urn x2
• Go upstairs in this house and take a left around to the back above the stairs. Here you can grab an Odd Fire Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Exit the house and take a right to the Lighthouse Approach path marked by some trees. Continue up this path favoring the left and against a tree-root foundation will be Great One's Wisdom x1
• Turn around and go between the ramshackle huts to find a ledge overlooking the Hamlet Well where you can grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Turn around and go back onto the Lighthouse Approach path. At the end will be a hut you can enter to light the Lighthouse Hut Lamp
• Here you may find an injured Simon, Seeker of Secrets. Speak with him to acquire Simon's Bowblade and the Underground Cell Inner Chamber Key
• We will now deal with Brador, Church Assassin to spare us grief later in the Fishing Hamlet. Warp to the Underground Corpse Pile Lamp and go to the Underground Cells. Here you will be invaded by Brador, Church Assassin. Kill him to acquire Brador's Testimony. Afterwards, go all the way to the bottom of the stairs where we found the cell with Brador earlier. Open the cell and kill Brador to acquire the Bloodletter
• Warp to the Lighthouse Hut Lamp. Go through the broken wall here and take a right around the rocks to find a tree where you can grab Kin Coldblood (10)
• Return into the Lighthouse Hut and exit onto the path. Take a left and go onto the rooftops. Cross the wooden bridge and at the end will be the Bloodied Arm Bands
• To the right of the wooden ramp you drop down onto another rooftop. Take a right across the wooden bridge and stick right until you can cross another bridge into a hut. Drop down through the large hole in the floor here to find a Wandering Nightmare that drops Blood Stone Chunk x3
• Go around the central support beams to find Blood Stone Chunk x2
• Drop down into the water and take a right into the hut with the barnacled doorway. In here you can grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Take the right and bit forward and looking right will be another Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Walk out the entrance near here and take a right around the hut. In a corner you can find a Tempering Damp Blood Gem (6)
• Turn around and go back the way you came. Ahead of you will be some docks, underneath which you can grab the Beast Hide Garb
• Go upstairs here and turn around to grab Kin Coldblood (10)
• Go downstairs and out of the docks. Head right and stick right until you reach some stairs leading to Blood Vial x3
• Go down into the water and stay right to reach where we initially dropped down into the water. Near here is a ladder you can climb. At the top take a left to head back outside onto the rooftops. Continue across the wooden bridges and where we dropped onto the roof is a hut entrance that leads us to a ladder that climbs back up to the roof where we picked up the Arm Bands. Climb the wooden ramp and head into the cliff. Ahead on the wooden platform will be Oil Urn x4
• Go up and take a left across a narrow beam. Walk right and take a left around a wall to find an alcove with Blood Vial x6
• Go back to the walkway and looking left you will see a doorway with a green lamp. Open the shortcut door here to the Lighthouse Hut Lamp
• Head back into the cave and go to the wall with the green lamps across the wooden bridge. Descend the ladder here and take a left into the eel pool to grab an Odd Arcane Damp Blood Gem (6)
• Take a right up the wooden ramp into another eel pool. Walk along the walkway on the right to grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Turn around and against the wall on your right will be Twin Blood Stone Shards x3
• In the middle of this pool will be a Poorman's Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Turn around and go up the small wooden platform. At the top you can grab Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Drop back down into the pool and head towards the wide cave archway. To the right before entering will another small area with a walkway that has Blood Stone Chunk x1
• Go into the cave archway and heading forward towards the end will be the Bloodied Trousers
• Here will also be Lead Elixir x1
• Turn around and head forward, then take a right. Up ahead will be Kin Coldblood (11)
• Turn around and near a ledge will be Madman's Knowledge x1
• Here you can drop down into an area with an elevator pit. There will be a ladder descending into the pit where you can grab a Cursed Kinhunter's Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Climb the ladder and turn around to walk towards a lever you can pull to summon an elevator. Ascend the elevator and at the top will be Kin Coldblood (10)
• Open the shortcut door here as well
• Take the lift back down and turn right to the tunnel looked at by the ladder. At the end will be Lead Elixir x2
• Take a left to a ledge overlooking where we acquired Rakuyo to grab a Tempering Damp Blood Gem (5)
• Grab here also Kin Coldblood (11)
• Turn around and head down the tunnel, but take a left at the fork. This will lead to another room with the eel pool. At the back on a taller wooden platform will be an Odd Bolt Damp Blood Gem (5) and a Blood Rock
• Go all the way back to the elevator in the tunnels. Near here will be a tunnel with Great One's Wisdom x1
• Go through this tunnel with the praying Fishermen to reach the beach
• Defeat the Orphan of Kos to acquire the Kos Parasite
• Light the Coast Lamp
• Approach Kos and strike the ghost upon her body and end the Nightmare

Hunter's Dream (Finale)

• And now we have finally reached the end. Return to the Hunter's Dream and you will have three options on how to finish the game:
• Ending A: Consume no more than two of the Third Umbilical Cord. Talk to Gehrman and accept mercy
• Ending B: Consume no more than two of the Third Umbilical Cord. Talk to Gehrman and refuse mercy. Defeat him to receive the Old Hunter Badge
• Ending C: Consume three or more of the Third Umbilical Cord. Talk to Gehrman and refuse mercy. Defeat him to receive the Old Hunter Badge, then defeat the Moon Presence; the final boss
• Congratulate yourself on beating Bloodborne, and begin New Game+