Golden Seed

Type

Upgrade material

About this upgrade material

A golden seed, found at the base of an illusory tree.

Increases a Sacred Flask's number of uses.

(Can be used after resting at a site of grace.)

Starting keepsake

Limgrave

1. When creating a character, choose Golden Seed as your keepsake.
2. Once you can rest at a grace, open the Flasks menu and spend it on an extra charge.
3. This is optional. Existing characters can collect enough seeds in the world without restarting.

Stormgate road and Stormhill Shack

Limgrave

Starting Site of Grace: Gatefront

1. Follow the road through Stormgate, watching for the troll dropping into the pass.
2. Continue uphill to the small glowing golden tree beside the road and pick up its seed.
3. Later, once Roderika has left Stormhill Shack for Roundtable Hold, return to the shack and check her former place for another seed. Her quest dialogue can also provide her associated reward.

Fort Haight entrance

Limgrave

Starting Site of Grace: Fort Haight West

1. Follow the Mistwood road southeast to Fort Haight West.
2. Ride up the final slope toward the fort and look for the small golden tree outside its walls.
3. Collect its seed without needing to defeat the knight inside.

Hillside near the Castle Morne road

Weeping Peninsula

Starting Site of Grace: Castle Morne Rampart

1. Cross the Bridge of Sacrifice and follow the main road south to Castle Morne Rampart.
2. Continue toward Castle Morne and look uphill to the west for the glowing sapling on the grassy slope.
3. Ride up the slope and collect the seed. The archer guarding the castle can shoot along the road, so keep moving.

Courtyard before Godrick

Stormveil Castle

Starting Site of Grace: Secluded Cell

1. Reach the late Stormveil courtyard with the troll near Godrick's entrance.
2. Check the small open area near the room where Nepheli first appears.
3. Collect the seed beneath its golden tree. Defeating Godrick is not required.

Academy Gate Town sapling

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Academy Gate Town

1. Enter southern Liurnia's lake and follow the shallow-water route north toward the academy's flooded town.
2. Activate Academy Gate Town and search the open flooded ruins beside the small golden tree.
3. Collect the seed at its base. The Academy Glintstone Key is not needed for this outdoor pickup.

Broken bridge north of the academy gate

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Main Academy Gate

1. Obtain the Academy Glintstone Key and use the sealed academy entrance.
2. At Main Academy Gate, walk north past the blue seal without activating it. Follow the broken bridge to its far end.
3. Collect the seed beneath the small golden tree. Using the blue seal instead takes you to Bellum Highway and misses this bridge pickup.

Academy courtyard beyond the Red Wolf

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Debate Parlor

Before you go

• Defeat the Red Wolf of Radagon.

1. At Temple Quarter in western Liurnia, ride north to the rocky island where Glintstone Dragon Smarag is resting. Take the Academy Glintstone Key from the corpse behind the dragon; fighting Smarag is optional.
2. Examine the seal at South Raya Lucaria Gate with the key in your inventory. At Main Academy Gate, ride the lift up and climb the stairs past the two sorcerers into the church. Activate Church of the Cuckoo grace in its side passage.
3. Leave through the side passage into the graveyard. Follow the descending path across the wooden bridge, then climb the path on the right. Watch for enemies grabbing at you from the ground.
4. At the far end, go through the passage to the huge waterwheel. Ride an ascending platform and step off at the upper landing. Enter the building on the left for Schoolhouse Classroom grace; riding down goes to a different area.
5. Leave the classroom and follow the corridor through the sorcerers to the large room with a Living Jar. Use the corridor on its right, climb the stairs and continue upstairs to the boss fog.
6. Defeat Red Wolf of Radagon and activate Debate Parlor grace. Leave into the open courtyard, keeping the large curved staircase on your right in view.
7. Leave Debate Parlor into the courtyard and head west to the grassy side of the ruins.
8. Collect the seed beneath the golden tree. Watch for the nearby enemies instead of approaching through the center of the courtyard.

Caria Manor upper garden

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Manor Upper Level

1. Reach the western Liurnia road and follow it north through Kingsrealm Ruins. Strike the illusory wall blocking the road at the northern end, then continue past Iji at Road to the Manor.
2. Ride toward the large manor while avoiding the magical strikes falling along the approach. Activate Main Caria Manor Gate grace at the entrance.
3. Inside, follow the courtyard path northwest toward the building in the far corner. Fingercreepers hide among the plants and beneath the ground; do not stop on a buried hand.
4. Enter the building with the seated spirit and climb its stairs to Manor Lower Level grace.
5. Take the elevated walkways east and continue straight along the main route at the first junction. Spectral soldiers appear along the bridges. Reach the far building and take its lift up to Manor Upper Level.
6. Leave the upper grace, pass the wolves in the garden and climb the main stone stairway toward the Troll Knight and sorcerers.
7. Leave the grace room into the garden, where wolves patrol among the trees.
8. Collect the seed beneath the small golden tree before continuing toward Loretta. Loretta is not required.

Northern ravine sapling

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Ravine-Veiled Village

1. Follow northern Liurnia's lake into the ravine leading to the Ruin-Strewn Precipice.
2. Before climbing the village's ladders, search the water and grassy bank southwest of Ravine-Veiled Village.
3. Collect the seed beneath the golden tree. You do not need to defeat Magma Wyrm Makar.

Road toward Redmane Castle

Caelid

Starting Site of Grace: Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank

1. Follow the southern Caelid highway east from Southern Aeonia Swamp Bank.
2. Continue toward the junction and the Redmane Castle approach, watching for the large dogs near the road.
3. Collect the seed beneath the roadside golden sapling. The festival and Radahn are not required.

Sellia upper town

Caelid

Starting Site of Grace: Sellia Under-Stair

1. Enter Sellia from the south and climb the central steps into town.
2. Use the roots and rooftops to reach the golden sapling on the upper northern part of town.
3. Collect the seed at its base. Watch for sorcerers attacking from the streets.

Bestial Sanctum road

Greyoll's Dragonbarrow

Starting Site of Grace: Bestial Sanctum

1. Use the sending gate north of the Third Church of Marika to arrive at Bestial Sanctum.
2. Ride south down the road, passing the Black Blade Kindred without fighting if needed.
3. Collect the seed beneath the golden sapling on the route toward Farum Greatbridge.

Western entry and highway saplings

Altus Plateau

Starting Site of Grace: Erdtree-Gazing Hill

1. Reach Altus Plateau and activate Erdtree-Gazing Hill. Collect the seed from the nearby golden sapling.
2. Follow the main highway east to Altus Highway Junction.
3. At the junction, check the golden sapling north of the grace for another seed.

Outer Wall Phantom Tree and northern stairway

Capital Outskirts

Starting Site of Grace: Outer Wall Phantom Tree

1. Enter the capital's outer walls and activate Outer Wall Phantom Tree.
2. Collect both seeds beneath the large golden sapling beside the grace and map stele.
3. Continue up the broad northern stairway to the next golden tree and collect its seeds as well. Watch for the gargoyle on the stairs.

Windmill Village and woodland saplings

Altus Plateau

Starting Site of Grace: Windmill Village

1. Follow the northern Altus road to the entrance of Dominula, Windmill Village.
2. Collect the seed beneath the golden sapling near the village entrance; the Godskin Apostle at the top is not required.
3. In the woodland southwest of the village, search northwest of the plateau's Minor Erdtree for another golden sapling. Avoid the Wormfaces' Death Blight clouds.

Seethewater River and Volcano Manor approach

Mt. Gelmir

Starting Site of Grace: Seethewater River

1. From Erdtree-Gazing Hill, climb to Wyndham Ruins and take the western ravine into Seethewater River.
2. Follow the channel north and gather the seed beneath the golden sapling along this route. Watch for erupting steam vents.
3. For another, climb Mt. Gelmir to Ninth Mt. Gelmir Campsite and use the ladder or spiritspring to pass the Fallingstar Beast's summit. Follow the path down toward Volcano Manor and collect the seed at the golden tree.

Golden sapling before the lift approach

Forbidden Lands

Starting Site of Grace: Forbidden Lands

1. After Morgott, take Leyndell's eastern exit and descend into Forbidden Lands.
2. Follow the narrow route east through the mist toward the Grand Lift of Rold.
3. Collect the seed beneath the golden sapling before the Black Blade Kindred's encounter area. The boss does not need to be defeated.

Frozen-river and southern mountain saplings

Mountaintops of the Giants

Starting Site of Grace: Ancient Snow Valley Ruins

1. Follow the frozen valley from Ancient Snow Valley Ruins toward Freezing Lake.
2. Collect the seed beneath the sapling along the river route.
3. Later, cross the large chain bridge into the southern Fire Giant region and check the golden sapling south of Giants' Gravepost for another seed.

Saplings in the snowfield

Consecrated Snowfield

Starting Site of Grace: Consecrated Snowfield

1. Use both halves of the secret medallion at the Grand Lift of Rold and pass through the Hidden Path to the Haligtree.
2. From the first snowfield grace, search northeast for the golden sapling through the snowstorm.
3. Farther north, check the open snowfield southwest of Ordina for another golden sapling. You can collect these without solving Ordina's evergaol.

Northern cliff path

Siofra River

Starting Site of Grace: Worshippers' Woods

1. Use the Siofra River Well in Mistwood and continue through the lower passages into the open underground basin.
2. Head northwest from Worshippers' Woods toward the cliff edge.
3. Follow the narrow side path to the golden sapling and collect the seed. The Ancestor Spirit fight is not required.

Nokstella's western exit

Ainsel River

Starting Site of Grace: Nokstella, Eternal City

1. Reach Nokstella through upper Ainsel River, normally using Renna's Rise after giving Ranni the Fingerslayer Blade.
2. Climb through the city's stairs and buildings to its western upper end.
3. Take the route down toward the river beyond the upper city and collect the seed beneath the golden sapling on that exit path.

Blood-lake sapling

Mohgwyn Palace

Starting Site of Grace: Palace Approach Ledge-Road

1. Reach Mohgwyn Palace through Varre's medal or the waygate in Consecrated Snowfield.
2. From Palace Approach Ledge-Road, descend toward the blood lake and follow the eastern side of the palace region.
3. Find the golden sapling in the lake area and collect its seed. Watch for blood Albinaurics and the giant skeleton attacks.

Fringefolk Hero's Grave boss

Limgrave

Starting Site of Grace: Stranded Graveyard

Before you go

• Two Stonesword Keys.

1. Return to Stranded Graveyard, the starting cave below The First Step. Spend two Stonesword Keys at the imp seal beside the grace.
2. Descend and cross the poison pool. Wait at the first chariot slope until you can move behind the machine.
3. Follow the slope downward in short sections, hiding in the wall alcoves as the chariot returns. Clear the soldiers in an alcove before using it as shelter.
4. Continue around the bend and across the narrow bridge section. At the later split, take the descending route; the upward dead end leads toward Dragon Communion Seal.
5. Follow the lower slope to the large boss doors and enter when you have enough healing left.
6. Defeat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit for a Golden Seed and Oleg. The optional hidden rooms and chariot-destruction puzzle are not required.

War-Dead Catacombs boss arena

Caelid

Starting Site of Grace: War-Dead Catacombs

Before you go

• Defeat Starscourge Radahn.

1. Defeat Radahn and ride to the northern edge of his beach arena. Find War-Dead Catacombs in the cliff wall and go down to the ghost battlefield inside.
2. Take the back-right stairs and follow the upper corridors past the archers and soldiers. Near the final dead end, jump through the window on the right.
3. Climb the next stairs past the imps and jump through the window on the left toward the knight archer. Defeat it and pull the lever beside the statue.
4. Drop back into the main hall and take the western passage to the opened boss doors. The rot-filled side room near the windows contains the separate Radahn Soldier Ashes.
5. Defeat the Putrid Tree Spirit for a Golden Seed and Ogha. Bring rot cures and leave room for its explosive attacks.

Dragon Temple upper detour and rooftop dragon area

Crumbling Farum Azula

Starting Site of Grace: Dragon Temple

Before you go

• Reach Crumbling Farum Azula.
• Two Stonesword Keys for the Dragon Temple Lift detour.

1. From Dragon Temple, take the northern route through the broken ruins and climb toward the imp-sealed upper lift. Spend two Stonesword Keys, ride to Dragon Temple Lift and follow the path past the fountain to the golden sapling. Collect its seed.
2. After the Godskin Duo, continue to Dragon Temple Rooftop. Descend through the Warhawks and pass the dragon calling red lightning.
3. Collect the seed beneath the golden sapling in the area beyond the dragon. The stone in the nearby gazebo is a different upgrade pickup.

Root chamber below the castle

Stormveil Castle

Starting Site of Grace: Liftside Chamber

1. From Liftside Chamber, use the opened side door toward the lower courtyard. Follow the outside ledges downward past the rats into the root-filled chamber beneath the castle.
2. Defeat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit in this chamber for a Golden Seed. The Prince of Death’s Pustule corpse farther into the chamber is a different pickup.

Giants’ Mountaintop Catacombs boss

Mountaintops of the Giants

Starting Site of Grace: Giants' Mountaintop Catacombs

1. Reach the Mountaintops through the Grand Lift of Rold. Follow the main path east from Zamor Ruins until it approaches the narrow stone bridge. Before crossing, turn back onto the lower path southeast of the road and follow it to Giants' Mountaintop Catacombs.
2. Activate the grace, descend the stairs past the imps and take the first lift down. The boss doors are near its lower landing. Leave the hidden platform beneath this first lift for the optional Fire Monk Ashes route; it is not the way to the boss-door lever.
3. With the boss doors still shut, take the stairs down to the left and continue past the three imps to the second lift. Ride down into the Living Jar rooms.
4. Follow the lower passage past the small jars and the large jar dropping from the balcony. Climb the stairs on the west side. Avoid the pressure plate in the corridor, then take the left stairs toward the guillotines.
5. Time your movements between the falling blades and keep away from the exploding jars. Climb the next stairs and follow the corridor past the poison-spewing creatures to the large jar at the apparent dead end.
6. Return to the previous room and find the western doorway with a hole beside the corpse carrying Stimulating Boluses. Drop through the opening and down to the similar-looking lower room, then head north to its lift.
7. At this lift's lower landing, trigger the platform and step off to send it up empty. Drop into the space beneath it. A large jar guards the new landing; leave through the southern passage and turn right onto the balcony.
8. Follow the balcony around to the lever and pull it. Drop to the floor below and follow the northern passage back to the lift. Ride up and return to the now-open boss doors.
9. Defeat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit for a Golden Seed and the second Glovewort Picker’s Bell Bearing. Each is a one-time boss reward.

Ulcerated Tree Spirit above Drainage Channel

Elphael, Brace of the Haligtree

Starting Site of Grace: Drainage Channel

1. From Drainage Channel, go back uphill through the channel and climb the ladder toward the area you crossed to reach this grace.
2. At the flower-covered slope, find the branch extending to the separate scarlet-rot pool beside a Kindred of Rot.
3. Cross the branch to the pool. An Ulcerated Tree Spirit appears here; defeat it or create a safe pickup opening before collecting the flower.
4. Defeat the Ulcerated Tree Spirit in the rot pool for its Golden Seed. The Great Grave Glovewort in the pool is a separate pickup.

Notes

• Rest at a Site of Grace and choose Flasks, then Add charge to flask. Carrying a seed without using the menu does not increase your flask count.
• The cap is 14 total charges shared between Crimson and Cerulean. Allocate flask charges changes that split rather than giving 14 of each.
• Starting from four total charges, the ten upgrades cost 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5 and 5 seeds, for 30 in all.
• Sacred Tears improve the amount each drink restores. Golden Seeds increase the number of drinks and do not improve the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
• There are more seeds than needed for the cap. You can skip a difficult fight or an NPC-killing option and still finish the flask upgrades.
• Kenneth Haight drops one if killed, but that ends his quest. There is no need to sacrifice him to reach 14 charges.
• Some Ulcerated and Putrid Tree Spirits provide one-time seeds. Resting does not make those reward enemies an unlimited seed farm, and later Journeys do not raise the 14-charge cap.
• The locations offer more than the 30 seeds needed. Once the total reaches 14 flask charges, additional seeds cannot buy more charges or be spent on the Flask of Wondrous Physick.
• The upgrade remains after death and into later journeys. You do not need to rebuild the flask from four charges each time.
• Roderika’s associated seed is one reward path, not a promise of a fresh extra seed from every dialogue and later visit to the empty shack.
• Cannot be left for another player. The keepsake is a convenient early upgrade, rather than a unique requirement for reaching the maximum.