What's new

The new design is now on for everyone

October 2026

Starting with version 1.3, the Elden Ring map and the Dark Souls trackers open in the new design. Map controls have moved to the top bar: game, campaign, map layer, search, layers and the legend. Your account, notifications and co-op are in the top right corner. On phones, tabs now sit at the bottom: Map, Layers, Progress, Tools and Menu.

Map icons now default to the Game style set. If you already picked a set, it stays as it was.

Prefer the old look? Sign in, open your profile and choose Classic under Design. The choice is saved to your account and applies on all your devices.

Elden Ring movie is A24's most expensive film ever

October 2026

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According to The Wall Street Journal, the Elden Ring adaptation costs nearly $200 million before marketing. That's about three times the studio's previous record, Marty Supreme ($70M). In spring the figure was just over $100M.

Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina) writes and directs, and George R. R. Martin is among the producers. The cast includes Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Nick Offerman and Jonathan Pryce.

Filming wrapped on July 30 across London, North Wales castles, Scotland and Iceland. Set photos from Greenwich showed a "Leyndell Streets" sign and a prop box marked "Stormveil", and at Conwy Castle passers-by filmed soldiers on the walls.

In theaters and IMAX on March 3, 2028. No official stills or trailer yet.

Early access: Dark Souls Remastered and Dark Souls II trackers for Pro

October 2026

Starting today, two new trackers in the series are open to everyone with Pro: Dark Souls: Remastered and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. Detailed location maps, bonfires, bosses, items and loot, and progress read straight from your save file. The free Pro hour opens them too.

This is early access: the trackers already work, but they have not yet been checked at every stage of the game. Help us finish them: if a tracker shows something wrong (a bonfire not marked, a boss not counted, an item in the wrong place), write to us through «Report an issue» and say where you are in the game. Every report like this helps us get to a complete tracker sooner.

Elden Ring Academy: how to beat Malenia

October 2026

Malenia sent you back to a Site of Grace again? We made a 9-minute breakdown of the fight, an episode of our Elden Ring Academy video series.

Inside: the route to her arena on the map (both medallion halves, the four Ordina flames and the landmarks down the Haligtree), why Malenia lasts so long and why every hit on you, your spirit or your shield heals her, two ready level-120 build foundations, plus the Waterfowl Dance, Scarlet Aeonia and the phantom attack in slow motion.

Both builds in full are on a memo in the video, and the pinned comment has map links: each one opens the exact spot of an item. The build lab, which fits gear to your own save, is part of Pro.

Over 1,200 of us now

October 2026

Thank you to everyone who uses the trackers! More than 1,200 people have signed up on the site, more than 250 have subscribed to our YouTube channel, and the Short about the map that reads your save has been watched over 400,000 times.

For a small project, that is a lot. The site grows from your messages: both the scarabs on the map and the fixes for those who finished the game came from players writing in. Keep writing - through the bell on the site, on Telegram or in the YouTube comments.

If the tracker helped you, tell a friend or like the video: that is how new players find it.

Scarabs on the map

October 2026

Scarabs are the beetles that turn invisible and scurry off when they spot you, and drop an Ash of War, a spell or a smithing stone, once, when they die. They were missing from the map: the game hands out that loot neither from a chest nor from an ordinary enemy, but through a script at the moment the beetle dies. Now all 110 scarabs are on the map: 87 in the Lands Between, 12 underground and 11 in the Realm of Shadow.

The Layers panel has a new “Scarabs” switch: the beetle icon shows at any zoom, and the button says how many there are on this map. With a save loaded, the ones you have killed are ticked off on their own, and “Missing only” hides them. An item card now says “Dropped by a scarab”: search for an Ash of War and the map shows which beetle carries it.

Along the way, everything the game drops when a particular enemy dies made it onto the map too: 208 more spots with weapons, armour, talismans and crystal tears. 79 of the 116 Ashes of War now have a place on the map, and all 40 crystal tears do.

Manual ticks for PlayStation and Xbox

September 2026

A save from a PS5, PS4 or Xbox cannot be loaded into the site, so the map had no idea what you had already found. Now you can tick it off by hand. Sign in with a free account: with no save open, marker and item cards get a “Tick it off by hand” button - for bosses, Sites of Grace, locations, Scadutree Fragments, Revered Spirit Ashes and all the loot on the map. The boss and grace lists and the dungeon window have a checkbox right in each row.

Ticks work like progress from a save: “Missing only” hides what you have ticked, and the counters and the progress summary count it. The ticks are kept in your account, so every device you sign in on shows the same - your phone and your computer alike. Starting a new cycle? “Clear my ticks” sits under the save upload.

Playing on PC? Nothing changes: an open save always wins, and your hand ticks stay hidden while it is open.

Player profile and inviting friends

September 2026

Click your name at the bottom of the side panel to open your profile. Everything about your account now sits in one window: your plan and the days of Pro in reserve, your linked Steam account, the characters in your open Elden Ring save with their level and playthrough (first, NG+1, NG+2...), badges, time on the site and how you sign in, plus co-op and the build rating if you take part in them. The save is still read in your browser and never leaves it.

Your invite link is there too. When a friend signs up through it, opens their own save and confirms that it is their Steam account, you both get 3 days of Pro (you can get them up to 5 times in 30 days). The days wait in reserve: switch them on one at a time when you sit down to play, within 14 days. And when three friends you invited buy Pro, your Pro becomes lifetime. A purchase counts 14 days after payment.

A day of Pro for subscribing on YouTube

September 2026

Watching our videos on YouTube? Subscribe to the KrutLab channel and get a day of Pro plus the Herald badge. Confirming is simple: send a screenshot of the channel page with the "Subscribed" button. We check it by hand, the answer arrives in Notifications, and the day of Pro goes into reserve: switch it on yourself when you sit down to play, within 14 days. This reward is separate from the Telegram one: subscribe to both channels and that is two days of Pro. The button waits on the pricing page and wherever Pro is behind a lock. The reward comes once per person.

Progression order on the map

September 2026

A new map layer: 28 steps by region in the usual order of play, each with a level guide. 16 steps in the Lands Between (7, 11 and 14 are underground) and 12 in the Realm of Shadow. Main steps are joined by a dashed line; side branches are marked optional.

Zoom in and the bosses get numbers like 4.1 and 4.2: these are the 40 main bosses, the great and legendary ones. Clicking a step number zooms in to them for you, and with a save loaded, whatever you have done turns gold.

Switch it on in the Layers panel; it is open to everyone. The order is a suggestion, not a rule: you can go anywhere.

Route finding, in test mode

September 2026

The Elden Ring map can now plot a route. A marker's popup has a «Route here» button: the map shows how to walk there from the nearest discovered Site of Grace - nearest by the road, not in a straight line. With a save loaded, only the graces you have discovered count, plus the spot where your character stands. While in test mode, route finding is free for everyone; later it will become part of Pro.

The route only goes where you can actually walk, so it goes around cliffs and chasms instead of cutting through them, and it keeps track of height: a marker on a bridge gets a road onto the bridge, not to the bottom of the gorge under it. Lifts, secret passages and spiritsprings are included. A stretch covered by a lift or a story transition is drawn dashed, and the route label says what it goes through and what it takes - both halves of the Dectus Medallion, for example.

This is a test mode. A route is found to nine markers out of ten in the Lands Between and the Realm of Shadow. Where the data falls short - inside some towers and castles, in arenas behind certain fog gates - the map says plainly that you cannot walk there instead of drawing a made-up line. The underground of the Realm of Shadow has no routes yet. If a route leads the wrong way, send it through «Report an issue»: every such case helps fix the graph.

Dark Souls 3 tracker: an early build

September 2026

Introducing a new tracker for Dark Souls 3: darksouls.krut.top. This is an early build, alpha 0.5.1: the essentials work, but rough edges in the maps and markers are likely, and anything you notice is worth sending through "Feedback".

The save is read in your browser and never leaves it, and the map shows what you have already found: 1002 places across sixteen locations, Ashes of Ariandel and The Ringed City included. That is 78 bonfires, 26 bosses and 898 items, 45 of which drop from enemies.

Dark Souls III has no map of its own, so this one is drawn from the level geometry: the ground you can walk, the storeys stacked above each other, doors, levers, ladders and lifts, and every way out labelled with where it leads. The "where am I" button marks the spot your character is standing on and which way they are facing. The route to a chosen item is measured from there: not a straight line through walls, but the way you can actually walk.

A day of Pro for subscribing

September 2026

Subscribe to our Telegram news channel and confirm it in the bot: it hands you the Herald badge and a day of Pro that you switch on yourself whenever you like, within 14 days. No signing into Telegram on this site and no phone number - you press Start inside Telegram, and the bot checks the subscription itself. The button waits on the pricing page and wherever Pro is behind a lock. The reward comes once per person.

Map on your phone

September 2026

Play in full screen and keep the tracker at hand: no windowed mode, no alt-tabbing, no second monitor. Press «Show on phone» on the map, point your phone or tablet camera at the QR code - and the same map opens there, with the same marks. No sign-in on the phone, nothing to install. Keep playing: every time the map gets a fresh save, the phone redraws the marks on its own - with the extension that happens without you touching anything. Only the marks and your position travel to the phone: not the save file, not your Steam ID. The link lives one hour and closes by itself, or you end it sooner from the computer. Part of Pro.

Erdtree Keeper 1.5: not just Elden Ring

September 2026

The app now keeps saves for eight FromSoftware games: Elden Ring, Nightreign, Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls II, Dark Souls III, Sekiro and Armored Core VI. The «+ game» button adds any Steam game: installed games with cloud saves it finds by itself, for the rest you can point at the folder by hand. Every game has its own snapshot folder and its own file, so copies never mix. For Elden Ring the file is checked as before - all 11 checksums.

Updating is now a button: «Updates» in the header asks GitHub about a new version, shows what is in it, downloads the archive and replaces the app files after matching the published checksum. Snapshots and settings are left alone. Going online can be forbidden entirely - then the app works as it always did, without a single request.

Download: https://github.com/valiDol42/erdtree-keeper/releases/latest Steam guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3786858671

Conversations in notifications

September 2026

You can now write to the site admin straight from «Notifications» - the button under the bell. The reply lands in the same conversation, so the question sits next to the answer, like in a messenger. Messages sent through «Report a problem» land here too if you are signed in.

Build lab: full version, free until 24 September

September 2026

The full build lab reads your save and shows the character behind it: progress, collection, remembrances, inventory. Attack rating exactly as the game shows it, every armament ranked against the boss you pick, a set assembled for that target, a sandbox with the whole arithmetic, and a comparison of builds with the price of the move - runes for the respec, stones for the upgrade. Item names and descriptions are in all fifteen languages of the game. Until 24 September inclusive it is open to everyone signed in; after that it joins Pro.

Seamless Co-op saves

September 2026

A Seamless Co-op save opens like any other: pick ER0000.co2 where you used to pick ER0000.sl2 - in the upload box on the site and in the browser extension 1.4.0 and newer. The shared playthrough is read in full: markers, quests, what is left to find and your character's build.

One hour of Pro, free

September 2026

Everyone without Pro gets one hour of every tool for free: the build lab, the tools panel, the extension, save watching and co-op. Start it with a button whenever it suits you, and it runs for 60 minutes straight. Once per Steam account: open your own save and confirm the account is yours.

Co-op (beta): test week from 17 to 23 September

September 2026

The map has a new Co-op mode: post a call for help with a boss or an area, see who is playing right now and talk in chat. From 17 to 23 September it runs in test mode - fully open to everyone signed in, free and with no time limit. After that co-op becomes part of Pro, and Steam players keep one free hour. Co-op is in beta: bugs are possible, and fixes will roll out as we go - please report any problems you find.

The tools are paid from 17 September

September 2026

The map stays free forever - every pin on it, the boss and grace lists, reading your save, the progress counters. Paid from 17 September are the tools built on top: the build lab, the tools panel (quests, still-to-find), working with the browser extension and save watching. The build rating table is free forever - your build goes into it on its own. The extension itself stays free. One purchase, no subscription: 790 RUB, or $14.99 outside Russia. Nothing you already have will be taken away without notice.

«Erdtree Keeper» is a free Windows app for Elden Ring saves: it makes snapshots, names each one after where you are in the game and puts any of them back. Handy when a save gets tampered with in online play. Open source, never goes online, no administrator rights.

Download: https://github.com/valiDol42/erdtree-keeper/releases/latest Steam guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3786858671

Map 2.0

September 2026

The tracker has been rebuilt around the map: layers switch on one at a time, «missing only» hides everything you have already collected, search finds an item by name, and the Realm of Shadow is a map of its own with its own progress. The map remembers where you left it, and «follow» keeps it centred on your character.

The save arrives on its own

September 2026

The browser extension hands the fresh save to the open map after every save in the game - you pick the file once. Without one the page cannot re-read the file at all: browsers keep the save folder off limits, and that is the browser's rule, not ours.

Build lab, rating, quests

September 2026

The build lab takes your character straight out of the save and works out damage, equip load and defences, and ranks your weapons against a boss you pick. The rating shows where your build lands against the legendary bosses. The right-hand panel lays out NPC questlines step by step - with a warning before the step that closes one for good - and keeps a list of what you still have left to find.

Map: more bosses and DLC bounds

June 2026

Several more bosses across the Altus Plateau, Caelid and Liurnia are now tracked from your save. The DLC map bounds are fixed and tiles load faster.

Refreshed look

June 2026

The tracker, map and mini-games now share one look: clean dark canvases, an Elden Ring gold accent, light headings and pill buttons. Only the appearance changed - everything works as before.

Account sync, sudoku, reversi

Sign in with Google, Discord, GitHub, or email to sync manually-marked progress across devices. Mini-games (Rune Sudoku, Reversi) live under the Mini-games menu.