Do this first
Lost Supplies
- Giver
- Tobias
- Location
- Catacombs 2F
- Objective
- Find 3 Lost Supplies
- Reward
- Small Hammer ×1
Secret AreaOptional
Welcome to Elderfield Catacombs Guide
What to do first, which quests matter, and how to open deeper routes
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After unlocking the Catacombs through By the Gods, focus on getting Small Hammers before trying to clear every sealed room. Start with Lost Supplies and Skeletal Survey on Catacombs 2F, then use their Hammer rewards to open sealed routes, investigate mysteries, and reach deeper Catacombs content. Feed the Mold later gives you a Large Hammer for hardened bone barriers.
Catacombs — Quick Answer
- How to enter
- Complete By the Gods
- Entrance
- Hidden stairs in the Laundry Room
- First priority
- Get Small Hammers
- Best early quests
- Lost Supplies + Skeletal Survey
- Main barrier tool
- Small Hammer
- Next barrier tool
- Large Hammer
- Other tools
- Wire Cutters, Cleansing Balm
- Main secret objective
- Explore sealed rooms & mysteries
- Deeper route
- Catacombs Mines
- Optional area?
- Yes
Haven’t unlocked the Catacombs yet?
By the Gods is the legitimate secret route in. This page starts once you are already inside.
Complete By the Gods →Catacombs Progression Route
The order that actually matters: tools first, then sealed rooms, then deeper floors.
Complete By the Gods
- Laundry Room hidden stairs
Catacombs 1F
Catacombs 2F
- Lost Supplies
- Skeletal Survey
- Secrets of the Catacombs
Small Hammers
- Early quest rewards
Sealed Rooms
- Stone doors
- Mysteries
Catacombs 3F
- Feed the Mold → Large Hammer
- Hidden Shrines
- Skeletal Depths
Catacombs Mines
Deeper Mine
Later / Optional
- Farming Supplies
- Forbidden Snack
- The Strange Orb
Extreme
- False Idols
What Should I Do First in the Catacombs?
Your first goal is not to open every door you see. Reach Catacombs 2F and look for the early quests that reward Small Hammers.
Do this first
Skeletal Survey
- Giver
- Jess
- Location
- Catacombs 2F
- Objective
- Find Jess’s lost survey documents
- Reward
- Small Hammer ×1
Why these two first?
Small Hammers are consumed when you use them to break sealed stone doors. Getting the early quest rewards first gives you reliable tools before you start spending Hammers on optional rooms.
Catacombs Doors & Required Tools
The Catacombs do not gate you with levels. They gate you with tools, and most of those tools are used up when you open the way.
20 known stone doors
Small Hammer
Old Stone Doors
Small Hammer is the most important early Catacombs exploration tool. Each stone door consumes one Hammer when opened.
Where to Get Small Hammer →6 known barriers
Large Hammer
Hardened Bone Barriers
Hardened bone piles require a Large Hammer. Feed the Mold is the natural progression target once you have started exploring 2F, and the Skeleton Merchant is another source.
Where to Get Large Hammer →5 known barriers
Wire Cutters
Metal Bars
Thin metal-bar barriers require Wire Cutters, and the cutters break on use.
Find Wire Cutters →1 known barrier
Cleansing Balm
Ghost Tentacles
One confirmed sealed-room route is blocked by Ghost Tentacles and consumes Cleansing Balm when cleared.
Find Cleansing Balm →You do not need to open every barrier immediately
Treat Hammers and Wire Cutters as exploration resources. Prioritize doors tied to quests, mysteries or deeper progression before spending tools on optional rooms.
Where should I spend my first Small Hammers?
Prioritize quest and mystery routes before optional sealed rooms. If you are following Secrets of the Catacombs or Hidden Shrines, spend Hammers on the rooms needed for those objectives first.
Where do Small Hammers come from?
Good early sources: Lost Supplies, Skeletal Survey, Secrets of the Catacombs and the Skeleton Merchant. Catacombs battles and a few pickups also supply them, so an empty inventory is not a dead end.
Barrier finder
What is blocking this door?
Small Hammer — Each stone door uses one Hammer.
Secrets of the Catacombs & Mystery Progression
This quest pays you back in exploration tools: it hands out more Small Hammers, then Recall Potions once you push further.
Secrets of the Catacombs
- Giver
- Bill · Catacombs 2F
- First milestone
- Investigate 3 mysteries → Small Hammer ×2
- Quest completion
- Investigate 6 mysteries → Recall Potion ×5
Hiding Skeleton
Hiding Skeleton can appear in one of multiple locations on Catacombs 3F. If the first location you check is empty, that does not mean the mystery is missing.
Mystery checklist
The confirmed mystery types used by the quest. Tick them off as you find them — the quest tracks 3 and 6 for its rewards.
- First reward
- 0 / 3 mysteries
- Quest completion
- 0 / 6 mysteries
- Checked here
- 0 / 7
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Catacombs Quests — Recommended Order
Not every Catacombs quest is worth the same effort. This is the order that matches what each one actually gives you.
Do first
Small Hammer supply. These three make everything else cheaper to explore.
Lost Supplies
- Giver
- Tobias · Catacombs 2F
- Reward
- Small Hammer ×1
Find 3 Lost Supplies and return them to Tobias.
Skeletal Survey
- Giver
- Jess · Catacombs 2F
- Reward
- Small Hammer ×1
Find Jess’s lost survey documents.
Continue
Once you have Hammers, these open more routes and push you deeper.
Feed the Mold
- Giver
- Carlos · Catacombs 2F
- Objective
- Bring Carlos 10 Living Bones
- Reward
- Large Hammer
Opens hardened-bone progression. The Skeleton Merchant also stocks Large Hammers, so this is not your only route.
Hidden Shrines
- Where
- Catacombs 3F · sealed rooms
- Objective
- Find both Catacombs God Shrines
- Reward
- Steel-Knuckled Glove
One of the two shrines sits inside the sealed-room route, so this quest is where your Hammers start paying off.
Hidden Shrines Guide →Found both but quest didn’t update? Talk to Jenna again →
Skeletal Depths
- Where
- Catacombs Mines
- Objective
- Get a Small Mine Key, open the rusted door, win the battle
- Opens
- Catacombs Mines 2
This is the normal deeper-mine route rather than a chest grind.
Optional / caution
Startable, but do not treat these as normal completion targets yet.
OptionalExtreme Grind
False Idols
Possible rather than blocked, but its Bone Ingot and Verdite Bar requirements make it an unusually heavy grind.
Later progression required
Farming Supplies
The required Common Mushroom and Green Mushroom sources sit outside the normal current route.
StartableNot normal current completion
Forbidden Snack
Its Shyfish requirement connects to Catacombs fishing, which needs later progression.
Later progression required
The Strange Orb
The objective continues into the Old Woods at night, outside normal current secret-area progression.
Small Mine Key vs Catacombs Mine Key
Two different keys, two different gates. Mixing them up is the most common reason a Catacombs door seems bugged.
| Key | What it opens | Where it sits in progression |
|---|---|---|
| Small Mine Key | The rusted door on the Skeletal Depths / deeper mine route. | Normal current secret-area progression. |
| Catacombs Mine Key | A separate Catacombs Mines gate tied to later progression. | One confirmed barrier uses it; it is not part of the Skeletal Depths route. |
These are not the same item.
Skeleton Merchant
The Skeleton Merchant on Catacombs 2F is an important supply source while exploring the area. If you run low on exploration tools, check here before assuming you are stuck.
Tools the merchant is confirmed to stock:
- Small Hammer
- Large Hammer
- Wire Cutters
Quests You Shouldn’t Grind Yet
You can start these from the Catacombs, but the thing they ask for lives outside the normal current route. Farming more Catacombs drops will not fix them.
Later progression required
Farming Supplies
- Where
- Catacombs sealed room
- Objective
- Bring 10 Dense Fertilizer Lv2 and 10 Fancy Fertilizer Lv2
You can start Farming Supplies from the Catacombs, but the required Common Mushroom and Green Mushroom sources are outside the normal current route. Do not keep farming Catacombs drops expecting those two ingredients to appear.
StartableNot normal current completion
Forbidden Snack
- Where
- Catacombs 3F
- Objective
- Bring the Catacombs request its fish
You can start it, but its Shyfish requirement connects to Catacombs fishing, while the normal Quality Fishing Rod route requires later progression.
Later progression required
The Strange Orb
- Where
- Forsaken Settlement
- Objective
- The objective continues into the Old Woods at night
The quest continues into the Old Woods at night, so it leaves the normal current secret-area progression.
False Idols — Possible, but Extreme
False Idols is not in the same category as the three quests above.
OptionalExtreme Grind
False Idols
- Where
- Catacombs 3F
- Objective
- Craft a Kaal Idol and bring it to Denzel
- Grind
- Bone Ingots and Verdite Bars
False Idols does not have the same hard later-area blocker. The route appears possible, but its Bone Ingot and Verdite Bar requirements make it an unusually heavy grind. It is not a next-step recommendation.
Can You Fish in the Catacombs?
There is a Catacombs fishing spot, but normal access to the required Quality Fishing Rod belongs to later progression.
Do not treat Catacombs fishing as a normal early secret-area activity.
Why Won’t the God Chambers Open?
Some God Chambers are visible inside the Catacombs, but their required divine-favor progression belongs to later content. Seeing the door does not mean you missed a Catacombs-only key.
Entering the Catacombs does not require a password or a hidden code either — By the Gods is the normal route. If you are still outside, that quest is the only gate.
Stuck in the Catacombs?
The barrier system catches most players at some point. These are the usual causes.
›I entered but don’t know what to do
Go to 2F and start Lost Supplies and Skeletal Survey. Their Small Hammer rewards are what make the rest of the area cheaper to explore.
›I’m out of Small Hammers
Check the early Hammer quests and the Skeleton Merchant before assuming you are permanently stuck.
›A stone door won’t open
You need a Small Hammer, and it is consumed when the door opens.
›A bone pile won’t move
Hardened bone piles need a Large Hammer — a Small Hammer will not work on them.
›Metal bars are blocking the way
Use Wire Cutters.
›Ghost Tentacles are blocking the way
Use Cleansing Balm.
›I have a Small Mine Key but this gate won’t open
Make sure you are at the correct rusted deeper-mine door. Small Mine Key and Catacombs Mine Key are different items.
›I started a quest but can’t finish it
Check whether it is Farming Supplies, Forbidden Snack or The Strange Orb before grinding further — those three need later progression.
Catacombs Progression Checklist
Entry, early tools, exploration and deeper progress. The three later-progression quests are deliberately kept off this list.
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Later progression
Farming Supplies, Forbidden Snack and The Strange Orb are not completion targets yet, so they are not part of this checklist.
Continue Exploring
Entry
By the Gods
The quest that unlocks the Catacombs in the first place.
By the Gods Guide →Do firstLost Supplies
Your first reliable Small Hammer reward.
Lost Supplies Guide →ExplorationSecrets of the Catacombs
Mystery progression that pays out in more Small Hammers.
Secrets Guide →ContextProgression Guide
See how the secret branch fits alongside farming, Workshop, fishing and the Ranch.
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