How to Access Multiplayer (Co-op, Invasions) - Elden Ring Guide - IGN (2024)

This page includes instructions on how to participate in Elden Ring multiplayer, including helping other players in co-op, getting other players to help you, or even invade, antagonize, and fight other players.

Multiplayer is a big part of Souls games, and Elden Ring is no different. In fact, it doubles down on multiplayer in a great way, making it something all players can reliably engage in without having to use rare items (like you would in Demon’s Souls or Dark Souls 3).

Does Elden Ring Have Crossplay Multiplayer?

At this time, it does not appear that Elden Ring has crossplay between different platforms, but more information will be added once the game (and multiplayer) is live.

How To Access Multiplayer

To jump into Elden Ring multiplayer, you'll need to do the following:

Cooperative Multiplayer

To Call for Help:

1. (Optional) Set a password
2. Use Furlcalling Finger Remedy
3. Find and use golden summon markers on the ground

To Help Others

1. (Optional) Set a password
2. Use the Tarnished's Furled Finger (one location) or Small Golden Effigy (multiple areas)
3. Wait to be summoned

Competitive Multiplayer

To Summon a Player to Fight:

1. (Optional) Set a password
2. Find and use red summon markers on the ground

To Invade Other Player Games

1. (Optional) Set a password
2. Use the Duelist's Furled Finger (one location) or Small Red Effigy (multiple areas)
3. Wait to be summoned

Multiplayer Items

To get started with Elden Ring’s multiplayer, you’ll need a few items. Thankfully, they are easy to obtain if you know where to look.

The items you’ll need are as follows:

• Furlcalling Finger Remedy (Used to summon other players to your world to assist you)
• Tarnished’s Furled Finger (Used to assist other players in their world)
• Finger Severer (Used to remove a co-op partner from your MP session)
• Small Golden Effigy (Used to offer help to other players across several areas)
• Duelist Furled Finger (Used to put down an invading sign and be summoned for a duel)
• Small Red Effigy (Used to invade other players across several areas)
• Festering Bloody Finger (Used to invade other worlds and attack other players)

How To Obtain Multiplayer Items

Follow the instructions below to find every item you’ll need for Elden Ring’s multiplayer.

Tarnished’s Furled Finger

Description: “You can leave a gold summon sign to play cooperative multiplayer. This sign will appear in other players’ worlds and allow them to summon you as a Furled Finger for cooperative multiplayer. Multiplayer begins once you are summoned. (Your objective will be to defeat the area boss.) If you leave a second summon sign, the older sign will vanish. Passwords will restrict the player pool for MP, so use them to coordinate with friends and make finding their summon sign easier.”

• Location: Stranded Graveyard (Site of Grace)

You’ll find the Tarnished’s Furled Finger and Finger Severer on a body near the wall on the way to the lift.

Finger Severer

Description: “Choose a summoned player to send back to their own world. This player will be removed from the multiplayer session.”

Use this when you want to end the MP session and be able to save your game, exit, etc. You can also use it if someone who is supposed to be trying to help you is causing mischief.

• Location: Stranded Graveyard (Site of Grace)

You’ll find the Tarnished’s Furled Finger and Finger Severer on a body near the wall on the way to the lift.

Crafting Kit

“Enables the practice of item crafting.” You’ll need this to craft Furlcalling Finger Remedy, which enables you to see the summon signs of other players.To craft the Furlcalling Finger Remedy, you’ll also need some Erdleaf Flower, which you can find growing all around The Lands Between.

• Location: Purchased from Merchant Kale - Church of Ellah Site of Grace)

Speak to the merchant near the Church of Ellah Site of Grace and purchase the Crafting Kit from them.

Furlcalling Finger Remedy

Enables you to see the summon signs of other players.To craft the Furlcalling Finger Remedy, you’ll also need some Erdleaf Flower, which you can find growing all around The Lands Between. You’ll also need the Crafting Kit.

• Ingredients: Erdleaf Flower
• Requires: Crafting Kit (Purchased from Merchant Kale - Church of Ellah Site of Grace)

These orange flowers can be found blooming all around The Lands Between. If you need some, search the grassy areas near the Church of Ellah Site of Grace.

Small Golden Effigy

“Send a cooperative summon sign to several nearby summoning pools (activated pools only). If you are summoned, you will be transported to that summoning pool’s location in the host player’s world and multiplayer will begin. (Your objective will be to help the host player defeat the area boss.)”

• Location: Every dungeon, mini-dungeon, and near many major and minor points of interest.

You can find these signs everywhere, including the miniature dungeons hidden in the caves near the Church of Ellah. When you examine your first one, you’ll obtain the Small Golden Effigy.

In order to use it, you’ll also need to “Examine” the cross-like statues, which will add that area to your “pools,” meaning you’ll be able to be summoned to assist other players in those areas.

Duelist Furled Finger

Description: “Creates a summon sign for competitive multiplayer”

• Location: Stormhill (Limgrave - North of the Warmaster’s Shack Site of Grace)

Use this item to place a sign down on the ground. Other players will see this red mark and can summon you with it, with the understanding that you will fight them when you arrive.

Small Red Effigy

Description: “Sends a hostile sign to summoning pools”

• Location: Stormhill (Limgrave - North of the Warmaster’s Shack Site of Grace)

Using this will summon you to other worlds to antagonize and fight players across all the pools/effigies you’ve activated.

White Cipher Ring

When invaded, requests help from Blue Cipher Ring users.

• Location: Roundtable Hold (Purchase from Twin Maiden Husks for 1000 Runes)

If you use a White Cipher Ring, you will automatically request for a hunter from another world to come to your rescue when your world is invaded (can also be used after you are invaded). The hunter will be summoned once the request succeeds, and their objective is to defeat the invader of your world.

Blue Cipher Ring

Answers requests for rescue from White Cipher Ring users.

• Location: Roundtable Hold (Purchase from Twin Maiden Husks for 1000 Runes)

If you use a Blue Cipher Ring, you will make yourself open to summons for rescue from other worlds. The multiplayer session will begin once you have been summoned as a hunter, and your objective is to defeat the invader of that world. The compass at the top of the screen indicates the direction of the summoner (Host of Fingers).