Murkwater Cave is one of the Small Dungeons found in the Limgrave Region in Elden Ring. It is an optional dungeon that is home to a few treasure items and a miniboss Foe. This page contains information on the location, walkthrough, and guide to traverse this dungeon, locate all of its treasure, and tips to defeat the enemies within.

How to Get to Murkwater Cave

Murkwater Cave is found in the northeastern section of the Limgrave region, in a long stretching canyon stretching diagonally upwards from Lake Agheel. Around halfway through the canyon, you’ll notice a small cave on the left-hand side, denoted by a hanging flame basket. If it is your first time in the canyon, you’ll be invaded by Bloody Finger Nerijus. This spirit has devastating Bleed attacks, with thrown daggers and a flurry of blade slices. Backtrack through the canyon, and once/if you get hit, you’ll be as close as possible to an automatically spawned ally spirit. Once defeated, you’ll earn the Reduvia dagger, as well as a Furlcalling Finger Remedy. Head inside the cave, preferably with a Torch, and you’ll quickly discover a Site of Grace.

Murkwater Cave Walkthrough

You’ll find some Cave Moss nearby, as well as a Summoning Pool statue. Heading through a small tunnel, you’ll emerge into a cave with a Highwayman patrolling, and another sat down on the opposite end of the room. Be wary here, there are multiple tripwires in this room connected to bells which, if triggered, will summon 5 additional highwaymen from the next room. You can take cover in the brush and try to get a stealth kill, but your priority should simply be to avoid tripping the wires.

Heading down the path to the left, you’ll arrive in a small well-lit section with a chest. Inside is a Mushroom. If you didn’t trigger the tripwires in the previous section of the cave, you’ll have to eliminate the 5 Highwaymen here; bottleneck them at the entrance to that section of the cave to ensure you don’t get surrounded. Be careful, as these enemies (if not provoked previously), have a tendency to throw poison bombs at you, though taking one direct hit will not fill up your gauge, so close the distance fast and take them out to ensure they don’t get an opportunity to throw a follow-up.

Back in the main cave, there is a pathway heading right along the back wall, leading to a mist wall. Traversing the mist, you’ll emerge in a large cavernous room, with a firepit and a chest in the center. Opening the chest, you’ll receive Cloth Trousers and Cloth Garb and will be immediately confronted by a mysterious voice. Once they are done interrogating you for your thievery, they will drop down into the arena and reveal themselves to be none other than Patches - the groveling and backstabbing NPC from Demons Souls.

Boss Fight - Patches

More of a joke encounter than anything else, Patches is unlikely to prove any real threat to you. He tends to open the fight at a distance, blocking with his shield and every so often drinking from a flask and spitting the contents at you. The vapor creates an AOE cloud that lingers, so ensure you keep your distance or roll to avoid ending up in the middle of the attack.

He can also jab at you with his spear, which rolling out of the way will negate the risk of. He also has a standard kick attack, though this is incredibly easy to avoid so long as you strafe whilst locked on to him. Hit him a few times and you’ll note his health bar is far less grand than it seems. After a simple light attack combo, his health will hit the halfway mark, at which he will concede. Hold off on your attacks and the fight will end, earning you x2 Golden Rune (1) and the Grovel For Mercy emote.

Patches will then discuss his status as another Tarnished, and how he mistook you for a foe. You are then given the choice of forgiving him or refusing his betrayal. Should you choose forgiveness, he will thank you and promise he will make a clean start as a tradesman. Should you kill him, he will drop an item you can deliver to an NPC at the Table of Lost Grace to make Patches items available for purchase there. To exit the dungeon quickly, look for a wispy trail of light that will teleport you back to the entrance.

Returning to Mistwalker Cave later on, you’ll indeed find Patches is now selling items and equipment and has a new chest near the wispy light trail that he plays overly coy about. Interacting with it enables a transporter trap that transports you to an area of western Limgrave near the Mistwood Outskirts Site of Grace, occupied by giant bears. If you backtrack to Murkwater Cave a third time after this transportation, Patches will apologize but also chastise you for snooping, earning you the Calm Down! Emote.