A fiery dungeon is not hidden behind a wall, but in the game files of Elden Ring.
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Shadow of the Erdtree is a truly huge DLC and one of the best expansions a game has ever received. As is often the case, we only get to see the final product. Often, content or features are planned and then canceled during development.
Perhaps this fate has also struck an entire dungeon, who never made it into the game. While exploring the game files of Elden Ring, modder Grimrukh came across a nameless dungeon that does not exist in the game. YouTuber Sekiro Dubi shows the entire dungeon in his video:
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What kind of dungeon is this?
Apparently it is a rather small dungeon. At least Sekiro Dubi can cross the entire cave in a few minutes and finally reaches an altar that was probably originally spit out some reward should.
Based on the enemies and the general atmosphere in the dungeon, it seems to be a fourth forge These forges are new mini-dungeons in Shadow of the Erdtree, of which there are a total of three in the entire game.
The dungeon hidden in the files also seems to belong to this type of dungeon. Here you can usually find valuable resources such as forging material, but there is no trace of this in the obviously unfinished dungeon. At least the typical Lava slimes and stone golems can be found here.
Why is the dungeon missing?
Why the dungeon does not appear in the finished game is not known. But there is of course a lot of speculation. It is quite possible that the dungeon does not meet the requirementsthat the team had for their dungeons – at least the dungeon structure seems comparatively banal and even includes a little jumping section over the lava lake.
Others are more likely to assume that it is a test environment So it's a template for the forge that should give a rough idea of the atmosphere in these new dungeons. According to the modder and the YouTuber, the files don't provide any answer as to what the dungeon was intended for. It doesn't have a name and there's no indication of where in the world it should have been placed.