Elden Ring’s cut content includes dream collection

The wolf lies alone on a wide field. It’s definitely alive: Its body heaves up and down with each breath. But it doesn’t wake when the tarnished approaches; normally, a wolf like this would attack.

Modder Lance McDonald found this wolf and others, alongside a napping land octopus — its tentacles crawling in on themselves — in the Elden RingNetwork test built starting in 2021. However, they were removed all from the current version. McDonalds noticed that the cut content had been removed when McDonalds began looking around. Elden Ring after the network test, all of it tied to a mechanic and questline related to “dream collecting.”

In the original content, the player would be required to find ingredients necessary to collect dreams — from enemies like those sleeping wolves and the land octopus. After collecting some dream mist and giving it to a monk, players will get a consumable “Dreambrew” that makes others tell their secrets, McDonald said.

McDonald found that this mechanic was likely a way to encourage players to explore more, but also included a “sprawling” storyline centered on the monk. The extent of dream collection is still a mystery.

Elden Ring has so many secrets, some of them hidden deep inside the game’s code. McDonalds is one YouTube creator who has been known for doing this type of work. But others are looking into the game as well. But with a game so big, it’ll absolutely take a while until we’ve found all its secrets.