Elden Ring’s cut content includes dream collection

Alone in a sweeping field, a wolf sleeps. It’s definitely alive: Its body heaves up and down with each breath. It doesn’t awaken when the tarnished approach; normally, an attack would be made by a Wolf like this.

Modder Lance McDonald found this wolf and others, alongside a napping land octopus — its tentacles crawling in on themselves — in the Elden Ring network test build from 2021. However, they were removed from the current version of the game. When McDonald began looking around, he realized this was cut content pulled from 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. McDonald’s said that players can collect dream mist from a monk to get the consumable Dreambrew, which allows others to share their secrets.

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 unknown.

Elden Ring has so many secrets, some of them hidden deep inside the game’s code. McDonald is one YouTube creator known for this sort of work, but others are digging into the game in similar ways. But with a game so big, it’ll absolutely take a while until we’ve found all its secrets.