Elden Ring All Ancient Dragon Apostle's Cookbooks Locations

This guide shows all Elden Ring Ancient Dragon Apostle’s Cookbook Locations. There are 4 Ancient Dragon Apostle’s Cookbooks, they are needed to unlock new crafting recipes. The unlocks for each book are also listed here.

If you are missing a site of grace or other area referenced below, refer to Elden Ring All Sites of Grace Locations.

Ancient Dragon Apostle’s Cookbook [1]

Location:

Mt. Gelmir: Wyndham Catacombs – Get to the portion of the Catacombs where the ground raises to try to make you hit the spike ceiling and step on the floor to make it rise from the lower level and fall down the hole beneath it and into the flooded chamber. You will find this item on a body in the section that allows you to open the gate.

Knowledge gained:

Lightning Grease
Drawstring Lightning Grease
Lightningbone Arrow
Lightningbone Arrow (Fletched)
Lightningbone Bolt

Ancient Dragon Apostle’s Cookbook [2]

Location:

Altus Plateau: Forest-Spanning Greatbridge – There is a Nomadic Merchant at on the broken bridge of this Site of Grace that will sell you this cookbook for 4500 Runes.

Knowledge gained:

Lightning Pot
Roped Lightning Pot

Ancient Dragon Apostle’s Cookbook [3]

Location:

Caelid: Cathedral of Dragon Communion – Inside the church, on a corpse.

Knowledge gained:

Dragonwound Grease

Ancient Dragon Apostle’s Cookbook [4]

Location:

Crumbling Farum Azula: Dragon Temple Altar – from the Dragon Temple Altar site of grace, follow the path forward until you enter some ruins with dragon statues along the path, in these ruins take the stairs on the outer wall to get upstairs to an Imp Statue with a wall of white mist next to it (see Image 1-2 below). This requires 2 Stonesword Keys to open the mist wall. Behind you find an elevator, use it to get to a secret path. Reach the very end of the path, after the white dragon with golden wings keep climbing up the ruin paths until you reach a dome with this item inside (see Image 3-4 below for the endpoint).