NEW YORK, 2025-06-17 16:15:00
Have You Seen This Giant Rock Turtle?
Players are struggling to find some of the rarest events in the game Elden Ring: Nightreign, including the Wandering Mausoleum and meteor events.
- The Wandering Mausoleum is incredibly rare.
- Falling meteor events with Fallingstar Beast bosses are also elusive.
- Some players suspect these rare events were more common at launch.
Have you ever stumbled upon a giant, rock-like turtle with a cathedral on its back in Elden Ring: Nightreign? If not, you’re far from alone. Players are reporting they’ve gone hours and hours in the game without ever seeing the elusive Wandering Mausoleum, which can duplicate boss remembrances.
It was my very first match in Elden Ring Nightreign, and my team dropped into the southern marshes. We stumbled upon a towering building, looking like a rock turtle with a cathedral shell. We tried to fight it, but couldn’t hurt it, so we moved on. Over 60 hours later, I haven’t seen another one. The Wandering Mausoleum is a creature from Elden Ring. There are seven of them around that game’s map, and defeating one lets you duplicate any boss remembrance.
In Nightreign, you can scale the Wandering Mausoleum to duplicate existing armaments. This is especially useful for dual-wielders or anyone with a piece of gear that has a great passive buff. But actually finding one might be the rarest event in the game, as players have gone entire playthroughs without seeing one.
“100 hours in, never seen one of those so far,” wrote one player on a subreddit last week. “Do they even exist in NR?” Another responded, “In almost 100 hours of play time, I’ve seen one once.” A third shared their experience, “Saw it once early on, tried to hit different legs and nothing happened so moved on.”
A bunch of players have done everything in Nightreign and still never witnessed its rarest creatures. One hardcore player wrote, “I’ve platinumed the game, done all remembrances, finished dozens of expeditions after that, 130+ hours total…And I’ve never seen one.”
Rare Sightings
The mystery surrounding the Wandering Mausoleum extends to other rare events. Players are sharing pictures of random craters in Limveld, unsure of their purpose. Some have seen space rocks whizzing past them while searching for loot. There are also Nightlords that can raid matches, trapping players or erasing their levels until defeated.
The rarity of these dynamic events has some players questioning whether it is an intentional part of the FromSoftware game’s mystique, or potentially a bug. Some players feel the events were less scarce right after launch, but have felt all but removed in recent weeks. Each Nightreign match is full of random elements, making it hard to know what is an outlier versus bad luck.
If this were Pokémon, spotting a Wandering Mausoleum would be the equivalent of Shiny hunting. This is a common sentiment on social media where most players didn’t know it could spawn.
Most players didn’t even know the Wandering Mausoleum could spawn. Any video talking about one is full of comments from players who finished the game without an encounter. Search online and you’ll find only a few videos about what to do if you stumble upon one.
Why are some of Nightreign’s coolest dynamic events so rare to behold?
The fact that basically no thread about the Wandering Mausoleum includes one or two players going, “I see that all the time!” suggests it’s not just a problem with RNG, though. Some of Nightreign’s coolest secrets being so well hidden has some players complaining about the lack of variety as they pound sand from one failed run to the next, though the publisher has already promised new content, like a harder Nightlord boss mode, by the end of June. In the meantime, not every player is missing out on Nightreign’s rare, random events.
“I saw my first one of these last night along with 2 back to back sessions of the Frenzy tower event in the sessions after,” wrote one fan. “And we fought Libra in the field and won. Was an eventful Saturday.”
