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Dark Souls Remastered · r39
Homeward Bone inventory iconConsumables

Consumables

Homeward Bone

Consumables

Consumes one bone to return you to the bonfire where you last rested while preserving carried souls and Humanity. Simply lighting a new bonfire does not make it the last-rested destination.

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In-game description

Bone fragment reduced to white ash.
Return to last bonfire used for resting.

Bonfires are fueled by bones of the Undead.
In rare cases, the strong urge of their
previous owner's to seek bonfires enchants
their bones with a homeward instinct.

Where to find

Merchant purchase

Firelink aqueduct / Lower Undead Burg

Cost: 500 Souls · Stock: ∞

Requirements

  • Keep the female Undead Merchant alive and friendly.
  1. Use the Basement Key from Undead Parish to open the Lower Burg descent near the Hellkite bridge. Continue past the dogs and assassin ambushes toward the Capra Demon fog.
  2. Take the stairs beside that fog down toward the Depths entrance. Follow the adjoining tower stairs up to the aqueduct passage.
  3. Speak through the bars to the merchant, then open the nearby shortcut door back toward Firelink. Her stall can be revisited through that shortcut.
  4. Buy Homeward Bone from the female Undead Merchant's purchase menu.

Merchant purchase

Undead Parish bell tower

Cost: 500 Souls · Stock: ∞

Requirements

  • Keep Oswald alive and friendly.
  1. Defeat the Bell Gargoyles on the church roof and ring the Bell of Awakening.
  2. Climb back down into the tower and speak to Oswald, the black-clothed pardoner waiting below the bell. Open his purchase menu.
  3. Buy Homeward Bone from Oswald of Carim's purchase menu.

Merchant purchase

The Catacombs

Cost: 500 Souls · Stock: ∞

Requirements

  • Keep Vamos alive and friendly.
  1. From Firelink graveyard, descend into the Catacombs and use the bridge switches to reach the deeper spiral stairways.
  2. At the broken end of the spiral staircase, look below for the successive ledges. Drop from ledge to ledge toward the opening beside the blacksmith rather than jumping to the bottom.
  3. Approaching Vamos triggers him to break a wall, opening access to his workshop. Speak to him without attacking. Remastered has a bonfire in this workshop.
  4. Buy Homeward Bone from Vamos's purchase menu.
  • Resting deep in the Catacombs before gaining warping can make the return climb difficult.

Merchant purchase

Royal Wood

Cost: 600 Souls · Stock: ∞

Requirements

  • Access Artorias of the Abyss.
  • Keep Marvellous Chester alive and friendly.
  1. Free Dusk in Darkroot Basin and obtain the Broken Pendant from the first Crystal Golem in the Duke's Archives. Return to Dusk's cave, use the portal and defeat Sanctuary Guardian.
  2. Cross Royal Wood to the stone arena where Artorias waits. Before entering the boss fog, cross the nearby bridge and find Chester leaning against the wall. Speak to him and open his shop.
  3. Buy Homeward Bone from Marvellous Chester's purchase menu.
  • Killing the real Chester removes this shop. His separate invading phantom is a different encounter.

Merchant purchase

Oolacile tower above the Artorias arena

Cost: 300 Souls · Stock: ∞

Requirements

  • Obtain the Crest Key and keep Gough alive.
  • Keep Hawkeye Gough alive and friendly.
  1. Defeat Artorias and explore Oolacile Township to find the Mimic holding the Crest Key.
  2. Return to the arena approach and take the stairs around its outer wall to the locked tower door. Open it with the Crest Key, climb the ladder and speak to Gough.
  3. Buy Homeward Bone from Hawkeye Gough's purchase menu.

Treasure pickup

Firelink Shrine treasure alcove

  1. Enter the stone ruins above the bonfire near Petrus. Reach the upper passage by the church lift route and look below for the lower treasure alcove.
  2. Drop into the alcove with several chests and open the chest holding six Homeward Bones. Other chests here contain separate supplies.

Notes

  • Return: Consumes one bone to return you to the bonfire where you last rested while preserving carried souls and Humanity. Simply lighting a new bonfire does not make it the last-rested destination.
  • Use restrictions: Can be unavailable during multiplayer sessions. The use animation can also be interrupted by an enemy; find space before trying to leave a fight.
  • Bloodstain: Does not collect a distant bloodstain for you. Retrieve it yourself before leaving if you want those souls back.

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