Blood Gems are upgrade items in Bloodborne that the player can upgrade their Weapons with at the Workshop. Can drop in Chalice Dungeons, be found in chests or dropped by certain enemies. You can also consume some special items to gain unique Blood Gems.
There are several types of Blood Gems, which are further divided into categories determined by the general shape of the Gem. Radial, Triangular, and Waning Blood gems are installed onto right-hand weapons. Circular gems are installed onto left-hand weapons (Except the Lost Chikage, which has a circular socket). Droplet can be fit into any socket regardless of its shape. Blood Gems can be installed to Weapons after their Imprint sockets are unlocked via upgrading. A new socket is unlocked at upgrade levels +1, +3 and +6. (Firearms only have 1 or no socket). However, installation of a Blood Gem is not permanent: One can remove blood gems and reinstall new ones at the workshop table at any time without consequence or cost.
Blood Gems' strengths vary greatly. This is represented by its rating of 1-20, although higher rarity blood gems are not guaranteed to be stronger than lower level gems.
Some Initial Blood Gem Tips
- You can read This very detailed guide to understand Blood Gems, drops and farming. Further articles include builds and farming tips, check them out here.
- The only known way to gain Bloodtinge Gemstones as drops are from Bloodsucking Beasts and Labyrinth Ritekeepers from chalice dungeons.
- Gems that grant bonus elemental damage will change your weapon's damage form from physical to bolt/fire/arcane and become scaled by your Arcane stat (strength and skill scaling will be disabled) when installed, unless the weapon deal multiple damage forms by default, in which case the weapon will retain physical/skill scaling but changes damage form to bolt/fire/arcane.
- Some blood gems have the "cursed" prefix and reduce the weapon's durability. However, multiple installations of such gems do not stack up in effect. E.g. installing 1 cursed blood gem which decreases weapon durability by say 50 and installing 2 of the same gems will make the weapon equally easy to break.
A complete list of Blood Gem effects:
- increase physical damage (/percentage) = Tempering
- increase blunt damage (percentage) = Adept
- increase thrust damage (percentage) = Adept
- increase arcane damage (flat/percentage) = Arcane
- increase fire damage (flat/percentage) = Fire
- increase bolt damage (flat/percentage) = Bolt
- increase blood damage (flat/percentage) = Bloodtinge
- increase all damage (percentage) = Nourishing
- decrease all damage (percentage) = (random curse)
- increase damage vs. Beast (percentage) = Beasthunter
- decrease damage vs. Kin (percentage) = Kinhunter
- increase stamina cost (percentage) = (random curse)
- decrease stamina cost (percentage) = Radiant
- increase charge attack damage (percentage) = Striking
- add slow poison effect = Murky
- add rapid poison effect = Dirty
- boosts rally potential (increased health recovery by dealing damage after taking hit) = Lethal
- increase physical damage at full HP (percentage) = Fool
- increase physical damage when near death (percentage) = Poorman
- increase damage against open foe (i.e. counter damage) (percentage)
- increase strength scaling = Heavy
- increase skill scaling = Sharp
- increase arcane scaling = Cold
- increase bloodtinge scaling = Warm
- HP gradually depletes by a flat amount = (random curse)
- HP gradually regenerates by a flat amount = Pulsing
- decrease weapon durability = (random curse)
- increase weapon durability = Dense
- Adds flat physical damage = Odd Tempering
Adds flat arcane damage = Odd Arcane
Adds flat fire damage = Odd Fire
Adds flat bolt damage= Odd Bolt
Adds flat blood damage = Odd Bloodtinge
- A blood gem may contain up to 3 effects
- not every combination of 3 effects is possible
Blood Gems List
Radial Blood Gems
| Name & Icon |  |
Best Possible Gem Versions Location |
|---|---|---|
Effect: Physical ATK UP +% |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Physical ATK UP +% |
1-10 | Fetid Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice awd85dhdd: Layer one. Dropped by fire wielding mummy that's guarding the lever |
Effect: Physical ATK UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Physical ATK UP +27.2% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Watchers) Glyph: pwmf22gu |
Effect: Blunt or Thrust ATK UP +% |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Blunt or Thrust ATK UP +% |
1-10 | ?? |
Effect: Blunt or Thrust ATK UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Blunt or Thrust ATK UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Undead Giant) Glyph: pwmf22gu |
Effect: Fire ATK UP +% |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Fire ATK UP +% |
1-10 | Pthumeru Chalice 2 fire enemies that drop down |
Effect: Fire ATK UP +23.9% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Watchdog) |
Effect: ATK UP +flat |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Amygdala and Rom, the Vacuous Spider) |
Effect: ATK UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Amygdala and Rom, the Vacuous Spider) |
Effect: Adds physical ATK +flat |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Add physical ATK +flat |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Adds physical ATK +flat |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Improves STR scaling +flat |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Improves STR scaling +65 |
20 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Headless Bloodletting Beast) |
Effect: Improved Skill Scaling +flat |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Skill Scaling UP +flat |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (with Cursed rite) Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Keeper of the Old Lords) |
Effect: Arcane Scaling UP +flat |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Adds slow poison effect +flat |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect:Adds rapid poison effect +flat |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Adds rapid poison effect +flat |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: ATK vs Beast UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: ATK vs the kin UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Charge ATKs UP % |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Charge ATKs UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Charge ATKs UP +% |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice (Watchers) |
Effect: Reduces stamina cost -% |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeon |
Effect: Reduces Stamina costs 8 % |
11-19 | Pthumeru Ihyll Root Chalice Bosses in this Chalice Dungeon (Maneater Boar) |
Effect: Phys. UP at full HP +% |
1-10 | Lower Pthumeru Root Chalice Bosses Chalice Dungeo |
Effect: ATK vs beasts UP +% |
11-19 | ?? |
| Cursed Fire Abyssal 24.8% fire add random second effect |
20 | FRC Ihyll Boss: Watchdog |
| Cursed Bolt 20-22% bolt second effect doubled |
Gold Blood Gem
Gallery
Other Blood Gem Guides (external sources)
- The Bloodborne Sheets by Sljm8D (guide for top-tier Blood Gems, Runes and other Labyrinth goodies)
- The Arcanist Cookbook by Sljm8D (farming guide for the setting up Arcane builds)
- Fixed Blood Gem locations (main game and labyrinth) by Sljm8D
- How Do Gems Drop In Labyrinths by Sljm8D
- Chalice Dungeon Codes for Blood Gem Farming by kazin1979
Anonymous30 Jan 2021 01:41
I found a farming spot for 25% radial gems 4aia3j3v Rotted,cursed,fetid Pthumeru Ihyll root chalice, head out to the left after the layer 1 lamp and enter the second door to the left, up the stairs there will be the lever and a fat one, kill it and it will drop it (sorry for bad english)
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13 Feb 2020 04:31
Sell thoses you don't need if your inventory is madness. Stunning Eyes Rune help ennemies to drop them more often just saying.
- Anonymous
18 Dec 2019 10:27
Way better system than titanite infusions. I just wish the inventory menu wasn't so archaic because i have way too many cursed gems and scrolling through takes forever
17 Oct 2019 13:09
I managed to get a cursed fire blood gemstone to drop in the pthemeru root chalice. No rights active.
- Anonymous
08 Mar 2019 01:07
Why isn't the Cursed Pulsing (regen) Radial in this list? I didn't even know what dropped one when i saw it in my inventory, and now i want another and idk where to go.... and yes it's a radial with 5 hp regen, not a circle off the walking ritual master...
14 Jan 2019 04:46
Is Winter Lantern the best way to farm Blood Gem without going to Chalice Dungeon?
- Anonymous
04 Jan 2019 12:10
I've just got a Tempering Abyssal Blood Gem (non cursed, rating 20) which is missing in this list. Dropped by final boss in Pthumeru Ihhyl Root with foetid and rotten offerings.
- Anonymous
07 Oct 2018 03:30
Someone please tell me the difference in "tier" and "rating" when it comes to this wiki. Ex. Says I can find tier 6-7 fire blood gems from beasts in frontier but I'm only finding (2)'s but rating says 6 or 7. is tier the same thing as rating or what???
27 Sep 2018 23:17
I scoured all three Bloodborne wikis as well as Reddit for glyphs and the details about those glyphs. Then I checked every single one of them to see if they were still active, some of them twice just to make sure they were really dead. This is what I came up with; the fastest paths to all the Runes and Lost / Uncanny weapons as well as all the gem farming glyphs that are still active. Enjoy! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O8N7xnoSS935oL6eqfqDngmK0bUqqYpy1Ytoc5_cwwQ
- Anonymous
22 Jul 2018 01:07
What if u put two elemental gem types on a weapon and the weapon was t converted to an arcane scaling weapon.But is still able to do the % elemental damage from the gem.Ex:add atk%+add fire atk along with add atk%a long with add bolt atk.Do they cancel out or do u do both damage?
- Anonymous
20 Jul 2018 22:54
For anyone who is wondering, you can get a cursed cold abyssal blood gem (65+ arcane scaling) from the last boss (pthumeru elder) from this chalice: 6fsa5tyt.
16 Apr 2018 08:55
you get the gold blood gem for selecting the "use" over Vicar Amelia after she drops her gold pendant.
- Anonymous
12 Feb 2018 17:01
The shark Giants from the DLC routinely drop damp bloodtinge gems of a relatively high level (+14-22% blood atk up, +5-10 flat blood atk) and even some tempering damp bloodtinge gems rarely (+8-14% physical atk, +8-14% blood atk up)
- Anonymous
03 Feb 2018 11:38
There's one kind of Bloodgem missing from this list. I got a pulsating bloodgem from a random Bagman in the Lower Pthumeru Chalice once. I dont know any locations besides that but surely someone else has encountered them? Their effect seems to solely be HP regen.
- Anonymous
01 Aug 2017 16:25
Common locations (for Chalice farming)
Radial Gems: Pthumeru
Triangular Gems: Isz
Waning Gems: Loran
Circular Gems: Bloodlickers (Visceral attack everything, revisit rooms for decent chances of encounter.)
Additionally I recommend Root chalice diving due to high chances for ornate doors. (which lead to mini-bosses & gold coffins)
Outside of chalices it is also possible to find gems that are dependent on the enemies they drop from. (For example snakes in the garden er-forest I mean drop gems with slow poison buildup. )
- Anonymous
14 Jun 2017 02:00
I have once looted a bloodtinge bloodgem as a random drop from a cloacked beast in old Yharnam
- Anonymous
31 May 2017 15:15
For farming the Watchers, If you're not that great at visceral attacking (like me), Amygdalan Arm charged transformed attack pancakes them and has high range. Makes it an easy fight...space, pancake, dodge...repeat
- Anonymous
22 Jan 2017 06:49
I've noticed the 'Damp' prefix on some blood gems. I get the feeling that it just means that they're more powerful than 'dry' blood gems, but I don't know for sure. Can someone explain?
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24 Nov 2016 14:58
You can get the gold blood gem by defeating Vicar Amelia and using the gold pendant.
- Anonymous
19 Nov 2016 00:37
Is it me or does the Orphan of Kos's strange weapon thing almost look similar to a giant Waning Blood Gem?
25 Mar 2021 03:53
Honestly if youre looking to get your damage up, but not willing to go through extreme chalice hunting, i recommend getting the 22% Droplets from the Winter-Lanterns lurking below the Old Hunters lighthouse. getting 7 droplets at around 22% with stamina curse to fully kit out 2 entire melee weapons and a firearm regardless of gem shapes is much more appealing to me personally. yes i miss out on 15% or so total damage compared to perfect 27% gems...but it takes a fraction of the grinding effort.
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