Unleash fiery devastation on Elden Ring’s towering Furnace Golems with the elusive Hefty Fire Pots and Hefty Furnace Pots from the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC. These powerful throwable consumables are game-changers in the Realm of Shadows, but acquiring them requires hunting down rare recipe books and rare ingredients like Furnace Visages. Ready to turn up the heat? Here’s your essential guide to crafting and mastering these potent weapons to scorch your foes to ashes.
This Elden Ring guide will explain how to find the recipe books you need, the ingredients and where to get them – including Furnace Visage – and how to use Hefty Fire and Furnace Pots when you do have them.
Where to find the Hefty Fire Pot and Hefty Furnace Pot recipes
The recipes for the Hefty Fire Pot and Hefty Furnace Pot in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC are found in two separate Greater Potentate’s Cookbooks. The Hefty Fire Pot recipe is located in the Scorched Ruins area, where you can find the first cookbook on a corpse hanging near the burned ruins, surrounded by enemies. For the Hefty Furnace Pot recipe, you need to reach the Gravesite Plain and avoid the first Furnace Golem by skirting around its edge to find the Three-Path Cross Site of Grace. From there, head northeast to the Ellac Greatbridge, then take the path underneath the bridge to the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest, where the second Greater Potentate’s Cookbook is located alongside two Furnace Visages. Once both cookbooks are obtained, the recipes will appear in your crafting menu, allowing you to craft these powerful pots essential for defeating Furnace Golems.
To find the recipe books for both the Hefty Fire Pot and the Hefty Furnace Pot, you need two different Greater Potentate’s Cookbooks. Thankfully, both are quite straightforward to find early in the DLC, and don’t require killing any tough foes.
The Hefty Fire Pot recipe is from Greater Potentate’s Cookbook [1], which can be found in the Scorched Ruins, which is likely the first landmark you’ll encounter in Shadow of the Erdtree.
As you’re facing north, you’ll see a corpse on some stairs, with a few of the weak shadow enemies in the vicinity. Kill them then loot the corpse for the first recipe book. This will give you the recipe for the Hefty Fire Pot. (While you are in the Scorched Ruins, a useful talisman, the Blade of Mercy, is very close by.)
The Hefty Furnace Pot recipe is from Greater Potentate’s Cookbook [2], and you’ll have to get past the first Furnace Golem in Gravesite Plain to find it. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to defeat it first.)
Skirt around the edge to avoid getting its attention and on the far side you’ll find the Three-Path Cross site of grace. To the north-east is the Ellac Greatbridge, but if you instead take the path that runs underneath, you’ll find the Greater Potentate’s Cookbook [2] on at the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest directly beneath the bridge.
How to craft the Hefty Fire Pot and Hefty Furnace Pot
To craft Hefty Fire Pots and Hefty Furnace Pots in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, first obtain the Greater Potentate’s Cookbook, which unlocks the recipes. The cookbook can be found in the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest area beneath the bridge near Castle Ensis. Next, gather Hefty Cracked Pots, which serve as the base for crafting; these are located in places like Belurat Gaol, where you must explore hanging jars and a jar maze to collect them. For Hefty Fire Pots, combine one Hefty Cracked Pot with three Redflesh Mushrooms and two Black Pyreflies. For Hefty Furnace Pots, combine one Hefty Cracked Pot with two Redflesh Mushrooms, two Embers of Messmer, and one Furnace Visage. These crafted pots are essential for dealing heavy damage to Furnace Golems in the DLC.
There is one key ingredient both hefty pots require before you can craft them: Hefty Cracked Pots. Much like standard pots in the base game, the more Hefty Cracked Pots you have, the more Hefty Fire and Furnace Pots you can craft and hold in one go. These aren’t easy to come by, but there is one area in Shadow of the Erdtree where you can find three fairly early on.
- From the aforementioned Three-Path Cross site of grace, head north-west across a lake to find the entrance to Belurat Gaol. This is a fairly tricky location with only one site of grace at the very top, so play cautiously and watch out for the new jar-based enemies. Eventually, you’ll find a hole in the ground where you must descend by jumping from one hanging jar to another. You’ll spot a wooden platform below – jump onto that before making it to the ground to find the first Hefty Cracked Pot.
- After this section, you’ll fight across a bridge and when crossing the next path, the floor beneath you will give way and drop you into a maze made out of jars. There are plenty of enemies hidden behind corners here, but head to the north-west corner of the maze, climb upon the first level of jars, and you’ll find corpses with two Hefty Cracked Pots next to one another.
The only other ingredients you need to craft Hefty Fire Pots are Redflesh Mushrooms, which are everywhere in Shadow of the Erdtree, and Black Pyreflies, which are slightly less frequent but still fairly common. Look out for black versions of the Smoldering Butterflies from the base game. If you need to farm them, there’s a small alleyway on the ground floor of the Scorched Ruins where one will spawn every time you rest at the nearby site of grace.
How to get Ember of Messmer and Furnace Visages for Hefty Furnace Pots
To obtain the Ember of Messmer and Furnace Visages needed for crafting Hefty Furnace Pots in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, start by farming Embers of Messmer primarily found throughout the Scadu Altus region. These appear as small red flames on the ground and can be collected repeatedly by resting at Sites of Grace, with good farming spots including the Messmer military camps near Castle Ensis and the Shadow Keep, as well as along roads near the Moorith Ruins Site of Grace. Embers can also drop from fire dogs that patrol with Messmer’s army. Furnace Visages are rare drops obtained exclusively by defeating Furnace Golems, the fiery field bosses found mainly in the Gravesite Plain area of the expansion. These large, flame-engulfed enemies drop Furnace Visages upon defeat, making them the primary source for this crafting material. Collecting these two materials allows you to craft Hefty Furnace Pots, which are powerful fire-based consumables effective against Furnace Golems and other foes vulnerable to fire damage.
For the Hefty Furnace Pots in particular, you will need Ember of Messmer (which is exclusively found in the Scadu Altus region, which you can begin exploring after Castle Ensis) and a Furnace Visage, which are primarily acquired by defeating Furnace Golems, so you must take down at least one using just standard attacks and Hefty Fire Pots first.
You’ll receive one Furnace Visage per Furnace Golem killed, so they are limited in number. However, you can also find some Furnace Visages dotted throughout the world as specific loot, most notably on dead Furnace Golems when you encounter them. There is one you can find in a chest too, located in the jail in Fort of Reprimand, guarded by some soldiers.
How to use Hefty Fire Pots and Hefty Furnace Pots
Hefty Fire Pots and Hefty Furnace Pots in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree are powerful consumable items primarily used to deal heavy fire damage to Furnace Golems, making these tough enemies easier to defeat. To use them effectively, players need to throw these pots into the golems’ baskets or aim for their faces from a higher vantage point, which can stagger the golems and open them up to critical attacks. Crafting these pots requires recipes found in Greater Potentate’s Cookbooks and specific ingredients like Furnace Visage, Embers of Messmer, and Redflesh Mushrooms. While using these pots is optional, they significantly ease the fight against the armoured Furnace Golems scattered throughout the Realm of Shadow.
As explained in our how to beat Furnace Golems explainer, these pots must be thrown into the basket of a Furnace Golem to deal damage. If you’re fighting one from above then you can do this mid-fight, but if you’re taking one on at ground level, you must attack its legs or deal enough ranged damage to the weak spot on its face to make it fall over. From there, you can throw the pots into the basket.
Want to discover the secret locations for Hefty Fire and Furnace Pots in Elden Ring
To uncover the secret locations for Hefty Fire Pots and Hefty Furnace Pots in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, start by finding the two key recipe books called Greater Potentate’s Cookbooks. The Hefty Fire Pot recipe is located in the Scorched Ruins, near a corpse on some stairs surrounded by shadow enemies, often the first landmark you encounter in the DLC. The Hefty Furnace Pot recipe is found in the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest, a dilapidated shack beneath the Ellac Greatbridge near the Gravesite Plain area, accessible by skirting around the first Furnace Golem without fighting it.
For crafting these pots, you’ll need Hefty Cracked Pots, which can be farmed in several locations including Belurat Gaol and Bonny Village, as well as rare ingredients like Furnace Visages (dropped by Furnace Golems) and Embers of Messmer (found in the Scadu Altus region). The Hefty Furnace Pot is especially important for dealing heavy damage to the armored Furnace Golems, requiring precise throws to their faces to knock them down.
This combination of exploring specific landmarks, looting key bodies for cookbooks, and gathering rare materials forms the core of acquiring these powerful incendiary tools in the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
What are the exact locations for Hefty Fire and Furnace Pots in Elden Ring DLC
The exact locations for the Hefty Fire Pot and Hefty Furnace Pot recipes in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree DLC are as follows:
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Hefty Fire Pot recipe: Found in the Scorched Ruins, likely the first landmark you encounter in the DLC. Look for a corpse on some stairs surrounded by weak shadow enemies; loot this corpse to get the Greater Potentate’s Cookbook containing the Hefty Fire Pot recipe.
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Hefty Furnace Pot recipe: Located at the Run-Down Traveler’s Rest, which is directly beneath the Ellac Greatbridge near the Gravesite Plain area. To reach it, skirt around the first Furnace Golem without fighting it, then find the shack under the bridge and loot the Greater Potentate’s Cookbook there.
For crafting these pots, you also need Hefty Cracked Pots, which are scattered throughout the DLC world. Key locations for Hefty Cracked Pots include:
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The Scorched Ruins (first one)
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Inside Belurat Gaol, accessible through a lake entrance
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Other scattered locations in the DLC area, including Shadow Keep and Ruins of Unte.
Additional rare ingredients like Furnace Visages (dropped by Furnace Golems) and Embers of Messmer (found in Shadow Keep and Ruins of Unte) are required for crafting Hefty Furnace Pots.
This combination of recipe books and materials allows you to craft these powerful incendiary pots essential for taking down the Furnace Golems in the DLC.
