Vagrants are an Enemy in Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. Enemies are hostile creatures that respawn when players rest at a Bonfire or upon death. Special enemies that do not respawn are classified as Bosses, Mini Bosses or Invaders.
Vagrants Description
Vagrants are monsters which spawn in response to bloodstains being lost or items being dropped and abandoned. When a player dies and leaves a bloodstain with considerable humanity (5 or more) and fails to collect it before dying again, or the player leaves certain items and reloads the area without picking them up, there's a chance these will travel to another player's world and become a Vagrant. Vagrants appear in two different forms (named "Good" and "Evil").
The "Good" form of vagrant looks like an egg with crab legs and will flee and vanish upon being discovered, whereas the "Evil" form has a claw and a ranged attack and attacks the player on sight. The ranged attack will cause very high damage, and can knock through shields very easily. Good Vagrants can drop items useful to the player if killed before they escape, and Evil Vagrants will drop valuable Humanity or Twin Humanity.
If a Vagrant is not killed by a player, it will be sent out again to another player's world. This will continue until the Vagrant is finally slain. If the Vagrant is sent out enough times, it will eventually upgrade into a more powerful black phantom version that drops more valuable loot when killed.
Good Vagrants have an initial phase known as Drift Items, which are item bags that appear exactly where the original item was left except the item within is significantly downgraded and often nearly useless. Possible Drift Items include things like a Lloyd's Talisman, Rubbish, Prism Stone, or Titanite Shard. The Drift Item will continue to be sent out to other worlds if it isn't picked up, and after a while will eventually become a Good Vagrant. As a Good Vagrant, the item inside is more valuable and becomes even more so if it can manage to survive and travel to other worlds until it becomes a black phantom Good Vagrant.
Drops
- All vagrant types only drop 100 souls in regular NG. Overkill bonus nets 120 souls.
Evil Vagrant (White)
Evil Vagrant (Red)
Good Vagrant (White)
- Charcoal Pine Resin
- Dung Pie
- Green Titanite Shard
- Large Soul of a Lost Undead
- Large Titanite Shard
- Prism Stone x2
- Purple Moss Clump
- Repair Powder
- Soul of a Nameless Soldier
- Transient Curse
Good Vagrant (Red)
- Blooming Purple Moss Clump
- Blue Titanite Chunk
- Copper Coin
- Demon Titanite
- Divine Blessing
- Dragon Scale
- Egg Vermifuge
- Gold Coin
- Gold Pine Resin
- Large Soul of a Nameless Soldier
- Large Soul of a Proud Knight
- Purging Stone
- Red Titanite Chunk
- Silver Coin
- Titanite Chunk
- Twinkling Titanite
- White Titanite Chunk
Vagrant Locations
Vagrants spawn at specific locations within the zone where their generator died. Below lists the possible spawns.
Depths |
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| Inside the room with many barrels where you will find Laurentius of the Great Swamp |
| Behind the iron bars where the Basilisk run through |
| Narrow corridor before checkpoint fog gate |
| Two levels higher from the Gaping Dragon, on the Terrace |
Undead Burg and Undead Parish |
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| After entering Firelink Shrine, inside one of the buildings |
| Wooden roof that has three Firebomb Hollows |
| Just before first fog gate |
| Corridor that leads from the Undead Parish to the blacksmith and the bonfire |
| Just after the first fog gate |
| On top of tower before you fight Taurus Demon (with two Armored Hollows) |
| Before Capra Demon, in one of the Assassin's rooms |
| Terrace near the sunlight altar |
| In the Parish, near the Heavy Knight |
Painted World of Ariamis |
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| North-East building, jump down from a platform with a bow-wielding enemy |
| In the courtyard near the well |
| Leave the north-east building, jump down before the tower to the right, again jump down to the right |
| Sewer, in the corner of the hall |
Darkroot Garden and Basin |
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| On the slope near a corpse treasure |
| Near the cliff edge where the Frog Rays ambush you |
| Bridge past Alvina |
| Near the waterfall |
| Opposite the cliff populated by Ents |
| Before Sif |
The Catacombs |
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| Near where you first find Patches |
| Near Blacksmith Vamos |
| In the pit with the crystal lizards |
| In Pinwheels' room |
| Behind the Titanite Demon |
Tomb of the Giants |
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| On the cliff near the start of area |
| Before Nito in the Pinwheel's Servants area |
| Pit that Patches knocks you into |
| Jump down from the area with the Silver Covetous Serpent ring |
The Great Hollow and Ash Lake |
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| Inside the large tree |
| Near the driftwood in Ash Lake |
| In the mushroom area just before Ash Lake |
| Just before the Ancient Dragon |
Blighttown |
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| After jumping down from a group of Infested Barbarians |
| Opposite the area that you first land when you reach the swamp |
| Before the highest sewer entrance |
| Opposite the area of the drainpipe in the swamp that houses a bonfire |
Demon Ruins and Lost lzalith |
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| Near the Large Flame Ember |
| Near the hidden elevator to Quelaag's Domain |
| In the lava of Lost lzalith that houses the Bounding Demons (Large dinosaur-looking enemies) |
| Bottom of a ledge of lava where it begins to cool |
| Just Before the Demon Firesage Fog Gate |
| Before the Fog Gate leading to the Centipede Demon |
| Corridor of the Prowling Demon in Lost lzalith |
Sen's Fortress |
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| On the roof that you reach using the secret ladder where the Giant is |
| The second boulder slope, near where the Serpent Mage is |
| Bottom of the tower with the Crestfallen Merchant |
| Near the bottom where the Prowling Demons are |
| Second rolling slope in the hidden room with iron balls |
| Behind the Elite Undead Guard in the ramparts |
Anor Londo |
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| Left when you leave the spiral elevator |
| Turn right at the main palace gate, go through the gate, it's on the left buttress |
| Room with Silver Knight |
| Building which leads to the Painted World of Ariamis. Near the stone statue where you get by jumping down from the joist |
| On the walkway with the Silver Knight Archer |
| Just before the first broken window (the building which leads to the Painted World of Ariamis) |
New Londo Ruins |
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| After the first landing bridge, in the small room of the annex |
| In the small room of the annex, on the side of the ghost house |
| After the first Fog Wall of the lower area after draining |
| In the shadow of the stairs in the first shallow area |
| On the roof of the ghost house |
| Just before the Fog Gate leading to the Abyss, spawn's at the same place as Witch Beatrice |
| Near the second jarred body holding two transient curses |
The Duke's Archives and Crystal Cave |
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| In the shadow of the central stairs in the first main room |
| On a transparent platform in the Crystal Cave |
| On a bookshelf in the main room of Duke's Archives |
| On a transparent platform in the Crystal Cave |
Northern Undead Asylum |
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| Just before the Rusted Iron Ring |
| On the high platform you jump down to the Asylum Demon |
Kiln of the First Flame |
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| In the wasteland by the Black Knights |
| On the narrow walkways |
Royal Wood |
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| On the edge of the cliff where the Crystal Lizard is located, near where the Soul of the Proud Knight is located behind the elevator |
Anonymousmy luck is insane. in these past three months alone, i have seen 2 PHANTOM GOOD VANGANTS! 2 OF THEM!
the first one was in New Londo ruins, near the first mass of souls (didn't kill it)
the second one was on the bridge near Alvina, while i was talking to her... i killed it! and it droped a purging stone. so to whoever droped that and forgot about it, my greatest thanks, as the great hollow with be much easier.
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It's not my first one, but I found one while streaming lol I uploaded at my tiktok (nic0smic)
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why did they put this thing on the invisible paths in dukes archives ????
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This might sound stupid, but I think the reason they are crab-like is due to the scientific theory and meme that everything becomes crab eventually through evolution.
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I finally got one! An evil one in undead parish where you get the firekeeper soul. I've never seen one before.
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Found one for the first time in the kiln but it dropped of a ledge before I could collect it’s drop, very sad :(
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Just found out these were rare. I just started a new play through using a mage and I found one yesterday at the Red Wyvern Bridge near Solaires first location.
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i wonder, is there any way for someone to send info to their servers to prompt these to spawn more frequently by falsifying "lost bloodstains"?
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I killed evil vagrant today after I died in new London, cool creature's
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Managed to get one on the walkway to the silver knight archer duo. Great troll placement.
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So strange seeing people saying how rare the yare for them having played for years and ive encountered 2 already not having completed anor londo yet wtf
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Saw one a couple of days ago on top of the Taurus Demon tower. I died to it playing a sorcerer not having enough time to cast anything and got annoyed, but now that I've read this wiki after completing the playthrough and going back through my footage, I am kind of happy that the search "red crab dark souls 1" led me here. Cool that I got to see something so seemingly rare.
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saw a red vagrant today, decided to not kill him so more people could experience such a rare event. honestly the best feature in all of dark souls just because of how elusive and rare they are.
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Bro I just saw this red crab dude, in sens fortress where the gold serpent ring is. I saw him through the window and was like," Wtf is that!?" I've been playing this game on and of for years and I've never seen one.
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Having over 1000 hours in this game and coming upon an enemy I'd never seen before was exciting. Found one on the cliff outside Sifs boss arena. Dropped twin humanity.
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found one on my first playthrough, never saw one agian, i watched a video on them a few weeks later and realized how rare they are, too bad it only dropped dungpies.
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I've played Dark Souls PTDE and Dark Souls remastered many times over the course of years on many platforms. I have never encountered one in person but it's such a cool idea that someday I may actually find one.
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I've played this game since it came out practically everyday till they dropped DS2 and have never seen even one of these things load up the remastered version and boom right after the asylum demon thought it was a new creature added in
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I had one spawn in Oolacile Township, next to the caster all the way down that narrow pathway after Marvelous Chester appears, before you reach the Dungeons
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What even ARE these things? The Ringed City DLC which came out 6 YEARS after DS1, dropped like the biggest lorebombs in the history of the series and apparently the egg Filianore cradles is exactly like these little crabs. What is Miyazaki's design here? Is there some kind of significance to this white shell? Is it supposed to imprison the fragment of the dark soul of humanity inside every player, like Filianore's egg was supposed to contain the Dark Soul? How does this egg thing even work alongside the concept of the Darksign then (which is a ring of fire enclosing the dark)? How I wish somebody would hack into Miyazaki's computer and give us all the juicy lore tidbits that he schemes to forever hide from us...
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I will NOT kill these so they have a chance to evolve into better loot for the next player... kinda like 'double it and give it to the next person'
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400+ hours between switch and PC and I found my first vagrant, I was excited thought I’d share
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Do these respawn/stay spawned if you die, or did my friend just get super unlucky having 2 pop up on back to back attempts of getting through the Anor Londo Sniper Knights?
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Red evil one appeared in lost izalith shooting it's spines at me above where all the stone fatty dragons ambush you in the tunnel. Dropped a twin humanities.
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Found a red evil one today playing on PS3. I thought this day would never come
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Just found a Red Good Vagrant in Ash Lake, got an Egg Vermifuge from it, I don't think I've ever seen this variant, which I'm pretty sure is the rarest.
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I just got shat on by one of these guys on the roof path in anor lando with the archers, i was so confused
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I encountered two of these ****s in one run. Yet both times I couldn't kill it before it vanished because my rapier didn't reach it's short little frame. Thank you Dark Souls.
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thanks to whoever dropped an egg vermifuge in tomb of the giants, got it in a red good vagrant
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On my first playthrough I've already encountered 2 evil vagrants, one white and one red. White was in blighttown and Red was in Tomb of the giants
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I've just saw one like 2 hours ago.
R.I.P to somebody [*]
and thanks for humanity.
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Can you encounter these things if you're playing in offline mode?
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Fextralife back at it with terrible advice and guides. They need to fire everyone there
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Well I'm playing prepare to die edition on pc so I never see them LOL
AHAHAHAHAHA, ONESHOTS YOU ON NG+7 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH MAX VITALITY AAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
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As a quick note, you may wanna update this page since i ran into one of these things for the first time yesterday in the chasm of the abyss, which is not listed as a possible spawn location. It spawned right beside the second treant sorceress lady. The one that starts shooting at you while you're trying to fight off all those humanity spirits. Unless you're like me and you go around the back and kill her first lol. But seriously I had no idea wtf that creepy thing was. I killed it and then threw a couple fireballs at it just to be safe. You can't be too careful when it comes to weird, unknown, gelatin spider monsters
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I don't think it's good to include their drops on each location article, given that they are so rare. It makes the items lists on the right side of the area pages quite meaningless. For example if someone sees the Blue Titanite Chunk listing in the Depths article, the person would think you can find it on a corpse, in a chest, as loot from a monster there, no? Little does he know it is just a drop from Vagrants who practically can appear anywhere, but almost never. Oh i see Tomandandy postet the same concern.
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Been playing since the game launched on 360 and 100% the game three times, I just now learned about this enemy for the first time after seeing a **** post on Twitter and asked why they modded there game
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I just realized they look exactly like the sphere Filianore is holding
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Playing this game for nearly 2 years and just saw one of them now I can die in peace.
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I found one in my bed and I don’t know what to do. Please help
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I've only seen 4 of these in my entire time playing. One evil and one good in the undead parish, one was sniping me in darkroot garden on the ledge next to the wolf ring, and the final one was an evil red vagrant by the sunlight altar. For the longest time I had no idea what these things were.
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So it seems that because these things can drop stuff like Egg Vermifuge, Transient Curses and all 3 types of coins, the wiki also lists all those items as loot for every single location that Vagrants can spawn in. I think that's not really necessary, Vagrants are so rare that you won't see many of them anyways and it just bloats up the found items section for all those locations, making it harder to check for stuff one might have missed.
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i was about to go farm the chaos eaters for my last red titanite chunk to max out my balder side sword for chaos but i found a good vagrant along the way and he dropped the last chunk :) thank you vagrant
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I found a white evil vagrant on the undead asylum in the zone where you plunge attack the asylum demon
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im surprised that i learn something new on my 3rd playthrough
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Found one on the tower where you fight your first Taurus demon.
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Just saw one for the first time and started googling "ds1 crab.." and google wanted to autocomplete to "ds1 crab thing" x) Tried it and ended up here. ^^
Really cool enemy, I imagine that there's enough humanity lying around to eventually become some sort of confused sentient being that travels between dimensions maybe.
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Having 100% this game on both PC and PlayStation, I've never once seen one of these things.
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lol find one in first playghtrough, in litteraly first house in undead burg
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I found one in the dlc abyss close where the wizard thing is on the cliff
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I’m on my first play through on Switch maybe 30 hours in and at Anor Londo. I’ve seen two black ones here on rampart by the archer. I also found a white one in Firelink maybe 2 hours in. Lol. I thought they were a fairly common occurrence but after reading comments here I see that they are not. Now if I could just manage to kill one...
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One of these scared the **** out of me, killing me from behind with magic. What a thing, never saw another again.
- Anonymous
"Room with silver knight" is a great description for a place in anor londo i now know exactly the co-ordinates
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This is arguably the best online mechanic in the entire game. The pvp may be a glitchfest but damn this one is cool af
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I swear i saw one of these spawn offline on the way to the capra demon. Is that possible?
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I've put in around 180 hours into DS1, and I have never ever seen one of these. I do however leave my trash around in hidden spots to try and get em' to pop up in other people's worlds though.
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Found an evil one on Ariamis, where the wheel skeletons are, worst place possible.
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Maybe I'm very lucky, because in my first NG I saw 2 of them in Sen's Fortress.
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People from the Remastered version on PC: in every NG I will use 5 humanities and die in the Tomb of the Giants (next to the first bonfire and Patches). Let's see if anyone is able to see a Evil Vagrant.
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Do Vagrants ever just vanish (like a crystal lizard) instead of attacking you? Very confused as to what red(ish) thing I saw between the bridge to Andre and the Undead Parish...
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This damn dude decided to spawn between the Anor Londo archers TWICE before going away, been playing a long long time, i was so scared and surprised and i even got it on tape. obviously i fell to my death the first time, and got one shotted by the damn vagrant the 2nd.
10/10 would recommend
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Ive been playing dark souls 1, remastered, 2, SotFS, and dark souls 3, on both the PC, and the Xbox since they came out, and today was the first time i ever saw one of those egg crab looking things..... and this is the remastered version on the Nintendo Switch im playing on............. scared me half to death.. I have seen the truth.
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Found one on the invisible bridge to the blue titanite slab in the crystal cave was no match for a crystal soul spear and crystallization catalyst
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first one as i came back to claim my souls on an invisible crystal in crystal cave, it killed me real fast lmao. Thing was just sitting on an invisible crystal :(
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Saw one this morning by the caster on a ledge before the descent to Manus' arena. Freaked out at it with my Zwei and proceeded to get hit off the ledge by the caster lmao
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In my recent playthrough I got a drift item prism stone and later, in the pinwheel room before nito I saw a white vagrant disappear.
That was the first time I encountered either of these. Crazy cool mechanic.
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I've been playing dark souls for forever and I had no clue these existed. Great job on making a believable world.
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Saw one in the bridge between the 2 archers in anor londo, i was too nervous i accidentally pushed the crab out of the bridge. couldnt get the drop
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I literally have never seen one of these until today. I have been a Souls fan for a decade and a half...... Well time to start being a real fan. Q.Q
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I met one of these guys in the Chasm of the Abyss. I was super confused as to what it was and thought it was just one of the non-respawning enemies in the game in the vein of crystal lizards and such. I only found out what they were when I was reading the Games for Windows Live section of the PC edition manual that is included on steam. I don't remember if it was hostile or not but it was no match for a +15 Zweihander.
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a red vagrant spawned in the corner of the room with the gold serpent ring, so when I charged in to grab the ring and get out in between boulders I ate a homing soulmass to the back and died instantly
10/10 got too greedy
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You either drop certain items or loose 5+ liquid humanity then don't recover of pick them up.
Then when they are out of your active game it will cycle through other players games (obviously have to be online). Starts out as drifter items, but if they aren't picked up and cycle through multiple other players games they will become drifters.
Eventually if they make it through enough games without being killed they can become black ones that drop better items.
iirc good vagrants are from items and evil ones are from humanity idk if/how lost are calculated.
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I've seen 1 drift item before, and 1 vagrant in the catacombs trying to get gravelord sword early on
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I just died to a bad vagrant im a ****ter and im gonna kms btw im soul level oneing add me on instagram @logarbage
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Blows my mind that I have gone so many years playing this game without ever knowing these exist
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Do these guys appear in Firelink if you die there with 5+ humanity?
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i went up the ladder during the Taurus Demon fight and one spawned where the archers were. i triggered the boss before killing the archers; but event then, THEY HE IS.
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Holy crap! I found a white and red vagrant right next to each other in lower new londo
Do these only appear if someone you're playing with (or you while online) dies in your world? I just found my first one next to the big knight in undead parish, the columns blocked most of the spikes thankfully
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Got my cheeks clapped by an evil red one in the dukes archives. I went to rest at the bonfire without knowing it was near, sat down, lost half my health randomly so I was forced out of the bonfire, and there it was. It killed me. I still have nightmares about this.
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Just got my first one on my first Remastered run. On top of the tower at the taurus demon arena. After ~180 hours of Dark Souls 1. :D
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An hour of fighting and exploring just to die to a *****ing crab
In all my time i have never seen one on the PS3 now i am playing on the switch. And last night at the anor Londo archers i saw 3 in like 2 hours the first one caught me off guard i didn't even know what it was. I was actually thinking did someone invade me or something and i still haven't got past there.
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