Quickstart Early Graces

USING A SAVE WITH ANY MODS RISKS A BAN FROM ELDEN RING'S ONLINE MODE! PLEASE BACK UP YOUR SAVE FILES AND EITHER PLAY OFFLINE OR PLAY USING MODENGINE 2 IN CONJUNCTION WITH SEAMLESS CO-OP (https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/articles/94) WHEN PLAYING WITH MODS!

This mod unlocks certain early game Sites of Grace as soon as you get your Crimson and Cerulean Flasks, significantly cutting down the travel time required when starting a new build.

This is balanced by only offering the SoGs at the very start of each early game area - they are:

• []Castleward Tunnel (Stormveil Castle)

  []Rotview Balcony (Caelid)

  []Bridge of Sacrifice (Weeping Peninsula)

  []Liurnia Lake Shore (Liurnia of the Lakes)

  []Eastern Liurnia Lake Shore (Liurnia of the Lakes)

  []Church of Elleh (Limgrave)

  []Mistwood Outskirts (Limgrave)

  []Gatefront (Limgrave)

  A happy accident with this is that Melina will also immediately offer you Torrent when you first rest at a Limgrave grace and then offer to take you to the Roundtable Hold after you rest again because the game thinks you've already visited all of these Graces without her appearing!

  ~ LIMITATIONS AND KNOWN ISSUES ~

  • []For some reason the screen will be completely dark when Melina offers you Torrent at most of the QEG unlocked Graces - keep pressing Y and then press A when she asks if you will let her come with you to the Erdtree without touching the d-pad, after which the screen will fade back in.

    []You do still need to at least reveal the parts of the map where the early unlock graces reside, but once they're visible on there you can instantly warp to them.

    ~ REQUIREMENTS ~

    Latest DSMSPortable Version - https://github.com/mountlover/DSMSPortable

    ModEngine 2 - https://github.com/soulsmods/ModEngine2/releases

    (Optional) Auto Mod Merger - https://github.com/CornflakeWoof/DSMSPortable_AutoModMerger

    ~ INSTALLATION ~

    QEG is provided as a DSMSPortable Massedit script that needs to be merged into a regulation.bin file using DSMSP in order to be used. We can either use the provided .bat file or my Auto Mod Merger utility alongside DSMSP to do this.

    In this tutorial, we're going to assume we're starting from complete scratch, integrating QEG into our empty ModEngine 2 "mod" folder.

    • If you'd like to integrate QEG into an existing mod, disregard step 2 below and provide the path to the existing mod's regulation.bin file instead when prompted - MAKE SURE YOU BACK IT UP BEFOREHAND!

      1) Download QEG, DSMSPortable and ModEngine 2 and extract them into individual folders.

      2) Head to your ER game directory, copy the "regulation.bin" file, then paste that into the "mod" folde