Nioh 3 All Crucible Wraith Locations

Nioh 3 contains 50 Crucible Wraith Locations. Finding all Crucible Wraiths is needed to unlock all Soul Core Summoning Seals & Talismans. They are not required for any trophy / achievement.

Crucible Wraiths are more powerful versions of regular enemies. Each of them also drops a Soul Core and makes that enemy type’s summoning seal available. The summoning seals are the magic attacks in this game, allowing you to summon the enemy type to fight alongside you in battle. This is very helpful to make boss fights easier because you can spam your summons from a safe distance. Each Soul Core also has a defensive Talisman that can be slotted to temporarily buff yourself or debuff an enemy. For example, it can raise your attack or defense, or even cause Life Leech on enemies. Each enemy’s Soul Core has different effects. You can also sacrifice Soul Cores at Shrines to level up your Guardian Spirit. So overall these are very worthwhile to make the game easier.

Some of them are exclusively found during the 5 story-related Crucibles (part of main missions, replayable via Battle Scroll at Shrines). However, most of them are available any time in the open world. Some of them can’t be reached during the first visit to a region and require backtracking later, after you progressed the story to use all Spirit Veins. If you can’t reach a Crucible Wraith it’s typically gated behind a Spirit Vein, don’t worry about this, you can come back for it later.

The Crucible Wraiths get marked on the map automatically with an orange skull icon  when you find other Collectibles to reach Exploration Level 4 within a region. On the map press to view the collectible tracker for each region. You can then put a marker on them and follow the compass to locate them easily.

Nothing is missable, all areas are still explorable after the story in free-roam and all missions are replayable through the Battle Scroll at shrines.

Warring States

Tenryu River (Level 6)

Crucible Wraith #1 – only reachable by using the Spirit Vein, requires backtracking later after unlocking the required Guardian Spirit from story progress

Hamamatsu (Level 10)

Crucible Wraith #2

Crucible Wraith #3 – found in the first Crucible, during Main Mission: Crucible Manifested, between the 2nd and 3rd shrine during the mission. Just after going through a courtyard with a huge enemy, you’ll find this Yokai sitting on the right side after exiting a building.

Maisaka (Level 19)

Crucible Wraith #4

Crucible Wraith #5

Crucible Wraith #6

Crucible Wraith #7

Lake Hamana (Level 25)

Crucible Wraith #8

Mikatagahara (Level 20)

Crucible Wraith #9

Crucible Wraith #10

Crucible Wraith #11 – found in the second Crucible, during Main Mission: A Fiery Invasion

Crucible Wraith #12 – found in the second Crucible, during Main Mission: A Fiery Invasion

Iinoya (Level 28)

Crucible Wraith #13

Crucible Wraith #14

Crucible Wraith #15

Crucible Wraith #16

Futamata Road (Level 35)

Crucible Wraith #17

Futamata (Level 36)

Crucible Wraith #18

Heian

Kamo Village (Level 57)

Crucible Wraith #19

Sagano (Level 62)

Crucible Wraith #20

Crucible Wraith #21

Hachijo (Level 73)

Crucible Wraith #22

Crucible Wraith #23

 

Rokuhara (Level 77)

Crucible Wraith #24

Crucible Wraith #25

Palace Grounds (Level 86)

#26 – found in the third Crucible, during Main Mission: Frozen City, Blazing Tree

Antiquity

Antiquity (No Map Tracker in this region!)

#27 – found exclusively during Main Mission: The Spirit Tree Village

#28 – found exclusively during Main Mission: The Spirit Tree Village

#29 – found exclusively during Main Mission: Dark Roots – to reach this Wraith you must jump off to a root during elevator ride (2nd elevator to the side of the shrine that goes down/up)

Bakuamtsu

Shimabara (Level 100)

Crucible Wraith #30

Crucible Wraith #31

Shichijo (Level 105)

Crucible Wraith #32

Crucible Wraith #33

Shijo (Level 108)

Crucible Wraith #34

Sanjo (Level 108)

Crucible Wraith #35

Crucible Wraith #36 – found in the fourth Crucible, during Main Mission: Accursed Temple

Kiyomizu (Level 118)

Crucible Wraith #37

Crucible Wraith #38

Crucible Wraith #39

Crucible Wraith #40

Gion (Level 116)

Crucible Wraith #41

Shirakawa (Level 126)

Crucible Wraith #42

Crucible Wraith #43

Kyoto Imperial Palace (Level 130)

Crucible Wraith #44

Crucible Wraith #45 – found in the fifth Crucible, during Main Mission: Scion of the Gods

Nijo Castle (Level 127)

Crucible Wraith #46

Crucible Wraith #47

Crucible Wraith #48

Final Battle of Edo

Mission: A Sinister End

#49 – found exclusively during Main Mission: A Sinister End

#50 – found exclusively during Main Mission: A Sinister End

 

For all other Collectibles refer to the Nioh 3 Collectible Guide.