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.



















































Healer UwU says
What a cutie for making this guide
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Thanks sis<3
Jerry says
Will you do a crucible wraith guide on new game +? It seems like they don’t mark those on the map.
irriducibile87 says
Hi, I do not know why but the Enki Crucible Wraith in Shichigo (Last region) does not spawn for me.
I tried everything, I even completed the subquest in the area (the one of the urn), but still it does not spawn.
On the general map the icon is displayed as not completed. In the minimap the icon does not appear at all.
I am afraid this could prevent me to get the platinum.
Is this a glitch ? Did it happen to anyone else ?
Any suggestions ?