Hunter's Dream | Weapons and armor Bloodborne Guide
Last update: 06 March 2018
Hunter's Dream is a very special location. You go there after your first death, this is also where you transport when you use one of many lamps found in the game world. This place is a base and hub from which you move to other locations, here you will find needed merchants, you will increase your abilities level and upgrade your weapons. It is also a place where you are safe and from which you can transport to any previously unlocked location (lighting the lamp activates a "teleportation" point).
During your first visit on stairs on the right side you will meet Messengers sticking out from the ground. This is when you receive your first weapons. Doll, with which you can talk, will be animated when you receive one Insight point. After you collect 10 Insight new Messengers will show behind the house. Inside you will find Gehrman who for some time will give you various advices, a stock, forge and memory altar. In this place you can upgrade your weapon and character, after collecting Caryll runes and special Rune workshop tool (after defeating Witch of Hemwick).
Hunter's Dream is a place where player can rest and prepare for exploring other locations.
List of all available possibilities
- Bath Messengers - main merchants at whom you can buy consumables such as Quicksilver Bullets or Blood Vials. You can also buy new weapons (usually after meting certain conditions or obtaining weapon unlocking badge) and clothes. You can also sell items and receive Blood Echoes for them. Messengers prices change as the game progresses and you get new levels.
- Stump Messengers - this one can be found behind the house, in a trunk. These messengers allow you to change the skin of all messengers, including merchants and the ones holding notes. If you have a special item you can, for example, give them a hat or bloody bandage which will permanently change their look.
- Insight Messengers - another merchants, you will find then near the door on the left side of the house. They become visible when you have 10 Insight, they disappear if your stocks become lower than that. For Insight you can buy by them various items, like clothes of bosses (Gascoigne) or more important NPCs (Djura) after you kill them.
- Headstone of Awakening - on the right you will find four gravestones. They allow you to move to previously visited locations. The condition is to light the lamp in them, which activates respawn and teleportation point.
- Tomb altars - on the other side you will find altars that allow you to create, share and travel to partly random generated dungeons. For the ritual you need a chalice (you will receive the first one after killing Blood-Starved Beast) and other resources found in the dungeons (the ones needed for the first depth level can be bought by the Bath Messengers).
- Doll - after collecting at least 1 Insight point a doll will be animated and you will be able to talk to it, use gestures (it responds with similar gestures) and, most of all, increase your abilities by paying for them with Blood Echoes. Sometimes doll can't be found in her default place, in that case you must search for her around the tombstones or reload the location.
- Stock - inside the building, on the right, you will find a shelf for items. You can stock there items that aren't currently needed and you can take them back whenever you want. If during the game you exceed the maximum limit of specific item (for example, you will find more Blood Vials than you can currently drag) the surplus will go to the stock. Blood Vials and Quicksilver Bullets are automatically added to equipment after player dies if there are enough of them in the stock.
- Forge - in the desk behind the fire you can upgrade and repair your weapon. Specific resources are needed for that, different for each level - you will find them during the game or buy them at Messengers. After defeating Father Gascoigne and obtaining access to Cathedral Ward you will additionally find Bloodgem Workshop Tool that allows you to place special stones in weapons that improve some of their stats.
- Memory Altar - after defeating Witch of Hemwick and obtaining Rune Workshop Tool at the table in the middle of the room you will be able to choose active runes which improve your hunter. Various runes has various effects. The runes can be found in various places during the game, including chalice dungeons.