A new Elden Ring Runes mod morphs FromSoftware’s open-world epic right into a gory Pokémon battler, with infinite spirit summons you are able to pit against one another like you’re Ash Ketchum in the renaissance fair. You can download the “Elden Ring Spirit Battler” now on Nexus Mods, with no strings attached. You only have to be enthusiastic about the prospect of using a field using the sun, your sword, and 10 Dung Eaters.

That’s the exciting area of the mod—created by Dark Souls data miner and modder King Bore,

Spirit Battler turns “any enemy you want” into Spirit Ashes, including bosses like bulwark Malenia and also the deranged Starscourge Radahn. According to its Nexus Mods description, it’s simply “a tool to set up custom encounters in Elden Ring via spirit ash summons,” including “Summon vs to summon, Player vs summon, Free for All, Custom Spirit Ash. Whatever you want!”

First, select as many as 10 enemies and allocate them into teams while using Spirit Battler, which you simply connect for your Elden Ring installation by pasting regulation.bin into the ModEngine2 “mod” folder. You can change the color summons appear as (red as an invader, a Spirit Ash summons standard celestial blue, etc.), allocate their stats (“Want a crab that does 100x damage?” the Nexus Mods description suggests), select their fight location, and much more. After you’ve made your desired changes, pick a canonical Spirit Ash to summon to overwrite, then save it within the Battler to use it for your actual game.

King Bore demonstrated the boundless probabilities of the mod inside a recent tweet, establishing the battler to ensure that, upon ringing a Spirit Calling Bell, Bore’s character is immediately encompassed by a towering giant, a bloodthirsty silver orb, the horse Torrent, whatever these pizza dough-looking guys are, along with other pissed-off enemies.

All these summonses might crowd your selected location, but Spirit Battler appears like a pleasantly ridiculous method to play elden ring runes, particularly when you opt for Bore’s more Pokémon-ish suggestions, as an all-crab battle royale. Or, at the very least, it will hold you over before the game’s Shadow from the Erdtree expansion causes it to be to consoles and PCs sometime in the future. Think of all of the crabs you can smoke in the meantime.