The True Size of the Elden Ring Map, or: Don't Trust Everything You Read on the Internet

What’s bigger, Limgrave or a corn farm?
Could a stadium fit inside Placidusax’s arena?
How big would a Lands Between Lego set be?
I’m sure that these very important questions have been weighing heavily on everyone’s mind, so of course I had to do a deep dive into the geography of the Lands Between (and the Land of Shadow) to find the answers once and for all.

► Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:00 Breath of the Wild & GTA5
03:09 Methodology & Main Map Size
05:49 Limgrave & Weeping Peninsula
07:08 Caelid & Radahn Arena
07:52 Liurnia
08:32 Altus Plateau
10:32 Mountaintops of the Giants
11:42 Farum Azula & Placidusax Arena
13:32 Haligtree
14:55 Underground Areas
17:50 Adding It All Together
19:34 Shadow of the Erdtree
21:52 SotE Map Size & Abyssal Woods
24:03 Deppest & Highest Points
26:57 The Biggest Lego Set Ever

►Gamebest - Crossing the Map Border in GTA Games

►And as always, a very special thanks to my lovely wife for all the support ❤️

►Music:
Marco Martini – An Immense World
Hollow Knight OST – Greenpath
Vinnie Camilleri – Viking War Drums
Brianna Tam – Bioluminescence
Kyle Preston – Tortured Lands
Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree OST – The Enchantment Breaks
Sergio Marchesini – Città e False Stelle
Brianna Tam – Intrepid
Monster Hunter World OST – Tale of the Five

[fluffy_tail]

Removing the clouds with full render distance really gives an idea on how compressed the map is. Still feels very big!

[MateriaGirl]

The 79sq km figure being run with without a shred of fact checking has always driven me absolutely crazy

[Sinhsseax]

Sir Gideon Ofnir being used as a search engine was an unexpected but incredible start to this video.
Makes me want a plugin for Chromium, where every time you search you hear Gideon saying "Ah, I knew you'd come…"

Anyway, a worthy sequel for the first video, which is one of my favourite Elden Ring videos on the platform.

[Scadu]

Suddenly I have the desire to get two dogs and move to a small town in Italy.

[BonusDuckie]

That depths bit with it being videogame trickery is an inspiring lesson on game design and blockout, bravo

[duro]

The production value on this is crazy man, looks very professional and is explained in such a good pace, i can't imagine how much work this must have taken but it was really intresting, especially the part where St. Trina is in the deepest part while Miquella is at the highest part

[skibidisigma]

That just goes to show that the verticality in Shadow of the Erdtree is spectacular.

[MarlinHunter]

A breakdown of the true size of Armored Core 6 like this is ought to be very interesting. You're piloting a huge mech in that game and the scale of certain places and objects is STILL utterly breathtaking at times.

[JohnA...]

Elden Ring is a LOT smaller than most people think. But FromSoft did an amazing job making the map feel quite large and filling it with enough to find and encounters so that you don't notice how small it is overall. Because of this we can forget we aren't looking at an "country" but something smaller in size than most major cities in the world. This also helps us ignore the odd aspects of this fantasy such as the vast diversity of cultures and species in such a small area.

[FROZENbender]

"the highest peaks, the deepest ravines and everything else that's... *puts on sunglasses* between", Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree title drops, Michaelzaki comes in through the door and pats Addy on the shoulder, Sekiro 2 - Shadows die Thrice jumps through the window, Peter Bloodborne and John Eldenring smash in through the door.

[gnore_me.]

that lego fact at the end about the size of the erdtree was genuinely mindblowing

[Fiveisrightout]

Basically the landmass is tiny compared to the real world, but individual things are massive

[markuslem]

The Chapel drops a low rendered tear into the ocean, seeing how far the brave tarnished had come

[navypilot]

I actually LOVE the lego analogy at the end. Fathoming scale of games like this can be troublesome, but a lego analogy actually slots perfectly into my head.

[Leviathannohit]

The freecams are incredible. So clean and beautiful to look at. Would you mind sharing how you got the whole map to be loaded with no fog and high LoD? That miniature look from far away is mindblowing, and I never found a way to do it with the freecam software.

[lute]

21:12 keep in mind that the shattering of the Elden ring changed the geography of both the lands between and the shadow realm greatly, its possible that the shadow realm once would have fit in the center sea. Excellent video btw

[alejandrocarralero]

A small but well designed and put together map can feel much bigger than a massive but empty map.

[Eona]

My guess for the smallest arena is the Miranda Flower in Weeping Peninsula.

[sunny_]

This video and the Elden Ring architecture video are some of the highest quality videos I've seen about the game. I can't imagine how long it took to measure and record everything. You deserve a lot more attention.

[smefgrimstae]

This must have been one hell of an undertaking, that's for sure.
There is nothing more to say; Excellent job.