So You Want to Track Every Boss in Elden Ring
Most people start tracking bosses haphazardly — notes app, random spreadsheets, or worse, just trying to remember. I've used all of them over the last year and a half. The Elden Ring Boss Logbook Monthly is probably the most useful thing I've found for actually keeping track of what I've done, what I'm missing, and where I keep getting stuck. Here's how it works, what to watch out for, and the one thing the documentation doesn't mention that'll save you hours.
What the Elden Ring Boss Logbook Monthly Actually Is
It's a community-maintained tracker/spreadsheet/hub that logs every boss in the game — main story, optional, demigods, shardbearers, world bosses, and the ones hidden behind altars or catacombs. Each entry has the boss name, location, type, whether it's required or optional, and a status column so you can mark defeated, failed repeatedly, or skipped entirely. The monthly format means it gets updated regularly by contributors. That's both its strength and its weakness. Most months the data is solid. Every now and then someone adds a boss under the wrong region or misses a variant like Rennala's second phase or Mohg's true form. Just keep your eye open when you're cross-referencing.
How to Use It Without Losing Your Mind
Download the latest version from the official thread on the Souls forums or the Reddit community stickied post. The file comes as an Google Sheets link — don't try to download it as CSV or Excel, it'll break the conditional formatting that color-codes defeated versus incomplete bosses. That coloring is what makes it actually useful. Open it, filter by your current area. Do a playthrough pass focusing on one zone at a time. Mark each boss as you go. When you get stuck on one, leave it marked but add a note in the column with what build or strategy you tried. Two weeks later you'll come back and those notes are worth gold. I learned this the hard way. On my third playthrough I beat Maliketh without writing anything down. Month six later I couldn't remember which weapons had worked or whether I'd used a specific. Wasted three evenings grinding builds I already knew were too slow. Now I note everything.
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The Edge Case Nobody Talks About
There's a cluster of bosses near Caelid and Dragonburnt Ruins that the logbook sometimes lists under the wrong district. I ran into this last month when I was cross-checking whether I'd defeated the General Radahn festival boss or just the one in the arena behind it. They're two separate encounters but the sheet merged them into one row. What I did was search the in-game wiki for the exact Latin names and map coordinates, then manually added a second row with a note linking back to the original. Took five minutes and fixed the count for everyone who uses the sheet after me. If you find duplicates or merged entries, just split them and add a note. The maintainers usually pick it up in the next monthly update. The logbook doesn't track NPC summons, spirit ashes you need for certain fights, or the specific rune costs for boss rush challenges. If you're going for 100% completion or planning a speedrun route, this isn't your primary tool. Use a dedicated wiki like the Elden Ring Wiki or the Fextrawiki boss page alongside it. The logbook is best for casual to mid-completionists who want a single view of progress across the whole map. Also worth noting: the logbook marks some bosses as optional that are actually required if you want to reach certain endings. Malenia, for example, shows as optional in the default sheet. She's not if you want the Age of Duskborn or any ending past the standard one. Check the endings guide separately and mark her accordingly in your copy.
Quick Setup Walkthrough
Step one, get the latest monthly version. Step two, make a copy so you don't alter the original. Step three, turn on the location filter and sort by area. Step four, work through the list, marking each boss as you defeat it and adding notes for the ones that give you trouble. Step five, share your completed copy back to the thread if you fixed any errors — helps everyone. That's it. Nothing fancy. The whole setup takes about ten minutes and the tracking during a playthrough adds maybe fifteen minutes per boss if you're thorough. Most people spend way more time arguing on forums about whether a given encounter counts as a boss anyway.
Download
The current monthly version links are posted in the Elden Ring community threads. Search "Elden Ring Boss Logbook Monthly" on the Souls forums or r/EldenRing and look for the stickied post from the most recent month. The file is free, no account required, and updates every thirty days or whenever a major patch drops.
