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Dark Souls IIArchipelago randomizer mod
Travel through Drangleic with equipment and keys arriving from the multiworld. Adjust healing availability, starting weapons and optional DLC while working toward Nashandra.
Maintained by WildBunnie
- Reviewed build
- 0.5.5-hotfix
- OS
- Windows, Linux / Proton
- Last reviewed
- 8 Sept 2026
- Installation
- Manual installation
How the game changes
- World pickups, selected drops and shops exchange items with other games. Keys and route unlocks determine which parts of Drangleic open next.
- The goal is defeating Nashandra. Giant's Kinship remains fixed at the Giant Lord, and the hotfix explicitly gates Nashandra and her drop behind the required progression.
- Shrine of Winter logic requires the four Great Soul boss defeats, not merely receiving their soul items or reaching a Soul Memory threshold.
- Combat Logic controls how early Estus Flask Shards and Sublime Bone Dust must become available. Easy supplies more healing before difficult routes; Disabled makes no healing guarantees.
- Starting equipment is randomized by default, with a weapon-usability requirement. Early Blacksmith defaults to a local early Lenigrast's Key; optional infinite Lifegems preserve a dependable consumable source.
- Separate options enable each Crown DLC. The inspected world contains DLC entrance keys, internal gates and healing requirements; New Game+ is a different, unfinished option.
- Optional DeathLink, automatic equipment changes, removed weapon or spell requirements and disabled equip load alter the experience without adding enemy randomization.
Before you start
- Choose the correct game edition in the YAML and the corresponding DLL: original Dark Souls II is x86; Scholar of the First Sin is x64. Rename the selected DLL to dinput8.dll and place it next to the game executable.
- The Steam link, artwork and popularity count here refer to Scholar of the First Sin. The original Steam edition is also documented by the maintainer and linked separately.
- The mod forces official Souls offline mode. Archipelago still needs network access from the game process; a blanket firewall block prevents remote AP connections. Do not use modified saves on official online services.
- Start a new save after connecting through the mod's console. Back up that save: a player reports that replacing a corrupted character did not restore already received items automatically.
- New Game+ is explicitly work in progress and not recommended. Keep it disabled. Dark Chasm of Old is excluded from progression by default; optional DLC requires the corresponding content.
- Pure bow or crossbow builds can struggle to obtain ammunition; a guaranteed merchant-ammo option is still requested. The pig-related pickaxe check is also reported as tedious, not necessarily broken.
- Linux/Proton has a documented dinput8 launch override, not a native Linux client or an independent Panludia runtime test. The APWorld archive lacks a manifest, so future Archipelago 0.7 compatibility is not established.