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Data Mining

Modded Save

Early Trailers & Retail Comparison

Unused Yharnam Shortcut

Unused Original Concepts

Unused Items / Icons / Names

Unused Dialogues

Unused Chalice Dungeon Mechanics

Unused HUD Versions

Project Beast Unused Content

Pre-Alpha Unused Content

Alpha Unused Content

Post-alpha Unused Content

The Old Hunters Unused Content

Patch: Replaced Names & Item Descriptions

Day 1 Patch: Third Umbilical Cord Description Changes

Data Mining

On Nov 2017 Bloodborne tools were released opening path to properly datamine Bloodborne's files which includes models, textures and other assets. In Data Mining page are listed unused enemies, NPCs and weapons as well as inside look on how the game operates.

Modded Save

On May 2017 method of editing Bloodborne's PS4 savefile through 3rd party software was found. In Modded Save page are listed items discovered with this method that are, at this time, not found within the game in legitimate way.

Update: Save editing has been patched by Sony with OFW 4.70

Early Trailers & Retail Comparison

Returning to areas featured in the early Project Beast and Bloodborne trailers reveals that aspects of their design has changed. For more information go to Early Trailers & Retail Comparison wiki page.

Unused Yharnam Shortcut [Eurogamer Report]

Locked Door in Cathedral Ward: At the end of Yharnam Path guarded by Church Giant (Wrecking Ball), left to the chest with Blood Gem there is interactible door. It can never be opened though. It is confirmed that it leads to the Central Yharnam at the end of the Great Bridge where you fought Cleric Beast. Central Yharnam side wasn't made interactible, cutting off this possible shortcut somewhere in the development process. Eurogamer Report: Interacting with said door brings up a prompt that says "closed". Not "locked". Not "does not open from this side". Just "closed". Many assumed this required a key that nobody had found yet, or that it would reveal a new area as DLC. Others assumed that it linked back to the end of the Great Bridge, where you fight the Cleric Beast. UPDATE 23/04/2015: Eurogamer has learned from someone close to the project that the mystery door did in fact open in a pre-release build of the game. Apparently there were no performance hiccups going from one area to another either. That means it was cut either for lore reasons, as a way to troll players, or to prevent people from being really underwhelmed by what would ultimately have been a fairly useless shortcut.

Lance's Commentary Update: According to the Lance McDonald in earlier version when this shortcut was still in the game. It only ever opened from the Cathedral Ward side, so you still had to kill Gascoigne to get to it. It was removed because loading times were too slow, so if you sprinted through, you’d see blank spaces. If you killed Gascoigne before Cleric Beast then went through the door and ran down the bridge, Cleric Beast would jump down behind you, and fog walls would go up to prevent your escape. It all worked quite well except for the loading issues at the time. This is why Gilbert always said “the gate is locked up tight on the night of the hunt” even back when the shortcut worked. Because it was always just locked from the other side. Very late in Bloodborne’s development there were two shortcuts that didn’t work out due to bad loading times. This one, and the one that connects the woods to the back of Iosefka’s Clinic. The clinic one was massively extended with huge ladders to give game time to load.

Unused Original Concepts

Path to Byrgenwerth Byrgenwerth Caves Queen's Throne Room (Original)

Rough Sketch, Design Ideas Lady Maria's Transformation

Underground Corpse Pile (Original) Recovery Room (Original) Unknown Area (Credits)

Unused Items / Icons / Names

Key of the Great Bridge Acquired by defeating Father Gascoigne in glitched area in alpha tests. It is speculated to open the door behind Cleric Beast on the Great Bridge. UPDATE: Confirmed with datamining of alpha build, this key is required to open the door. You get a prompt "Can not be opened from this side" but then the door just opens. There's nothing there, you can't walk through, and you can see that there's an empty void, the same as the one in the final game.	Foul-Smelling Pill Treasure in Central Yharnam in alpha tests, gradually restores HP and player has green aura when used.	Oil Urn Icon During alpha tests a different icon for Oil Urn was used.
Blood Vial Icon This icon was used in all pre-alpha footage on Gamescom 2014.	Hunter Bullet Different name and icon was used for Quicksilver Bullets before alpha tests.	Default Weapon Icon It was possible to obtain weapon in glitched area during alpha tests either as treasure or drop from Father Gascoigne (boss)
Default Head Piece There were two armor sets in glitched area during alpha tests: Hunter of the Blood of Glemia & Yharnam Spy set.	Default Chest Piece There were two armor sets in glitched area during alpha tests: Hunter of the Blood of Glemia & Yharnam Spy set.	Default Hands Piece There were two armor sets in glitched area during alpha tests: Hunter of the Blood of Glemia & Yharnam Spy set.
Default Legs Piece There were two armor sets in glitched area during alpha tests: Hunter of the Blood of Glemia & Yharnam Spy set.	Lulling Bell The Beckoning Bell used to be named Lulling Bell during alpha tests.	Small Resonant Bell Icon This icon of Small Resonant Bell was used during alpha tests.
Parting Shot Named Parting Shot during all alpha tests	Notebook Icon This Notebook's icon was used during alpha tests and in builds during IGN first on Feb 2015.	Revered Great One Coldblood Highest tier of Great One Coldblood listed in official guide but never found. When used gain 100k of Blood Echoes. More in [Modded Save]
Guidance Tier 3 Highest tier of Guidance Caryll Rune, listed in official guide but never found within game. Boosts rally potential +30%. More in [Modded Save]

Unused Dialogues [Audio, Audio 2]

Provost Willem Dear friend, take heed...The blood is foul. And when the night falls, the hunters return... The blood makes us human, makes us more than human, makes us human no more.	Father Gascoigne ...Let there be no doubt. If it moves, you can be sure it's a beast...And even if it doesn't, well, don't take any chances. The reek of blood...That intolerable scent...It makes me retch, it sickens me... Sick creature... May you rest in peace...Umbasa...	Alfred Long ago Old Yharnam was overrun by the plague of beasts and left to rot and decay and now the only voices heard there are howls of beasts.
Baneful Chanters Curse the fiends, their children too... and their children forever true... I call to the bloodless wherever they be...	Doll ...and so the nightly hunt begins... [video]

Unused Chalice Dungeon Mechanics [Official Guide]

Boss Rush The Boss Rush effect, in which you'll have to battle a few bosses one after the other, in a room that's exclusive to the effect. For more information go to Save-editing Chalice Dungeons.

Additional Rite: Sinister Bell If you're playing offline, this offering will cause the Bell Ringers to summon powerful NPC hunters instead of other players.

Unused HUD Versions

Pre-alpha HUD First version of the HUD which was showcased in all Gamescom 2014 footage.	Alpha HUD After Gamescom 2014 old HUD was redesign and this one was used during alpha tests.	Post-alpha HUD Only one image showed this post-alpha HUD in promotional images before game release.

Project Beast Unused Content [Early Development]

Project Beast Logo From Software following their project naming from Project Dark (Dark Souls) to Project Beast (Bloodborne)	Cathedral Ward Early layout of Cathedral Ward from Project Beast trailer	Sword Placement This is believed to be early "checkpoint" mechanic later replaced with lamps.
Roaming Mob Early shots from all variety of mobs roaming in Central Yharnam	Tower Gathering This was believed to play much more important role than it ended up to be in final game.	Laurence's Skull Early version of Laurence's skull, interestingly enough not in beast form but rather in human form like in DLC
Nightmare Fog Project Beast had rather more "lively" boss fogs	Ebrietas Placed in Grand Cathedral guarding Laurence's Skull.	Cleric Beast & Weapon This time Cleric Beast is faced in Grand Cathedral and player wields unused sword.

Cleric Beast Fight As you can see fighting Cleric Beast inside was experience to behold.	Labyrinth Watcher Chalice Dungeon enemy Labyrinth Watcher placed in Forbidden Woods.	Loran Cleric Chalice Dungeon enemy Loran Cleric placed in Yharnam area.
Shotgun Model We can see early model of shotgun firearm	Vicar Amelia Vicar Amelia was early in development placed in "Witches Abode" in Hemwick Charnel Lane.	Blocking In leaked Project Beast trailer there was shown blocking with a weapon.

Pre-Alpha Unused Content

Hunter's Dream Late Game We could see Workshop on fire in Gamescom gameplay trailer which is particularly different from final version of the game	Yharnam Screenshot from Gamescom Build with first version of the HUD and area named simply "Yharnam"	Church Giant From TGS 2014 trailer we can see Church Giant approaching player inside Oedon Chapel in Cathedral Ward
Different Lighting In earlier shots different lighting was used in some areas, compare it here with retail version.	Control Scheme Screenshot taken from Gamescom 2014, including kick attack performed by left stick forward + R1.	Kick Attack This attack was present in the game until Gamescom build, later it was removed and its role taken by transformation attacks.
Provost Willem This scene was included in Gamescom 2014 trailer, Provost Willem in Byrgenwerth college.	Hunter Bullet Screenshot from Gamescom 2014 build, showcasing early version of the bullets called "Hunter Bullet" instead of "Quicksilver Bullet" from final version of the game	Item Placement Early version also had different item placement, this is from demo build in Gamescom 2014

Cathedral Ward This scene was included in several trailers throughout BB marketing campaign, showing Cathedral Ward being much more dangerous place

Alpha Unused Content

New HUD and Foul-smelling Pill Consumable item gradually restores HP over time	Foul-smelling Pill visual When this item is used you see its effect by green aura.	Amygdalae Placement and visual are changed from final version of the game.
Mysterious Bar Mysterious Bar filling up when boss is defeated in coop during alpha.	Armor Set Found in glitched area near Dry Dock, JP translation is Hunter of the Blood of Glemia.	Armor Set This one found in Aqueducts, JP translation is Yharnam Spy set.
Boss Father Gascoigne Small visual changes to the boss in glitched area during alphas, also Gascoigne could destroy tombstones with his firearm.	Gascoigne Defeated Defeating Gascoigne gave us "Bridge Key" and unknown weapon.	Umbasa One of the most discussed unused piece of content. When player is killed during boss fight, Gascoigne says: "Sick creature... May you rest in peace...Umbasa..."

Gascoigne Transformation Different animation during transformation to beast form.	Gascoigne NPC In Pre-alpha and in Alpha tests Father Gascoigne was NPC present on the Bridge (not summonable)	Dialogue Prompt In glitched area there is a wall you can talk to, JP translations are: 賢者の血 (Sage's blood) and ローレンス(Lawrence)

Post-alpha Unused Content [IGN First]

Stats Icon Particularly Arcane icon is pictured here as an apple.	Dream Refuge Hunter's Dream was named Dream Refuge in pre-release build.	Eileen Eileen the Crow was situated near caged dogs before Dry Dock which makes her easier to find than in final game.

The Old Hunters Unused Content [Expansion]

Gehrman in Fishing Hamlet This scene showing Gehrman in the Fishing Hamlet was included in The Old Hunters trailer. UPDATE: Gehrman is actually still there in the final game, just invisible. A developer note says "For filming the PV" next to him in the map data. [image]

Patch: Replaced Names & Item Descriptions

Murky Deep Sea With day 1 patch "Murky Deep Sea" Caryll rune was renamed to "Clear Deep Sea" as seen here.

Kirkhammer "A trick weapon typically used by Healing Church hunters. On the one side, an easily handled silver sword. On the other, a giant obtuse stone weapon, characterized by a blunt strike and extreme force of impact. The Church takes a heavy-handed, merciless stance toward the plague of beasts, an irony not lost upon the wielders of this most symbolic weapon" After patch 1.07 description was changed to this description.

Ludwig's Holy Blade "A trick weapon typically used by Healing Church hunters. It is said that the silver sword was employed by Ludwig, the first hunter of the church. When transformed, it combines with its sheath to form a greatsword. It exhibits several departures from the workshop's design, suggesting that the Church anticipated much larger inhuman beasts." After patch 1.07 description was changed to this description.

Day 1 Patch: Third Umbilical Cord Description Changes

Description Changes [All] "Keep one to fend off foul spirits, or use it to obtain great Insight", changed into "Use to gain Insight and, so they say, eyes on the inside, although no one remembers what that truly entails."

Pre-patch [Abandoned Workshop] One of the heirlooms used to contact the Great Ones, originating in the child of the Vilebloods. Long ago, in an encounter with the Great Ones, a contract was established, establishing the hunters and the hunters dream.

Post-patch [Abandoned Workshop] Every Great One loses its child, and then yearns for a surrogate. The Third Umbilical Cord precipitated the encounter with the pale moon, which beckoned the hunters and conceived the hunter's dream.