Vagrant

Also known as Drift Items. Vagrants are rare monsters that appear in specific places after other players have died and lost a large amount of humanity, or have dropped certain items. They are typically created unintentionally and randomly by other players online.

From the Online Features section of the game manual:

If you drop a certain item or lose a large amount of Humanity,
those items and Humanity move to another player's world and
form Vagrant enemies.

General Information

Image Type Drops Souls (NG) HP (NG) Evil Vagrant (White) Humanity x1 100 74 - 199 Evil Vagrant (Red) Twin Humanities x1 100 148 - 399 Good Vagrant (White) Charcoal Pine Resin Dung Pie Green Titanite Shard Large Soul of a Lost Undead Large Titanite Shard Prism Stone x2 Purple Moss Clump Repair Powder Soul of a Nameless Soldier Transient Curse 100 62 - 167 Good Vagrant (Red) Blooming Purple Moss Clump Blue Titanite Chunk Copper Coin Demon Titanite Divine Blessing Dragon Scale Egg Vermifuge Gold Coin Gold Pine Resin Large Soul of a Nameless Soldier Large Soul of a Proud Knight Purging Stone Red Titanite Chunk Silver Coin Titanite Chunk Twinkling Titanite White Titanite Chunk 100 124 - 334

Evil Vagrant

• The Good Vagrants look like an egg with legs, and will flee from the player and disappear just like Crystal Lizards. They do not have any attacks.

• Evil Vagrants have pincers, making them look like a crab monster. They have a weak melee attack, but also a dangerous projectile attack (vaguely resembling a Homing Soulmass) that will sometimes kill players in one hit.

• Both Vagrant types are easy to kill as they have low defense and HP. Avoiding the evil Vagrants' projectile attacks or finding the good Vagrants before they flee and disappear are the only real challenges presented in defeating them.

• The red versions of the vagrants are also known "black phantoms", sharing the phantom type of red invaders and Gravelord Black Phantoms. Unlike their counterparts, they dissolve when they die instead of leaving a corpse.

Spawning Vagrants

Evil Vagrants

• Evil Vagrants are the result of unretrieved humanity being lost. If a bloodstain containing 5 or more soft-humanity isn't picked up by a player before they die, a Vagrant will be sent to another person online.

• An Evil Vagrant that someone fails to kill will continue to be sent to another random player each time it's abandoned.

Good Vagrants & Drift Item Bags

• Good Vagrants are the result of Drift Item Bags that have passed around 10 or more times without being picked up.

• A Drift Item Bag is the result of players dropping and abandoning certain items. Once abandoned, a Drift Item Bag will appear for another player in the exact same location. If the drift item bag isn't found and picked up by its recipient, it is sent out again to another world.

• Like the Evil Vagrant, a Good Vagrant that isn't killed will continue to be sent to more worlds each time it's abandoned. This includes when a player scares off the Good Vagrant and it disappears.

The following items are capable of spawning Drift Item Bags & Good Vagrants:

Item Dropped	Results in a Drift Item Bag Carrying	Resulting Good White Vagrant Drops	Resulting Good Red Vagrant Drops
Purging Stone	Lloyd's Talisman	Transient Curse	Purging Stone
Souvenir of Reprisal	Lloyd's Talisman	Transient Curse	Purging Stone
Transient Curse	Lloyd's Talisman	Transient Curse	Purging Stone
Humanity (item)	Lloyd's Talisman	Transient Curse	Purging Stone
Twin Humanities	Lloyd's Talisman	Transient Curse	Purging Stone
Copper Coin	Rubbish	Purple Moss Clump	Blooming Purple Moss Clump
Rubbish	Rubbish	Purple Moss Clump	Blooming Purple Moss Clump
Eye of Death	Rubbish	Dung Pie	Egg Vermifuge
Silver Coin	Rubbish	Dung Pie	Egg Vermifuge
Gold Coin	Rubbish	Charcoal Pine Resin	Gold Pine Resin
Gold Pine Resin	Rubbish	Charcoal Pine Resin	Gold Pine Resin
Sunlight Medal	Rubbish	Charcoal Pine Resin	Gold Pine Resin
Unique Gear +3 and higher	Rubbish	Repair Powder	Twinkling Titanite
Demon Gear +3 and higher	Rubbish	Repair Powder	Demon Titanite
Dragon Gear +3 and higher	Rubbish	Repair Powder	Dragon Scale
Divine Blessing	Prism Stone	Prism Stone x2	Divine Blessing
Fire Keeper Soul	Prism Stone	Prism Stone x2	Divine Blessing
Pendant	Prism Stone	Prism Stone x2	Divine Blessing
All Rings	Prism Stone	Prism Stone x2	All Coin types
Titanite Slab	Titanite Shard	Large Titanite Shard	Titanite Chunk
Blue Titanite Slab	Titanite Shard	Green Titanite Shard	Blue Titanite Chunk
Red Titanite Slab	Titanite Shard	Green Titanite Shard	Red Titanite Chunk
White Titanite Slab	Titanite Shard	Green Titanite Shard	White Titanite Chunk
Upgraded Non-Unique Gear1	Titanite Shard	Large Titanite Shard Green Titanite Shard	Titanite Chunk Chunk type based on upgrade path
Soul of a Brave Warrior	Soul of a Lost Undead	Large Soul of a Lost Undead	Large Soul of a Nameless Soldier
Large Soul of a Brave Warrior	Soul of a Lost Undead	Large Soul of a Lost Undead	Large Soul of a Nameless Soldier
Soul of a Hero	Large Soul of a Lost Undead	Soul of a Nameless Soldier	Large Soul of a Proud Knight
Soul of a Great Hero	Large Soul of a Lost Undead	Soul of a Nameless Soldier	Large Soul of a Proud Knight

Note that proper methods for abandoning an item includes anything that causes an area to unload and reload (dying, homeward, dark sign, or even traveling far enough away and returning).

Red/ Black Phantoms

All Vagrants initially spawn as their white, non-phantom versions. Once they are passed to their 20th recipient, they become Black Phantoms.²

Self-Spawning

Players cannot directly spawn Vagrants for themselves, though it is possible for someone to have their Drift Item Bag or Vagrant return to them after someone else retrieves and then abandons them.

Anyone wishing to see a Vagrant in their world can improve their chances by continually seeding other players' worlds with Vagrants, to increase the likelihood of having one come back. This requires abandoning stockpiles of 5+ soft-humanity (for Evil Vagrants), or dropping 1 of something that creates Drift Item Bags (for Good Vagrants), repeatedly. This method works better for the Evil Vagrants, due to the initial Drift Item phase the Good Vagrants require.

Delay Queue

Drift Item Bags and Vagrants do not spawn spontaneously. They are initially received in an "incoming" queue, and will spawn immediately after the next time the player reloads that area (e.g, dying).

Killing a Vagrant or picking up a Drift Item Bag will initiate a timer that may freeze anything entering the queue afterwards, impeding their reception or delivery. The timer takes 80 minutes to clear.

Vagrant Locations

Though Drift Item Bags appear in the exact spot that other players drop them, both types of Vagrants have fixed spawn locations. Similar to how invader spawn locations work, Vagrants will wind up at the nearest corresponding location.

Photo album showing all Vagrant locations

+ Show list of locations

Area Type Exact Location Undead Burg Evil Upper Undead Burg, on top of the tower by the Taurus Demon, by the two Undead Soldier archers Undead Burg Evil Upper Undead Burg, on the top floor of the first building with the broken stairs, before the first fog gate Undead Burg Good Upper Undead Burg, on top of the small tower by the crossbow-wielding Undead Soldier Undead Burg Good Upper Undead Burg, in the building in the lower area by the very beginning, before the two climbing hollow ambush traps Undead Burg Evil Lower Undead Burg, in the first Undead Assassin room on the left Undead Burg Good Lower Undead Burg, in the last Undead Assassin room on the left Undead Parish Evil Outside terrace by the Sunlight Altar Undead Parish Evil Near the Heavy Knight and Fire Keeper Soul, inside the church Undead Parish Good In the room above the Mystery Key, before the first fog gate Undead Parish Good Outside the church, in the corner to the left of the crossbow Armored Hollow Darkroot Garden Evil On the cliff by the Giant Stone Knight, near the Wolf Ring Darkroot Garden Evil Inside the Forest area, on a cliff ledge before the bridge to Sif Darkroot Garden Good By the cliff where the group of Frog-Rays jump out Darkroot Garden Good Inside the Forest area, on the bridge after Alvina Darkroot Basin Evil By the waterfall near the Hydra Darkroot Basin Good At the base of the slope, underneath the Hunter's Armor Set Depths Evil Behind the iron bars where the Basilisk runs by Depths Evil Inside the room with Laurentius Depths Good In the narrow corridor leading to the fog gate, in the side path just before the 1st pitfall. Depths Good In the corner terrace near the entrance to the Gaping Dragon fog gate, two floors above ground level. Blighttown Evil On the wooden structure, near the Parasitic Wall Hugger (by the highest sewer-tunnel entrance) Blighttown Evil In the swamp, opposite end from the drainpipe containing the bonfire (near the Pyromancer Set) Blighttown Good Entering from the Depths, on the lower platform to the right (the area with the ladder leading to it by the toxic archer) Blighttown Good Straight across the swamp after descending the large wooden structure that leads towards upper Blighttown The Great Hollow Evil At the base of the Great Hollow, by the Mushrooms The Great Hollow Good Inside the small center "room", underneath the Cloranthy Ring Ash Lake Evil Near the Everlasting Dragon Ash Lake Good In the water right by the cliff behind the driftwood tunnel segment (steep beach area) Sen's Fortress Evil Near the Covetous Gold Serpent Ring, in the area behind the breakable wall Sen's Fortress Evil In the tar pit by the last Titanite Demon Sen's Fortress Evil On the dead end path behind the Rapier-wielding Balder Knight Sen's Fortress Good In a corner near the top of the ladder that leads to the portcullis-opening Giant Sen's Fortress Good In the cell near the interior boulder paths, by the Serpent Mage on the wooden platform Sen's Fortress Good At the bottom of the tower with the Crestfallen Merchant Anor Londo Evil On the flying buttress leading to the Silver Knight archers Anor Londo Evil Upstairs in the main hall, near the broken window leading to the Dragonslayer Greatbow Anor Londo Evil In the catwalk area of the painting room, on the base of the Gwynevere statue Anor Londo Good Behind the bottom of the corkscrew elevator, underneath the spiral staircase Anor Londo Good Turn left before first group of Batwing Demons, towards open space/ cliff. On the hidden buttress there Anor Londo Good In a corner of the room containing the three Silver Knights that block Siegmeyer Painted World of Ariamis Evil In the cellar with the Wheel Skeletons Painted World of Ariamis Evil In the small, empty courtyard with the drop-down path. Near the Snow Rats Painted World of Ariamis Good In the courtyard behind the well Painted World of Ariamis Good On the rafters beneath the hollow archer and group of climbing ambush hollows, above the Snow Rats New Londo Ruins Evil Behind the base of the staircase near the first two Ghosts in the level New Londo Ruins Evil By the Witch Beatrice summon sign New Londo Ruins Evil On the backside of the roof of the Ghost House, near Ingward New Londo Ruins Good In the small room with the Fire Keeper Soul by the group of ambush ghosts New Londo Ruins Good Ground level of the first Ghost House, in one of the small wooden-structure rooms New Londo Ruins Good In the small isolated room on the left after the broken staircase, outside the second ghost house The Duke's Archives Evil On top of the bookcase opposite of the bookcase with the Crystal Hollow archer, near the bonfire The Duke's Archives Evil At the base of the staircase near the bonfire The Duke's Archives Good Underneath the staircase near the bonfire Crystal Cave Evil On the branching dead-end path of the invisible bridge leading to the Blue Titanite Slab Crystal Cave Good On the straight, invisible path leading towards the lower Crystal Golem. Demon Ruins Evil At the bottom of the spiral path leading into the lava-drainable area Demon Ruins Good At the bottom of the spiral path leading into the lava-drainable area Demon Ruins Evil On the protruding platform with the multiple Capra Demons Demon Ruins Good Next to the Large Flame Ember Chest Demon Ruins Evil By the shortcut elevator to Quelaag's Domain, overlooking the Firesage Demon room Demon Ruins Good By the shortcut elevator to Quelaag's Domain, on the left dead-end Lost Izalith Evil Atop the structure above the corridor containing the many Demonic Statues. Next to Rare Ring of Sacrifice Lost Izalith Good By the chest inside the temple in the lava area Undead Asylum Evil On the upper level by the hollows, outside the Asylum Demon's fog gate Undead Asylum Good On the upper level after the door to the Rusted Iron Ring Catacombs Evil Near the Titanite Demon in the long hallway Catacombs Evil After the first rotating bridge, drop into the first room of the breakable-floor path to the right Catacombs Good Behind Patches Catacombs Good Outside the breakable wall leading to Vamos Tomb of the Giants Evil On a ledge near the Covetous Silver Serpent Ring Tomb of the Giants Evil In the pit that Patches knocks you into Tomb of the Giants Good On top of the drop-down path leading back towards Pinwheel's room and the Catacombs (next to the corpse item) Tomb of the Giants Good In the watery area with the respawning skeleton babies Kiln of the First Flame Evil To the left of the pillar before the third Black Knight Kiln of the First Flame Good Up in the dunes to the left of the second Black Knight Royal Wood Evil Across from the first shortcut tower after the sanctuary bonfire, on a small overhang across the chasm Royal Wood Good On the corner-cliff by the Guardian Helm (spot requiring running jump) Oolacile Township Evil Next to the Bloathead Sorcerer at the end of the long, narrow wooden bridge Oolacile Township Good On the outside, lower perimeter walkway of the building near the light-revealed illusory wall Chasm of the Abyss Evil Behind the Bloathead Sorcerer overlooking the large group of Humanity Phantoms Chasm of the Abyss Good On the lowest outcrop in the area with the descending paths (near the Alvina/ Sif area).

Footnotes

1. Works with any upgrade path that doesn't require Twinkling Titanite, Demon Titanite, or Dragon Scales, though the amount needed depends on the path:

• Regular weapon path requires +11 or higher
• Divine weapon path requires +6 or higher
• Fire weapon path requires +6 or higher
• Magic weapon path requires +6 or higher
• Chaos weapon path requires +0 or higher
• Crystal weapon path requires +0 or higher
• Enchanted weapon path requires +0 or higher
• Lightning weapon path requires +0 or higher
• Occult weapon path requires +0 or higher
• Upgraded armor requires +6 or higher

2. This includes the first 10 passes as a Drift Item Bag for the Good Vagrants.