Breath of the Wild Hyrule Compendium: All 385 Entries

Breath of the Wild will let you finish the game without ever pressing the shutter button. The Camera Rune is optional, the Hyrule Compendium behind it is optional, and the reward for filling the whole thing in is a sealed envelope containing a photograph you are not allowed to look at.

It is also the menu that turns the Sheikah Sensor into a search tool, because a registered entry is a trackable entry. Log a Sunshroom and the Sheikah Sensor + will point at Sunshrooms. Log flint, and "where do I find flint" stops being a question. The compendium is not a trophy cabinet — it is the search function for a map with no search function.

So here is the whole register: what the 385 entries actually are, why your in-game counter might say 389, 390 or 394 instead, what the shop at the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab charges to fill the gaps, and the one entry no amount of rupees will buy.

The register is 385 entries in five lists

The base game has 385 Hyrule Compendium items, numbered in one continuous run across five categories. The numbering is not decorative — the categories are contiguous blocks, so the number on an entry tells you which list it belongs to.

Two things fall straight out of that table.

Equipment is 48% of the compendium on its own. One hundred and eighty-four of the 385 entries are weapons, bows, arrows and shields — more than Creatures, Monsters, Materials and Treasure put together. If your counter is stuck in the low 300s, the missing entries are almost certainly gear you have never held, not some rare bird on a mountain.

Treasure is four entries, and that is the entire list: Treasure Chest, Ore Deposit, Rare Ore Deposit, Luminous Stone Deposit. All three deposit types turn up across Hyrule — Rare Ore Deposits usually sit in clusters alongside ordinary ones, and Luminous Stone Deposits are thickest around Zora's Domain in the Lanayru Great Spring — so this is the one category you can close without a special trip.

Materials at 36 is smaller than it looks too. It is the cooking-ingredient list — fruit, mushrooms, herbs, vegetables and Courser Bee Honey — and the cooking guide walks past most of them on the way to a Hearty Durian.

Why your total might be 389, 390 or 394

This is the part that makes "how many entries are there" a genuinely annoying question to answer. The compendium's size depends on which DLC pack you own and which mode you are playing, and the entry numbers shift underneath you when it changes.

The Champions' Ballad adds exactly four entries: Monk Maz Koshia, the Igneo Talus Titan, the Molduking and the One-Hit Obliterator. The first three are the DLC's boss fights — the Igneo Talus Titan and the Molduking are the two field bosses it adds, both covered in the field bosses guide — and the fourth is the glass-cannon club the pack hands you on the Great Plateau.

Master Mode adds five, all of them monsters that do not exist in a Normal save: the Sky Octorok and the four Golden-tier enemies — Golden Bokoblin, Golden Moblin, Golden Lizalfos and Golden Lynel. That is the same tier promotion the Master Mode guide covers, showing up in the paperwork.

Own both and photograph in Master Mode and your ceiling is 394. Own neither and it is 385. There is no setting that makes it 400.

For scale, if you are coming here from the sequel: Tears of the Kingdom's compendium runs to 509 registrable items.

Nothing starts until the Slate is repaired

The Camera Rune is not on the Sheikah Slate when you wake up. It is one of the files the Slate lost, and getting it back is a fixed sequence:

1. Follow the Locked Mementos main quest to the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab, on the hill east of Hateno Village.
2. Purah cannot do anything until the furnace outside the lab is lit with Blue Flame carried from the Ancient Furnace in town. Light it and the Guidance Stone comes online.
3. Purah removes the lock on the Guidance Stone. It reports the Camera, the Hyrule Compendium and the album as missing files, and repairs all three at once.

You get the Camera Rune, the Album and the Compendium in the same beat. Purah then asks you to try the thing out by taking a picture of her, which is the first shutter press of the save.

The Album is a separate store from the Compendium and it is small: 48 picture slots. Photographs of a new subject register to the Compendium automatically, so the album is for scenery and self-portraits rather than bookkeeping. The twelve landscape shots already sitting in it when you get the Slate are Zelda's, and they are the Captured Memories quest, not compendium entries.

When you are lining up a shot, the reticle does the admin for you: it reads orange over a subject that is not yet registered and blue over one that already is, so you can sweep a camp and see at a glance which Bokoblin is worth the shutter.

The Sensor upgrade costs three Ancient Screws

The plain Sheikah Sensor only finds shrines. The version that makes the compendium worth filling is the Sheikah Sensor +, and it comes from Purah during the Slated for Upgrades side quest, which she offers during Locked Mementos. She upgrades three runes and each has a fixed price in ancient parts:

Ancient Screws come off Guardian Scouts and off the Decayed Guardians lying in fields, so this is not a late-game ask — it is three drops from the wrecks you walk past on the way to Hateno.

Once it is on, the Sensor + tracks any object already registered in the Hyrule Compendium. That is the whole loop: photograph a thing once, then let the Slate ping for it forever. The shrine guide covers the shrine-finding half of the Sensor; this is the materials half, and it is the reason to bother with the register at all.

One sunshroom turns Symin into a shop

With the Sensor + unlocked, Purah's assistant Symin asks to see it and starts the Sunshroom Sensing side quest. It is short:

1. Photograph the sunshroom growing behind the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab to register it, then report back.
2. Set the Sensor + to sunshrooms and collect three wild ones in Retsam Forest, north of Hateno Village.
3. Hand them to Symin. He pays out three Hearty Truffles.

Then he mentions there is something else he wanted to discuss — and that is the part that matters. Finishing Sunshroom Sensing is what turns Symin into a picture vendor. Skip the quest and the shop below does not exist.

What Symin charges per picture

The Guidance Stone in the lab has old pictures stored on it, and Symin will sell them. Buying one registers the corresponding compendium entry exactly as if you had taken the photo yourself.

Two rules govern the stock, and both are helpful:

• Symin only stocks what you are missing. The number of Fauna Pictures on the shelf equals the number of Creature entries absent from your compendium. You cannot waste rupees buying a duplicate, and the shelf itself is a progress bar.
• A bought picture can be overwritten but not restored. If you later photograph the subject yourself, your shot replaces the default one permanently. The entry stays registered either way; it is the image you lose.

The eleven pictures that cost 500

Elite Enemy Pictures are the expensive tier, and they carry a hard gate: Symin does not stock them until Dark Beast Ganon is dead. In a base-game save there are eleven of them, and this is the complete list:

Seven of the eleven are one-off scripted fights: Master Kohga, the four Blights at the end of the Divine Beasts, and the two Ganon phases. The other four are Silver-tier overworld enemies that only start spawning at high World Level. That is the shape of the list — the entries hardest to line up a shot for, sold back to you at five times the standard price, and only once the credits have rolled.

Turn the camera on before the arena door closes and you save yourself 500 rupees a head.

Master Mode adds the four Golden-tier enemies to this shelf, and The Champions' Ballad adds Monk Maz Koshia.

The one entry Symin will not sell you

There is a single exception to "buy anything you missed", and it is a funny one: the Sunshroom.

Symin's shop only opens once Sunshroom Sensing is complete — and Sunshroom Sensing requires you to photograph a sunshroom. By the time you can buy pictures at all, the Sunshroom entry is already registered. A default sunshroom image exists in the game's files and is unreachable, because there is no state in which a player needs it.

It costs you nothing and blocks nothing. It is just the one entry in the register that can only ever arrive by your own shutter.

Normal Mode and Master Mode share one picture slot

A deep-cut for anyone running both files: the game stores compendium images taken with the Camera Rune in the same location for Normal Mode and Master Mode. Photograph a Moblin in your Master Mode save and it overwrites the Moblin picture you took in Normal.

Pictures bought from Symin are stored separately and are not overwritten by this. So if you care about the images themselves rather than just the entry count, the purchased defaults are the stable ones.

The registration counts stay per-save. This is about which image sits in the frame, not about whether the entry is ticked.

What a finished compendium actually pays

Fill all of it and Symin hands over the Classified Envelope, a key item whose inventory description says it contains a picture of a young Sheikah woman. You cannot open it. There is no follow-up quest, no armour set, no rune. It is a trophy and a joke — the lab's budget, as Symin puts it, does not run to a real reward.

If you would rather buy the register than earn it, the arithmetic at Symin's listed prices is unforgiving. In a base-game save, 373 entries are purchasable at 100 rupees and 11 at 500, with the Sunshroom arriving free from the quest that opens the shop:

That is a ceiling, not a bill — each entry you photograph yourself is one Symin stops stocking. Read the other way round, every casual shutter press on the road is 100 rupees you do not have to hand back.

One last thing worth knowing before you start counting: creatures and equipment that are exclusive to amiibo are not in the Hyrule Compendium at all. No amount of scanning is required, and no scanner is locked out of completion.

Quick Action Checklist

• Get the Camera by finishing Locked Mementos: carry Blue Flame to the furnace outside the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab, then use the Guidance Stone. Camera, Album and Compendium arrive together.
• Bring Purah 3 Ancient Screws for the Sheikah Sensor +. Guardian wrecks on the way to Hateno cover it.
• Finish Sunshroom Sensing — photograph the sunshroom behind the lab, then fetch three from Retsam Forest. This is what opens Symin's picture shop.
• Photograph every boss before the fight ends: the four Blights, Master Kohga, Calamity Ganon and Dark Beast Ganon. Missing one costs 500 rupees to replace, and only after the credits.
• Sweep an enemy camp with the camera up — an orange reticle means the subject is unregistered, blue means you already have it.
• Close the Treasure category early. It is four entries: Treasure Chest, Ore Deposit, Rare Ore Deposit, Luminous Stone Deposit.
• Expect Equipment to be the long tail. It is 184 of the 385 entries, and it fills up by holding gear, not by exploring.
• Buy back what you skipped at 100 rupees a picture. Symin's shelf shows exactly how many entries you are missing in each category.
• Do not hunt for a Sunshroom picture in the shop. It is the one entry that cannot be bought, and the quest already gave it to you.
• Finish the set for the Classified Envelope from Symin, and know going in that it is a sealed trophy, not a reward with stats on it.