Breath of the Wild Tarrey Town: How to Build It All

Bolson tells you upfront that the demolition fee on the abandoned house in Hateno Village is 50,000 rupees. It is a number you can never actually pay him: say yes and he just remarks that you remind him of himself back in the day, then drops the price anyway to 3,000 rupees and 30 bundles of wood, same as if you say no. That opening con is the tone for the whole chain that follows: Tarrey Town is built entirely out of Hudson asking you for one more thing, and you never quite knowing if the ask is the real one.

A side quest the game never tells you exists

"From the Ground Up" is not required to finish Breath of the Wild — Zelda Wiki's own trivia entry confirms you can defeat Calamity Ganon without ever starting it. It also ends in a scripted wedding with named guests, and it is the way Rhondson's armor boutique, a general store, an ore shop, and a rare-armor merchant end up inside walking distance of each other in the middle of Akkala. Nothing else in this vertical's coverage walks through the build itself — the armor guide and Calamity Ganon guide both send you to shop in Tarrey Town without explaining how it got there.

Before Akkala: buy the house in Hateno

Tarrey Town has one prerequisite: you have to buy the abandoned house in Hateno Village, the first stretch of Bolson's "Hylian Homeowner" quest. Find Bolson behind the abandoned house, offer to buy it, and he opens with that fake 50,000-rupee price before dropping to the real terms — 3,000 rupees and 30 bundles of wood, paid in that order. Deliver the wood, then hand over the rupees, and the house is yours, along with a free weapon mount Bolson leaves behind as a housewarming gift. Only after that sale closes does Bolson mention he is sending his carpenter Hudson up to Akkala to clear land for an expansion and tell you to catch Hudson before he goes. There is no window to miss: Hudson only leaves once you talk to him and wish him luck, and that conversation is what starts "From the Ground Up." You do not have to finish "Hylian Homeowner" first, either. Bolson only offers his 100-rupee furniture and exterior upgrades after Hudson has left for Akkala, and the house quest only completes once you have bought all 14 of them (1,400 rupees in total), so it runs alongside Tarrey Town rather than before it.

Finding Hudson on his rock in Lake Akkala

Hudson is on a small, circular rock island in the northern part of Lake Akkala that had nothing on it but a Goddess Statue before he showed up. He has already named the place Tarrey Town and built one house to store supplies in, but that house and the statue are the entire town. He is short on people, money, and materials, and asking him to change that is what starts the quest proper.

The 110 bundles of wood, in four deliveries

Hudson does not ask for wood once. He asks four separate times, each batch bigger than the last, and each delivery unlocks the next recruiting errand:

That is 110 bundles for Tarrey Town on top of the 30 you already spent buying the Hateno house — 140 bundles of wood across the two quests before either is finished. You get wood by felling a tree with any bladed weapon or a Remote Bomb, then striking or bombing the fallen log to turn it into a bundle, and loose bundles can also be picked up at settlements like Hateno Village and at stables; there is no shortcut that skips the count, so budget an afternoon of chopping alongside the travel.

Four recruits, and every name has to end in son

Bolson Construction has a strict naming policy — Hudson repeats it before every single recruiting errand — so the four people you find all happen to already have "-son" names. It plays as a running joke through the whole quest, but it is also how you will recognize the right NPC in each location.

Greyson, the Goron who clears the boulders

Hudson needs someone with "brute physical strength" to break apart the boulders sitting on the build site, and suggests a Goron. Greyson is a digger at the Southern Mine in Eldin Canyon who is tired of going unrecognized; tell him about Tarrey Town and he leaves immediately, bringing his younger brother Pelison along. Back in Tarrey Town, Pelison sets up Ore and More to sell the ore that turns up inside the cleared boulders.

Rhondson, the Gerudo tailor from Kara Kara Bazaar

For the second errand, Hudson's own work clothes have worn out and he asks for a tailor, guessing the Gerudo might have one. Rhondson is sitting outside the Kara Kara Bazaar Inn, worn out from an unsuccessful search for a husband and short on tailoring work in the desert. Point her toward Tarrey Town and she packs up for the trip on her own. Once she arrives she patches Hudson's clothes and opens the Rhondson Armor Boutique, which is where the Desert Voe set is sold outside Gerudo Town itself.

Fyson, the Rito who wanted his own store

Delivery number three funds a general store, and Hudson reasons a Rito trader could fly supplies in and out. Fyson is in Rito Village, frustrated that his mother wants him to inherit her shop, The Slippery Falcon, rather than let him run his own. He is hesitant about the distance to Akkala but decides leaving the nest is worth it, and gathers items to sell along the way. He arrives and opens the Tarrey Town branch of the Slippery Falcon before you even get back to check on him.

Kapson, the Zora priest for one last wedding

The fourth delivery is where Hudson admits he has gotten engaged to Rhondson and needs someone "priest-like" to marry them, suggesting the Zora. Kapson, an aging retired priest in Zora's Domain, has been hoping for one final ceremony to officiate and leaves for Akkala the moment he hears the news, confident he can make the trip on his own fins and feet.

The wedding, and what it actually pays

With Kapson in place, Hudson has one more ask: invite his boss Bolson and coworker Karson, both back in Hateno, to the ceremony. Track them down, deliver the invitation, and return to Tarrey Town to find the wedding ready to start in front of the Goddess Statue. Kapson runs the vows — including one improvised line about naming future children according to Bolson Construction policy, which Rhondson objects to before the whole town talks her into it — and once he pronounces them married, Hudson thanks you with three Diamonds, recovered from the boulders Greyson cleared. If your Diamond inventory is full when he tries to hand them over, he holds onto them until you have room. That payout closes "From the Ground Up."

What a finished Tarrey Town is worth to you

The finished town is more than the shops your recruits open. Six more named residents — Granté, Hagie, Hunnie, Moggs, Monari, and Ruli — move in on their own, and two further side quests unlock: "A Parent's Love" and "Hobbies of the Rich." Granté, Robbie and Jerrin's son, is an armor merchant, not a weapons shop: he sells back rare armor pieces you have owned before but have no other way to replace, such as the Rubber, Climbing and Barbarian sets, and he stocks a replacement Hylian Shield for 3,000 rupees if you no longer have one, though a shield bought from him never comes with bonus modifiers. There is also one Treasure Chest on the island — a Hylian Retriever behind Moggs and Monari's house leads you to a buried metal chest holding five Bomb Arrows if you make friends with it. What Tarrey Town does not do is put you near Tera's fountain specifically — hers sits across the map beneath the Gerudo Great Skeleton in Gerudo Desert, not in Akkala. Akkala does have its own Great Fairy, though: Mija's fountain, southeast of Tarrey Town, which Tarrey Town residents like Monari mention in passing but are too spooked to go check out themselves. All four Great Fairies charge the same climbing scale — 100, then 500, then 1,000, then 10,000 rupees — based on the order you revive them in, not on which fairy she happens to be, so whichever fountain you get to last is the 10,000-rupee one.

Quick Action Checklist

• Buy the Hateno house first — talk to Bolson, deliver 30 wood, pay 3,000 rupees — then talk to Hudson and wish him luck; he leaves for Akkala and "From the Ground Up" begins. Bolson's furniture upgrades that finish "Hylian Homeowner" can wait.
• Find Hudson on the rock island in northern Lake Akkala and start delivering wood: 10, then 20, then 30, then 50 bundles, 110 total.
• After each delivery, go recruit the matching "-son": Greyson (Southern Mine, Eldin Canyon), Rhondson (Kara Kara Bazaar), Fyson (Rito Village), Kapson (Zora's Domain).
• Invite Bolson and Karson from Hateno once Hudson reveals the engagement, then return to Tarrey Town for the wedding.
• Collect your 3 Diamonds, then check the Hylian Retriever behind Moggs and Monari's house for a hidden Bomb Arrow chest.