The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Game Guides
How-to walkthroughs, mechanics, modes, maps, settings, and systems.
October 2026
4 posts
Breath of the Wild Hateno House: Every Upgrade and Cost
Buying Link's house in Hateno Village is only the first half of Hylian Homeowner. Bolson then sells 14 additions at 100 rupees each, and nine of them do something. Here is the full 4,400-rupee bill, the conversation that unlocks the renovation menu, and what is worth hanging on the walls.
Breath of the Wild Best Shields: All 33, Stats and Locations
The Ancient Shield and the Royal Guard's Shield both block at 70 guard, but surf them down a rocky slope and the Royal Guard's loses durability fifteen times as fast. Here are all 33 shields with guard, durability, material and source, plus the surfing friction, surfing wear and Guardian-beam values from the game's data.
Breath of the Wild Kilton: Shop Locations, Mon and Masks
Kilton pays 3 Mon for a Bokoblin Horn, exactly what a shop pays in rupees, and 100 Mon for a Lynel Guts a shop buys for 200. Here is where the Fang and Bone opens, the full Mon exchange table, all twelve wares and their Divine Beast unlocks, and what the masks, the Dark set and Monster Extract actually do.
Breath of the Wild Great Fairy Fountain Locations and Costs
In Breath of the Wild the 10,000-rupee Great Fairy is not Tera. It is whichever fountain you open fourth. Here is where Cotera, Kaysa, Mija and Tera are, what each fairy you revive unlocks, and what every upgrade tier costs in materials once the rupees are paid.
September 2026
7 posts
Breath of the Wild Rupee Farming: How to Make Money Fast
Four Lynel Guts and an Energetic Rhino Beetle sell for 830 rupees raw and 2,330 as an elixir, by the selling formula Zelda Wiki publishes for Breath of the Wild. Here is what sells for the most, what the cooking pot does to a price, what Ramella pays for gems, where rupees still drop as rupees, and which side quests pay in cash or Diamonds.
Breath of the Wild Best Bows: Stats and Where to Get Them
The Great Eagle Bow draws 1.8 times as fast as a Royal Bow, and the Ancient Bow's arrows fall under less than a third of normal gravity. Neither number is on the inventory card. Here are all 26 bows in Breath of the Wild, the hidden stats that separate them, where each one comes from, and what every arrow type adds.
Breath of the Wild Dye Guide: All 15 Colors, Mapped
Sayge at the Kochi Dye Shop will turn any five matching-color materials into a dye for 20 rupees flat, and dyes your whole outfit at once whether you like it or not. Here is what makes all 15 colors, and the dozen pieces of armor that never take the dye.
Breath of the Wild Towers: All 15, and What Blocks the Climb
Fifteen Sheikah Towers rise the moment you place the Slate in the Great Plateau, and the game never tells you where the other fourteen are. One sits in a Bottomless Bog. One has a Royal Claymore buried in a stone skull. One is stranded inside a ring of Decayed Guardians. Here is every location and exactly what makes each climb different.
Breath of the Wild Yiga Clan Hideout and Master Kohga
Inside the Yiga Clan Hideout, hearts, armor and a pocket fairy stop mattering: a direct Windcleaver hit is a scripted game over. That makes it a stealth section pretending to be a dungeon, and the tool it wants you to use is fruit.
Breath of the Wild Tarrey Town: How to Build It All
Tarrey Town starts as a bare rock island in Lake Akkala with one carpenter standing on it and no supplies. Getting from there to a finished town is a full side quest chain — 110 bundles of wood, four recruits whose names all have to end in "son," and a wedding you are invited to. None of it is required to beat the game.
Breath of the Wild amiibo Rewards: 30 Exclusive Items
Zelda Wiki marks exactly thirty Breath of the Wild items with the same footnote: this item can only be obtained through amiibo. Here is the whole list by figure, the chest odds behind it, and the six drop tables that more than one figure reads.
August 2026
5 posts
Breath of the Wild Switch 2 Edition: What It Adds
Nintendo never published a resolution or a frame rate for the Switch 2 Edition of Breath of the Wild, which makes the performance pitch hard to argue about. The part you can actually pin down is Zelda Notes — eight features, 125 new Voice Memories, and 19 medals that only exist on this version.
Breath of the Wild Hyrule Compendium: All 385 Entries
The Hyrule Compendium has 385 entries in the base game, 394 with everything switched on, and one entry that Symin will never sell you no matter how many rupees you wave at him. Here is the whole register, the shop that fills the gaps, and the reward at the end.
Breath of the Wild Memory Locations: All 13 Pictures Mapped
Impa's photo hunt looks like optional busywork until you read what it gates: the Champion's Tunic after one memory, and a post-credits scene after all thirteen. Here is every location, the exact spots for the vague ones, and the five memories the album never tracks.
Breath of the Wild Champions' Ballad: Every Trial in Order
The Champions' Ballad is the only quest in Breath of the Wild that takes your hearts away. Sixteen new shrines, a real dungeon, a 4,000 HP monk, and a motorcycle at the end of it — here is the whole run, in order, with the numbers.
How to Beat Calamity Ganon in Breath of the Wild: Hyrule Castle, 8,000 HP, and Dark Beast Ganon
Calamity Ganon has 8,000 HP. Every Divine Beast you freed fires a laser down the shaft before the fight starts and strips 12.5% of it, which means the gap between the hardest version of this fight and the easiest one is exactly 4,000 hit points you never have to earn.
July 2026
7 posts
Breath of the Wild Horse Guide: Taming, Bond, and the Best Mounts
Breath of the Wild lets you tame a horse in the first hour and then never explains the bond meter, the spur economy, or why your horse keeps ignoring you. Here is how mounts actually work.
Breath of the Wild Master Sword Guide: 13 Hearts, Durability, and the Trial
The Master Sword has 30 base attack. A Royal Broadsword has 36. The legendary blade of Hyrule is, on paper, a downgrade — until you understand when it glows and what 54 floors of the Trial of the Sword actually buy you.
Breath of the Wild Korok Seed Guide: You Only Need 441 of the 900
Breath of the Wild has 900 Korok seeds and you need 441 of them. The other 459 buy a golden novelty item. Here is the exact cost curve, the smart buy order, and where Hestu keeps wandering off to.
Breath of the Wild Divine Beasts Guide: Order, Bosses and Rewards
The four Divine Beasts are Breath of the Wild's closest thing to dungeons, and the order you clear them changes how hard the game feels. Here is the smart sequence, every Blight Ganon fight, and what the Champion abilities actually do.
Breath of the Wild Shrine Guide: All 120, Sorted by What They Actually Give You
There are 120 shrines in Breath of the Wild and they are not interchangeable. Some are ten-minute puzzles, some are the best weapon farm in the game, and 42 of them are hidden behind overworld quests you can miss entirely.
Breath of the Wild Best Armor Guide: Sets That Actually Matter
Defense in Breath of the Wild is not a bar that fills up — it is a subtraction problem, and understanding the math tells you exactly which armor sets are worth farming and which are cosmetic traps.
Breath of the Wild Cooking Guide: The Recipes That Matter
Cooking in Breath of the Wild is not flavor text. It is your entire healing economy, your climate gear, and your damage buff — and almost every failed dish comes down to one rule people never get told.