What You Need to Know Before Playing Zelda Breath of the Wild

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The Legend of Zelda: Jiff of the Wild is truly an amazing game. With its open world, massive map, shrines, bosses, side quest and thousands of collectables, in that location's and then much to exercise—and it'southward completely upwardly to you lot to practice things how y'all similar.

All of that freedom can be overwhelming to a beginner, though. How practice you lot collect weapons? How do you earn rupees? Where should you lot explore get-go? Or which Divine Beast should you take on commencement?

This guide is meant to help you get started without running into any major spoilers, so y'all can experience the game with the same amazement and wonder that yous should, but just with a little more direction.

Table of Contents

• General Tips
• Earning Rupees
• Cooking
• Weapons, Armour and Gainsay

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General Tips

Whether you're riding your horse through a field or completing one of the 120 shrines, these general tips can be applied to your coincidental gameplay.

Explore, Explore, Explore!

This game'south HUGE open up world gives you the freedom to go anywhere, and so explore to your heart's content. Yous can find lots to do and see simply by walking effectually, scaling mountains, or travelling down winding paths.

Don't Be Agape to Go off the Browbeaten Path

Speaking of which, if you come across a small trail leading off to somewhere, follow it! You tin unremarkably find treasures in that location that are hidden from the chief pathway.

Consummate Shrines for Spirit Orbs

Spirit orbs are items given to Link in the game by the Sheikah Monks each time you complete a Shrine. You definitely desire to have enough of Spirit Orbs because y'all tin can merchandise them in for more than heart containers or stamina vessels.

Pray to Goddess Statues for Heart Containers or Stamina Vessels

In order to actually obtain more than Centre Containers or Stamina Vessels, you lot'll need to runway down the Goddess Statues scattered throughout the game and "pray" to them in society to trade four Spirit Orbs for a Heart Container, or a portion of a Stamina Vessel. You tin can upgrade these how y'all like, but I prefer to level up my Stamina showtime, then heart containers. (As you tin eat much more than food to upgrade Heart Containers vs. Stamina, merely more on that subsequently.)

Sparkling Rocks Can Be Bombed for Ores and Gems

If you lot run into sparkling rocks lying around, bomb them! Once they break open up, you tin collect different ores and gems which tin can be collected, traded, or sold.

Pray to the Goddess Statues to earn Heart Containers or more than Stamina.

Talk to All NPCs

Information technology always gets a chip tedious in RPGs when yous take what feels like millions of NPCs to talk to, but those in Zelda are all pretty useful. Some tin can just give y'all information about the area you're in (which is useful in Breath of the Wild's massive open world), or about something else important to gameplay. Some will give y'all food or items, and some will give you side quests. Yous'll know if an NPC has a side quest for you if they have a cerise exclamation mark on their text bubble when you lot pass by.

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Items Reset With Each Blood Moon

Zelda will tell you in a vocalization-over near the blood moon and how monsters regenerate, just what she fails to mention is that everything regenerates when the blood moon comes. That includes chests, weapons, items, etc. If you find a weapon you lot really like, postage where it is on the map, and go back to it subsequently the blood moon to collect it again.

You lot Don't Accept to Steer Your Horse

It took me ages to learn this, and I only actually institute out when ane of the people at the stable told me, only you don't actually need to steer your horse. Information technology will travel along the path automatically, leaving you free to sightsee, fight, or leap off when you need to collect items.

Look for Peculiar Patterns to Observe Korok Seeds!

Now, in that location is this fantastic interactive map (warning: filled with spoilers!) which you tin can use to track down all 900 Korok seeds, but if you don't want to "cheat," y'all can find them on your ain just by existence observant. Wait for a unmarried flower in a field. A circle of rocks that is missing 1 rock to complete it. Metal boxes that seem to form a pattern. Interact with these objects and complete the puzzles to obtain Korok seeds. You'll definitely desire some!

Use the Stasis rune to run across which items you lot can interact with.

Utilize Stasis to See What Y'all Can Interact With

When you're showtime starting the game, it can exist a bit confusing to effigy out which things you can interact with; which items you can bomb, which rocks you lot tin can lift, which items on the ground yous can pick upward, etc. If you use the Stasis Rune, information technology'll highlight all interactable objects in a nighttime yellow color for you lot (fifty-fifty chests that are hidden underwater!). Later on a while, you'll starting time to recognise things easily, simply this was a game-changer for me when I offset started playing.

Utilize Shrines and Towers to Teleport/Fast Travel

Every time you visit a shrine (note that you lot don't have to actually complete the shrine, you only need to interact with it using your Sheikah Slate) or unlock a tower, it gives you the ability to teleport in that location from anywhere on the map. Keep in listen that you do not have to be at a shrine or tower to teleport, either; you can literally teleport anywhere or at any time in the game. Discover yourself up against a big enemy who is going to impale y'all? Break the game and teleport away! Or, just teleport to get you to places on the map quicker than walking or past horse.

Don't Be Agape to Plow Around and Head Back Where You Came From

When I first started playing, I merely galloped around wherever, and at one point I found myself too close to Hyrule Castle where there are Guardians galore. I realised it's better to just turn around and leave that surface area until I levelled upward some more. I used a skull postage stamp to remind myself non to go back there for a while!

Save Ofttimes!

Though there's no massive penalty for decease in the game (you merely become dorsum to the last time the game autosaved), it'southward best to salvage frequently, especially when going up against tough monsters or when you've collected some expert loot. That way if you do dice, you only lose a tiny bit of progress.

Lift upward rocks to find hidden rupees.

Earning Rupees

Just like in the real world, yous need some sort of currency to survive. You can use rupees to purchase extra arrows, powerful armour or ingredients for cooking. Here are some easy ways to rake in the rupees!

Sell Spare Monster Parts

Once you start killing monsters, you'll detect you accept a LOT of monster parts. You tin can start to sell these for rupees. While you do need some in the game for upgrading armour and making potions, y'all'll end upward with far more than than yous'll ever need. Sell the spares for rupees.

Sell Spare Ores

Merely like monster parts, yous'll somewhen be swimming in ores. You can sell them for rupees at the beginning of the game, as they aren't really needed much until after on (by which point, you'll likely take a stash of rupees already).

Check Nether Rocks

In that location are all sorts of things hidden under rocks (sometimes lizards—so hit "A" as shortly as you pick up a rock to grab one), but in that location's often rupees hidden there also!

Don't sell Ancient Parts during the early game—you'll need them to level upward of import things.

Break Vases and Boxes

You lot can break vases and boxes by throwing them against the wall, or using a weapon to suspension them apart. There's often rupees hidden inside!

Stop Side Quests

You can occasionally receive rupees from NPCs by fetching items for them, finishing their side quests, or saving them from monster attacks.

Await for Hidden Chests

There are chests hidden everywhere in Breath of the Wild. Look on side paths, underwater, high rocks and more than to find hidden chests, where rupees tin can exist stored.

Relieve All the Aboriginal Parts

I don't recommend selling ancient parts. You can find them by interacting with broken guardians or defeating a guardian (some hints on that later!), but they are very valuable to upgrade your Runes and Sheikah Slate, so don't sell them!

Cook food instead of eating it raw for better stat upgrades and to fill up more than hearts!

Cooking

Cooking is a new feature for the Zelda series. It provides a way to furnish your wellness, stamina or even proceeds a temporary stat boost.

Collect Lots of Nutrient and Ingredients

One smashing thing about the inventory in Jiff of the Wild is that it'due south unlimited for materials; you lot don't get capped off on how many pages of ingredients that you tin carry. So hoard away: collect every mushroom, herb and constitute you lot see. And chase lots of animals!

Chase With Arrows

Yous can kill animals using your regular weapons, but it tin can be difficult to sneak upward on them as they're all quite skittish. I prefer to utilise my bow and arrow to hunt. You'll larn that unlike animals yield different meat with varying levels of quality. Hunting is probably ane of my favourite things to exercise in the game!

Cooking Gives Y'all Special Effects

You don't need to eat to live in Breath of the Wild, simply cooking can requite you special effects in the game. In improver to restoring your hearts or giving you additional hearts, cooked meals tin too requite y'all stamina increases, defence force or attack bonuses, protection from cold, heat, or electricity and more.

I always continue my nutrient inventory completely stocked; you never know when you'll need a meal, and when y'all might be far off from a cooking pot.

Larn Which Stat Upgrades Certain Ingredients Provide

Cooking is not completely explained to you in the game, only if you get into the inventory and read the descriptions of the materials they volition tell you what sort of stat increment they give. Try unlike combinations to learn recipes and meals that'll give you lot a good stat increase.

Melt Every Time You Come up Beyond a Cooking Spot

I've gotten in the addiction of cooking every time I come up beyond a cooking area in the game (the cooking pot placed over a fire). You find them in stables, cities/towns and sometimes in monster-infested areas. I also find it skillful practice to cook until all three pages of my food inventory are filled, that way I always accept plenty of meals to consume when I'm fighting a tough enemy or boss.

Effort to Find "Hearty" Foods

Anything with "hearty" in the title volition requite you actress hearts when cooked, i.e., hearty truffle, hearty durian, hearty radish, big hearty radish. You tin can melt these alone to fully recover your hearts and earn you some temporary hearts (which only go away when removed past an enemy attack).

You tin find a full list of recipes in-game here!

The easiest Divine Beast to complete first is Divine Beast Vah Ruta!

Weapons, Armour and Combat

Even though exploring the land and cooking delicious dishes is fun, you notwithstanding take a princess to salvage. These tips will help y'all prepare to confront the Divine Beasts or whatever monster that comes your way.

Which Divine Beast to Complete First?

I recommend taking on Divine Beast Vah Ruta (the Elephant animal) first. It's the easiest of the four to have on, gives you a pretty good bonus upon completing information technology, and following the story that leads up to Vah Ruta also rewards you with some good weapons, items and armour. I likewise think the game does a meliorate chore of explaining how the beasts work and how to get to them by following this storyline. i.due east., if you do this fauna first, yous'll know exactly what to do when it's time to fight the others!

Bonus: And you lot become to meet Sidon! Yous'll understand why that's worth mentioning once you come across him.

Look for the lightning bolt outcome in your inventory to run across if the item will go y'all struck by lightning.

Things Struck by Lightning Volition Have a Special Effect in Your Inventory

The game will give you hints, but information technology's pretty obvious to know when your items will crusade you to be struck by lightning during a tempest. Open your inventory and await at your shields, weapons and bows; if at that place'south a lightning result on them, that means they'll concenter lightning (basically, anything that's not just wooden). The same goes when y'all make information technology to Decease Mountain; all wooden items will catch fire (and will have a smoke effect on them while y'all're at that place).

Don't Get Attached to Weapons

Here's the thing: All items in this game (except one, but that's non until much later) will eventually interruption and you'll be unable to use it. Then don't get attached to the great sword or crawly bow that you found. After a few hits, it'll break, and you lot can find a new one soon, anyhow.

Kill Monsters for Better Weapons

I of the primary ways you can become new weapons is through combat. Killing Bokoblins, Moblins, Lizalfos, Wizzrobes and more will cause them to drop any item they were holding for you to pick up and so employ yourself.

An "Upwards" Arrow on a Weapon Ways Information technology'due south Better Than What You're Currently Property

When y'all interact with a dropped weapon, you lot'll observe that it has either an upwardly or downwards pointer, or a directly line. These indicators permit you know if the item is meliorate, worse than or the same every bit the particular you're currently holding.

If any item is ameliorate than the one you're currently holding, it'll have an up arrow near its proper noun.

Suspension and Swallow Meals Mid-Combat

Some RPGs don't permit yous to pause mid-combat, but Breath of the Wild does. I mentioned this above, but not but can yous literally teleport away mid-combat, but y'all can also intermission the game and eat meals to increment your hearts, or increase your stats. Utilise this to your reward!

Farm Arrows by Killing Lizalfos

I honey arrows and hunting with bows, so I found that I needed LOTS of them in the game. At present, y'all can certainly purchase arrows from travelling merchants, in stables or in towns, but you can besides farm them by killing Lizalfos—particularly the ones along the path to Zora's domain. Each one drops 5x arrows, and so afterwards going there once, I gained 100 arrows! Then you lot can go back after a few days (when enemies regenerate) or after a claret moon and do it again.

Kill Enemies with Opposite Items

It should be pretty obvious, but if you discover a Wizzrobe that shoots burn down, yous can shoot him with an water ice pointer and he'll die in ane shot. On the other paw, y'all tin kill an Ice-Breath Lizalfos with a burn down arrow in i shot.

Level up Armour for Better Stats

You tin can level up your armour by finding faeries and interacting with them. You'll have to merchandise rupees and materials, but yous can level upwardly your armour to accept better defense or protection from the elements.

You tin defeat Guardians early on in the game with simply a shield.

Parry Guardians to Kill Them

Initially, I'll say to avoid Guardians. They're very powerful early game and can kill you in one strike.

Nevertheless, once you're more comfy with controls, and probably after you've completed the Ta'Loh Naeg shrine (which comes pretty early in the game), you can parry and shoot the Guardian with its ain laser beam.

To parry, have your shield out. It doesn't demand to be a special one—any standard shield will do. As soon as yous confront against a Guardian, printing down on the left-trigger and concord your shield in front of you. Hold it in that location until you lot see the blue light flash. As soon as the blue lite flashes, hit the "A" button, and your shield volition deflect the blue laser beam back at the Guardian and kill it!

Some stronger Guardians will require you to hit them with a few beams of light, but you can practice information technology! Practice a few times with some of the Guardians in the Dandy Plateau, and then become out there and start taking those suckers downward!

What Accept You Learned?

That's information technology for the ultimate Breath of the Wild beginner'southward guide! Are there whatsoever other beginner tips and tricks that you've learned since playing? Allow usa know in the comments department below!

© 2019 Brittany Brown

Luke on March 27, 2020:

Actually, a play a trick on a learned is to always a torch, a Korok leaf(for sailing), a metallic or stone weapon(for decease mountain), and a wooden weapon(For lightning storms). Always bear these-you don't want to become caught off guard!

Brittany Chocolate-brown (author) from Sydney, Commonwealth of australia on September 19, 2019:

Awesome, Dan! Glad it helped! Have fun :)

Dan English on September 18, 2019:

Thanks so much for this! I've not long started playing BotW and as much every bit i dearest it, at that place are some things that aren't explained - but this article answers all my questions! Many thanks!

Brittany Brown (author) from Sydney, Australia on March 27, 2019:

Cheers Larry! It'south an awesome game, you'll love it if you ever play :)

Larry Slawson from N Carolina on March 27, 2019:

I accept been wanting to play this game for quite awhile now. Looks so much fun. Thanks for sharing!

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