Just started the game and it’s so much fun! I just got sage of wind but I’m still wearing only snow greaves. Wondering how I can get rupees to buy the armor that’s sold in town. Thanks!
By far the most accessible option I found after a decent internet search was the ridiculously huge apple orchard you find on Satori Mountain, east of Central Hyrule, right next to Sonapan Shrine. A full harvest will give you about 150 apples & a few golden apples. If you cook all of these into meals (5 apples together) you can make a bunch selling them. Keep the console powered on next to you for about half an hour and they will all respawn and you can just do it over and over. And you never have to worry about having enough food!
Bonus tip: Farm arrows from the Battle Talus outside Saharsa Slope Skyview Tower southeast of the castle.
Bonus bonus tip: Chopping grass with your weapon anywhere in Hyrule Field has a decent chance of getting you a Restless Cricket. Cook four of them with a monster part of your choice for a full stamina circle elixir.
I haven’t found a need to farm anything other than the above so far.
To help with apple farming, you can drop 21 apples on the ground and fuse them all together, and then save that to your autobuild favorites.
Once saved, you just need to select the apple cluster from your autobuild menu and then hover around the trees, and the apples will automatically jump into position. Then just cancel the autobuild, and they’ll all drop neatly into a pile for you. Makes clearing out the orchard at Satori Mountain a breeze.
Just to add to this, make sure to include a few golden apples in the cluster, so autobuild will pull them from the trees too.
Found this in my first couple hours and it’s been awesome. Make sure to bring 2-3 axes before going because it’s hard to find an axe stone around there, esp. to take care of the evermeans
Use your construct to build apples. So much faster.
If you feel like glitching, dupe diamonds. The shield hop dupe glitch will let you dupe 5 at a time.
It made me a bit nostalgic for the Elder Scrolls method of having each merchant having only so much money to buy from you with, which limits tricks like that. I’m dubious that Beedle really had 5000 rupees for me.
I think they patched that in 1.2.0
There’s some 1.20 glitch for item duping though that’s almost as good and better than anything in 1.1.2
Oh damn, you’re right. This looks more fun than the shield glitch too
This is why I don’t upgrade games or the Switch itself unless I really need to. I understand the reasons for anticheat in multiplayer, but in singleplayer I do what I want. I also only really do single player games anyways. Looks like I’m on 1.0.0 for TotK, so the dupe glitches work fine.
Definitely agreed. I commented more for people coming across this who are wondering why the glitch won’t work on their updated version(happened to me a few times on games I’ve gotten a few years after release)
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Just play the game— find, make, and sell stuff. It’s a really fun and well balanced experience as-is IMO, go do other thing if current thing not doable.
Check every cave, harvest ore, take the stonez to the Gerudo Woman in Goron city to get 10% more.
If you go this route it’s probably worth it to give lots of flint to Gomo too, if you have extra
I’ve given that mother fucker like 800 flint and haven’t seen any return on it, fuck Gomo, all my homies hate Gomo
I mean I’m not doing anything else with my flint but I still feel like I’m getting ripped off
The IMHO easiest way to make a bit of extra cash is to cook stuff you already own before selling - it might not be “get super rich super fast” useful, but requires basically no effort. In BotW, a meal or elixir made with 5 items sells for approximately 2.8 times the value of all raw ingredients combined, so you basically get thrice as much cash just by tossing stuff into a pot. I haven’t checked the multiplier in TotK yet, but stuff still gets “more valuable” if you simply spend a couple of seconds at a cooking pot, and the new recipe selection thing makes it faster than having to manually pick items from your inventory every time.
Personally, I also sell Luminous Ore. There are plenty of ore deposits all across Hyrule and since I don’t like the one armor set they’re needed for, I always end up with a surplus. You can also feed them to Dondons and they might poop out more valuable gemstones sometime later, but I don’t like to gamble and rather just sell the L.Ore directly.
Oh and Fire & Ice Wizzrobes are easy prey as well, as they die to a single hit of the opposing element - toss a Fire Fruit at a Blizzrobe and it will go poof immediatly. You can then pick up their “rods”, travel to Tarrey Town, pay the Goron kid 20 rupees to take the thing apart, and you will get a ruby or sapphire each time. Works with electro Wizzrobes as well (Topaz) but they’re not as easily OHKO’ed as their brethren.
Dupe diamonds, profit.
I just sell stones and things I have in large quantity. I also heard that cooking skewers of five prime meats gives a good return. Prime meat is plentiful in Hebra if you hunt wolves and moose.
I’ve got to think somebody has done an economic analysis of all the meals in the game and their payouts relative to ingredient investment. I wonder what the most profitable meal to cook is.
Make elixirs. The sum of the item prices you use in the elixir x1.8 will be the sell price.
The other thing is for early on in the game, just sell star fragments and diamonds. You will get plenty more over your 250hrs + journey. Or if you are like me, I just keep 10ish of things like rubies in my inventory and sell excess, until I have a reason to collect them (armour upgrades).
Molduga’s are easy to hit up, same with Talus, and they will get you some good parts for elixirs. Just bare in mind drop rates of some things (Molduga jaw are rare for example but guts and fins come in plenty. Similarly Lynel guts are rare, but other parts are plentiful. (You probably are not planning to hit Lynels yet though)
Well the best way I’ve found is just killing the taluses, a lot like BOTW. Either look up their locations or get searching, kill a few every blood moon and you’ll be doing fine.
Beyond that, monsters drop way more monster parts in general for this game, sell elixirs. If you do this, be aware that sell price is based on ingredients, not effects, and there’s a money multiplier for more ingredients, so cooking 5 at a time is always better, although you might wanna look online for the most valuable parts. Generally, rarer the better.
Another way is to check your game version and use whatever dupe works for that version, there’s a few, but not everyone wants to do that.
Explore every cave you come across and get all the ore. Sell gems and lower level monster parts at every opportunity. Resist the urge to hoard stuff, especially in early game. Soon enough you will be able to save up lots of money!
Resist the urge to hoard stuff
That goes against every rpg instinct I have!!
Any idea where I can get a hammer that can break the ores? Will a stone hammer be enough?
Later in the game, two of the sages can do it for free. Earlier in the game, just keep a weapon slot open for “weapon + rock/boulder”. The game’s pretty good about putting at least a rock where you need one, if not a weapon to go with it.
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Yeah, fuse a rock to anything. I prefer the two handed wooden sticks to make a rock hammer.
If you don’t hoard stuff, it’s that’s much harder to upgrade your armor with the Great Fairies. The later levels start getting really pricey. It’d be kind of nice to have a guide on what’s valuable and not used for armor upgrading.
That’s true. I prioritized selling just in the early game, before I’d unlocked all the great fairies.
I thought you had to save ores to upgrade your armor?
