The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom – Complete Guide To Dragons (2024)

Dragon parts in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom are great items to get your hands on for your fusing and cooking needs. However, just as they were in the prequel to this installment, they're a bit tricky to get your Hylian paws on. You'll need no shortage of hard problem-solving and ingenuity to reach these rare treasures.

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There are four dragons in Hyrule, and you can get five parts from each of them. Some dragons are friendlier than others, and some are a bit more shy. With the introduction of the Depths, you'll not only have your hands full trying to reach them in the sky, but you'll need to search both high and low to find them.

Dragon Parts And Effects

You can gain dragon parts from each of the dragons by striking them in a specific spot. In Breath of the Wild, you could strike them with an arrow while falling and chase down the part as it fell.

You can still do this method in Tears of the Kingdom, but you can also now land on the dragons and stand on their backs.

While on a dragon's back, you can pick up Spike shards randomly (up to around ten-12 each time) or strike the dragon with a weapon in melee or by arrow for a specific type of part.

Each dragon gives a certain type of part depending on the body part you strike:

• Horn = Horn
• Head = Fang
• Horn/Body Spike = Spike
• Body = Scale
• Feet = Claw

Each body part can be fused to your weapons, arrows, and shields to add damage bonuses and the associated dragon's effects.

Additionally, you can add these parts to a cooked dish to guarantee your meal will have a 'Critical Success.' This can:

• Add time to your meal's effects
• Increase heart/stamina recovery
• Add +1 effectiveness to an effect

Where To Find The Dragons

All dragons have their own unique flight paths, and with the introduction of the Depths, they each have an above-ground and below-ground route (indicated on the below maps by solid — above ground — and opaque — below ground — lines).

They infinitely alternate between these two paths in a loop, so if you don't spy your dragon in the skies, chances are that they're under your feet.

Unlike in Breath of the Wild, farming these dragons will not cause them to fly away once you've drained them of resources. You can collect without a worry of a timer while you work, but you'll need to be cautious due to the dragons' defenses.

Each dragon (except the Light Dragon, who is harmless) will summon orbs of elemental energy meant to ward you off.

Farosh

Farosh mostly sticks to the Faron region, taking a tour around Lake Hylia and across the Faron Grasslands. However, she does take a slight detour through Gerudo Canyon, into the desert, and around the Labyrinth before returning to Faron.

Her route above ground is on the northern side of this path, stretching from the chasm in Gerudo (East Gerudo Chasm) through the canyon and to the Hills of Baumer Chasm. Once underground, she wraps around Lake Hylia and skirts along the lake's rock wall in the Depths until she reaches the desert's chasm again.

Dinraal

Dinraal prefers to keep to the northern side of the map, following the border on the north side of Death Mountain.

She begins her pattern in the Akkala Highlands at East Akkala Plains Chasm, flies along the east coast, and turns at the Ancient Tech Lab to continue along the northern border to Drenan Highlands Chasm (curving around the Great Hyrule Forest).

Underground, she takes almost the exact same path but in reverse and prefers to stay even further to the north than her above path.

Naydra

In the Lanayru and Necluda regions, Naydra can be found flying a rather large circle around one of Hyrule's most mountainous regions.

In the skies, she emerges from the chasm near Mount Lanayru Skyview Tower, Naydra Snowfield Chasm, and travels to Walnot Mountain before heading south to Kitano Bay and Ebon Mountain.

From here, she heads northwest, curves around the Meda Mountain Chasm (ignoring it), and travels sharply north-northwest to East Hill Chasm.

Underground, Naydra prefers to follow the Rutala River before reaching Samasa Plain and Lanayru Bay. She then travels south to close out the loop and emerge from the Naydra Snowfield Chasm.

Light Dragon

Unfortunately, the Light Dragon has the largest looping cycle of all four dragons, and she never ventures into the Depths. She can always be found in the Sky, and she prefers to keep to the edges of Hyrule's map (with two major exceptions).

To add further difficulty to the mission of finding her, she also flies far higher than any of the dragons. Under normal circ*mstances, you cannot reach her by using the Skyview Towers.

Tips For Farming

The greatest difficulty in farming for these dragons is in finding them. Unfortunately, they never seem to be right where you'd like them to be when you want them to be there. As such, you'll likely spend more time hunting them down than farming them.

The name of the game with these dragons will be patience. You can find a high place (either outside a chasm or on a Sky island along the dragon's route) and wait for the dragon to pass before gliding onto it. Alternatively, you can travel the dragon's route counterclockwise until you run into them.

If you choose to wait for the dragons, it can be a lengthy process — especially for the Light Dragon thanks to her excessively large loop time of two hours. Thankfully, Fast Traveling to new locations does not affect or reset the dragons' pathing in any way.

For those struggling to reach the dragons, there are a few good methods worth trying:

1. Try building a fire on a high ledge. Throw a pine coneon it for a strong updraft and ride it to the right altitude. Use Tulin as needed to reach the dragon.
2. Begin from a high vantage point on one of the Sky islands. Glide down when the dragon begins to approach the area beneath you.
3. Keep your eyes out for falling rocks from the Sky. Jump onto them and use Recall to launch yourself upward.
4. Find a high ledge and use a Rocket-Shield to get a needed altitude boost. Use Tulin to gust yourself forward.
5. Build a flying Zonai device and fly to the dragon.

Once you find these dragons, your struggle isn't quite over yet. The three main dragons will have their own kinds of defenses in temperature and in elemental attacks.

While farming, you'll need to keep in mind each dragon's type affinity and their location. Certain weapons might not be the best, and some armor sets will help protect you during your farming.

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