Learn how to effectively hunt animals and gather meat in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to enhance your gameplay experience.Need meat to make delicious food recipes in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom? Here are some tips to easily hunt animals in Hyrule and make sure they don’t get away.
One of the most important ingredients for cooking in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is meat . Meat is very nutritious and you can use it to prepare recipes that allow you to recover a lot of health , and a very effective way to get it for your inventory is by going out to hunt animals .
If you don’t know how to hunt in this game, below in this entry of our complete guide we show you the most basic concepts of hunting and the essential tricks that you should apply in your game so that you don’t miss any prey.
How to hunt animals and birds easily?
In order to hunt animals and birds easily in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the first thing you’ll need is a bow and arrows . This is the ideal weapon for hunting animals in the game, since most of them are quite elusive when they see or hear you and will move away from you, making it difficult to kill them in melee (unless they run past you, don’t even bother trying.
Luckily, there are a ton of different bows in the game, and you’ll be collecting them in no time. Explore areas and open chests, kill enemies and steal from them… You’ll soon have plenty of bows in your bag, as well as arrows , which are usually found by breaking boxes or pots .
Well, once you have a bow and arrows, you need to know how to proceed with the hunt. Here are the 3 most important tips in this regard:
Don’t be loud
One of the key factors to being successful in hunting is not making noise so that the prey doesn’t get scared and run away. Link can make noise when he walks, and even more when he runs, so it’s important to stay calm and patient.
- Look at the noise icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to see how much noise you’re making.
- The icon is just below the temperature and is shown with purple waves .
- The more noise you make, the more intense and larger the waves will be, and vice versa, the less noise you make.
- To avoid making noise, you have to crouch by pressing the left joystick inwards .
- Once crouched, continue moving very slowly to make even less noise.
Keep your distance
Don’t forget that, in addition to noise, animals have sight and can obviously see you approaching . Crouching is not only useful to avoid loud sounds, but also to prevent prey from seeing you coming.
But even when you are crouching, the animals can still see you .
- It is necessary to stay at a certain distance from the prey so as not to scare it away (hence why we said that the bow is your greatest ally).
- You can also take advantage of the environment by taking cover behind trees or crouching in tall grass.
Always try to stay several meters away from the prey or go towards it while its back is turned . All so that it doesn’t see you.
Target the most vulnerable parts
Finally, in order to effectively kill your prey , you will have to aim for its weakest parts . Which ones? Obviously, the head or the heart. Generally, aiming for the head usually results in a critical hit that kills the animal with a single arrow.
- You’ll want to be careful with your aim because if you don’t get a good shot off, the prey will start to run away and you’ll be unlikely to get a hit on it while it’s running.
- It will be much worse if you miss the shot , because he may get scared and run away.
- Keep your pulse steady before shooting and be sure that you will hit the target.
Keep in mind that bow shots have a drop and arrows don’t always go in a straight line. It depends on the bow you’re using, of course, but most of the time an arrow won’t shoot in a straight line, so if you’re far away expect the arrow to drop slightly on its path. Sometimes, aiming a little above your head is a good idea.
We hope that with this short basic tutorial you already know how to go hunting to get meat for your inventory. We recommend that you always have plenty of meat with you , it is one of the most useful materials in recipes. Good luck on the hunt!