Breath of the Wild Compendium

What the Hyrule Compendium is, and what this page adds

In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the Hyrule Compendium is the catalog that fills itself in as you photograph things with the Sheikah Slate. It is genuinely useful once it is full, with one catch: an entry stays blank until you have taken the picture, and the book only answers the question you can already ask. You look up a monster you have met and read its page. This tool starts complete instead. All 389 entries are here from the first second, sorted into the same five categories the game uses.

The lookup the in-game book cannot do

The question players actually have is usually the other way around. Not “what does a Lynel drop” but “which monsters drop amber, because I need three more for a quest”, or “what am I going to run into if I cross Hyrule Field”. The search box here matches names, compendium descriptions, common locations and drops all at once, so both directions are a single query. Type amber and you get the 12 entries that drop it. Type Hyrule Field and you get everything the compendium records as living there.

Where the data comes from

Entries, descriptions, locations, drops and artwork come from the Hyrule Compendium API, a community maintained open source project.

What each of the five categories holds

• Monsters (81): chuchus, keese, octoroks and wizzrobes through bokoblins, moblins and lizalfos up to Hinox, Stone Taluses, Lynels, the Yiga Clan and Calamity Ganon, with every color and elemental variant listed separately.
• Equipment (185): the largest category by far. The Master Sword and the Hylian Shield, the royal, guardian and ancient weapon lines, Lynel weapons, bows, elemental arrows and every shield.
• Materials (36): what you cook with. Apples, wildberries, hearty durians, hydromelons, spicy peppers, voltfruit, mushrooms and herbs.
• Creatures (83): horses including the Giant Horse and the White Horse, the Lord of the Mountain, sand seals, boars, goats, foxes, birds, fish and insects.
• Treasure (4): treasure chests plus the three kinds of ore deposit.

Open Materials when you are planning a recipe, Treasure when you are running an ore route, Monsters when you are farming parts for armor upgrades, and Equipment when you want to know what an item you just picked up actually is. When you cannot tell which category something belongs to, do not guess: the search box ignores categories and matches all five at once.

Four ways to reach an entry quickly

• You know the name: type it. The list filters as you type, so there is no Enter key and no submit button. Partial words work, and case does not matter.
• You know where you are: type the region or landmark, such as Lanayru Great Spring, Gerudo Desert or Eldin Canyon, to see what the compendium records there.
• You know the material: type the drop, such as bokoblin horn or lynel hoof, and you get every entry that yields it.
• You are just browsing: use the category tabs. Each tab lists its entries in compendium ID order, the same order the game uses, which is handy when you are filling gaps in your own book.

Worked example: what a monster drops and where it lives

1. Type the monster name in the search box. Typing lynel brings back the whole family, from the plain Lynel to the Silver Lynel, along with the Lynel weapons. The four Lynels are separate compendium entries with their own drops and locations.
2. Click a card. The panel shows the artwork, the compendium description, the common locations and the drops. A Lynel lists lynel horn, lynel hoof and lynel guts, and is recorded in Lanayru Great Spring and Hyrule Field.
3. Read the locations as a starting point rather than a map. They are the places the compendium records, not the only places the monster turns up.
4. To flip the question around, put the drop into the same box. Typing lynel horn tells you which members of the family give you one, which matters when a great fairy wants a specific part.
5. Press Esc or click outside the panel to close it, and clear the search box to go back to category browsing. A search shows at most 60 cards, and the line under the box tells you when there are more.

Taking a result with you

• Share one search as a link: add ?q= and your keyword to the address, as in /en/tools/zelda-botw?q=lynel. Opening that link drops the keyword straight into the search box. Every name in the index at the bottom of this page is already a link of exactly that shape.
• Search the whole page at once: that index prints all 389 entry names into the HTML, so Ctrl+F on Windows, Cmd+F on a Mac, or Find in page from your mobile browser menu will find anything on this page without the search box.

How this differs from the in-game book, and from Tears of the Kingdom

Looking for Tears of the Kingdom?

That sequel has its owncompendium pagewith its own 509 entries, covering the sky islands, the Depths and the Zonai machinery.

Against the compendium in the game

• The in-game compendium only shows what you have photographed. This page is complete from the start, which is the point if you are checking something you have not met yet.
• The language of the in-game book follows your console settings. Entry names here are the English ones, which is what most guides and wikis use.
• The game tracks personal progress, such as how many of an item you are carrying and which pictures you still owe. There is no account here and nothing is tracked, so everyone sees the same 389 entries.
• Breath of the Wild shipped on Nintendo Switch and Wii U. The compendium content is the same on both, so nothing on this page is specific to one of them.

Limits worth knowing before you rely on this

• The data is a snapshot: it is fixed when the page is built and does not follow game updates in real time. Where this page and your game disagree, the game is right.
• Some stats, not all: weapons and shields show attack and defense, and food shows the hearts it recovers. Durability and weak points are not in the data.
• Images come from elsewhere: if that host is slow or unreachable, artwork will not appear. Text search keeps working, because none of it depends on the network.

This is an independent tool site with no affiliation with or endorsement from Nintendo. The Legend of Zelda and all entry names, descriptions and images belong to their respective owners and appear here only so that you can look an entry up.