Tears of the Kingdom Compendium

What the Hyrule Compendium is, and why the in-game one stalls

In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, the Hyrule Compendium is the research tool Purah hands you: a catalogue of every monster, weapon, creature, material and piece of treasure in the game. It has one rule that makes it useless for planning. An entry stays blank until you photograph the thing yourself. You cannot look up where a Silver Lynel hangs around, because the only way to fill in the Silver Lynel page is to walk up to one first.

This page is the same catalogue with that rule removed. All 509 entries are readable from the first second: name, description, common locations, drops and picture, across the five categories the game uses. Searching runs on the whole set at once, so you can start from a monster you are about to fight, a material you are short of, or a region you are about to cross.

Where the entries come from

The names, descriptions, locations, drops and artwork are taken from the Hyrule Compendium API, an open source project that players have maintained since Breath of the Wild. This page uses a snapshot of it, packaged when the site was built, so nothing is fetched while you search. The spellings are the official English ones, which is what you want when you are typing a name you half remember from the screen.

Which category holds what

• Monsters: 110 entries. Bokoblins, Moblins, Lizalfos, Lynels and Hinoxes, the additions this game made its own such as Horriblins, Froxes, Gibdos and Gleeoks, plus the Construct line from Soldier Construct I through the Captain Constructs and the Flux Constructs, and every colour and elemental variant of all of them.
• Equipment: 175 entries, covering one-handed weapons, two-handers, spears, bows and shields. The Master Sword and the Hylian Shield are here, so are the Zonaite line with its strong and mighty tiers, the Gerudo scimitars and the Eightfold blades, and the decayed and pristine versions of the Royal and Knight families as separate cards.
• Materials: 126 entries. Cooking ingredients such as Hyrule Herb, Spicy Pepper and the whole shroom family from Hylian Shroom to Razorshroom, sky-only plants such as Sundelion and Skyshroom, underground finds such as Brightbloom Seed and Muddle Bud, and the horns, claws, fangs and gemstones you actually fuse to weapons.
• Creatures: 92 entries. Horses including the giant and white ones, Blupees, Dondons, sand seals, and the insects, frogs, birds and fish you catch for elixirs.
• Treasure: 6 entries, which is the small set of ore deposits, Zonaite deposits, wells and chests.

Pick Monsters when you are preparing for a fight, Equipment when you want a base weapon to fuse onto, and Materials or Treasure when you are short of something for a recipe or a fuse. If you cannot tell which one an item belongs to, do not guess: the search box ignores categories and matches all five at once.

The four ways to search

• By name: type any part of it. Horriblin returns the base monster and its blue, black and silver variants together, which is usually what you wanted anyway.
• By location: the search reads the common locations of every entry, so Gerudo Desert, Hyrule Field or Thunderhead Isles lists what you are likely to run into there. Typing Depths catches The Depths along with the regional slices such as Central Hyrule Depths.
• By drop: searching amber, zonaite or lynel saber horn lists every creature that drops it. This is the direction you usually need, because you know the material you are missing rather than the monster that carries it.
• By browsing: leave the box empty and use the five category tabs. Each tab lists its entries in compendium ID order, the same order the game uses.

Descriptions are searched too, which is the escape hatch for the entry whose name you cannot recall. If you only remember that the thing glows in the dark, search glow and read down the results.

Working backwards from a fuse material to a monster

1. Decide which half you are looking for. A fused weapon is never a compendium entry, so search for the base weapon or for the material, never for the combination.
2. Type the material name. Because the search covers the drops field, a part name such as horn, claw or fang returns the monsters that drop it rather than an empty result.
3. Open a result card. The Common locations row is your farming route, and the picture confirms you have the right variant, which matters when four colours of the same monster drop four different horns.
4. For the other half, switch to the Equipment tab or search the weapon by name. Remember that the upgraded Zonaite tiers and the decayed versus pristine versions are separate entries, so compare the cards before you commit.
5. Press Escape or click outside the panel to close it. Clearing the search box takes you back to the category tabs. A search shows at most 60 cards, and the count above them tells you whether there are more.

Taking an entry with you

There is no copy button, because what you want to keep is rarely a line of text. It is the search you just ran. A link does that job better.

• Share a search: add ?q= and a keyword to the address, for example /en/tools/zelda-totk?q=lynel, and the page opens with that search already run. Every name in the entry index on this page is a link of exactly that shape.
• Find on page: the index prints all 509 names into the page itself, so Ctrl+F on Windows, Cmd+F on a Mac, or Find in page from your mobile browser menu will find any of them without a search.
• Send a card to a friend: a screenshot with the detail panel open is fastest. Power and volume up on an iPhone, power and volume down on most Android phones, Win+Shift+S on Windows, Cmd+Shift+4 on a Mac.
• Paste a name somewhere else: select it on screen and copy. The names here are the official English ones, so they match what a wiki, a guide or a friend on Discord will recognise.

How this differs from the game, and from Breath of the Wild

Looking for Breath of the Wild?

The two games share a Hyrule but not a compendium. The entry numbering, the enemy roster and the weapon system are all different, and nothing from one is mixed into the other here. For the older game, use the separate Breath of the Wild compendium on this site.

Against the compendium in your pocket

• The in-game compendium only shows what you have photographed. This one shows all 509 entries from the start, which is the whole point of looking something up before you go.
• The in-game compendium follows your console language setting. This page is served in English at this address and in Traditional Chinese at the Chinese one, so the language is a choice of URL rather than a system setting.
• The in-game compendium tracks how many of each material you hold and which pictures you have taken. This page has no account and stores no progress, so every visitor sees the same thing.
• The game gets patched. This page ships a snapshot, so when the two disagree, believe the game.

Before you rely on it

• It is a snapshot: the text was packaged when the site was built and does not follow game updates by itself.
• Fused weapons are not in it: the combinations run into the tens of thousands and none of them is a compendium entry. Only the base weapons and the fuse materials are here.
• It is not a strategy guide: names, locations and drops only. No damage numbers, no durability, no boss routes, because those move with patches and with your own gear.
• Locations are typical, not exhaustive: the common locations field lists where something usually turns up, and some entries have no location at all. An empty row means the data has none, not that the item is unobtainable.
• Pictures come from elsewhere: entry artwork is loaded from the Hyrule Compendium API host, so a card can sit on its placeholder if that host is slow or blocked. The text still works.
• Keyboard and screen readers: the search box, the category tabs and the entry cards are all reachable with Tab and open with Enter, and the detail panel closes with Escape.

This is an independent tool site with no connection to Nintendo and no official licence of any kind. The Legend of Zelda and Tears of the Kingdom, along with the entry names, description text and artwork shown here, belong to their respective rights holders and appear only so that you can look them up.