Use this Breath of the Wild Korok Seed guide as the main cleanup hub for all 900 Korok Seeds. Instead of trying to collect them randomly, this page organizes the work by route type, region order and inventory value so you can decide whether you only want useful upgrades or full completion.
Quick Overview
| Game | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild |
|---|---|
| Platform | Nintendo Switch / Wii U |
| Total Korok Seeds | 900 |
| Main Use | Trade Korok Seeds to Hestu for weapon, bow and shield inventory expansions. |
| Best Route | Collect useful seeds while opening towers, then do region-by-region cleanup after the main route is stable. |
| Difficulty | Mixed: many are quick, but full 900 cleanup is a long completion project. |
How This Korok Seed Guide Works
This is the parent Korok guide for Breath of the Wild. It is designed as the control page for a much larger cleanup cluster: first the master route, then future child guides by region. A single page with all 900 individual entries would be too slow to use and too noisy to maintain, so the better structure is a master checklist plus regional child pages.
If you are playing normally, do not aim for all 900 right away. Use this page to collect enough seeds for practical inventory upgrades first, then return later for full map completion.
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Move between the useful upgrade route, region cleanup plan, puzzle types and FAQ.
Best Korok Seed Upgrade Route
The most useful Korok Seeds are the ones you collect naturally while unlocking towers, visiting stables and moving between early quests. Your first goal should be practical inventory space, not full completion. More weapon slots help the most early because weapons break often and combat becomes less frustrating when you have room for backups.
- Collect seeds around the Great Plateau and early roads. Look for suspicious rocks, circles, flowers and small puzzles while you are already traveling.
- Find Hestu and start expanding inventory. Spend early seeds on weapon slots first unless you are constantly running out of bow or shield space.
- Keep collecting near towers and stables. These seeds are efficient because you are already opening map routes.
- Stop when inventory feels comfortable. You do not need all 900 for a normal playthrough.
- Save full cleanup for after your map is open. Full Korok completion is much easier when every tower and many shrine warps are unlocked.
Recommended Region Cleanup Order
Korok cleanup is smoother when it follows your tower route. Each tower creates a natural region checklist, and each region should eventually get its own child page with map screenshots, puzzle images and exact locations. Until then, use this order to avoid zig-zagging across Hyrule.
| Phase | Regions | Why This Order Works |
|---|---|---|
| Early route | Great Plateau, Dueling Peaks, Hateno | Safe roads, villages, early towers and plenty of easy puzzle types. |
| Story route | Lanayru, Akkala, Eldin, Woodland | Good overlap with Divine Beast routes, stables and useful shrine warps. |
| Travel-heavy route | Tabantha, Hebra, Gerudo, Wasteland | Better once you have stamina, weather prep and more fast travel points. |
| Late cleanup | Central Hyrule and missed edge cases | More dangerous enemies and scattered cleanup make this better later. |
Korok Puzzle Types To Watch For
Most Korok Seeds come from repeated environmental puzzle types. Once you recognize these patterns, cleanup becomes much faster because you stop waiting for obvious markers and start reading the landscape.
Suspicious Rocks
If a rock sits alone on a peak, under a bridge, inside a tree stump or near an odd circle of stones, pick it up or place it where the pattern looks incomplete. Many easy Koroks use this language.
Flower Trails
Follow yellow flowers as they appear and disappear. The final flower usually reveals the Korok. Move slowly and watch the direction the next flower appears, especially in grass, ruins or hills.
Magnesis Blocks
Use Magnesis to complete a matching block pattern. Look at the finished side first, then move the loose metal block to mirror the shape. These are common around ruins and cliffs.
Timed Rings and Targets
Step on a stump, dive through a ring, shoot a balloon or race to a marked point before time runs out. These puzzles are easier with stamina upgrades and nearby fast-travel points.
Best Early Game Korok Habits
Early Korok hunting should be passive and efficient. You are already walking between towers, stables, shrines and villages, so use those routes to grab obvious seeds without turning the opening hours into a checklist chore.
- Check lone trees, peaks and bridges as you travel.
- Pick up suspicious rocks, especially on high points.
- Use Magnesis around ruins when a metal block looks out of place.
- Mark Koroks you skip so you can return later.
- Do not spend an hour solving one awkward seed early; inventory upgrades matter more than perfection.
Full 900 Korok Seed Cleanup
Full Korok completion is a long-term project. The smart version is region-by-region cleanup with a map, not a single giant sweep. Start with regions where your tower, shrine warps and stables are already open, then move into extreme-weather and mountain regions once you have stamina and armor support.
For The Gaming Guide Archives, the best future content structure is one master page plus regional child pages. Each child page should include a compact map route, numbered Korok entries, puzzle type, nearest warp point and 1-3 images for seeds that are hard to identify from text alone.
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Image Sources and Credits
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and related visuals are property of Nintendo. The hero image used for this guide is an official Nintendo image already uploaded to The Gaming Guide Archives media library. Korok Seed totals and inventory-upgrade context are cross-checked against in-game progression and external reference resources. Future regional Korok child guides should use high-quality gameplay screenshots with subtle source overlays.
Breath of the Wild Korok Seed FAQ
How many Korok Seeds are in Breath of the Wild?
There are 900 Korok Seeds in Breath of the Wild.
Do I need every Korok Seed?
No. Most players only need enough Korok Seeds for useful inventory expansions. Collecting all 900 is mainly for completionists.
What are Korok Seeds used for?
Korok Seeds are traded to Hestu to expand weapon, bow and shield inventory slots.
What should I upgrade first?
Weapon slots are usually the best first choice because weapons break often and extra space makes combat and exploration easier.
What is the best way to collect all Korok Seeds?
Open the map first, unlock towers and shrine warps, then clear Koroks by region. Random cleanup across the whole map is much slower.