How to farm Materials of the Dragons: Farosh, Dinraal, & Naydra. [ The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild ]

Abstract

I will explain the method to collect dragon's materials which will be necessary to strengthen various armors in "The Legend of Zelda : Breath of the Wild" in detail.

Preface

This is an English version of the article I wrote in the past in Japanese.

The methods to be introduced below are just an example. I recommend you try to find your own way to collect the materials because finding a method of collecting materials of yourself is also one of the fun of this game.

About the materials of the dragons

At first, I would like to briefly explain the dragon's materials themselves.

Three kinds of dragons appear in this game. Farosh wearing electricity. Dinraal wearing a flame. Naydra wearing cold air.
When you approach these dragons, you can hear the unique BGM and updrafts occur around them.
And you shoot arrows towards the body of the dragon and hit it, the material will fly from that part.
The materials apart from dragons are emitting light, so you can find them easily.

↑Dinraal. It has horns on its head and has six arms.

And if the part hit by the arrow is different, the material obtained is also different.

• Parts of dragons : Materials
• Horns : Shard of Horn
• Mouth tip : Shard of Fang
• Arm (Hand) : Claw
• Any other part : Scale

For each type of dragon, these are counted as different materials, so there are 12 types materials in total.
All of them are necessary for strengthening the equipment, but it is difficult to aim other than the scales.

Only one material can be taken at a chance from each dragon.
In other words, you cannot get the scale continuously after getting the horn.

How to collect the materials

Farosh

• Things necessary : Wood, Something to ignite Wood, Bows ( "Phrenic Bow" is desirable ), Arrows ( A lot )
• Things helpful : Torch
• Places : Riola Spring, Floria Bridge
• Time : 05:00~

It is well known that Farosh is suitable for making money by collecting a large amount of scales and selling them because Farosh's materials can be collected efficiently.
The place is the Riola Spring in the Faron region, and the Floria Bridge.

↑Riola Spring. Floria Bridge is located south from here.

First, you should head for Riola Spring. Make sure that the bow and arrows are properly set, and then make campfire under the tree on the western side of the spring and skip time to the morning.
In the morning ( 05:00 ), Farosh emerges from the spring, so ascend with updrafts using Paraglider and aim at the target part with the bow.

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If you hit arrows on Farosh, the material will fly.
You don't have to collect it at once because you can pick up the materials collectively after many trials.
As I mentioned above, you cannot get the next material unless the next day comes in the game so you should skip time to the morning with campfire again under the tree.
By throwing the torch with a fire near the bonfire, the torch will automatically ignite the firewood again after skipping time.

When the morning of the next day comes, rises again with paraglider and shoot arrows at Farosh. Repeat this process.
Even if you flip any number of materials, they will not vanish by time as long as you are near them, so you can pick up the materials collectively after you flip necessary amount of materials ( If you leave the torch when you pick up the materials, it sometimes disappears. Be careful) .

However, with this method, it is difficult to aim at the tip of mouth to get a Shard of Fang because Farosh is already heading out from the spring at 05:00, after skipping time.
If you feel it's too difficult, let's try at the Floria Bridge.

At 05:00, Farosh flies away from the Riola Spring and it starts to go south and goes down the waterfalls.
About 06:00~07:00, Farosh goes under the Floria Bridge.
At this moment, you can aim at the tip of the mouth or any other part of the dragon easily.
There is "Lakeside Stable" just west of the Floria Bridge.
You can skip time to the morning at this Stable and go to the bridge, flip the materials, and pick up it.
Then you travel to "Shai Utoh Shrine" , back to the stable, and skip time again.
In this process, if you return to the Stable without collecting a flipped material, the material will be lost ( probably because you are far away from it ), so be sure to return to the Stable after picking up it.

Dinraal

• Things necessary : Wood, Something to ignite Wood, Bows ( "Phrenic Bow" is desirable ), Arrows ( A lot )
• Things helpful : Torch
• Places : Under the Tabantha Great Bridge, at a foothold on the west cliff.
• Time : 06:30~

In Dinraal's case, there is a difficult point that the flipped material will be scattered around the Canyon, but basically it is the same thing to do with Farosh's case.
The place is a foothold on the west cliff of Tanager Canyon, under the Tabantha Great Bridge that connects the Tabantha Frontier and Hyrule Ridge.
There is a Rare Ore Deposit.

↑This place.

Skip time to the morning here with campfire. Around 06:30, you will see Dinraal flying from the north along the Tanager Canyon.
Let's wait for the dragon to come near as close as possible.

↑Because you can look down on flying Dinraal, it is quite easy to aim at it.

When Dinraal comes to just below, jump off the cliff with Paraglider and shoot arrows at the dragon.
Let's check where the flipped material falls.
Dinraal's materials tend to fly to various points in the Tanager Canyon ( you may be able to suppress scattering if you can shoot at Dinraal exactly at the same timing ).
Sometimes a material is lost when you try to pick up the materials of a certain place, because you get away from the material that flew to another point.
You need to consider in what order to pick up the materials.

Naydra

• Things necessary : Wood, Something to ignite Wood, Bows ( "Phrenic Bow" is desirable ), Arrows ( A lot )
• Places : Lanayru Bay
• Time : Morning

You can collect the material of Naydra at the Lanayru Bay north of the Mount Lanayru.
Naydra flies from the west to the Lanayru Bay in the morning.
Farosh and Dinraal are extremely punctual. On the other hand, however, Naydra's arrival time will change by 2 hours ( in game time ) for each trial.

↑This place.

Although the arrival time will change, Naydra comes in the morning.
So let 's make a bonfire at the western or middle part of the northern coast of the Lanayru Bay and skip time to the morning.
If it is raining, you should skip time in a tunnel-shaped cave placed at the marked point in the above figure.

↑Naydra is approaching the bay.

As Naydra approaches enough, ascend with updrafts using Paraglider and aims at the target part with the bow.
In the case of Naydra, I feel that the flipped materials tend to gather at one point, so I think that you can pick up them collectively after many trials as same as the case of Farosh.

Conclusion

Farosh's body will get riddled with arrows.