How to tame horses and use the tow harness in Tears of the Kingdom

The horses are back The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and they’re even more useful than before breath of the wild.

Our Tears of the Kingdom Our horse taming guide will help you find, capture, calm and bond with every horse you find. Then we will explain how to equip the new horse tow strap hitch a wagon to your horse.

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find wild horses

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According to Link’s Hyrule Compendium, wild horses are the most common Hyrule field And Akkala Highlands regions on the surface. They tend to hang out in wide grassy areas.

Good entry-level horses can be found northeast of the Sinatanika Shrine in the Akkala Highlands (Ulri Mountain Skyview Tower). (3891, 2366, 0074) or in the Hyrule Field region (Hyrule Field Skyview Tower) south of Jiosin Shrine (-0253, -0563, 0019).

And don’t forget: once you get this sensors + Upgrade to Robbie’s Purah Pad during the “Showcase: Sensor +!” Alongside the adventure, you can set your Purah Pad to detect nearby horses (or anything else you’ve snapped a photo of for the Hyrule Compendium ).

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Increase your stealth to sneak up on horses

Once you’ve found a horse, your next step is to catch and mount it. The problem is that wild horses are shy and will run away when they see you.

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The easiest way to sneak up on a horse is simple crouch by clicking the left thumb and approaching a horse from behind. Beyond that, however, there are a few ways to increase your stealth:

• Remove your weapon, bow and shield. It’s not a big difference, but putting down your weapons and shield will reduce the noise Link makes when moving.
• Eat a refined meal or drink a refined elixir. If you’re cooking a meal that includes food like silent mushrooms or Stealthfin troutthe resulting meal will give you one stealth up Effect. Brewing an elixir with creatures like a Fireflies at sunset plus all monster parts equal a sneaky elixir this grants the same effect.
• Wear the stealth armor set. You can pick up the Stealth Mask, Stealth Chest Armor, and Stealth Tights during the Gloom-borne Illness side quest.

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Calm down a wild horse

Now that you have found a horse and sneaked up on it, you must do it calm It. The soothing process really is as simple as pounding L button while the horse bucks around, draining your stamina. You probably won’t need extra help with low-performing horses, but better horses will need more reassurance – and more stamina.

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Just like Stealth, food and elixirs will help you here. Cook a meal with stamen mushrooms, Endura Mushrooms, Stambulb, bee honeyor Staminoka bass (or anything that mentions stamina in its description) to create one stimulating Have a good meal. Energizing elixirs can be brewed with living beings like tireless frogs or restless crickets and a monster part. Energizing meals can restore stamina or increase it beyond its maximum limit.

And don’t forget to turn in your Blessing Lights at the Goddess Statues for Stamina Vessels.

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Increase your bond with horses

Now that the horse has calmed down and is no longer actively trying to throw you off, you still have some work to do. Left binding In a horse, vague is a measure of how well the horse is listening. Horses with a high bond are also better at auto-following roads.

Press while driving L Click the button when the horse turns, gallops, or stops in the direction you want. More often than not, this results in a pink cloud developing around the horse’s head—meaning the bond has increased. However, this is a slow process.

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A much quicker way to strengthen your bond is through food. (Same thing, honestly.) Dismount your horse and open your inventory. Hold (up to five apples like cooking with them and then approaching your horse and standing right in front of it. The horse will eat the apples out of your hand and your bond will grow with each one. You can repeat the process as many times as you like, but it rarely takes more than five to deplete your bond.

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If you run out of apples, there’s an entire orchard just outside Sonapan Shrine near Mount Satori (1938, -0344, 0226). You have to be careful there Always meansbut you end up with several dozen apples (we found about 150) with just a few minutes of work.

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Register your horse in a stable

Once you’ve found your horse, stalked it, soothed it, and bonded with it, all you have to do is ride it to a stable and register it. Once registered and named, you can call your horse into any stable you visit – provided you have space after the transfer breath of the wild horses over.

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Get rewards for your horse

Every horse in it Tears of the Kingdom features a range of stats – strength, speed, stamina and traction. Pull is new for Tears of the Kingdom and it relates to how well they work with the new tow strap.

pony dots There is a new system in the stables. Using a stable to sleep or register a horse earns you Pony Points. These points can be redeemed for rewards Pony Score Book Book on the right hand side of the check-in counter as you enter.