How to tame a horse and use it to pull a wagon in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Horses are back in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and they are even more useful than they were Breath of the Wild.
Us Tears of the Kingdom horse taming guide will help you find, catch, calm and bond with any horse you find, then we explain how to equip the new one pull harness to attach a carriage to your horse.
Find wild horses
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According to Link’s Hyrule Compendium, feral horses are most common in the Hyrule field And Akkala Highlands regions on the surface. They tend to hang out in wide, grassy areas.
For good starter horses, look around just northeast of 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 nearby (-0253, -0563, 0019).
And don’t forget: once you have the Sensor+ upgrade to Robbie’s Purah Pad during the “Presenting: Sensor +!” In addition to adventure, you can set your Purah Pad to detect nearby horses (or anything else you took a photo of for the Hyrule Compendium).
Increase your stealth to sneak up on horses
Once you’ve found a horse, your next step is to catch it and mount it. The problem is that wild horses are skittish and run away if they notice you.
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The easiest way to sneak up on a horse is plain crouch by clicking the left thumbstick and approaching a horse from behind. Aside from that, though, there are a few ways to increase your stealth:
- Remove your weapon, bow and shield. It’s not a huge difference, but not equipping your weapons and shield reduces the amount of noise Link makes while moving.
- Eat a sneaky meal or drink a sneaky elixir. When you cook a meal that contains food such as silent mushrooms or stealthfin troutthe resulting meal gives you one stealth on effect. Brewing an elixir with critters like a sunset firefly plus all sample parts will result in a sneaky elixir that gives the same effect.
- Wear the Stealth Armor set. You can pick up the Stealth Mask, Stealth Chest Protector, and Stealth Tights during the “Gloom-borne Illness” side quest.
Calm down a wild horse
Now that you’ve found a horse and snuck on it, you have to to calm down It. The soothing process is actually as simple as mashing the L button as the horse pounds around and exhausts your stamina. For low level horses you probably don’t need extra help, but better horses need more rest – and more stamina.
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As with stealth, food and elixirs will help you here. Cook a meal stamella mushrooms, endura mushrooms, stem bulbs, coarse bee honeyor endurance bass (or anything that mentions stamina in the description) to get one stimulating meal. Energizing elixirs can be brewed with critters like tireless frogs or restless crickets and a sample portion. Energetic meals can restore stamina or push it above the maximum limit.
And don’t forget to trade in your Lights of Blessing at Goddess Statues for stamina barrels.
Increase your bond with horses
Now that the horse has calmed down and is no longer actively trying to upset you, you have some work to do. Left bond with a horse is a vague measure of how well the horse listens. Horses with high binding are also better at following roads automatically.
While driving, touch the L button when the horse turns as you ask, gallops or stops. Usually this will result in a pink cloud around the horse’s head, which means that the bonding has increased. However, this is a slow process.
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A much faster way to strengthen your bond is with food. (Same thing, honestly.) Get off your horse and open your inventory. Delay (Up to five apples like you’re going to cook with it, then approach your horse to stand right in front of it. The horse will eat the apples from your hand and your bond will grow with each apple. You can repeat the process as many times as you like, but it rarely takes more than five to max out your band.
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If you’re short on apples, there’s an entire orchard just outside Sonapan Shrine at Satori Mountain (1938, -0344, 0226). You’ll have to pay attention Always meansbut with just a few minutes of work you get several dozen apples (we found about 150).
Register your horse at a stable
Now that you’ve found, stalked, calmed, and bonded with your horse, all you need to do is drive it to a stable and register it. Once it’s registered and named, you can summon your horse to any stable you visit – assuming you still have room after transferring your horse. Breath of the Wild horses passed.
Get rewards for your horse
Every horse in it Tears of the Kingdom has a range of stats – strength, speed, stamina and pull. Pull is new to Tears of the Kingdom and it refers to how well they work with the new Pull harness.
fringe points are a new system in the stables. If you use a stable for anything, such as sleeping or registering a horse, you earn Pony Points. Those points can be redeemed for rewards at the Pony Points Ledger book on the right side of the check-in desk as you enter.