PSA: Your horses from Breath of the Wild are in Tears of the Kingdom

At the beginning of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Link starts again at the bottom. Three hearts. Barely enough stamina to climb a wall. A broken Master Sword covered in silt. After emerging from circumstances in Breath of the Wild, it’s a real throwback. (But those are video game stories, right?)

But you’re not without some comfort in the once again chaotic Hyrule. Players with Breath of the Wild saved data on their Nintendo Switch can access all of their horses from that save file in Tears of the Kingdom.

Access your Breath of the Wild save data

To find and reunite all your horse friends, you must first visit one of the stables Tears of the Kingdom. After Link jumps to Hyrule from the Sky Islands, he has to step on it to get to one of the stables. The stable closest to the Lookout Landing launch area is New Serenne stablenorthwest of Hyrule Castle.

You’ll want it catch a wild horse along the way, as you need to register a new horse to access the old data. But also because there’s a Hinox sleeping on the main bridge that leads to New Serenne, and the old Link with four hearts with a wooden sword who just hacked.

Many of the wild horses in the starting area don’t require extra stamina to catch, but you may want to use an elixir made from sunset fireflies to increase your stealth skill as they are easily startled.

On arrival at the stable, you must select the dialog prompting you to register horse for the new wild horse you just caught. As soon as you do, the stable attendant will say, “Huh? Looks like you’ve entrusted us with a horse before,” after which he said he’d go ahead and register any old horse with your name on it. horse menu, your newly registered horse will be there, along with every horse of yours Breath of the Wild to rescue.

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These horses keep all the stats they had before, along with a new stat: pull. They also maintain their bond with Link. (My giant horse that hates Link? Still here. Still hates Link.) This time capsule also allows you to marvel at all the horse names you made six years ago, and maybe regret their choices .

There’s nothing else we’ve found that transfers from the Breath of the Wild save data, so Link is on his own for everything else in Hyrule.