Ores play an important role in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and you can farm them to obtain gems. These gems can be exchanged for rupees at merchants. If not, you can use the gems as base materials to upgrade your armor at Great Fairy Fountains. Farming Rare Ore deposits to collect these items is essential for Link’s progress to save Hyrule from strong foes. You can fuse some ores like Diamonds to weapons for a +20 attack power upgrade.
Method to farm Rare Ores in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
To farm Ores, Gemstones, and Minerals, you need to find and break Rare Ore Deposits with a golden hue. These deposits are in Hyrule and Great Sky Island caves. They are also abundantly available in the Depths, either on the ground or growing from the wall of a cliff.
Because of their shiny presence, you can easily spot them. Sadly, you can’t destroy them with standard weapons. You must fuse your weapons with a stone or a rock to create a Rock Hammer to break the Rare Ore Deposits. With only a few hits, stone and rock-fused weapons can destroy the Black Ore Deposits.
Another option is to use Bomb Arrows, but we don’t recommend it as Bomb Flowers are a rare resource in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Drops from the Black Ore Deposits in Zelda TotK are mostly random, but you can obtain some items, like Zonaite, from particular regions. Here is a complete list of all the items you can obtain from farming ores.
Diamond
Diamonds are rare drops from Stone Talus or found in treasure chests inside shrines. However, you can also mine Diamonds from Black Ore Deposits hidden in the bowels of dark caves, which are usually located in the Gerudo Desert and Eldin Region.
Diamonds can also be purchased from the gem merchants in Goron City for 1000 Rupees each.
Sapphire
This blue gemstone is a reward for killing Ice Talus or farming the Black Ore Deposits inside caves. You can farm it easily in Tabantha Tundra and Hebra Region Caves. Sapphire can also be collected from treasure chests in Shrines.
Topaz
This yellow gemstone is an abundant drop from the Black Ore Deposits inside Gerudo Desert caves. Topaz is a rare ore from the treasure chests inside Shrines or Bokoblin settlements in Zelda TotK.
Ruby
This red gemstone is a reward for killing Igneo Talus or opening the treasure chests in Shrines. You can even farm it by destroying Black Ore Deposits in the caves of the Eldin region.
Luminous Stone
In Zelda: TotK, this stone with a pale blue glow can only be found by destroying Glowing Ore Deposits in dark caves. Luminous Stone is required to purchase the Radiant Armor set from Kakariko village.
Opal
You can obtain this seashell-like ore by farming Rare Ore deposits in the caves of Zorana and Lanayru. Opals are also rare finds in the treasure chests inside the Shrines.
Amber
This orange ore is the most common and abundant drop from any Black Ore Deposit. Amber is also inside the ore deposits present outside caves.
Rock Salt
This cooking material in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom drops abundantly from the Black Ore Deposits in the caves near the shores. Any ore deposit near a water body always drops Rock salt.
Zonaite
This ancient crafting material can only be obtained from the Black Ore Deposits in the Depths and the Great Sky Island caves. It can also be obtained by killing the monsters in the depths. Zonaite is required to create Crystallized charges to charge Zonai devices.
Large Zonaite
You can farm it from Black Ore Deposits available in the farthest regions of the Depths. These are all the materials Link can farm by mining Black Ore Deposits in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
