Compendium Guide — Completing the Hyrule Compendium

The Hyrule Compendium is an in-game encyclopedia that records every enemy, creature, material, equipment, and treasure you photograph. Completing it unlocks Sensor+ tracking for every tracked item type and rewards a full-game material overview. This guide explains how to fill it efficiently.

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Step 1 — Unlock the Camera

How: Complete Robbie's quest at Lookout Landing after finishing the Hyrule Castle Skyview Tower sequence with Purah.

1. Talk to Purah at Lookout Landing (main story start)
2. After the opening quests, find Robbie's research lab at Lookout Landing (small building northeast of the main hub)
3. Complete the "Camera Work in the Depths" introductory quest — takes ~20 minutes
4. Robbie installs the Camera on your Purah Pad

What it does: The Camera lets you photograph enemies, creatures, materials, equipment, and treasure. Each photograph adds an entry to the Hyrule Compendium. Photographing an item also lets you set it as your Sensor+ target.

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Step 2 — Unlock Sensor+

Sensor+ is automatically added to the Purah Pad after completing Robbie's initial Camera quest chain. It activates once you've taken your first photograph.

How to use Sensor+:

1. Open Purah Pad → go to Sensor+ menu
2. Select what to track (choose from your photographed entries, or use "Shrine" / "Korok Seed" presets)
3. The Purah Pad beeps when near the tracked item — beep rate increases with proximity

Best Sensor+ uses:

• Shrines: Set to "Shrine" to find all 152 shrines
• Specific enemies: Set to "Silver Lynel" for endgame weapon farming
• Rare materials: Track a specific gem type or dragon part for focused farming
• Bubbulfrogs: After photographing one, track them in cave exploration

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Compendium Categories

| Category | Entries | Notes | |----------|---------|-------| | Creatures | ~85 | Animals, insects, fish — scan with Camera while near | | Monsters | ~80 | Enemies — photograph in combat or sneak close | | Materials | ~90 | Food ingredients, monster parts — photograph in inventory | | Equipment | ~200+ | Weapons, bows, shields — photograph before they break | | Treasures | ~20 | Rupee values, special items |

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Efficient Photography Strategies

Photograph Everything Immediately

Develop the habit of photographing any new enemy or item on first encounter. Entering combat and winning without photographing means you may need to find the same enemy again.

Quick photo workflow:

1. Spot new enemy
2. Press Down D-Pad → Camera mode
3. Center on enemy → ZR to photograph
4. Resume combat

Use the Compendium's "Buy Images" Feature

Robbie's study (Hateno Village research outpost, after the main story Robbie quest) has a feature to purchase missing Compendium photos for Rupees. Each missing entry can be bought for 100R.

This is the fastest way to complete the Compendium — buy any entries you missed rather than hunting specifically for rare spawns. If you have the Rupees, purchasing ~50 missing entries costs 5,000R — reasonable for late-game players.

Access: Speak to Robbie at his Hateno Village lab (unlocked after his Lookout Landing questline). The option "Complete my Compendium" shows missing entries available to purchase.

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Photographing Rare Entries

Bosses and Mini-Bosses

Photograph Lynels, Talus, Hinox, Gleeoks, and Frox before or during combat. Pausing to photograph mid-fight is possible but risky. Use:

• Remote Camera mode (photograph from distance before aggro)
• Stealthy approach while enemy is asleep (Hinox sleeps; Lynel is distracted)

Dragon Parts

The four dragons (Farosh, Naydra, Dinraal, Light Dragon) must each be photographed for Compendium entries. You need separate photographs of the dragon body and ideally the horns, fangs, scales, and claws for full entries.

Method: Fly near a dragon (hoverbike or sky island), photograph it up close before collecting parts. The Sensor+ dragon tracker (after first photograph) makes finding them much faster.

Underwater Creatures

Fish and aquatic creatures must be photographed while Link is swimming (can photograph underwater with ZR in swim mode) or from above water near the surface.

Sky Creatures

Aerocuda, Steward Constructs, and sky island-specific creatures need aerial photography. Photograph while gliding or from a nearby sky island platform.

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Priority Completion Order

For Sensor+ benefit (photograph these first):

1. One Shrine crystal → enables Shrine sensor
2. Common enemy types → enables combat planning sensor
3. Main materials you're farming → Lynel Horn, Dragon Parts

For Compendium completion (fill systematically):

1. Complete everything you naturally encounter through normal play (~80–100 entries by endgame)
2. Check Compendium for gaps — specifically rare enemies (Silver variants, mini-boss types)
3. Use the Hateno Village purchase option for remaining entries
4. Specific rare creatures: Bubbulfrog, Farosh/Naydra/Dinraal, Gloom-specific variants

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What You Get for Completing the Compendium

Full Compendium completion reward: Robbie acknowledges your achievement and the Compendium becomes a complete reference guide for material sources, drop rates, and enemy locations.

Practical benefit of any Compendium photo: Any photographed entry can be set as a Sensor+ target. The more of the Compendium you fill, the more granular your tracking options.

No achievement required for practical use: Even a 50% complete Compendium with Sensor+ tracking the items you care about (shrines, Lynels, dragon types) provides most of the value.

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Tips

• Photograph before Fusing — once a material is fused to a weapon and that weapon breaks, the material is gone. Photograph rare Fuse materials while they're in your inventory.
• Equipment photos — photograph any weapon you haven't seen before using it, since weapons break and you may not find that type again soon.
• Night creatures — some creatures (Blupees, nocturnal bugs, Sunset Fireflies) only appear at night. Plan a photography session from dusk to midnight for these.
• Remote Camera trick — you can place the Remote Camera sensor and photograph enemies at extreme range without spooking them. Useful for shy creatures and sleeping Hinox.
• Silent Princess — photograph these rare flowers in Faron/Lanayru regions for the Compendium entry and to please Zelda's memory thematically.

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See also: Getting Started Guide | Sensor+ Shrine Hunting | Dragon Parts Guide