BotW Molduga Locations: All 4, HP, Drops and Medal

A Molduga “swims beneath the desert’s sand” and, “if it senses sound, it will breach the surface to feast on whatever it can grab” (the game’s description). There are four, all in the Gerudo Desert. This page gives their locations and the solid ground near each one, HP and drops, shows the Remote Bomb method in screenshots, covers farming and selling Molduga Guts, and explains the Medal of Honor: Molduga.

Where are the Moldugas?

The landmark is the nearest named place on the map. Nearby shrines double as warp points; see all shrine locations.

All four come from the game’s placement data. HP is 1,500 in the game’s parameter files. The Molduking is a separate, stronger enemy (1,600 HP in the parameter files) and not one of the four.

Is there solid ground near each Molduga?

Yes, all four have somewhere to stand off the sand. The names are the ones on each Molduga’s health bar.

How do you beat a Molduga?

Shooting its belly with an arrow as it leaps stuns it too, but bombs are the more efficient way. Wear your best armor: a Molduga can take you out in one hit.

A few more things that help:

• It hunts by sound. Standing still, or standing on rock, keeps it from finding you; running across the sand draws it straight to you.
• Bomb Arrows work like Remote Bombs. Shoot one at the Molduga as it leaps and it is stunned the same way.
• Get out before it recovers. When it comes to, it thrashes around and knocks away anything next to it; run back to your rock and bomb it again.
• Sand Seal. You can also fight it while shield surfing behind a Sand Seal, which keeps you moving fast over the sand.

How To Easily Defeat a Molduga | The Legend of Zelda, BOTW Tutorial — YouTube

What does a Molduga drop?

Rates are from the game’s drop table; the chests are their own entry in it.

How do you farm Molduga Guts, and what are they worth?

Every Molduga drops 2–4 Molduga Guts, so one lap of all four gives 8–16. Defeated Moldugas come back with the next Blood Moon, so you can do one lap per Blood Moon.

• Route: the four sit close together in the southwest of the Gerudo Desert. Start at Tho Kayu Shrine in the Toruma Dunes once it has risen, go southeast to the North Dragon’s Exile one, then on to Arbiter’s Grounds and the Southern Oasis, which are close to each other. Hawa Koth Shrine is the nearest shrine to Arbiter’s Grounds and Raqa Zunzo Shrine to the Southern Oasis.
• Selling: Molduga Guts sell for 110 rupees each, Molduga Fins for 30. Cooked into an elixir, four Guts with an Energetic Rhino Beetle sell for 1,320 instead of 440; see recipes to sell.
• Keep some first: the Sand Boots and the Radiant set need 12 Guts in all to reach four stars (Sand Boots 2 and 4, each Radiant piece 2), and the Sand Boots need 15 Fins. The side quest “Medicinal Molduga” from Malena in Gerudo Town asks for one Molduga Guts and pays a Gold Rupee. See Molduga Guts.

How do you get the Medal of Honor: Molduga?

Beat all four Moldugas at least once, then talk to Kilton at the Fang and Bone. It sits with the Hinox and Talus medals.

See also

More big monsters in Breath of the Wild: all 22 Lynels, all 40 Hinox and all 40 Taluses. For Tears of the Kingdom, see its Molduga page.