BotW 100% Checklist: What Counts and Why You're Stuck at 99%

The map completion percentage in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild tracks only four things: Koroks, shrines, Divine Beasts and the place names on your map. Each find adds about 0.08%, so the 900 Koroks alone are over 70% of the total. Quests and Compendium photos do not count. The table below lists every category with its count so you can tick them off; individual shrines, towers, stables and Koroks are on their own pages and on the interactive map.

Where do you see the completion percentage?

After you beat Calamity Ganon and the credits roll, the game sends you back to your save from before the final battle, now marked with a star. Open the map on that save: the percentage in the bottom-left corner, above the time and temperature, is your completion. Saves that have not seen the ending do not show it.

Everything you find before the ending still counts; you just cannot see the number until then. The rest of what changes on a cleared save is on the post-game page. Reportedly there is no in-game reward for reaching 100%.

What counts toward 100% completion?

Only discoveries on the map: Koroks, shrines, Divine Beasts, and the place names that only appear once you go there. Every item is worth about the same; the share column below assumes 0.08% per item.

A few categories need a note:

• Shrines: only the 120 in the base game. The shrines added by The Champions’ Ballad do not count.
• Divine Beasts: a Divine Beast appears on the map, and counts, once you beat the Blight Ganon inside and free it. The four are Divine Beast Vah Ruta, Vah Rudania, Vah Medoh and Vah Naboris; see the Blights page for the fights.
• Sheikah Towers and stables: they are place names themselves and count once you reach them.
• Other place names: villages, Great Fairy Fountains, bridges, ruins, hot springs, lodges, rooms inside Hyrule Castle and more. Together with the towers and stables they come to about 200. Walk close enough for the name to appear on screen and it is recorded.

What does not count?

None of these affect map completion:

• Quests: Main Quests, Side Quests and Shrine Quests.
• Captured Memories: recovering memories changes the ending, not the percentage.
• Collections: the Hyrule Compendium, collecting and upgrading armor, horse gear. Every item in the Key Items tab is listed on the Key Items page; none of them count.
• DLC: everything from The Master Trials and The Champions’ Ballad, including the extra shrines and the Trial of the Sword. See the DLC guide.

Why am I stuck at 99%?

The last fraction is usually one of these:

1. Koroks. They are over 70% of the total and there are so many that missing a few is easy. Go through the Korok Seeds page region by region, or tick them off on the interactive map.
2. A Divine Beast you have not freed. All four have to be freed to count.
3. Place names off the roads. For example Akkala Bridge Ruins, Sokkala Bridge and West Sokkala Bridge, Horwell Bridge, Gleeok Bridge, Goponga Village Ruins, Moor Garrison Ruins, the Maw of Death Mountain, the Gerudo Desert Gateway and the Footrace Check-In.
4. Lodges, hot springs and castle rooms. For example the Hebra Trailhead Lodge; the Sturnida Secret Hot Spring, Sherfin’s Secret Hot Spring and Goflam’s Secret Hot Spring in Hebra; and the King’s Study inside Hyrule Castle.

Three ways to find what you missed:

• Hero’s Path Mode: added by DLC Pack 1, The Master Trials. The map draws every route you have walked; bridges and ruins with no line nearby are places you have not visited.
• Korok Mask: also from The Master Trials, it shakes when a Korok you have not found is nearby.
• ZELDA NOTES: on the Switch 2 Edition, its navigation gives voice directions to Koroks and shrines you have not found. See the ZELDA NOTES guide.