BotW Rupee Farming: Best Ways to Make Money by Stage

Rupees in Breath of the Wild come mostly from selling things and from a few people who pay better than a shop. This page goes through the steady ways to earn them in the order you reach them: what you need first, what to do, and what one run pays. Every sell price is the game’s own.

How do you make rupees fast in Breath of the Wild?

Stage	Method	What you need	What one run pays
Early	Mine ore deposits, sell the gems	A weapon or bomb to break the rock	Diamond 500, Sapphire 260, Ruby 210, Topaz 180
Early	Raw Gourmet Meat to Trott, or Meat Skewers	Finish A Rare Find at Outskirt Stable; a cooking pot	100 per meat to Trott; 490 per skewer of five
Early	Baked apples to Juney	Reach Rito Village, finish The Apple of My Eye	1,200 for 100 baked apples
Mid	Sell gems to Ramella	Divine Beast Vah Rudania done; ten of the gem she asks for	2,000 to 5,500 per ten
Mid	Snowball bowling	Reach Pondo’s Lodge in Hebra; cold protection	300 per strike, 20 per game
Mid	Rare Taluses	Weapons to beat a 900 HP Talus	Up to two gems at 50% Diamond each, plus 6–10 ore
Late	Farosh’s horn	A bow; Riola Spring at 5:00 AM	300 per shard, one each morning
Late	Lynels	Endgame gear	Lynel Guts 200; a four-guts elixir 2,330

Where we give a rate per ten minutes, it is one guide’s estimate and we say so. Otherwise we give what one run pays, since that is the figure two sources agree on.

What sells for the most?

These are the game’s sell prices at any shop, highest first.

Item	Sells for	Where it comes from
Diamond	500	Ore deposits, Rare Taluses, Silver Lynels
Star Fragment	300	Falls from the sky at night
Shard of Dinraal’s Horn, Shard of Naydra’s Horn, Shard of Farosh’s Horn	300	Shooting a dragon’s horn
Sapphire	260	Ore deposits, Frost Taluses, Rare Taluses
Shard of a dragon’s fang	250	Dragons
Ruby	210	Ore deposits, Igneo Taluses, Rare Taluses
Lynel Guts	200	Lynels
Topaz	180	Ore deposits, Taluses
A dragon’s claw	180	Dragons
A dragon’s scale	150	Dragons
Molduga Guts	110	Moldugas
Hinox Guts	80	Hinoxes
Luminous Stone	70	Ore deposits, Luminous Taluses
Opal	60	Ore deposits, Taluses
Lynel Hoof	50	Lynels
Lynel Horn	40	Lynels
Raw Gourmet Meat	35	Large animals
Amber	30	Ore deposits, Taluses

How do you earn rupees in the early game?

Mine ore deposits and sell the gems

The game’s own tip says it: gems that drop when you break ore deposits fetch a high price. Keep Topaz, Rubies, Sapphires and Diamonds for Ramella once you can reach her (below); sell the rest anywhere.

Sell Raw Gourmet Meat to Trott, or cook Meat Skewers

Raw Gourmet Meat drops from large animals such as the Tabantha Moose and the Great-Horned Rhinoceros. A shop pays 35 for a piece. Two better uses:

• Trott at Outskirt Stable. He starts the side quest A Rare Find; once you bring him one piece, he pays 100 rupees for each piece of Raw Gourmet Meat after that.
• A Meat Skewer. Five Raw Gourmet Meat in one pot make a Meat Skewer that sells for 490. The cooking rules are on the best recipes page.

Sell baked apples to Juney in Rito Village

Juney, in Rito Village, starts The Apple of My Eye. Drop an Apple next to a fire to bake it (a cooking pot would make a meal instead), and give her one. After that she buys baked apples at any time, and pays more per apple the more you bring:

Baked apples	Juney pays	Per apple
1	5	5
5	30	6
10	70	7
30	250	about 8.3
50	500	10
100	1,200	12

A shop pays 3 for a Baked Apple, so a stack of 100 earns four times as much here.

How do you earn more in the mid game?

Sell gems to Ramella in Goron City

Ramella, a Gerudo gem trader in Goron City, appears after you free Divine Beast Vah Rudania (see the Vah Rudania walkthrough). Her first request, the side quest The Jewel Trade, is ten Amber for 500 rupees, 200 more than a shop. After that she asks for ten of one gem at a time, and keeps asking for the same gem until you stop:

Gem	Shop price for 10	Ramella for 10	Gain
Amber (The Jewel Trade, once)	300	500	+200
Topaz	1,800	2,000	+200
Ruby	2,100	2,300	+200
Sapphire	2,600	2,900	+300
Diamond	5,000	5,500	+500

She does not buy Opals or Luminous Stones.

Play Pondo’s snowball bowling

Pondo runs a bowling game with a snowball outside his lodge in Hebra. Bring cold protection first (see cold resistance).

1. Go to Pondo’s Lodge, a short glide from Hebra Tower. Pondo is outside, patting down a snowball.
2. Pay him 20 rupees to play. He sets up ten pins down the slope.
3. Roll the snowball into the pins. A strike pays a Gold Rupee, which is 300 rupees. Talk to him again to play another game.

The first strike may pay a Blizzard Rod instead of rupees; only one of our sources mentions this. One guide estimates about 4,200 rupees in ten minutes of bowling; we found no second source for that rate.

Hunt Rare Taluses after each Blood Moon

A Stone Talus (Rare) is the best gem source in the game. There are seven. Each drops up to two gems from a roll of Diamond 50%, Topaz 20%, Ruby 15% or Sapphire 15%, plus 6–10 more ore drops that can also be gems. A Blood Moon brings defeated monsters back, so they are there again after every one. Locations and the fight are on the Talus page.

What earns the most in the late game?

Shoot Farosh’s horn every morning

Farosh, the lightning dragon, rises out of Riola Spring at 5:00 AM. Shot with an arrow, it drops the part you hit; the horn gives a Shard of Farosh’s Horn, which sells for 300.

1. Travel to Shoda Sah Shrine, beside Riola Spring. See Shoda Sah Shrine.
2. Rest at a campfire until morning. Farosh rises out of Riola Spring at 5:00 AM.
3. Shoot Farosh’s horn with an arrow. The shard falls; pick it up.
4. Wait for the next morning and repeat. Once shot, Farosh leaves until the next day, so it is one part per morning.

One guide puts this method at about 7,800 rupees in ten minutes; we found no second source for that rate.

Lynels, Silver Lynels and Star Fragments

Lynel Guts sell for 200, and cooked they are worth far more: four Lynel Guts and an Energetic Rhino Beetle make an elixir that sells for 2,330. White-Maned and Silver Lynels always drop guts, and a Silver Lynel adds 2–3 gems, each a Topaz, Ruby or Sapphire (30%) or a Diamond or Star Fragment (5%). See the Lynel page. Star Fragments fall at night and sell for 300.

For duplication instead of farming, see the glitches that still work.