TotK Hinox Locations: All 69, HP, Drops and Medal

A Hinox is a one-eyed giant that sleeps in the open and wakes up swinging trees. This page shows where all 69 of them are, gives the HP and drops of each kind, walks through the fight in screenshots, and explains the Hinox Monster Medal, including the Hyrule Castle bug that update 1.4.3 fixed.

How many Hinox are there?

The counts come from the game’s own placement data.

Leg armor is each Hinox’s equipment in the placement data; the tables below give it spawn by spawn.

Where are the Hinox on the surface?

The landmark is the nearest named place on the map. Hyrule Field and Necluda hold the most, 12 each, counting caves.

The Hyrule Castle Black Hinox (last row) is the one the medal bug was about. It stands near the castle library (Show on map).

Which caves have a Hinox?

Three of these caves sit close together in Necluda: Rodai Lakefront Tunnel (Hinox), Corta Lake Cave (Blue Hinox) and Calora Lake Cave (Black Hinox), all within about 400 units of each other. The Stalnox in caves, as in the Depths, is there at any time of day.

Where are the Hinox in the Depths?

Most of the Depths has no place names of its own, so the name given for a Depths spot is the name of the place on the surface directly above it. Find that name on the surface map and the spot is straight below. In 13 of the 29 cases a surface Hinox stands in the same spot directly above: the Depths Hinox under Trilby Plain, Upland Lindor, Dracozu River, Jia Highlands, Malin Bay, Meadela’s Mantle, Hebra North Crest, Aris Beach, Bubinga Forest, Mable Ridge, Giant’s Forest, Squabble River and Lake Totori. Beat one and drop down the nearest chasm for the other.

How do you beat a Hinox?

Every kind has the same weak spot, one big eye.

Run in while it is down and hit it until it stands up again, then back off and repeat. Attacks on a knocked-down Hinox are where almost all the damage comes from.

If it closes in before you can aim, run between its legs and come out behind it: it turns slowly, which buys you time to aim again. Do not stay under it, though, or it drops onto you with a butt slam.

At about half health it starts covering the eye with its hand. Wait for it to swing at you, which uncovers the eye, and shoot then.

Leg armor changes what you can do with its feet. The game describes Blue Hinox greaves as ones that “can be burnt away to expose their feet”, so fire works on wooden greaves. Black Hinox wear “metal greaves that are too hard to break”. Shocking metal greaves with an electric attack stuns it and gives you extra hits.

Carok Bridge Hinox | The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Switch 2 — YouTube

Can you steal weapons from a sleeping Hinox?

Yes. In the game’s own words, “a deft hand can steal weapons from the necklaces they wear”. Red, Blue and Black Hinox all carry weapons on a necklace, and a sleeping one is the chance to take them without a fight.

Sneaky food or elixirs help it stay asleep; see the Sneaky effect in best recipes. Anything left on the necklace drops when you beat the Hinox anyway.

What does a Hinox drop?

Rates are from the game’s drop tables.

Hinox horns can be fused to a weapon to raise its attack power, as the item description says. A Black Hinox is the one sure source of Hinox Guts: 100%, against 50% for a Blue Hinox and 10% for a red one.

How do you get the Hinox Monster Medal?

1. Finish one of the monster-control crew’s side adventures at Lookout Landing, such as Bring Peace to Hyrule Field. After that, Gralens in the Emergency Shelter offers the big-monster quests.
2. Pick “How about big monsters?” and “Unusual monsters?”. One of the quests is WANTED: Hinox: by the game’s quest log, a Hinox near Trilby Plain, northeast of Hyrule Field by Woodland Stable. That is the Trilby Plain row in the surface table.
3. Beat every Hinox, Blue Hinox, Black Hinox and Stalnox at least once. Once the quests are done, Gralens tells you how many of each kind you still have to beat.
4. Go back to Gralens for the medal. The game’s description: “An award presented by the monster-control crew in appreciation for defeating every Hinox in Hyrule.”

All six Monster Medals, with how many of each monster you need and the usual reasons one will not come, are on the Monster Medals page.

See also

For the other big monsters, see all 87 Taluses, all 35 Flux Constructs, the Moldugas, the Frox, all 34 Lynels and the Gleeoks. Shrines are on the shrine map.

Story bosses: the five temple bosses and the final battle with Demon King Ganondorf.

The Black Hinox Horn adds 27 fuse attack power; see the Fuse guide.