TotK Octoroks: All 5 Types, HP, Drops and Locations

The game calls Octoroks “octopus-like” low-ranking monsters, and Tears of the Kingdom has five of them, each suited to its own terrain. This page shows what each one looks like and how it attacks, gives their HP, damage settings and drops from the game’s own data, explains how Rock Octoroks repair weapons, and maps all 190 places the game puts them. For the other monster families see the enemy overview; the Breath of the Wild Octoroks have their own page.

Which Octoroks are in Tears of the Kingdom?

The HP is from the game’s parameter files and the rest from its Hyrule Compendium entries. There is no Sky Octorok in Tears of the Kingdom: that kind belonged to Breath of the Wild’s Master Mode.

What is a Water Octorok like?

The Water Octorok is the base kind. The game says it spends most of its time in water and bursts out when it senses someone, then spits rocks, which “can be bounced back with a shield”. The game places 55: 44 along rivers and coasts on the surface, 7 in caves and wells, and 4 in the Depths, three of them below Zora’s Domain.

What is a Forest Octorok like?

The game describes it as originally an aquatic species that “adapted to life in the forest”, hiding among trees disguised “as grass or unassuming shrubbery”. With 63 spawns it is the most common Octorok; Rok Woods alone holds 14 and Thundra Plateau 11.

What is a Rock Octorok like?

Rock Octoroks live in volcanic regions. The game warns that when they inhale “they’re preparing to spit out flaming rocks” and tells you to “be aware of that powerful suction”. That suction is what repairs weapons, as explained below. 34 of the 35 the game places are in Eldin.

What is a Snow Octorok like?

The game says Snow Octoroks live in snowy fields and “disguise themselves as grass”, then “attack by spitting snowballs”. There are only 10: seven in Gerudo, four of them on Vatorsa Snowfield, and three in Tabantha.

What is a Treasure Octorok like?

The game calls Treasure Octoroks “particularly clever”: they bury themselves in deep sand or snow, show only a treasure chest and attack whoever walks up to it. It adds that the chests “are actually parts of these monsters’ bodies”. A lone chest poking out of open sand or snow may well be one. 12 of the 27 are in Gerudo, three of them at Gerudo Summit.

How do you beat Octoroks?

The damage files make every Octorok fragile:

• Shoot from range. Octoroks attack by spitting from a distance, so an arrow is the safest answer, and any arrow kills.
• Send the rocks back. The game’s own tip for the Water Octorok: hold up your shield and the rock it spits bounces back at it.
• Use the water. Because electric shock is fatal, a Shock Fruit, or a Yellow Chuchu Jelly thrown into the water next to a Water Octorok, finishes it.

What do Octoroks drop?

Rates are from the game’s drop tables. “One of” means the items share one roll; a percentage is the chance per roll. The four regular types share the same table, so farm whichever kind is closest.

• Octo Balloon: the game calls it an “inflatable Octorok organ” with “a lot of lift”. Attach it to something and it floats up; fused to an arrow, it sticks to whatever the arrow hits. It adds 1 attack when fused to a weapon.
• Octorok Eyeball: its nature is “to focus on a moving object”, so an arrow with one fused homes in on its target. It adds 3 attack when fused to a weapon.
• Octorok Tentacle: “too acidic for cooking” but valued for elixirs. It adds 3 attack when fused. See the Fuse guide.
• Armor upgrades: each piece of the Yiga set needs 2 Octorok Eyeballs for its first star, and the Snow Boots need 5 Octorok Tentacles at the second star and 5 Octo Balloons at the third. All costs are in the upgrade materials table.

How do Rock Octoroks repair weapons?

Drop a badly damaged weapon in front of a Rock Octorok, then back away. When it inhales it sucks the weapon in and spits it back with its durability fully restored and a random bonus such as Attack Up or Durability Up. Each Rock Octorok can successfully repair one item per Blood Moon cycle. Defeat it after collecting your equipment and return after the next Blood Moon respawns it. The weapon durability page covers the details, including how to use the trick on legendary weapons.

Where do Octoroks live?

The placement data holds 190 Octoroks: 177 on the surface, 9 in caves and wells and 4 in the Depths.

A spawn’s region is the region of the nearest shrine; for the Depths, the region on the surface above. The map shows every spawn; filter by type and switch to the Depths to see the four down there.

For the rest of Hyrule’s monsters see the enemy overview, and for the biggest camps the Bokoblin page. Octoroks in Breath of the Wild are on the Breath of the Wild Octorok page.