TotK 100% Completion: What Counts, Where to Check, Stuck at 99%

The map completion percentage in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom only tracks what has been recorded on your map: Koroks, shrines, cave entrances, Lightroots, wells, chasms, Skyview Towers, facilities and a few hundred place names. That comes to about 2,500 items, each worth roughly 0.04%. How many quests you finished or photos you took does not matter. The table below lists every category with its count so you can tick them off; the individual spots are on each category’s page and on the interactive map.

Where do you see the completion percentage?

After you beat Ganondorf 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-right 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, so there is no reason to wait; you just cannot see the number until then. The rest of what changes on a cleared save is on the post-game page. There is no reward for 100%: no item, no title, just the number on the map.

What counts toward 100% completion?

Anything that appears on your map because you went there or found it. Every item is worth about the same, so Koroks, the biggest category, make up about 36% on their own. The share column below assumes 0.04% per item.

A few categories need a note:

• Koroks: puzzles where you reunite two Koroks give 2 seeds but count as one spot, which is why there are 900 spots and 1,000 seeds.
• Cave entrances: counted per entrance, not per cave. Of the 147 caves, 36 have more than one entrance, for 197 in total. Ancient Altar Ruins alone has 12.
• Stables: 14 stables plus 2 Mini Stables.
• Ancient Tablets: the 12 in the sky are only recorded once you photograph them and show them to Wortsworth during the side adventure Messages from an Ancient Era.
• Towns and shops: the towns themselves, and the shop icons that appear when you zoom the map in.
• Other place names: on the surface, in the sky and in the Depths. Bridges, road gates, sky archipelagos and the Dark Skeletons in the Depths all have names. 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 Adventures, Side Quests and Shrine Quests.
• Combat and collections: bosses and big monsters, armor, the Hyrule Compendium.
• Key Items: sage vows, Monster Medals, saddles and bridles in that inventory tab do not count either.
• Treasure hunts: Old Maps, Yiga Schematics, Addison’s signs.
• Sage’s Wills and Bubbul Gems reportedly do not count either; for caves, it is the entrance that counts.

Quests themselves do not count, but a few reportedly add new facilities to the map, such as the shops that open in Lurelin Village after the Lurelin Village Restoration Project. If you are down to the last few items, finish any quest of that kind you skipped.

Why am I stuck at 99%?

The last fraction is almost always one of these:

1. A cave’s other entrance. Going in one way and beating the Bubbulfrog does not record the other entrance. The caves page lists the extra entrances of every multi-entrance cave.
2. Bridges and gates off the main roads. For example Gleeok Bridge, Horwell Bridge, Oren Bridge, Luto’s Crossing, Sokkala Bridge and West Sokkala Bridge, Lanayru Road - West Gate and East Gate, and the Maw of Death Mountain. They are easy to skip if you fly into towns.
3. Lone place names. For example the Royal Ancient Lab Ruins and the Hyrule Castle Moat West Chasm, which you have to walk to on purpose.
4. The sky and the Depths. Flying high over a place reportedly does not record its name; you need to land or get close to the ground. So land on the sky archipelagos, such as the South Necluda Sky Archipelago and the West Hyrule Sky Archipelago. In the Depths, the Gerudo Dark Skeleton, Hebra Dark Skeleton, Eldin Dark Skeleton and the Secret Spring of Revival are often missed.

With one item left, the counter reportedly reads 99.95%.

Three ways to find what you missed:

• Hero’s Path Mode: after the side adventure Presenting: Hero’s Path Mode!, the map can draw every route you have walked. Bridges, junctions and islands with no line through them are places you have not been. How to unlock it is on the Purah Pad upgrades page.
• Compare the counts: check the table above to see which category is short, then go through that category’s page.
• 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.