TotK Dog Treasure: How to Feed Dogs and All 21 Chests

The dogs kept at stables and villages in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (the game calls them Hylian Retrievers) can find treasure for you: make friends with one, feed it, and it walks you to a chest buried nearby. The game’s own tip says no more than “If you befriend a dog, it may lead you to something interesting.” This page explains how to do it and lists all 21 chests the dogs lead to.

How do you get a dog to lead you to treasure?

The dog-loving woman at Foothill Stable gives the recipe:

But they won’t do that for just anybody. You have to show them lots of love first. You know, befriend them and feed them. But they’ll repay that love by showing you the most amazing things!

In practice:

1. Befriend it. Stand next to the dog for a moment and let it warm to you.
2. Feed it. Take fruit or meat out of your inventory, such as an apple or raw meat, and drop it on the ground in front of the dog. It comes over and eats it.
3. Feed it again. Usually three or four helpings are needed; accounts differ, and better food is said to need fewer. A few apples in your pouch is the easiest way.
4. Follow it. Once it has had enough, the dog heads off on its own. Follow it: the chest is where it stops.

Where are the dogs, and what do the chests hold?

The map and table come from the game’s placement data. Every dog that leads to treasure has the spot it guides you to written into its placement, and each of those spots is exactly a treasure chest. Dogs that lead to the same chest share a row: 21 chests in all. The points on the map are the dogs; the last column of the table is the chest, and its “Map” link shows the chest itself.

Click “Show on map” to move the map above to that spot.

A few notes:

• Purple Rupees are the most common, five chests (Tarrey Town, Highland Stable, Snowfield Stable, Riverside Stable, Tabantha Bridge Stable). Worth picking up on the way early on; for more ways to earn, see Rupee farming.
• Worth a trip on their own: the Eightfold Longblade at Dueling Peaks Stable, the Royal Shield at East Akkala Stable and the Knight’s Bow at Hateno Village.
• Outskirt Stable’s dog leads to a buried Giant Boomerang.
• South Akkala Stable’s chest holds a Throwing Spear with a Bomb Barrel already fused to it.
• Foothill Stable has three chests (Soldier’s Bow, Soldier’s Broadsword, Ruby), one for each of its dogs. The Soldier’s Broadsword and the Ruby, and the Knight’s Claymore at Lakeside Stable, show up only in the game data; no second account of them was found.
• Woodland Stable’s dog stands in a slightly different spot before and after Yunobo of Goron City, and leads to the same chest.
• Lurelin Village’s dog, by the game data, only appears once the quest Ruffian-Infested Village is under way.

The dog in Misko’s Cave of Chests

The side quest Misko’s Cave of Chests is solved with a dog. Outside Cephla Lake Cave, Domidak and his brother can’t find the treasure inside; the dog nearby, once fed, goes into the cave and leads you to a buried chest. That chest holds the Ember Trousers. A few more buried chests in the cave hold only Green Rupees; the trousers are in the one the dog shows you. For how to start the quest, see the side quest list.

Things to know

• The chests are always there. Each chest is buried before you ever feed the dog; the dog only shows the way. Go by the table’s “Map” link and you can dig it up all the same.
• If it won’t go, feed it again. Accounts of how many helpings it takes differ; if three haven’t done it, try one or two more.
• Two of them depend on quests. Where the Woodland Stable dog stands, and whether the Lurelin Village dog is there at all, depend on quest progress; see the notes above.

See also

• Stables and horses: most of the dogs live at stables
• Beginner tips: things to pick up on the way early on
• Interactive map: the dogs alongside everything else