TotK Dragons: Routes, Chasms and Dragon Parts

Four dragons fly over Hyrule in Tears of the Kingdom: Dinraal (fire), Farosh (lightning), Naydra (ice) and the Light Dragon. None of them can be beaten, but every hit on the right body part knocks off a material. This page draws each route from the game’s own rail data, lists the chasms the three elemental dragons use, and covers every part: where it comes from, its fuse attack, cooking bonus and price.

Where do the four dragons fly?

Each point is one point of the rail the dragon flies along, numbered in flying order; the filter picks one dragon. Switch to the Depths layer for the underground half of the three elemental loops, and to the sky layer for the Light Dragon’s high loop. Coordinates are X, Y as the in-game map shows them.

Distances are map units between the chasm and the tower markers. All chasms are on the chasm map; towers on the Skyview Tower page.

What does each route look like underground?

The three elemental dragons fly half their loop in the Depths, heading back toward the chasm they came out of.

Dinraal flies highest of the three: over Skull Lake its rail rises to 830, briefly reaching sky height. Naydra peaks at 700 over the Cliffs of Quince and Farosh at 550 over Gerudo Canyon.

When do the dragons appear?

Always. The game places each dragon once and gives it a closed loop, so there is no time-of-day schedule: if you cannot see one, it is on another part of its loop, often in the Depths. Waiting at a chasm works because every elemental dragon passes through its two chasms on every lap.

The Light Dragon has three loops in the data. The first is a short loop the game names after the first island, the path the dragon flies while you are still on the Great Sky Island. After that it flies a clockwise circuit around the whole map, through Eldin, Lanayru, Necluda, Gerudo Canyon, Hyrule Field, Tabantha, Hebra and Akkala. The circuit exists twice, high (altitude 1,600 to 2,370, in the sky layer) and low (700 to 1,000), and a story flag decides which one is active.

Which part drops from where?

Fuse attack, cooking time and prices are the game’s own item values and are the same for Dinraal, Farosh and Naydra; the Light Dragon differs only in fuse attack.

How do you farm dragon parts?

1. Get above the dragon. Launch from the Skyview Tower nearest its chasm (see the first table) or glide down from a sky island, and aim to land on its back.
2. Dress for the element. Dinraal burns and sets wooden weapons alight, Naydra freezes and Farosh throws lightning at metal. The Flamebreaker, Snowquill and Rubber sets cover the three.
3. Hit the part you want. Strike or shoot a glowing body part: the horn for a horn, the head for a fang shard, a claw for a claw, anywhere on the body for a scale.
4. Collect the Spike shards. While you are on its back, walk along the spikes and pick up the Shards of Spike underneath.
5. Wait ten real minutes. After one part drops the dragon gives nothing for ten minutes of real time. Opening menus to pass time does not help, so stay on it or come back later.

What are dragon parts used for?

Fusing. A dragon horn adds 26 attack to a weapon, the Light Dragon’s Horn 20. The Shard of Spike descriptions say they are “very destructive” when fused and carry the dragon’s element (shock, fire or ice); Light Dragon parts instead heal you, in the game’s words “a mysterious healing power when attached to a weapon”. See the fuse guide.

Cooking. A scale, claw, fang shard or horn in any dish guarantees a Critical Success and adds the time in the table; a horn pushes an effect to 30 minutes. Details on best recipes.

Armor upgrades. The Great Fairies ask for dragon parts on these pieces (where the fairies are):

More on the Hero of the Wild set, the Fierce Deity set and all upgrade materials.

Selling. A horn sells for 300 rupees, but horns and fang shards are the bottleneck for the upgrades above, so keep them until your armor is done.