TotK Hyrule Compendium: All 509 Entries, Buying Pictures, Reward

The Hyrule Compendium is the encyclopedia on the Purah Pad in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Anything you photograph with the Camera, whether a creature, monster, material, piece of equipment or treasure, is added automatically, and sensor + can then track it. This page covers how to unlock it, how many entries there are, how buying pictures from Robbie works, and the hardest entries to fill.

How do you get the Camera and Hyrule Compendium?

The Purah Pad starts without a working Camera. At Lookout Landing, Josha and Robbie give you the main quest Camera Work in the Depths: Robbie heads down the chasm just south of Lookout Landing, and once you catch up with him in the Depths he unlocks both the Camera and the Hyrule Compendium. You can do this early in the game, see the beginner tips.

Point the Camera at something and its name appears on screen. When you photograph a new kind of subject the game says “Image added to Hyrule Compendium.” For entries you already have, it asks whether to replace the picture with the new one.

How many entries are there in each category?

The Compendium has five categories and 509 entries, numbered straight through by category:

Weapons can be registered with the Camera’s self-portrait: take a picture of yourself with the weapon equipped.

What do you need before you can buy pictures from Robbie?

Once Robbie is back at Hateno Ancient Tech Lab and you have finished Hateno Village Research Lab, his own complete compendium sits on the desk in the lab. Examine it and Robbie offers to sell you pictures, which starts the side adventure Filling Out the Compendium. To get Robbie back to the lab, see Purah Pad upgrades.

You do not need a full Compendium for this side adventure: buying a single picture completes it, and you can come back and keep buying whenever you like.

The same lab also upgrades sensor +: register 5 kinds of monster, talk to Robbie, and you can choose a target from the map or the Compendium. It is a big help with the Compendium, so do both together.

How much do pictures cost, and can you pick which one?

Pictures are sold by category and you cannot pick a specific entry. You choose the category and how many, and Robbie chooses from the entries in that category you are still missing; you can also buy them all.

When a category has nothing left to sell, the list shows “Sold Out”. The game describes the Elite Enemy Picture as “a picture of a powerful monster that at one time stood in your way”; the foes you only meet in boss fights are in this group.

Which entries are hardest to get?

Temple bosses: Colgera, Marbled Gohma, Mucktorok and Queen Gibdo each reappear three times in the Depths after their temples, so a missed shot can be made up there. Locations are on the temple bosses page. Bosses that only appear once in the story can only be bought as Elite Enemy Pictures after the ending if you miss them. Which bosses are one-time fights is listed on TotK Missables.

The four dragons: Dinraal, Naydra and Farosh fly fixed routes and enter and leave the Depths through chasms; the Light Dragon circles the whole map and never goes into the Depths. Routes are on the dragons page.

Sun Pumpkin (Material #243) only appears after Homegrown in Hateno, and you cannot buy its picture before then. See the Hateno mayoral election.

Large monsters: Gleeoks, Froxes, Hinoxes and Stone Taluses each have fixed spawn points rather than turning up everywhere. See Gleeok, Frox, Hinox and Stone Talus locations, and the monster guide for everything else.

What is the reward for completing the Compendium?

Fill all 509 entries and go back to Robbie. He calls your compendium perfect and gives you a special gift: Robbie’s Fabric. Its description reads “Tough handmade fabric bearing a Purah Pad design. It looks like it could be used to make a paraglider.”

Take paraglider fabric to Sayge at Kochi Dye Shop in Hateno Village to have it put on your paraglider, for 20 rupees each time. For other fabrics, see amiibo rewards.

How is it different from the BotW Compendium?

The full Breath of the Wild version is on the BotW Hyrule Compendium page.

Which side adventures ask for pictures?

Messages from an Ancient Era pays a silver rupee for each tablet picture, see ancient tablets; Kilton’s series is at the end of the Monster Control Crew page. Every side adventure is listed on the side adventures page.