TotK Light Dragon's Horn: The 300-Rupee Part Worth Every Hit

Every hit on the Light Dragon in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom buys you one part and then a ten-minute wait, whichever part it was. The horn is the one to spend that hit on. It sells for 300 rupees, more than any other Light Dragon part, and you can reach it on foot from the dragon’s head. Three go into armor; the rest are money.

Hitting the horns from the head

Land on the Light Dragon’s back and walk forward to the head. The horns curve up around it and glow at the front; a melee swing at one is enough, and there is nothing to aim. You can also shoot a horn from a glide, but standing on the head is easier and leaves you right where the horn appears.

The horn does not wait long. It rests on the dragon for a moment, then falls, so press the button to pick it up straight away. If it slips off, dive after it before it lands somewhere far below. The Light Dragon is harmless to stand on: no fire, frost or lightning, so no special armor.

The Master Sword is stuck in the same head. While the main quest Recovering the Hero’s Sword is active, your map shows where the dragon is; pulling the sword ends the quest and the marker goes with it. If you want horns over several visits, take them before you take the sword. Routes and launch points are on dragon locations, the sword itself on Master Sword.

Three for the fourth star

The last star of each blue tunic is the only place a Light Dragon’s Horn is needed:

• Champion’s Leathers, fourth star: 10 Silent Princesses, 2 Light Dragon’s Horns, 20 Sundelions and 500 rupees (defense 22 to 32).
• Tunic of Memories, fourth star: 10 Silent Princesses, 1 Light Dragon’s Horn, 2 Dinraal’s Horns and 500 rupees (defense 18 to 28).

Dinraal burns whoever lands on it and sets wooden weapons alight, so collecting its horns calls for the Flamebreaker Set. With the Leathers alone, two Light Dragon’s Horns finish the job and you end up with 32 defense on the body. Both tunics, their effect and which to wear are on Champion’s Leathers and Tunic of Memories.

Is it worth fusing?

Not over the other dragon horns, if raw damage is the point. Dinraal’s, Naydra’s and Farosh’s Horns add 26 and bring fire, ice or shock; the Light Dragon’s adds 20 with no element. What it brings instead is healing, a quarter of a heart for every hit, the same amount every Light Dragon part gives.

The horn differs from the scale, talon and fang shard in one way: it is a blade. Fused to a weapon it cuts, where the other Light Dragon parts turn the weapon blunt. On a shield it adds 20, and parrying is said to trigger the healing too. On an arrow it stays at 20, so for arrows the fang shard (32) and the talon (28) hit harder. The fuse guide has the full rules.

Sell the spares, but photograph one first

At 300 rupees, a horn is worth as much as any dragon’s horn, and the only material that sells for more is the Diamond. Still, one horn per ten minutes of real time, plus the time to find the dragon, makes it a top-up rather than a way to farm rupees; better methods are on rupee farming.

Before you sell them all, take a photo. The Light Dragon’s Horn has its own Hyrule Compendium entry, number 327, which the scale, talon and fang shard do not.

In a cooking pot, a horn guarantees an incredible success and takes a timed effect up to 30 minutes, the biggest boost of any dragon part. That is a 300-rupee seasoning, so save it for an effect you really want to last.

See also

• Light Dragon’s Scale, the first-star part
• Shard of Light Dragon’s Fang, the third-star part
• Dragon locations and dragon parts
• All materials