TotK Star Fragment: Where to Find It and What to Spend It On

Nobody in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sells Star Fragments. Garini, who runs the general store in Lurelin Village, says so outright: “This is a very rare thing you can’t buy anywhere!” Every one you own fell out of the night sky or sat in one of a handful of chests, so the useful question about this item is where not to waste it.

Where do falling stars land, and how long do they stay?

The game’s own tip is the whole method: “If you should see a star shoot through the night sky, mark the place where it lands—you might find something there.” A landed fragment sends up a column of light you can see from a long way off. Put a marker on it before you set out, because it will not wait: at 5 AM it disappears, beacon and all.

The quicker way is to meet the star in the air. Another tip from the loading screens: “If you happen to see a shooting star nearby while skydiving, you may be able to catch it if you can get close enough.” Dropping at night from a Skyview Tower or a sky island, now and then a streak passes right beside Link; steer into it and take it when the prompt appears. Starting points, timing and what to do when nothing shows up are on the Star Fragment farming page.

Which one-time Star Fragments are easy to miss?

Six come from places that never refill. That is half a hero set, so collect them before you start losing nights to skydiving.

• Lightcast Island, two of them. One is in the Ga-ahisas Shrine chest at the end of the mirror route. The other is a stone chest in the island’s cave, on the ledge above the fourth mirror, and is easy to walk past on the way to the shrine.
• Mount Floria Cave: a chest inside the cave.
• Soka Point: an iron chest half-buried in the sand at the very tip of the point.
• Lurelin Village: Garini’s reward for “A Way to Trade, Washed Away”, for bringing back a boat from Tenoko Island (Lurelin Village restoration). If your pouch is full, Garini holds on to it until you have made room.
• Mayasiar Shrine on Starview Island: the chest holds a Magic Staff with a Star Fragment already fused to it. Pay Pelison 20 rupees at the Break-a-Part Shop in Tarrey Town and the fragment comes back loose. Removing it from the inventory menu instead destroys it.

The three chests outside shrines are on this map; “Show on map” in the table moves the map to one.

Which armor really needs them?

103 is the price of every piece at four stars, including ones you will never wear. How the cost is spread out matters more than the total:

• The six classic hero sets (Hero, Awakening, Time, Wind, Twilight, Sky) take one fragment at every star, starting with the first, so a hero piece cannot get even one star without one. A whole set is 12.
• The Hero of the Wild set asks only at the fourth star, 3 per piece. That same star also wants 2 dragon horns and 10 spike shards per piece, and those are usually what holds the set up.
• The Diamond Circlet, Ruby Circlet, Sapphire Circlet and Topaz Earrings cost only gems and Flint for the first two stars. Fragments come in at the third star (1) and the fourth (2).
• Sheik’s Mask is the expensive one: 1, 2, 3, then 4. Its last star alone costs as many fragments as taking a hero cap from no stars to four, and it lifts the mask only from 9 to 16 defense.

If you are short, pay for the set you actually wear first and leave Sheik’s Mask’s fourth star for last. Each Great Fairy you free opens one more upgrade tier, so the fourth-star costs, where all of the Wild set’s fragments go, cannot be paid until all four are free. Locations for the sets are on the hero armor page.

Should you cook with a Star Fragment?

A fragment in the pot makes the dish an incredible success every time. So does a Golden Apple or any dragon’s scale, claw, fang shard or horn, and Gibdo Guts do it in elixirs. A dragon scale does exactly what the fragment does and adds a little healing on top; a horn also adds 30 minutes to the effect. A dragon gives up another part every ten real minutes (dragon parts), while a fragment has to fall from the sky. Cook with dragon parts and keep the fragments for armor.

How incredible success works, and what else raises the odds, is on the cooking page.

Is a Star Fragment worth fusing?

Not for damage: it adds 1 attack. Its point is light, as the item description hints (“One theory is that it has the power to light up its environment”). On a weapon, each swing throws out glowing orbs that light up what they hit. On a Magic Rod, Magic Staff or Magic Scepter, the rod’s shot becomes light orbs. On a shield, it rides on Link’s back like a small lantern.

It works, but in caves and the Depths Brightbloom Seeds do the same job for 8 rupees each, and getting a fused fragment back means a trip to Pelison. If you want a light staff, the one in Mayasiar Shrine costs you nothing.

Sell it, dye with it, or keep it?

It sells for 200 rupees, and since nobody sells them back, every sale is final. Sell only what is left after the armor you plan to finish.

At the Kochi Dye Shop it counts as a white dye material. A dye job takes five materials of one color, so dyeing with fragments spends 1,000 rupees of selling value on a white you can get from White Chuchu Jelly, Hylian Rice or Fresh Milk, none of which sells for more than 4 rupees.

See also

• All materials
• Armor upgrade materials
• Fuse guide
• Interactive map