Really easy way to farm very rare purple mods in Horizon Zero Dawn. Watch me Play LIVE here: / elkjaertv Twitter: / elkjaertv Discord: / discord Link to the original Reddit post about this trick: www.reddit.com/r/horizon/comm...
Really ?!..Thank you..:D Been playing Horizon on pc last few days, i am at half the game or so i think..after getting to Meridian and getting to Olin guy in next quest. And i am always lacking wire, forced to use hunter bow constantly because i cant make sharpshooter arrows :/
@@TheMessenger012 Hey man. The guy that gives you that mission only appears after a certain point in the game so no point rushing to that town and expect to get it immediately. From memory I think you had to at least find Erend’s sister.
What about saving it turning the console off and turning the console back on and loading that save file will it still be on the ground or everything back to normal or gone?
For those needing wire , blaze , sparkler . Stack up on potions , traps and then drop all from inventory . Pick them up and then drop them all again . This duplicates them so when you have max , duplicate one more time and then sell to merchant . Then go back pick up the ones you left and do it again . Do it next to the merchant so every time you go back to the merchant you’re receiving 500-1000 shards ( depending on size of bag because you’ll dup more ). Then buy whatever you need .
@@daodrassulravan5520 It does, he just explained it a bit janky. What you need to do is: 1) Go to any merchant, and stand close by. 2) open inventory, and go to traps and potions. 3) drop all the items in your potions and traps. 4) close inventory, and pick up all the items you’ve just dropped. 5) repeat steps 2 and 3. 6) when you close your inventory after dropping them all again, they’ve duplicated. Keep repeating steps 2 to 5. Merchants have infinite shards to repeat till you get fed up.
@@daodrassulravan5520you literally drop them all , then pick it up . Then drop them again. That duplicates them. Pick up again and repeat until you're maxed on the traps , potions ect . Duplicate one more time and pick up the dupes Sell to merchant . Pick up the left over dupes from before and repeat. After selling for around 10min you'll receive around 1000 shards depending on your storage . this is very useful for ultra hard because collecting and buying resources is a nightmare
I can't believe I totally missed Free Heap in my first run. I only learned of it after I met Petra during the final battle and was like "Who the hell is this? Am I supposed to know her?"
As of Jan 2023 this still works. I didn’t really need it, but it does work. I just scrapped anything green or blue and collected until I was full.. Pretty cool.
The machines might not respawn alive, but their dead corpses definitely respawn which is why the loot also does. The game loads new machine corpses each time you arrive in the area.
@@palermodpr I don't think it respawns dead bodies in general. It only respawns those who are necessary for a quest. And not the quests that let you kill any machine, the quests that need you to kill specific ones.
Nice one, thanks for this tip. It's still working on PS4 (October 2020). As mentioned by someone earlier, if the mods aren't there when you've been away doing something else in the game, take the run/walk to the tree and back from the fallen Behemoth and all the goodies will reappear.
I'm playing the game in Sept 2023 and by God this still works! Also, it doesn't matter what choice you take (going solo or along with the hunters) you can kill them and then try the hack and it will still give you all the loot again and again.
November 27 2021, still works fine. Two things: 1. If you kill all the behemoths and shell-walkers in the convoy in different spots, they will be lying in perfect raw as you come back to reloot them; 2. This loot respawn trick works as well without a mount, but it's faster to go back and forth using a mount, for sure. Thank you Elkjaer TV for the amazing tip!
@@vahngaming7107As long as your quest with behemoth cables is in progress, you can do whatever you want instead. Just go back to the quest location, do the u-turn around the tree again and the mods will reappear. BTW you can loot everything from the behemoths including all the 9 cables needed for the quest itself, but don`t go to Petra and keep relooting :)
Can’t believe I just tried this at the end of Ng+. This would have been AMAZING to have found early on. I would have just spent a full day maxing mods and shards. Still after like 200 hrs of play, I’m occasionally finding better mods here. Got a 30% spear damage mod. Thought it only went to 26 :)
I'm late to this party so my apologies if this has already been mentioned, but regardless of where you kill the behemoths originally (mine got quite separated), after the first respawn the behemoth corpses will always be lined up right behind each other as in the video. Convenient!
Still working on March 11, 2022. On any difficulty, NG+ or not. Still haven’t found a second spear coil but hot damn it’s good to have lying around for when you need to get more shards/resources. Leave them lying there as you continue playing and just fast travel back and run around the tree again as he states and they’ll refresh their loot. Thanks Elk!
Late comment, but thank you so much for this tip senpai! This allowed me to get my second 30% spear coil plus other good stuff. I got the first 30% coil from farming Thunderjaws until I found out about this. I was quite lucky because the only notable ones were one 29% and another 30%, and I probably looted/sold over 600 coils. I also got 200k+ shards from looting/selling/trading mysterious boxes...did have to ride my mount around a LOT though lol Make sure to trade all the crystal/luminous braidings you loot with the merchant in Meridian - the boxes you get always yield better shards than selling the braiding itself, especially the Hunter Big Game Box. This worked exactly as shown in the video on PC patch 1.07 and I took advantage of it in early November 2020 I believe. I haven't done it again since then (didn't need to) and now PC patch is at 1.08. I bet it's still working though as I saw a comment from someone saying that he reported this to the devs prior to me giving it a try and it was still working. It's safe to say that they're letting players exploit this even though they're aware of it. I mean, people who are doing this obviously love the game, and why would the devs discourage them from playing more and more?
This is amazing, i lost my saved file with 100+ hours in and 12+ bows each with a specific purpose with mods fitting that purpose and it was a pain farming all of these again
Since I can't do this anymore. I just farm the area where you battle two Thunderjaws. With full Freeze and Hard point arrows. Easy kill. You can farm for everything there too with the exception of metal burn. If you need wire the lance horns are there to farm from.
Just got into the game myself. Surprised this still works. Would be surprised if there is a better metal shard site too. Quickly found myself having to prioritize purple mods.
It is extremely easy though... Story difficulty is even easier than easy mode is practically god mode more or less. Is impossible to die unless you make a mistake like jumping from a Clift or jumping into a bottomless pit in the cauldrons. Im doing story difficulty to prepare again for another ultra hard run. Shards will be useful to buy materials and stuff.
Flip89 Use tearblast arrows to pop the casing off the blaze or chillwater canisters on both its sides. Use a fire arrow to shoot the blaze and use freeze arrows for the chillwater. If the bird is flapping around too much, use a ropecaster to tie it down. If you dont have ropecaster, use tearblast arrows to break the stabilizers on its wings to force it to the ground.
Having never played the game on any setting lower than, "Hard", my jaw about hit the floor when the whole damn herd just...died 😂. It got me laughing because it was so unexpected.
as of 10/8/21 4 a.m. this still works. one thing to note is if u fast travel to somewhere from the immediate area where you looted the dead bodies and then go back to the place, you have to reset the loot again by running to the tree or an equal distance in any other direction from the bodies.
it is WORKING on PC on sep 12 2020. Fastest way to loot this is better than going after thunderjaw cuz u have to kill it everytime. there is a fire near that tree in the video, fast travel to that but u have to go to that tree in the video, cross and go back to that location again and loot again!
Just tried it. Went back about five times, no issues. Mods seem to change each time. Managed to get a couple of 60% handling mods which was awesome because I have found good handling mods hard to come by.
Another way is to get the cauldron to be able to override from the thunderjaw, then go to the thunderjaw site, override one, and make him kill the other one then, you’ll be able to get three purple modifications every time!
Working as of April 28, 2021. This is also a really good metal shards farm/other resources farm besides mods. Each behemoth gives around 100-150 shards. Thanks a lot for this ^^
Still works today as of 10/7/2022, top rare purple Mods + 500 shards each time you loot 😀 Also top of the ridge to the left there's a campfire, you can go there manual save and can log out and can always spawn back, run around tree and continue loot farming
This worked perfectly until I did some more missions and when I went back to get some mods for my new bow there was no loot anymore. I may aswell just turn the quest in now:/
Odd. I did this many times at different time/mission intervals on pc. Did 10 or so runs, left and did some missions, came back, repeat. I did this 4-5 times. I still wasn't near the end of the game. Maybe if you start the endgame chain and Petra moves to Meridian, the quest fails or enemies despawn; not sure.
Confirmed still works as of Jan 21st 2022. Worth noting that no matter where you kill the machines, they will respawn closer together for easy looting.
From what I’ve tested. As long as you never finish the quest the machines should still be there. All you have to do is circle that tree and the loot spawns back every time. You can finish other quests, save and close the game, load back up. doesn’t matter long as you never finish the ‘Hammer and Steel’ quest the loot and machines should always be there.
I'm about to finish the last quest, so I figured, since I probably won't do that many replays I'm going to go ahead and just build a goddess with purple mods. This video definitely helps! Thanks for sharing :) I just wonder if playing in story mode might mess up any of my achievements?
I skipped over the "and because this is story mode and ng+ I will obliterate everybody" and went to try this out while still on my first playthrough. Turned out to be a nice way to learn how to fight these things xD
In general I do not subscribe to channels since few I did subscribed to ended up disappointing me. I watched your video on getting Shield Weawer early, followed instructions and managed to obtain it in more or less 45 minutes. I was surprised, pleasantly, with..well everything. Step by step, simple, no BS it was like I was sitting and watching my friend showing me something. Now I watched this video and I am still very early in my play through and are yet to reach Free Heap (legitimately) I can’t wait to try this out. In short I somehow think I will not go wrong this time so I am clicking that SUB button with one big KUDOS to you and just keep doing what you do.
