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Where to Farm Ancient Cores: Locations and Prices

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This is a guide to farming Ancient Cores, a material in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BotW). Learn where to get Ancient Cores, its buy and sell prices, as well as what you can do with it.

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Ancient Core General Info

Ancient Core
Ancient Core Image
Item Type Spoils
This crystal was made using lost technology. At one time it was the power source for ancient machines. This item is very valuable to researchers.

Ancient Core Buy Prices

Buy Price 320 / -

Where to Farm Ancient Cores

Ancient Core Locations and Sources

Sources
Monster Drop
Dropped By
Guardian Scout IV Sentry Guardian Turret Guardian Skywatcher
Guardian Stalker

Drops from the Ancient Enemies

Ancient Cores can only be farmed through drops from certain Ancient Enemies in the overworld. Read on to find out which enemies these are and their locations.

Enemies Location
Guardian Scout IIIGuardian Scout III Ancient Shrines - Moderate Test of Strength
Guardian Scout IVGuardian Scout IV Ancient Shrines - Major Test of Strength
Guardian StalkerGuardian Stalkers
Guardian Stalkers - Hyrule Field

Guardian Stalkers - Hyrule Castle Grounds

Decayed Guardian Location - Fort Hateno
Guardian SkywatcherGuardian Skywatchers
Skull Icon - Decayed Guardian
Star Icon - Guardian Stalkers
Bow Icon - Guardian Skywatchers

What To Do With Ancient Cores

Sell for Rupees

Ancient Core can be sold for 80 Rupees. However, we recommend looking into other uses instead.

Item Sell Price
Ancient Core 80

Use It for Cooking

Ancient Core can be used to whip up the following recipes and elixirs.

There are no entries for this item.


Use It for Armor Upgrades

Ancient Core can be used to upgrade the following armor through Great Fairies.

Ancient Cuirass IconAncient Cuirass Ancient Greaves IconAncient Greaves Ancient Helm IconAncient Helm

Purchase Items from the Akalla Ancient Tech Lab

Ancient Arrow Smallest Box
Ancient Cores are also used to purchase the following items from the Akalla Ancient Tech Lab.

Breath of the Wild Ancient Short Sword IconAncient Short Sword
(×2) 		Breath of the Wild Ancient Spear IconAncient Spear
(×2) 		Breath of the Wild Ancient Cuirass IconAncient Cuirass
(×3)
Breath of the Wild Ancient Greaves IconAncient Greaves
(×3) 		Breath of the Wild Ancient Helm IconAncient Helm
(×3)

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Botw - Apple PieFood Chilly Elixir IconElixirs

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2 Anonymous Anonymous 7 months

i killed 5 stalkers and only got 1 ancient core

1 Anonymous Anonymous almost 3 years

With only 6 hearts I got 3 Ancient Cores by parrying 3 times in a row to kill Guardian Stalkers

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