Only one · Burn the Leaves (Goatee)
Burn a stable's goatee
Seed F41, at Lakeside Stable, 183 m up. The next seed is 103 m away. The stable is built in the shape of a horse's head, and the goatee is leaves.
Zelda · Analysis · Breath of the Wild · 900 seeds
What does it take to get a Korok seed?
We sorted all 900 Korok seeds in Breath of the Wild by the puzzle you solve to get them: 33 kinds, from lifting a rock to burning a stable's goatee. Mostly, it's rocks.
Key findings
29%of the 900 seeds are a rock to lift
39%are about rocks, patterns and circles included
6 of 33puzzle types hold half the seeds
01 · Every puzzle
Lifting a rock is the most common, by far: 174 seeds.
Another 86 are still a rock to lift, just in a pile, under leaves, under a slab, behind a door or on a boulder: 260 in all, 29% of the 900. Add the 73 rock patterns to finish and the 20 circles of rocks to throw a rock into, and 353 seeds (39%) are about rocks. It's a long tail: six of the 33 puzzles hold 461, more than half, and the bottom 8 hold 12.
All 33 puzzles
Korok seeds of each puzzle type
02 · Where the rocks are
75% of the seeds have a rock puzzle within 300 m.
The rock puzzles aren't bunched in one corner: they're everywhere the seeds are. 679 of the 900 seeds have another seed that's a rock puzzle within 300 m on the map. Tap a colour in the key to fade it.
All 900 seeds, by puzzle
Each dot is a seed where the game puts it
03 · High and low
Melt Ice Block puzzles sit highest: 498 m up, against 217 m for a typical seed.
Half of the 18 ice blocks are higher than 498 m, up in the snow. Circle of Rocks is the lowest of the common puzzles, at 117 m. Plain rock lifts sit right in the middle, at 228 m.
How high each puzzle sits
The median height of each puzzle's seeds, m (puzzles with 10 seeds or more)
04 · One of a kind
Six puzzles show up exactly once.
Only one · Light Torch
Light a torch
Seed D54, at Lake Hylia, 187 m up. The next seed is 56 m away.
Only one · Remove Luminous Stone
Remove a luminous stone
Seed F35, at Ebara Forest, 177 m up. The next seed is 140 m away.
Only one · Shoot the Targets
Shoot the targets
Seed N45, at Lake Jarrah, 127 m up. The next seed is 68 m away.
Only one · Take Apple from Palm Tree
Take a palm tree's apple
Seed F44, at Lurelin Village, 127 m up. The next seed is 106 m away.
Only one · Take the Stick
Take a stick
Seed L26, at Bridge of Hylia, 129 m up. The next seed is 26 m away.
About this data
Download CSV ↓Every Korok seed placed in Breath of the Wild's world: 900, each with the puzzle you solve to get it. The 33 puzzle types are the labels fans gave them on the object map, used as they are. Rock lifts count every variant: plain, in a pile, under leaves, under a slab, behind a door and on a boulder.
Heights are in in-game meters above the game's zero. Distances are map distances, seen from above. Place names are the nearest map label to each seed.
Source: the BotW Object Map (objmap.zeldamods.org) and its object radar, from the game's files, read on October 25, 2026.
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