Making money in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a lot trickier than in Breath of the Wild due to changes in the game’s currency and resource management systems. While it’s still possible to rake in the riches, you’ll have to explore new avenues to do so.
This is where the best items to sell for Rupees come in handy, allowing you to offload materials from your inventory and turn them into cold hard cash. These money-making items, from certain fruits and foods to stones, minerals, and even monster parts, will help you amass a fortune in no time.
10 Fruits: Foraging A Fortune
There are a ton of fruits to find as you make your way around the land and sky portions of Hyrule in Tears of the Kingdom. In addition to being packed with flavor, most of them will bestow Link with special buffs when cooked over an open flame with other ingredients.
However, some fruits are common enough to warrant selling instead of cooking, particularly Apples, Ice Fruit, and Splash Fruit, which go for three and two Rupees a piece. Considering how abundant they are in the world, there’s no harm in foraging them for a quick profit.
9 Cooked Food: Chef For Hire
The addition of a new recipe mechanic in Tears of the Kingdom has made it easier than ever to replicate your favorite meals on the fly. As such, your inventory is likely already stuffed to the brim with delicious dishes just waiting to be consumed.
Instead of hoarding all that sustenance, why not take the more lucrative route and sell your cooked food at a local vendor? While the prices can vary depending on the number of ingredients, effects, and overall complexity of each dish, even something as simple as cooked meat can fetch a pretty Rupee.
8 Elixirs: Costly Concoctions
Similar to prepared meals, Elixirs can be sold for a nice profit depending on their size and potency. In many cases, you won’t even have to make them yourself, as the world of Hyrule is filled with chests containing already pre-made Elixirs.
Depending on the associated buff, it may be worth it to hold on to certain Elixirs for a particular quest or enemy encounter. When it comes to selling value, you’ll find Elixirs made with Lynel parts go for the highest due to their powerful and long-lasting effects.
7 Flint: Burning Bucks
With Tears of the Kingdom came the return of mineable ores scattered throughout the many mountains, caves, and underground tunnels of Hyrule. When broken with a blunt weapon, these dark and shiny deposits can yield an assortment of ores, minerals, gems, and other rocky resources.
However, the most common item drop you’ll get from them is Flint, which is primarily used to build campfires on the fly. In addition to mining deposits, Flint can be found near stables and inside some chests and sells for five Rupees a piece.
6 Amber: Mineable Money
Like Flint, Amber is a fairly common resource in Tears of the Kingdom that can be obtained by breaking mining deposits and opening chests as well as defeating enemies. While it’s tricky to come by in the earlier parts of the game, as you progress, you’ll start to find more and more.
Though there are benefits to using Amber in fused weapons, many other mineable materials are just as effective, if not more. Even when you factor in the item’s reduced ten Rupee price tag compared to Breath of the Wild, it’s still one of the safest resources to sell for money.
5 Minerals: The Rarest Of Riches
This category includes a wide range of materials that are generally considered to be a lot more valuable than Flint and Amber, such as Opal, Topaz, Rubies, Sapphires, and Diamonds. Like the other two, these resources will spawn from mineable deposits, chests, and enemy drops, only at a much lower rate.
Due to their increased rarity, high Fuse Attack Power, and association with certain armor upgrades, these items should only be sold sparingly, if at all. With that said, the selling price for minerals can range from 30 Rupees each for Opals to a whopping 500 Rupees per Diamond.
4 Luminous Stones: Lucrative Rocks
Adjacent to the rest of Tears of the Kingdom’s mineable ores, Luminous Stones are slightly rarer, sometimes spawning from deposits on the surface as well as the Depths of Hyrule. While their elusive nature can make them tougher to find, at 20 Rupees a pop, they’re more than worth the effort.
One of the best spots to farm Luminous Stones early on in the game is at the Crenel Hills Cave at coordinates 0484, 0729, and 0041; here, you’ll find several mining deposits located both in and outside of the cave that will continually respawn over time.
3 Brightbloom Seeds: A Gloomy Payday
Brightbloom Seeds are one of several new items introduced in Tears of the Kingdom that can aid Link in his quest to banish the Gloom invading Hyrule. Their primary purpose is to light up dark areas within the Depths, with standard seeds providing a minimal amount of light and giant seeds significantly more.
At first, it may seem like you should be holding on to every Brightbloom Seed you come across; however, it’s not long before you realize these things show up everywhere, namely caves, wells, and the Depths themselves. Therefore, you shouldn’t have any qualms about selling both types for a cool two and four Rupees each, respectively.
2 Bokoblin Parts: Organ Donor Deals
Moving along, monster parts are among the most useful materials for crafting Elixirs and increasing the Fuse Attack Power of Link’s weapons and arrows. Depending on the type and rarity, enemies will drop a wide array of horns, talons, eyeballs, wings, and guts for you to lug around the world.
In many instances, these materials can be sold for a surprisingly high amount, particularly those from Blue and Black Bokoblins. While Bokoblin Parts can be sourced for Fuse Attack Power, you’ll find plenty of alternative monster parts fare just as well, allowing you to convert those horns and guts into cash.
1 Dragon Parts: Wyvern Wealth
Despite being depicted as extraordinarily rare and coveted creatures in many fantasy games, dragons are relatively easy to find in Tears of the Kingdom so long as you know where to search. In the event you do find one, your best course of action is to jump on its back and get to work farming shards of spikes and dragon scales.
Not only is this easy to do, but it can also prove quite fruitful for increasing your funds. A single spike shard goes for 30 Rupees each while dragon scales are worth 150 Rupees each. Like minerals, these materials play an important role in upgrading Link’s armor sets, so sell with caution.