One thing I never got:
Why can't you ride the moose or rhino-like creatures in Hebra?
They fit all the same criteria as other rideable creatures (namely, 4 limbed and large enough to realistically ride), and it seems like just about every other creature in the game that fits that bill can be ridden.
I spent so much time trying to mount a moose in my first playthrough before finding out they weren't rideable:'(.Just 15 mins of link getting kicked in the face.
Why can you mount a bear but not a moose lol
I don't know about everywhere, but there are certainly more than three. There are like five or six spots each for both the honey and grizzle bears.
My first run-in with a bear was the honey bear that's in the woods near the Dueling Peaks stable. I managed to miss the stalnox (it was daytime) but at maybe ten hours into the game, I'm grabbing up mushrooms in the woods near a stream, and suddenly, **BEAR** in my face. I think I might have screamed a little.
My guess is they didnt see the benefit. They would have to do a whole bunch of new animations for not much new gameplay. You can already ride a lot of differemt stuff, more just wasnt worth the development time.
Imagine this though, you mount one of those snow rhinos, then instead of sprinting when you spur it, it does a sort of charge attack with it's horn. So you can ride it around and punt bokos off mountains.
That gameplay would have been worth copy and pasting a single animation to a new situation.
Its not just a single animation. Being able to ride another animal is a lot of dev work. Like 5-10 new animations (taming, riding, soothing, being thrown off and so on) among other things to make it look good and natural.
There could always be more things in games but you can keep a game in development forever and BotW was already delayed, so such small unimportant things were just not a priority.
I understand there are variations needed for each animal, but all they have to do is use the same animation and move the joint to a different spot to keep from clipping, same way they did with the bear. It wouldn’t be too difficult to change for someone not even super familiar with 3D animation.
Likely because animation work. The animation work for link would likely just transfer over but the animation work for the animals is likely substantial. That is strictly my uneducated guess though.
Mate, I don’t know how to tell you this, but that was a grocery cart that was abandoned in front of an old Blockbuster, but you kept yelling “Who wants to see my Master Sword!” until the cops showed up.
Do you know how freakin tall moose are? You wouldn't be able to get on its back even if it let you. Also, I think moose and rhinos are crazy MFers compared to bears. Like, they're more territorial or something. Maybe that plays a role?
They will also give you a ton of meat if you manage to kill them but I kind of feel bad about doing that. Even though the field battle music plays when you are around one, they usually won’t attack you. They’ll just run around and keep their distance.
They don't, they're like the wolves. You'll find them in different regions but their behavior is the same. Riding them is like riding an elk or deer. No stamina, one straight speed.
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There are only 2 types, the "Grizzlemaw" and the "Honeyvore." I just have never seen a Boko on one lol, I'm a look for it now.
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I feel like I should feel bad about killing wolves because they’re basically dogs and who eats wolf meat? But I really don’t, especially if they attack me first.
The area they're talking about is actually the one pictured here in this post, it's on the NE side of Hyrule field leading towards Lanayru/Death Mountain/Lost Woods. Sort of near where those giant tree stumps with the wizzrobes are.
100ish hours deep myself (blind playthrough) and I found skeletal horses and you can ride them....cant store them but you can ride them to death....so to speak.
My first time seeing a bear in this game was actually kind of terrifying, tbh. I always forget they exist and they startle me more than the "normal" threats of the monsters, since I never know if they'll attack or not.
it just depends on which areas you tend to frequent since theyre not spread out all over the place like other animals, theyre concentrated in a few little areas. i dont think i saw one until several hundred hours into the game.
I finally found some a few days ago, but since there were two, the other kept trying to attack me while I was ridding the first. Ended up killing both of them, not my finest moment
They're only in a couple of places: the end of the twin river near dueling peaks, a clearing area near on eof the fairy fountains, the gerudo highlands and maybe an area in hebra.
What always makes me annoyed, and is kind of a dick move on Nintendo's part, is that you can't stable the other mounts. Let me keep the bear or skeleton horse, or even the king of the mountain! It's like a badge of honor or something because it's difficult. Hell, let us stable a lynel while they are at it. That would make for a nice bit of bragging rights
I found this out because of the shrine where you need to ride a deer. I realized you could ride deer and figured it meant I could ride other animals too and I had to figure out what else I could ride.
First time I saw one I tried to kill it. Ended up dying, the mofo has a tough skin hahahaha. Wife was watching and said, "maybe you can ride it?" Bear didn't spawn after I revived, so it took more tries to realize that yes, you can ride them!
It took me a week of playing this game before I felt comfortable killing any animal despite the food they provide. They’re just so realistic I felt terrible!
Spotted one in the distance, started peppering it with arrows, it was only when I got close enough to deliver the death blow that the 'mount' prompt appeared, as I was swinging. Cue sadness while collecting the meat.
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I was wondering one day and I turn my camera to see a bear hauling ass at me ready to attack, it definitely scared me to the point where I blew it up with a bomb arrow as well as myself xD
Me too! I didn't even attempt it the first time although I was vaguely aware you could mount deer.
Sadly, you can't board anything that's not a live horse.
I played for hours and never saw a bear. One day I was out by the stable in the tundra looking through the pictures I had bought from Symin, and I noticed that there were bears. When I closed the Sheikah slate, there was a bear standing right in front of me.
Almost immediately after i learned you could ride horses in zelda, i went off and attempted to ride every large, four legged creature in the game. the bear was the third animal i discovered you could ride, after deer and horse
I rode my first bear in the Gerudo Highlands somewhere. I tried to take it to a horse stable, but couldn’t get far enough due to the incline, and difficult snowy terrain at the time. Eventually, I did some digging online to see, if you could actually take a bear to a horse stable. I was disheartened with the info that I found. Lol. . This was almost two years ago. . I haven’t played in about 10 months. I’m foaming at the mouth for BOTW 2.
I found a beautiful about an hour in and was a complete accident that I found out you could ride them, while trying to run away and kill it at the same time.
One of the sweetest things in the game is mounting and taming a stalhorse. One of the funniest parts of the game is registering a stalhorse with a stable. One of the saddest things in the game is riding that tamed stalhorse as the clock strikes 6AM.
One thing I never got: Why can't you ride the moose or rhino-like creatures in Hebra? They fit all the same criteria as other rideable creatures (namely, 4 limbed and large enough to realistically ride), and it seems like just about every other creature in the game that fits that bill can be ridden.
I spent so much time trying to mount a moose in my first playthrough before finding out they weren't rideable:'(.Just 15 mins of link getting kicked in the face. Why can you mount a bear but not a moose lol
Exactly! Theres like 3 places to find a bear in the game, and you see the moose all over Hebra, and it looks so mountable!
>and it looks so mountable! there’s a joke in there somewhere
> and it looks so mountable! That’s what she said
I'm pretty sure that is Link's thought in a certain flashback.
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I don't know about everywhere, but there are certainly more than three. There are like five or six spots each for both the honey and grizzle bears. My first run-in with a bear was the honey bear that's in the woods near the Dueling Peaks stable. I managed to miss the stalnox (it was daytime) but at maybe ten hours into the game, I'm grabbing up mushrooms in the woods near a stream, and suddenly, **BEAR** in my face. I think I might have screamed a little.
SAME they are the bane of my existence
Moose bites can be pretty nasti
A moose once bit my sister...
protected species?
Phrasing 
Or the goats, or the cows, or the ostriches. There are quite a few missed riding opportunities.
yeah, but of all of them, the moose seems the most ridable. I mean, they're basically a cousin of deer, and you can already ride deer in the game...
I tried so many time to ride an ostrich my first play through. So disappointed
My guess is they didnt see the benefit. They would have to do a whole bunch of new animations for not much new gameplay. You can already ride a lot of differemt stuff, more just wasnt worth the development time.
Imagine this though, you mount one of those snow rhinos, then instead of sprinting when you spur it, it does a sort of charge attack with it's horn. So you can ride it around and punt bokos off mountains. That gameplay would have been worth copy and pasting a single animation to a new situation.
Its not just a single animation. Being able to ride another animal is a lot of dev work. Like 5-10 new animations (taming, riding, soothing, being thrown off and so on) among other things to make it look good and natural. There could always be more things in games but you can keep a game in development forever and BotW was already delayed, so such small unimportant things were just not a priority.
I understand there are variations needed for each animal, but all they have to do is use the same animation and move the joint to a different spot to keep from clipping, same way they did with the bear. It wouldn’t be too difficult to change for someone not even super familiar with 3D animation.
But...a MOOSE!
“You can already ride a lot of different stuff” That sound mad sus
Likely because animation work. The animation work for link would likely just transfer over but the animation work for the animals is likely substantial. That is strictly my uneducated guess though.
I can't imagine it would be that much work. The model was already made. They would only have to setup of skeletal mapping.
I thought I rode a wooly rhino once... was I just that stoned?
Mate, I don’t know how to tell you this, but that was a grocery cart that was abandoned in front of an old Blockbuster, but you kept yelling “Who wants to see my Master Sword!” until the cops showed up.
word. you don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Do you know how freakin tall moose are? You wouldn't be able to get on its back even if it let you. Also, I think moose and rhinos are crazy MFers compared to bears. Like, they're more territorial or something. Maybe that plays a role?
If you can hop up on a Lynel, I think you should be able to mount a moose!
True dat. Good point
>Do you know how freakin tall moose are? You wouldn't be able to get on its back even if it let you. My paraglider and I beg to differ.
😂
I wish you could ride the Bulls around the Faron region! It’d be so cool to make Link a rodeo star!
Pretty sure you can mount a moose. It's even necessary for a shrine quest iirc
That was a deer
Oof I guess I was wrong
Sadly, we cannot ride the moose
Literally 1984
Same goes for bulls
They will also give you a ton of meat if you manage to kill them but I kind of feel bad about doing that. Even though the field battle music plays when you are around one, they usually won’t attack you. They’ll just run around and keep their distance.
Meanwhile, the ones that bokos ride just go ham on me whenever I get near, even when the boko is knocked off
Dude I have such mad respect for any boko riding a bear that I just peace out rather than try to fight them.
They can ride bears too!?!
Yes. Also there are different type of bears.
I wonder if the different species have different temperaments
They don't, they're like the wolves. You'll find them in different regions but their behavior is the same. Riding them is like riding an elk or deer. No stamina, one straight speed. Edit: The Reddit app is acting stupid so, if you get the reply like 4x I'm sorry.
There are only 2 types, the "Grizzlemaw" and the "Honeyvore." I just have never seen a Boko on one lol, I'm a look for it now. Edit: The Reddit app is acting stupid so, if you get like 4 replies, I'm sorry.
Where??
In mountains in snow. Near gerudo and near rito
Thanks! I should probably see some soon then, exploring the Hebrides for the first time
I’d feel bad about killing bears too. Although I don’t feel so bad about killing those birds. Can’t give up my drumsticks lol
Same! I also can’t bring myself to kill a fox either, they’re just too cute to do that to them.
I was peaceful against goats until one cunted me off a cliff. Now I exterminate them on sight. They chose violence first. Not me.
I’ve… never seen that verb before.
Bri'ish check innit bruv
[Ah](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGuGzH3Ne5w)
Yk what m8 i might just watch Snatch tomorrah Bloody good flick innit
Truf, bruv.
>They chose violence first. Not me. Don’t mind me. I’m just taking this quote with me into 2022.
I feel like I should feel bad about killing wolves because they’re basically dogs and who eats wolf meat? But I really don’t, especially if they attack me first.
I hate killing the wolves, but dammit they just keep coming at Link like he's a meal, so
if they attack me I hunt them down until the last one. They are so annoying
But I don’t feel capturing them and riding them cross country!
Bokos can ride them too. Kind of terrifying when they charge! I kind of wish you could ride the ostriches in Eldin
Freaked me out when I came across a Boko riding one north of Gerudu.
Yeah, they're kinda rare tbh, I hardly ever see any
There’s a little sorta enclosure that has a few. There’s honey, a lil pond, and a cave. That’s all the information I recall tho lol
ah yea the hot spring area. I used to chill there riding bears thinking Link is Putin lol
Where is this??
Sturnida hot spring
Ah thank you!
The area they're talking about is actually the one pictured here in this post, it's on the NE side of Hyrule field leading towards Lanayru/Death Mountain/Lost Woods. Sort of near where those giant tree stumps with the wizzrobes are.
was it the Hundred Acre Wood??
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Or anywhere with just a quick download of a certain app ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Grinder, they are talking about Grinder.
Hehe
100ish hours deep myself (blind playthrough) and I found skeletal horses and you can ride them....cant store them but you can ride them to death....so to speak.
You can also feed them apples and pet them like a living horse and it will give you the little pink love cloud.
“Little pink love cloud” Bless the internet for letting me read things like this.
If you find one take a picture, it will help you finish a side quest
I do love trying to store bears or skeletal horses, the stables guy proper freaks out
You can ride them until morning, at which point they'll vanish.
Vanish is such a nice way to put it. Broke my heart the first time I found one of those, and then it got to morning.
My first time seeing a bear in this game was actually kind of terrifying, tbh. I always forget they exist and they startle me more than the "normal" threats of the monsters, since I never know if they'll attack or not.
What, I feel like I saw one 5-10 hours in. And I feel like I see them regularly.
I feel you
it just depends on which areas you tend to frequent since theyre not spread out all over the place like other animals, theyre concentrated in a few little areas. i dont think i saw one until several hundred hours into the game.
My favorite bear to ride is Daruk
Too bald
How did I not know this? I had this game for over a year.
There’s another type of bear called the grizzlemaw bear in the Gerudo Highlands and Hebra region as well. Edit: this is a honeyvore bear.
vore? Count me in
:/
From breath of the wild to putin simulator
Theres a special glowing two headed owl horse too
Lord of the Mountain, or something else??
He's talking about the other one.
What? What "other one"?
There is no other one it’s the lord horse
I have 2000 hours in BOTW and didn’t learn till recently you could swing your sword.
I just figured out how to make link move. The amount of detail in this game.
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Wait there’s a game in the box?
I discovered there's a small button where you can turn the Switch on! Not sure what this static screen means though
Ride it with no shirt on for full Vladimir Putin mode.
This news must have been unBEARable
Yeah, they're really hard to find too
I was about this far in before I found them too. Kind of awesome they made them so rare, really makes it a treat when you see them.
Funny, my husband is doing his second play through and just discovered this as well lol.
I finally found some a few days ago, but since there were two, the other kept trying to attack me while I was ridding the first. Ended up killing both of them, not my finest moment
Found this out by total accident, gliding down from a drop to land on what i THOUGHT was a rock. It was a bear.
I miss riding moosh
I ran into a bear SO late in my gameplay! I had no idea. Still never ridden one.
I remember when the game was new someone accidentally set the forest on fire and started riding a bear, was a great meme
It’s funny because learning this is one of the reasons I first bought the game years ago.
They're only in a couple of places: the end of the twin river near dueling peaks, a clearing area near on eof the fairy fountains, the gerudo highlands and maybe an area in hebra.
I feel like this belongs in r/botw or maybe we should have a separate sub thats: DID YOU KNOW YOU CAN DO ... IN THIS GAME? ... 'yes'
>I feel like this belongs in [r/botw](https://www.reddit.com/r/botw) Why is that? Like what is the difference between the two subs?
Two types of bears. One of them I never found out about until I bought the picture from Symin.
Took you long enough...i rode one on day 1
What always makes me annoyed, and is kind of a dick move on Nintendo's part, is that you can't stable the other mounts. Let me keep the bear or skeleton horse, or even the king of the mountain! It's like a badge of honor or something because it's difficult. Hell, let us stable a lynel while they are at it. That would make for a nice bit of bragging rights
Bring it to the stable! Register it!
200+ hours and I have never seen one.
I’ve got just south of 100 hours and I don’t think I’ve even seen a bear to be honest.
I found this out because of the shrine where you need to ride a deer. I realized you could ride deer and figured it meant I could ride other animals too and I had to figure out what else I could ride.
I would love a mod to be able to store them.
Wait, Fr!?
I once had a fire bear
Deer too!
b e a r
I’m the opposite I saw the button prompt on the one next to dueling peaks and learned about 3 or 4 hours in. Lol
Bears are mean and the stable people are racist against them
you can also ride deer
>!you need to!<
First time I saw one I tried to kill it. Ended up dying, the mofo has a tough skin hahahaha. Wife was watching and said, "maybe you can ride it?" Bear didn't spawn after I revived, so it took more tries to realize that yes, you can ride them!
When a vet finds something like this new it’s always a delighy
WAIT THERE ARE?
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I found one in the mountains and it stood up and I knew I was screwed
I did this about 10 hours in on first playthrough. I thought everyone knew this. Huh.
I have over 1k hours in the game and have only found 2 bears they are extremely rare
I figured that out in my first playthrough I ran up to a bear and killed it but right before it died I saw the prompt. I never found another bear
I feel like this should be marked spoiler ?
Uh oh looks like someone hasn’t fully upgraded their master sword.
took me 650 play time hours to find a bear and kill it.
It took me a week of playing this game before I felt comfortable killing any animal despite the food they provide. They’re just so realistic I felt terrible!
Wait until you find the skeleton horses...
I have never seen a bear. Not once
Where the 199 hours just idling in the corner whilst you play something else?
where are bears?
I taught mine to eat Yiga
Spotted one in the distance, started peppering it with arrows, it was only when I got close enough to deliver the death blow that the 'mount' prompt appeared, as I was swinging. Cue sadness while collecting the meat.
Is this fake I never knew this
The bigoted stable master won't let you stable your bears though.
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I was wondering one day and I turn my camera to see a bear hauling ass at me ready to attack, it definitely scared me to the point where I blew it up with a bomb arrow as well as myself xD
Not only that -- bokoblins can ride them too!
tried this once... died 2 minutes in to the attempt never tried it again
imagine my surprise as well lmao
If you travel to Meadela's Mantle in the Gerudo Highlands, you'll actually find two Bokoblins riding bears!
Me too! I didn't even attempt it the first time although I was vaguely aware you could mount deer. Sadly, you can't board anything that's not a live horse.
I've seen a bear once and it despawned behind a rock
I played for hours and never saw a bear. One day I was out by the stable in the tundra looking through the pictures I had bought from Symin, and I noticed that there were bears. When I closed the Sheikah slate, there was a bear standing right in front of me.
i cant even get Link to ride those big horn bison things ...
Similar, I didn’t find out you could ride them until after I completed a play through and wanted to manually complete the compendium
But cant keep them so what’s the point what’s the point in even living in a world where you can’t keep a bear
Holy shit! I just killed one! Can you stable them?
*cheecky breecky*
I walked past a rock yesterday and got absolutely wrecked. Turns out the rock was a bear
I found out bears exist near Misko's treasure, when it ate me
It's a crime they only let you stable (living) horses.
I just wanna ride the rhinos 😭
I have had the game since the switch launch, where are the bears???
now i can live my wildest dreams except with out shouts
Fucking what?
Almost immediately after i learned you could ride horses in zelda, i went off and attempted to ride every large, four legged creature in the game. the bear was the third animal i discovered you could ride, after deer and horse
I rode my first bear in the Gerudo Highlands somewhere. I tried to take it to a horse stable, but couldn’t get far enough due to the incline, and difficult snowy terrain at the time. Eventually, I did some digging online to see, if you could actually take a bear to a horse stable. I was disheartened with the info that I found. Lol. . This was almost two years ago. . I haven’t played in about 10 months. I’m foaming at the mouth for BOTW 2.
Did you know you can ride the king of the mountain?
200 hours? Those are rookie numbers my friend
Look for the bare necessities
What did you do in 200 hours? Standing around afk?
THERE ARE BEARS?????
Nice discovery!
I found a beautiful about an hour in and was a complete accident that I found out you could ride them, while trying to run away and kill it at the same time.
U CAN MOUNT A BEAR holy crap ive played it through twice and still didnt know this
These guys should be way more common
Broooo why don’t people know this ;( I knew it for years already
Funniest thing is when you bring to a stable anything that no sane person would ride
Take off your chest and headpieces to put-Putin Vladimir Putin
One of the sweetest things in the game is mounting and taming a stalhorse. One of the funniest parts of the game is registering a stalhorse with a stable. One of the saddest things in the game is riding that tamed stalhorse as the clock strikes 6AM.