I am nothing with out my little tsukumo companion in Wild Hearts. I will be the massive unhealthy hunter, however my tsukumo retains me alive, distracts the monsters I am combating at key moments, and refills my provide of the celestial thread I exploit to construct Wild Hearts’ massive contraptions. However to do all that my tsukumo must be leveled up with previous cogs from different little robo-guardians hiding round every of Azuma’s searching grounds. There are 50 tsukumo in every area in Wild Hearts, tempting you to discover each nook and cranny, constructing prime and rocky outcropping.
When you bump into a tsukumo, all it’s important to do is press a button to befriend them, and you will be rewarded with a cog half used to improve your personal companion. It is simple—no worries about them operating away or being harm by a monster. And you are going to desire a load of cogs, as a result of your tsukumo has the next 4 stats to improve:
- Assault type – How a lot harm it offers to the kemono when attacking
- Protection type – How a lot of a wallop it may take earlier than being quickly knocked out
- Help type – How successfully it may heal you, and the way shortly it revives
- Threader type – How shortly it may provide you with extra celestial thread
To improve your tsukumo, sit by a fireplace and use the “Improve tsukumo” menu. Every time you improve one stat, it will price a pair extra cogs for the subsequent tier. Upgrading your tsukumo additionally will increase your thread capability, permitting you to construct extra karakuri throughout battle. That alone is a giant purpose to trace down as many tsukumo as potential.
You may discover the places of fairly a couple of tsukumo simply by naturally exploring, however you could possibly waste hours attempting to search out the stragglers. Fortunately there’s a greater approach. This is the quick, straightforward option to monitor down the a whole bunch of tsukumo places in Wild Hearts.
How you can discover all of Wild Hearts’ tsukumo
As you are operating across the setting, preserve your ear attuned for the mechanical clattering sound of the tsukumo. They’re audible from an honest distance—should you hear one, cease transferring for a second and hear till you may triangulate which course the sound is coming from. Odds are good the close by tsukumo might be hidden away in just a little alcove or up on prime of a constructing or rock or tree department. They’re usually not laborious to search out with the assistance of that auditory clue.
However that is solely going to take you to date. As soon as you’ve got discovered 20-30 of the 50 tsukumo in every area, you are a lot much less more likely to run into them whereas wandering round. The answer to discovering each tsukumo in Wild Hearts lies within the karakuri tech tree.
Karakuri are the contraptions you construct in Wild Hearts, together with fight objects just like the crate and spring, in addition to “dragon karakuri” just like the tent, forge, and fireplace you employ to make camp. One of many first dragon karakuri you get is the Looking Tower, which scans for kemono and reveals you the place they’re on the map. An improve for the Looking Tower within the tech tree will make the scan additionally reveal the place tsukumo are on the map.
This is the place to search out the tsukumo scanning means on the tech tree.
It is fairly a couple of upgrades deep within the tree, however should you largely stick with the left aspect of the tree you will get to the Deep Probe improve earlier than lengthy. You earn orbs to spend on the tech tree just by combating and slaying kemono, so the extra you hunt, the nearer you will get to this improve.
As chances are you’ll discover within the improve description, this searching tower enhancement additionally identifies paperwork on every map, which comprise bits of added story element. However there are various extra tsukumo on every map than paperwork, so you will largely discover what you are in search of.
After getting this improve, be sure that to position a minimum of three searching towers in every zone in order that your scan covers all the space (there’s additionally an improve earlier within the tree to broaden the scan vary, which is useful). As soon as upgraded to the Deep Probe, use your searching tower and you will see a bunch of query mark icons seem in your map. Head to every query mark to discover a tsukumo (or the uncommon doc).