I am nothing with out my little tsukumo companion in Wild Hearts. I stands out as the huge dangerous 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’ huge 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 high and rocky outcropping.
When you encounter a tsukumo, all you must 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 easy—no worries about them working 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 could possibly take earlier than being briefly knocked out
- Help type – How successfully it could possibly heal you, and the way rapidly it revives
- Threader type – How rapidly it could possibly 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’s going to value a pair extra cogs for the following tier. Upgrading your tsukumo additionally will increase your thread capability, permitting you to construct extra karakuri throughout battle. That alone is a giant motive to trace down as many tsukumo as doable.
You will discover the areas of fairly a couple of tsukumo simply by naturally exploring, however you may waste hours attempting to seek out the stragglers. Fortunately there’s a greater approach. This is the quick, simple approach to observe down the tons of of tsukumo areas in Wild Hearts.
Tips on how to discover all of Wild Hearts’ tsukumo
As you are working across the atmosphere, preserve your ear attuned for the mechanical clattering sound of the tsukumo. They’re audible from a good distance—in the event you hear one, cease shifting for a second and hear till you’ll be able to triangulate which course the sound is coming from. Odds are good the close by tsukumo shall be hidden away in just a little alcove or up on high of a constructing or rock or tree department. They’re typically not exhausting to seek out with the assistance of that auditory clue.
However that is solely going to take you thus far. 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 hearth you employ to make camp. One of many first dragon karakuri you get is the Searching Tower, which scans for kemono and exhibits you the place they’re on the map. An improve for the Searching Tower within the tech tree will make the scan additionally reveal the place tsukumo are on the map.
This is the place to seek out the tsukumo scanning capacity on the tech tree.
It is fairly a couple of upgrades deep within the tree, however in the event you largely stick with the left aspect of the tree you may 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 may get to this improve.
As you might discover within the improve description, this searching tower enhancement additionally identifies paperwork on every map, which include bits of added story element. However there are various extra tsukumo on every map than paperwork, so you may principally discover what you are searching for.
Upon getting this improve, be sure to put no less than three searching towers in every zone in order that your scan covers your entire space (there’s additionally an improve earlier within the tree to develop 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).