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In Hyper Light Breaker, mastering the game involves collecting seven essential resources. These resources are crucial for obtaining gear, unlocking permanent upgrades, enhancing survivability, and expanding your character roster. However, understanding how to acquire and utilize these resources can be challenging. This comprehensive guide aims to demystify the process, providing players with a clear understanding of each resource's role within the game.
Resources are conveniently stored under the items tab in the inventory menu, allowing players to easily track their collection.
How to Get & Use Bright Blood in Hyper Light Breaker
Bright Blood is the most abundant resource in Hyper Light Breaker, obtainable by defeating enemies, destroying breakable objects, and opening crates within the Overgrowth. Players can also acquire more Bright Blood by selling gear to vendors in the Hub.
Bright Blood serves multiple purposes, including:
- Looting Blades and Rails from bodies in the Overgrowth.
- Unlocking Stashes and other crates in the Overgrowth.
- Purchasing new gear from vendors in the Overgrowth and Hub.
- Upgrading gear at Hub vendors.
How to Get & Use Gold Ration in Hyper Light Breaker
Gold Rations are earned by completing Cycles. Early in the game, players will likely finish Cycles after four deaths and using all their Rezes. After exhausting all Rezes, players can find an NPC at the Telepad in the Hub who will request specific materials to reset the Overgrowth, helping players progress toward earning Gold Rations.
Gold Rations are vital for the game's meta-progression system. They can unlock permanent upgrades via Pherus Bit in the Hub and unlock new services when given to vendors in the Hub.
How to Get & Use Abyss Stone in Hyper Light Breaker
Abyss Stones are acquired by defeating Crowns, formidable bosses found through gates in the Overgrowth. To battle Crowns, players must first collect Prisms, which are marked by yellow diamonds on the in-game map.
Like Gold Rations, Abyss Stones are used for meta-progression. They enable players to upgrade Sycom stats and unlock new characters during loadout confirmation before entering the Overgrowth, providing significant advantages in future runs.
How to Get & Use Key in Hyper Light Breaker
Keys can be found by opening small containers in the Overgrowth, though these caches are not typically marked on the map, making them challenging to locate consistently.
Keys are used to bypass barriers in the Overgrowth, granting access to Stashes and other lootable containers, as well as entry to Labs—subterranean areas filled with enemies and collectibles.
How to Get & Use MediGem in Hyper Light Breaker
MediGems are crucial resources obtained by interacting with small glowing flowers in the Overgrowth. They are exchanged for Medkits at the Hub's Telepad and at Shrines within the Overgrowth.
To utilize MediGems, players must first expand their Medkit capacity to one by visiting Pherus Bit in the Hub and spending one Gold Ration to unlock the Medkit Capacity node.
How to Get & Use Core in Hyper Light Breaker
Cores, another meta-progression resource, can be found in Stashes marked by chest icons on the in-game map. Players can also craft Cores by combining four Core Shards, obtained from defeating enemies that drop Prisms (marked by yellow diamonds) and from unmarked objects like bone piles scattered throughout the Overgrowth.
Cores are used to upgrade a player's Sycom during loadout confirmation, enhancing the stats of Breakers before entering the Overgrowth.
How to Get & Use Material in Hyper Light Breaker
Materials are primarily obtained by using Bright Blood to open small chests in the Overgrowth, which are often marked with gems on the map. Additional Materials can be acquired by selling gear to vendors in the Hub.
Materials are used to purchase gear from vendors in both the Hub and the Overgrowth, functioning similarly to Bright Blood but with more specific applications.
