Really ?!..Thank you..:D Been playing Horizon on pc last few days, i am at half the game or so i think..after getting to Meridian and getting to Olin guy in next quest. And i am always lacking wire, forced to use hunter bow constantly because i cant make sharpshooter arrows :/
@@TheMessenger012 Hey man. The guy that gives you that mission only appears after a certain point in the game so no point rushing to that town and expect to get it immediately. From memory I think you had to at least find Erend’s sister.
I'm playing the game in Sept 2023 and by God this still works! Also, it doesn't matter what choice you take (going solo or along with the hunters) you can kill them and then try the hack and it will still give you all the loot again and again.
For those needing wire , blaze , sparkler . Stack up on potions , traps and then drop all from inventory . Pick them up and then drop them all again . This duplicates them so when you have max , duplicate one more time and then sell to merchant . Then go back pick up the ones you left and do it again . Do it next to the merchant so every time you go back to the merchant you’re receiving 500-1000 shards ( depending on size of bag because you’ll dup more ). Then buy whatever you need .
@@daodrassulravan5520 It does, he just explained it a bit janky. What you need to do is: 1) Go to any merchant, and stand close by. 2) open inventory, and go to traps and potions. 3) drop all the items in your potions and traps. 4) close inventory, and pick up all the items you’ve just dropped. 5) repeat steps 2 and 3. 6) when you close your inventory after dropping them all again, they’ve duplicated. Keep repeating steps 2 to 5. Merchants have infinite shards to repeat till you get fed up.
@@daodrassulravan5520you literally drop them all , then pick it up . Then drop them again. That duplicates them. Pick up again and repeat until you're maxed on the traps , potions ect . Duplicate one more time and pick up the dupes Sell to merchant . Pick up the left over dupes from before and repeat. After selling for around 10min you'll receive around 1000 shards depending on your storage . this is very useful for ultra hard because collecting and buying resources is a nightmare
November 27 2021, still works fine. Two things: 1. If you kill all the behemoths and shell-walkers in the convoy in different spots, they will be lying in perfect raw as you come back to reloot them; 2. This loot respawn trick works as well without a mount, but it's faster to go back and forth using a mount, for sure. Thank you Elkjaer TV for the amazing tip!
@@vahngaming7107As long as your quest with behemoth cables is in progress, you can do whatever you want instead. Just go back to the quest location, do the u-turn around the tree again and the mods will reappear. BTW you can loot everything from the behemoths including all the 9 cables needed for the quest itself, but don`t go to Petra and keep relooting :)
As of Jan 2023 this still works. I didn’t really need it, but it does work. I just scrapped anything green or blue and collected until I was full.. Pretty cool.
I'm late to this party so my apologies if this has already been mentioned, but regardless of where you kill the behemoths originally (mine got quite separated), after the first respawn the behemoth corpses will always be lined up right behind each other as in the video. Convenient!
I can't believe I totally missed Free Heap in my first run. I only learned of it after I met Petra during the final battle and was like "Who the hell is this? Am I supposed to know her?"
The machines might not respawn alive, but their dead corpses definitely respawn which is why the loot also does. The game loads new machine corpses each time you arrive in the area.
@@palermodpr I don't think it respawns dead bodies in general. It only respawns those who are necessary for a quest. And not the quests that let you kill any machine, the quests that need you to kill specific ones.
Can’t believe I just tried this at the end of Ng+. This would have been AMAZING to have found early on. I would have just spent a full day maxing mods and shards. Still after like 200 hrs of play, I’m occasionally finding better mods here. Got a 30% spear damage mod. Thought it only went to 26 :)
If you go to the Embrace, the scrapper site in the far west there is two piles of ancient debris that holds purple mods. Loot the piles, save your game at the nearby campfire and run back and repeat. It works indefinitely.
Nice one, thanks for this tip. It's still working on PS4 (October 2020). As mentioned by someone earlier, if the mods aren't there when you've been away doing something else in the game, take the run/walk to the tree and back from the fallen Behemoth and all the goodies will reappear.
What about saving it turning the console off and turning the console back on and loading that save file will it still be on the ground or everything back to normal or gone?
Still working on March 11, 2022. On any difficulty, NG+ or not. Still haven’t found a second spear coil but hot damn it’s good to have lying around for when you need to get more shards/resources. Leave them lying there as you continue playing and just fast travel back and run around the tree again as he states and they’ll refresh their loot. Thanks Elk!
FOR ALL THE HUNTERS - This is the REAL DEAL-BREAKER to complete the game more comfortably in higher difficult settings. it's trully the best hack and farming spot in all game so thank you very much Elkjaer for explaining everything so clearly, it works 100% in July of 2022. My tips for everyone is: you only need to spend time and ammunition in ONE combact and you will get infinite purple mods for the main quest, infinite shards to buy all the purple outfits and weapons and infinite resources (if you lack something that this type of machines don't have like blaze,etc you can use the infinite shards to buy them from a merchant) and yes, you can grap the special cables from the Behemoths that it will NOT end the respawn. Use the nearest merchant to sell the loot and modifications that you don't need for extra shards and more space in you inventory. I also recomend to never complete this errand until the very end of the game and repeat it multiple times before starting a new game plus. Doing this will able you to farm shards to buy the adept version of all weapons and outfits sooner in the new save. To unlock the Hammer and Steel errand, you need to complete the City of the Sun main quest in Meridian, and the Heap of Trouble side quest in Free Heap. Do this as soon as possible! Enjoy and good huntings! :)
Can confirm that this works in the PS5 remaster as of 11/20/2024. Edit: For those who are new to this exploit, the only important thing is that you don't finish the errand and don't talk to the other two hunters. You can fast travel to sell some of the stuff you've farmed, but when you fast travel back you will still need to run away from the area and come back to trigger the respawn. You can't just teleport back and forth to trigger the respawn. You'll always need to run far enough away (on foot or mount) and run back.
as of 10/8/21 4 a.m. this still works. one thing to note is if u fast travel to somewhere from the immediate area where you looted the dead bodies and then go back to the place, you have to reset the loot again by running to the tree or an equal distance in any other direction from the bodies.
Confirmed still works as of Jan 21st 2022. Worth noting that no matter where you kill the machines, they will respawn closer together for easy looting.
This is amazing, i lost my saved file with 100+ hours in and 12+ bows each with a specific purpose with mods fitting that purpose and it was a pain farming all of these again
It is extremely easy though... Story difficulty is even easier than easy mode is practically god mode more or less. Is impossible to die unless you make a mistake like jumping from a Clift or jumping into a bottomless pit in the cauldrons. Im doing story difficulty to prepare again for another ultra hard run. Shards will be useful to buy materials and stuff.
Flip89 Use tearblast arrows to pop the casing off the blaze or chillwater canisters on both its sides. Use a fire arrow to shoot the blaze and use freeze arrows for the chillwater. If the bird is flapping around too much, use a ropecaster to tie it down. If you dont have ropecaster, use tearblast arrows to break the stabilizers on its wings to force it to the ground.
i watched this video last year . last week i installed it ; just reached this quest . for last 30min i've been collecting those purple thingi ; filled those 70 coil slot all purple now ; also got 17 crystal braiding ; bro, u made me rich , now i have 20k shareds after selling unwanted stuff. thanks bro, it still works till 2023.
Since I can't do this anymore. I just farm the area where you battle two Thunderjaws. With full Freeze and Hard point arrows. Easy kill. You can farm for everything there too with the exception of metal burn. If you need wire the lance horns are there to farm from.
Having never played the game on any setting lower than, "Hard", my jaw about hit the floor when the whole damn herd just...died 😂. It got me laughing because it was so unexpected.
Another way is to get the cauldron to be able to override from the thunderjaw, then go to the thunderjaw site, override one, and make him kill the other one then, you’ll be able to get three purple modifications every time!
From what I’ve tested. As long as you never finish the quest the machines should still be there. All you have to do is circle that tree and the loot spawns back every time. You can finish other quests, save and close the game, load back up. doesn’t matter long as you never finish the ‘Hammer and Steel’ quest the loot and machines should always be there.
I did this yesterday, 15/4/2024. It still works like a charm! I don't have a mount, so I had to run up and down but it was worth it. I spent sometime there but I left with 3 modifications for my spear (later, when I will be able to use them), lots of the rest modifications all with the higher stats. I only got weapon modifications, as I have the shield weaver armor, so I don't need modifications for armor. The best think is that I left from there rich in shards (as I had to disassemble materials I didn't need to clear space in my inventory. Plus, a ton of wires!!! Thank you man, not all heroes wear capes 😁
Did this yesterday for about an hour, I had just a few % upgrade nothing major, so decided good enough and completed the quest and moved on. Just didn't have the patience to wait for anything super amazing to show up, and made the game start to feel like work instead of fun. I am only planning to beat the game on Normal and then move on to Forbidden West, so I am sure I am more than ready to go beat the game.
I also confirmed that you can go to the campsite just across the creek and save if you want to stop for while and come back to it. I spent about 8 hours yesterday at this spot.
works like a charm. upgraded all weapons and can now one shot a scrapper on ultra hard, not to mention the damage i do to others. note this is on normal playthrough, not ng+ so lesser weapon dmg over all. ;)
This worked perfectly until I did some more missions and when I went back to get some mods for my new bow there was no loot anymore. I may aswell just turn the quest in now:/
Odd. I did this many times at different time/mission intervals on pc. Did 10 or so runs, left and did some missions, came back, repeat. I did this 4-5 times. I still wasn't near the end of the game. Maybe if you start the endgame chain and Petra moves to Meridian, the quest fails or enemies despawn; not sure.
To unlock the Hammer and Steel Errand, you need to complete not only the Heap of Trouble side quest in Free Heap, but also the City of the Sun main quest in Meridian.
Just got into the game myself. Surprised this still works. Would be surprised if there is a better metal shard site too. Quickly found myself having to prioritize purple mods.
1st May 2024 - Two things to confirm. First, this still works (I am playing on Playstation). Second, you can fast travel away to sell excess items and repeat the running back and forth when you return. The bodies are still there and the loot respawns the same way.
Nov 2023, still works. But how rare are the top percent mods? I'm trying for perfect coils and I'm wondering how long that'll take. I know 50% for dmg/tear/elem and 67% for handling is Max. But I haven't gotten better than a 50 handling or a 44 dmg. Need like a 61+ or a 45+ to even guarantee triple stats.
@@ElkjaerTV doesn't seem to matter, as I completed a Frozen Wilds quest and now the behemoths are empty every time I show up. Maybe I need to complete a main story quest, but for the moment I can't re-farm the behemoths. Edit: Yeah, seems if you take the cables and complete other errands, you risk bricking the exploit.
Still works today as of 10/7/2022, top rare purple Mods + 500 shards each time you loot 😀 Also top of the ridge to the left there's a campfire, you can go there manual save and can log out and can always spawn back, run around tree and continue loot farming
it is WORKING on PC on sep 12 2020. Fastest way to loot this is better than going after thunderjaw cuz u have to kill it everytime. there is a fire near that tree in the video, fast travel to that but u have to go to that tree in the video, cross and go back to that location again and loot again!
This is still working (16th June, 2021) If you fast travel after grabbing the mods to any location and come back, it wont work. But if that happens then simply go to that magic tree and return, it will work again. PS: its very addicting xD you would feel like returning again and again just to get a better mod
Working as of April 28, 2021. This is also a really good metal shards farm/other resources farm besides mods. Each behemoth gives around 100-150 shards. Thanks a lot for this ^^
I skipped over the "and because this is story mode and ng+ I will obliterate everybody" and went to try this out while still on my first playthrough. Turned out to be a nice way to learn how to fight these things xD
If you're looking for a more "fair" method and a bit more action Northeast of the Tallhead of this region / west of Free Heap is a canyon with two Thunderjaws in it Override / corrupt one, watch them fight, kill the other, loot, save at nearby campfire, reload, repeat That's how I get 6 purples in a few minutes without feeling too bad to mercilessly exploit the game xD Also you don't need to have completed missions beforehead
I was lucky enough to get two 30% spear mods and two 15 percent stealth mods. Ive been trying to get a third stealth mod and its driving me nuts. I still havent tried this method though, looks good
Still working on PS 5, New Game, Normal Difficulty. Btw you just have to completed "heap and trouble" side mission and than you can play "hummer and steel" side mission.
so... even after fast traveling away, spending days playing, doing all sorts of quests.. comming back 10 lvls later this still resets after tree U-turn as long as you dont finish the hammer quest
The 2nd best farm method is to continually run back & forth between the Scrapper Piles & Campfire in the starting Nora Embrace area, just South West of Rost's house. That's the best method to use early on, but this method here in the video is clearly better 😁
For anyone who also constantly suffers lack of wiring, loot the shell walkers aswell, they drop tons of wire!
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Really ?!..Thank you..:D Been playing Horizon on pc last few days, i am at half the game or so i think..after getting to Meridian and getting to Olin guy in next quest. And i am always lacking wire, forced to use hunter bow constantly because i cant make sharpshooter arrows :/
@@DreamskyDance wire weapons are all so useful smh
Oh I finished the game yesterday with no wires 😂
Thanks alot. Never knew
2024 anyone?
Edit: confirmed working 30.11.2024 (11.30.24 for our Freedom friends)
I mean, can anyone confirm it is working?
@mateiguru4367 thanks mate
@mateiguru4367 which cliff? There's no cliff that can reach for arrow
Yeaa
@mateiguru4367No matter the level, it works anyway
I’ve put over 200 hours into this amazing game and didn’t know about this farm. Still working like a champ in February 2021. Thanks for sharing!
Wow... Gotta try it out... Started playing not long ago. But do you need a certain level before you can do this. I'm at level 18
@@TheMessenger012 Hey man. The guy that gives you that mission only appears after a certain point in the game so no point rushing to that town and expect to get it immediately. From memory I think you had to at least find Erend’s sister.
Nice video.
Does it still work today?
@@RipperRUclipsOfficial Haven’t played in a while. Try it out and if it does, update the channel to say it’s still working as of today
Feb 2024 and still working.. thank you!
March 2022 this trick still works. Saving me a lot of time. I’m about to start a NG+ so I’m using this to get the best mods first
Didn't work for me. I went back and the whole area had been wiped like normal.
what level should we have to do this quest minimum lvl can u please tell me
@@mrkthmn maybe leaving one item in their inventory will keep them from despawning
Can you loot purple ones?
I'm playing the game in Sept 2023 and by God this still works!
Also, it doesn't matter what choice you take (going solo or along with the hunters) you can kill them and then try the hack and it will still give you all the loot again and again.
For those needing wire , blaze , sparkler . Stack up on potions , traps and then drop all from inventory . Pick them up and then drop them all again . This duplicates them so when you have max , duplicate one more time and then sell to merchant . Then go back pick up the ones you left and do it again . Do it next to the merchant so every time you go back to the merchant you’re receiving 500-1000 shards ( depending on size of bag because you’ll dup more ). Then buy whatever you need .
That was way too confusing and incomprehensible lol.
Absolutely doesn't duplicate anything.
@@daodrassulravan5520
It does, he just explained it a bit janky.
What you need to do is:
1) Go to any merchant, and stand close by.
2) open inventory, and go to traps and potions.
3) drop all the items in your potions and traps.
4) close inventory, and pick up all the items you’ve just dropped.
5) repeat steps 2 and 3.
6) when you close your inventory after dropping them all again, they’ve duplicated.
Keep repeating steps 2 to 5. Merchants have infinite shards to repeat till you get fed up.
@@Hamaffleck exactly how I explained it just without numbers lol , all they needed to do was exactly what I wrote lol
@@daodrassulravan5520you literally drop them all , then pick it up . Then drop them again.
That duplicates them.
Pick up again and repeat until you're maxed on the traps , potions ect .
Duplicate one more time and pick up the dupes
Sell to merchant .
Pick up the left over dupes from before and repeat.
After selling for around 10min you'll receive around 1000 shards depending on your storage .
this is very useful for ultra hard because collecting and buying resources is a nightmare
Here is the original Reddit Post I was told about that mention this trick: www.reddit.com/r/horizon/comments/ggyomf/infinite_purple_mod_farming/?
Have you tried it on normal difficulty mode ? Any vids ? Might be a challenge to kill all of them at one go tho
This still works as of February 9th 2022! For those looking to do this now
November 27 2021, still works fine. Two things: 1. If you kill all the behemoths and shell-walkers in the convoy in different spots, they will be lying in perfect raw as you come back to reloot them; 2. This loot respawn trick works as well without a mount, but it's faster to go back and forth using a mount, for sure. Thank you Elkjaer TV for the amazing tip!
does it work even if you leave the area fast travel somewhere do side quest or main quest and when you come back does the mods still appear?
@@vahngaming7107As long as your quest with behemoth cables is in progress, you can do whatever you want instead. Just go back to the quest location, do the u-turn around the tree again and the mods will reappear. BTW you can loot everything from the behemoths including all the 9 cables needed for the quest itself, but don`t go to Petra and keep relooting :)
@@ВасилийБоков-ш8э thnx so i can just take this errand and do some farm then leave to do main/side then come back if i need mods. thnx
I am level 12 and have not gone to Meridian yet. What level do you recommend to do this?
@@expat8460 around lvl 40 i guess. just go through story first. for me i did this last.
As of Jan 2023 this still works.
I didn’t really need it, but it does work.
I just scrapped anything green or blue and collected until I was full..
Pretty cool.
Thanks for the info. I was just asking me this.
I'm late to this party so my apologies if this has already been mentioned, but regardless of where you kill the behemoths originally (mine got quite separated), after the first respawn the behemoth corpses will always be lined up right behind each other as in the video. Convenient!
I can't believe I totally missed Free Heap in my first run. I only learned of it after I met Petra during the final battle and was like "Who the hell is this? Am I supposed to know her?"
yeah the main story never takes you there
me too. When they talk in the final battle, i never met petra during my game, and i was WTF is she?
This is insane! All my weapons and armors got the best mods in like 30-45 minutes. It‘s so easy and still working on ps4 , August 31. Much love! ❤️
Best guide. Not only purple mod you can also get infinite metal shards. You get around 400-500 per run.
I'm really surprised loot can respawn without respawning the whole machine that dropped it. I don't think I've ever seen any other game do that.
Right? I heard him talk about the tree and immediately assumed "Oh, so the maschines respawn. That's cool." but this is even easier and better!
The machines might not respawn alive, but their dead corpses definitely respawn which is why the loot also does. The game loads new machine corpses each time you arrive in the area.
@@Arkayjiya wait a minute. If the game respawn dead bodies, would that work for any machine? Like, I could loot thunderjaws infinite times as well? 🤔
@@palermodpr I don't think it respawns dead bodies in general. It only respawns those who are necessary for a quest. And not the quests that let you kill any machine, the quests that need you to kill specific ones.
@@palermodpr for any active main/side/errand or checkpoints based mission it's still working.
Can’t believe I just tried this at the end of Ng+. This would have been AMAZING to have found early on. I would have just spent a full day maxing mods and shards. Still after like 200 hrs of play, I’m occasionally finding better mods here. Got a 30% spear damage mod. Thought it only went to 26 :)
I didn't know that you could get spear damage mods that good! I have two 28% spear damage mods if memory serves me right. I gotta check this out.
somehow my third purple spear damage mod was 30%, sadly I have not yet found a stealth mod over 13%
If you go to the Embrace, the scrapper site in the far west there is two piles of ancient debris that holds purple mods. Loot the piles, save your game at the nearby campfire and run back and repeat. It works indefinitely.
Nice one, thanks for this tip. It's still working on PS4 (October 2020). As mentioned by someone earlier, if the mods aren't there when you've been away doing something else in the game, take the run/walk to the tree and back from the fallen Behemoth and all the goodies will reappear.
I’m here just to confirm that this glitch is working on the HZD remastered. As of 11-2024
Ty for this!
March-April 2024, still working beautifully.
Still working as of 20th November 2022. Great modifications and overall one of THE best farming spots
10th May,2021, still looking solid and working properly
The very same
29th May, 2021 still solid.
What about saving it turning the console off and turning the console back on and loading that save file will it still be on the ground or everything back to normal or gone?
@ryvls thank you!
@@limegamer5711 does this work for pc as well?
Still working on March 11, 2022. On any difficulty, NG+ or not. Still haven’t found a second spear coil but hot damn it’s good to have lying around for when you need to get more shards/resources. Leave them lying there as you continue playing and just fast travel back and run around the tree again as he states and they’ll refresh their loot. Thanks Elk!
Salute to you, my guy, for showing us this! I am replaying Horizon and this is just what I need to make the game soo much easier for me.
FOR ALL THE HUNTERS - This is the REAL DEAL-BREAKER to complete the game more comfortably in higher difficult settings.
it's trully the best hack and farming spot in all game so thank you very much
Elkjaer for explaining everything so clearly, it works 100% in July of 2022.
My tips for everyone is: you only need to spend time and ammunition in ONE combact and you will get infinite purple mods for the main quest, infinite shards to buy all the purple outfits and weapons and infinite resources (if you lack something that this type of machines don't have like blaze,etc you can use the infinite shards to buy them from a merchant) and yes, you can grap the special cables from the Behemoths that it will NOT end the respawn.
Use the nearest merchant to sell the loot and modifications that you don't need for extra shards and more space in you inventory.
I also recomend to never complete this errand until the very end of the game and repeat it multiple times before starting a new game plus. Doing this will able you to farm shards to buy the adept version of all weapons and outfits sooner in the new save.
To unlock the Hammer and Steel errand, you need to complete the City of the Sun main quest in Meridian, and the Heap of Trouble side quest in Free Heap. Do this as soon as possible! Enjoy and good huntings! :)
Can confirm that this works in the PS5 remaster as of 11/20/2024.
Edit: For those who are new to this exploit, the only important thing is that you don't finish the errand and don't talk to the other two hunters. You can fast travel to sell some of the stuff you've farmed, but when you fast travel back you will still need to run away from the area and come back to trigger the respawn. You can't just teleport back and forth to trigger the respawn. You'll always need to run far enough away (on foot or mount) and run back.
To keep the tradition going;
March 6 still working
May 10th still working
May 11th still working
@@ryanlu7610 may 11th at noon still working
@@faroojr idk but most likely yes 😅
@@faroojr is it still working? gonna try it tomorrow haha
as of 10/8/21 4 a.m. this still works. one thing to note is if u fast travel to somewhere from the immediate area where you looted the dead bodies and then go back to the place, you have to reset the loot again by running to the tree or an equal distance in any other direction from the bodies.
March 2024 and still works! Awesome job,mate!!
Can confirm still working January 2022. THANK YOU!!
Just wanted to ask. How did he cause a blast with an hard point arrow?
March 2024, PC. This still works. Thanks.
Still works as of 4/6/2022 and super easy. Thanks a ton man!
Confirmed still works as of Jan 21st 2022. Worth noting that no matter where you kill the machines, they will respawn closer together for easy looting.
This is amazing, i lost my saved file with 100+ hours in and 12+ bows each with a specific purpose with mods fitting that purpose and it was a pain farming all of these again
"excuse me if I make it look extremely easy" he said
It is extremely easy though... Story difficulty is even easier than easy mode is practically god mode more or less. Is impossible to die unless you make a mistake like jumping from a Clift or jumping into a bottomless pit in the cauldrons. Im doing story difficulty to prepare again for another ultra hard run. Shards will be useful to buy materials and stuff.
@@AMaidenlessRunt yea im on normal difficulty and i was trying to do this glitch but i ended up farming thunderjaws
storm birds are best sources for 2-3 very rare mods
@@nothingtoseehere2686 how you kill those?
Flip89 Use tearblast arrows to pop the casing off the blaze or chillwater canisters on both its sides. Use a fire arrow to shoot the blaze and use freeze arrows for the chillwater. If the bird is flapping around too much, use a ropecaster to tie it down. If you dont have ropecaster, use tearblast arrows to break the stabilizers on its wings to force it to the ground.
5/09/21 still works on free digital copy. Was also able to save at campfire, fast travel away and back, still works.
Buy it ... support the devs
i watched this video last year .
last week i installed it ;
just reached this quest .
for last 30min i've been collecting those purple thingi ; filled those 70 coil slot all purple now ; also got 17 crystal braiding ;
bro, u made me rich , now i have 20k shareds after selling unwanted stuff.
thanks bro, it still works till 2023.
Since I can't do this anymore. I just farm the area where you battle two Thunderjaws. With full Freeze and Hard point arrows. Easy kill. You can farm for everything there too with the exception of metal burn. If you need wire the lance horns are there to farm from.
Bro how did u do that @2:39 that big blast which arrow and which how pls tell me man
Having never played the game on any setting lower than, "Hard", my jaw about hit the floor when the whole damn herd just...died 😂. It got me laughing because it was so unexpected.
It's work. You can fast travel, do another missions, as long as you don't finish that quest... You can always go back and loot mods.
Thank you was wondering about this
It still work perfectly in december 2020 thx
And 2021
2021
on the ps5 and yeah, it's a ps4 game but it works!
@@_delirious lol they haven't still fixed it
Does it have to be on new game+?
Another way is to get the cauldron to be able to override from the thunderjaw, then go to the thunderjaw site, override one, and make him kill the other one then, you’ll be able to get three purple modifications every time!
Late to the party but just tried this and it worked flawlessly, thank you.
Thanks for sharing this, Elkjaer!
Sept 2022, works on Steam's version.
From what I’ve tested. As long as you never finish the quest the machines should still be there. All you have to do is circle that tree and the loot spawns back every time. You can finish other quests, save and close the game, load back up. doesn’t matter long as you never finish the ‘Hammer and Steel’ quest the loot and machines should always be there.
so i can just sell the mods if i overfill and then getting back right? that sounds great!
Can confirm this still works in the remaster on ps5/ps5 pro.
Omfg thank you I actually saw that video while I was riding to Petra XDDD 300m in front of her I turned back to loot the behemoths xD thank you!!
still works!!! March 22/2022 playing right now. i wanna finish HZD before i start HFW. Thanks for the tip!!!
Thank you so much, this really helped with my mods and shards!! Still working as of 1/10/2021 if anyone’s interested!
I did this yesterday, 15/4/2024. It still works like a charm! I don't have a mount, so I had to run up and down but it was worth it. I spent sometime there but I left with 3 modifications for my spear (later, when I will be able to use them), lots of the rest modifications all with the higher stats. I only got weapon modifications, as I have the shield weaver armor, so I don't need modifications for armor. The best think is that I left from there rich in shards (as I had to disassemble materials I didn't need to clear space in my inventory. Plus, a ton of wires!!! Thank you man, not all heroes wear capes 😁
I never thought of playing it since it released.
But after a couple of RUclips watching,
Now it’s my genre during the quarantine
Did this yesterday for about an hour, I had just a few % upgrade nothing major, so decided good enough and completed the quest and moved on. Just didn't have the patience to wait for anything super amazing to show up, and made the game start to feel like work instead of fun. I am only planning to beat the game on Normal and then move on to Forbidden West, so I am sure I am more than ready to go beat the game.
It works!!!! Thank you so much!!!
23 July 2021
I also confirmed that you can go to the campsite just across the creek and save if you want to stop for while and come back to it. I spent about 8 hours yesterday at this spot.
How cool. Many say farming isn't in the spirit of the game but pfft. Thanks for the share.
works like a charm. upgraded all weapons and can now one shot a scrapper on ultra hard, not to mention the damage i do to others. note this is on normal playthrough, not ng+ so lesser weapon dmg over all. ;)
Havent play this game for like 3 to 4 years feel like gonna replay it
Confirmed working for the ps5 remastered version Nov.2024
This worked perfectly until I did some more missions and when I went back to get some mods for my new bow there was no loot anymore. I may aswell just turn the quest in now:/
I confirm this, once you start this don't go somewhere else, farm and leave only when you think you had enough
Odd. I did this many times at different time/mission intervals on pc. Did 10 or so runs, left and did some missions, came back, repeat. I did this 4-5 times. I still wasn't near the end of the game. Maybe if you start the endgame chain and Petra moves to Meridian, the quest fails or enemies despawn; not sure.
What arrow and damage were used? I cant seem to make it happen
Still works it didn’t at first so if it doesn’t work at first press restart from save and they should be layed out and it’ll work
speechless, this is a very very extraordinary tips !! thank you 😊
December 2021, Still Working like a charm
Still working on PS4 August 19th awesome thank you for this
Eyyyyyy thats my birthday
To unlock the Hammer and Steel Errand, you need to complete not only the Heap of Trouble side quest in Free Heap, but also the City of the Sun main quest in Meridian.
Waiting for your HZD2 speedrun xD
Hehe, let the game release first!
@@ElkjaerTV does it work for pc as well?
Just got into the game myself. Surprised this still works. Would be surprised if there is a better metal shard site too. Quickly found myself having to prioritize purple mods.
im always running out of chillwater so this will be nice. thanks for the vid
Glad it helps you out :)
😹😹 i get rod of my chillwater cuz i have to much
find a herd of lancehorns and after u take them down, shoot their chillwater canisters with harvest arrows...
u will get 6 chillwater for each
@@ElkjaerTV Hi，just wonder what is the specifications of your bow, and how do you kill them in just one shot? Thanks
@@themightykingnicholas3890 he said in the video that he's playing on story difficulty, therefore everything is one shot
1st May 2024 - Two things to confirm.
First, this still works (I am playing on Playstation).
Second, you can fast travel away to sell excess items and repeat the running back and forth when you return. The bodies are still there and the loot respawns the same way.
Can confirm that this still works as of February 16th, 2022
Still working Sep 19 2021. Normal mode first playthrough on PC. Had to go abit further than the tall tree since I dragged them a bit closer to it.
I shared this video with a few Horizon Zero Dawn gamers
Thank you hope they will like it :)
Nov 2023, still works. But how rare are the top percent mods? I'm trying for perfect coils and I'm wondering how long that'll take. I know 50% for dmg/tear/elem and 67% for handling is Max. But I haven't gotten better than a 50 handling or a 44 dmg. Need like a 61+ or a 45+ to even guarantee triple stats.
The drop rate of those are low so it can take some time to farm out perfect mods.
@@ElkjaerTV doesn't seem to matter, as I completed a Frozen Wilds quest and now the behemoths are empty every time I show up. Maybe I need to complete a main story quest, but for the moment I can't re-farm the behemoths.
Edit: Yeah, seems if you take the cables and complete other errands, you risk bricking the exploit.
Work perfectly in January 2021. Thanks a lot!
And here I thought my thunder jaw farm was a good harvest. I’m gonna try it out tomorrow.
Lol same+this way consumes less resources
Still works today as of 10/7/2022, top rare purple Mods + 500 shards each time you loot 😀 Also top of the ridge to the left there's a campfire, you can go there manual save and can log out and can always spawn back, run around tree and continue loot farming
I bet I'm not the only one who will try this trick when HZD comes to PC next weekend.
Just tried today still works Feb 2022, thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Still works on PC version (Epic, if relevant) as of August 15, 2020.
nice ill try it then
Oh this will ne helpful I keep running out of echo shells need the shards from these guys to get them off merchants
it is WORKING on PC on sep 12 2020. Fastest way to loot
this is better than going after thunderjaw cuz u have to kill it everytime.
there is a fire near that tree in the video, fast travel to that but u have to go to that tree in the video, cross and go back to that location again and loot again!
This is still working (16th June, 2021)
If you fast travel after grabbing the mods to any location and come back, it wont work. But if that happens then simply go to that magic tree and return, it will work again.
PS: its very addicting xD you would feel like returning again and again just to get a better mod
Hey Elk, do you know if this works if I fast travel to a nearest merchant location and come back to the place where the machine corpses are?
Yes the corpses will stay there until you talk to Petra back at Free Heap.
@@ElkjaerTV Thanks a ton !
Working as of April 28, 2021. This is also a really good metal shards farm/other resources farm besides mods. Each behemoth gives around 100-150 shards. Thanks a lot for this ^^
Wich set up do u use to One shot all the machines?
@@federicofocardi3043 Story mode difficulty + Banuk PowerShot bow
Thunderjaw gives 200+ shards each time
I just abused this for like 2 hours in a row and ended up with some sick mods!
50-60%?
@@pandoralegend324 i get 60% mod there on my first run
What level are you? I'm only level 29 would this be worth my time?
@@ooFiReBuGoo treat it like gacha machine, come here when u feel lucky 😅
@@sdn1sukamaju937 what type?
Still works as of monday, 17th of July, thank you so much bro this rlly helped 🙏
I skipped over the "and because this is story mode and ng+ I will obliterate everybody" and went to try this out while still on my first playthrough.
Turned out to be a nice way to learn how to fight these things xD
u dont have to kill again, they will be lying on the ground with everything! loot again without killing!
@@sunnyn9392 I know, but you do have to kill then once and I had never fought machines like that before :p
@@Whojoo use 3 arrows with 50% damage! and hide after then go back again, thats how i killed them
I remember doing this a lot a while ago but since I finished the game and didn’t play it for awhile I forgot where the location was so thanks man👍🏼😁
Working January 2022. Safe to say it won't be patched seeing as Forbidden West comes out in a couple of weeks😂
If you're looking for a more "fair" method and a bit more action
Northeast of the Tallhead of this region / west of Free Heap is a canyon with two Thunderjaws in it
Override / corrupt one, watch them fight, kill the other, loot, save at nearby campfire, reload, repeat
That's how I get 6 purples in a few minutes without feeling too bad to mercilessly exploit the game xD
Also you don't need to have completed missions beforehead
Thanks, that one was much more fun ;-)
I just want a perfect 30 spear mod . Please RNG .
May the RNGods look kindly on you :)
26% ;-;
I have a 28% spear damage coil and a 26% after 335 hours into the game :\
I was lucky enough to get two 30% spear mods and two 15 percent stealth mods. Ive been trying to get a third stealth mod and its driving me nuts. I still havent tried this method though, looks good
@@executioner_ecgbert884 spear mods are very rare you are lucky ı have over 100 hours in this game and still only have a %24 spear mod
Still working on PS 5, New Game, Normal Difficulty.
Btw you just have to completed "heap and trouble" side mission and than you can play "hummer and steel" side mission.
Can confirm it still works till this day
Pc ??
@@lordgallo4213 both
so... even after fast traveling away, spending days playing, doing all sorts of quests.. comming back 10 lvls later this still resets after tree U-turn as long as you dont finish the hammer quest
yo this is so helpful. could you please give us a tour of all your mods on your weapons?
Gay
The 2nd best farm method is to continually run back & forth between the Scrapper Piles & Campfire in the starting Nora Embrace area, just South West of Rost's house.
That's the best method to use early on, but this method here in the video is clearly better 😁
Well, i found this trick 2 years ago. I post it on my channel, but not get a lot of views.
This still works in March 2023! I could not get enough!
This farming spot is amazing! Thank you for sharing it 😊
Can confirm this still works. Even on first playthrough. You just have to go far enough for the area to deload and then return.
As of July 1 2023 this still works