Hyper Light Breaker: A Comprehensive Guide to its Seven Resources
Hyper Light Breaker features seven crucial resources vital for gear acquisition, permanent upgrades, enhanced survivability, and character roster expansion. This guide clarifies their acquisition and usage. Resources are conveniently tracked within the inventory's items tab.
1. Bright Blood:
The most common resource, obtained by defeating enemies, destroying objects, opening crates in the Overgrowth, and selling gear to Hub vendors. Bright Blood is used for:
- Looting Blades and Rails.
- Opening Stashes and crates.
- Purchasing gear from Overgrowth and Hub vendors.
- Upgrading gear at Hub vendors.
2. Gold Ration:
Earned by completing Cycles (typically by depleting all four Rezes and resetting the Overgrowth via an NPC at the Hub Telepad after providing materials). Gold Rations are key to meta-progression:
- Unlocking permanent upgrades via Pherus Bit in the Hub.
- Accessing new vendor services in the Hub.
3. Abyss Stone:
Acquired by defeating Crowns (challenging bosses accessed via Overgrowth gates, requiring prior Prism collection – locations marked by yellow diamonds on the map). Abyss Stones facilitate meta-progression:
- Upgrading Sycom stats.
- Unlocking new characters (during loadout confirmation).
4. Key:
Occasionally found in unmarked small containers within the Overgrowth. Keys are used to:
- Bypass barriers to access Stashes and other containers.
- Enter Labs (subterranean areas with enemies and loot).
5. MediGem:
Obtained by interacting with glowing flowers in the Overgrowth. Essential for:
- Exchanging for Medkits at the Hub Telepad and Overgrowth Shrines (requires unlocking Medkit Capacity via one Gold Ration at Pherus Bit).
6. Core:
A meta-progression resource, found in Stashes (marked by chest icons) or crafted by combining four Core Shards (obtained from Prism-rewarding enemies and unmarked objects). Cores are used to:
- Upgrade Sycom stats during loadout confirmation, enhancing Breaker stats.
7. Material:
Primarily earned by using Bright Blood to open small chests (often gem-marked on the map) and by selling gear at the Hub. Materials are used for:
- Purchasing gear from Hub and Overgrowth vendors (similar to Bright Blood, but with more limited applications).
