The world of Hyrule has changed a lot inThe Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomwhen compared to its predecessor. There are environmental disasters, great ruins falling from the sky, and bands of pirates terrorising the more law-abiding citizens. This last one is what we’re concerned with today.

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Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - Entrance

Lurelin Village has been taken over by a horde of monsters - mostly Bokoblins, but a handful of Lizalfos, too. This quest tasks you with eradicating the monsters from the village, which would allow a rebuilding effort to begin. It’s quite a tough one, though, so make sure you’re prepared before heading in.

Preparing For Ruffian-Infested Village

There are two things that make this quest particularly difficult:

This is quite a gauntlet of challenges, so we recommend that you have all or most of the following:

The good thing about this quest is that it ispossible to take small breaks between groups of monsters, allowing you to cook or fuse new weapons at your leisure.

Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - Chill Fruit

How To Complete Ruffian-Infested Village

The monsters in Lurelin are separated into a fewseparate groups, though they all have the same general makeup - a few Bokoblins backed up by Lizalfos, who attack with melee weapons, and some Bokoblins with bows.

It’s a good idea totake out the Lizalfos first, as they can be very annoying to deal with thanks to their erratic movements. After that, hunt down any archers, as it’s very disheartening to get sniped from afar while dealing with melee enemies.

Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - A Lizalfos enemy

verify you don’t wander too far from a fight in progress, as you may end up inadvertently drawing another pack of monsters toward you.

In the first stages of this quest, you’ll be clearing out monsters near the village entrance, then the ones closer to and on the beach. Don’t forget tostay healed and take breaksto cook and fuse new weapons when needed.

Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - Using Riju’s Lightning

When it’s time to get onto the ship, you’ll need toclimb the long ladder near the end with the skull- from the platform on top, you’re able to glide on over to the skull. The ship is very dangerous, as there’s a small space to fight in and the enemies here are very strong.

One way to deal with the ship enemies is tostay on the skull and shoot at them with your bow. They won’t be able to reach you with their melee weapons, only throwing rocks at you which don’t deal that much damage and are easily dodged.

Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - Climbing the ladder

Even better, if you haveMuddle Buds, use these to confuse the enemies down below and watch as theyfight each other. Once they’ve mostly taken each other out and the only ones left are weakened, they’re easy to mop up - even the Boss Moblin.

Muddle Budsin general are great for this quest - if you have enough of them, you’ll barely ever have to fight an enemy yourself.

Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - Shooting the Lizalfos on the ship

TheLizalfoson the opposite side of the ship can be a pain, as it will spit water at you constantly. Get a critical hit arrow shot at it and it’ll be flung into the water - it’s very easy to shoot down at it from here to finish it off.

If you find that you’ve beaten up every monster you can see, including those on the ship, but there still seems to be one monster remaining,check the well near the village entrance. There is a single Bokoblin at the bottom of the well - just be careful when descending as it might manage to strike you before you can get a look at your surroundings.

Tears of the Kingdom - Lurelin Village - Bokoblin in the well

After wiping out all the monsters, the quest will be completed. As a reward,Lurelin Village will be made safe, and you’ll be given a new quest automatically: theLurelin Village Restoration Project. This is a long-term quest that has you helping out with the rebuilding effort.

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