Hyper Light Breaker: Guide to All Resources - Acquisition and Uses

Author: Harper Apr 02,2025

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In Hyper Light Breaker, mastering the use of the seven key resources is essential for enhancing your gameplay. These resources are crucial for obtaining gear, unlocking permanent upgrades, boosting your survivability, and expanding your character roster. While the methods for acquiring these resources might not be immediately clear, and their uses may be puzzling at first, this guide aims to demystify them, providing you with a thorough understanding of how to leverage these resources effectively.

You can keep track of your resources under the items tab in the inventory menu, ensuring you always know what you have at your disposal.

How to Get & Use Bright Blood in Hyper Light Breaker

Bright Blood, the most abundant resource in Hyper Light Breaker, is obtained by defeating enemies, destroying objects, and opening crates in the Overgrowth. You can also gain additional Bright Blood by selling gear to vendors in the Hub.

With Bright Blood, you can:

  • Loot Blades and Rails from fallen foes in the Overgrowth.
  • Unlock Stashes and other crates within the Overgrowth.
  • Purchase new gear from vendors located in the Overgrowth and Hub.
  • Enhance your gear at vendors in the Hub.

How to Get & Use Gold Ration in Hyper Light Breaker

Gold Rations are earned by completing Cycles. Initially, you might complete your Cycles by exhausting all four Rezes. After using up your Rezes, find an NPC at the Telepad in the Hub who will request materials to reset the Overgrowth, aiding your progress toward earning Gold Rations.

Gold Rations are vital for meta-progression. They unlock permanent upgrades through Pherus Bit in the Hub and can be used to access new services from the Hub's vendors.

How to Get & Use Abyss Stone in Hyper Light Breaker

Abyss Stones are acquired by defeating Crowns, challenging bosses accessible through gates in the Overgrowth. To challenge these bosses, you'll first need to collect Prism, which you can find at locations marked by yellow diamonds on the map.

Like Gold Rations, Abyss Stones contribute to meta-progression. Use them to upgrade your Sycoms' stats and unlock new characters during loadout confirmation before entering the Overgrowth, giving you an edge in future adventures.

How to Get & Use Key in Hyper Light Breaker

Keys are occasionally found in small containers scattered throughout the Overgrowth, though these caches are typically unmarked, making them somewhat elusive.

Keys allow you to bypass barriers in the Overgrowth, granting access to Stashes and other lootable containers, as well as entry into Labs—underground areas filled with enemies and valuable items.

How to Get & Use MediGem in Hyper Light Breaker

MediGems are a critical resource obtained by interacting with glowing flowers in the Overgrowth. They are exchanged for Medkits at the Hub's Telepad and at Shrines in the Overgrowth, significantly boosting your survivability.

To utilize MediGems, you must first expand your 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 are another meta-progression resource found in Stashes (marked by chest icons on the map) or by combining four Core Shards. Core Shards are obtained by defeating enemies that drop Prisms or by looting unmarked objects like bone piles in the Overgrowth.

Cores are used to upgrade your Sycom during loadout confirmation before entering the Overgrowth, enhancing the stats of your Breakers and improving your performance.

How to Get & Use Material in Hyper Light Breaker

Materials are mainly acquired by using Bright Blood to open small chests in the Overgrowth, often marked by gems on the map. You can also gather additional Materials by selling gear to vendors in the Hub.

Materials are used to buy gear from vendors in the Hub and Overgrowth, similar to Bright Blood, but with more specific applications.