Hyper Light Breaker Resource Guide: A Comprehensive Overview
Hyper Light Breaker features seven vital resources crucial 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:

- Acquisition: Defeating enemies, destroying objects, opening Overgrowth crates, selling gear at Hub vendors.
- Usage: Purchasing gear (Overgrowth & Hub vendors), upgrading gear (Hub vendors), looting Blades and Rails from corpses, opening Stashes and crates.
2. Gold Ration:

- Acquisition: Completing Cycles (typically after using all four Rezes). Reset the Overgrowth by providing materials to the NPC at the Hub Telepad.
- Usage: Unlocking permanent upgrades via Pherus Bit (Hub), accessing new vendor services (Hub).
3. Abyss Stone:

- Acquisition: Defeating Crowns (bosses found through Overgrowth gates; requires prior Prism collection – locations marked with yellow diamonds on the map).
- Usage: Upgrading Sycom stats, unlocking new characters (during loadout confirmation before entering the Overgrowth).
4. Key:

- Acquisition: Opening unmarked small containers in the Overgrowth.
- Usage: Bypassing barriers to access Stashes and other containers, entering Labs (subterranean areas with enemies and loot).
5. MediGem:

- Acquisition: Interacting with glowing flowers in the Overgrowth.
- Usage: Exchanging for Medkits (at the Hub Telepad and Overgrowth Shrines; requires unlocking Medkit capacity via Pherus Bit using one Gold Ration).
6. Core:

- Acquisition: Overgrowth Stashes (marked with chest icons), combining four Core Shards (obtained from enemies that yield Prisms and unmarked lootable objects).
- Usage: Upgrading Sycom stats (during loadout confirmation before entering the Overgrowth).
7. Material:

- Acquisition: Opening small chests in the Overgrowth (often marked with gems), selling gear at Hub vendors.
- Usage: Purchasing gear from Hub and Overgrowth vendors.
This guide provides a complete overview of resource management in Hyper Light Breaker, enabling players to effectively utilize these resources for optimal gameplay. Remember to consult the in-game map for clues on resource locations.