Wild Hearts: Gold, Old Cogs, and Kemono Orbs Explained | Currency Guide

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There are a lot of systems that players need to juggle in Wild Hearts. One of the most important is resource management, something crucial for crafting new gear and acquiring new skills. An aspect of Wild Hearts‘ resource management that requires a little bit of further explanation, however, is the game’s three discrete currencies.

In Wild Hearts, players need to keep track of Gold, Old Cogs, and Kemono Orbs in addition to the rest of the resources, weapons, and armor that are required to hunt kemono. Here’s everything you need to know about each currency from where to get them to what they’re used for.

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Gold is perhaps Wild Hearts‘ simplest currencies because it functions very similarly to gold in most other games. Gold is used to purchase items in Minato. Some shops require additional resources to buy things such as with Yataro’s ornament shop, but others like Kogyoku’s food and resource store only require gold. Gold also is important for forging new gear, but similar to the ornament shop, other resources are required for crafting armor and weapons.

There are two main ways to get gold. The first is to sell resources to Kogyoku in Minato. Doing this is simple, all you need to do is approach her in her shop, the Crimson Treasury, and choose to sell goods. From here, you can select which items you want to sell. Take note, rare items dropped by powerful kemono sell for much more than common loot you find on the ground.

The second way of getting gold is through completing side quests. In Minato,