Hyper Light Breaker: A Guide to Acquiring Golden Rations

Hyper Light Breaker features several resources, with Golden Rations being the rarest and crucial for essential upgrades. This guide clarifies their acquisition methods.

Where to Find Golden Rations

Golden Rations are obtained primarily through exploration and cycle resets.

Exploration: Explore the map and look for chest icons. These chests often contain resources, including a chance at Golden Rations. A Golden Ration icon above a chest indicates its contents. Areas containing Prisms (marked by golden diamond icons) frequently have nearby Golden Ration chests.

Cycle Resets: Each Overgrowth instance constitutes a cycle, resetting when your revives (Rez count) deplete. After a cycle reset, you're scored. Achieving a high enough score to rank up rewards you with Golden Rations. You can choose to retry the map (losing resources) or fully reset the cycle at the Cursed Outpost.

Golden Ration Uses

Golden Rations are vital for progression in Hyper Light Breaker.

• Home Base Upgrades: Spend them to unlock permanent character upgrades or new vendor services at your home base.
• Sycom Unlocks: Unlock Sycoms, which define your Breaker's stats and passive abilities, significantly impacting their playstyle.

Priority Upgrade: Upon obtaining your first Golden Ration, prioritize the extra medkit upgrade from Pherus Bit. This significantly aids survivability, especially given the game's punishing combat mechanics.

Resource Retention: Resources, including Golden Rations, are retained upon death. However, equipped weapons, amps, and perks sustain damage (one pip), potentially leading to permanent loss.