‘White Goats Gone Missing’ quest steps in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

White Goats Gone MissingThis quest is optional Tears of the Kingdom: The Legend of Zelda.

Once you become an official reporter for The Lucky Clover Gazette, Hyrule’s up and coming newspaper, you’re tasked with tracking down a herd of missing goats, as the name suggests.

You’ll likely stumble upon this as you’re making your way through the “Potential Princess Sightings!” questline. This page covers the steps you need to take to rescue the goats and investigate the rumors around Zelda’s return.

White Goats Gone Missing: How to begin the quest

“White Goats Gone Missing” is a side quest that forms part of the “Potential Princess Sightings,” arc. It can be completed once you’ve been to the Clover HQ southeast of Rito Village, so if you haven’t been there, go do that first.

Link gliding in front of the Lucky Clover Gazette

When you’re ready to begin the quest, head to Tabantha Bridge Stable and look for the conspicuously empty goat pen to the south-east.

Map showing where to start White Goats Gone Missing

Chork, it seems, has lost his pride and joy — his white goats, that he was feeding using Princess Zelda’s special recipe of whole, unground Hylian Pine Cones. Or at least he thinks that’s what the recipe was, because he lost it…

Link talking to Chork with the text “I followed Princess Zelda’s recipe perfectly... But could it have been the feed that drove them off?”

How to locate the white goats that have gone missing in White Goats Gone Missing

After talking to Chork and Penn, your fellow reporter, you’ll begin the side quest. Follow the uneaten Hylian Pine Cones back to the lost herd.

Hylian Pine Cone zoomed in with a camera

While this may seem simple — and it starts simple enough — the pine cones can get easily lost in the grass if you wander off trail. When this occurs, You have three choices to get you back on the right track.

1. First, use Ultrahand to spin the camera and look for orange glowing bits. These are things you can interact.

2. The second is to pan the camera down to get a bird’s-eye view. Fortunately, the Switch can’t draw enough grass to fully hide the pine cone!

Looking at a Hylian Pine Cone from above

3. The third is to very slowly pan the camera and look for the ‘item-drop sparkles’. It will tell you the exact location of where your next Hylian pine cone is.

You will find the goats if you follow the path. You can always go to if you’re struggling. co-ordinates (-2546, 0409, 0150).

Among the herd is a message in a bottle — interact with it (and read the amusing dialogue that follows) to finish the quest “White Goats Gone Missing”!