Horizon Zero Dawn Cheats

A quick and easy way to get Skill points early in the game is to climb all the Tallnecks. There are 5 of them in total and each one will give you 1 Skill point.

Expand your resource satchel so you can pick up more. You will find that everything you find in this game will come in useful at some point so it makes sense that you have an inventory big enough to keep the things you find.

The video below will show you the location of ALL 26 different types of enemy machines and how to defeat them quickly. You can check to see which ones you have encountered and scanned by going to the Notepad. To get the following Trophies You must scan and kill ALL the machines.
All machines catalogued Trophy
All Acquisition machines killed Trophy
All Recon machines killed Trophy
All Combat machines killed Trophy
All Transport machines killed Trophy

#1 - Watcher - 0:05
#2 - Strider - 0:27
#3 - Grazer - 0:56
#4 - Scrapper - 1:20
#5 - Redeye Watcher - 1:48
#6 - Broadhead - 2:29
#7 - Lancehorn - 2:56
#8 - Longleg - 3:31
#9 - Trampler - 4:10
#10 - Sawtooth - 5:00
#11 - Shell-Walker - 5:29
#12 - Fire Bellowback - 6:01
#13 - Freeze Bellowback - 6:55
#14 - Charger - 7:39
#15 - Stalker - 8:08
#16 - Glinthawk - 8:41
#17 - Corruptor - 9:31
#18 - Ravager - 10:20
#19 - Snapjaw - 11:08
#20 - Rockbreaker - 11:44
#21 - Behemoth - 14:18
#22 - Thunderjaw - 15:24
#23 - Stormbird - 16:41
#24 - Deathbringer - 19:14
#25 - Tallneck - 21:51
#26 - Corrupted Machine - 23:30

There are 5 Tallneck Locations in total, the following video shows you how to climb and override each of them. Note: Once you reach a Tallnecks head hold Triangle to overide them.

#1 - 0:05
#2 - 1:20
#3 - 2:38
#4 - 3:40
#5 - 5:01

There are a total of 12 Ancient Vessel locations and finding ALL of them unlocks the 'All Ancient Vessels Found' Trophy. Press R3 to scan for ancient rubble. When you have collected ALL 12 return to the collectible merchant in Meridian to receive 1500 Metal Shards and several Modifications. Note: Ancient Vessels are not saved automatically, you must reach a checkpoint or campfire to save the progress.

#1 - Arches - 0:05
#2 - Wayfarers - 0:33
#3 - Dronehop - 0:47
#4 - KZ - 1:05
#5 - USRC - 1:23
#6 - Miriam - 1:43
#7 - Fard - 1:59
#8 - Jomei - 2:17
#9 - Odyssey - 2:34
#10 - Sterling-Malkeet - 2:52
#11 - Metallurgic - 3:08
#12 - Thunderheads - 3:26

The following video will show you the locations of ALL 30 Metal Flowers which need to be found to get the All Metal Flowers Found Trophy. When you have found ALL 30 return to the collectible merchant in Meridian to receive 3000 Metal Shards and several purple Modifications. Note: Metal Flowers are not saved automatically, you must reach a checkpoint or campfire to save the progress.

#1 - Mark I (B) - 0:05
#2 - Mark I (A) - 0:39
#3 - Mark I (C) - 1:27
#4 - Mark I (F) - 1:45
#5 - Mark I (D) - 2:11
#6 - Mark I (E) - 2:29
#7 - Mark I (G) - 2:47
#8 - Mark I (H) - 3:08
#9 - Mark I (I) - 3:25
#10 - Mark I (J) - 3:40
#11 - Mark III (C) - 4:00
#12 - Mark II (B) - 4:23
#13 - Mark II (A) - 4:44
#14 - Mark II (E) - 5:00
#15 - Mark II (C) - 5:15
#16 - Mark III (J) - 5:35
#17 - Mark III (H) - 5:50
#18 - Mark III (I) - 6:06
#19 - Mark III (B) - 6:33
#20 - Mark III (A) - 6:47
#21 - Mark III (F) - 7:06
#22 - Mark III (D) - 7:49
#23 - Mark III (E) - 8:09
#24 - Mark III (G) - 8:52
#25 - Mark II (J) - 9:05
#26 - Mark II (I) - 9:20
#27 - Mark II (H) - 9:53
#28 - Mark II (D) - 10:11
#29 - Mark II (F) - 10:34
#30 - Mark II (G) - 10:54

The video below will show you how you can get this secret armour.

The following video shows you ALL 15 hunting ground trials with a blazing sun mark. The trials are scattered around ALL of the Hunt Grounds and are marked by a blue icon on the map after climbing the Tallnecks. Note: ALL of these challenges are time based and you will receive 17,500 XP per blazing sun mark.

Nora Hunting Grounds:
#1 - 0:05
#2 - 1:36
#3 - 2:40

Valleymeet Hunting Grounds:
#4 - 3:46
#5 - 4:44
#6 - 5:54

Greatrun Hunting Grounds:
#7 - 6:40
#8 - 8:21
#9 - 9:34

Spurflints Hunting Grounds:
#10 - 11:16
#11 - 13:52
#12 - 14:52

Sun Furrows Hunting Grounds:
#13 - 16:28
#14 - 17:53
#15 - 20:17

The video below will show you the locations of ALL 23 Grazer trainer dummies which you need to find to get the 'Downed 23 Grazer Dummies Trophy. The Grazer trainer dummies look like deer made of straw.

Rost's House: 7 (0:05)
Mother's Heart: 2 (1:12)
Mother's Watch: 2 (1:46)
Mother's Cradle: 2 (2:22)
Nora Hunting Grounds: 2 (3:24)
Mother's Rise: 2 (3:57)
Devil's Thirst Camp: 1 (4:46)
Mother's Crown: 2 (5:10)
Hunter's Gathering: 2 (5:44)
Two Teeth: 1 (6:19)

The following video will show you how you can get a permanent mount. This will involve going to Skill Menu and buying 'Call Mount +' (Forager Skill Tree) which requires 3 skill points and unlocking other skills in this tree.