Orichalcum

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Orichalcum
Dropped By	Bulky Vendor
Best Farming Spot	Bulky Vendor Hunting
Amount Found in Chests	11

Orichalcum can only be dropped by Bulky Vendors. While you can find 11 Orichalcum in chests all across the worlds in KH2, you’ll only be able to farm more of them from Bulky Vendor Heartless.

These rare Heartless appear in various worlds at random.

Once you find them, you can use a special Reaction Command to capture them and dispense a prize. The chance of an Orichalcum depends on how much life the Bulky has when you get it.

Let’s take a look at the details of hunting and capturing Bulky Vendors, as well as where the chests with Orichalcum can be found.

Finding Orichalcum in Chests

You can find 11 of the Ore in chests scattered all across KH2. Here’s a list of every chest in every world & the exact area of the world where each chest is located.

World	Location
100 Acre Wood	Kanga’s House Spooky Cave
Land of Dragons	Throne Room
Port Royal	Ship Graveyard: Seadrift Keep
Twilight Town	Underground Concourse Tunnelway Mansion Library
The World That Never Was	Fragment’s Crossing Nothing’s Call Naught’s Skyway Ruin and Creation’s Passage

Bulky Vendors

If you’ve ever been in a grocery store’s entryway then you’ve seen what these boys are based off of.

But instead of dispensing ancient gumballs or sticky hands, Bulky Vendors give out stuff like Serenity items and, more importantly, Orichalcum.

Getting an item from a Bulky Vendor is a two step process.

First, you have to find them.

If you’re just looking willy-nilly, this can be tricky. However there is a very defined method in order to get them to appear.

Here’s how it works:

Bulky Vendor RNG Setup

Load into a game from the title screen before you start. That means saving and returning to the title screen.

Then head to Land of Dragons. Enter from the Bamboo Thicket save point and out to the Encampment.

From there, head to the Checkpoint. Once you enter the Checkpoint, stop!

What you need to do is screen transition here three times.

That means seeing the black transition effect three times, so head into the Encampment, the Checkpoint, and then back into the Encampment.

Once you’ve done that, get back to the Bamboo Thicket and return to the world map.

What this does is it resets the Bulky Vendors spawn pattern. Basically this forces the game’s RNG to make you get lucky.

Now you can visit a defined list of their hotspots and just about guarantee their appearance.

Farming Spots

Here is the list in order of which worlds to visit & where to farm:

(1) Olympus Coliseum: Enter at the Underworld Entrance save point and head to the Cave of the Dead: Entrance.

If there, the Bulky Vendors will be hidden in the torches in the center.

(2) Beast’s Castle: Enter from the Beast’s Room save point and head out through the West Wing to the West Hall.

If there are Bulky Vendors here, they’ll be hiding in the suits of armor around the corner.

(3) Halloween Town: Enter from the Hinterlands save point and head into Candy Cane Lane.

If there are Bulky Vendors, they’ll be hiding in the carousel in the center. You’ll have to use the Reaction Command to spin in and get them out.

(4) Agrabah: Enter from the Palace Walls save point and head into the Bazaar. If there are Bulky Vendors about, then you’ll have to crush all the stalls to find them.

Note that you have to go in this particular order.

If a Vendor doesn’t spawn, simply move on to the next place on the list. If you do the loop more than twice, then save, exit to the title screen, and start again at the Land of Dragons.

How Bulky Vendors Work

The second step to getting an item from a Bulky Vendor is to actually capture them and force a prize.

You do this by approaching them and using the Reaction Command.

There are four levels of prize and which one you get depends on how much HP they have left (their HP reduces by itself, so it’s a waiting game).

Reaction Command	HP Remaining	Chance of Orichalcum
Capsule Prize	100-75% (first bar)	8%
Rare Capsule	74-50% (second bar)	10%
Limited Capsule	49-25% (third bar)	12%
Prime Capsule	25-1% (final bar)	16%

Once they enter Prime Capsule territory they start doing big jumps and being a pain to catch, so it’s best to constantly be on their butt until then. It may take some practice, but soon you’ll be swimming in goodies.

Using Orichalcum

You need a total of 13 Orichalcum to make one of everything that requires them. Not too bad!

And you get some pretty sweet gear out of it, too.

Goofy’s Save the King+ is his best weapon by far.

Below is a list of every synthesis recipe that uses Orichalcum as an ingredient:

Recipe	Items Required	Description
Petit Ribbon	3 Mythril Crystal 1 Orichalcum 1 Dense Stone 1 Dense Shard	Accessory DEF +4 All Elemental Resistance +10%
Ribbon	3 Mythril Crystals 1 Orichalcum 1 Dense Shard 1 Dense Stone 1 Serenity Gem	Accessory DEF +4 All Elemental Resistance +20%
Save the Queen	1 Orichalcum 9 Dense Shards 7 Dense Stones 5 Dense Gems 2 Dense Crystals	Donald Weapon STR +5 MAG +6 Ability: Hyper Healing
Save the Queen+	1 Orichalcum 9 Dense Shards 7 Dense Stones 5 Dense Gems 2 Dense Crystals 1 Serenity Crystal	Donald Weapon STR +5 MAG +6 Ability: MP Hastega Ability: MP Rage
Moon Amulet	3 Orichalcums 1 Mythril Crystal 1 Twilight Shard 1 Twilight Stone	Accessory STR +2 MAG +2 AP +3
Star Amulet	3 Orichalcums 1 Mythril Crystal 1 Twilight Shard 1 Twilight Stone 1 Serenity Crystal	Accessory STR +2 MAG +2 AP +5
Save the King	1 Orichalcum 9 Twilight Shards 7 Twilight Stones 5 Twilight Gems 2 Twilight Crystals	Goofy Weapon STR +9 Ability: Item Boost
Save the King+	1 Orichalcum 9 Twilight Shards 7 Twilight Stones 5 Twilight Gems 2 Twilight Crystals 1 Serenity Crystal	Goofy Weapon STR +9 Ability: MP Rage
Ultima Weapon	13 Orichalcum+ 1 Orichalcum 1 Mythril Crystal 1 Dense Crystal 1 Twilight Crystal 7 Serenity Crystal 1 Energy Crystal	Keyblade STR +6 MAG +4 Ability: MP Hastega