Ratchet & Clank (2002 game) gold bolt locations

There are forty Gold Bolts in Ratchet & Clank, all of which are spread over the sixteen planets, Drek's Fleet, and Nebula G34.

Planet Novalis
When you start off, next to your ship, there will be a sort of cavern with water. Jump on all the rocks until you get to the first room with the bee-like animals in it. Go at the bottom of the stairs and do wall jumps there. Once you get to the top, go right and get the Gold Bolt.

You at least need the Devastator: behind your ship, at the right from the cavern with the water, you will see a pathway with rectangular water basins. Go there and follow the path. Continue until you get to three round pools of water set at different levels. Get to the floor after the pools and use a powerful weapon like the Devastator to blast the wall just on your left, which seems slightly darker and different from the others. The Gold Bolt is there.

You need the Hydropack: get to the river that’s below and farther from your ship and jump in it. Use the Hydropack to go against the current. At the fork go left and continue underwater until you can’t go any farther and get out of the water. You should be in a cavern of some sort. Kill all of your enemies and if you continue on the right, you should see a room with more enemies in it. Kill them and you should see, from somewhere a bit further in the room, a place where you can get jump on ledges. Go there and then there will be some kind of stairs and the Gold Bolt is at the top.

Planet Aridia
You need the Swingshot: after you used the Swingshot to get to the room where you got the Trespasser, look down when you are there. You will see a platform that is slowly counter-clockwise. Jump on it. Go to the middle and the Gold Bolt is there.

Go to where you found Skidd McMarxx’s agent and go farther to a little piece of land between mud. From there, jump in the mud and jump back out of it on a little piece of wall on your right. Then jump to the large piece of land in front of you and follow the land to a kind of truck that has the Gold Bolt on it. Jump and get it.

You need at least the Devastator: after Skidd McMarxx, you will see a bluish metal grid somewhere that is unbreakable and behind it, a Gold Bolt. Go to the left on a piece of land after the mud and where the sandsharks and sandshark creators had been when you had to help Skidd, and look on the right. You will see a semi-broken wall, with the bottom-right part open where you can see a little light coming through. Break it with a powerful weapon like the Devastator and get in the tunnel. The Gold Bolt is at the end.

You need the Magneboots: where Skidd McMarxx’s agent was, you can see the possibility of climbing the hill on the right using your Magneboots. Some parts of the hill are black magnetic paths. Find the Gold Bolt on top in a low building, which you can find the entrance to on the side.

Planet Kerwan
Right when you get to the Gadgetron vendor, jump over the railing and land on a small ledge just below. Drop from the ledge. You will be in some kind of tunnel where many flying cars go through. The Gold Bolt is there.

You need the Helipack: when you get to the Gadgetron vendor, go right and start Qwark's obstacle course. Once you get to the highest tower, after all of the moving platforms, go where there are no bars on the side. Look a bit down and slightly on the left and you will see boxes in a building. Glide (run + X + X) in that direction and in the mist of the boxes is the Gold Bolt.

You need the Helipack: after Big Al’s Roboshack, continue exploring and when you get to the train, go right. Do a boost jump (R1 + X) over the luggage there and get on the other side and kill your enemies. You will see a Gold Bolt farther. There are two ways to get it: a) from the luggage you just jumped on, you can jump from luggage to luggage on your right to get to the Gold Bolt; b) but, there is an easier way: you can go all the way to the luggage that the Gold Bolt is on without jumping from luggage to luggage and you will see boxes behind the luggage that holds the Gold Bolt. Do not break them yet! Do a boost jump (R1 + X) to get on top of the boxes. Then, you can simply jump to the Gold Bolt.

Planet Eudora
You need the Helipack or Thrusterpack: there are two ways of getting this Gold Bolt, but first, you need to know its location. Right at the beginning, at the left when you are facing your ship (at the opposite way where you need the Trespasser to open a door) you will see two steps with yellow robots further on. Go in front of the steps and look up. You will see the Gold Bolt on a ledge a bit to the right. a) with the Helipack, get on the first step, face the wall with the ledge, boost-jump (R1 + X) and while going up move forward and you will grab the ledge. Then, pull yourself up to get the Gold Bolt.  b) the second way to get it requires the Thrusterpack. Go right below the ledge and do a boost-slam jump. That is, press the buttons R1 + X + R1. You won’t grab the ledge because a slam jump doesn’t allow you to do that but you should be high and near enough the Gold Bolt so that the game thinks you got it.

Nebula G34
You need the Helipack: kill all your enemies in the room with the Gadgetron vendor and all the small mutant frog-like animals in it and the bigger lizard-looking ones behind them. Then, go right from the entrance of the room and do a boost jump (R1 + X) to get on an upper platform. Go straight ahead into a new room, kill all of the other mutant frog-like animals there, and get the Gold Bolt behind them.

You need the Helipack and the O2 Mask: where you had explored with Clank, go on the ship using the thin path and jump down further to where all the blue boxes are. Continue doing what you had done with Clank. When you get to the second ship, turn around and look for a Gold Bolt on a ledge. You can get it by doing a stretch jump (run + R1 + X) or by gliding to it.

Planet Rilgar
You need the O2 Mask: first, get to the place where you had to run as fast as you could to get the most oxygen where everything flooded up. When you get there, it will be still flooded. Follow the path and when you get to the place where you can go higher on a platform on the left, go the other way (right, and down). Follow the path in a tunnel and when you get out of the water, the Gold Bolt is there.

You need the Helipack: go to where there are all of the force field, where you can see the Gold Bolt behind one of them. Go farther where there is the round platform that the steam pushes in the air. Jump on it and once the platform goes up, jump on the closest pillar where the force fields are attached. Make your way to the pillar next to the Gold Bolt and jump off to get it.

Planet Umbris
On a long bridge, after using your Swingshot for the second time, after the first turret, go right and you will see a closed door. From there look on the right again and you will see a ledge with one of those things that light up and beep. Go there and step on it and continue turning (counter-clockwise) around the small building until you light up all three. Go back down and the door will be open with boxes and the Gold Bolt in it.

After a short use of the Hydrodisplacer, go to the pool of water with the stairs at the right. Look down from the edge (top of the stairs) and you will a large square opening below formed by four walls. Jump into the opening and you will fall down to the Gold Bolt.

Planet Batalia
Right at the beginning, where you can use your Trespasser to open up a door with a lot of boxes behind it, do wall jumps there and the Gold Bold is right there on the roof.

You need the Helipack: go where the first tank was, and go over the bridge. Go right from the small building up the ledges and start jumping off from ledge to ledge using stretch-jumps (R1 + X) and you’ll eventually arrive to the Gold Bolt.

Planet Gaspar
You need the Swingshot and the Helipack: from your ship, go straight forward to the ledge and look down. You will see a metal platform. Follow the path and destroy all of the bombers along the way by shooting down the things they are connected to. Then, go to the last platform and you will see, to its right, smaller platforms (that sink in the lava when you jump on them) that lead to the Gold Bolt. Get it.

You need the Helipack: you need to finish the planet first. Then, go where you got the Pilot's Helmet and look down from the left of the elevator. You will see an opening in some kind of volcano. Glide into that opening and prepare to fight your way through. In the end of the path you will come out of the volcano and the Gold Bolt will be just a bit further along.

Planet Orxon
You need the Visibomb Gun and the O2 Mask: go where there are all of the small grenades falling down. Look up and search for a Gold Bolt on a sort of balcony with a funky wall behind it. Use the Visibomb Gun or the Devastator to blow that wall up. Then, use the former to direct your missile through the tunnel that appeared behind the wall. There will be four more walls to destroy. Then, once you have destroyed all of them, go back to your ship and take the path you had to take when you had to catch the Infobot. At one point you had to turn right and to your left there was a closed opening with teeth around it (this is after the magnetic strip). You should be able to go through it now. Go to the end of the tunnel while avoiding the yellowish-green liquid everywhere and there will be the Gold Bolt.

You need the O2 Mask: as Ratchet, take the path you had to use as Clank and go straight until you see the possibility to do wall jumps on the wall to the left. Just wall jump and the Gold Bolt is there. You have to finish the planet first before you can access the place.

Planet Pokitaru
You need the Swingshot, the Thrusterpack, and the O2 Mask: from the beginning, follow the path you took when escorting the commercial man, until you get to the first big fish that sends shock waves. Jump into the water on the right and there should be a place where you can go left under the land. Go under the arc and get out of the water. You will need to make your way through using your weapons, your Swingshot, and your Thrusterpack for a special lock and finally get to the Gold Bolt at a water cascade.

Planet Hoven
From your ship, go to the right. When you come upon a line of trees, don’t follow the path, but continue to the right. There is a clearing with many anklebiters and farther you will see a vertical platform moving up and down. You have to jump off the rock wall to the right onto the platform, back to the wall, to the platform, and so on. Basically, you just wall jump up to the Gold Bolt, but using a moving surface. The Gold Bolt is at the top.

You need the O2 Mask: take the path you need to take when you go to the lady who sells you the Hydropack. At one point you will have to fill up a large area with water. The water you use to do that can be taken at three different spots at three different levels. When you are at the second place where you take the water (inside a small cave), look up and you will see a ledge with the Gold Bolt on it. To get it, fill the entire area with water, as you’re supposed to if you want haven’t done this yet, and then go underwater. Go to the cave where you took the water for the second time and go up. You will be able to get out of the water onto the ledge with the Gold Bolt on it.

Gemlik Moonbase
(There are two ways to get this Gold Bolt). You need the Visibomb Gun: At the place where there is green acid rising up and down, you can see a Gold Bolt behind a force field if you look from the highest platform that the acid cannot reach. If you have done this planet before, the force field won't be there anymore. However, if you have not, there is a way to destroy the field: from your ship, shoot the Visibomb Gun and keep the missile going straight until you see a big large building with a wide opening in its dome-like top. Go through the opening with the missile, and then go down, following the curve of the wall. You will crash into a force field generator tower, which will deactivate the field blocking the Gold Bolt. Now you can go get it.

Planet Oltanis
You need the Magneboots: when you start, go to the magnetic path and follow the trail. After you eliminate the only electrical robot on this path, you will see a ledge on the right side with the Gold Bolt on it (you’ll be on ice). Simply jump to the ledge and get it.

You need the Magneboots: after the Gold Bolt location described above, if you follow the usual path, you will, at one point, have to grab onto a ledge and go sideways. This time, instead of pulling up where the ice is, continue on to the right as far as you can. You will arrive to a Gold Bolt. Pull yourself up, and you got it.

You need the Swingshot: when you follow the path where there are all of the electrical robots, somewhere there will be a green Swingshot versa-target in a big rectangular hole above you. Swing there and you’ve got the Gold Bolt.

You need the Swingshot: this is the hardest Swingshot course of the game. To get this bolt, you need to finish the planet first. Once that is done, a bomber will shoot a missile at the statue that was on the large platform near your ship. The statue will explode and there will be an activator button there. Press it and versa-targets will appear. Follow the course and take your time. On the first straight using the Swingshot, one of the targets is farther away than the others, so you have to go a bit higher than normally before letting go to successfully hook on to it. Then, a lot of Swingshot targets have something under them that keep them moving. Just Swingshot to them when they are close enough, and when Ratchet lets go, press circle again to keep hooked. Sometimes you’ll have to keep swinging on the same target waiting for the right time to hook on the next one. With a little practice, it should be fine and at the end, the last versa-target takes you to the Gold Bolt.

Planet Quartu
You need the Codebot: on the left of where you change Clank into Giant Clank, there is an invicovault that you can open by using your Codebot. On the other side is the Gold Bolt with a lot of crates.

You need the Helipack: when you find Clank’s mother, you can get onto an upper platform above you simply by performing a boost-jump (R1 + X) and there will be an entrance somewhere that leads to the Gold Bolt.

Planet Kalebo III
You need the Grindboots: after you got the Map-o-Matic item from the Gadgetron CEO, look at your map and go where it is green on it. You will be on a platform. There is another one just below. Go there and you will see a teleporter. Go where it takes you and there is the Gold Bolt.

You need the Grindboots: there are three activators scattered around the long grind rail. If you hit each of them with your wrench while grinding (and at one point you will have to take an alternate path), it will deactivate a force field that blocked the way to another grind rail. Once the force field isn’t in the way anymore, just flip to the rail (it's right before the first jump) and follow the path. Avoid or obliterate obstacles. The Gold Bolt will on the grind rail.

Drek's Fleet
You need the Hydropack and the O2 Mask: follow the path you needed to take to go get the Codebot (that is, underwater and through the activators that are right under your ship). Do the whole thing with the deactivation of the electricity in the water and continue along the path. But, when you go through the last three rings, instead of going straight, turn back and go right where there is a path you can follow. Go out of the water at the end of it before the countdown ends and you’ve got the Gold Bolt.

You need the Hologuise (unless you’ve completely finished Drek’s Fleet already), the O2 Mask and the Magneboots: start doing the entire fleet as if you were doing the normal mission. After you go outside of the ship and come back in later, you will be upside down and in front of a magnetic path. Follow the path and avoid the lasers; then, in the next room, go on the platform with the button on it, press it, and you will be turned the right way. Go back in the room with the lasers instead of going straight to the end of the ship. Kill the dogs, avoid the lasers, and at the end of the short path, you will see a door to your right. Go through it, avoid the lasers, break the crates, kill the enemy, and you will eventually get the Gold Bolt.

Planet Veldin
You need the Taunter: Go through the planet until you are at the place where, behind you and slightly to the right, you can see a force field and a button to open it behind the force field, and behind that, a frog. Take out your Taunter and use it. The frog will come to you and step on the button that will open the force field. Jump in the tunnel, kill the frog and follow the path. The Gold Bolt is at the end.

You need the Swingshot: just before you Swingshot at the two yellow versa-targets, turn around 180 degrees and look slightly to your left. You will see platforms. Jump on them and just follow the path and get the Gold Bolts.

You need the Helipack: after the two yellow versa-targets, you will later encounter a green one. Watch out, because there is a large and barely visible lava pit before the place where you have to hook onto the versa-target. Go to the right of the pit and you will see a small, circular metal platform. Jump onto it and then onto the larger platform below that you will then be able to see. Go to the end of the path and you will have the Gold Bolt.