It's recently struck me as odd that the game uses the term Light Dragon, but doesn't use Fire Dragon, Ice Dragon and Shock Dragon. I know why the Light Dragon wasn't named, and there's probably a lore reason implied by Dinral, Naydra and Farosh being given actual names, but it'd be nice if the Light Dragon fit the pattern.

So the question is, if you were to give the Light Dragon a name to fit with the others (likely given to her by people who see her), what would it be?

The fuckers are annoying to hunt, and swiming around the secret forest is a pain.

Just finished the game at 150hrs and here are some of the things I learned along the way. Apologies ahead of time if some of these are obvious, I'm kind of slow sometimes.

• Hoverbike https://game8.co/games/Zelda-Tears-of-the-Kingdom/archives/413708

• If you have a plane but no way to get it in the air, hold it as high as you can for a couple seconds and lower it to the ground. Get on, rewind time, and launch when you're in the air. Be prepared for a dip downwards when you start off.

• If you're awful at Lionel's, spam them with puffshrooms or muddlebuds.

• Roasting foods: ingredients that can be roasted will have gray smoke, unroastable ingredients will make black smoke (probably obvious but helpful when filling out the recipe book)

• Gleeoks: Use ascend, jump and shoot arrows in slow time. Repeat until it's down and you can melee. Also helpful: muddlebuds will keep it from targeting you too much and snowquill armor at level 2 makes you unfreezable.

Depths

• The depths are mostly the opposite topography of the middle map. If there's a hill in the middle map it will be a valley in the depths. Water will be unclimbable walls. This isn't 100% but it's close enough to help navigate.

• Lightroots are the roots of shrines in the middle map. You can switch between maps to fill out your shrines/lightroot locations.

• If you select the middle map in your menu then exit, your mini-map will stay the middle map. Great for discovering new areas or trying to find a Lightroot.

• Know where a lightroot should be but can't find it? Look at the ceiling. Lightroots have a distinctive thin pillar shape. Sometimes you can see the outline then follow it down.

• Riju's power or ultrahand can help you see around if you're out of brightblooms.

• If you wear the Lionel mask to the depths coliseum the Lionel will target your companions. I use dodges to take down Lionels so I only wear it for the last guy to bomb his armor in peace. You need to put it on before their door opens.

• If you attach a gloom weapon to another weapon, there is no gloom toll.

• Attaching a gloom sword to a gerudo scimitar is 90 damage. I think this is because of strong fusion. There are stronger weapons out there but I liked this combo.

Hope this is helpful! I had a blast playing it. Good gaming, friends!

Seriously, these things absolutely NUKE all stal-creatures in a certain radius - no fight, no fuss. You don't even need to actually aim for the stals, just throw the fruit on the ground somewhere and the entire group will go poof.

Exploring the Depths got a lot easier after I realized this.

Anything special about golden apples or do they only regenerate more health?

Most of the phantom canons I killed that ha dit didn't respawn. Are there any that respawn?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1322098

• Github (alpha/proto version of a datamined map)

• Zeldamods (datamined, but with a more pleasant layout and interface)

• Zeldamaps (easy to use and lots of options - thanks Bdaman for the link!)

None of them are my own work, and apparently not all of them are completely finished yet, but still already super useful. Enjoy ♪

Mine is a silver lynel biggoron sword. 91 damage. Anyone know any durable 1 hand weapons?

I decided to turn my Switch to Airplane mode to avoid any new updates for totk. My expectation was things would continue as normal and I could still use all the glitches from 1.1.2 when/if I decided to do that.

However, on the day of the release of 1.2, my camera started acting weird. I was in Gerudo for the first time, and the camera would drift in one direction until I paused the game, and this would happen at random times throughout my play time, which involved traveling to places I had already been.

Does this mean Nintendo added self-destruct instructions based on a timer or something? What the actual fuck?

Nintendo is really pissing me off with these horrible decisions they've made.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm 3 temples in with master sword and need regular lizal tails for fairy upgrades

So when I got the master sword silver enemies became kinda common. Now I beat the wind and spirit temples. How does this change things?

Spoiler

Also I beat all the master kogha fights if it means anything

Nintendo released 1.2 and removed some dupe glitches they call "Improving the game experience."

How bout you improve the game experience by making it not such a grind to do every single thing?

Here's an article: https://www.polygon.com/23784421/zelda-totk-update-patch-notes-dupe-glitch-version-120

Has any found a good use for the zonai bombs we get from the gumball machines?

I'm a fairly early game player. Did none of the temples but have the master sword and a lot of gloom stuff stuck to my other weapons. Am I meant to have gotten this far before any temples.

Also why are nearly a third of enemies silver? I knew this would happen but not this fast

(Spoiler, is there an actual spoiler tag?) You have to use a charged attack with a single handed weapon to complete this quest (maybe a spear also works, but I know a two handed weapon doesn’t).

Besides just leaving this information here, I also wanted to mention this is some bullshit.

I like instructions written out more than a video, so here is how to make the Hoverbike 2.0. Glory to master swaze.

Setup

a. Find a flat spot.

• The depths have many flat spots
  • Yiga hideouts
  • Build caches
  • Forges
  • Boss pads

Disable Motion Controls

b. + Pause, R all the way, Options > Aim with motion controls Disabled

Learn how to do a backflip (you may want to practice a few times till you get the hang of it).

c. Hold down ZL (you can hold this for as long as you want) then when you're ready, Press X and Down on the Left Pad

d. Follow these instructions exactly. I will say when a measurement doesn't matter with "Sloppy"

From here on out you should not touch your left pad until the build is complete.

The Build

1. Take out two fans and a steering stick from your Zonai Devices Tab.

2. The 2 fans should be on top of each other and the steering stick off to the side

3. Grab the fan on top

4. Rotate it by holding R and pressing down twice - it should be flat with the small side facing up

5. Move it back behind the bottom fan - The distance behind can be sloppy, but it needs to be in line (again, don't touch the Left stick and you will be fine)

6. Grab the bottom fan, flip it just like the first one, and glue it to the top of the first one. They should be exactly on top of each other, but as long as you're close the game will snap it into place correctly.

7. Grab the steering stick and glue it on top of the other two fans. Again, the snapping will help you.

8. Walk up to the stack and jump

9. You should now have the option to press A to Control it.

10. Press A, and immediately press B. You should be standing on top of it, but not controlling it.

11. Grab the top Fan and disconnect it

12. Backflip. If you mess up, get off and Control it again and press B, you can repeat that until you get do the backflip right.

13. Grab the stick, rotate it once backwards by pressing down

14. Pull the stick towards you

15. At some point the snapping will want to connect the front of the stick to the side of the fan closest to you. Go ahead and make that.

16. Grab the steering stick And rotate once forward.

17. Move the setup forward, behind the remaining fan

18. Once you have some clearance, rotate it once backwards

19. Pull it towards you until the game suggests gluing the back of the Steering Stick to the side of the fan farthest from you.

The End

Save it as a favorite, and enjoy the huge upgrade.

I haven't tried yet whether you can also trap him with other stuff (like logs / crates / whatever glued together) but since I bought those stairs anway, they now have a good use whenever I decide to redesign.

Works like a charm every time.

...but seriousy, I don't get why that guy can't just stay in his dang little booth. There is literally no reason for him to run around the construction area in the first place! If I want to talk to him, I can go to the booth, and if I don't want to talk to him, he has no business being within earshot. I hope Nintendo fixes that in one way or another.

Update: this no longer works as of version 1.2.0, only 1.1.2.

I've watched so many videos about dupe glitches and patch hacks and they all seem so confusing, but I was able to do this one very easily.

And it's so much easier than grinding in the tundra for hours on end.

And it works in 1.1.2

Setup:

0. Make sure you have the Mount Lanayru tower unlocked
1. Get 2 unfused weapons
2. Get 2 Gourmet Meats

• if you don't have any, the area around the tundra stable is good, focus on white foxes and wolves, although you can one-shot all animals in the head easily in this region by jumping off a horse and going into arrow-time

Create the meat-weapon cube:

3. Take out a gourmet meat, drop it and fuse it a weapon
4. Repeat for the 2nd weapon
5. Fuse the two meat-weapons together
6. Autobuild another pair
7. Fuse the green ones to the not-green ones, you should now have a row of 4 gourmet meat weapons fused together.
8. Autobuild and fuse another row of 4, making 8
9. Autobuild and fuse another set of 8, making 16
10. Autobuild and fuse a set of 4 meat-weapons, making 20.
11. You should now have something resembling a cube of gourmet meat weapons in your autobuild history. Save this as a favorite.

Get to a consistent fire in a very cold place

12. Fast travel to the mt lanayru SkyView tower.
13. Glide to the southeast and go to the spring of wisdom.
14. Find the treasure hunter nearby with a fire.
15. Sit by the fire till night (you may have to light the pile of wood to do this)
16. Continue to sit by he fire till night until you see fog. This means it's cold enough to freeze the gourmet meat.

Glitch 999 Frozen Gourmet Meats

17. Open the auto build menu and select the meat-weapon cube, but DO NOT BUILD IT
18. Just hold the purple formation in the air for about 4-5 seconds.

if you're using zonaite to build the formation you're doing it wrong!

19. 20 frozen gourmet meats will materialize.
20. Press B to close the purple auto-build meat formation and pick up all the meat.
21. You can do this until it stops being cold enough or you reach 999 frozen gourmet meats
22. If it stops being cold enough, sit by the fire till night until you see fog again.

Sell the Frozen Gourmet Meats

23. Go sell the 999 frozen meats for about $39k (it's in the cooked food section, not items like raw gourmet meat)
24. You can repeat this as many times as you want. I'm not sure if there is a limit to how much money you can have, but I'm pretty sure 39k is enough to buy everything for sale in the game at least once. And 100k is probably more than you'll ever need.

Yes, I'm a cheapskate. But it has worked really well for me so far and Brightbloom Seeds are a dime a dozen so why not use them? If you need/want even more light, just toss a couple more seeds.