#botw glitches

[botwstoriesandsuch]

A lot of you wanted to know how I got my super cool horse, so here’s a quick run down

I did not make this discovery of the glitch. I followed Kleric on twitter and the credit seems to go to @Bot_W

So basically I followed the steps said above.

Left my horse by some water

Teleported far away (must be far enough away where the horse does not load on the map, to be safe I usually do four of the square sections, but you can just eyeball it)

Paraglide all the way to horse, making sure to not touch the ground

Glide above water, and use all remaining stamina to shoot an ice arrow at horse

With stamina gone, you should drown, while your horse is still frozen

Then, if you did it right, you should be teleported all the way back to the area you first took of with the paraglide, AKA very far away

Do NOT TELEPORT but run/shield surf/master cycle all the way back to your horse’s location

On arrival, you should have a nice ice friend!

This is the path I personally took, leaving my horse, named Talus, on East Akkala Beach. I submerged him a bit so he could have a nice bath. Then I teleported to the Akkala Ancient Tech Lab. I took off on the purple path and shot and drowned at the red dot. Then I went back along the green path with the master cycle.

I used a bomb impact launch (another glitch for another day) on the purple path, but it’s not necessary if you fully upgraded stamina/have stamina food

This glitch is not permanent, if your horse is ever reloaded, whether by

Boarding/swapping horse at stable

Teleporting to a new location

Horse dies/brough back to life

Link dies

Reloading a save file

Quitting the game

Or any other actions that cause the game to have to load your horse in again

Then your horse will return back to normal

Welp, go enjoy your ice friends everyone!

[linkoftheday]

today's link is kinda, uh.. uhhm... abstract

[mixlgirl]

Revenant Link; a 'What if' scenario for tragic Zelda game.

'Link awoke in the ruins of Hyrule Castle. His body felt light, hollow—his heart no longer beat within his chest. When he looked down, his hands were skeletal, wrapped in the decayed remnants of the green tunic that once symbolized hope.

Link was no longer a hero. He was a revenant, a cursed soul dragged back from the abyss with one purpose: to undo the mistake that cost Hyrule its life.

But could a dead man truly restore the living?'

[drawsmaddy]

[ID: A digital illustration of The Great Fairy Fountain at Zora Fountain from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The fountain's stone work is mostly pink with two braizers containing green fire on either side of the pool at the centre of the fountain. Water pours down the sides of the room in front of the pillars at the walls, and water covers the floor on either side of a raised central walkway to a platform engraved with the symbol of the triforce. Child Link stands on the walkway, facing away from the viewer. End description.]

Been playing Ocarina of Time for the first time!

[penguinly]

Hear me out. What if at some point during the Chain's adventures they come across their past selves WHILE in the middle of their own quests. Like (example) they walk into Wild's era and he's there fighting his first lynel. And now you can either choose the angst or crack path.

Angst: This is Wild like two weeks after waking up in the Shrine of Resurrection. He is fighting this lynel with the same amount of finesse that I did. As in he is losing. Badly. So they either send in one or multiple or maybe they YOLO it and it's the entire gang. They get past Wild back up on his feet, maybe give him a weapon that won't break after like 5 hits, and help him out. Then they go back and present Wild is like 'yeah that happened but I'm better now' or something. Yeah.

Crack: On the other hand, you could also go full speedrunner Wild mode and write him absolutely destroying this lynel. Like this poor thing has no chance against the physics-defying and mindbogglingly unpredictable Wild. This kind of situation is the reason why you can't spell the word "bewildering" without 'Wild' and he fucking owns it. Fuck it, maybe past and present Wild even team up and briefly break the universe via accidental glitch. Yup.

So yeah, this would happen for the entire Chain, ideally. I'll probably write this at some point. Maybe. Who knows. I just thought this up while studying for a math test and it's way too late at night for me to be functioning properly so yeah.

[zelbits]

There are three types of "gamer girls."

1: Kawaii, everything is pink, flowers and cherry blossoms and aesthetic

2: Cozy, greens and beige, everything is a cozy game with cute music

3: Hasn't showered in three days, health is almost zero, hasn't eaten or drank or slept, has spent 20 hours trying to get this achievement and will not stop until I do

[confusioncorvid]

Kinda like the idea of wild (botw link) becoming more unnatural and Off, as time goes on after waking up from the shrine.

Kinda like he wasn’t actually truly alive again, so much as giving a convincing illusion of natural life. But as time goes on that illusion or whatever sustaining him starts to degrade, denature, and warp.

(Kinda like an overflow glitch)

He’s not actually in any sort of danger because of this (at least for now), it just makes him more unnatural and unsettling to the observer.

as time goes on, it becomes increasingly clear whatever the shrine did was not natural. The more time passes, the more the illusion twists and falls apart.

It did not just simply heal and resuscitate him, like someone receiving cpr

(Bonus: I like to think he’s still relatively normal when he first visits zora’s domain and tames vah ruta.

But by the time he returns from taming the other beasts… not so much.)

(Several zora rapidly start to reevaluate their understanding of link’s situation)

[link-is-a-dork]

[phoenixcatch7]

So there's an actual in game reason you can't get lynel weapons anymore??

So I was looking over the monster statues, just examining the design, when I notice something I'd seen but never really twigged:

Those are nuts and bolts. Huh. That's not natural, that's been added on. In fact, you can still see part of the original scratchy lynel horn from botw underneath, even if it has mutated a bit like all the other horned monsters.

See, lynels, with lizalfos in a lesser way, are the only enemies in the game with the intelligence and cunning to forge weapons. A lizal can only manage one boomerang, shield or bow with varying spikes and occasionally repurpose some hylian armour (and often loot anyway), but lynels are capable of creating their own unique metals and using it to completely outfit themselves. Armour, bows, shields, spears, clubs, and swords, complete with sheaths and harnesses and decoration!

But in totk the particularly pointy ones are missing, leaving only shields, armour, and bows. Their weapons were subject to the Decay as well, but instead of trying to use them anyway, what did they do? They broke down their own weapons and repurposed them as enhancements to their own horns! Extra defence and a new devastating attack!

But... For what reason? They could have kept using those weapons just fine, everyone else is! It probably would have been more practical to start attaching things to the end, like the goblins have all started doing (albeit with mixed results, they seem to inordinately favour mushrooms). Why would the most feared enemy in the game feel the need to put more points into defence and intimidation, even sometimes utilising the rock armour?

What would they be feeling the need to so strongly defend from, even to the point of sacrificing huge attack power over it?

...

Link. It's Link.

The 5 nothing hero of hyrule, who built a whole community of speed running, styling on, brutally murdering lynels almost exclusively again and again and again. Moldugas, hinox, talus, they haven't changed a bit! They weren't at the center of every flashy slow mo clip since the first game came out!

But lynels in totk are running scared, they're building bigger horns to look scarier and armour to hide in, because once they need to get their short range weapons out its already over, or maybe link will just stop farming them for top tear weapons XD.

Tldr: unlike other monsters, which have branched out to kidnapping, riding flying monsters and rolling big spiky balls, lynels have gone entirely the other direction in order to try and scare the hero off after the last round of stylish massacres, and attached their old decayed gear to their horns.

Tldr tldr: botw link is the reason you can't get lynel weapons in totk because he scared them too much.

[themarshmush]

the mounted archery camp minigame is genuinely making me want to quit trying to 100% botw

[marigoldendragon]

uuuuh, sir?

[phoenix-arts7]

One of my favorite BotW clips I took.

Spaghetti Link

[linkoftheday]

today's link is trying some diy chiropracty (it's not going well)

[echoesofwisdomcountup]

114 Days since Tears of the Kingdom Released. Sometimes YouTube recommendations is extremely helpful because this is a must watch. It’s such a great BOTW tribute.

[atlasastroph]

Ah yes, a perfect dupe

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

Why when I search for tears of the kingdom glitches, the only thing i can find is item duplication?

Like, I get it, item duplication is great and all and it can be fun but I don't want to dupe items when I try out glitches. I want out of bounds glitches and something like the windbomb from breath of the wild or the bow lift smuggle slide or the bullet time bounce.

Why does the glitch hunting community focus so much on duplication glitches and not movement glitches?