The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players were recently hit with a patch that eliminated a number of exploits that they had grown accustomed to using to get infinite diamonds and Lynel Horns, but players soon found a new way to duplicate items.
Prior to the recent patch that updated Tears of the Kingdom to version 1.1.2, getting unlimited gems, Black Moblin Horns, and Zonai charges was as easy as jumping off a hill and gliding for 30 seconds. The new method players have found doesn’t duplicate items as quickly and is a little more tedious, but there’s no real difficulty or skill required.
The exploit revolves around tricking the game into thinking an item is still in your inventory even after you’ve thrown it. Players have been iterating on this approach for a few days now and have finally settled on a process that works every time and doesn’t require rapid precision button presses.
The steps for exploiting the glitch are as follows:
1. Save the game
2. Take the item you want to duplicate and fuse it to a weapon
3. Have Link prepare to throw the weapon
4. While he’s holding it press the minus button to open the map
5. Scroll over to the Adventure log and down to memories
6. Select a memory to watch
7. Press X and then the plus button to skip it
8. Repeat for three more memories
9. Press the plus button to go to the save screen
10. Load the save file you made at the start
When successful, the weapon and item attached to it will have been thrown and lying on the ground just a little ways off while the other is still in your inventory. You can then have the Goron Pelison in Tarrey Town remove the extra item from the fused weapon for 20 rupees, a small price to pay for a free 500 rupee diamond.
This glitch works because each memory viewed in the menu actually progresses the game by a single frame even though it’s paused. The item then gets transported into the earlier file when you reload the save, hence, magic.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a sprawling open-world game where you can fight three-headed dragons or construct an industrial-grade fishery. Such is the strange and unruly beauty of the game. Although the trick for duplicating items is more time-consuming than previous exploits, players see it as a small price to pay for a way around the game’s built-in limitations.
Players are always finding new ways to exploit and discover tricks within games, giving them a new perspective and an opportunity to play around with the game mechanics. It is important to recognize that these so-called “exploits” can add a fresh layer of enjoyment to a game and give players additional challenges and a different gameplay experience.
