It's been almost three years since the release of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and we can't tell if people are bored with it or really into it, because now they're trying to speedrun the ability to make bread in the game, known as "Bread%".
The bread recipe involves finding Tabantha Wheat, an ingredient found by cutting grass in the Tabantha Frontier region, and Rock Salt, gained by hitting Ore Deposits. The current high score, held by Xeryph, comes in at 19:44:700, much of which is unskippable cutscenes. Xeryph also has BOTW speedruns of "All Dog Treasures", "Fall Off A Cliff" and "Rake In Lake", which... well, you can read the title, so you have all the information you need.
The speedrun involves the normal speedrunning tactics: Link escapes the beginning chamber by running into a wall, climbing up into the void, appearing atop the mountain in the Great Plateau, and running - almost naked - towards the nearest Bokoblin encampment, where he nicks a pot lid for shield surfing purposes. He finds a nearby woodsman's axe, and just like that, he's fully equipped (although still mostly naked).
With pot lid and axe in hand, Xeryph sprints, clips, shield surfs, stasis-fires and "bullet-time bounces" his way around mountains, shrines, and plains in order to get the powers he needs to pull off his plan.
Finally, he yeets himself over to the Tabantha region, cuts down some grass to get the wheat (which, as he notes in the YouTube description, is a completely random drop and takes a while) and then it's just a matter of dropping off a nearby cliff to grab the salt, and voilà: you've got yourself some bread, baby.
Do you think you could do a better Bread% speedrun in Breath of the Wild, or do you have an even weirder idea for a BOTW speedrun? Let us know in the comments below.
[source polygon.com]
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Never change, speedrunners
Makes sense. After sleeping for so long, the first thing he wants is some noms. The Princess and all of that can wait. Brekkie comes first.
Despite playing like 1,500+ hours (using different accounts), I almost never remember that this recipe exist. A few weeks ago I thought it was exclusive to Age of Calamity Lol 😂
You forgot Majora's Multigrain.
Speedrunners are crazy, love it.
Edit:
I will also add Zelda A Link to the Pastry.
Zelda The Moorish Cupcake
Zelda Four Sourdoughs
I will let myself out
Ryeforce Heroes
The Minish Bap
The Legend of Sunbeam: Butternut to the Wheat
The Leavening of Zelda
The Wind Baker
@OrangeSoda I was just about to write exactly that.
The Legend of Zeldough
Link’s Abakening
@LinktotheFuture you could do...
The Leavening of Zeldough: Bread of the Rise
Freshly Toasted Tingle's Roti Flatbreadland
Spirit Snacks?
Pan-tom Hourglass?
(Yall are seriously nailing it with these puns)
@OrangeSoda God Dampé that was a good one!
Sconeward Sword
As a wise critic once said: "old-school nutters will like the traditionalist feel, 100% nutters will like taking photos of every monster, animal, and air molecule, and as I said, the speedrun nutters will love it as soon as they figure out how to control it with a Fisher-Price piano and an egg whisk".
Wheat of Gamelon
Focaccias of Evil
Yeah, I went there...
Almost 4 years actually. (3.3.17 - 3.3.21).
@Kienda That is better!
Hot Cross Bun Training.
Pants%
How fast can you buy every pair of pants from every store.
Pumpernickel of Ages
The Thin Baker
Link's A Bakening
yea...
Rye-light Princess.
Chefs kiss Gorgeous!
Wheat of the Wild.
Why am I not surprised to see a French screenshot when it comes to bread? Those frogs and their baguettes... I'd kill for a nice campaillette right now.
Also I've rarely enjoyed a comment section this much.
Yeast’s Aleavening
Sunblest of the Wild
A Think to the Past
@Rhaoulos Apparently the French version is slightly faster to speed run due to the voice acting, so it’s the language of choice for all speed runners.
@Euler I thought German was the language of choice for speedruns, but I suppose it depends on the type of speedrun. It was mainly about the love story between French people and bread (and I mean proper bread, not the stuff called "French bread" you find abroad)
Leaven of Zelbread: Bake of the Wild (roast)
Sounds like a good race category. Give the runners a menu of 4 random foods and see who can cook them all first.
This comment section made my day 😂
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