Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom New Item Duplication Glitch Discovered

This is actually the ultimate glitch.

Cheat codes in 2023.

I found about this one yesterday - just turned off automatic updates in my Switch, Nintendo isn’t taking this away from me!

It's an awesome glitch and I will admit to wanting to use it. The grind can just be too much sometimes in these games. I already use amiibos to get stuff, and sell off the good meat and such. It won't harm my enjoyment of the game to never really need money.

@Zach777

No there is a best glitch !!

1. Jump off a small ledge and paraglide
2. choose the item you want duplicate (1 to 5) (the item you want to duplicate doesn't need to be in the last place of you inventory)
3. Push Y+B in the same time
4. Push the button menu (+)
5. Repeat
(don't forget, you can only have 21 items on the floor)

Hope they don’t patch em out. 🤞.

@billiybob76

That’s literally the article.

Try not to discover an item duplication glitch challenge: impossible.

@Zach777 That's different from the article glitch. Similar but actually a bit better.

@Matroska the y+ b seems to require precise timing, however the bid advantage is that you don’t need to move the item to last place in the inventory, allowing you to obtain higher quantities. Will try tomorrow.

Can’t believe how easy this is lol

The Y+B glitch is better and it's not hard to pull off.

I refuse to believe that in all of play testing, nobody tried to hold items while in the air. That means, apparently, that attempting to hold items in the air was kept in the games. How does that make sense? Haha. I would patch the ability to "hold" items in the air to get rid of this particular duplication glitch because that's easiest, and it didn't make sense in the first place anyway. The bow and arrow glitch and weapon/shield/bow glitch would obviously take more work to do.

What rule of acquisition would this fall under? The Grand Nagus will be tickled with... profit!

Nintendo should just leave these “glitches” in the game.

Frankly, I wish Nintendo had implemented a difficulty setting for TOTK. It is harder than BOTW for many I’ve talked to (casual to expert players alike). Not everyone has the time, skill and/or patience to grind. If a player want to enjoy the story or crafting zonai mechas more, please provide options for that.

As an aside, the regional phenomenons ARE dungeons no matter what people whine about. 😂 Some of the shrines even have keys players need to find. If people want to be locked away till they can get out, may I suggest escape rooms in real life? 😄

Just be careful doing this with explosives if you're too high up. 5 bomb flowers dropping from height will kill you with fire.

@Zach777

No ! Look the point 3 : Enter menu and hold an item that has a quantity of 1 followed by the item that you want to dupe in the last slot of your inventory.

@Gumdrop Yeah, I found that out the hard way. You can dupe bombs with this, but only 4 at a time.

@graviton TotK is indeed a lot harder than BotW:

1. Enemies have more HP.
2. Enemies do more damage overall.
3. There are more difficult (mini-) bosses.
4. There are almost no good weapons.
5. Weapons break way too easily (repairing them is easier though), especially decayed ones.
6. Decayed weapons have low attack, so fusing them is actually required. (here is where these glitches help a lot)
7. No more cryonis or bomp runes.
8. Armor (upgrades) are more expensive. (the glitch helps here as well)

This is great. I was doing one utilising a shield jump the other day as it was easier than the arrow one that i found very hit and miss. This is the best one yet.

@sanderev disagree

Why the worry of Nintendo patching duplication? I get for competitive multiplayer games like Pokemon, but this is a single player game with no interaction with others. Why would they patch something not harmful?

Not a fan, it breaks the game as it ruins the sense of exploring and getting rewarded for it. People may do whatever, but I hope it gets patched soon.

It is no different than people using a cheat code to make a game easier. I don't think Nintendo will rush to fix it, but they will eventually.

@Deviant-Dork You disagree with what?

I was so happy when I discovered two of the horses I'd tamed and boarded in BoTW were available in ToTK.

I just mosied on up to a stable and the stableman said "Oh, I see you've already got horses..."

@Joriss Not a fan, then don't replicate it. Let others enjoy the game as is. Needs no patch.

@billiybob76

Yessir, I did see that on second glance. I tried that out a couple times and still find the article way to be easier.

You can’t hit Y and B simultaneously without the menu closing so pressing + the fourth step is not necessary.

There is a much better glitch (maybe others have mentioned it...)

1. Shield Surf (ZL + B + A)
2. While briefly in the air, press + (to enter inventory)
3. Select upto 5 of what you want (ie. diamond)
4. Press Y & B at the same time to close the menu
5. Pick up the duplicated items that fall out

I just spent an hour getting 100 big zonai charge, big zonites, diamonds, big truffles, endura shrooms, etc. It’s amazing you get 5 at a time, etc. Now all my weapons are dragon scale fusions. 😎

@progx
Have a non-anonymous thumbs up, fellow Trekkie!

"Yeah, I'm starting to wonder about Link. He stopped by Lookout Landing and just kept climbing the stairs and jumping off the walkway while dropping diamonds everywhere."

I made about 60 diamonds yesterday in a few minutes. Someone on Kotaku's duplication glitch article said "I want to experience this game more than I want to grind rupees" and that was all the justification I needed to totally break the economy

I watched my kid do this last nigh for about 5 minutes w/ diamonds and large zonai charges but I think they were doing 1 of the other methods not in the article b/c I'm pretty sure they were doing 5 at a time and not from the last slot.

I'm only about 5 hours in, going to get the camera, so I don't see the need for this yet, as I scan my 8 Zelda amiibo every day.😁

@Bret Alternatively, part of the experience of the game is to go out and explore the world to discover good mining routes organically. Looking for caves, discovering places or enemies that drop valuable resources, etc. The point of the game is to go at a slower pace, and to experience each aspect holistically.

Some people just want to race through the game without worrying about resources, rupees, etc., and ultimately whatever floats your boat is whatever, but, Tears of the Kingdom is not designed to be streamlined for action, or for loot grinding, or boss rushing, or etc. It's designed to experience each aspect in turn: "Oh I'm low on rupees, I better find some caves. Oh there's a side quest here, and also a new Shrine, oh and here's a chasm I didn't know about."

Well, TotK has the same asinine level scaling as BotW, and I'm already at the point where I'm encountering enemies that even my strongest weapons take 40+ hits to kill. Will definitely be duping a lot of the better fusion parts so I can avoid as much of that tedium as possible.

@Gumdrop I nearly died doing this. I'll try doing it as i'm closer to the ground.

Do you have to repeat and how high goes the ledge have to be?
For some reason this is not working on my side

@<brtsckft>Juanblue85</brtsckft>You've got to be really careful with those bomb flowers. I've blown myself to hell a couple of times when I was just slightly too high.

@<brtsckft>sanderev</brtsckft> I've managed 5 at a time but you have to be virtually on the ground. When I'm duping bomb flowers I save every time.

@Ulysses That's all fair, but as an old I'm fine with taking a couple shortcuts to save enough time to actually complete the game.

This article sent me down a rabbit hole of looking up the many item duping methods people have been exploring.

There's an even easier, faster method of duping materials involving a piece of equipment that you'll get from an area up in the sky during the main story (or going up there when you have a minimum of 10 hearts to retrieve it, as it's heart-gated).

All you have to do is stand in place while on said equipment, and hold/drop the desired items using the Y+B menu method, grabbing them with A. Even works hassle-free on bugs, explosives, etc.

Also, the Y+B menu method can dupe Zonai capsules, if you attempt to hold/drop them standing in a corner of a room where they can't be dropped. No equipment needed.

For things other than materials, there's a more complicated method of duping shields/weapons involving reloading save files, opening and closing menus, and also dropping things. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth, unless someone REALLY wants to have a specific piece of gear always in their inventory, and be able to use it without wasting it.

With the selling price of most food and items being significantly nerfed compared to BOTW, and the drain on disposable resources being higher than ever due to more frequent enemy encounters, among other things, I started duping materials without a second thought. Much better than scraping up resources with awkward daily RNG scans of a complete set of unofficial Zelda amiibo cards, or having to constantly fast-travel to places I've already been to restock.

Next stop, duping zonaite to make the big battery so I can build fun contraptions that can operate for more than several seconds, and also be able to afford to create them on demand (would prefer if at least one contraption wouldn't disappear in the first place, similar to a horse, but I'll take what I can get).

@Casco It doesn't, pressing down two buttons at the same time is easy and the window is massive. I made over 100 diamonds in less than two minutes, picking up the five I dropped each time, not once failed it and I am NO speedrunner on any level.

@Shiiva yeah I take back what I said, extremely easy

@Kestrel

It's worse than Breath of the Wild I think, the difficulty curve and progression are way off.

There's still fun to be had for sure, but I really don't know what these 10/10 reviewers are smoking, it's poor game design in parts (it's not a 6/10 either to be clear).

I really hope the next entry scales it back a bit.

@Joriss
I feel the game is already broken honestly.

I'll admit, I used this trick a few times myself to stock up on diamonds, so I can sell them for Rupees. But as stated in the article, the asset limit is 21, so if you have more than that in your inventory and drop it all on the ground to trigger the glitch again, you'll only pick up 21. The most I've been able to have in my inventory at any one time was 38, but it's usually 37.

But if you do this glitch by jumping off the side of a stable, you can then go and sell the diamonds to Beedle. So if you have 37 diamonds in your inventory, you can sell 36 of them to net you a nice 18,000 Rupees. Just keep doing that until you have enough money to not only buy all of Robbie's pictures for the Hyrule Compendium, but also enough to buy and upgrade every piece of armor that you can.

Word of advice, though: don't try to duplicate insects like Sunset Fireflies; some of them will fly off before you can catch them. I learned that trying to get enough of them for Pyper's side quest so I could unlock one of the Great Fairy fountains.

@Gumdrop Just drop the bomb flowers over water and they won’t explode when duplicating. Was able to stock up on bombs this way.

@<brtsckft>Sawdust</brtsckft> Brilliant. Thanks for the tip.

@Bret That's fair as well, and I understand the sentiment. Personally, this is the one game to rule them all, so I will be playing this game all year, and for years to come. I'm not in a rush to finish the game and move on to the next one, so I don't mind the slower pace.

@Ulysses Myself and my roommate have been duping diamonds with reckless abandon, but both of us have basically stopped it there. We each duped a couple other items but were left feeling much worse about those dupes than the gems for some reason. Like, dragon parts are special for a reason, and neither of us have felt the urge to duplicate one. I can't explain exactly why, but duplicating even something as simple as bomb flowers makes me feel like I'm cheating a lot more than totally breaking the rupee economy does.

@sanderev agree

@AlexanderDaniels agree, you can only cheat yourself not others

i normally dont do glitches when playing games but TOTK has the wackiest economy ever i have no remorse duping diamonds. i'll prob stop there tho

@Deviant-Dork I can see why you might feel that breaking the in-game “worth” of items by duplicating is to not play the game. But truly this game has many ways to be played. I’m having more fun now not be scrooge-like over each large energy charge or monster drop. I’m thrilled I don’t have to waste time farming dragon parts more than once. For my part, I’m enjoying the game more for having more ready access to experiment and even waste resources, like the ancient blade, which if I were playing vanilla would just sit unused in my inventory until the end of the game, cuz otherwise I’m too much and an item hoarder. So I enjoy the dupes, but I respect if someone else wants the added challenge with out it.