We won't tell anyone you cheated
- by Kate Gray
There has to be a crossover on the Breath of the Wild Venn diagram between "people who really, really want all 900 Korok Seeds" and "people who don't mind cheating to get all 900 Korok Seeds", right? Good news for them: They can have their Korok cake and eat it, with this newly-discovered item duplication glitch!
The duplication glitch works for anything that can be stacked — star fragments, arrows, materials, food, and so on.
Here are the steps, as described by Gaming Reinvented:
- Go to any shop, including Beedle's travelling shop
- Drop the item you want to duplicate (or a whole stack if you want lots)
- Make sure you have no more of that item in your inventory
- Grab a multishot bow, and fire a shock arrow
- Drop the bow
- Repeat step 4 and 5, five or six times
- When Link starts to glitch out in the inventory (see image below), hold as many of a common item as you can
- Unpause the game
- If you've done it right, Link will be holding the items in the inventory, but not in the overworld
- Pick up the bows (so you can repeat the glitch)
- Speak to the shopkeeper and sell the common items you're "holding" in the inventory
- Pick up the item you want to duplicate
- Go to your inventory, and "stop holding" the common items
- This should replace them with copies of the duped item!
Time to be afraid, Koroks. We're about to steal all your seeds.
[source youtu.be]
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About Kate Gray
Formerly of Official Nintendo Magazine, GameSpot, and Xbox UK, you can now find Kate's writing all over the internet. Her latest projects include writing for Moonstone Island, a deckbuilding creature-collecting game, and [REDACTED], which is very [REDACTED]. Sometimes she writes things here, and sometimes they are about cows and crabs.
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- Franc001
This glitch is a must for anyone who has multiple amiibo armors and wants to upgrade them all
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- RupeeClock
Whilst this will let you get Hestu's gift, I'm not sure if this will count towards 100% completion.
That progress might be tracked by the individual Korok encounters, rather than your inventory of Korok seeds, collected and spent.
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- Bobb
I don't think the Koroks will mind you hoarding all their golden poop
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- Rosalinho
If this isn't patched in BoTW 2, Link and Zelda will be able to duplicate infinite copies of the Triforces of Courage and Wisdom and throw Ganondorf into the sun.
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- patbacknitro18
Collecting turds has never been easier
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- Astral-Grain
@Rosalinho No, please don't drag the sun into this, Ganon already has the favor of the Moon!
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- FroZtedFlake
I'm not able to watch the video atm but doesn't it require you to be able to hold said item? You can't hold korok seeds.
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- RubyCarbuncle
Yay more Golden Pooh Pooh for me 😅
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- Stnkygrngo
WHAT????
Does this guy have the video on normal speed? I tried this and I am doing something wrong with my shock arrows
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- Fizza
Hestu is crying right now.
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- KateGray
@FroZtedFlakerZz I think it requires you to have a common item to hold, and a stackable item to dupe? I can't replicate it myself as I lost my BOTW copy in a move
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- Giancarlothomaz
i don't think this gliitch work for the 100% completion of the game(the game must have a system that dictate your Korok encounter, you can't fool then).
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- FroZtedFlake
@KateGray Noooooooooooo, man you gotta try to replace that one, I'll give the glitch a go later though (I have a lot of fun with those lol) I've got plentttyyy of common items.
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- RadioHedgeFund
Given you can’t drop Korok seeds, how is this supposed to work?
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- mjharper
I wouldn't care about getting the 900 Korok seeds using this, but I would be interested in maxing out my sword/shield/bow slots.
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- twztid13
@Stnkygrngo says 5x speed on some parts.
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- Gus_Campos
@Stnkygrngo There is a playback speed settings on the video. You can slow it down.
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- Daniel36
HOW do people discover this?!?!?
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- Stnkygrngo
Thanks everyone for their comments back to me!! I spaced out since it was early for me in the US and didnt realize the capture was played back and the original video is online as well.
I tried this a few times with sticks and common items before I had the guts to use Ancient parts.....but you never lose them, you just drop them! HAHA....but I did this a bunch to load out all of my armor sets all the way!
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- talllennart
im not gonna use this cus is not fun to cheat
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- MyNameIsJudas
@RupeeClock I, for one, don't care about the 100% when it comes to korok seeds. I play games to have fun, not to do chores.
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- MyNameIsJudas
@RadioHedgeFund This is what I'm wondering. No explanation in the article or video either
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- RupeeClock
@MyNameIsJudas
It's fun for some people.
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- Frontiersmann
Thanks for the YouTube link/summary. Koroks, I don't mind. I don't care to get 900 seeds, and it's easy enough to get 450+ just by going about the game and keeping your eyes peeled.
I am in the process of upgrading my armor, and I am already so unbelievably tired of shooting Naydra.
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