23 MORE Things You STILL Didn't Know In Zelda Breath Of The Wild

Its been a whole year since we first started, thank you all for sticking around! This time we'll be escaping the earthly borders of Hyrule, super swimming through water, and finding out the only way to break metal treasure chests.

In the video above, we cover 23 facts, tips and tricks that aren’t quite as well known, ranging from secrets to glitches, some that are pretty simple and others that are fairly complex. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out for four years at this point, and players have found some amazing things, intended or not, that keep the game and its sense of discovery feeling fresh.

0:00 Intro
0:16 Break Metal Chests
0:38 Go to Space
1:10 We Got The Impossible Shock Arrow
1:23 Mysterious Mushrooms In Lost Woods
1:56 Sneak Into Gerudo Town
2:22 Large Barrels Can Float
2:31 Walk Backwards On Large Barrels
2:36 Escape Hyrule
2:50 Gerudo Greeting Secret
3:08 Gerudo Secret Club Interaction
3:18 All Lynels Have a Plunge Attack
3:33 Hyrule's Western Plateau
3:53 Knockout Sidon
4:13 Selmie's Shield Preferences
4:39 Nintendo Used Old Characters During Testing
5:01 Moblins Can Cut Trees With Spears
5:21 Cute Horse Things We Never Got
5:47 Zora Domain Cutscene Changes
6:05 Stand On Korok Balloons
6:11 What A Korok Flower Looks Like Underneath
6:18 BOTW Super Swim
6:50 Moza Can Fight... Sort Of
7:05 Nintendo's Default Template For Items
7:45 Outro

[RinHaraaki]

Thank you all for an amazing year and supporting this series! We plan to keep going as long as we can until the sequel arrives! 😄

[sobaye]

The horse behavior would have been absolutely crazy! I feel like it is exactly what BotW needed to make traveling through Hyrule on horseback wayyy more appealing than simply fast traveling. I remember being so hyped when i tamed, named, saddled, and bridled my first horse. And i was so excited to have a companion, but gradually the lack of interaction lessened my interest. I really hope this is added in BotW 2 to make our connection with out steed a much more emotional one!

[halkon]

Did you know, you can get Dragon parts with weapons other than arrows? Just throw a Weapon at the dragon. It will break and you will get a dragon part as with an arrow

[Porkmuffin]

This is the only game I still think about all the time after I finish it

[sirmyself]

For Sidon, Nintendo didn't specifically code an animation for him being knocked down. Rather: Sidon from the Zora palace is technically an NPC just the same as the walking merchants and the NPC's that fight bokoblins when they spawn. The KO animation you see for Sidon is the same as the animation you see when you don't help the Hylians who are fighting bokoblins.

This means any NPC can be knocked out.

[Mety]

Hi Im looking for the credits to the glitch finders..

[Aderon]

What's fun is greeting Sidon at the base of Zora's Domain, then entering via scaling the waterfall to the north. He just has this confusion as he anticipates your arrival, and you just show up behind him. There's just this beautiful moment of confusion on his face.

[RossLemon]

Honestly with Breath of the Wild having such a huge map and you guys being able to discover so many different things years later it's no wonder the sequel is taking as long as it is.

[iGiveYouLzzz]

I don’t play BoTW anymore but you guys still finding more things? now *THAT* is impressive 👏

[Chubby_Bub]

Here are the sequence skips or other unique dialogues I know they accounted for, like the Zora's Domain or Divine Beast ones in this video. Does anyone know any others? There are almost certainly more. (Feel free to include these in future videos btw. Maybe a video exclusively on these could be a good idea.)

- There's slightly different dialogue if you don't talk to the Old Man at various stages of the Great Plateau quest.

- If you skip the runes in one of the first four shrines, which it is possible to do with or without glitches in certain ones, the monk at the end says to go back and get the rune.

- Well known, but Impa says something when you free the Divine Beasts before meeting her and the quest is immediately given and completed.

- Purah and Robbie have unique dialogue if you light the ancient furnace without being asked, and also every NPC in Hateno Village has unique dialogue for when you're carrying the blue flame.

- Purah asks you to get permission from Impa if you try to get the camera rune without having spoken to Impa before.

- King Dorephan will say to come back to him if your inventory has no room for the Zora armor. (Interestingly this wasn’t done for the Thunderhelm or Champion's Tunic, making them possibly unobtainable.)

- Sidon and Muzu say something slightly different if you already have 20 shock arrows.

- Riju and Buliara, and possibly all of the village leaders have different dialogue depending on if you have the Master Sword when meeting them.

- Furosa, the lady from the icehouse quest, has different dialogue depending on if you’re wearing the Gerudo outfit to be disguised as a vai or not. I think it’s the same for most travelling Gerudo in the overworld. This also goes for Bozai, the sand boots/snow boots guy who will only talk to you if you’re dressed as a girl. He even mentions giving the boots to a girl if you completed the first quest. Also when you save Barta from the Yiga Clan. (Understandably this doesn’t apply to all NPCs, for example Paya will still scream “A MAN!?” when you first meet her in the Gerudo outfit.)

- The Korok elder Chio will say something if you already complete the Korok Trials before speaking to him.

- If you fight the Illusory Blights again there are several secret dialogues from each of the Champions. They provide more dialogue with the characters 100 years later…

- Malanya the horse god has different things to say depending on how your horse died, including if it died in an explosion, died to a Guardian, or you killed it. (He assumes you did so by accident.)

- Malanya also is surprised if you awaken him and don’t own any horses.

- Another well known one, but horse-related NPCs (stable workers and minigames) won’t let you do something if you’re not on a horse, with specific dialogue for the Lord of the Mountain or a Stalhorse. Plus a bonus dialogue when you register Epona.

- The Horned Statue won’t help you if you have no health/stamina upgrades.

- Not really a sequence break, but a somewhat hidden dialogue is each Champion descendant has unique dialogue if you speak to them after entering the Divine Beast but before clearing it. Teba even says a "no-no word" (for a Nintendo game).

[RinChan]

6:05 I did know you can stand on top of korok balloons. There was one in Sarjon Woods in a tree that I found by accidentally landing on it. Probably never would have seen it otherwise.

[hyrulefunk]

For me, the crazy thing about these is not that they’re possible, it’s that doing most of them doesn’t break the game. Nintendo freaking planned for these eventualities, coded them into the game, knowing that most of them might not be found, at least for several years. That’s some serious dedication right there, and it makes me even more excited for Breath of the Wild 2.

[emo-nordegraf]

I love games like botw. Theyre so broken, to the point where stuff like this is possible BUT youll never truely run into any of these glitches unless your specifically looking for them. I hope botw 2 is the same

[edh]

Me: Going to space? I always wanna go to space in Zelda.

Max: "You will need to perform Memory Storage..."

Me: Actually, I'm good with staying in Hyrule.

[StopLegoLord]

I knew about the space glitch because of ThornyFox's video, but that's it! Amazing discoveries as always rin!

[tristanneal]

The out of bounds plateau actually looks just like the one with the silent princesses from the ending cutscene

[ian.]

Botw is such a amazing game, I'm clocking almost 1200 hours and still learn new stuff almost daily

[krishnamckay]

Some of secrets of my own I recently discovered are:
- you can't have more than 999 arrows (as learned while stockpiling them from lynels)
- the blizzard rod can be used to negate lynels' fire blasts
- there's also a cutscene that plays if you've met Sidon, but you fly down to Zora's Domain and approach him from behind
- that pesky target in moving targets shrine can just be activated by bomb arrows 💣 🏹 (I think that was in a previous video)
- if you have upgraded flamebreaker armor, you can simply walk through that one shrine for the Daruk's song challenge
- ...but you can still be hurt by lynels' fire blasts, as it's not just the flame hurting you, but the momentum
- you can usually freeze enemies & perform sneakstrikes to perform extra damage (3x for the former, 8x for the latter) but neither can be performed on lynels

[cooperbayers]

Based on the different Sidon cutscenes, there are actually three. one where you talk to Sidon and take the track, one where you never talk to Sidon, and another where you meet him, and take an unintentional path to the domain.

Edit: I recently found out that there is four and I discovered it myself but I am not sure exactly how I did it

[TheDobbyDigital]

For number 16, does it work to chop down the tree with the spinning spear attack while on horseback? That should be slashing damage as well, I would imagine?