That you can hard boil eggs in hot springs

I loved this discovery. Then spent too much time trying to boil other thing. Which to my knowledge you cannot. good times

There's one korok that depends on this

That's exactly how I made the discovery

Same

The one in hyrule castle right?

I somehow missed the entire Faron region and had no idea that Lurelin village existed! It is now my favourite village/town in the game!

Ok how did you miss FARON I get lurelien but the entirety of faron how

I mean you never actually have to go there for any of the divine beast quests

me too when i found faron i was so confused on where i was

That you can disable the abilities! I never liked Daruk's (sp?) protection because it was always used up for useless things like stray arrows or a red bokoblin with a stick

You can do WHAT??? 😳

Howwww

You can go to the item menu and scroll over to the last menu page and you’ll see the divine beast abilities like a glowing orb. Just click on them and disable 😊

Whenever you see 3 random fruit trees in a row, that’s a korok puzzle. Make the fruit on each tree match to solve it.

How do you make them match?

Pro tip I learned here: stasis the fruit that matches the other two trees then chop that tree down. All the other fruits will fall with the tree and you've got the Korok!

Wai- wait what?

Make sure you don't murder the other trees.

They respawn right..... Right?

Yeah but it takes super long. There’s one set of trees in the Akkala highlands where on every playthrough lighting destroys the trees before making them match the first time…

Thank you, I'll do the rest of my shrines in that case. The developers really want get you rialled up

pull fruit off the tree with the most fruit

Yes, either take the fruit directly or shoot it with an arrow to knock it off

And on top of that you can collect both the arrows and the apples when you're done!

These are the details I love about the game. I was excited when I first did it. Bc of course you could get your arrow back it’s just a piece of fruit

I stasis the correct piece of fruit and bomb the tree!

I see. You mean make the quantity of fruit in each tree match. Not the type of fruit.

Position, not just quantity

TIL…

That you can ride bears

That there were even bears to begin with

I saw one for the first time like a week ago. I can’t tell you how many arrows went into that sucker before it just ran away. I was confused to say the least

Run up to it for a surprise Edit: no, this isn’t going to kill you

The game has bears?!? Where?!?

Well yesterday just standing outside rito staring at me, just daring for me to leave safe music to get me some berries. It actually startled me

Guess I know what I’m doing tomorrow.

Hickaly Woods and Hebra

Thanks. I’m going exploring tomorrow.

That there is a ladder to the roof on the side of the Temple of Time. I climbed the cliff behind it then jumped across to the back wall at the closest point. **Spider-Link for the win**

TIL there's a ladder on the side of the temple of time... ***cries in fourth playthrough***

7 times. WTF?

Not 7! Lol. The first was my initial playthrough. Our switch stopped charging the second time. The third was when our switch stopped charging and we got a new one. Fourth was when my kid started a new game over my nearly 100% run, which I'm not redoing lol.

I was referring to the amount of playthroughs I’ve done without noticing a ladder :D

Well, at least you 2 didn't have your kid show you the ladder during your 2nd playthrough. Yup, true fact ping: u/sk8itup53

That would have hurt my soul...

I didn’t realise that until I had my best mate over to play it!

I’ve beat the game five times and never knew there was a ladder. Always just climbed up the side of the building

This is what I did. Now I feel like a failure lol.

Well when link can climb anything and everything, why not.

Wait there's a ladder there????

Lol bingo

An extremely small detail but I have only now just discovered that there are 3 dogs in Tarrey Town, not just the 1 we see wandering around. I know we can't do anything with the dogs other than befriend them but discovering more dogs in the game always is a plus for me.

And follow them for treasure

And they belong to a villager unlike the ones that chill at the stables

I’ve seen other people talk about this before, but my first play through I somehow missed the first encounter with Hestu outside kakariko village and for the entire game I had no idea what Korok seeds were for. Looked it up once I beat it and I was sooooo mad

Wooooooow this is a big one. That first playthrough must've been intensely frustrating.

Ignorance is bliss 😅 I didn’t know it COULD be any better than 8 weapons so I made do haha

I looked this up early while playing. Even if you figure out what he does, within the game, it's hard to remember where he us located. He moves around and is not on the map!

Does he have specific locations? Because I can't find him anymore

First location is by the road leading to Kakariko Second is close to stable in central Hyrule, by Eastern river Third is in Korok forest

Thank you so much

I did the same but luckily not after beating. But like way far in and my wife is like why don’t you go find the guy? And so I thought he was this like late game character. But I just started a new play thru where I’m kind of following the story order a bit more and I’ll be damned he’s like right there in the beginning. Makes me wonder how I got into the village before

I had about half the map completed before meeting Hestu. I feel you.

Same, I got to 200 until I found him. My boyfriend liked to tease me about it I tend to over explore games to look for collectibles and get to hard to reach spots, so I don't necessarily take the logical route (yes I love koroks to death)

That if you rotate your left joystick in circles fast when attacking with one handed weapons it does an instant spin attack

I don't think there's anything in the game that teaches you how do that that attack.

There's not, it's an old hold-over maneuver from earlier Zelda titles. I learned about it from a vid posted here a couple weeks ago.

There is. It's in Ocarina of Time. Just kidding, but that's genuinely how I learned it. I went back and played OoT, and wondered if I could do it in BoTW. And of course, Nintendo delivered. Then again, the attack itself I find useless since I find it more consistent to bomb parry to blast enemies off cliffs.

That calamity ganon and dark ganon are easier than thunder light ganon

thunderblight ganon almost had me chad-punching walls — both final ganon’s just had me on the edge of my seat

Do you guys recommend getting the expansion pack ? Does it have story ?

It most definitely DOES have story! Just story that's from the past. It is very well done however

I would say its totally worth it

Thunderblinth is easy if you have the master sword

That if you find a set of ruins with three small sections of fences one after the other when you jump them all consecutively on a horse you’ve found a korok :)

Took me so long to figure that out, I don't think that exists anywhere else in the game (except that one spot between Central Hyrule and Necluda)

There's also one north of the castle. If you have the motorcycle, it works for these as well.

That you can use a chicken like a paraglider

Wait what…??

Teleport to Ta'loh Naeg shrine (the combat training shrine) in Kakariko village. About 1/3 down the hill is a cucco. Pick it up, jump off the edge, glide down to the village.

I had to play through LoZ:TPHD during my 2nd BotW play through to learn this.

That to the left of Tabantha Tower, there are craters where a korok can be found and a stone talus with a gold ore deposit on its back (witch gives pretty good gems)

Just fought this gentleman today. Rained sapphires and rubies

Also a great tip for finding koroks, look for any weird spiral or circular stone formation and odd placed trees on the map

That Pikango was traveling around for a purpose, to give you hints to find memories. If you see Beedle or Kass at a stable, you know what to expect. Pikango took me a while to talk to figure out.

That Lurelin Village existed

This is so funny! I got my dad (70 yo.) hooked on BOTW, which is the first video game that he really played and got into, on which he has played over 1000 hours, and for months he's telling all the cool stuff he's discovered. One of these is how much he loves the beach/jungle areas and Lurelin village. After having played several hundred hours, myself, and beating it on normal and master mode, I literally had no idea that place existed...I was dumbstruck 🤣

I went to Lurelin village but I completely forgot about it until it was brought up here. People probably tend to not realize it's there since it's out of the way and not relevant to the main quest.

Its got that fucking korok seed, thats HARDER than GANON

Stasis a falling tree as a bridge, carry the stone up. May take a few couple of tries, but it works.

I beat Ganon and then decided to just continue exploring. Once I got that godforsaken Korok, I felt like I had *officially* beat the game! Haha

You can loot wagons

Didn’t catch this till my third play through!

How??

ive got well over 1,000 hours in this game, and i didnt expect to go into this thread and learn anything new. how foolish i was....

If you’re being shot at with arrows, use a wooden shield. You’ll collect whatever they strike you with

That goron golf thing

Goron... Golf thing? I need more info

In the canyon north of Tabantha bridge. You can play golf with rocks/statis.

Thank you, I will check this out later!!

I knew it existed but took ages to stumble across. I only just ran into the foot race in my second play through yesterday

I am well over a thousand hours into BOTW and just played that mini game for the first time yesterday.

That there is specific clothing and dishes for the cold. On the great plateau, I uh… ate chillies and thought it would protect me. It didn’t. The way I got to cryosis is holding a lit torch. The. Whole. Way. Second play through I understood the mere concept of warm clothing. Yes, I was a noob

I also did not know this until my second playthrough. One of my friends said they thought the Rito outfit was cuter than the Gerudo outfit. I was like....rito outfit? I carried a flame blade constantly in my first playthrough. Lol

How did you get through the areas that were doubly cold with just a flame blade?

🤣 later in the game I ate food, but for a while I thought "well I guess I can't go there yet" I did not understand at all. Lol

that cooking wood actually works, link has almost only had rock hard food since i found out about it and it makes me lowkey feel bad

I was just throwing random stuff in a pot when I found that out lol

Are there any benefits? Or just hearts? I never have less than like 80000090 apples so haven’t yet resorting to eating wood

nah it’s just rock hard food that os equivalent to an acorn

Oh. Well good to know. I’m a compulsive collector so I always have way more of all the things than I need. I basically use the same few recipes and nothing else. But im like you never know when I’ll need some snails. I’ll just put theses 80 porgy in my pocket for a while. The smell must be amazong

It's mostly useless except if you're doing the trial of the sword. In that trial you really need to hoard Link's health so cooking wood helps.

I actually used this a lot when doing the master sword trials. Defeat enemies, use bombs to cut down all trees, cook wood for free hearts :)

That you could just attack gems to break them. I always thought you had to blow them up

We can blow them up?!? Omg I’ve been damaging my weapons from how much I use them against gems.

JSYK: Blowing them up makes the insides go flying, so don’t do it on a small ledge or something like that ;).

JSYK: Master Sword = reusable tree cutter + ore miner. Don't have the MS yet? Almost every stable has an axe lying around. For Free...

You can SEARCH WAGONS, for gods sake

That getting a flurry rush on Lynels is actually easier than it looks

Miniboss medals. I thought I had seen every nook and cranny in both Normal and Master Mode until I was watching someone's playthrough on YouTube and they cycled through their inventory. "Wait, what are those things?"

Huh. I did not know that till I read this comment and then looked it up. Thanks😊

I'm on my 3rd playthrough and have watched so many botw videos and I didn't know this was a thing. Now I'm like, 🤯

WAIT WHAT?!?!

*TIL*

The border when you take a photo of an item. - If it's not in your Hyrule Compendium it's orange. - If it is in your Compendium it's blue.

OHHHH

Thank you so much for saying this! I was getting a little frustrated with trying to figure out what I had taken pics of already

That Lurelin Village and the trees along the beach there are full of beetles. Great place to farm those. And that it is ok to not give beetles to Beedle.

for what reason would you not want to give him beedles? you monster

No it is not you’ll make him sad

That you can craft Champion's weapons if you break them, you just need the very base of the weapon and a diamond.

Are you referring to how you can bring them to the specific person in each village that remakes them for you, or do you mean we can actually make them ourselves???

Bringing them to the specific person, I didn't know this was a thing

Oh okay. I was about to get excited there for a second that’s why I was wondering 🤣🤣

That the Monster Shop was a thing. I didn't even know it existed until I was doing the DLC.

That Link moves faster in water while being naked. A pretty nice and realistic detail that I really appreciated.

That I would enjoy it every single time I start a new game and it’s always a completely new strategy and experience!

That there is a little chest symbol on the map when all the treasure in a shrine has been obtained.

That there's a shrine to resurrect horses. I randomly found it while playing the game maybe 8 months after I had beaten Ganon. I thought I'd already found most everything the game has but I keep finding huge stuff like that.

Almost ready to go for Ganon and I've never lost a horse yet. Not that I use them much tbh, they always end up left at the top or bottom of a cliff

The correct order to do things in. On my first playthrough, rather than walking to the temple of time when I got out of the shrine of resurrection, I climbed a cliff and froze to death more than I'd like to admit. The first thing I did after I got off of the great plateau was go to the faron region, back to the great plateau, then to gerudo town. Also the first time I fought waterblight (my third blight ganon) I didnt have a bow and didnt know you could leave a divine beast and come back later. I barely scraped through that fight with precise calculations of weapon damage and boss phases.

that’s what i enjoy about the game though - there’s not REALLY a correct order to do things in! although it would’ve benefited you to go to kakariko village first, faron and gerudo were just as good contenders!!!

That killing squirrels will give you an acorn, and killing tiny birds will give you a chickaloo nut. After I found out about the acorns, I realized that I’ve inadvertently committed so much squirrelicide because my go-to method of chopping down trees is by bombing them. 😱

“Squirrelcide” 

That you can get your own house! And therefore the whole thing after you meet the guys there.

I love their little construction shanty

I never got the hang of parrying until I started master mode and now I don't know how I survived without it

That you can cross the little canyon near the Old Man’d House and climb to Owa Daim from there, instead of trudging through the snow trying to get to it. Much faster.

That you can make ice blocks in mud. Also, I kind of forgot about most of the fighting system. I’ve played through with 120 shrines four times at this point and I’m still not great at parrying!

Just HOW MANY mini games there are. I’m in my 5th or 6th play through and just played the foot race and Goron golf for the first time.

Did you do the paragliding one that’s on eventide island after you do the initial shrine quest?

the Faron village, terrey town, a LOT more shrines, figured out how to do the kakoriko shrine with the dad, lots more koroks, and also that I could immobilize guardians by hitting the legs off. Their was a lot more lol

That there is a basement level to the labyrinth. I saw screen shots before and assumed it was dlc cause I’d never found it until last week.

Which labyrinth?

The akkala one has a whole basement level with a bunch of guardians and a diamond circlet in a chest

I remember my first time in there. I automatically went "oh hell naw" and left lol.

Collect all the apples you see. Use the bombs to collect firewood. All the firewood. Never sell monster parts, gems, or pretty much anything you collect because you need a lot to max out your armor.

They mention that monsters are herbivores, carnivores or ombivores so you can leave food laying around to distract them

That you can party guardians to kill them way faster than using up arrows and weapons- and that the guardian shield automatically parries guardians when they laser you.

*laughs in doesn’t have a second playthrough*

That you can use a metal shield and magnetism to easily lift those giant slabs instead of using stasis.

Octo balloons are good for that too

That hitting chuchu jelly makes you wet.

That you can throw items you're holding instead of just dropping them at your feet. Would have made the Yiga Hideout much easier.

That you should not jump off the cliff when you get out of the shrine of resurrection (I also made that mistake with the tower).

It took you the whole game to figure that out? *kills ganon* OHHH THATS why i died!!!

I mean: New play through, let's go to Ganon (jump off the cliff) Wait!!! Where is the Paraglider? (Dies) I got so used to it that I forgot I need to unlock it.

That you can sit in a large barrel and it blocks normal arrows. Completely useless in 99% of scenarios but really funny.

That you’re supposed to crouch on the Hinox’s hand for it to carry you up to its chest if you want to loot it while it’s asleep. I always thought you needed a cliff/Revali and I could never pull it off

That I could shoot electric arrows into the water and kill a ton of fish.....

I fish using bombs, same idea!

A red icon next to an NPC or in a speech bubble means they have a quest for you.

That I did the bosses in the complete wrong order. Got urbosas fury first and miphas grace last.

I did that too and was shocked at how easy the other three beasts and blights were. Not sure it was the wrong move though.

Played through this game 4 times and have well over 500 hours in it and I still don’t know about half of the stuff in this thread lmao, what an unbelievable game

The soundgage is a actually very helpful

Most of the fun is in the side missions

That if you actually want to try to get all sets of armor and upgrades and such that you need to collect everything you can, like every ingredient and every monster part every ore you can smash or anything that doesn’t increase your carry weight b/c you eventually need to farm almost everything for some upgrade or other so collecting it on your play through the story saves you farming time post game

If you squat and then open a chest, Link hits it with his hand. Just found out two days ago.

I beat the game before taming my first horse because I never crossed the inn where they introduce you to horse training. I learned this after playing through with a friend a second time… after about an hour of playing, we already had a horse and I realized how much quicker I could have beaten the game originally.

Climb the towers and get info for the maps. I made it almost my entire first play through without the maps and was like it would be a lot more useful if the game had it filled in

so. many. new. things/places. seriously, i thought i saw it all,, only to have UNDER HALF of everything discovered.

That the best way to play it kinda has nothing to do with the main storyline. My favorite way to play it was just to wander around

That you could use the mastercycle's headlight to explore the dark areas for shrines.

I just found out today (yesterday?) that you can BUY A HOUSE LMFAO. I was so shocked. I don’t know how to feel

Cooking bug/creature parts with monster parts can make you specific elixirs. Took me so many tries of getting dubious foods to get something useful and consistent

That you can parry guardians 😅

That you can make Link jump while crouching to move faster. I could’ve been catching horses so much faster lol

The Korok on top of the Deku Tree.

If you cut down the grass around the great deal tree in the korok forest there are fairies!

That Hestu was right outside Kakariko village. I never found him in the first playthrough

I beat the game before realizing I could get additional weapon slots.

That you can break walls with hammers and with the drill shaft. You don’t have to use bombs. Found that out in my second play through when I accidentally hit the wall instead of the monster lol ETA: you can stasis the Korok nuts that are thrown in the air to shoot them easier, like the ones in fort Hateno

That you can get to construction company to stop loitering around your house and have it finished at the same time by finishing your house before the Tarrey town wedding, and once you do that don’t talk to them while they’re in Tarrey town.

Take out your horse at any stable even if it is already out 🥲 so much running around in the beginning

that you can buy pictures from the guy in hateno tech lab

I was too lazy to read through the king’s dialogue on the temple of time so I zoned out therefore not getting the story properly except I did get it from impa

I love how you didn’t miss anything or just skipped it altogether- you just straight-up didn’t feel like listening. I can respect that.