There’s a new Tears of the Kingdom duplication glitch around, but this one’s all about getting rich with meat (thanks, Eurogamer). Where previous glitches in the Zelda game let you duplicate anything from weapons to diamonds, this new one gives you nearly two dozen pieces of frozen meat at hardly any cost to yourself.
YouTuber No Hypothesis first posted the glitch in action, and Austin John Plays explained it in more detail and showed it working – and not working – with other items as well. The glitch involves Autobuild, so make sure to visit the Great Abandoned Mine in the Depths to pick that ability up if you haven’t already.
Get at least two pieces of Gourmet Meat – most large animals have a chance of dropping it – and fuse it to a stick of some kind. It can be anything from a tree branch to a club. Do it again, and then stick the two meat clubs together using Ultrahand.
That counts as a construct, which means it gets saved in your autobuild history. Repeat the process until you have 21 meat clubs stuck together, and then head for a snowy region. Anywhere around Rito Village before you clear the Wind Temple would work, though it frequently snows around the Hebra stable as well.
Equip one of your meat clubs. If it’s cold enough, the meat will freeze and fall off. Activate Autobuild, and select your pile of 21 clubs – but don’t build it. Hold it in the air for a few seconds, and you’ll see a shower of meat come tumbling down, where it instantly freezes. Just make sure you’ve got about 50-60 Zonaite to make start the build.
Austin John Plays showed the glitch works with raw whole bird as well as Chu Chu Jelly, though it seems to only work with Red Chu Jelly for some reason.
The biggest cost in all this is the Zonaite, though if you’re farming the Depths after every Blood Moon, you should have enough to get plenty of money without stopping to find more Zonaite.
Frozen Gourmet Meat sells for about 40 Rupees, so this little trick gets you almost 1,000 Rupees each time. The only limit to how many times you can do it is how much frozen meat you can hold (999), so this is an excellent way to fill up your wallet with little inconvenience to yourself – at least until Nintendo patches it out again.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
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