What are some of your routines when a blood moon hits?
I was working on upgrading my barbarian set, so I fought some lynels and got a few fairies from some stable wells. I’m assuming some people have a bigger checklist for blood moons and I’m looking to grow mine.
You can mark the rare ore deposits on your map and go back to them after a blood moon if you need the money, or the gems for other reasons.
I have also marked the locations of Rock Octoroks on my map, and I go back to them to refresh my weapons. I’m at the point where I have a bunch of Silver Lynel weapons with different abilities, and I make sure I don’t break them. I go back to the Rock Octoroks once in a while to refresh them.
You can even refresh Demon King Bows and champion weapons this way, except it requires extra steps. Normally the octoroks won’t refresh special weapons, but this trick makes it work: have the young Goron in Tarrey Town take off their fused item, so you have a plain champion weapon, then fuse that weapon (or a DK bow) to some other weapon and let a Rock Octorok eat it. Not only will it refresh the base weapon, it will refresh the fused champion weapon as well. Then you go back to the Goron kid a second time to pop off the special weapon and you reattach whatever fused item you want on it. Saves you from having to spend Diamonds and such to remake broken champion weapons. The Scimitar of the Seven is 138 damage with a fused Silver Lynel horn!
I’ve thought about the fusing trick some and I got a question. When the champion weapon is fused and about to break and you take it to Tarrey Town to break it down, does that fused monster part (silver lynels horn) need to get repaired somehow? Or is it auto repaired when it gets removed from the weapon?
The monster parts never break unless the weapon breaks. For a long time, even before I knew about Scimitar of the Seven, or even Rock Octoroks, I was having the Goron kid break gems off of magical rods before they break, and same with Silver Lynel horns. The parts stack in your inventory, so they are indistinguishable from each other to the game. You can use the same 3-5 Lynel horns the entire game. That’s what I’ve been doing.
If you’re really hard up for money, you can go around killing Wizrobes just for popping off the gems from their weapons.
Awesome news. I was hoping that was the case with monster parts but wasn’t sure.
Good tip with the Wizrobe gem farming.
Thanks! These are great additions I need in my life right now. More ore is always good. Houses and armor upgrades are expensive.
Those Rock Octorok tips are great. I was just thinking about needing to save the durability on my Scimitar of the Seven and I didn’t know that they won’t get repaired with the Rock Ocktorok. Now I know the Tarrey Town trick. Awesome.
I try to cook a couple things. Anything you cook from 11:30-Midnight on a bloodmoon has a guaranteed critical success!
I always forget that. Good idea to get some crit food ready before I start going for lynels.
Find the nearest campfire or bed and wait until morning
Makes sense. Probably safer than my ass exploring a cave and when I get toward the end of it having a blood moon respawn everything. I’ve made mistake and I seem to still not learn.
I’m still getting scared of gloom hands despite being 100+ hours in lol
Hah. I still book it when I see them. If they get too close and start grabbing me then I run out of stamina before I get out of grabbing range.
I feel like a cheater when I pull out my map and warp to some nearby shrine lol
I always forget that I can do that.
I ran into them today and literally ran into some cabin in the woods and the hands couldn’t fit inside the door. I just tried to cheese it by shooting arrows but they despawned.
I just imagine Shigeru Miyamoto laughing each time someone shits their pants from the gloom hands
Those gloom hands can fuck RIGHT off. They’re not quite as scary / devastating as early game now I’m also 100+ hrs in, but they’re a nightmare to fight. Though tbf I do suck at the combat.
I’ll never forget my first encounter, desperately trying to escape, dying horribly because in my panic I didn’t think to just warp away.
Puffshrooms are your friend when dealing with the hands!
OMG! Thanks for this. I will definitely use it. Puffshrooms are so under utilized in my game play, but I need to change that up.
Thank you very much for this tip! My tactics after fighting them 3 times now are generally to try not to get surrounded (easier said than done), wiggle the directional stick like crazy whenever captured (often lets you escape and land a hit without taking damage), and use something fast / distanced like a powerful spear. Looks like as usual I’ve been doing it the hard way :)
No problem!
It took me longer to work out than it should, after trying almost everything else on them, lol ;)
I just chuck a couple around me as the handy boys are approaching, then go to town unmolested!
I will no longer fear the handy boys (great name, giving them a name suitable for a gigolo duo further reduces their scariness)
This game has maybe me feel like a kid again playing when I get so nervous I panic and don’t remember about warping away. I got caught in a cave and couldn’t climb out. I forgot about warping and ascending.
I must say, at first I was repeatedly kicking myself for forgetting to use the ascend ability, but it’s become second nature now.
Apparently, it was initially just a tool used by the devs for debugging, until one of the head devs walking through the office saw it and said “Hey, let’s keep that in the game and make it a feature!”
That is interesting about ascend being a debugging tool. I have definitely grew to use it more. I’ve made an auto build platform so I can ascen a couple floors in case I need to get height quick for bullet timing moblins outside a camp. I love ascend!
Cry because I am now trapped by the black boko I somehow beat
Don’t forget you can always teleport.
There is a certain bow inside the castle that I grab as soon as the cutscene is over. I even placed one of the Travel Medallions right next to it.
The bow in question:
Dusk Bow atop the highest tower
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Interesting. I’ll be on the look out for it when I explore the castle some more.
You mean the royal guard thingy?
When Blood Moon approaches, I get to the campfire with cooking pot and cook up some boosting meals, they get bonus about 15 minutes before and after blood moon (11:45 to 12:15.)
After a blood moon, I immediately head to the Floating Coliseum to get 2 Silver Lynel Sabers and replenish on some useful weapons like spike ball fused swords (anti-armor weapon, perfect for fury rush) and lynel 3x bows and 3x Lynel Guts. After the floating coliseum, I head to the west above the Gerudo Desert in the snowy mountain to find another Silver Lynel and kill it there and then the last silver lynel at the bottom of Hyrule castle. That sum up my to-do list every time Blood Moon rolls around until I have 10+ Lynel Sabers and weapons. I also sometime replenish the base-weapons by heading into the Hyrule Castle Sanctum where bow, royal great sword, regular royal sword, and spear could be found there. (Zelda room have another royal bow and royal great sword.)
Once you have established some pretty good arsenals, you should mark the map of every single Rock Octos spawn in Death Mountain and use it for replenishing the durability of your fused weapons.
All great tips. I was hunting the easier red Lynels, but I am going to need to upgrade to the silver ones more. I ran into an armored one in the depths and noped the fuck out after I realized my flurry rush was going to break my sword instead of his armor.
It’s better if I am prepared to run into them instead of discovering them when you climb a mountain.
