How to dupe items in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (patch 1.1.2)

In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, farming items like rubies, diamonds and Lynel horns can be a pain if you want to upgrade your armor or just be a wealthy Hyrulean tycoon. Fortunately, the Zelda gamers are hard at work finding them duplication failures that will completely obliterate your need to grind out the items.

As usual with this kind of glitch, if you don’t want to duplicate items and want to grind out materials yourself, all the more power to you. These glitches won’t stop you from doing this, but they do provide an alternative for people who don’t want to sit around waiting for rare ore deposits and enemies to reappear.

First, if you have a penchant for cheating items TOTK, disable automatic updates on your Nintendo Switch. Nintendo has already patched old duplication methods and the new alternatives are getting more and more complex. You can turn this off by going to your Nintendo Switch console’s settings, scrolling down to ‘System’ and then clicking the ‘Auto-update software’ button.

The methods we use below will work patch 1.1.2 or earlier, but we can’t guarantee they will work in newer patches after that.

How to duplicate weapons in Tears of the Kingdom

There are a number of different methods to dupe your weapon, but this is method by gaming chunks is our favorite way. However, it takes quite a bit of preparation. To perform this method, you need the following:

Once you have both things, buy a display space for the device you are trying to duplicate and place it.

Use Ultrahand to attach a shock transmitter to a Zonai cart and set it up as follows:

Turn on the device, put on your rubber outfit and use the D-pad to select the weapon you’re trying to duplicate. Stand on the shock transmitter’s horn so that the prompt to place a weapon appears on the screen.

Open your inventory with + and equip one of the rubber outfit pieces. Close the menu by pressing B and press A very quickly to display the weapon.

If done correctly, Link will get shocked and throw the weapon out of his hands, but another copy of the weapon will be displayed on the wall. Pick up the copy from the floor and take the weapon from the display. You now have two of the same weapons!

It may take a few tries to get this cadence right. It took us about 10 tries before we got it, after which we were able to easily duplicate it afterwards.

If you’re duplicating a lot of weapons, make sure to eat some now and then so Link doesn’t die from electrocution.

Duplicating items in Tears of the Kingdom

To do this duplication glitch, as described from Kibbles Gamingdo you need the following:

• Access Tobio’s hollow canyon, which is part of the fifth sage storyline, and must be unlocked from Thunderhead Isles. You can access it early from above as long as you have at least 10 hearts. You can also jump into the Hills of Baumer Chasm (west of Popla Foothills Skyview Tower) and head east through the Depths to enter from below to reach the dupe spot. You can’t really reach the surface this way since it’s locked from the top, but you can still get where you need to be.
• A bow that fires multiple arrows, whether a Lynel bow, Woodsman bow, or Duplex bow.
• Lots of arrows.

Specifically, you can fight a Lynel directly south of Tobio’s Hollow Chasm on the Kamah Plateau, so defeat him and get his bow:

Graphic: Jeffrey Parkin, Julia Lee/Polygoon | Image source: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

Once you have those things you can duplicate any item that can be attached to arrows. (This excludes bugs, frogs, lizards, etc. Sorry, you’ll have to breed those little critters like a normal person.)

You want to go down Tobio’s Hollow until you get there (1020, -2268, -0156). You know you’re in the right place because fog will begin to envelop you – in the same way as in the depths. The fog will actually appear suddenly. Your goal here is to be roughly on the line between the depths and the surface.

Graphic: Jeffrey Parkin, Julia Lee/Polygoon | Image source: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo

Go around the coordinates above and stand aim your bow at this cliff ledge. Press up on the d-pad to select the item you want to dupe and attach it to your arrow. (This duplication method consumes one item, so using a three shot bow will give you two items, not three extra items.) Fire your bow to the side that has no fog, up the ledge of the cliff.

If you do it right, you’ll see the items floating in the air like this:

Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon

If you don’t see this, try a common item like apples to practice getting the right shot. Scoot more deeply if necessary. Make sure there is also fog on the floor around you from where you are shooting.

Fire more arrows, aiming at different spots. If your arrows hit the objects that are already in the air, the objects will break and disappear. Do this until you’ve floated about 20 items in the air. (If you have too many items, they will disappear.) It should look something like this:

Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon

Climb up the hill. The items fall from the sky, ripe for picking. Collect your items and return to your spot to duplicate more. If you have a… Travel medallionyou can also place it for easy teleportation and location marking.

If your duplicated items roll down you can use Autobuild to put some wooden planks in the ground with a stake to catch them, but you’ll need to prepare this beforehand as there are no platforms to work with in this area.

Image: Nintendo EPD/Nintendo via Polygon

Note that if you have a five shot bow, large items are also not duplicated because they hit each other in the air and break. For example, when we fired star fragments from our bow, the second and fourth fragments exploded and broke, leaving two duped star fragments. This is better than nothing, but it’s just worth nothing that a three-shot bow will get the job done efficiently when you’re trying to deceive larger targets.