Blood Moon Zelda Tears of the Kingdom: How does it work, what is it for?
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Zelda TotK reuses the concept of blood moons, which are used to bring Link’s enemies back from the dead. Concretely, this is a mechanic that should help you farm rare resources like rough diamonds or certain weapons.
A mechanic present in Zelda Breath of the Wild, the blood moon is back to play a trick on you in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom! Its strange power brings dead monsters back to life, as an intradiegetic way to explain the regular respawning of enemies on the map.
How do blood moons work?
The Blood Moon is a semi-random event that occurs regularly throughout your game. Each time it triggers, all the enemies you have killed come back to life, including bosses. It is also through blood moons that certain fixed-location objects return, such as the scimitar and the Gerudo shield, which allow you to put the min on the Scimitar of the Seven Jewels, one of the most powerful weapons in the game. Blood moons should be seen as real opportunities to farm certain elements of the bestiary, such as the rare lithorok and its regular drop of precious raw diamonds.
How to force blood moons?
There is a way to trigger blood moons whenever you want.by overloading the game with elements to calculate. Indeed, certain phases are triggered, generally involuntarily, by the player: when the game struggles to load everything that happens on the screen, it quickly launches a blood moon to reset the counters to zero, so that the engine can breathe again. As indicated ClemStim In this youtube videoyou should have no trouble trigger the blood moons, thanks to x2 or x3 bows with water arrows quickly chained against the wall of a cave for example.
