
Since its release three weeks ago, Nintendo has been pretty ruthless with patching The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. And with each patch, multiple different item duplication glitches have been fixed. However, that hasn't deterred fans, as people keep finding new ways to easily duplicate items in unintended ways.
The newest one, which many players call the "easiest" yet, sees you taking Link down to a chasm and using a multi-shot bow. Demonstrated in a video from Gaming Reinvented (thanks to reader C3MO for sharing this!) at the bottom of this article, all you need to do is get to Tobio's Hollow Chasm and fire off some arrows with some Fused materials.

We've tested the glitch out here at Nintendo Life with two different bows and multiple different items — including Lynel horns, precious stones, bomb flowers, and bananas — and we can confirm this works.
A small warning — the video at the bottom of the article contains a few spoilers in it, such as characters and locations. Plus, Tobio's Hollow Chasm can't be accessed until you're in the late stages of the story. You need to have progressed the 'Guidance from Ages Past' Main Quest. As such, we don't recommend looking at the video unless you're right before the 'final dungeon' of the game unless you don't mind small spoilers.
We'll go into detail on the glitch below these stories, so here's your chance to paraglide out of here...
As Gaming Reinvented's video demonstrates ,go to Tobio's Hollow Chasm and you'll be able to return to the path and walk down a cave (where the elevator once was) leading to the drop. Follow the path down until you reach rough coordinates 1021, -2261, -0156 and then turn around so you're facing the stalactites.
Make sure you have a multi-shot bow equipped — the Duplex Bow, any of the Lynel bows, or the Royal Guard's Bow — and Fuse whatever material you want to duplicate. Then aim and fire upwards towards the bottom of the stalactite. The arrows will disappear, but the items — which were Fused to each arrow (but doesn't use multiple items) — will be suspended in mid-air.
Run towards the items and they'll drop — you'll need to be quick to catch them before they roll down the cave. There are ways to stop that from happening, however, as demonstrated by Kibbles Gaming. We've linked the time-stamped video, but in short, you can build a nice little "bowl" to catch all of the duplicate materials.
Give Gaming Reinvented's video a watch below, and let us know if you've been using these duplication glitches in the comments below.
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Comments 56
It's as easy as defeating a Lynel!
That's easy, right?
Actually, try using a puffshroom against a Lynel.
Brilliant - will do this to dupe amber for the armor upgrades
Seems like the playtesters are quiet quitting.
Removed - trolling/baiting
@Nikki_boagreis
Most of the time, the item duping is just to bypass the grind for great fairy armor enchantments.
It feels much worse than it did in BotW.
Some of the item duping methods can be used to hold hundreds of fairies though, making a game over virtually impossible.
@Nikki_boagreis
First of all, Nikki_boagreis is a great name.
Secondofly, relax.
is there some way i can filter out these TOTK item dupe articles? relentless.
My wife just showed me this one. I did find some diamonds the legitimate way, so I may try it on those.
@-wc-
well not clicking on them would be a good start.
The sad part is, if you actually just play the game, you don't even need duplication glitches. People just want to fast track themselves through the game instead of just playing it.
@-wc- You could use CSS. Use an extension that lets you add custom CSS (e.g. StopTheMadness) and then use something like
Edit: newlines don't seem to work in code blocks
@Uncle_Franklin
yeah, i clicked just to complain, you got me.
we all have our preferences on what we'd like to see here. i think the number of zelda item dupe articles this site posts is ridiculous, and thats my opinion. youd think it was a game, itself, or even a legitimate part of a game.
i used the comments section, here, to voice my opinion, as you do.
id rather not be reminded that i could cheat at the game im currently playing every single day. it may not make sense to you, but it does to me.
also, its BORING content. its an ODD fixation. just my opinion ✌️
@tgt
that seems like a helpful, constructive reply! (beedle voice:) THANK YOU!
its a bit over my head but i do really appreciate it! ✊ i might try to do this but it probably won't happen lol. 😊
Damn ...That's a very late game location. Guess I'll just disable updates until I reach it, then ...unless I get all the upgrades in the meantime. Nice to have an easy way to finish it off when you're done with everything else and just need that final stupid pile of Blue Lizalfos Horns or Warm Safflinas to upgrade your prickly frog underpants deluxe or whatever and don't want to spend hours grinding them up.
An incredible shame for Nintendo to release such an unpolished game with a ton of bugs.
@-wc-
Fair enough.
"id rather not be reminded that i could cheat at the game im currently playing every single day."
I do find that quite fascinating.
@eaglebob345
"The sad part is, if you actually just play the game, you don't even need duplication glitches. People just want to fast track themselves through the game instead of just playing it."
i find it irritating that people waited 6 years to play a game and then break it right away 😆 but I know it's not functional or rational to feel that way.
its like, waiting years for the worlds best author to write their masterwork, and then immediately sticking a porno mag in there and acting like you are reading 😆
(then, the blog about books and authors that you like starts reporting on porno mags every day 😂)
@Uncle_Franklin
lol i may have revealed something about my psyche there.
Removed - flaming/arguing
but, do you lose the arrow? haha
@Uncle_Franklin They spent a whole year just fine tuning this game. Some duplication glitches don’t mean the play testers aren’t doing their jobs.
Yea there's A LOT of prerequisites for this method. The paraglider method is still the easiest really.
@eaglebob345 nonense. I've been duplicating and yet I'm still out there exploring and enjoying the game. I just don't enjoy the grind. I'm 90+ hours in and I've barely even touched the main story. Maybe you should enhjoy the game your way and worry less about how other people enjoy theirs.
@Nikki_boagreis maybe you should worry less about other people and what happens on the not at all realistic world of social media,
The best way to duplicate item is to play the game and gather stuff instead of trying to cheat the game for free stuff , but everyone has their opinion and ways. I don't like cheating , I don't understand the fun people have doing it . When I beat a game I' m proud of it because I made the efforts and put the necessary time and used my wits and strategies to overcome the difficulties to do it. There's no pride or accomplishement when you cheat.
Glad, I stopped at 1.1.1 update only.
I normally wouldn't do this, but If I want more of those star fragments as quick as possible, I'll give it a chance. Just turn off auto update and I'll be good I think
At this rate all the exploit glitches gonna get nuked before Tears inevitably reveals the dlc lol.
As a side note, did anyone else accidentally get to this location way earlier than they were supposed to? I haven't even done the regional quests before I accidentally started Guidance From the Ages
@-wc- Some people just like to ruin things. Like those people who stole the game and dumped it online. Then the people online try to defend those practices and blame Nintendo for the actions of the hackers and thieves. And they come after Nintendo for "being too harsh" on hackers and thieves.
@-wc-
Although I'm fine with these articles, something you said has stuck with me.
I'm s programmer, and it blows my mind how quickly people try to break programs that do them a service. They feel smart, for example, if they find a way to break that calculator/data gatherer/ search engine/etcetera, but if it was a shovel and they broke that on purpose, they'd just look like idiots.
I've only just made it to the end of the fire temple last night. I found the dungeon so confusing trying to unlock the 5 giant locks but I got there in the end. I just have what I assume is the dungeon's boss to fight and that's it. I tried Rocket Shields and climbing everywhere with Stamina foods and I was still getting lost.
As far as this goes I won't be bothering with it as I prefer to play normally but I don't have a problem with those that do want to use it.
why would i want to do that? it ruins the whole balancing and makes exploration worse since rewards won't be rewarding anymore.
How do people find these glitches? I’m amazed by them, I’m more for the grind in Zelda games, however I must say that finding insects in this game seems to be more rare, especially those that are on trees, and I still don’t know how you can get bugs that are higher up on trees without them flying away
@Nikki_boagreis sound like you care a lot about what other people do
@-wc- yo wasted more time complaining about this than you did reading about this, don't you have better things to do?
I wonder if this one is patchable as it seems to exploit how the game "treats" swapping between areas.
Like, can the Switch even handle not having that invisible wall to exploit without tanking memory?
I'm not at a point in the game where I can do this, and if it does get patched, I am sure it will be fixed before I can try it.
While I am not a huge fan of cheating, the material grind seems a lot more egregious this time around. I kind of wish Nintendo would add an official way to get all found materials at a Rupee cost - even if that means adding a challenging quest line to do so.
@LordBakemono
im enjoying this conversation 🙂 took 5 mins out of my life. 👍
@GamingFan4Lyf Yeah, the grind is pretty crazy. I spent several hours up in Hebra grinding those big elk for their delicious, delicious meats (to cook and sell for profit). The "Hero's Path" of that region isn't even a cluster of lines now, it's just one big, solid green mass.
I earned around 10k rupees after all that, which allowed me to buy all of two armor sets.
guys, you never "have to" grind in these games. just play the game lol. eventually you get more money than you know what to do with!
is there something im not getting about the grinding?
@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed
you need the sneak suit! ✌️
I am really appreciating these spoiler warnings. Keep it up. 👍
It would probably take several hundred hours to fully max out every armor set without duplicating items. But I don't see how this glitch is easier than the glider one lol
@-wc- no worries dude, i'm sure there's plenty of things you don't "get" XD
@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed The beetles on trees do seem a bit easier to scare in this game than in BoTW. That said, a full stealth set makes a huge difference. As far as beetles higher up on trees, I was able to get them by wearing a stealth set, climbing up to the appropriate level on the other side of the tree, then climbing sideways towards the beetle and grabbing it as soon as allowed. It's tricky, and doesn't always pan out, but most of the time it works.
Now, those stupid fairies that hover above Link's head level and refuse to come down, on the other hand... those I have no idea how to get, short of finding somewhere higher up to paraglide down and nab them in the air (which isn't always possible where they hang out). I miss BoTW's fairies, where you could sneak up, grab them, and move on, rather than waiting for five minutes hoping they'd come down to a reachable level.
I for one appreciate articles like this. I'll never understand why some people get so upset about other people choosing to play a single player game the way they want.
Personally, I have nearly 300 hours into ToTK (and no, I didn't get it early). I did not "cheat" to beat the game. But one of the things I personally enjoy is fusing a horn shard from a particular dragon to the Master Sword. What I don't enjoy, however, is having to spend literally half my playtime chasing down said dragon just to get a new shard every time the Master Sword runs out of energy. So I use a glitch to duplicate that particular item.
How is that cheating, or breaking the game? The weapon I create with that shard is nowhere near the most powerful in the game. I make more powerful weapons using parts from Lynels, which I fight the normal way, using said powerful weapons. It's not like I'm making the game easier by duping the dragon part. I'm also not skipping through parts of the story, or cheating my way through quests. I'm simply avoiding what would be an incredibly annoying requirement in order to play in a way that's fun for me. I don't do it because of an inability/unwillingness to beat the game the normal way (which I've already done). I do it because it makes the game more fun.
Why would anyone have an issue with that? Even if someone does use glitches to make the game easier to beat, how does that affect anyone else? It's a game, people. A single player game. Each person should play the game the way that's most enjoyable for them. If that includes using glitches, great. If not, that's great too. If this article is something that applies to your method of playing, great. If not, why read and complain about something that helps other people? There are loads of non-glitch related ToTK articles out there. Go enjoy one of those.
@LordBakemono
im glad youre here to be annoyed by my musings. 👍
@GreyFenyx
i dont actually want to control anyone, just to have an opinion and the ability to voice it 🙂 everybody wins!
OTOH ill play this game for decades from now and oll probably never approach 300 hrs! 😮 play on! 👍
I don't like using glitches. The game should be played normally.
The beauty of these exploits is no one is forcing anyone to use them. Much like the Game Genie was in the 80s and 90s, it's there if you want, and I'm not going to give anyone a hard time if they wish to enjoy the game this way
I can't wait to see the next duplication glitch that is discovered next week! There is no doubt that more exploits will be found regardless of Nintendo's continuous updates.
@eaglebob345 Nah don’t lie to yourself, you don’t get 100 star fragments, 1000 amber pieces, +50K rupees, and literally hundreds of every material by ‘just playing the game’.
Upgrading all the armors is an INSANE grind, even being able to dupe them with the fastest method it still took me at least 30 hours to upgrade everything, and I would’ve never done without the glitch as I still hadn’t upgraded my armors from BOTW in more than 6 years and TOTK requires way more resources.
@-wc- Cheers, mate 😉
So much new gear I need to find
@GreyFenyx Yeah those fairies are bloody hard to grab hold of, always struggled with them.
But not only do I find the creatures harder to get hold of, a lot the bugs are no longer in the usual locations as before, Lurelin Village used to be the best place to find beetles on palm trees at night, they seem to be missing now, from what I have seen while spending time there, I must have spent a good few hours there without no luck
@IOI You definitely do if you play the game over time. No one needs to cheat their way through the game to finish everything in less than a month.
@BiscuitCrumbsInMyBed Agreed. While I've been pleasantly surprised by the things that did remain where they were in BoTW, plenty of others have changed. For beetles, I ended up going to Bronas Forest (near those "DonDon" animals, which conveniently hang out by a sheltered cooking pot I could use to wait until night time). But it took me awhile to find that spot.
I guess for me, I don't mind those types of changes too much, as it adds a bit of freshness to a world I spent 500 hours traversing in the previous game. That said, I've gotta admit it's more enjoyable to me when I go somewhere based on knowledge of the game's world from BoTW and see that knowledge still pay off in ToTK. That feeling of continuity and reward for the many hours spent in BoTW is pretty great.
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