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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomreleased to rave reviewsacross the board, with a lot of particular praise given to the game’s nearly-perfectly-implemented suite of abilities. Despite players' newfound ability to create complex machinery that somehow justworks, the game did release with a few glitches.
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Though many dupe glitches have since been fixed as of the 1.1.2 update, players have since discovered new ways to duplicate items inTears of the Kingdom.
Updated August 03, 2025 by Erik Petrovich:Players who have not updated their game since the 1.1.1 update can still take advantage of the original dupe glitch for unfound items described here. But because this glitch doesn’t work as of the 1.1.2 update, the old method to duplicate unfound weapons and shields can now be found below a new section detailing two 1.1.2 duplication glitches. But be warned – these new methods are a bit more convoluted than they were beforeTears of the Kingdom was patched.
1.1.2 Dupe Glitches – Rock Octoroks, and Tarrey Town’s Custom Home
Octoroks and Recall Duplication Method
One new method to duplicate items inTears of the Kingdominvolves Rock Octoroks and the Recall ability. Rock Octoroks can be found all over Hyrule, but particularly around mountainous areas and Eldin Canyon. According toThe Hard Drive, once Link finds a Rock Octorok, there are four steps to follow.
This glitchwill only duplicate one weapon once, because Rock Octoroks can only repair degraded weapons once before a Blood Moon resets them. Be sure to save the game before trying this duplication glitch as it can be tricky to pull off, and players only get one try.
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Shock Emitters and the Tarrey Town House
Another duplication glitch that works withTears of the Kingdom 1.1.2involves the display rooms of the Tarrey Town home and the ZonaiShock Emitterdevice. First, Link has tofinish the Mattison’s Independence questand buy land for his house. Then, he can purchase three different rooms to display weapons collected throughoutTears of the Kingdom.
Depending on which weapon Link wants to duplicate, he should purchase the corresponding display room – if he wants to duplicate a sword, buy a Weapon Stand room, but duplicating shields or bows requires their room. As described byGamerRevolution, precise timing is needed to pull off this dupe.
With this method, Link will take damage, but his equipped weapon should be both thrown to the ground and copied onto the display stand. Though this method doesn’t clean up degraded weapons like the Rock Octorok does, itcan be repeated over and over again(provided Link has the Hearts), and materials can even be fused to weapons to create copies of them.Head down to Tarrey Town to undo Fuseon these weapons for a bit of a convoluted way to dupe materials in TOTK 1.1.2.
1.1.1 Tears of the Kingdom Unfound Items Duplication Glitch (Old)
To duplicate a weapon, shield, orbow inTears of the Kingdom, players must first find one out in the world that fulfillstwo requirements: it must be anequippable item that Link has not picked up yet, and itmust be stronger than anything he currently has in his inventory. Players will know if the item they want to duplicate will work ifit appears in the world as “???” with a green up arrownext to the question marks.
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Before attempting the dupe, ensure that Link doesn’t have any weapons or shields equipped. Players will need to have at leastone of the same type of itemsthey want to duplicate in their inventory, andit must be weaker than the target item. So, if a player wants to duplicate a shield, they must already have a shield that has worse stats than the one on the ground.
Once the player has nothing equipped except armor, and once they have correctly identified the item on the ground as an un-acquired upgrade, the process can begin. Pick up the item to trigger the new item popup window.Don’t exit; press the + button to instead open Link’s inventorydirectly from this pop-up.
Sort the inventory according to Strength with the Y button, which should put the new item on the far left. Then,equip another weapon or shield you don’t mind losing,as it will be replaced with a copyof the one on the ground. Exit this menu, and confirm the pop-up window.
Link should appear to be holding the weapon or shield that was on the ground despite it not actually being equipped. Open up Link’s inventory to find that the currently equipped weapon or shield shares the same model as the duped item but retains its original name.
Finally,drop the equipped item onto the ground, and it will permanently transform into another copy of the freshly-discovered weapon or shield – all stats and properties are the same with no strings attached, except losing the item that was replaced.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdomis available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.
