19 MORE Things You STILL Didn't Know In Zelda Breath of the Wild

This time in Breath of the Wild, we find more NPC dialogue hidden right under our noses, subtle secrets within the Lost Woods and Master Sword, and why Breath of the Wild's physics engine with gears is still impressive to this day.
In the video above, we cover 19 facts, tips and tricks that aren’t quite as well known, ranging from secrets to glitches, so me that are pretty simple and others that are fairly complex. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been out for four years at this point, and players have found some amazing things, intended or not, that keep the game and its sense of discovery feeling fresh.
0:00 Intro
0:15 Boomerang Directions
0:26 NPC Guardian Reactions
0:55 Empty Stamina Attacks
1:08 Prompt Entanglement
1:43 Dyed Cloth Lighting
2:04 Korok Forest Tree and Flowers
2:18 Lost Woods Directions
2:40 Bludo And Kaneli's Directions
3:20 Rare Teba Conversation
4:12 Rola's Secret Response
4:41 Spectacle Rock Reference
4:55 Skyward Sword Reference
5:05 Fairy Reference
5:24 Antenna Reference
5:31 Creating New Environments
5:46 Duck Shooting Reference
6:00 Suggestive Details...
6:27 Upgraded Sleeping Options
7:02 Jamming Gear Physics
7:38 Outro

[@ThornyFox]

The insane level of creativity TotK has to offer is gonna give us YEARS worth of these videos all over again

[@Sir_limon]

Yea also nice seeing you here

[@StopLegoLord]

Sewing

[@emmycareditz]

Thorny fox love ur vids!

[@Anton-mf5dh]

Hi

[@agentspatula]

Hi ThornyFox

[@Mety3333]

I love how by "breaking" the game you can see just how deep the level of detail in BotW goes. Kite a Guardian across the map to an NPC? They'll have unique dialogue. Wedge a weapon into the gears of a machine? The whole thing comes to a stop. I can only imagine what secrets the sequel will have with its even _greater_ level of creative freedom.

[@gettingdoxxed]

It's awesome. A lot of the glitches and things you're "not supposed to do" have outcomes that actually make sense. Almost like they're real features.

[@onlyjpg]

@@gettingdoxxed in fact, aunuma wanted it to be that way, you being able to mess around and have the game word react to it

[@gettingdoxxed]

@@onlyjpg That's the great thing about the Zelda team, instead of patching all the fun glitches they encourage them

[@LordScottrick]

Breaking the whole dungeon by wedging one item between the gears blew me away.

[@omegawaffles7348]

windbomb

[@diadsalies]

I love these videos so much! Here's a little rare fact I can share: If you buy up all the mushrooms at the Gerudo Town's mushroom stall, the seller will lie to prospective customers saying that she sells mushrooms that are invisible except to those who are beautiful. NPCs that are examining the stall will comment on trying to see these invisible mushrooms and if they should believe it or not. Also, the movement of the clouds are actually affected by the wind, so if you observe closely, you can see that the clouds follow the wind's direction. It's easy to go unnoticed with shields on Link's back, but all handheld weapons have some kind of sheathe or attachment design for the weapon to be held in when unequipped, not just swords. Some of the designs are pretty fun or creative.

[@Xelacent]

I LOVE all of the ancient weapons sheathed designs! So much thought goes into them and I think they look so nice!

[@shelfer1324]

I like a lot the Goron weapon sheathed design, since the bracket holding the weapon has a negative version of the cogwheel guard just above the weapon's handle

[@dhruvrathi7116]

Less than 60 days till totk and this series is still going. That is some ridiculous level of dedication

[@krishnamckay3247]

Less than 50 days now at this point, closer to 40, which makes it even more impressive

[@prestonandtom9337]

43 days left, including today.

[@kingoppsanti5830]

42 days!

[@therealbalto24]

Forget dedication because even with dedication there maybe a couple games you could do this with. It's more a testament to how crazy deep and complex the games mechanics are.

[@kingoppsanti5830]

40 days!

[@jovlem]

It's crazy how this game still gets to amaze me after so many years!

[@GamingMonkey123]

Isn’t it crazy how this series are still going even after BOTW coming out a whole 6 years ago? That just truly proves how beautiful and well-made this game is! Edit: the fact that this comment has became on of the top comments is AWESOME! Edit 2: Warning: a lot of opinion’s about the game in general down below!

[@mrpresident1292]

"B-but weppins brake!!! Therefore bAd gAmE!!!! 😭" -Generic hate comment made by a 12 year old account with the default profile picture named Andrew Davis

[@jack27632]

​​​​​​​​@@mrpresident1292there are real and fair complaints about BotW, and then there are the middle aged nostalgablind beardos who completely ignore everything awesome & innovative about this game and call it "overrated" because it doesn't cater to their stale 1993 tastes. LOL! What are they doing watching a video proving how amazing BotW is?

[@krishnamckay3247]

Yea & now Totk is about to come out...imagine having simultaneous series & how long it could take the sequel's version to end

[@dascreeb5205]

​@@mrpresident1292 Ok but I do feel like the weapon system in BoTW is terrible. It forces you to keep changing how you play and to think about what you are doing, but that's really not very good because it throws a lot of genuine experimentation out of the window by forcing it when you really don't want it.

[@hearyougow]

​@@dascreeb5205 It could definitely be improved. But terrible enough to make botw a bad game? Nah, at least not for the majority. The benefits that come from the weapon system far outweigh the annoyances for most people.

[@oldman_logic]

Nice to know that Teba interaction was one I got. Didn't realize it was so rare

[@biasedllama7029]

Same

[@danyswift9814]

Do you know what I got pretty rare on the first playthrough? I fought naydra when the blood moon happened.Its dark skin glow and the red crimson of blood moon, finished by last arrow hit then blood moon completed, its was a horrifying experience in the game,😵😵

[@whoknows4780]

Yeah I got that one too!

[@whyshouldi9786]

Same

[@thepinkelephant2520]

I think I got it, too!

[@Waikuteru]

1:55 - The color changing was noticeable A LOT in the Knight Academy Custom Dungeon I made for Breath of the Wild because of the very colorful carpet textures 😂 One you stepped onto it, the colors changed quite a lot!

[@jefferblue8617]

Ay it's the goat himself!

[@williamxie5901]

Pretty sure it’s due to the way the game’s GI probe picks up lighting

[@LazoLad]

I love you!!

[@HappyAccidentVideos]

I don’t think you should end this series, just because there’s a sequel. If there’s new stuff to be discovered, it’s worth exploring. Do both!

[@MBZ901]

I think it makes sense to focus more on TotK soon after its release, but after that perhaps the two series could be combined into one

[@katzelol]

but tbh when they do this series with totk the hidden details will be alot more interesting instead of minor details like how flowers are layed out in relation to the master sword, it’s not very mind blowing

[@Mari_Izu]

@@katzelol Yeah, specially when the flower reference was pointed out by every Zeldatubber the first time the Master Swrd pedestal appeared in a trailer lol

[@Marceline5711]

I love how these things aren't just "did you know there's this tiny something behind this other thing" or stuff like that but they're actual interesting pieces of hidden content still after this many years and this many episodes of this series. Couldn't be more excited to play Tears of the Kingdom and I hope it has as much to find and hide and discover as this game does just as far or even farther down the line.

[@silverclematis1120]

Fun fact: Rola’s most likely from Lurelin village! In Japanese, Lurelin villagers have a unique dialect, and Rola has it too. It’s also the reason why she has a different skin and hair colour than the other Kakariko residents :)

[@leticiareyes7274]

It's because she is form lurelin village read the dialogue

[@4esthete]

I will miss this series so much. Provided so much entertainment and wonder, and mystery. May it live on with TOTK. Thanks Max, from all of us x

[@skins4thewin]

The physics engine in this game has always astounded me. Nintendo really does have the most talented programmers!

[@100Peterll]

The jamming the gears part is truly impressive, it's probably something that most other games would cut corners making each section work or their own to avoid errors or bugs but not BoTW, they actually went the extra mile engineering the machines and gear systems for real instead of just the illusion of one.

[@phoenix9531]

But its still an illusion. Its programmed to stop the whole machine once one part clogs. Usually, the force making it rotate would still persist, causing the object jammed in or the gear structure itself to potentially break. Of course that would be way to complicated to programm, so they simplify it.

[@LineOfThy]

@@phoenix9531 the object and gear system don't have the capacity to break from pressure, which is pretty consistent in the gamedev world.

[@ppowersteef]

The NPC's Running for their live, and even faceplanting on the ground, really got me! I've never even considered it since these boss enemies never get close to civilisation

[@jordanwoods462]

Been following this series from the beginning and it’s gotten me to go back and play the game more. It’s also given me patience for TOTK because this series has shown me the level of care and detail that went into the original. Thank you!

[@Jazzin96]

A feature I have always wanted in botw (and hopefully totk) is ambushes in woods. Hear me out. I know there is the one area in Faron, but that’s not the whole idea. A tactic that was practiced by soldiers for centuries (even in Vietnam) was to listen for the birds. They usually tweet and sing, but if they stop making sound, it cold be a sign that someone, or something, is about to attack. Botw mainly has open fields, so it’s hard for this to work out. But with totk changing so much terrain and item usage, it could find a home here.

[@RaiderCat12]

That’s a really interesting idea!

[@manos4063]

4:13 i remember doing this with the flameblade on my master mode playthrough, and being surprised that she had different dialogue

[@TheBreadPirate]

The last one is so cool. I love all these facts!

[@dallor09]

funny how no one recognizes you lol

[@an3582]

The fact that people automatically think "weird" when hearing any kind of moan, which can happen for a multitude of reasons, is not a fault on the game, but a reflection on how EVERYONE'S mind thinks.

[@Mari_Izu]

Agree, people are too dirt-minded.

[@Kurea47]

You said it. Hearing Link sigh (and act a little like a kid) as he sinks into a soft bed is actually rather wholesome. When was the last time the Hero of the Wild got a good night's sleep? He's out in the wilderness so often, saving people, fighting all of Ganon's monster horde, and on a quest to save Zelda and ultimately Hyrule, I say he deserves the best beds money can buy! (Frugal me did not want to spend rupees to stay at an inn AND pay extra for a higher quality bed, but after this watching video I will remedy that.)

[@ardendolas]

This is honestly one of my favourite deep dive series on any game ever. Can't wait to see what insanity you'll be finding in TotK!

[@oak8194]

That details about the gear is so simple yet so amazing! I never knew that they were physics-based and all connected in real time! They didn’t have to do any of that, and it would have probably save time and effort, but they did anyway, even if it takes 6 years for most people to find out! Bless them.

[@spider_sheep]

6:35 I don't think links getting a massage

[@Beefaroni_Bert]

Link still has fun jumping on waterbeds, good for him to find fun in the little things

[@kioshekat7931]

i love the link to the past references so much! but I particularly love the how-it-was-made kind of tidbits the most.

[@jspikeball123]

man this is such a good series, cant wait to see what you guys find in totk

[@SHANICEHIGGINS]

Boy do I love these videos. I love how time passes, but there are still things to know in this game. Can't wait to see what you do for ToTK.

[@sethwead6359]

i got that voiceline from teba @3:30 because i don't know how to complete the warbler's nest lol

[@sharfold]

Fantastic as always! Glad you have slowed down your speech, don’t need to slow the video down anymore. Sad this is the last one of the series, especially as I’ll have to take a break from them until I get round to playing a decent chunk of TotK. Take your time on it though, you took 6 years to still cover stuff we didn’t know, so don’t try rush to get all of the info out, we watch your videos because of your consistency in surprising us even 6 years on.

[@gonshi9]

I came back from 2854 to congratulate you for your last (future) video on botw details. Not as good as the 2793 ones (especially the first 20) but still great!

[@LupercalRising]

Cant wait for the 5billion fuse combinations

[@duffyscottc]

Thanks for continuing to point out these amazing things about the game!!

[@decretingredient6892]

These are great, and I implore you to continue making them for BOTW even after TOTK comes out.

[@commentercommenting6963]

That link to the past lost woods nod blew my mind @2:04

[@lazyboy8886]

the year is 2420. 10 more things you didnt know about tears of the kingdom

[@literally1751]

Not sure if this was covered in a previous episode, but on the topic of geographical references to past games, you can find Linebeck island in the marsh area between kakariko village and the path to zora's domain. It's obviously a reference to phantom hour glass.

[@azuquirtle]

Some other lighting affects I've noticed are standing behind the big gold part of the Kakariko Fairy Foundtain turns everything gold, and standing on top of Kilton little shop part under his big balloon-looking thing at Tarrey Town will turn the lake lots of different colours depending on where you put the camera.

[@dylanr.27]

That detail with the torches is super cool! Can’t wait to see more secrets from totk!

[@disunolowofoyekuesq.112]

I saw this conversation at 3:38, had no idea it was so rare to encounter 😅

[@skelly2278]

the fact that botw still has these videos is crazy, the thing is totk with all those new features is gonna have lliteral infinite amounts of content so im super excited to see what weird and crazy things you can come up with when it releases

[@TheDeadmanstrolling]

6:00 what REALLY sticks out to me is Rola from Kakariko. She fawns over you if you buy her arrows and laments her husband leaving her for his chickens. And then she starts REALLY fawining over you if you do her quest properly. Her message in the town diary outright says she wants the new guy to nock an arrow back for her, and how it's been "WAAAY" too long

[@noonathon8854]

I honestly love these vids, i’m starting to grow away from BOTW with school and the new game coming out, but these vids are always fresh, (btw bots goin crazy in comments)

[@Iffondrel]

As amazing as this is, and for how much it shows the love and care the team put into sling it, I'm so ready to do it all over again

[@cassidy5249]

I’ve been watching Pesky Plays to relive my inner nostalgia. So excited for Totk

[@SupMonkey]

Yeah

[@BakuChicken]

4:05 I think I actually got this dialogue because at the time I totally and wholeheartedly refused to do “The recital” mission

[@scotthoback]

This has to be the greatest series devoted to a single game of all time. Just incredible.

[@ranruun]

Super impressive ... and I mean both the game development and the discoveries you guys are finding!

[@williamwalkup988]

This is the best series of Breath of the Wild video on KZbin. Believe me I've seen them all. Please give this presenter a raise. You and I would hate to lose him.

[@Mazhypic]

Fun fact! You don’t need a torch to follow the wind in the lost woods. You can just see where the white dots in the air goes (which is likely some seeds of some flower) and they’ll follow the wind as well and Change with it.

[@richardmahn7589]

You have to wonder, with the gear system shown in this episode, if the Lost Woods wind is a system...not just "Link is standing here, so show the wind flowing this direction" but if there is actually a channel of wind and all that.

[@BiggieCheeseJr.]

Been keeping up since the first video and I can't help but chuckle with every "MORE secrets"

[@bpjsandwhich2855]

I actually got the Teba conversation once in my playthrough, I just thought it was cool and didn't realize how rare it was to get it

[@samslenderman]

The absolute coolest of this list is how detailed the dev team was by implementing actual working physics for cog wheels. TatlTael was not an unknown fact on wordplay. Anyone who played Majora's Mask, even children, immediately caught that: "Tattletale"

[@Sprinteeng21]

This is probably my favorite series on KZbin

[@pookiebearJOYBOY]

Smae

[@Arthur-wr4jd]

Absolutely love this series! Yesterday i found out enemies can hold large snowballs and throw them😮

[@citizen2874]

On the final day please combine every one together, would 100% binge

[@valkoln8436]

This might be the episode I’ve learned most from, and that’s saying a lot

[@Mote.]

Another fantastic episode. The Link to the Past flowers and tree is so cool. And the Zelda 1 easter egg lost woods path

[@c2s4906]

1:38 can you dye the champions tunic with this?

[@painuchiha2694]

Wow those details keep impressing me soo much more! Can’t wait for the sequel 🔥

[@kazuhirala]

The Final episode that has gone for almost 6 years. Im impressed.

[@rifatbobos]

4:35 Link : *uses unconventional and clever ways to light torches Shop Lady : "This is why you lost against Ganon"

[@trentteague6597]

5:50 the ducks falling from the sky always reminded me of duck hunt. Now I know

[@Refreshment01]

Exellent job. 7 years after release still made me realize things i didnf know.

[@PinkgloRadio]

I'm on my first play through of BOTW and I am absolutely loving it. Thanks for all your content ✌🏼

[@joshuagibson3009]

6 years and hundreds of hours later I'm just now learning that gears can be jammed. I love this game.

[@cyberspace_lord8834]

I love these videos, keep up the good work for totk!

[@wxweEishere]

You keep making more of these videos which I enjoy

[@angelgarza4949]

The dialogue with Teba is the craziest thing on this video for me XD

[@demantim]

This is fantastic stuff, I've played this game to death and *still* don't know many of these. Thanks for reminding me of the water bed, BTW, that one's hilarious! xD

[@StopLegoLord]

Daniel Mazahreh is seething

[@RinHara5aki]

Thanks Tim!

[@toxicriot75]

I had the Teba conversation during my most recent master mode playthrough, neat 😄

[@monterraythehomeless]

No, thank YOU for a series that keeps on giving enough for an immediate click every time

[@sinistersurfer9249]

Energizer bunny need to take some notes. You guys keep going, and going, and going....👏🏻

[@EricKingOfWithers]

Congrats! I now can’t unsee what Link is doing with the Gerudo inn person now!

[@Razer-hy7ow]

I actually had that conversation in rito village, I had no idea how rare it was thats so cool

[@Leeli901]

Once totk comes out… Whew it’s gonna be wild

[@mariothane8754]

It kind of shows to me just how much they still have prepared for it if they are using the same engine. Heck, the gears thing alone shows how much potential puzzle solving can have that we never messed around with.

[@ChrisGorski]

Thanks for this series

[@LaPrincipessaNuova]

I remember the first time I saw one of these videos, I was expecting to be all simple things I already knew, and I was surprised I only knew like 1 or 2 of them, so I was pretty impressed they found 17-18 things I didn't know about BotW. Fast forward to now, and they're consistently finding new things I didn't know, back when I thought there couldn't possibly be 19 things any fan of the game wouldn't know about the game that anyone else outside of Nintendo did.

[@Thepeanutlad]

Wow, almost the final episode so long I never thought that the series will come to an end

[@Falcon457]

Of course I watch these. I play the game on my Wii U and still have areas unexplored according to the map tracker. The size of the land and detail put into it is just....amazing.

[@smashdriven1640]

Wow those references to past Zelda games are so cool.

[@sekai1744]

6 years and people still finding these! Amazing how they built this game.

[@iLLiCiT_XL]

I watch these videos and then get the itch to go play Zelda again lol. Love this series!

[@westcoastnerdcraft9073]

Wow I had that Rito Village Teba interaction like day before yesterday, playing through the game for my second time, casually thinking of it as any other possible interaction lol. Never would have guessed I fulfilled all those very specific criteria leading up to that, or just how rare an occurance I'd witnessed 😅

[@StarWarsUnited123]

GOAT game. TotK will be equally amazing.

[@Hackrifice]

Loved the Duckhunt fact!

[@MaxWelton]

5:24 I didn’t know Vah Naboris HAD antennae

[@cassidy5249]

😮😮😮

[@E-Obs282]

I will miss this series I've been watching it from the start but I'm looking forward to the new series for TOTK!

[@Poke_Doll]

Wow I've actually had that raining flight range Teba comment occur naturally on my first playthrough but I didn't realize it was supposed to be rare, that's honestly really neat to learn. I will saying looking back on it I don't think ever actually seen it rain any other time ever since that time so I guess it really doesn't rain much in Tabatha.

[@zeromontalvan1514]

spectatle rock also appear in ocarina of time and they´re the fire temple, those rocks that are on both sides of the altar where you teleport with the bolero of fite

[@Mari_Izu]

*Death Mountain Crater.

[@zeromontalvan1514]

@@Mari_Izu I had the name of the place right over my tongue but couldn't remember it at the moment, thanks

[@douglasrojas5535]

Your videos are addictive; looking forward to watch your TOTK videos too 💯👍🏼👍🏼

[@hornisthorn]

Now I can’t unhear the sleeping sound effects. Thank you.

[@user-if4nx2jn8r]

That detail about the cogs is crazy.

[@PL4NTUM]

It's so amazing how much love the developers put into this game. I hope the same for TotK! ❤

[@Adam_Barrett]

I got the rare Teba conversation in my recent playthrough a couple of weeks ago. Had no idea there was anything special about it!

[@TerraWolf_Teratio]

For the blissful water beds, I always assumed it was just the noise of him bouncing on the bed… now you got me thinking 🤔

[@kioshekat7931]

imma use that gear jamming tip on my new playthrough. thanks!

[@cidschnubedubaubau6781]

You're still not done? The dedication 😂 I love it!

[@EighmyLupin]

I love that the Water Bed sound is clearly Link jumping on the bed and having the time of his life.

[@Dado_nastro]

I would love a series where you talk about all of the glitches and stuff that could be done in botw that can't be done in totk

[@thezeldacrafter9826]

It’s crazy how more stuff keeps getting discovered when the sequel is almost out!