Hyrule Science #2: What Does Each Element Do?

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Fire Fruit
2:19 - Ice Fruit
3:07 - Shock Fruit
3:38 - Splash Fruit
4:21 - Dazzlefruit
5:51 - Mushroomz
7:07 - Small rant, Endura Shroom Locations, and Outro :)

[@itsnina09-xw6be]

the wizzrobe really went through all five stages of grief after being hit by that dazzlefruit

[@GlennJimenez]

I hate wizzrobes so damn much it’s not even funny

[@Wildicon19]

Actually, I like that the dazzle fruit affects the Wizzrobes in this manner. It changes the game for me when I fight them!

[@andre2075]

My man did NOT deserve that

[@Axelpvz2030]

I think ice fruits also create stone when used on lava, and freezed enemies are considered "wet" which combis well with electric attacks

[@bluntizard4481]

The Muddle Bud is also AMAZING, letting you confuse lots of enemies and have them commit murder on each other

[@James2210]

Try using it on a Battle Talus ;)

[@bluntizard4481]

@@James2210 yea it makes em shake all the enemies it's carrying off like a dog drying off

[@Art_with_atlas]

With the ice fruit on the shield, it won’t freeze an enemy if it attacks it, but if you parry the attack, it will.

[@mreverything7056]

Just found this channel! Here’s a cool tip with gleeoks. Fire Gleeok heads will be one shot by an ice or splash fruit. Ice Gleeok heads will be one shot by a fire fruit. Thunder Gleeok heads can’t be one shot by any specific weakness though.

[@polecat3]

Not always a one-shot, but does provide a big damage upgrade

[@whyiwakeup6460]

Oh, and for kings or gleeoks in general use strong eyes for kings and the respective elemental Keese eyes for the gleeok with a multi shot bow, brings them down really fast and especially helps in final phase

[@ThanatosZero]

I find it fascinating how TWW comes back to mind with the interaction of lava exposed to water and ice.

[@MiahTRT]

This game is TWW 2 confirmed

[@Epsilonsama]

Dazzlefruit is perfect for Stall enemies. It made the Sun Pumpkin quest so easy

[@pinkcatminht]

The uprising of articles that have incorrect info on them is so annoying and directly related to click bait sites. Ive found so many of these while trying to farm for parts to upgrade my outfits. Love the video! The forest dweller + puffshroom combo really is OP as hell and i love it lol

[@helpfulDeathgod]

The biggest trend I've seen on those articles is that they've been using BotW information for TotK.

[@Dewelwield1010]

Part of the problem is they are just being written by bots to chase search trends with no regard for whether the information is accurate. In fact a lot of those articles will be written almost identically to one another despite appearing on completely different sites, as they use the same program to generate them. It’s really quite annoying

[@WigglesMother]

@@helpfulDeathgod Worst one I saw was one that talked about how to unlock more slots for horses in TOTK, but claimed that if that was too much work for you, there were "many stables in the game and you could just store your horses at different stables, and all you had to do was remember where you stored each horse." That wasn't even true for BOTW.

[@helpfulDeathgod]

@@WigglesMother Good Christ, imagine not understanding something so confidently. I bet the article didn't have any kind of comments section either.

[@WigglesMother]

@@helpfulDeathgod Correct, no comments section at all, or I'm sure it'd be full of people calling out the bad info. At least the ones directing people to the wrong place for resources could be mistaken or misremembering. Or trolling/going off of BOTW info, for the people claiming you can still get durians in TOTK.

[@s3bas_087]

The boosts the fire, ice and shock fruits give aren't for normal damage, if you have that effect and do a charged attack it'll do a special move, sort of like Urbosa's Fury from BoTW

[@MiahTRT]

ah, that makes more sense. It felt silly having an armor set/dish that just increases attack damage when you're hot or cold or whatever. Thanks for letting me know!

[@JamUsagi]

The boosts also affect the last hit of a combo.

[@bluekirby6120]

That is what I originally thought lol

[@ajguevara6961]

The smoke mushroom can also drive away bees from their beehive, making it easier to collect honey.

[@freshlymemed5680]

I didn't know dazzle fruit had so much applications. I'll start using them more often since I tend to neglect them. I love how much stuff you can do with this game.

[@buglamps1290]

When I tell you that I was so scared of wizrobes until I learned the element trick- I used to be so scared of those things. Freaked me out.

[@wrpen99]

Attaching one of the elemental fruits wont burst on a block, but they _will_ on a successful parry, or on a "missed" parry if you're close enough to contact the enemy directly with the shield. Most fuses can modify the parry into an attack in and of itself.

[@Samookely]

ur voice is very soothing, but not in the way that makes me sleepy, like you’re able to keep me interested while having a calming effect to your videos

[@VileRebis]

Splash fruits make it so enemies struck with it will create an area of electricity when hit with an electric element, similar to how it works in water.

[@ianyboo]

This is some of the finest Zelda related content I've ever seen in my life well done! You earned an insta subscribe! Seriously other channels are still giving tips like "did you know a great fairy can increase the stats of your armor!?" As if it's fresh and new lol

[@bradup]

Something important is that for both chuchu jelly and splash fruit can prevent you from catching on fire in death mountain depths and caves I’m mapped the entirety of the depths, using only fruit and water hydrants this way 😅

[@psuedonym9999]

But you should definitely use splash fruit over chuchu jelly if you're already in scorching air. I learned this the hard way.

[@bradup]

@@psuedonym9999 both have the same effect *if* you throw them, if you place them on ground you waste too much time

[@psuedonym9999]

@@bradup I forget if I threw it or placed it. Maybe I placed it just so I could get close enough, because throwing it might have had it land not close enough to douse me. All I remember is it turning to fire jelly before hitting the ground, exploding in fire, and hurting me, and then me burning up in the scorching air and dying.

[@bradup]

@@psuedonym9999 it doesn’t cook if in your arm, if on the ground in *scorching* climate it cooks into red jelly, which is *bad.*

[@west3Dgaming]

5:30 blocking keese with shield (not parrying) is also very funny because they just plop off the shield onto the ground in the same way

[@ayskaripepperooni2770]

Ice keese are so hard enemies when you don't use fire fruits! I could have never beaten them and progressed to the final boss without this video thank you so much! Anyways great video

[@edwardnedharvey8019]

Use a spear. Still worried they will get to close? (They won't) fuse a spear or a lizalfos tail onto a spear for crazy reach

[@chapstick146]

Attaching a sapphire to a shield gives will freeze enemies when they hit it, pretty good fusion. Puffshroom combined with sneakstrike up weapons is also really powerful, just throw a lynel saber thing on a sheikah blade and it'll normally one or two shot silver enemies

[@lastythecheetah]

6:20 "Chill shrooms give a bit of cold resistance..." Chill shrooms give HEAT resistance because they are cold.

[@jordansamuels2052]

This great. I’ve been looking so long for someone to do this. Can’t wait for you to look at the best weapon combos.

[@MiahTRT]

I can't wait either!

[@TheGrayAllay]

Also, elemental attacks of the same type as the talus bring back their element, leading to chains between removing it.

[@dxjxc91]

I think some fusions give the demolish effect (like Cobble crusher and boulder breaker have). I noticed the marbled hammer (1 handed) could break ores in a single hit instead of 2 like other hammers. I'd be interested to know if other items have this demolish effect and if it stacks with goron weapons that have it already.

[@RandomDude647]

what do you fuse to make the marbled hammer? marbled rock roast?

[@dxjxc91]

@@RandomDude647 marbled gohma. Also I might have been wrong. Ores could be damage based or something.

[@edwardnedharvey8019]

Any 2 handed weapon with hammer property (any blunt object, or "mace" horn fused) will break ores in 1 hit.

[@prof7304]

I think parrying with an ice fruit or ice chuchu will freeze an enemy. A fused gem however will work when you block an enemy

[@justamicrowave5297]

Today i have just learned that throwing dazzle fruit at a group of bokoblins is the best use for them as you get to watch them all do a synchronized dance.

[@nikorinmp]

Bro I love your editing. The vibes I get from your videos are so chill and funny idk like and sub.

[@edwheezer6231]

That poor Construct in the cave is having the worst day XD

[@west3Dgaming]

7:12 I think you can buy endura shrooms in Hateno in Breath of the Wild - which likely led to the mixup in the article. But also there are traveling mushroom vendors. would have to double check their stock, but often they have special items when it is raining

[@sqished]

Splash fruit also puts out igneo talus but im unsure if it lasts as long as ice fruit

[@Cloud_On_The_Cloud]

Fun fact use a extra stamina meal when missing green stamina replenishes all green stamina and adds some yellow too

[@sambranstrom]

Gloom hands freak out when you throw a dazzlefruit at them

[@Icewall956]

Also- 4 endura carrots on Satori Mountain (at the tree) and on the hill near the old horse god spring from botw.

[@frankiefromky]

I am honored to be the 1,000th like on this video! Love the series and wish you all the success in the world! Cheers mate!

[@spysappinmysentry000]

you can feed splash fruit to Patricia the Sand Seal in Gerudo Town. they're her favorite :)

[@affablesage9582]

I really appreciate the videos, especially your use of music from Animal Crossing New Horizons. Very entertaining and informative!

[@kojihu3337]

yo, just a heads up. at 6:23 it's heat resistance not cold resistance. Amazing vid, and have a nice day :D

[@MiahTRT]

ah, I didn't notice, thanks for pointing that out!

[@daymare0]

WOOOOOO Hyrule Science part 2!

[@awesomelink2347]

Oh, you forgot to mention a special property of Scorching, Biting, & Stormy; in addition to making attacks deal more damage in their respective weather, they make charged attacks have elemental properties in their respective weather. Think Urbosa's Fury from BotW.

[@MapleRose9]

I like that they added water type element in this game, but I wish it was super effective against electric or something (even though it's opposite to Pokemon). Always found it odd that we have quick kills for Fire and Ice type enemies but the electric ones don't

[@ethanchenoweth9720]

Not sure if this still works, but I think after stunning a frost/igneo talus, you can reactivate their element when hit with the same element.

[@psuedonym9999]

Exactly, and this most often happens if you remove the element from the central body piece, but not an arm piece, and then after it tries throwing that arm at you, you using recall to make that arm go back to the body heats up/cools down the body again.

[@west3Dgaming]

I would also mention that splash fruit stops you from catching on fire for a set amount of time. Helpful if you run out of flame elixir before you have the armor upgrade. I've made it through whole caves just splashing myself when things start getting hot. If you fuse splash fruit to a Zora weapon it works the same way as splashing yourself but without the setup step of splashing yourself. just breaks on the first attack and can be re-attached for the next battle. However more useful is to attaching an opal to a Zora weapon which gives it a permanent double power bonus. (i don't know if this is mentioned in later videos, watching in release order)

[@west3Dgaming]

Just saw where you cover this in video 3 👍

[@James2210]

I have a dazzlefruit fused to a shiny forest dweller's shield. Love it, especially in the depths

[@zandensterner3918]

If you too are irritated by these game websites lazily cashing in on ToTK's success, I suggest just adding "reddit" to the end of your search. I almost always find what I'm looking for there, and sometimes even information I wasn't looking for, but was still useful. Unless Reddit dies, which seems to be a distinct possibility.

[@MiahTRT]

Good idea! I should really do that more…

[@edwardnedharvey8019]

Oh, you missed! Ice fruit vs gleeok is actually great. (On an arrow) it does massive damage. Same for fire fruit vs ice gleeok

[@dell2013]

3:46 bro i swear i heard mucktorok shart here 😂

[@moose-man_bertie]

thank you very much for doing this fuse science

[@dravenocklost4253]

Had no idea Dazzlefruit was that useful, nice. Thanks

[@ninjabuddy1]

Neutral chu chu jelly works like splash fruit for lava platforms and muck

[@luckysticks121]

6:24 Something I noticed is mixing up heat and cold resistance

[@raarasunai4896]

Seeing that Splash fruit can take off Gibdo armor, I have to wonder now if Hydrants can do the same

[@Epsilonsama]

Yep

[@hazelda3786]

I wish I knew dazzle fruit killed stal enemies instantly when I was doing the quest in Hateno where you need to defend the mayor and his pumpkins from stals and it took me so long you only have to fight for like three minutes real time too 😅

[@ManOfDuck]

I might be wrong but I believe i remember my bursting fruit breaking before my forest dweller weapon

[@kenetic-nf8jq]

If you hit anything in the rain with a shock fruit it will make an explosion just like metal and water

[@galelululu]

mushrooms can be fused to shields to uh . I forget . it sends them flying OR has a guaranteed disarm chance on perfect block, one of those

[@paulrance5445]

“Chillshroom for cold resistance” *Screen says heat resistance* *Visible confusion*

[@MiahTRT]

My brain was no worky

[@Pattyrick666]

Thank you for doing this! This kind of deep dive into interactions between mechanics is my favorite part of imsims and my favorite part of totk. Something you could cover (albeit I don't know how many items would have a measurable difference) is unloading distance, i.e. shooting stars and dragon bits staying loaded while being extremely far away, and others disappearing after you chase the korok flowers ten yards.

[@penwozhere]

you can use the water fruit to get resistance to fire which helped me exploring the goron caves!

[@Sageofcooking]

the thing is that with the tree branch it only let's you add 10 durabillity and i think it's 25 extra durabillity for most other weapons

[@west3Dgaming]

I feel like a temple boss deserves a spoiler warning 3:43 but I know the shark was in the trailer so I at least appreciate that only the shark was shown.

[@thrashfan911]

Much love 🖤🖤🖤

[@o-manthehuman7867]

2:03 im guessing someone has said this already but forest dweller weapons dont work on bombs (last i checked atleast)

[@Somerandomperson42132]

for some reason frozen enemies are also affected by electricity/conduct electricity, and they also take critical hits, meaning you hit a frozen enemy with an electric attack you'll make a very powerful attack

[@Epsilonsama]

It's pretty funny because IRL Ice is a bad conductor of electricity. A frozen enemy should be immune to electricity.

[@Somerandomperson42132]

@@Epsilonsama Probably due to the water in it, this states that the ice is also rapidly melting as he is frozen.

[@grantkahara863]

Uhhhhh, comment for engagement! Also I do love this series I find it quite helpful and have subscribed

[@jcplays5831]

7:08 I know that feeling. I tried looking up where to find hearty truffles and got nothing. Where are they?

[@IcyXzavien]

The hot banan was really enlightening.

[@Gameboy-kl8br]

I like this it's very interesting.

[@yunori5426]

splash fruit can cool you down in hot weather!

[@zehsackett6132]

Splash fruit korok weapon + electric fruit meal attack

[@Feyking]

Never played a Zelda game before and TotK is my first one. Im having an absolute blast coming across new things to fuse to my weapons and i love how these are consolidating all that information. I never even thought to try and freeze things!!

[@Samookely]

glad you’re having fun! Id recommend playing botw too once you’re done with your playthrough

[@HelixSnake]

7:07 I am pretty much 100% sure these articles are AI generated. I've stumbled upon a few myself. They are chock full of completely wrong info and usually are at the top of the search hits and are FULL of ads and tracking cookies. They're always on websites you've never heard of before too.

[@cdeeznutz]

Commenting for the algorithm. Hyrule Science is a great idea. I've been wanting something like this since it came out. The physics of this game is so fun.

[@thomasom0]

i throw splash fruit at an enemy in a group and then hit it with a shock fruit so it zaps them all

[@user-gx6db6dg5c]

MiahTRT the tote science guy

[@HaiTaiBai]

We need a 10 hour video of link rotating

[@thealientree3821]

But then there's also the Muddle Bud.

[@Confom]

I love hyrule science

[@coraanimates58]

Ice fruit can also make stone platforms on lava

[@salvadorsanchez5057]

making yourself wet with splash fruit also saves you from unbearable heat

[@krocodile55]

Note to self: dazzlefroot

[@falpsdsqglthnsac]

can't believe you didn't talk about roasted bomb flowers

[@MiahTRT]

damn, u rite

[@jaydin3828]

CAVEMAN LINK. WHAT HE DO 7:47

[@OddNess9339]

One thing i don't understand is everyone being so sad bomb fishing is gone. I mean, shock fruit/lighting chu chu jellies does the SAME thing.

[@west3Dgaming]

6:23 you say chill shrooms give cold resistance when it should be heat resistance. It's written on the screen so not a major deal but fyi

[@EpochFlame]

chillshrooms don’t give cold resistance

[@MiahTRT]

Yes, this was an oopsie on my end 😅 I suppose I need to double-check my scripts more

[@ThunderhawkVeronicaLazerwolf]

Will you do an episode or segment about STABILIZERS?!?!?!? I don't know how many to use, if placement matters, and WHY?? Why do I need however many I need and where???

[@MiahTRT]

I actually covered them and the other zonai devices in the latest episode :)

[@ThunderhawkVeronicaLazerwolf]

@@MiahTRT I know, but you didn't explain anything! Do I need 2 per side for the anti grav effect? Or was that to be cool?? I don't understand

[@MiahTRT]

@@ThunderhawkVeronicaLazerwolf it was mostly just to point out a random fact about it. You don’t need 2, but it makes the low-gravity effect feel somewhat stronger 1 on each side will work, though

[@ThunderhawkVeronicaLazerwolf]

@@MiahTRT Noice. Thanks!!

[@samufinland5765]

Not very useful unless you have literally no armor, you can use splash fruit to keep yourself cool in hot areas, and it even prevents you from burning in volcano caves. It lasts longer than I'd expect it to, and I think can be extended with the frog armor's Moisturize effect? Edit: lol it was already in the literal next episode, I'll leave the comment up in case the frog armor thing ends up being useful to someone.

[@pandem0nic]

pog

[@walterzvideos]

let’s go

[@daymare0]

5:34 I could be wrong but can't you remove and then equip the weapon to reset the timer?

[@MiahTRT]

I’m fairly certain you can, yes. I shall feature that in the next one!

[@daymare0]

@@MiahTRT oh wow you saw this. This series is so cool thanks for making it.

[@t-machine3427]

@@MiahTRT Can't do. When you choose the weapon, it starts with a full timer, so you have to wait as if you just used it. UPD: SOMEWHAT can't do. The timer may be less, but it is present and still considerable, so it's not instantly ready after choosing the weapon.

[@zaristophanes2]

Do you know how much damage the shock radius does when it is conducted by water or ice?

[@MiahTRT]

From my testing by throwing it at myself, it does 12 damage when thrown in water, 20 for metal, and 20 for ice. I'll have to note this down for the future episode :)

[@zaristophanes2]

@@MiahTRT thank you this is a huge help and also makes sense from my experience

[@thermophile1695]

Sometimes the master sword breaks rocks in 1 hit and sometimes it takes 2 hits. I haven't noticed a pattern yet. Do you know what causes this?

[@MiahTRT]

This is likely due to wearing attack up armor, as ore deposits have roughly 50 health and wearing attack up armor can amplify damage enough to break it in 1 hit They break more easily with a smasher weapon (e.g. attaching a rock to a weapon) since they have a damage multiplier for ore deposits, the same way that axes have a damage multiplier against trees

[@thermophile1695]

@@MiahTRT Huh. Makes sense.

[@TapJegi]

I've noticed that it does so when you are near some gloom. The master sword starts to shine brightly and then it's able to destroy ore deposits in 1 hit

[@holyelephantmg8838]

So how do I get weather attack up 3 food, I’ve tried all I can think of and a crit just heals more and adding 5 of element fruit just makes it last longer

[@MiahTRT]

It’s only attainable with the armors that grant elemental attack up, like the ember set, frostbite set, exc.

[@holyelephantmg8838]

@@MiahTRT I knew the armor could, I was really hoping the food could too. What about Monster Extract? Does that give a chance for level 3?

[@MiahTRT]

@@holyelephantmg8838 not to my knowledge, no. It's mostly used for unique monster-based recipes

[@holyelephantmg8838]

@@MiahTRT dang. Next for Hyrule Science since you’ve finished compendium for materials can we go over cooking in depth? I know that materials have different points towards effect levels from BOTW, the dragon parts, and that golden apples guarantee a crit, but otherwise I kinda just like fill up on pizza for health

[@Hacimnator]

Nice

[@carlos3304]

Lessgo

[@datdiscoguy3744]

how does bro only have 14k subs

[@UnluckyCharacter821]

Why the hell is the Well in the Hyrule compendium?

[@MiahTRT]

I put it there, sorry, my bad

[@bumsackochungus-xn3pe]

Ye the reason it says there are endura shrooms there is because there were endura shrooms there in botw. Still annoying though. Love your content, keep it up.

[@HarryTheKorok]

W

[@Interesting_Failure]

Bomb flowers DON'T seem to work on forest dweller weapons, which is endlessly disappointing to me.