How To Duplicate Weapons In Zelda: BOTW (2024 Glitches)

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In , weapons are a big concern, as everything outside the Master Sword will be destroyed once its durability is used up. However, duplicating weapons can help alleviate this frustration and give your favorite items a longer life. To do this, players must use one of the many glitches still operating in the game, even several years after its release.

The trick for duplicating weapons can be used toduplicate traditional weapons, bows, and shields. It's a relatively simple process but will require Link to have the desired items he wishes to duplicate, access to his house and weapon displays, and he needs to have at least seven multi-shot bows with a lightning arrow in his inventory. Be sure you have some spare weapons you are okay with losing as well.

To begin, Link needs to return to his home with the aforementioned items in his inventory or on his person. Once there, go ahead and create a save file. Now, equip one of the multi-shot bows, a lightning arrow, and the weapon or shield you wish to duplicate. Exit the inventory and ensure Link is actively holding the bow as if he is about to aim and fire. From here, follow the steps below:

The items you sacrifice in favor of the item you wish to duplicate will be gone. Do not use an item you would like to keep or duplicate later on because it will be replaced with the weapon, shield, or bow you wish to duplicate. For this reason, you should bring additional weapons you can spare and put your valuable ones elsewhere, like on other display cases, for the duration of this process.

Now that you have duplicated your weapon, you can repeat the process if you would like to duplicate it more than once or repeat steps 5-8 with a shield instead of a weapon to duplicate that item.

Note that shields will need to be placed on a display case; only weapons can either be placed or thrown before being picked back up. Unfortunately, if the last bow you equipped was different from the one you wished to duplicate, you will have to take a