Tears Of The Kingdom Players Are Using Bombs To Trigger Blood Moons

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Tears of the Kingdom players will be well aware that at certain points in the game, the world will get all wibbly wobbly to inform you of the impending rise of the blood moon. This respawns all previously killed enemies, ensuring that there's always enough Bokoblins to torture with your elaborate Zonai machines. It also respawns tough enemies that drop rare materials, meaning the rise of a blood moon is actually quite good depending on how invested you are in the game.

In fact, they're so good that some Tears of the Kingdom players have figured out an easy way to trigger them whenever they like, and all it requires is a cave, a breakable wall, and a whole bunch of Zonai time bombs. You can see the method demonstrated by u/NanoflameOP in the Reddit post embedded below, as they simply pile all of their bombs up next to a breakable wall, set all of the bombs off at the same time, and trigger a full blown blood moon.

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If you're wondering how this even happens to begin with, it's actually something that has carried over from Breath of the Wild that fans call a "panic blood moon". Essentially, having that many explosions close to a breakable wall panics the game into thinking its about to run out of memory. Tears of the Kingdom then triggers a blood moon to reset everything and stop the game from crashing. It's a neat little failsafe that fans have figured out how to exploit.

Previously, you'd need to get a Lynel Bow and keep on firing arrows fused with Opals to get the blood moon to trigger, but this is very clearly a massive waste of resources and can be fairly unreliable. While you're losing a whole bunch of Zonai Time Bombs, you could argue that