While many of these glitches have been tested by editors, we cannot promise that these glitches won't harm your game data or game console. We ask that you please read the Glitch Disclaimer Notes before attempting any of these glitches.
The following is a large list of all the known glitches that can be performed in Tears of the Kingdom. Each glitch will come with instructions on what the glitch does, how to perform the glitch, and if the glitch has been patched (i.e. fixed) or not.
Be in the air, then open the Inventory and hold any number of Materials. Then, press B and Y at the exact same time to leave the Inventory and sort it at the same time. The amount of Materials in your Inventory doesn't change, but it still drops the Materials you held on the ground, effectively duplicating the items you held.
Notes
Using the Paraglider, jumping with a Wing Shield, or performing the glitch in a low-gravity area can allow you to duplicate Materials multiple times in a row, depending on how long you fall for.
Riding on Mineru's Construct counts as being in the air, allowing for the glitch to be performed extremely quickly. Materials dropped can also be immediately picked back up.
A maximum of 21 Materials can be dropped on the ground at once. If any more are dropped, some will start to despawn.
Equip the item you wish to dupe, and save the game. Drop that item, and equip another one. Press the + button twice in quick succession, drop the second item and reload the save. A copy of the first item should be on the ground, giving you another one.
Notes
You don't actually need to save when doing this glitch, reloading an existing save works too. However, since the item appears at the coordinates where Link was when he dropped it, reloading an old save likely means it'll appear miles away from Link's current location, making it impossible to reach before the item despawns/
Lets Link keep the Master Sword from the intro, giving him a 30 power weapon with infinite durability.
Requirements
None
Instructions
Go to the In-isa Shrine, and manually save the game. Next, head to the title screen, and start a new file, getting an auto save before the Ganondorf cutscene in the process. Head back to the file inside the shrine, and take the rocks near the start to the edge of the area with the Fire Fruit trees.
Place them near the wall, stand on top of one of the rocks, and do the Save/Load Duplication glitch with any weapon.
Load the autosave from the prologue. You'll find the weapon you dropped on the stairs leading to the Ganondorf cutscene. Pick it up to access to the inventory.
Now, do the Save/Load Duplication glitch again with the Master Sword here, and load the file from inside the shrine. The glitched Master Sword will now be present near the Fire Fruit trees, and can be collected like any other weapon.
Notes
This Master Sword doesn't have a name, and displays 'MessageNotFound' in the inventory.
The Fuse ability cannot be used on it without additional glitches.
Unlike the normal Master Sword, it can be dropped or thrown, but still cannot be placed in a weapon stand.
Find a Rock Octorok, and place the weapon you wish to dupe in front of it. When the Octorok sucks in the weapon, use Recall on it just before the enemy eats it. If done correctly, the weapon should fall on the floor, but the Octorok will chew on and spit out a copy of said weapon, giving you two of them.
Notes
This can be done once per Octorok each Blood Moon cycle.
Duplicates any weapon using a Weapon Stand in Link's House
Requirements
None
Instructions
Go to Link's House, and place a Shock Emitter in front of the stand you wish to use. Switch on the Shock Emitter by hitting it. Then, go into the beam of electricity, and place A to place the item in the stand at the same time Link gets eletrocuted. The item will both appear in the stand, and on the floor at the same time, duplicating it.
Notes
The weapon directly after the cloned one will be removed from the inventory, meaning it's best the player has the relevant item in the final slot in its category.
Duplicates materials by shooting them between loading zones near the Tobio's Hollow chasm.
Requirements
None
Instructions
Go to the Tobio's Hollow Chasm, and stand near the entrance to the Depths there, at roughly these coordinates:
1021, -2261, -0156
Equip a multishot bow
Then fuse the material you want to clone to an arrow, and shoot it upwards into the tunnel you came from.
If done correctly, the arrow should despawn mid flight, leaving the materials hanging in mid air. Just go over to them to make them fall to the ground, and collect them afterwards to get as many copies of that material as arrows shot using the bow.
Notes
It's possible to destroy materials if you hit them in mid air, since they still have collision in this state. So it's best to collect gems, bomb flowers, etc after every shot.
This is very similar to an arrow duplication glitch in Breath of the Wild, where shooting an object with a multishot bow would let you collect the other 2-4 arrows, despite only firing one.
