

They’re easy to make simply fusing any weapon with a boulder makes a hammer to break open boxes, mineral deposits, and rock walls. While Tears of the Kingdom has limited inventory space, you should always keep a rock hammer. (Image credit: Nintendo) Keep a hammer in your pocket This way you can accurately locate the place on the map from a distance but don’t have all of your pins in use all the time.Īlso, remember to delete stamps from the map after they’ve served their purpose so you have a clean map to work with. I’d recommend using your binoculars to place a pin on anything you intend to explore, and then replacing the pin with a stamp. However, there’s no limit to the stamps you can place. However, you can only have six pins active at once. You can use your binoculars to drop pins on your map, planting a great glowing flag to home in on.

When you reveal a region by ascending a lookout tower, you only record the shape of the terrain. In games like Assassin’s Creed, when you climb a vantage point and reveal the map around you, the game auto-fills in all of the points of interest in the region. However, keeping on top of your map is worth it. Nintendo has given you a great tool to keep track of everything, but it requires a bit of manual labor to use well. You’ll often be on your way to a place only to stumble across a shrine and be torn between continuing your quest and investigating this new curiosity. It can be easy to lose track of things in a world that big, especially when Nintendo primed it for discovery. It was big in, and now there’s an entire gloom-filled world below the earth and a sky of floating islands in the air above. You are awarded rupees for completing side quests, but while it can be tempting to fast-track your way to a new set of trousers by selling items to get them, when you can’t upgrade those trousers without searching caves for amber deposits, you’ll wish you hadn’t squandered the pile you had in your pockets earlier. But you will be shortchanging yourself later when you need those resources to upgrade your armor.

After adventuring for a few hours, you’ll pick up some valuable gems, diamonds, opals, and big piles of amber you can sell for a phat stack of cash. There are characters across Hyrule who suggest selling your items for rupees. When you are stuck on a puzzle, look around before cracking your Joy-Con in two and see if Ascend will solve the situation.
