A Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom player has discovered a clever trick that makes solving Korok rock puzzles way easier. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was just released in May, but many players are coming across unique tricks and solutions to the many puzzles across Hyrule, but this Korok strategy could help on more than one occasion.
Because Tears of the Kingdom introduced building and the Fuse mechanic to the Zelda franchise, many long-time fans have explored the possibilities in the game. There are tons of items in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom that players can combine for different results, with some being more useful for making better weapons, with this one potentially being a game changer.
Reddit user RobBellOriginal recently shared a Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom clip in which they're approaching one of the many stone puzzles associated with the infamous Korok Seed grind. Walking up to a nearly completed circle of stones, the player swaps their stone mallet with a sword before scrolling back over to the prior weapon to drop it on the ground. Upon landing on the stone beneath Link, the player uses the Ultrahand ability introduced with Tears of the Kingdom on the stone mallet to move the stone in line with the others that create the circle, and its completion fittingly summons a Korok that rewards the protagonist with one of the seeds.
Although many Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players may complete these stone Korok puzzles by scrounging the area for a rock, there's a high likelihood that they can make a weapon similar to the one used in RobBellOriginal's video. Because Tears of the Kingdom players can make such stone equipment fairly early on in the Switch game, the materials should be fairly easy to find, though a stone will be required either way. As this weapon doubles as a rock that can be used for these Tears of the Kingdom Korok puzzles, players may consider carrying one in case there aren't many stones near the next one.
According to RobBellOriginal, their clip was meant to be a test in order to prove the concept of solving the stone Korok puzzle in such a unique way, serendipitously rewarding their creativity on the first try. Although Breath of the Wild had other Korok Seeds locked behind stone challenges that could have worked with RobBellOriginal's technique if the game had Ultrahand, it's currently unclear if the method can be applied to other activities related to the Koroks.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is available now for Nintendo Switch.