Tears of the Kingdom Autobuild glitch is the best way to rupee farm

19 June 2023 , 13:30
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Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Raw Meat glitch is letting players earn up to 5,000 rupees per minute (Image: Suishi YouTube)
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Raw Meat glitch is letting players earn up to 5,000 rupees per minute (Image: Suishi YouTube)

Tears of the Kingdom players have stumbled across another glitch that lets you rack up around 5,000 rupees per minute and all you need are some tree branches and a stack of meat.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has been full of opportunities for players to make some quick in-game cash thanks to glitches that have remained in the game long enough to profit from. The standout so far has been the dupe glitch for weapons and materials, and the other, even faster dupe glitch that you could use on diamonds and more to get rich quick.

They were eventually patched out in update 1.1.2, but it hasn't taken long for the community to ferret out another way to make money without the hard work. This particular glitch has been credited to YouTuber Suishi but was picked up by Austin John Plays who confirms it currently works on Tears of the Kingdom version 1.0 through to 1.1.2 which is the current iteration.

The list of items you need includes:

  • Two tree branches
  • Two raw meat (not fish or seafood, and ideally Raw Gourmet Meat as it's worth more)
  • Zonaite

You'll need to have Autobuild unlocked as well as armour for the cold or, failing that, lots of spicy dishes to keep you hot. You can find the early on in-game, or the Snowquill set from Rito Village which we recommend grabbing as soon as you can as it's one of the best Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom armour sets to survive Hyrule.

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It's possible to use this Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom glitch to make as much as 4,995 rupees in just five minutes which is helped along by your ability to mash the A-button at speed. As Austin John Plays notes, if you have an autofire controller this is going to be significantly easier on your button-mashing thumb and make the process a whole lot faster.

Rupee farming with Raw Gourmet Meat and Autobuild glitch

First up, make two meat weapons by fusing the two raw meat to their respective branches to make meat clubs. Then go ahead and fuse those two meat clubs together. Using the Autobuild function and Zonaite, recreate the two bonded meat clubs and attach them to the existing ones for a new Autobuild creation consisting of four meat clubs stuck together.

Repeat this process of using Autobuild and Zonaite until you reach a pre-set build of 16. Attach four more meat clubs to hit 20. We want to get as much out of this glitch as possible, so wriggle one free, then add two more meat clubs so the monstrosity you've created is 21-meat clubs strong. 21 is the max number of items you can drop on the ground at once, so we're really squeezing this for all it's worth. Now wriggle one free and sling it on your back.

Looking in your Autobuild history, you see the 21-meat club creation which you can favourite if you want. Now for the next phase which requires it to be night time, very cold, with a forecast of continued icy weather. Snowfield Stable is a good location as well as the campfire at the Spring of Wisdom close to Mount Lanayru Skyview Tower. There's a Great Fairy Fountain near the stable, as well as the mission for Zelda's Golden Horse so you can check those out if you haven't already. Just keep resting at the campfires until the forecast is what you need it to be.

Now that it's cold and night time, we can test if the conditions are right by taking a meat club – ideally it'll be on your back already if you've been following along with the instructions so far. Walk away from the fire and it should freeze, and drop down onto the ground. That means we're in business. If not, keep sleeping at the campfire until conditions are favourable.

Time for all that hard work to pay off! Pull out your 21-strong meat club creation Autobuild – do not build it. Just have it open and wait a couple of seconds; the meat will materialise and fall to the floor, frozen. Scoop up your 21 frozen meat which cost absolutely nothing to make. Rinse and repeat!

Austin John Plays does the math for you, but based on collecting 21 frozen meat in 10 seconds, you'll be adding 126 per minute to your inventory. That means you can amass one full stack of 999 items in eight minutes. If you manage to make this monstrosity with Gourmet Meat, bearing in mind Frozen Gourmet Meat nets you 40 rupees, you'll be raking in 39,960 rupees in eight minutes, which brings is back to the 4,995 rupees per minute stat we lured you in with.

This Tears of the Kingdom glitch doesn't work with roasting meats, but it does work with Chuchu Jelly. For example, taking out an Autobuild of Blue (water) Chuchu Jelly on sticks in a hot environment will turn them into Red Chuchu Jelly

We don't know when this Tears of the Kingdom glitch will be patched out so we recommend making your fortune with it as fast as you can before Nintendo zaps it with an update.

Shabana Arif

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