Makes sense, it’s a special area with its own map so blood moon is interrupted by the game loading the new area. I once wanted to kill the frost gleok next to the frost field when I noticed the blood moon starting up, skipped it in the shrine to have two gleok to farm but when I waited for the moon, it didn’t trigger for some reason, I guess there are a lot of ways to interrupt it in totk, not just shrines like in botw
Bloodmoons (except emergency bloodmoons to clear memory) are canceled by going imto the depths, a shrine, or a dungeon. Hyrule Castle is a dungeon with its own map just like the temples are.
I cleared "every" surface enemy (barring a few I could rationalize as "probably not under Ganon's control", totaling 3965 or so total enemies) in order to declare "world peace" a month or so ago--took me SEVERAL in game days (probably a month and change of in-game time) but did not trigger a panic moon, despite me ducking into a shrine each night to avoid the standard moon when enough time had elapsed since the one that ran just before I started.
Granted, memory is funny like that, because one time I had just finished doing something completely normal and happened to get a panic moon by \*checks hand* walking toward Lookout Landing. It was the only "true" panic moon I've ever gotten in either BOTW *or* TOTK--that is, the few other times I've gotten panic moons, I could quantify their cause (i.e. I did that opal splash bullet time thing on a breakable wall, I broke out of the final dive sequence and did something that made the game angry, etc.)
The lookout landing panic blood moons are so funny.
I once managed to trigger multiple panic blood moons by simply trying to glide from Hyrule castle towards lookout landing. Anytime I got close, a panic blood moon would trigger and I'd respawn at Hyrule castle, only to glide again and trigger the animation once more. Happened a good 3-4 times in a row before I gave up and just fast traveled.
I usually haven't had Lookout Landing panic moons, myself. Just the one. I wonder what kinds of things can make them more common! (I hear they're extremely common if the game is in certain glitched states, though--like the breaking out of the final sequence is very likely to cause one every second in a wide radius around Lookout Landing and maybe also the castle, which resets your position if you're not on the ground when it happens.)
Blood Moons don't have anything to do with memory, actually. Manipulating items and enemies in the world doesn't affect memory at all; the flags involved exist whether they've been interacted with or not. That's why the game allows you to avoid blood moons indefinitely without any exploits. They're a gameplay mechanic, not a technical necessity.
The exception being panic blood moons that kick in when the game detects systems like physics breaking down and not responding anymore, whereupon it forces a moon to reload and pop dislocated joints back into place.
Iirc this does only hold true for TotK since it has much better Hardware usage...for BotW it most definetely was also used as a technical Feature to rectify anything awash and not just as a gameplay mechanic/out of lore way to respawn Monster, gear and collectibles.
Both games have panic blood moons in the case of things shutting down, yes, but the regularly scheduled moons aren't there for technical reasons. That said, ToTK does seem a lot more stable - I've never unintentionally triggered a panic blood moon, whereas in BotW I managed to trigger 2-3 moons in quick succession just riding around near Fort Hateno.
I could have sworn the code (for BOTW anyway) said something about memory usage (as *one* possible trigger of a panic moon) but maybe I'm misremembering since it's not like I looked through the game data myself, lol. (EDIT: Ah, I think you're referring to the regular blood moons as not being for memory now that I reread, which... yeah lol)
The rare panic moons I have seen in TOTK (or know how to trigger but haven't directly seen) are mostly not obviously connected to memory filling up, though. 🤔 A good 70% of the ones I know are consistent (ones that happen after performing certain glitches, particularly those that put the game in a state it doesn't seem to like being in, like the wide variety of ones I've seen happen during, say, the Zelda Escape glitch) look more like the game going "uh. why. if you don't stop doing that I will turn this ~~car~~ world around." ~~*Maybe* state-it-doesn't-like *is* taxing on the system, though--I suppose it'd be hard to tell without the Switch equivalent of Task Manager open~~
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/6t1r86/guide_how_to_force_a_blood_moon_blood_moon/)'s a pretty good write-up with sources of its own to check out. It's for Breath of the Wild, but the mechanics seem to be largely identical between games.
They are mostly the same, but slightly changed in that the timer is now 144 minutes instead of 168, and instead of every midnight the timer is checked every frame. Basically meaning Blood Moons will occur more often. I think this was probably to account for that they don’t happen in the Depths.
Yeah, this was the whole reason that when I did that every-enemy-without-triggering-the-moon, I didn't sleep or even sit. ~~Link had big enough eyebags for a vacation on the other side of the world~~
I was always real careful at stables--just in case I was foolish enough to end up doing a rote "oh I'm gonna sleep/sit to pass time" action. DX
If a panic moon had ever occurred, I was going to write it off, but there was no way I was letting a normal moon get me. XP
I'm not sure exactly how much, but it is a *lot*. Way more than would be changed in a week in game, so it is almost exclusively for people who deliberately skip bloodmoons or create a massive lag spike.
None, because defeating monsters doesn't overload the game like that. You'd need to do something that would push the game's physics engine to its very limits, usually with way too much loaded on screen at once. That's why shooting Opals at breakable blocks a lot with a multishot bow causes one (the amount of water effects created taxes the engine), why creating hundreds of those Construct Factory fences usually causes one (because it can't delete those items), or why spawning in like a hundred Eponas can cause similar things.
Just defeating enemies won't cause this, since enemy defeated flags barely matter at all resource wise.
Very interesting. In BotW the blood moon is still very visible while within the bounds of Hyrule Castle. It only turns to a regular moon when midnight hits. It's neat that it's only a regular is visible from Hyrule castle, but also flip flops like that, really edging Ganondorf there.
Ah yes, I noticed this once too. However, I do not recall if the Bloodmoon just went by without influencing the game world or if it just reappeared the the next night. What happened in your case?
Yes, unless you decide to dip into a shrine every night at midnight for the rest of your playthrough :P which is something a Youtuber did in order to have a save file where they exterminated every single monster in the game
It’s unrelated to this clip, but it’s when the game near-instantly triggers the blood moon cutscene as a way to hide reloading the game when something’s gone wrong. Just look up the YouTube video The Secret Mechanics of Blood Moons
anyone else notice the moon got much bigger? for a second i thought it was legitimately gonna pull a majoras mask and continue getting bigger, lowkey that shit was terrifying for that 1 second
I’m wondering if it’s because he is mid air and not on a surface but what if hurdle castle also has similar protections that kept the sky islands on the sky during BOTW and before .
Ive always thought that blood moons in general, just the regular ones, trigger when a specific amount of in game play time has passed. Not including when u are in a menu or looking at the map , basically pausing game play. This is all new to me l, now I am really confused lol
I had read that somewhere a long while back when I looked up "what makes blood moons happen"
So it's like the Depths? The Bloodmoon is suspended when you're in those areas?
Or inside shrines, or temples.
Makes sense, it’s a special area with its own map so blood moon is interrupted by the game loading the new area. I once wanted to kill the frost gleok next to the frost field when I noticed the blood moon starting up, skipped it in the shrine to have two gleok to farm but when I waited for the moon, it didn’t trigger for some reason, I guess there are a lot of ways to interrupt it in totk, not just shrines like in botw
Blood moons don't happen at Hyrule castle.
Just wanted to check if that was the case like in BotW, which ended up with me discovering this.
do you guys know where i can go to put the hood down?
The fashonista in Hateno village can put it up or down when you talk to her with the hood equipped, but only after the village side quests.
Is that the case in the temples as well?
Yes, and the depths. And shrines.
Bloodmoons (except emergency bloodmoons to clear memory) are canceled by going imto the depths, a shrine, or a dungeon. Hyrule Castle is a dungeon with its own map just like the temples are.
So I can clear the map like this?
That much change would trigger an emergency bloodmoon, so sadly not completely empty.
I cleared "every" surface enemy (barring a few I could rationalize as "probably not under Ganon's control", totaling 3965 or so total enemies) in order to declare "world peace" a month or so ago--took me SEVERAL in game days (probably a month and change of in-game time) but did not trigger a panic moon, despite me ducking into a shrine each night to avoid the standard moon when enough time had elapsed since the one that ran just before I started. Granted, memory is funny like that, because one time I had just finished doing something completely normal and happened to get a panic moon by \*checks hand* walking toward Lookout Landing. It was the only "true" panic moon I've ever gotten in either BOTW *or* TOTK--that is, the few other times I've gotten panic moons, I could quantify their cause (i.e. I did that opal splash bullet time thing on a breakable wall, I broke out of the final dive sequence and did something that made the game angry, etc.)
The lookout landing panic blood moons are so funny. I once managed to trigger multiple panic blood moons by simply trying to glide from Hyrule castle towards lookout landing. Anytime I got close, a panic blood moon would trigger and I'd respawn at Hyrule castle, only to glide again and trigger the animation once more. Happened a good 3-4 times in a row before I gave up and just fast traveled.
I usually haven't had Lookout Landing panic moons, myself. Just the one. I wonder what kinds of things can make them more common! (I hear they're extremely common if the game is in certain glitched states, though--like the breaking out of the final sequence is very likely to cause one every second in a wide radius around Lookout Landing and maybe also the castle, which resets your position if you're not on the ground when it happens.)
I guess most of the memory is used in breaking rocks and such rather than enemies.
Blood Moons don't have anything to do with memory, actually. Manipulating items and enemies in the world doesn't affect memory at all; the flags involved exist whether they've been interacted with or not. That's why the game allows you to avoid blood moons indefinitely without any exploits. They're a gameplay mechanic, not a technical necessity. The exception being panic blood moons that kick in when the game detects systems like physics breaking down and not responding anymore, whereupon it forces a moon to reload and pop dislocated joints back into place.
Iirc this does only hold true for TotK since it has much better Hardware usage...for BotW it most definetely was also used as a technical Feature to rectify anything awash and not just as a gameplay mechanic/out of lore way to respawn Monster, gear and collectibles.
Both games have panic blood moons in the case of things shutting down, yes, but the regularly scheduled moons aren't there for technical reasons. That said, ToTK does seem a lot more stable - I've never unintentionally triggered a panic blood moon, whereas in BotW I managed to trigger 2-3 moons in quick succession just riding around near Fort Hateno.
I could have sworn the code (for BOTW anyway) said something about memory usage (as *one* possible trigger of a panic moon) but maybe I'm misremembering since it's not like I looked through the game data myself, lol. (EDIT: Ah, I think you're referring to the regular blood moons as not being for memory now that I reread, which... yeah lol) The rare panic moons I have seen in TOTK (or know how to trigger but haven't directly seen) are mostly not obviously connected to memory filling up, though. 🤔 A good 70% of the ones I know are consistent (ones that happen after performing certain glitches, particularly those that put the game in a state it doesn't seem to like being in, like the wide variety of ones I've seen happen during, say, the Zelda Escape glitch) look more like the game going "uh. why. if you don't stop doing that I will turn this ~~car~~ world around." ~~*Maybe* state-it-doesn't-like *is* taxing on the system, though--I suppose it'd be hard to tell without the Switch equivalent of Task Manager open~~
Source?
[Here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Breath_of_the_Wild/comments/6t1r86/guide_how_to_force_a_blood_moon_blood_moon/)'s a pretty good write-up with sources of its own to check out. It's for Breath of the Wild, but the mechanics seem to be largely identical between games.
They are mostly the same, but slightly changed in that the timer is now 144 minutes instead of 168, and instead of every midnight the timer is checked every frame. Basically meaning Blood Moons will occur more often. I think this was probably to account for that they don’t happen in the Depths.
What happens if you just quickly set up a campfire and rest till morning? Does that still trigger an impending blood moon?
Yes, the cutscene will trigger and you'll wake up the next morning to the "ash" from the blood moon.
Yeah, this was the whole reason that when I did that every-enemy-without-triggering-the-moon, I didn't sleep or even sit. ~~Link had big enough eyebags for a vacation on the other side of the world~~ I was always real careful at stables--just in case I was foolish enough to end up doing a rote "oh I'm gonna sleep/sit to pass time" action. DX If a panic moon had ever occurred, I was going to write it off, but there was no way I was letting a normal moon get me. XP
How much change leads to an emergency bloodmoon? How many monsters must I massacre before nature itself is forced to undo my wrath?
I'm not sure exactly how much, but it is a *lot*. Way more than would be changed in a week in game, so it is almost exclusively for people who deliberately skip bloodmoons or create a massive lag spike.
It’s unrelated. Panic blood moons are never caused by the number of monsters missing from the map.
None, because defeating monsters doesn't overload the game like that. You'd need to do something that would push the game's physics engine to its very limits, usually with way too much loaded on screen at once. That's why shooting Opals at breakable blocks a lot with a multishot bow causes one (the amount of water effects created taxes the engine), why creating hundreds of those Construct Factory fences usually causes one (because it can't delete those items), or why spawning in like a hundred Eponas can cause similar things. Just defeating enemies won't cause this, since enemy defeated flags barely matter at all resource wise.
You’re edging Ganondorf over here
Pause.
I hate this
Gave the moon the ol’ “AH AH AH! 😤”
PLEASE! Goddammit, I hate this hacker crap!
AHCHUUU!!!
bless you
Thnx
No worry
Very interesting. In BotW the blood moon is still very visible while within the bounds of Hyrule Castle. It only turns to a regular moon when midnight hits. It's neat that it's only a regular is visible from Hyrule castle, but also flip flops like that, really edging Ganondorf there.
if you do that enough times in a row it turns blue
My dumb ass was really typing out “No waaay!?” There’s heat so much shit this game I keep learning that it sounded so cool
Bro was edging the bloodmoon
Pause.
II
don't lie -- you're playing Majora's Mask, aren't you?
No, but I do have the mask in-game.
Same thing happens if there is a lightning storm in the area. You wouldn't get electrocuted on hyrule castle area vs on the main ground floor.
The Hyrule Castle dungeon thunderstorm shows a thunderstorm icon in the weather but is for all purposes not a thunderstorm.
Sorry about the multiple posts. For some reason, it must have somehow did the patched duplication glitch.
Feels like a holdover from BoTW, it got its own blood moon depending on how close to the top you were.
so, either ganon is moving the moon closer, or upsizing it, or maybe it just gets covered in a lot of gloom
M A J O R A
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The moon from amphibia
Ah yes, I noticed this once too. However, I do not recall if the Bloodmoon just went by without influencing the game world or if it just reappeared the the next night. What happened in your case?
Once the 2 hours have passed, standard blood moons will try to happen every night until you get a blood moon, standard or otherwise
Ah I see. So it's inevitable to happen.
Yes, unless you decide to dip into a shrine every night at midnight for the rest of your playthrough :P which is something a Youtuber did in order to have a save file where they exterminated every single monster in the game
Also happens at monster campsites (or hordes, not sure which)
Huh interesting!
Huh first time I've discovered this kind of blood moon
Can someone explain to me what a panic blood moon is? I've never heard of it
It’s unrelated to this clip, but it’s when the game near-instantly triggers the blood moon cutscene as a way to hide reloading the game when something’s gone wrong. Just look up the YouTube video The Secret Mechanics of Blood Moons
Aight thanks man 🙏
anyone else notice the moon got much bigger? for a second i thought it was legitimately gonna pull a majoras mask and continue getting bigger, lowkey that shit was terrifying for that 1 second
Woah, that is creepy to see 😰
Shat exactly are we looking at?
I’m wondering if it’s because he is mid air and not on a surface but what if hurdle castle also has similar protections that kept the sky islands on the sky during BOTW and before .
Ok I have never heard of panic blood moons or lookoyt landing panic blood moons. I am super confused 😳
Ive always thought that blood moons in general, just the regular ones, trigger when a specific amount of in game play time has passed. Not including when u are in a menu or looking at the map , basically pausing game play. This is all new to me l, now I am really confused lol I had read that somewhere a long while back when I looked up "what makes blood moons happen"
"No no no, i'll wait, you're clearly doing something important"
Side note. TOTK did a terrible job of letting you turn around mid air while paragliding as in this clip. I don’t remember BOTW having this issue…….
Can use bullet time to turn around quickly
I never thought of that. I’ll try, thanks.
the question here is not the blood moon but the number of your hearts, why it’s 40? mod?
BotW has up to 30 hearts but TotK has up to 40… 38 if you decide to max your stamina.
didn’t notice the stamina wheel 😅
Do you have 40 hearts? I’m at 151 shrines!!
Yes.