
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. PSA: Your Old BOTW Save Unlocks Something Cool in TOTK.14 Things Tears of the Kingdom Doesn't Tell You.Effect: Lucky Break activates any time you are injured. 16 Things to Do First in Tears of the Kingdom Lucky Break Original Character: Yui Kimura Description: Youve had your share of scrapes and bruises, but lucks always on your side.If you still need a little help getting to the Depths in the first place, check out our guide to the Camera Work in the Depths quest that will get you there.Īnd for help with everything Tears of the Kingdom, take a look at our Tears of the Kingdom Walkthrough and Guide about making your way through Hyrule.

It's a truly mind-blowing secret once you realize what's really going on. The level of detail here is genuinely incredible, as this means that Nintendo essentially created a "Dark World" version of Hyrule ala Link to the Past, but underground instead of through a mirror. Essentially, to navigate the Depths, you can use your surface map and keep an eye out for Shrines that will correspond to Lightroots to light the way, and avoid rivers, since they'll generally block off progress. Those giant walls you keep running into underground tat are hindering your progress? Those tend to line up with rivers and other bodies of water above ground. Tall mountains on the surface seem to be deep valleys with mines in the Depths. What's more, the topography seems to mirror itself too. Some Redditors are even suggesting at least some boss locations match up between the two maps. The similarities are remarkably striking. Forests on the surface are groves in the Depths, and leviathan skeletons on the surface line up with dark skeletons underground. For instance, Goddess Statues on the surface correspond to Bargainer Statues in the Depths, and towns correspond to Grand Mines. In fact, the Depths appears to be a literal dark mirror of the surface above, with all its major locations and landmarks corresponding to ones on the surface.Ī recent Reddit thread has catalogued a number of these parallels, and IGN has been able to confirm they're true. Neat, right?īut it goes so much farther than that. So Mayachin Shrine on the surface is Nihcayam Lightroot in the Depths. For instance, you might notice that Lightroots in the Depths seem to correspond to Shrine locations on the surface, and that their names reflect the Shrine names backwards. Stardew Valley is available on Android, iOS, PC, PS4, Switch, and Xbox One.Early on in Tears of the Kingdom, you might start to get hints as to what's really going on with the Depths.

The "dangerous" Mines not only offer a tougher challenge, but are also the only source of Radioactive Nodes, a vital resource for endgame crafting. The Shrine of Challenge is a switch that allows players to toggle between the normal Mines or the "dangerous" Mines, though changing from one to the other won't take effect until the next morning. Completing Danger in the Deep will award 50 Qi Gems and unlock the Shrine of Challenge, which can be found at Floor 120 of The Mines. In order to complete the quest, players will need to descend through all 120 Floors in a single week, though Staircases can be used to speed up the process.ĭefeating 120 Floors of "dangerous" Mines isn't easy, and players should make sure that they're fully prepared for the challenges when they take the quest. It will also reset all the purchasable gear in the Adventurer's Guild. When players accept the Danger in the Deep quest, it will reset the elevator progress in The Mines, and fill them with new and powerful monsters.
