100 tidbits of information from IGN. Comments in brackets for the first 100 tidbits are mine thoughts on IGN's 100 points.
http://au.ign.com/articles/2017/03/...a-breath-of-the-wild-that-will-blow-your-mind
25 further tidbits of information from me.
1) If you throw a rusty weapon at some Octoroks, they will suck it up and spit back out a cleaned, new weapon.
2) You can survive in cold environments without elixirs or warm clothes just by equipping a Fire Rod or a torch. (can be very handy till you get the cold clothing)
3) The temperature in the desert is lower in the shade than it is in the sun. (does not always ring true. It only kind of works but it's nice when it does. A nice realistic touch)
4) Killing animals in very hot or very cold climates will give you meat that’s already cooked or chilled instead of raw meat. (not always the best thing as these foods are considered meals and not ingredients and take up precious meal inventory slots which are not unlimited. But good if you eat them right away).
5) If you use boulders, Cryonis, or other tricks to lift or dislodge an old rusted guardian you’ll find more ancient materials underneath it.
6) If you befriend dogs at stables they’ll sometimes lead you to buried treasure chests. (takes 4 pieces of standard meat to do it. Don't use better meat for this, it's too valiable).
7) If you feed your horse an Endura Carrot it will have more dash charges when you mount it. (does not work on the giant gorse for obvious reasons)
8) You can ride a bear. And a moose. And a deer. And a skeleton horse. And a spectral horse.
9) You can (very briefly) mount and ride a Lynel. They don’t like it very much. (a great way to do damage to them without using up any weapon durability, I highly recommend it).
10) You can ride an enemy’s skeletal undead horse. (as said earlier but they disappear at dawn for the obvious reasons).
11) If you try to take said horse to a stable to board it, the employees will freak out and not allow you to.
12) Link has a custom flexing idle animation if he doesn’t have a shirt equipped.
13) If you throw a boomerang at a Lizalfos, their weapon of choice, they’ll just catch it and use it against you. (A nice little touch)
14) If you drop raw meat on the ground on Death Mountain, it’ll instantly turn into steak. (breat in a pinch but better to cook the food properly.)
15) You can break the ice blocks bosses thrown at you with Cryonis — no need to spend all your arrows. (very good advice this one as arrows are precious in dungeons and shrines).
16) If you disarm a tough enemy and drop a leaf or other weak weapon in front of them, they’ll pick it up and use it. (abusing the enemy AI there)
17) If you shoot a Hinox’s single eye two times he’ll start shielding it with his hand, making the fight more challenging.
18) If you crawl onto a sleeping Hinox’s hand he’ll eventually lift you onto his belly to scratch himself. Then if you’re careful you can loot their necklace without fighting them. (Makes Eventide Island easier but without stealth gear it might not be possible)
19) You can burn off a Hinox’s leg armor to do more damage to it with your weapons. (only good if you have excess "over 100" fire arrows to burn or a spare fire rod)
20) Bokoblins and other monsters can be distracted by apples or other food you drop and will rush over to eat it.
21) A certain rare NPC sells monster masks that you can equip to infiltrate enemy camps without aggroing them. It is unsettling.
22) Shooting a metal box in an enemy camp with an electric arrow creates a huge damaging electric field. (Good for tougher enemy camps if you have lots of electric arrows)
23) You can drop and detonate bombs while parasailing over enemy camps.
24) Bomb arrows don’t work in the rain — they just fizzle out. (Same deal with fire arrows)
25) You can farm bomb arrows this way. Find a camp where the sentries wield bomb arrows, and go there in the rain. You can pick up all their unexploded shots.
26) On the other hand, bomb arrows taken out in extremely hot environments will instantly detonate.
27) If you cut down a tree with a flameblade it makes a campfire instead of a stack of wood.
28) Cooking during a blood moon creates “critical success” super-strong foods. (Something you should take advantage of. All cooknig has a small chance of being a crit, ie being a better result but just before a blood moon this crit rate increases to 100%)
29) Looking for a shrine? Look up — shrines usually have a group of birds circling above them.
30) The “Game Over” text can be icy, electrified, or have other special effects based off how you died.
31) If you roll a small snowball down a hill it’ll pick up more and more snow, turning into a giant snowball.
32) Birds can be startled into flying into thorns or other dangers, killing them.
33) Posters in stables and villages give you recipes for special custom foods to cook.
34) There’s custom dialogue for almost everything. Characters sometimes react differently to specific outfits (or if Link is wearing nothing, sometimes to quite incredible effect in the case of Impa’s granddaughter), as well as dialogue for different times of day. Characters also remember if you’ve met before, or if you initiate dialogue with them over and over.
35) Many merchants have custom dialogue of you talk to them while standing on their table. Purah’s is particularly cute.
36) Most characters also have custom dialogue based on the weather, especially rain.
37) Characters also break from their normal routines during the rain, and will stop working or playing outside to take shelter. (A great way in which Nintendo made the little things so well polished. Few games have this level of polish)
38) Traveling merchants sell better stuff on rainy days.
39) If rain is making it impossible for you to climb, drop some wood and use flint or a fire weapon to start a your own campfire. You can sit at it to skip time, same as the campfires in town. (only if you find shelter as the rain puts out fire obviously)
40) You can shoot an electric arrow into a body of water to kill all the fish swimming in the area. They’ll float to the surface. (also good for the compendium photos if you are ok with dead fish as the photos)
41) You can one-shot the annoying fire and ice Wizzrobes by hitting them with their elemental weakness.
42) If a shrine has a treasure chest icon next to it in the map, you found all that shrine’s hidden treasure. If there’s no icon, you missed a treasure inside. Time to revisit them! (you have to actually take the treasure within, not just open up the box. This is a godo visual hint for the 100% completionists)
43) If you run out of stamina and you’re about to fall to your death, you can fast-travel to safety from a mid-air fall. You can fast-travel anywhere at any time.
44) The Rito Village music theme can change and evolve based on what side quests you’ve completed and which musicians are back in town.
45) You can 'fish' with bombs
45) You can also “fish” with bombs, or by lifting a fish out of water with Cryonis.
46) Steam rises off of equipped fire weapons when it’s raining.
47) You can’t force your horse to swim into the water, but if a horse does end up in water, it can swim back out by itself and onto dry land.
48) Cutting tall grass will spawn and reveal insects, lizards, and even fairies you can capture. (No hearts of rupees though)
49) You can use Stasis on pressure plates to keep them stuck down for a while, letting you skip puzzles or solve them in unconventional ways. (I believe this is intentional by the developers and a few shrines actually require this)
50) You can use Stasis on most enemies and surprise them by disappearing from their field of view (I think you need the upgraded stasis rune for this.
51) Plain Chu jellies can be turned into red or white jellies by dropping them in snow or fire or attacking with an elemental weapon. If you display a lot of ingenuity you can electrify plain jelly, too. (This is good for great fairy clothing upgrade recipes that need elemental chu jelly)
52) If you hold a cucco and trick an enemy into whacking it a few times, the other cuccos will go crazy and attack them for you. (Would this work on Ganon?)
53) The Hylian runes visible in shrines and in various Sheikah Slate menus can actually be translated into English, and contain hidden messages and clues. (I believe someone is working on translating all of this)
54) Koroks react with special dialogue and sound if you “accidentally” drop a rock on their head.
55) Characters exclaim and react in various ways when you pull out a weapon when they don’t expect it.
56) Your unsupervised horse will steal apples from offerings, making it harder to complete a Korok challenge.
57) A Hinox will pick up trees around them to attack you with — you can cut them down while they sleep to put a stop to it.
58) Fire Keese set the grass on fire when they fly low.
59) You can use Stasis on an object and then stand on the object to be catapulted through the air, resulting in all kinds of puzzle skips and sequence breaks. (There is no sequence breaks or puzzle skips in this game as it's designed to be done in any order. But it's fun to do so it being fun is, I guess, worthy of it being on this list).
60) You can set grass on fire with fire arrows while flying to create an updraft and ascend further. (Also works with fire rods)
61) Fire an ice arrow at an enemy on Death Mountain and it will evaporate.
62) Drop a bomb in the back of a mine cart to propel it forward. (Donkey Kong would be proud)
63) There are remnants and ruins of previous Zelda games found in the landscape, including a depressing Lon Lon Ranch.
64) If Brigo sees Link stand on the side of a bridge, he will come and talk him down from trying to commit suicide. (This is a great and thought provoking tough added to the game)
65) Lightning can strike Link or enemies carrying metal weapons.
66) If you scare cuccos by attacking near them, it can make them plop out eggs.
67) Some electric circuit puzzles are supposed to be solved by dragging metal boxes around, but they have alternate solutions by dropping metal weapons on the ground. (Nintendo wanted to know if the players worked out different ways to do things. It's not an exploit, as Nintendo totally welcomes this and enjoys hearing of new ways created to do things in this game)
68) Drop things into a camp fire to “bake” them instantly, like apples or acorns. (Roasting things on an open fire is a thing in the real world too)
69) Link can do extra selfie poses by using the left joystick when holding down ZL.
70) Attach Octo balloons to objects, like explosives, and have them fall on your enemies.
71) If you bake crappy enough food, it’s censored out.
72) You can freeze food by taking it into cold temperatures. Frozen food gives you a minute of heat resistance. (It's better to keep the ingredients for cooking proper and make better heat resistant food but in a pinch this works too)
73) You can bake a cake! Use apple or wild berry, fruit, wheat, cane sugar.
74) Lynels sometimes won’t attack you on sight. Instead they stare you down. (not for long though, before they attack)
75) If you draw your weapon near a Lynel, they’ll draw theirs, and usually begin attacking.
76) Other times the Lynel just keeps standing, staring you down, weapon drawn. Spooky! (not true, eventually they always attack if you are close enough)
77) The Lynel in the coliseum can arc arrows completely over walls to hit you from behind, as you cower there like a coward. (This is true of all Lynels)
78) There’s a mask to blend in with Lynels — but it doesn’t last long as they’re too smart to be fooled for long.
79) Killing enough enemies will cause more powerful versions of those monsters to appear in camps around Hyrule.
80) Blood Moons will cause Guardian Scouts in shrines to respawn. Repeat those Tests of Strength for ++ weapons! (Also good for the compendium. This is something to make use of)
81) Some stables have an attendant that can customize your horse’s bridle, saddle, and mane color and type.
82) If you travel to the far North mountains of Hebra, you can sometimes see an aurora borealis in the sky at night.
83) Kass, the wandering Rito minstrel, will sing riddles about shrines to the tune of the main theme of Breath of the Wild. Each riddle is a different part of the song.
84) There are extremely rare and valuable materials that — if cooked into a dish — will drastically increase the length of the meal’s special effect.
85) Link can become a homeowner, and decorate the walls with weapons and shields you find.
86) Chuchu’s and their jelly can be shot from a distance to cause them to explode with elemental damage, damaging enemies nearby.
87) Certain insects, monsters, and animals only come out at night.
88) Many locations in the game are named after iconic Zelda characters and areas from previous games. (Almost all locations in the game have a reference to previous Zeldas games or lore)
89) You can cut the legs off a Guardian Stalker to stun them, and eventually immobilize them completely. (This also counts as damahe to the main body and gives you more ancient parts for the defeated legs so it's a good idea to do)
90) You can also blow up the propellers of a Guardian Skywatcher to send them crashing to the ground. (Very hard to do. I have tried with no success so far)
91) With the right timing, you can perfectly parry a Guardian’s laser back at him just using a Pot Lid or any other lowly shield. (Any shield works but the timing is very tough to get. Much harder than perfect blocking Lynel's attacks)
92) Most motion control shrine puzzles can be “cheesed” by flipping your controller completely upside-down or to another odd angle — the game recognizes the input and will flip the environment complete upside-down too.
93) Pikango the Painter’s paintings are actually pretty terrible, if you swing the camera around to look at them.
94) If you run in a tight circle and attack you can do a spin attack without charging it up.
95) Bokoblins and Moblins can’t swim. Pushing them into water kills them. (Also makes them drop less loot and weapons. I prefer to kill them on land to get the loot)
96) Moblins near water do have a custom idle animation, however. They’ll wash themselves and sometimes take a drink.
97) You don’t need a Korok leaf to power a raft. Just hop on, and use Magnesis to push a big metal weapon against it — the raft will move like a motor boat. Who needs the laws of physics? (Very slow, the leaf is better)
98) Pay attention to the positioning of the shrine monks — they have custom, sometimes quite unique, poses.
99) Link has custom climbing animations based off how steep or strenuous the climb is, and how much stamina the climb is using.
100) Enemy Moblins won’t just pick up stray weapons — they’ll sometimes pick up and toss a poor Bokoblin and hurl the little guy right at Link.
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Some more points from me.
101) Attacking a Molten Stone Talus with an ice based weapon or attacking an Ice Stone Talus with a fire based weapon will turn the affected parts of it's body to normal for a while before they go back to their elemental state.
102) You can take gear with you to Eventide Island for the challenge if you drop it just before you ealk in the shore. Stand in the shallows, drop the loot, start the challenge then pick up the dropped loot. Remember to drop the any loot found or used in the challenge just before you complete the challenge or you'll lose it as you revert back to your pre-challenge state.
103) You can use bombs or the Master Sword to mine for ore to save weapon durability. Just remember that bombs will send the ore flying a little and you have to look for it to find it. Not hard though.
104) The blood moon will replenish the health of all monsters including bosses and Ganon. Take note of this when you plan to take on tougher enemies.
105) Throwing unwanted metal loot at enemies during a storm, means it can be struck by lightning and hurt the enemies. Works with metal boxes as well. Also works really well with weapons you have equipped and are sparking rapidly. A good way to get use out of a very damaged metal weapon.
106) Don't use bombs to break metal boxes. Just drop them from a height with the magnesis rune. Also works to drop metal boxes on wooden barrels and boxes. This is the best way to destroy wooden barrels that come with some amiibo. Just drop the chest on the barrels from a height with the magnesis rune.
107) Can use a campfire to put a drawn arrow on fire to save on fire arrows.
108) A campfire next to an block of meltable ice will melt it completely slowly.
109) The save game feature can be abused to always win at the rupee gambling mini game. Just save after a win and reset to your previous save if you lose. It's a little RNG and a little slow but does give decent rupees.
110) The Horse Fairy can only bring back stabled horses from the dead. Got Epona in a place where it was stuck and can't be taken to a stable to be registered so you killed it or left it there and later saved the game? Then you're out of luck. Supposedly you can get the aliibo to spawn Epona again. I've tried many times with no luck so far.
111) Amiibo can only be scanned once a day. I believe it is once a day, not once every 24 hours, so it does not matter when you scan them, the cooldown resets at whenever your Switch passes midnight in real time.
112) The number of metal boxes that the Guardian amiibo spawns in random. You can get 3, 4 or 5 metal boxes.
113) The Ganondorf amiibo can sometimes spawn TNT barrels.
114) Plant life materials and fish can be photographed for the compendium from your innventory. Just drop the item and take the photo. Then pick up the item again. The photos are not the best but it works for the comendium. Critters wirk in the same way but most run away much to fast to be photographed. Better to photograph these in the wild.
115) Photograhs of dear, Elk and boars in the deer hunting mini game count towards the compendium. A good way to get these ones ticked off.
116) The cryonis rune does not only work on horizontal water. it also works on vertical water also. Think waterfalls and similar.
117) Moblins and bokoblin can throw TNT barrels at you.
118) Shooting down honey bear bokoblin will make the bees attack the bokoblin. Not for ever as they will eventually either die or fend off the bees.
119) Wooden weapons on fire eventually burn up if in your hand and on fire for too long. To prevent this just put the weapon away. This does not apply to torches as they can be in your hand and on fire for ever and not burn up.
120) If you can't throw a rock far enough for a Korok seed challenge, you can use the stasis rune. It's tricky to get the distance right but it works.
121) Guardian laser blasts will kill other enemies. Very hard to get this beam to kill the other enemies and not Link also in the process. This makes it not so useful but it still is a thing in the game. A nice little attention to detail.
122) You can not land on a flying guardian. I have tried multiple times without success. I even made a perfect landing after several attempts and Link just slipped off the guardian.
123) Extra stamina does nothing when mounting Lynels. You can only atack them mounted for s set length of time before you are bucked off. The extra stamina is still good when out running their fire blasts though.
124) Standard arrows will not explode TNT barrels. You need fire. Both bomb and fire arrows do this as does all other fire sources.
125) There is a maximum limit to how many cooked or frozen meals you can hold. Realising this will help Link have the most useful dishes on hand at any ome time as it's pretty easy to cook enough to make the maximum amount allowed if you farm materials enough.
