In Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, a “blood moon” happens every 3 or so in-game days. This is a cutscene where the sky turns red and the blood moon comes out. When this happens, all monsters you have killed in the world come back to life.
Iirc I think it’s every 7 in-game days (unaffected by sleeping or resting at fires), and nearly 3 hours real-time, but when you kill enough enemies it happens automatically so if you do a lot of killing then blood moons will happen more often.
I don’t think it’s on any sort of timer, 7 in game days is just a coincidence afaik.
It helps the game refresh so it doesn’t have as much data, about what monsters, items, etc are gone, to keep track of. It is a very clever double whammy feature that makes the game run better and more fun to play.
That is genius. I love knowing little tricks that devs use like that.
Do you know any other things of that sort?
