The first Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom patch in over a month focusses on squashing quest bugs and is available to download now.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom continues to impress players on a daily basis, whether it's via cool ways to farm meat and rupees quickly, or the ability to instantly build mechanisms using Autobuild. It’s been a while since the game received a worthwhile patch from Nintendo, however, being yet more evidence of the highly polished state it initially released in. Update 1.2.0 released today is the first seen in over a month, offering further tweaks mainly centred on fixing main quest halting progress.
As well as providing fixes for bugs related to main quests, side quests and side adventures where progress was at risk of being halted, update 1.2.0 – as detailed on the Nintendo of America support site – also preps The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for upcoming cool functionality with the Nintendo Switch News channel feature. Accessed via the console’s main Home menu, the patch notes detail how players can “receive a number of in-game items” when launching the game from certain news stories.
There doesn’t seem to be any new in-game items to redeem just yet, but it might be worth following the Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom News channel for what appears to be the inevitable. Just bear in mind that if you’re someone who switched off auto updates in order to maintain the get rich quick glitch, you’ll have to update the game to 1.2.0 to benefit from future item rewards and the handful of side quest fixes.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Update 1.2.0 patch notes
General Updates
- By starting the game from within certain articles released on a specific Switch News channel (accessed via the HOME Menu) players can receive a number of in-game items.
- Depending on the state of gameplay progression or the location in which the data is reopened, there may be cases in which the items cannot be received.
Additional fixes
- Fixed an issue where players could not progress beyond a certain point in the main quests 'A Mystery in the Depths' and 'Secret of the Ring Ruins', the side adventures 'Hateno Village Research Lab' and 'Lurelin Village Restoration Project', the shrine quest 'Dyeing to Find It', and the side quests 'Village Attacked by Pirates', 'The Incomplete Stable', and 'Seeking the Pirate Hideout'. Downloading the update will allow players to proceed past that point.
- Fixed an issue preventing fairies from appearing under certain conditions when they originally should have appeared.
- Fixed an issue preventing the meals provided by Kiana of Lurelin Village from changing under certain conditions.
- Several issues have been addressed to improve the gameplay experience.
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Update 1.2.0 is available for all Nintendo Switch players to download now. It’ll be worthwhile doing so for anyone who has experienced issues in continuing progress.
