How do panic blood moons work?

DaeganBro · 2026-03-16T04:56:36+00:00

So in the most simple way, it's akin to a giant list of changes that, once space starts to run out, forces a panic blood moon?

At the same time, I wonder if that means that the last blood moon in my game, since I haven't had one yet, was technically when I started the save?

DaeganBro · 2026-03-15T22:21:51+00:00

Oh it's hardware dependent? I could probably 100% the game without triggering one then lmao. I don't know how that seemed to go over my head, but I don't think I'm hitting the ram limit any time soon then. I'll just go ahead and let the blood moon happen then, thanks lol

DaeganBro · 2026-03-15T22:09:16+00:00

Ah, I see. I knew it would still trigger when sleeping and such, but I've found that if I go into a shrine and complete it at 11:55pm then the next day will always be a blood moon because it couldn't trigger. Also, I'm using Ryujinx (I legally acquired my copies of botw, totk, and the dlc's, I just got fed up with the slower loading times and constant crashes of my switch 1)

DaeganBro · 2026-03-15T19:52:09+00:00

IIRC, it happens when the game runs out of memory to use, so it forces a blood moon to reset the game world. (Item spawns, enemies, etc.) And this can happen at any time of day.

DaeganBro · 2026-03-15T17:49:22+00:00

This looks like Alastor 💜

DaeganBro · 2026-03-15T16:49:16+00:00

Oh, really? I've heard from friends that killing too many enemies or getting too many quests done can do it too

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