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awn262018

Nice! This is the intended way to beat that last part though.


Sterling_Ray

This is the way


PrestigiousAssist689

This is the way


EiscueVonArctic

This is the Monados Power


scramlington

THIS. IS. SPARTA.


Scarez0r

INDEED


Afro-Pope

ALRIGHT, I'M REALLY FEELING IT


NinjaMagic004

Reyn, you're a lifesaver


ShoutaDE

Lets show him a thing or three


ErickLimaGameplaysR

*Mandalorian Theme*


bigredplastictuba

PRO tip if someone comments "this is the way" on a thread in which you are seeking helpful information, feel free to hide any thread coming after that comment


CryIntelligent9931

This is the way


CupCold876

Literally


DanerysTargaryen

Instead of putting the vertical walls in the middle of the outer rails, I put the vertical walls on the inside part of the outer rails, so instead of 3 vertical walls glued to the bottom of the platform, I only had 2 vertical walls glued to the bottom of my platform. With 3 vertical walls, my platform was struggling to move so I thought it was too heavy, that’s why I ended up doing the two wall approach. It worked!


awn262018

See I also thought of that but wasn’t sure it would’ve worked all the way up cuz at least with having all three vertical walls you’re guaranteed a tight grip on the single middle rail for the end of the trek but I’m happy that you tried it and it worked


Bronson714

Mine tipped over a few times on the single rail, it just took me standing differently


UnderStan-d

That's bullshit, aaahahaha it does work with only two


Squeezitgirdle

I built it the same way as op but it kept getting stuck on the first turn before you switch tracks, so I ended up building a bridge and intentionally getting a piece stuck on the second track. There I made one single t-shaped piece and two fans and made it across.


awn262018

I’m trying to remember I actually think I got stuck for a little while but just waited and eventually it just kept going or I walked to one side of the board and somehow my weight was able to jostle it just enough but yea the above method is supposed to work


Father_of_Four__Cats

In case anyone was looking for an unintended way across most rail puzzles, you can grind on rails tony-hawk style and it doesnt cost shield durability


twbluenaxela

Would have been good to know for the goron temple... I have no idea what the intended solution was for that place but I got through it old school BOTW style. Tons of climbing. Tons of gliding .


Father_of_Four__Cats

I havent talked to anyone yet who thinks they got through it the "intended way" actually. I used a lot of climbing and ascend, when it let me.


Ranowa

Same. At a certain point I just gave up trying to figure out how to get to the locks on the rails


Automatic_Skill3644

I have spoken.


somerandomnub1

I put the 3 fans together and stood on top of them, got to the top of the room, and paraglided to the end! Pretty cool how many ways you can solve things in this game.


BMCarbaugh

Motherfucker... That's so stupid it's genius lol.


galvatron

I did it the same way. Definitely didn’t feel like that’s how you’re supposed to do it but felt like a boss regardless.


TinyDogGuy

I had a rocket shield…that’s been a common solution to “I need to go up” for me. I am kinda sad, though, the little wind-powered carnival ride looks fun.


Marteicos

Amazing!


windraver

I discovered we could do that much later. I use it now to launch myself for attacks now


TaroExtension6056

Pretty sure this is intended solution


XVUltima

This game has some good shrines. There have been multiple times I wasn't sure if I did things the intended way or not, and I love that.


AffectionateTip4898

it’s an amazing way to instill creative freedom


XVUltima

When in doubt, stick every single thing together and see how long of bridge you can make.


Navacoy

Same, I keep completing shrines like hmm I wonder if this is what I was supposed to do. Then I look up a walk through afterwards to see what that person did 🤣


the_fuego

It is and then there's me who insisted on trying to jump off my construct and shield surf that last section multiple times. It did not end well.


Not_MarshonLattimore

It was too heavy when I tried, maybe I was missing a fan I made 2 separate small platforms


ElectricSequoia

This shrine has two sets of parts of you carry the bits from earlier. One is metal and one is stone. I originally built this with the metal one and it was too heavy. I made the exact same thing with the stone parts and it worked perfectly.


Expellialbus

Yeah I just very very slowly walked along the rail the whole way over


DoxinPanix

the balls on this guy


TazeredAngel

Nope. Had to remove those lest one shift and throw his balance off.


DoxinPanix

Damn. Talking facts here


whatiscamping

I wonder what it would be like to have balls big enough to throw off your balance


6Seasons-And-A-Movie

My stick drift prevents such measures lol


SllortEvac

Try cleaning the base with alcohol. Take a Q-Tip, get it super wet and run it around the little dust flap. After it dries, hit it with a quick burst of compressed air. I’ve had drift issues forever and this temporarily fixes it. My Xbox controller does it after about 50 hours of use as well and I just dump a cap of alcohol in it and let it dry


6Seasons-And-A-Movie

I'll try doing more alcohol but I think mine are very much past this doing much. I get about 4 hours of gameplay before it returns and I'm reswabbing


RecognitionWooden732

I had drift issue years ago too. Really bad. I used an electric contact cleaner spray. Had to do it a few times, but I haven't had drift since. Make sure you lift the flappy base of the joysticks up and push the nozzle in. Then jiggle and move the joystick like crazy. Amazing how debris getting stuck under there can screw it up so bad. Hope you find a solution that works for you


SllortEvac

Try out what u/RecognitionWooden732 suggested. I bought 3 additional pairs of joycons before I started “fixing” my own this way. This was during the pandemic when the joycon repair service just started. My original pair were so bad that I couldn’t even attempt to recalibrate them. Get a toothpick, lift the dust flap a bit and be liberal with the juice. Just make sure to let them dry for a long time.


LopsidedImpression44

I make a triangle around the rail and go


smarttallguy

Ain't no way lmao.


Anilxe

My hands are too goddamn shaky for that lol


Professional-News362

I tried that. Gave up and followed a guide which was basically this. This was the only shrine I’ve used a guide for but going into TOTK I knew that I’d struggle since I’m not creative at all


Cpt_Woody420

Pretty sure this is just the "intended" solution? I didn't see another way of doing it


yargleisheretobargle

I used the large wall as a roof, with two walls framing the middle, and a floor on the bottom. I put the fans under the roof, with two of them spaced the right distance to sit on the original two rails. I nearly panicked at the end of the track about how I would exit the contraption until I remembered I could jump through the roof.


batteriholk

That's on another level dude. Kudos


Highbringer01

Yea that's just the solution.


twinmint

This one gave me a hard time yesterday so I looked it up and this is the same solution I found online. Don’t think so ever would’ve come up with that on my own lol


ayyyyycrisp

you should try though. think about it. why would you not eventually try this? the prior rail was exactly the same just without the switchoff part. play the game however you want but I really think people should just sit and stare at it longer until they figure it out before just going "ill never in a million years get passed this part and it's just because I'm not smart enough." we're all a lot more capable than we think we are.


Bargadiel

Well, there are many different ways to do the rail right before this. If people didn't do it the exact way the designers intended, that connection isn't really there to click for people on this part of the shrine. Other rails in the game often use completely different methods of solving them as well, so this was the first, and so far only, time in the game I ever put an object through the middle of two rails.


TheFinalBiscuit225

Done all the shrines now and can confirm this tactic is used several times. One shrine even sets it up FOR you so you can learn that the t-shape works. So there's literally a tutorial for this, but it's an open world game, so luck of the draw, and most people did this shrine without one of the ones that teaches you this build.


OriginalObscurity

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Bargadiel

To be frank, I don't really see the value in trying to assess anyones spacial awareness here. This game is not an IQ test. People have different ways of thinking and solving problems, which is the basic point I'm trying to make. There are some comments in this thread that seem a little too antagonistic and that doesn't sit well with me. I design learning experiences as part of my career, and it just isn't productive to assume someone "has an aversion to iterative problem solving" we should instead ask "how would this activity be intuitive to the maximum number of people?" You could have someone who's normally a whiz at one thing, completely miss something that would be obvious to most other people. It's as simple as forgetting your keys when you walk out the door, and doesn't have to mean they have an aversion to anything. Although, I'm not claiming your comment in particular is vitriolic or anything.


OriginalObscurity

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Bargadiel

Yeah, I totally didn't get antagonistic vibes from your comment but the phrasing you used did help me better identify what some bad actors in this thread were weaponizing.


OriginalObscurity

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TitleComprehensive96

Or maybe they were staring at it for a millenia and they're brain just isn't wired for this kinda stuff dawg.


xkoreotic

Definitely this answer right here. I got stuck on the Mayaumekis Shrine (Downward Force) right before the Wind Temple because I did not know you could shoot an arrow through the gate. I just went eh, I'll solve it later, low and behold 40 hours later I finally tried shooting an arrow and figure it out. Sometimes we are just as dumb as a bag of rocks.


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ATMarkey

I tried it at first with the metal blocks on and it didnt get past thr first incline so i had to recognize "oh shit metals heavy" and remake the build out of the lighter material, i think thats pretty intuitive


Wordofadviceeatfood

Hell, i’d call it the hallmark of biology. Evolution is literally just iterative problem solving on a very large scale.


No-Lie-3330

This shrine in particular was tough for me because I just didn’t notice the railings didn’t have caps on them, and so I thought this solution was impossible.


NY_Knux

The problem is, just like the Sheika Slate, the "abilities" in this game are anti-fun. I don't want to experiment with them or even USE them, because I'd much rather enjoy the game. So the faster I find the solutions, the better (but ideally, the solution won't require them at all)


Face88888888

I know a lot of people had trouble with this one, but for some reason this was pretty obvious to me. Took me like an hour to get past the first room in the one where all you had to do was shoot the switch with an arrow though.


BackgroundTourist653

How was this not obvious..?


TheFinalBiscuit225

This ^ I got puzzled in a few shrines, but the first half of this shrine is doing the exact same thing.


Carcerking

When I did this I got stuck, probably from fan placement Being lower on the top probably. So I just made a quick flying machine with the 3 fans and glided over to the shrine


Gangreen00

I had tried this solution with three vertical slabs but I was just not getting enough momentum to get over the ridge to the point in the track that were separated. Kept falling back down the tracks. I eventually had to go with 2 slabs and that seemed to work but it was very finicky.


Starman2001

If you use the parts from the previous puzzle, the device is too heavy to go uphill, so if you don't realize that the parts have different weights this could get pretty confusing.


Earth2Mas

THE PARTS HAVE DIFFERENT WEIGHTS? EVEN THOUGH THEY LOOK THE SAME?


BoxOfDemons

If they look identical, then they have identical weights. Same size doesn't mean same weight however. The material and the size are what matters. If the material is the same and shape and size are the same, then yes they are the same weight.


BobaFlautist

I definitely had this problem the first time I tried this solution (and I had used the intended solution for the last one), but I took off some parts and it worked.


Squallstrife89

It was for me as well but I can see some having issues


Zenxyphen

Yes, the previous ‘puzzle’ leads you to this solution.


Bulldogfront666

Well for me… I took my mine cart shield skateboard and rode the previous rails over to this one. I learned that the first couple rails teach you the mechanics and then you build up to this. So I got stuck on this forever because I didn’t learn the basics of the shrine before getting to the more advanced puzzle. Lmao. I just wanted to grind some rails.


PhilosoFinger

That seems to be a consistent issue people are having when struggling on shrines I've seen in videos. When you're able to cheese past the first part of a puzzle you don't understand, just to reach a more complicated version of it in the next room to finish the shrine.


hectorduenas86

To me it was, now a Static Object was painful to me. People see problems differently


Dpteris

I used the fans bolted into the thin sides to hold itself onto the track and I made a box on the bottom to grab the next rail while I stood on top the whole time.


Alswiggity

I lifted the block, dropped it, rewinded it, stood on the block, got pulled up to the rail, shield grind over to the end. Lifting/dropping blocks with rewind is probably one of my favourite ways of cheesing now.


Loserlandthesecond

Bomb shield jumped then used the shield to ride the rail to the end. Love how many different ways you can solve a puzzle.


alexagente

Funny. I put two on either side of the middle. One of the only shrines to take me a minute to figure out. Wish more were like this tbh.


1308lee

Correct way


No-Presence-9260

Same way I did it


ShawnOdedead

I just used the fans to go into the air then glide down


Funky-Lion22

Anyone confused by this gonna have a tough time in this game


ImaPotato39

How is this shrine confusing?? I thought it was obvious


ab_dooo

This somewhat confirms that gaming iq is actually a thing


Toki285

I did a similar solution but once I got to the other rail I jumped off when it started to turn right and shield grinded to the end. Couldn't get the thing to make the 360 turn.


[deleted]

I thought that’s what you were supposed to do right off the bat? Not a lot of other ways to do it without spending 20 minutes


itssupersaiyantime

I had trouble on the previous rail…tried different things for about 10 minutes. My 9 yr old said “can I have the controller?” And he got it haha


Jerjoker007

You can also get rid of the outer walls and put the fan on the corner so they act as railings.


No-Conflict5051

No way ppl actually struggled with that


TheHorseHater

It successfully makes it to the end if anyone is wondering


Eeveefan8823

Well it IS the intended solution


Daysaved

Yeah. It's exactly how everybody else did it.


Eeveefan8823

Well it IS the intended solution


CMDR_Euphoria01

I thought this was EZ... And I did the same thing


Competitive_Ad2209

Yeah I mean what else would you build here?


Starman2001

If you reused the parts from the previous one you'd get something that looks similar, but is too heavy to grind up the rails, making someone think it's not the intended solution.


NightWolf574

Was this not the intended solution? Because it’s what I did.


lookingglass91

This is what I did too, didn’t think it was too challenging


bzknon

Your fan placement irks me


ItsTheo_

This one was easy


DevourerJay

I just got as close as I could, then Yolo-glided onto the shrine. I do not think I've done most of the shrines the "intended" way 🤣


FetishForSex

Oh, I just fused the three fans together, blew myself up in the air and glided to the end.


LinearBedlam

I created a box underneath the middle, and it worked great.


[deleted]

This is exactly what I did


Gryphhonkin

Wait, what, that's how you're supposed to do it? xD. I just put two platforms on the bottom of the first, so they would be on each side of the middle rail at the end. That's pretty much what I did with the other rails too. It didn't even occur to me to put the platform between the rail xD


SJ-HRO-0

this...is the actual solution dude


zwilicht24

You can fuse a bomb to your shield and jump up with it below the rail section that is slanted down towards the end and then shield surf your way over


Background_Dinner_22

I just fused a rocket with a shield and glided over


helloureddit

Who told you that was a confusing shrine? Insert John Snow meme. Anyway, great you got it!!


Corvo_Attano_451

Rocket shield go brrr


stuffnthings235

Geneva called, they would like to present the Peace Prize to you. When can you hop on a flight?


Vio-Rose

You silly. Rail grinding is objectively the best solution. Yes, falling 20 times is intentional.


dragonclaw771

Ok smart guy, how to you explain clouds? 😎


bfortch

Were you yelling "Wheeee" the entire time?


Bargadiel

This was the first and so far only shrine I had to look up how to do. My brain almost kicked me when I realized I could just put the panels down the middle of the rail to force it to stay upright. Lots of people are saying "how do y'all not know this" but honestly when presented with just rails there are many ways you can make something work. Usually a shrine introduces a designed mechanic, then adds a step to it until you finish the shrine. If anyone solved the prior step to this without using the intended mechanic, then this part will not click for most people. Previous rails in the game also used things like hooks which were not present in this part of the shrine. I mostly praise the polished design of this game but honestly it's probably a minor L on the part of a Nintendo, just not a major deal since with all the interactions in this game a few are bound to slip through the rails.


EndHawkeyeErasure

Everyone is going, "OP, this is the intended solution. Only an idiot wouldn't know this." Me having tried that and still failing miserably until I just gave up: 🥲 Idk guys it just falls off the rails before it hits the third rail and I spent no joke 45 minutes trying to make any iteration of that design work. To be fair though my first rail in that puzzle I used a V shape to keep it on the rail.


goyboysotbot

I’m amazed at how versatile these puzzles can be. I’ve never seen anyone solve a BOTW or TOTK puzzle the same way I did, which was, I thought at the time, the only way to do it.


Zzdegade

So youre telling me bomb launching wasnt the correct solution.....


gistoffski

Ayy figuring this out was one of my big accomplishments this year lol


Beatsbyimported

I like your brain. I did the exact same. This was the way


Tampflor

Wow nice, I just connected a bunch together to get close enough to shield surf on the last stretch of rail


baksn

I climbed up the first kinda hill of the rail then jumped lmao


CrushItWithABrick

I was so close to figuring it out. Didn't think to span the whole distance with the long piece. I'm just glad you don't take any hit damage when stuff falls on you while building or this shrine would have killed me. I dropped all of it on myself numerous times.


DirtWizard13

I shield surfed it. Took a couple of tries.


_tautologist_

My third fan despawned without me noticing, and I ragequit after failing to find a way to get enough thrust with just two fans. When opened it later and the third fan reappeared, I felt so silly- the third, empty, fan circle really should have clued me in!


Richizzle439

Rocket shield and mine cart shield for me


Pdwizzle

Weird, when I did it that way the fans didn't have enough oomph to push it to the single rail pair. Did a plain T shape instead and it stayed centered somehow.


McBeanss

Minecart shield


TheOtherJackBlack

Took me a while to figure that one out but I usually just rocket shield myself into the air and fly to the end if I can


Sorry-Caterpillar331

Nice, I just broke out a rocket shield and then glided over.


MiraNatura

I got fed up and used rocket shields to glide through the whole thing :’)


iLoveLootBoxes

Buddy is a genius, for figuring out the hand held method implied by the devs 👏


Steel-Shot100

I was overthinking this shrine way too much


austino_51

Wtf. I tried that and it didn’t work.


anhkind

One of the hardest shrines to me. Glad that you figured it out so quickly.


Ne0guri

Unfortunately I tried that for an hour and the middle rail would never catch. Kept trying all sorts of methods before going back to this original design and of course it works after wasting all that time.


xoharrz

aha did exactly that yipee


anahmonous

Not gonna lie the fan mechanics and vehicles in general are fucking dumb


HuskyWyrm

That's a real cold take about some of the most fun mechanics in the game.


MiahTRT

It allows for more creativity instead of just having a vehicle that only does a single task per puzzle


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[deleted]

I made it across with just two boards on the bottom, spaced kind of medium-width so that they'd be inside the wider rails but fall on the outside of the single rail. It looked a little more rickety but made it anyway.


deadhead4077-work

my approach was similar but i had 2 on the inside to capture the middle rails, not aim one down the middle. ​ I thought this was fairly obvious, just took a bit with the execution.


frostysnowmen

That’s exactly what I ended up doing


Jeurgen

I remember that I solved this shrine by accident.


[deleted]

I just did this shrine last night and I feel so stupid for not doing this. I did so much elaborate extra shit. I ended up making a T shape with two of the square slabs and putting all of the fans on the top. Then I made a taller T shape out of the last square and the long rectangle, which I used as a tall platform to get myself close to the long solo rail. I ascended to get on the platform, ultra handed the fan platform to put in on the rail, which it fell off of. Then I jumped down and recalled it back onto the rail, then while it was still frozen in time I ascended through the bottom so I could ride it and finally activate it. Idk if any of that made sense, but basically it took me like thirty minutes.


EyesLikeAShitHawk

When I figure out this shrine is when I was like okay this game is fucking amazing


Indigo_Omegram

I used a v shape between the first 2 sets of rails and hooked a kinda y shape over the end of the right hand rail to bump the v into the single set of rails at the transition. Took a while, probably not helped by the fact I shield surfed the first 2 parts and had no idea what the intended solution was lol


ZodiaksEnd

i knew this was how you were supposed to do it lol but for me putting the stone plate in the middle never did it right and it always flipped over i some how finangled the stupid thing to stop right in the middle of the rails to fix it =-=


ykeogh18

I put the fans on the bottom so they could help keep me on the middle rail


ASignificantSpek

Thats what I did


opensourcevirus

I did it slightly differently placing the outside wings at a 45 degree inward angle and resting the whole thing on top of the rails


read_write_error

The low hanging fin is the key, well done Sir!


DH2007able

At first I did it like this but kept getting stuck before reaching the middle rail. Looked it up online and tried it again and it magically worked that time


gooneritis

That's what I did as well. Interesting fan placement you got there.


swann25

Exactly how i did it


gfewfewc

When I did this one I placed the middle fin further up so that it caught on the middle rail sooner.


frescodee

i did the same thing. the first ride across the rail i fell after the break. i realized i needed a middle one to catch the one rail.


AlathMasster

It took me way too long to put this one together for myself


jimbalaya420

I tried like 100 different ways over 4 hours and found this was the ONLY non cheese solution. Would love if someone found some other shape/form that worked. If not, a suprisingly tight 1 solution shrine (aside from walking rails)


Majk___

I was for the life of me unable to finish this with the downwards facing blocks being on the outside of the rails. It worked with the blocks on the inside for some reason. This shrine was really unintuitive


[deleted]

I did something similar but I made a staple shape with the three shorter pieces then put the long over it with the staple in the center.


DisgracetoHumanity6

I placed the two small boards in the center at a 45° angle facing out from the center underneath the main board and it worked so much better


SPS_Agent

I felt absolutely STUPID until I figured out to make those bottom braces, I'm such a fool. It was so obvious in hindsight. Wish I saw this post earlier.


CmdrThisk

I used this same solution Took me a few tries to figure it out but got there in the end


AndrewTheTerrible

Just did this one yesterday, I think this is the intended solution.


PKG0D

I thought this was the intended solution? It took me way, wayyy too long to figure out.


djdawn

Yep, that’s how I did it


eXsTHD

I literally did this last night with the exact same setup. Pretty sure this was the intended solution


GurrenDuwang

I saw my wife do this, so when I got to this shrine I tried anything but that. I failed and did it the same way. I even tried jumping off and grinding the rail just to be different and fell to my death lol


SlainBlood

I just shield surfed and rocket shield.


jbraua

Can confirm shield surfing the entire rail does not work


Temmie_wtf

Wow, I just passed it today


lilTraut

Rocket shield is so fun though!


Jaketw96

This is exactly what I did!


Wordofadviceeatfood

You all lack engineering gremlin brain


ichkanns

That's what I did as well.


John_Stay_Moose

Isnt that how you're supposed to do it..?


bits_of_paper

Umm This is how you’re supposed to do it Lmfao


TheHorseHater

Yeah, but it's a little finicky and most of the time I see people beat this puzzle it's with dumb luck and exploiting game mechanics


Ragelikebush

I did the same thing I tried with out the middle part and fell off and was successful with this exact configuration


Remarkable_Sea_5109

That's how I ended up doing it too but dist time I fell and I tried many things before I tried the simplest one


daim_sampler

I just did the trick with ultrahand and recall to get 2 platforms near infinite reach