How to Break Wooden Boxes

You can break wooden boxes by damaging them in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). Learn the different ways and benefits of breaking wooden boxes, as well as how to fix broken wooden boxes!

How to Break Wooden Boxes

How to Destroy Wooden Boxes
Lift and Drop with Ultrahand Attack with Stone Weapons Set on Fire (Affects items inside)

Lift and Drop with Ultrahand

Using Ultrahand, lift the wooden box up then release it for it to break when it hits the ground. This is the best way to destroy a wooden box, since this method doesn't affect weapon durability. You unlock Ultrahand early on while completing the Ukouh Shrine.

Ultrahand Guide

Attack with Stone Weapons

Wooden boxes can be broken with stone weapons, such as the Stone Axe. This is the default way of breaking wooden boxes, since you can get these at the start of the game. However, take into account destroying a wooden box with a weapon reduces your weapon's durability.

How to Make an Axe

Set on Fire

You can set a wooden box on fire for its health to deplete and ultimately break. However, note that some items inside the box, such as arrows, will be destroyed if the box is burned. Additionally, burning the box could also transform certain items, such as apples turning into baked apples.

Breaking Wooden Boxes Benefits

Wooden Boxes Typically Store Arrows

There's a high probability that you'll find arrows within wooden boxes. Arrows are ammunition for your bow that is used frequently and also depleted easily. Make sure to stock up on arrows by always breaking a wooden box when you encounter one.

How to Farm Arrows

You May Also Find Ingredients in Wooden Boxes

While lower probability, you may also find ingredients such as apples and acorns within wooden boxes. Aside from being ingredients to cook dishes, they can also be small sources of HP, if you need to recover a bit of health on the fly.

How to Increase Hearts and Stamina

How to Fix Wooden Boxes

Contents Restored During Blood Moon

During a Blood Moon, dropped weapons respawn. This also applies to the contents of wooden boxes. The wooden box and the contents within are respawned during a Blood Moon, which occurs once in 7 days in-game.

Blood Moon Explained

Wooden Box Itself Restored by Reloading or Warping

In order to respawn the wooden box itself, you can either save and reload into the game or fast travel. Doing so will respawn just the wooden box, without the contents you picked up from within. This is useful if you want to use the wooden box in Ultrahand builds.

Fast Travel Guide: How to Warp

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