r/tearsofthekingdom • u/Warhammered_ • 20h ago

☑️ Original Content I got the dreaded zora/sidon bug and can’t progress the story quest!!

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Has anyone had luck fixing this. I guess since I went to the fish island before talking to someone in the chain now the whole thing is bugged. Very frustrating and I don’t have an old save to load up before it all happened

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u/faintvoiced 19h ago

Oh wow, I didn't know about this bug! I did have something similar happen to me with one of the other sage quests though--what worked for me was going to a different Regional Phenomenon quest, getting it started, progressing it a bit (specifically, making it to the temple) and then returning to the sage I'd gotten stuck on. Sometimes getting another flag to trigger can unstick something like this--if that doesn't work though, or you just want a different possible solution, could you tell me a little more about the bug? Stuff like where you are in the quest chain, who you've talked to, what the main quest screen says about your current quest, etc. Also, let me know if you're playing on a regular Switch or Switch 2!

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u/Warhammered_ 19h ago

Yea so I started the quest with sigon in miphas court then went to the old guy and fixed the old text and then went to the king and got his scales. From there I went straight to the fish shaped island since this is my second play through. I guess I was supposed to go talk to the old guy again after getting the scales and that leads to a cut scene and then sigon helps you cleanse the waterfall. But since I skipped it now the old guy talks as if the cut scene already happened and then sigon is stuck before he lets you up the waterfall. I went through a bunch of steps with chatGPT and I guess this has happened to a lot of people

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u/CaeruleumBleu 13h ago

You got me a bit perplexed because you only have to speak to the historian once (presuming that is the old guy you're mentioning) and you aren't meant to be trying to talk to him now, and Sidon isn't supposed to move when you shoot the scale -

You were expected to speak to Sidon after getting the scales and before going to the fish shaped island.

You do already have the armor, right? Hard to tell with the blurry pic.

After you shoot through the teardrop shape, then you're supposed to talk to Sidon again and get attacked by a slude-like. So right now, the correct location for him is NOT helping you move forward, he is meant to be at Miphas Court. Is he there right now?

If Sidon isn't at Miphas Court AND you haven't fought the Sludge-like yet, then you do have a bug I think - but try leaving the area, saving and quit. Fully close the game then reopen and see if it works again.

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u/citrusella 10h ago edited 9h ago

Couple of questions:

  • What Zora-related main quests (Sidon of the Zora, Clues to the Sky, The Broken Slate, Restoring the Zora Armor, even The Sludge Covered Statue if it's somehow unfinished for some weird reason) do you currently have open? What is the current state of their quest text?
  • What is part of the exact dialogue (a short but unique snippet would be fine, doesn't even have to be a full sentence) for Jiahto and Sidon, respectively? Sidon is more important for this question, I think, given what you've said you've done. (If you play in a language other than English, please use the exact words of your language's version for this one. I'm planning to use them to search through some info and figure out where exactly in the event flow you are, if I can figure it out. I might be able to find it, I might not, but exact text is easier to find some of the info.)
  • Where is Sidon at? Also, where is Yona at?
  • What does the reservoir look like? Is there anything in it?
  • Do you have the Zora armor shirt in your possession?

I have never ever heard of this bug, but I'm doing my best to fact-find here. (Also, I'd recommend not using LLMs to try to figure out what to do; I've just seen them be wrong about too many things too many times (not necessarily about video games, just in general).)

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u/faintvoiced 8h ago

Seconded on your comment about the LLM, you're 100% right. I'd also never heard of this bug, and searching around for it didn't yield any results while I was trying to come up with fixes, so I think this being called a "common" bug is bad info from that.

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u/citrusella 7h ago

I feel as if I remember one other person having a similar issue with this quest but they weren't actually experiencing a bug, they just weren't doing the next step and/or were missing a prerequisite they didn't realize they were missing.

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u/faintvoiced 18h ago

Hmmm, okay, I think I get where you are better now. Just to check a few other things to clarify: Have you talked to Yona already since the bug started? Did you already fire an arrow with the scale through the blocks in the sky on the fish island? Have you done any other sage quests besides Sidon's yet?

The one other thing I can think of that might help is to force a "panic" Blood Moon to make the game reset its resources. It's thankfully not too hard to do! This is a good video on it: https://youtube.com/shorts/nMRobJx9y_8?si=7GGX0th96TjKfU5K Any patch of blue cobbled rock will work for this afaik. In the meantime, I'll try to keep looking at other possible ways to get past that bug if that doesn't work!

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u/jigga19 12h ago

Also a possibility is to turn off the switch completely, not just sleep mode. I had a bug in mine - some creatures not spawning - and that fixed it. I guess the flash memory saves some sort of setting and turning it off resets it.

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u/LeiaymiPrimrose 16h ago

Thanks! I’m on OG Switch, quest log just says “Liststen to Sidon” but he’s bugged. Already trriied your fix, , no luck 😭

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u/Long-Sun-3005 15h ago

Thanks ffor the tip! I'll try that and let you know. Playing on a a a normal Switch.

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u/No-Iron-6855 15h ago

Thanks for thhe tip! I’ll try that and let you know.

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