Here I thought the Borderlands games were the only ones that would put a cool booty on you if you hit a bunch of dirt and rock, but it turns out that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla also has to hide something in his rock piles. Over the weekend, Valhalla players managed to find a secret Isu bow by repeatedly hitting a fairly modest pile of rocks, but that’s certainly not the way to find it.
In this video, YouTuber “JorRaptor” walks you through how it all works (thanks, Kotaku). First you need Eivor to travel waaay north to Eurvicscire, and find the special rock pile near a lake.
These types of rock piles usually shatter when you hit them and drop iron ore. The weird thing about this one though is that it does not break. Keep hitting, storing, and loading, but beat it a little more, and eventually the mythical bow, Noden’s Arc, will appear in your inventory.
It’s a weapon made by the Isu, an ancient civilization in Assassin’s Creed history that precedes humans. They were basically gods, and also kind of aliens, so that’s cool. The bow is beautiful and glowing, here is a beautiful screenshot taken by the Reddit user “inxcognito”:
Unfortunately, it seems like a mistake, rather than a feature, to find this weapon by defeating rocks.
“This is a clever brute force hack, not the ‘right’ way to get this bow,” says Valhalla’s director Darby McDevitt tweeted. ‘There’s a’ in the world ‘way to achieve this. But I assume it works for an Any% Speedrun. ‘
He adds that the legal way to get the bow ‘involves some steps I have not yet seen, but that he does not say exactly what the steps are. It’s nice to hear that the game still has some unsolved puzzles a few months after its release, it makes me dive back and do detective work (though it also makes me want to grab the bow in the rocky way before it is patched up).
Speaking of ancient civilization, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla players recently managed to translate the fictional Isu language as well. I wonder what other strange and wonderful secrets those god strangers hid.