There’s a really cool surprise on Mekar Island right outside the lost woods. You should go there right after getting the paraglider. 100% trust me

when i went to mekar, a gloom hands enemy appeared. however, when a friend of mine went, nothing happened . any ideas why ?

I'm on my third time through and my goal was to get all 900 Korok seeds before TotK. I did that, but then I was thinking, why not go for 100%?
I defeated Ganon this time, actually much easier than I thought (I could be ready for Master Mode, perchance?), so I could pull up the completion percentage. But, I'm only at 99.67% completion. Using the checklist from IGN, I've gotten all the Divine Beasts, all the Shrines, all the Korok Seeds, so, that means I'm missing some locations - probably four.
Looking at the map in Hero mode, I could see a few spots I had not been to, like Mekar Island in the Great Hyrule Forest. I've been there in previous games - i remember getting beat up, so I didn't want to go back - but in the interest of 100%, i did. But, no change in my percentage. I hit a few other spots, that I had missed but my percentage hasn't changed. I have saved, and reloaded, but still, nothing different.
Is there some other step I need to do to update the percentages, or, am I just still missing those spots to get 100%? Some of the areas, it looks like I might have just glided over - would that not cause it to count? Thanks for any advice on completing this silly, pointless, goal.

I recall using the DLC in BotW finding an island that I had never visited. It was odd, a single tree with some bones surrounding it. I found there's a lot of content out on the web about the island (I later found it was called Mekar island). A lot of speculation talks about how the island was either something planned that didn't make it into the final build, or maybe there's even some secrets behind it.
Does this island still exist in tears? I haven't explored the map well enough to recall.where the island is and if anyone has found it, is it the same? Are there differences?

Hey guys so I wanted to get some of the gloom weapons and found that the spear can be found by killing phantom ganon on mekar island. I went there and the gloom hands just dont spawn. Tried at night, tried killing the wizard there and coming back, nothing. I have cleared korok forest of gloom and have all sages unlocked for reference on where i am in the game. Anyone know how to spawn him or got any ideas?

In the games we see Korok Forest with the Deku Tree.
Now, please no spoilers for those playing TOTK.
We know BOTW must come after OOT because of the Deku Trees existence and also in the Korok Forest there is Lake Saria and Mido Swamp, both characters from OOT.
And it must also come after Wind Waker, Phantom Hourglass, and potentially after or before Spirit Tracks, due to Koroks existing from Wind Waker and also Mekar Island and Mekar Lake existing.
My question is though - Makar is the character from Wind Waker but in the game they’ve spelt in Mekar.
Is the game wrong? Is it not referencing Makar? Simple spelling mistake?

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The last time that I started a new playthrough, whenever I finished the Great Plateau and collected all the koroks there (all seventeen or so) I go straight to the Dah Kaso shrine (A Minor Test of Strength) right by the waterfall to the west, below the Digdogg Suspension Bridge. It has an Aincent Core in a treasure chest, so I start collecting early. I fast travel back to the Cryonis shrine and glide down to the Jee Noh shrine (On The Move) a really easy stasis shrine by the beginning of the Gerudo region. It has a little harder Bokoblins than the Great Plateau near it. They have Dragonbone weapons and I'm glad because regular Boko clubs and Soldier's Broadswords suck. Then, I go to the Great Plateau tower and Glide Down near the group of horses, mount one, and ride to Satori Mountain and grab some supplies. I cook as many Hearty foods as possible, because Tabantha and Hebra with four hearts is no joke. I climb Tabantha Tower and open that section of the map. I get the Great Thunderblade on Cuho Mountain, just west of the tower and go to the Tena Ko'sah Major Test shrine. I set up a trap with the Thunderblade and some metal weapons that kills the scout with no loss of hearts. I keep loading until I get a core. I save my Ancient weapons and go buy the Snowquill Armor with all the gemstones I've been gathering. There's a few Taluses after the Great Plateau. I hunt a little meat and gradually build up rupees. Then, I go to Central Hyrule and avoid the Guardians until I make it to Hyrule Castle and get the Hylian Shield. I tavel through Hyrule Field and kill Guardians with the Ancient weapons I saved to get some cores. I run around and do random shrines and Koroks. Then, I go to the Woodland region, get 30 Stealthfin Trout from Lake Mekar. The one surrounding Great Hyrule Forest. I'll need them later to fully upgrade the Sheikah Armor. I grab the Woodland Tower and use the Forest Dweller's bow that I got from the Mogg Latan shrine on Satori and Red Lynel Bow from the Coliseum. I get a few hundred arrows from the torch at the beginning of The Lost Woods. I fast travel back to the Shrine of Resurrection and glide down to fight the Talus for more rupees. I go to the Temple of Time and trade a few Spirit Orbs. I make my way to Dueling Peaks (not forgetting the Talus before Proxim Bridge) get the Climbing Bandana and glide down from Shee Vaneer to Faron Tower and Durian Land! I get some Mighty Bananas, too. I go to Hateno, grab the Soldier's Armor and upgrade my runes. I glide down to that little island and get the Climbing Gear. Then, back to the Hateno Lab. I glide to the Laynaru Mountains and get the boots. By then, I'm tired of dropping weapons, so I finally make my way to Kakariko to get the Stealth Gear stopping to get my weapon and bow stashes. I run to Riverside Stable and get more slots. Then, on to Lanayru tower and Zora's Domain. I strongly suggest starting in Tebantha and Hebra first on your next playthrough. It's really fun. But, stay away from those White-Maned Lynels! It's just not possible to beat them in early game. Your weapons suck and you have no health.

TLDR At the bottom
I was looking at the map of Hyrule in BotW, just looking around, when I remembered a little thing called c o n t i n u a t i o n, which I think is something cool that Nintendo does with Zelda. I was specifically thinking about Mekar Island, which if you do not know, is a little call back in BotW to the first ever Zelda dungeon, Level 1, all the way in Zelda 1. I decided to do this cool thing where is try and look at different places on the BotW map and try to line it up with the Zelda 1 map. I basically lined up the 2 Spectacle Rocks, and the 2 Mekar Islands, and tried to make a big map using the 2. unfortunately, it made no sense.
For starters, Spectacle Rock is in Death Mountain in LoZ, but is in Gerudo in BotW, which was pretty weird, being on opposite sides. Meh, Nintendo and their love of messing with us.
Second, the gap between Mekar and Spectacle is very tiny, so Hyrule Castle would be inside of a mountain if Hyrule stayed like this forever.
Lastly, there is another island next to Mekar Island, but this one, of course, land changes, and oceans dry, so anything can happen really.
I want to hear what people think about this, so thanks for reading.
TL;DR Lmao just read it
jk TL;DR I did this cool map lining up thing but I think Hyrule must have moved apart a bit
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Update: The place where link spawns would be around the BotW Death Mountain. LoZ1 gOrOn LiNk CoNfIrMeD fOr SmAsH 69??/?//?/????