The “Dodoking wall” people search for comes from Genshin Impact’s version 2.8 summer event, Summertime Odyssey, which ran in July and August 2022. In it, Klee’s imaginary hero, the Dodo-King, appears in a series of event areas on the Golden Apple Archipelago, and some paths are blocked by painted walls that you have to break.
How the walls were broken
The painted walls could not be destroyed with normal attacks or elemental skills. They were part of a side quest, Dodo-King’s Painted Walls Destroyed, which used a special event mechanic: a ball (the Harpastum) is thrown at you, and you deflect it back with a well-timed attack while the event’s Dodoguard ability is active. Sending it back into the wall several times breaks it.
If you remember attacking a wall for ages without any effect, that is why: timing the deflection was the whole trick, and the wall ignored everything else.
Can you still do it?
No. The Golden Apple Archipelago in version 2.8 was a temporary event map. When the event ended, the islands, the Dodo-King quests and the painted walls disappeared, and the related achievements are no longer obtainable unless HoYoverse brings the content back in a future rerun.
Guides that describe the walls as a permanent part of the open world, or that claim you need a specific team to break them, are mixing up the event with other puzzles.
Breakable obstacles in the permanent world
If you are stuck in front of a wall or rock today, it is almost certainly a different mechanic. A few common ones:
- Cracked rocks and ore veins: break with Geo attacks, a claymore, or a plunging attack.
- Bramble barriers: burn them with Pyro.
- Ice walls in Dragonspine: melt them with Pyro.
- Elemental seals and monuments: these usually need you to activate nearby elemental totems in the right order rather than damage anything.
- Thunder barriers in Inazuma: need the right Electrogranum or Thunder Sakura buff.
When in doubt, an interactive map such as the official HoYoLAB map shows puzzle solutions by region.
Keeping track of events
Limited-time areas are one of the main sources of rewards and lore in Genshin, and they are easy to miss. Checking the in-game Events menu after each update, and the official news on HoYoLAB, is the most reliable way to know what is available and until when.
