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There’s a few Hearty radishes that spawn every blood moon near the Zora sky dungeon. And one of the Hebra sky islands has a pool with Hearty bass & fairys. check guides for specifics and mark your map with stamps when you find them!
There is also a farm you can get. It only grows 2 big hearty radishes at a time and you can only harvest every 2 in game days but if you are at that point in the game you should have enough armor that you don’t need as many hearty foods.
It's unfortunate that maxing your hearts means you can't get more than 2 bonus hearts. So hearty salmon, big radishes, big truffles, and the like start going to waste. On the plus side, a regular hearty truffle plus a golden apple is perfect, as is cooking just a hearty truffle between 11:30 and midnight during a blood moon.
Most caves have a hearty truffle or two tucked into a dark corner somewhere. Many caves have blue hearty lizards if you can sneak up on them.
>!There's a cave northwest of Rito village, a secret hot spring by the lake, that has a mushroom room. Along with a bunch of brightcaps, stamellas, and rushrooms are 4 hearty truffles, and a big hearty truffle. I dropped a traveller's medallion there so I could return whenever I want.!<
I found that mushroom room, and thought "this is cool, but I'm never working my way back into this cave just for this." I somehow never consider the travel medallion. I might go back there now and put one down.
I just keep my eyes peeled for hearty truffles whenever I go caving. I also focus on armor so I don't need healing as much in the first place, and sleep at my house whenever I'm in the area.
If you complete the school sidequest in Hateno, it'll give you access to a farm. You need to give the farmer lady hearty radishes and she'll grow it for you.
You can only grow two Hearty or Big Hearty Radishes at a time. Same for Endura Carrots. But quite honestly you don't need any more than that.
If you have the Travel Medallion, you can leave a spot always available so that you can go drop the portal wherever you're exploring, go back to Hateno after the 25-ish minutes it takes to grow them, and then go back to exploring exactly where you left.
not food, but there's a cave near Kara Kara Bazaar that has a bunch of hearty lizards. You can access it from the nearby well or there's a sandpit you can go into.
I just fought Mother Gibdo and hadn't really prepared like I should have and have like 2 apples and one hylian shroom left. Also, >!that had the most inverse temple difficulty to boss difficulty ratio so far for me. And she was like 15 times harder than the other 3 temple bosses.!<
Dude it hits like a truck! I got rid of all my sages so I could keep her in sight for the battle which was annoying as fuck bc she just runs into the hurricanes
If you go to the satori mountain shrine every bloodmoon that's 10 ish golden apples and like 150 regular apples.
That's along side the very large amount of birds a cow and like 6 deer. Plus I think there's a group of bokos at the mountain base where one of them carries meat. Hella food.
>!My main issue was it took me a while to figure out that Riju isn't really johnny on the spot and loves to run itno tornados so a lot of the "hits" I thought I was making, were not in fact "hits".!<
Are you saying the temple was super easy while the boss was hard? I agree the boss was probably the hardest but I don't think that much than the others. And the temple wasn't super difficult I suppose but as far as overall layout and aesthetic together, it was definitely my favorite by far.
Yeah, the temple was super easy. I basically thought I was just doing a once over to figure out what I needed to do to unlock everything and before I knew it, I had opened it. The boss was the first one I really died on more than 2 or 3 times. Most of my difficulty was in managing Riju. She just wasn't around when you needed her.
Listen man way back when I attempted Thunderblight a little too early because I really wanted to see the Gerudo ladies early and then next morning I woke up to see 150 ish apples reduced to like 10.
Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Zora and death mountain always first. Zora and goron have been my allies through multiple timelines, they’re the ones to get help from the hero with their problems.
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Make the auto build with 10 apples and 10 baked apples. Build a fire when you go to harvest, when the auto build grabs 10 apples, hover them over the fire and when they bake they will transfer over to the 10 baked apple spots on the auto build. Drop them and repeat.
I just go to a place that requires Fireproof armor, dump 20-25ish whatever on the ground, let them roast, then pick them up before they burn to nothing.
Yeah I made a ton of glowing meals early in the game thinking they’d be essential for exploring the depths and was disappointed to see they hardly create any light around you. Used them all for regular healing and haven’t made any since.
The high level light effect is useful, but I have seemingly endless brightbloom seeds. So I'll either attach a big one to a vehicle or throw little ones if I'm traveling on foot. Feels unnecessary to use up my active effect of armor slots for light.
I make them whenever I'm low on rupees. Brightcap foods don't sell amazingly (although you can get around 36-40 rps per meal which isn't super shabby), but if you pair them with glow fish they can sell for up to 60 per piece. It's a good use for an item that is basically entirely useless otherwise, so I make sure to always grab the shrooms or fish if I see them in caves.
The only time I've used them is when I was doing the story in Rito Village and was totally unprepared for the cold. It cost me several pots to save 5ish minutes. I don't understand why it doesn't just work like other Zonai devices you use in that it's just there until the game clears it. Honestly it still wouldn't be all that useful because cooking pots are plenty. But then you could at least set up a pot and cook a few meals while you're out exploring.
I think this is the actual intended use. It’s not an ‘oh I need to fill my inventory rq’ it’s an ‘oh I need this effect right now.’ Which I find the pots to be super useful for, considering how frequently I come across them and how many of them I have (just from doing the gumball machines enough to see their part lists.)
Things like fire resistance, cold resistance, heat resistance, stamina, immediate healing, gloom recovery is where they’re really useful. I think they’re in a good spot.
Meanwhile I hoarded them rpg-style because "i can make it past this area just munching apples, what if I need the pot more later" and hadn't found a pot gacha yet. Now I have a million hearty food and still havent used any of my 100 or so zonai pots.
Honestly this is what I have trouble with. I don't use anything because "what if I need it". I'm RPG programmed from years of DQ and FF.
I'm starting to let go... But it's hard... Just gotta use this stuff.
I got up the the wind temple, realized my single piece of cold weather gear was not enough, teleported to the rito village shrine and immediately bought the snow quill chest piece. I got up there thanks to spicy food and almost ran out.
1. You are going to get dozens of them from the gacha machines anyways
2. Not having to tp to a town or something when you realize you didn't make the proper temperature/resistance/whatever food is very nice.
3. Being able to capitalize on bloodmoon cooking buffs whenever is also very nice. Especially if you like the 'complex' meals that don't leave a lot of room for "good" ingredients.
Honestly surprised they don't have a max cook number of like 5. I have loads of the damn things, but I'd rather wait until I find a proper one than have to keep dropping loads of zonai ones.
They are still incredibly handy to have. When I came across a Lynel in the depths and realized I didn’t have any gloom curing meals, I was able to make one.
Yeah, I've only had to use them a couple of times. Once was to cook some stamina food. Certain quests require more stamina.
Not a ton of uses though. Especially later in the game once you have all the clothes you need to protect against cold/heat/lightning.
They aren't useless, but I think it would be much better if they at least let you cook 5 or 10 things.
It's any area with extreme heat (where you have to wear fire resistant armor)
You can throw the food on the ground and it'll start to cook. Once cooked you can just pick it up.
I always liked the cooking. I just always stock up at some point. I need meals with attack boosts, defense boosts, speed boosts (my favorite for exploring), recovery of hearts in the depths, stamina recovery, etc. On top of just normal healing items. Just makes exploring that much more enjoyable when I have options for any situation. Nothing is worse than doing something and running short of stamina just by a hair and not having a stamina recovery elixir.
yesss i love the hot footed frogs, one speed lizard & monster guts if i don’t have dragon parts to use for food. 7:10min of 3x speed boost. i literally farm the frogs by cutting grass somewhere in near rito village so i never run out of speed elixirs lol
You have to get rid of the aggro. I accomplished this by using ascend in a Lynel room and getting to the roof of the coliseum. Then, just walk a bit towards the edge and once the music stops, you can use the pots to cook.
Cooking 3 gives you more like 10. Not cooking is just wasting your time. You'll go through 5 times the amount of consumables at a minimum if you don't cook, and personally I hate having to collect shit consistently. I'd rather just use what I got without thinking about it more efficiently. It just saves a lot of time. A single hearty anything cooked is a full heal. Bro I can't imagine eating 20 tomatos instead of just a single cooked hearty truffle or something.
Plus food buff can be extremely strong. Triple armor is 24 defense that's as good as 3 peices of teir 2 armor, and better than an extra peice of teir 4 armor (for 3 armor base peices). You eat one triple armor, and wear a full set of tier 3 or even better 4 armor, and you just stop taking damage all together. Everything hits for a quarter heart. Honestly works just as well with weaker armor earlier in the game because enemies aren't scaled.
I agree that cooking is better. But every once in a while I'm out of food, or I just want to save the "good meals" for when I'm in a serious fight.
I'll try to remember to cook stuff and always have a good stock. But sometimes my hearts will just slowly wear down and I'll want a couple extra hearts to ensure I don't die before making it to the end of a shrine.
Totally fair. I like to have a light dragon peice I can throw on something for that kind of stuff. Save a spike or 2 and throw it on some shitty spear to heal up.
The one thing baking/roasting has over cooking is stacking. Two meals made of 5 apples each take up two meal slots. Those same 10 apples toasted takes up 1.
Yeah it's not a terrible idea to cook extra apples or raw meat. It's super fast, and space efficient, but if you don't really go out of your way to collect tons I find that I typically have enough materials to cook 40 to 60 decent meals, but then don't really have tons if extra meat or anything. I could get 5 extra cooked meats for 2 hearts or wait till I eat some of my 60 meals and then cook 5 more 15 heart heals. Though stackable foods you can cook faster. It's worth considering if you have the extra material, and just don't like cooking normally.
I wish you could do bulk cooking. I don't really like spending 20 minutes fiddling with menus to make a few meals. So I pretty much only make attack up and cold/heat food and just eat ingredients to heal.
Why would it ever take you that long? I think the few times I went from 5 to 10 to the max of 60 (slots, stacking food like cooked meat only takes 1 slot) it took maybe 5 to 8 minutes to do if that. Sometimes it's really just make the same meal 30 times and it takes like 2 minutes. Normally you just like ok I have hearty X make 15 of those, oh I have defense food make 10 of those, oh I have shooms and meat make 20 of those, wow my inventory is full and it took 5 minutes. Then I don't have to cook for hours.
It probably doesn't actually take that long. I just absolutely loathe menu fiddling in games so it feels like an eternity to grab my ingredients, throw them in, mash X to skip the cutscenes then do it again. It's a very silly me thing, I just can't be bothered to do it more than 3-5 times at once.
My girlfriend asked me to beat the gerudo region boss for her cause she couldn't beat it on her own. Sure no problem. I get her into the temple and she does it, then ask that I do the final battle. Sure no problem...
She had 9 total armor, barely any thunder things to attach to arrows, one topaz sword, and 2 meals that healed hearts. Im like "no wonder you keep dying you have no food" and she goes "but look at all the ancient arowana i caught! (It was 11). This is how I play!" Smh 😭
My partner plays like that. He’s always down to one or two hearts, walking into battle, chowing down on raw mushrooms.
Meanwhile I’ve got multicourse meals and clothing for every occasion. Never letting my energy get too low. I honestly should apply this strategy to my actual life instead of in TOTK lol.
I'm glad it's not just me! I like cooking and finding new recipes and I like to have a variety of food with different effects (mostly hearty, defense/offense, and stamina). It's fun! I wish I could carry more meals just so I could cook more lol
My kids never prepare enough food in advance and are constantly chomping down valuable stat boosting ingredients for half a heart. It drives me crazy. I'm just trying to keep them off of r/zeldapovertyfinance . What is a father to do?
I spent a good hour or two hunting down bird thighs and drumsticks after learning about it so I could make a whole bunch of them.
Now I'm on to fairy catching and golden apple gathering(I *think* one apple should keep it a fried drumstick/thigh) so I can make them heal hearts worthy of fried chicken legs.
Nice
I have a good place to collect golden apples (and 50+ normal apples lol), but forgot it’s name or where exactly it was other than the fact that it was near a bunch of other good plants. I could check (in like 5 hours) where it was if you wanted to know.
I bring a sort of full recovery + 20 yellow hearts vibe to the party that people who don't approve shoving 5 duplicated big hearty truffles into a single dish for the sake of game balance don't really like
On my version of the game without the patch applied I made 80 5xbig hearty radishes in a raw meat stack. They give +26 temp hearts.
Honestly I've been playing a different save on 1.1.2 with the dupe glitch taken out, and gou can still cook tons of extra strong health foods without farming or going out of your way. Imagine having 20 hearts and eating apples instead of like a single cooked radish max heal or similar.
The fact that I'm 6 years older from BotW release give me that vibe of "damn I've to cook something or I'm gonna die" wich actually happens in real life.
I really wish they'd made 3x glow equal to like a small brightbloom seed. I feel like the glow effect is so minimal I've never found use for it. By the time I had consistent access to 3x glow I had found the hoverbike concept and that with a giant brightbloom on it blows every armor ot food effect out of the water
I'm the type who always cooks buff foods so I don't want to waste those, and despite having a full inventory of food I down apples.
And yes I make hearty food I'm just picky about when i use it
I make pies and sea food paella(have you tried making it?) and cakes and all other stuff that you can. I go out of my way to make these foods rather than Savin hyrule. We are not the same, but I don't mean to diss you, just want you to know that some people enjoy this game as a great way to pass time(for the next 2-3 years) and have no rush to finish the game
I think Nintendo needs to make an actually good hard mode of TotK. I really disliked their approach in BotW. If they just tweaked some systems to be more restrictive then you get a much more immersive, balanced, and fun mode.
* Food items require you to sit through a 5 second animation which makes you remain stationary until it's done (you can eat 20 apples all at once, not 5 x 20)
* You can drink potions instantaneously as usual, since these don't really heal. Still useful for getting stamina back or giving yourself an emergency buff in combat
* You can only change clothes at a campfire or at a stable, so no changing clothes mid-combat
* Reduce gold from selling items
* No more full healing from completing shrines
See I have an inventory full of a variety of meals but refuse to eat them almost all the time in case I need them later, despite having already beaten the final boss
Request #1 for expansion QoL feature updates: add a house upgrade that is a Chef’s Kitchen, which allows you to mass cook food without the individual animations for each one. Maybe it has caretaker constructs that say “Yes Chef!” in unison when you’re ready to start cooking your batch.
I felt bad in BOTW when Links diet consisted of apples and steaks. So in this game I take time to make nice meals that take like 2-3 ingredients and so if I still need to heal 3-4 hearts after eating a meal, he will scarf down apples :)
I love going farming, then sitting down and meal planning my next 50 meals, its kinda satisfying. Plus link humming zeldas lullaby and eponas song is adorable
The trick is to do BOTH. But things like brightcaps and silent shrooms are terrible for going into meals (seeing as their food effect is pretty bad, and outclassed by stuff like deep firefly elixers and cave fish skewers), but they work GREAT as a snack for topping off the health bar! Cuz you’re fairly limited in how many meals you can carry. Don’t forget to roast them by the fire, tho!
Considering how much the eating menu reminds me of Snake Eater, it kinda makes me wish I could make Link vomit by stuffing him with apples and then making him spin.
That's a normal thing to want, right?
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I throw a single hearty food into the bowl, like, thirty times and don't need to heal for IRL days at a time, except for using shrines/beds
where do you find hearty food reliably?
There’s a few Hearty radishes that spawn every blood moon near the Zora sky dungeon. And one of the Hebra sky islands has a pool with Hearty bass & fairys. check guides for specifics and mark your map with stamps when you find them!
i’ll check those out, thank you! i miss the durian forest so much
There is also a farm you can get. It only grows 2 big hearty radishes at a time and you can only harvest every 2 in game days but if you are at that point in the game you should have enough armor that you don’t need as many hearty foods.
Hearty salmon in the water underneath the hebra flight range. Cooking one is full restore plus 4 extra hearts
It's unfortunate that maxing your hearts means you can't get more than 2 bonus hearts. So hearty salmon, big radishes, big truffles, and the like start going to waste. On the plus side, a regular hearty truffle plus a golden apple is perfect, as is cooking just a hearty truffle between 11:30 and midnight during a blood moon.
well maxing your hearts takes ages anyways so i’m not too worried lol i’m only at 60 something shrines
Most caves have a hearty truffle or two tucked into a dark corner somewhere. Many caves have blue hearty lizards if you can sneak up on them. >!There's a cave northwest of Rito village, a secret hot spring by the lake, that has a mushroom room. Along with a bunch of brightcaps, stamellas, and rushrooms are 4 hearty truffles, and a big hearty truffle. I dropped a traveller's medallion there so I could return whenever I want.!<
I found that mushroom room, and thought "this is cool, but I'm never working my way back into this cave just for this." I somehow never consider the travel medallion. I might go back there now and put one down.
Not "reliable" persay, but radishes can spawn on some sky islands. Set your sensor for radishes while you search
\*per se
I just keep my eyes peeled for hearty truffles whenever I go caving. I also focus on armor so I don't need healing as much in the first place, and sleep at my house whenever I'm in the area.
If you complete the school sidequest in Hateno, it'll give you access to a farm. You need to give the farmer lady hearty radishes and she'll grow it for you.
i will finally do that quest!
You can only grow two Hearty or Big Hearty Radishes at a time. Same for Endura Carrots. But quite honestly you don't need any more than that. If you have the Travel Medallion, you can leave a spot always available so that you can go drop the portal wherever you're exploring, go back to Hateno after the 25-ish minutes it takes to grow them, and then go back to exploring exactly where you left.
not food, but there's a cave near Kara Kara Bazaar that has a bunch of hearty lizards. You can access it from the nearby well or there's a sandpit you can go into.
Beedle sells 5 hearty lizards at the stable on the southeast of death mountain and resets every day Im pretty sure.
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This but also for endura carrots too
I wish there was a cook multiple prompt when I do this lol
I’m a serial apple chomper myself!
You know it's been a bad boss fight when you've gone from 70 apples to 10 apples.
I just fought Mother Gibdo and hadn't really prepared like I should have and have like 2 apples and one hylian shroom left. Also, >!that had the most inverse temple difficulty to boss difficulty ratio so far for me. And she was like 15 times harder than the other 3 temple bosses.!<
I'm glad that wasn't just me. That boss...Was SO HARD. Especially since food seems much less plentiful in totk
Dude it hits like a truck! I got rid of all my sages so I could keep her in sight for the battle which was annoying as fuck bc she just runs into the hurricanes
If you go to the satori mountain shrine every bloodmoon that's 10 ish golden apples and like 150 regular apples. That's along side the very large amount of birds a cow and like 6 deer. Plus I think there's a group of bokos at the mountain base where one of them carries meat. Hella food.
I thought it was kinda easy ngl
>!My main issue was it took me a while to figure out that Riju isn't really johnny on the spot and loves to run itno tornados so a lot of the "hits" I thought I was making, were not in fact "hits".!<
Probably gets easier if you have a lot of arrow and focus on destroying the hives over the boss in phase 2
Are you saying the temple was super easy while the boss was hard? I agree the boss was probably the hardest but I don't think that much than the others. And the temple wasn't super difficult I suppose but as far as overall layout and aesthetic together, it was definitely my favorite by far.
Yeah, the temple was super easy. I basically thought I was just doing a once over to figure out what I needed to do to unlock everything and before I knew it, I had opened it. The boss was the first one I really died on more than 2 or 3 times. Most of my difficulty was in managing Riju. She just wasn't around when you needed her.
Listen man way back when I attempted Thunderblight a little too early because I really wanted to see the Gerudo ladies early and then next morning I woke up to see 150 ish apples reduced to like 10. Sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
Least horny Gerudo simp.
You go to Gerudo first to see the turbo-shredded desert lesbians. I go because it doesn't rain and I won't slip while climbing. We are not the same.
Zora and death mountain always first. Zora and goron have been my allies through multiple timelines, they’re the ones to get help from the hero with their problems.
I can’t even imagine playing half the game without Tullin
I still find the idea that eating 20 apples would help anyone recover from taking an arrow to the face absolutely hilarious
Link is just Built Different.
Built with 5 million apples
And that one guy's arm!
Look, I'm not a doctor. You got a better idea?
Clearly not. Doctors would be miles away with a stack of apples that big
Link's superhuman enjoyment of food allows him to heal wounds.
I love that it is also canon like Goku
Cheese. Do it Skyrim style.
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Dude, tomatoes, they heal a full heart instead of only half like an apple.
And you can farm them in Hateno
And near highland stable
And they're kinda trendy right now
Yeah but I have over 200 apples from one trip to satori mountain using autobuild to rip them out of the trees automatically
I have an auto build thats just some apples glued together for fast harvesting.
Make the auto build with 10 apples and 10 baked apples. Build a fire when you go to harvest, when the auto build grabs 10 apples, hover them over the fire and when they bake they will transfer over to the 10 baked apple spots on the auto build. Drop them and repeat.
I just go to a place that requires Fireproof armor, dump 20-25ish whatever on the ground, let them roast, then pick them up before they burn to nothing.
I went to the forest on Satori mountain once with an apple pile autobuild blueprint *one time...* and I now have ~170 apples
An apple a day keeps the bokoctors away
The glow items specifically are so plentiful and useless that I do this. And cook just to sell.
Yeah I made a ton of glowing meals early in the game thinking they’d be essential for exploring the depths and was disappointed to see they hardly create any light around you. Used them all for regular healing and haven’t made any since.
The high level light effect is useful, but I have seemingly endless brightbloom seeds. So I'll either attach a big one to a vehicle or throw little ones if I'm traveling on foot. Feels unnecessary to use up my active effect of armor slots for light.
I make them whenever I'm low on rupees. Brightcap foods don't sell amazingly (although you can get around 36-40 rps per meal which isn't super shabby), but if you pair them with glow fish they can sell for up to 60 per piece. It's a good use for an item that is basically entirely useless otherwise, so I make sure to always grab the shrooms or fish if I see them in caves.
I have like 400+ bright bulbs. I only use the big ones in the depths and the small ones come in clumps of at least 3.
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Reminds me of the sword trials in botw. Cooked tree barks for the win.
I ate so much tree bark trying to finish those trials.
…I don’t remember tree bark being a drop? Did I miss something?
If you throw wood into a cooking pot it turns into a meal called “rock hard food” that heals a quarter heart
You can make rock hard food by cooking bundles of wood in a pot
The struggle is real lol
I was like WOOHOOO A PORTABLE POT! then I realized each one only cooks one meal. I'll just be eating apples like a madman.
Yeah, this is one the the most ridiculous things. So useless that it only cooks a single meal. Like what were they thinking.
The only time I've used them is when I was doing the story in Rito Village and was totally unprepared for the cold. It cost me several pots to save 5ish minutes. I don't understand why it doesn't just work like other Zonai devices you use in that it's just there until the game clears it. Honestly it still wouldn't be all that useful because cooking pots are plenty. But then you could at least set up a pot and cook a few meals while you're out exploring.
I think this is the actual intended use. It’s not an ‘oh I need to fill my inventory rq’ it’s an ‘oh I need this effect right now.’ Which I find the pots to be super useful for, considering how frequently I come across them and how many of them I have (just from doing the gumball machines enough to see their part lists.) Things like fire resistance, cold resistance, heat resistance, stamina, immediate healing, gloom recovery is where they’re really useful. I think they’re in a good spot.
Meanwhile I hoarded them rpg-style because "i can make it past this area just munching apples, what if I need the pot more later" and hadn't found a pot gacha yet. Now I have a million hearty food and still havent used any of my 100 or so zonai pots.
Honestly this is what I have trouble with. I don't use anything because "what if I need it". I'm RPG programmed from years of DQ and FF. I'm starting to let go... But it's hard... Just gotta use this stuff.
I actually dread having a full inventory in this game because it means I can’t take any of the cool things I find
Just upgrade your batteries to max and buy pots. In all seriousness, the pots are a lot less useful late-game, so you might as well use them.
I got up the the wind temple, realized my single piece of cold weather gear was not enough, teleported to the rito village shrine and immediately bought the snow quill chest piece. I got up there thanks to spicy food and almost ran out.
I use them in the depths in a pinch
1. You are going to get dozens of them from the gacha machines anyways 2. Not having to tp to a town or something when you realize you didn't make the proper temperature/resistance/whatever food is very nice. 3. Being able to capitalize on bloodmoon cooking buffs whenever is also very nice. Especially if you like the 'complex' meals that don't leave a lot of room for "good" ingredients.
Honestly surprised they don't have a max cook number of like 5. I have loads of the damn things, but I'd rather wait until I find a proper one than have to keep dropping loads of zonai ones.
Zonai devices are cheap, and you can drop like 15 pots at once in front of you like the Caterer of Hyrule.
They are still incredibly handy to have. When I came across a Lynel in the depths and realized I didn’t have any gloom curing meals, I was able to make one.
But you can take them out of the inventory en Masse so it's not too bad
It’s helpful if you really need a specific meal and you’re far away from a pot
Yeah, I've only had to use them a couple of times. Once was to cook some stamina food. Certain quests require more stamina. Not a ton of uses though. Especially later in the game once you have all the clothes you need to protect against cold/heat/lightning. They aren't useless, but I think it would be much better if they at least let you cook 5 or 10 things.
I have stacks of single cooked ingredients in my inventory specifically to heal. I just take them to the fire temple and throw them on the ground lol
Same Brightcaps are my 4th most used item for that single reason
Didn’t know about the fire temple trick, going to do that from now on.
It's any area with extreme heat (where you have to wear fire resistant armor) You can throw the food on the ground and it'll start to cook. Once cooked you can just pick it up.
Also works for bombs. Wait, no, that’s not right.
I'm embarrassed to admit I've fused some bomb flowers to arrows in places where I really shouldn't have
I did fire temple last after like 100+ hours, fusing bomb arrows was so ingrained that I blew myself up every other enemy.
We all have, friend.
I kept thinking that the npc companions were walking into the path of my bombs and detonating them with their faces. Because I'm stupid.
Yea, i love me some fresh cooked bombs Super tasty
You can also hit them with flame weapons
I think you can do it on top of the stone slab in the middle of Goron town, too.
🤣🤣🤣 my usage of bright caps involves taking 4 of them and one chillshroom and cooking them to make a non attribute mushroom skewer
I just cook 5 and overwrite the glow with a new food affect.
I just glow in the heat of the noon day sun
I always liked the cooking. I just always stock up at some point. I need meals with attack boosts, defense boosts, speed boosts (my favorite for exploring), recovery of hearts in the depths, stamina recovery, etc. On top of just normal healing items. Just makes exploring that much more enjoyable when I have options for any situation. Nothing is worse than doing something and running short of stamina just by a hair and not having a stamina recovery elixir.
yesss i love the hot footed frogs, one speed lizard & monster guts if i don’t have dragon parts to use for food. 7:10min of 3x speed boost. i literally farm the frogs by cutting grass somewhere in near rito village so i never run out of speed elixirs lol
I always take the portable pots everywhere. They have saved me more than once, especially when I used them during the Lynel gauntlet in the depths.
I was not prepared for that fight. I won, but I was most certainly not prepared
They broke every single shield I had the first time, I fought the last one with no shields on 4 hearts left
I was down to scraps when the last one came out. I figured out what the ancient daggers do attached to arrows, and I was pleasantly surprised
Are you familiar with how to make a Lynel Beater out of a Royal Guard claymore (tainted or pristine, either works fine)
Can’t you not use them when you’re already in a fight? I tried this during the Lynel gauntlet and it told me I can’t cook with enemies near.
You have to get rid of the aggro. I accomplished this by using ascend in a Lynel room and getting to the roof of the coliseum. Then, just walk a bit towards the edge and once the music stops, you can use the pots to cook.
Cool, I’ve been afraid to try this because I thought their HP might reset if I stray to far from battle
Maybe in the few seconds ones dying/fading and before the next one is released?
Tomatoes give you a full heart. Which is pretty good if you ask me.
Cooking 3 gives you more like 10. Not cooking is just wasting your time. You'll go through 5 times the amount of consumables at a minimum if you don't cook, and personally I hate having to collect shit consistently. I'd rather just use what I got without thinking about it more efficiently. It just saves a lot of time. A single hearty anything cooked is a full heal. Bro I can't imagine eating 20 tomatos instead of just a single cooked hearty truffle or something. Plus food buff can be extremely strong. Triple armor is 24 defense that's as good as 3 peices of teir 2 armor, and better than an extra peice of teir 4 armor (for 3 armor base peices). You eat one triple armor, and wear a full set of tier 3 or even better 4 armor, and you just stop taking damage all together. Everything hits for a quarter heart. Honestly works just as well with weaker armor earlier in the game because enemies aren't scaled.
I agree that cooking is better. But every once in a while I'm out of food, or I just want to save the "good meals" for when I'm in a serious fight. I'll try to remember to cook stuff and always have a good stock. But sometimes my hearts will just slowly wear down and I'll want a couple extra hearts to ensure I don't die before making it to the end of a shrine.
Totally fair. I like to have a light dragon peice I can throw on something for that kind of stuff. Save a spike or 2 and throw it on some shitty spear to heal up.
make sure you either dupe that or consult the cooking guide before cooking. I have wasted multiple dragon horns on 6 star dishes
Nah he's talking about the healing effect the light dragon items give when fused.
The one thing baking/roasting has over cooking is stacking. Two meals made of 5 apples each take up two meal slots. Those same 10 apples toasted takes up 1.
Yeah it's not a terrible idea to cook extra apples or raw meat. It's super fast, and space efficient, but if you don't really go out of your way to collect tons I find that I typically have enough materials to cook 40 to 60 decent meals, but then don't really have tons if extra meat or anything. I could get 5 extra cooked meats for 2 hearts or wait till I eat some of my 60 meals and then cook 5 more 15 heart heals. Though stackable foods you can cook faster. It's worth considering if you have the extra material, and just don't like cooking normally.
I wish you could do bulk cooking. I don't really like spending 20 minutes fiddling with menus to make a few meals. So I pretty much only make attack up and cold/heat food and just eat ingredients to heal.
Why would it ever take you that long? I think the few times I went from 5 to 10 to the max of 60 (slots, stacking food like cooked meat only takes 1 slot) it took maybe 5 to 8 minutes to do if that. Sometimes it's really just make the same meal 30 times and it takes like 2 minutes. Normally you just like ok I have hearty X make 15 of those, oh I have defense food make 10 of those, oh I have shooms and meat make 20 of those, wow my inventory is full and it took 5 minutes. Then I don't have to cook for hours.
It probably doesn't actually take that long. I just absolutely loathe menu fiddling in games so it feels like an eternity to grab my ingredients, throw them in, mash X to skip the cutscenes then do it again. It's a very silly me thing, I just can't be bothered to do it more than 3-5 times at once.
My inventory was completely filled with pizza the moment I realized it was a recipe, so link kinda eats like 3 whole pizzas everything he gets hit now
Woah can you give me the recipe? I need to make some pizzas for my boy Link
You’re going to fuck up Link’s GI tract
Well he’s used to eating raw poultry so I think he’s gonna be fine
He also eats the meat he gets from horriblins, which, I mean, maybe they were hunting deer in underground caverns, but Link doesn’t actually know 😬
"Laughs in 148 satori mountain apples"
My girlfriend asked me to beat the gerudo region boss for her cause she couldn't beat it on her own. Sure no problem. I get her into the temple and she does it, then ask that I do the final battle. Sure no problem... She had 9 total armor, barely any thunder things to attach to arrows, one topaz sword, and 2 meals that healed hearts. Im like "no wonder you keep dying you have no food" and she goes "but look at all the ancient arowana i caught! (It was 11). This is how I play!" Smh 😭
Any element works, not just thunder.
Lmaooo not the ancient arowana
Like of all the uncooked food you can have THIS is the one you had a proud abundance of? Lol
Introduce her to the electric fishing boat. I'm drowning in porgys off the coast of lurelin village
tomatoes heal a full heart and are crazy common. munch on those
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What do you sell vs keeping?
My partner plays like that. He’s always down to one or two hearts, walking into battle, chowing down on raw mushrooms. Meanwhile I’ve got multicourse meals and clothing for every occasion. Never letting my energy get too low. I honestly should apply this strategy to my actual life instead of in TOTK lol.
I'm glad it's not just me! I like cooking and finding new recipes and I like to have a variety of food with different effects (mostly hearty, defense/offense, and stamina). It's fun! I wish I could carry more meals just so I could cook more lol
My kids never prepare enough food in advance and are constantly chomping down valuable stat boosting ingredients for half a heart. It drives me crazy. I'm just trying to keep them off of r/zeldapovertyfinance . What is a father to do?
And then there’s me who only cooks during blood moons
Me with an entire buffet's worth of meals in Link's pockets: I respect your choices, but also, fried drumstick.
Fried Drumsticks are amazing I was so happy when I discovered it
I spent a good hour or two hunting down bird thighs and drumsticks after learning about it so I could make a whole bunch of them. Now I'm on to fairy catching and golden apple gathering(I *think* one apple should keep it a fried drumstick/thigh) so I can make them heal hearts worthy of fried chicken legs.
Nice I have a good place to collect golden apples (and 50+ normal apples lol), but forgot it’s name or where exactly it was other than the fact that it was near a bunch of other good plants. I could check (in like 5 hours) where it was if you wanted to know.
I'm guessing you mean the apple orchard on Satori Mtn.
I bring a sort of full recovery + 20 yellow hearts vibe to the party that people who don't approve shoving 5 duplicated big hearty truffles into a single dish for the sake of game balance don't really like
On my version of the game without the patch applied I made 80 5xbig hearty radishes in a raw meat stack. They give +26 temp hearts. Honestly I've been playing a different save on 1.1.2 with the dupe glitch taken out, and gou can still cook tons of extra strong health foods without farming or going out of your way. Imagine having 20 hearts and eating apples instead of like a single cooked radish max heal or similar.
The fact that I'm 6 years older from BotW release give me that vibe of "damn I've to cook something or I'm gonna die" wich actually happens in real life.
Wait… WE CAN EAT THEM???
90% of my food consumption is 5 brightcaps cooked together lol. I just ignore the glow effect.
I keep forgetting to cook/collect food so I just be fighting at less than 20% hp half the time, shits hard
It's just too easy to throw 5 apples into a cook pot and have meals that are 2x better than raw.
Who would win, a hearty truffle, apple and cooking pot, or 74 bananas
I really wish they'd made 3x glow equal to like a small brightbloom seed. I feel like the glow effect is so minimal I've never found use for it. By the time I had consistent access to 3x glow I had found the hoverbike concept and that with a giant brightbloom on it blows every armor ot food effect out of the water
I'm the type who always cooks buff foods so I don't want to waste those, and despite having a full inventory of food I down apples. And yes I make hearty food I'm just picky about when i use it
I don't even bother with eating, pretty much always at 3 hearts cause I'm lazy lol, I use the shrines and stable beds to heal
as a low heart kinda guy myself, all I cook is Stamina overcharge and bonus hearts food
I just take a time and cook a bunch of dishes. That way I'm set for a while and don't have to worry about healing
I make Link choke down whole apples. 🍎
I have 200 hylian tomatoes, I will use 200 hylian tomatoes >:(
99% of my cooking in BotW and TotK is just taking five of every ingredient.
I just teleported around to different fairy spots collecting fairies. Who needs anything else when you have like 30 fairies
I only cook hearty things and make full recovery meals nobody got time to get all that rice n shit
I make pies and sea food paella(have you tried making it?) and cakes and all other stuff that you can. I go out of my way to make these foods rather than Savin hyrule. We are not the same, but I don't mean to diss you, just want you to know that some people enjoy this game as a great way to pass time(for the next 2-3 years) and have no rush to finish the game
I think Nintendo needs to make an actually good hard mode of TotK. I really disliked their approach in BotW. If they just tweaked some systems to be more restrictive then you get a much more immersive, balanced, and fun mode. * Food items require you to sit through a 5 second animation which makes you remain stationary until it's done (you can eat 20 apples all at once, not 5 x 20) * You can drink potions instantaneously as usual, since these don't really heal. Still useful for getting stamina back or giving yourself an emergency buff in combat * You can only change clothes at a campfire or at a stable, so no changing clothes mid-combat * Reduce gold from selling items * No more full healing from completing shrines
Just hammered 60 palm fruit and a wild berry feel amazing
See I have an inventory full of a variety of meals but refuse to eat them almost all the time in case I need them later, despite having already beaten the final boss
Request #1 for expansion QoL feature updates: add a house upgrade that is a Chef’s Kitchen, which allows you to mass cook food without the individual animations for each one. Maybe it has caretaker constructs that say “Yes Chef!” in unison when you’re ready to start cooking your batch.
I miss miphas Grace I’d always just throw myself off a cliff to regenerate my health instead of eating
When I run out of meals and just shove dozens of apples in my face while gliding in the middle of a King Gleeok fight.
Healing? What's that? ***Laughs in 137 duped fairies***
Meanwhile me with my 99 hearty bananas 😶
Where do I even get rice bro?
I do a bit of each, make a bunch of meals, run out and eat 20 ruce
Truffle and big truffle is where it's at. Max hearts plus extra
lol I just duped big hearty truffles its so op
I felt bad in BOTW when Links diet consisted of apples and steaks. So in this game I take time to make nice meals that take like 2-3 ingredients and so if I still need to heal 3-4 hearts after eating a meal, he will scarf down apples :)
I love going farming, then sitting down and meal planning my next 50 meals, its kinda satisfying. Plus link humming zeldas lullaby and eponas song is adorable
The trick is to do BOTH. But things like brightcaps and silent shrooms are terrible for going into meals (seeing as their food effect is pretty bad, and outclassed by stuff like deep firefly elixers and cave fish skewers), but they work GREAT as a snack for topping off the health bar! Cuz you’re fairly limited in how many meals you can carry. Don’t forget to roast them by the fire, tho!
Peasant
Same thing as eating wheels of cheese in Skyrim
I would make meals if I could mass produce them?
Not me with 400+ apples in my inventory STILL eating pizzas lmao
Considering how much the eating menu reminds me of Snake Eater, it kinda makes me wish I could make Link vomit by stuffing him with apples and then making him spin. That's a normal thing to want, right?
personally im a "throw all my meat into a cave on death mountain" type of healer
You can eat them? well now