(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . How to find the right foods at the right times in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild [1] ['Daily Kos Staff', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-01-01 Straight up, this is not my usual wheelhouse, and you’re not going to see it up at the top of the site. But this is the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild guide I wish I’d had all in one place but haven’t quite found. Because while some people enjoy the puzzles of the shrines and some people like the fights and some people are there for the story, I like running Link around Hyrule collecting food and ore. And I really don’t like being unable to climb every cliff I see or taking electric attacks, so having the right buffs is a priority. And at the beginning of the game, just having enough food to keep Link going until he can get stronger is key. At the beginning, you’ll mostly find apples and Hylian shrooms. When you find the old man by the fire with the baked apple right off the bat, maybe toss a mushroom or two into the fire—it doesn’t give you the full added benefit of cooking in a pot, but it increases their heart recovery a little bit. Save some foods for the cookpot by the old man’s cabin, though, and especially cook (separately) the stamella shrooms and spicy peppers you find in and around the cabin or may have found elsewhere on the Great Plateau. Once you find Hyrule herb, cook one of those with one apple or one mushroom for a big heart recovery increase in what you’d get from a single cooked apple. Once you have a lot of food, you can mostly ignore Hyrule herb, but at the beginning, it’s gold. The first buff you really need as you get started in the game is cold resistance, as you make your way to the shrines on the Great Plateau. Luckily, you can get a couple of spicy peppers from the old man’s cabin. If you use them to make a specific recipe for the old man, he’ll give you the warm doublet. Alternatively, make a cold-resistant dish with them for yourself and haul ass through the cold area. Then after you’re done with the Great Plateau challenges, you can go back to the cabin and the warm doublet will be waiting for you. There are also some spicy peppers growing west of the Temple of Time, near a bokoblin camp and right by the gate to the cold part of the plateau. Cooking five spicy peppers gives you 12:30 of low-level cold resistance. I’m not going into insects in detail here, but you can also cook insects with monster parts for elixirs that won’t give you heart recovery but will give you buffs; specifically on the Great Plateau you may have caught some summerwing butterflies which can be cooked with bokoblin parts if you want. There are other options for cold resistance, though. Cooking five sunshrooms gives you 12:30 of mid-level cold resistance. You’ll find a sunshroom behind the Hateno Ancient Tech Lab, and many more in Retsam Forest down the cliff from the tech lab. There are also a couple along the road near Foothill Stable. Added endurance is the next one you’ll need, and in my opinion an underrated buff in BOTW. Foods that give you extra hearts are nice for getting through a tough fight, sure, but you can always eat anything at all for more hearts mid-fight. Your stamina, on the other hand, can only be replenished or extended with a few foods—if you’re in the middle of climbing a cliff and run out of stamina, just eating an apple won’t help with anything but the fall damage you take. That’s why endura carrots are the single food I value most in BOTW. When cooked, they not only refill your usual stamina wheel, they expand it temporarily (like yellow hearts, your added yellow stamina wheel is with you until you use it up). Endura shrooms have the same effect, but the expansion is much smaller. Endura carrots are not common, but they are at least predictable: They can be found around great fairy fountains and on Satori Mountain (which I’ll get to in another post). When you find the Great Fairy Cotera, outside Kakariko Village, there are two endura carrots by a tree behind and to the left of the fountain. When you find those, turn around and go straight to another, bigger tree where there’s one carrot. You’ll find a few endura shrooms on and around Satori Mountain, as well as around Serenne Stable and the area near the Thundra Plateau. If you can’t find an endura carrot or shroom, there are foods that will at least refill your stamina wheel without expanding it. Stamella shrooms are the most common of these, and you’ll find them scattered through Hyrule, including quite a few on the Great Plateau—near the old man’s cabin and in the Forest of Spirits in particular. In Kakariko Village, look under Impa’s house for several of them. Outside Hateno Village, you’ll find a fair number in Midla Woods. Staminoka bass and bright-eyed crabs will also give you a stamina refill. Endura or stamina foods are what will let you roam around Hyrule without needing to stick to the roads—with enough stamina (and dry weather), you can climb any mountain. Don’t get me wrong, the hearty foods—ones that not only replenish your hearts but temporarily add more yellow ones—are very valuable. Hearty radishes, big hearty radishes, hearty truffles, and big hearty truffles are scattered all over, valuable when you find them but not super predictable (except, as with so many things, plentiful on and around Satori Mountain). Hearty durians are the ones you can reliably find a significant number of in a specific place. From the top of Faron Tower, paraglide over to where you see two lizalfos jumping around. They have some durians on the ground there and that area has a number of durian trees. And, naturally, there are some on Satori Mountain. It’s a nice easy way to always have some extra hearts on hand. Electricity is one of the most annoying things to deal with, be it from the attacks of yellow lizalfos, enemies with shock arrows, or electric wizzrobes. The dragon Farosh also puts out electricity as he flies by, and, of course, Link can always get struck by lightning. Being shocked doesn’t just damage Link’s health and put him out of commission for a second, it causes him to drop his weapon, losing more time in a fight. When he’s trying to farm dragon parts over water, dropping a weapon can mean losing it entirely. Getting the rubber helmet, tights, and armor and upgrading them twice is one way to deal with this, and the first two parts of that aren’t so difficult—you get the helmet by going to Lakeside Stable, talking to Cinna, and completing the thunder magnet side quest (you just have to paraglide down from above and get an ax out of the top of the horse’s head on the stable). The rubber tights are in Qukah Nata shrine, for which you need to complete the Song of Storms side quest. But to get the armor in the trial of hhunder, you already need to be pretty well protected from lightning, and you are likely to have encountered plenty of electric enemies before you get to that. Getting to Zora’s Domain in particular involves getting shot at with a lot of shock arrows. Luckily, the rubber helmet and tights plus some food that provides shock protection will be enough for many of the challenges you face. Where to get that food, though? Zapshrooms, voltfruit, and electric safflina provide shock protection. Cooking five zapshrooms gives you 12:30 of high-level electricity resistance. Cooking five electric safflina or five voltfruit gives you 12:30 of mid-level electricity resistance. The problem is getting them, especially since you often find them in areas where you already need that protection. Satori Mountain is a good place to get enough zapshrooms to start you off without encountering too many dangers. You’ll also find some near the road immediately south of Soh Kofi shrine, on your way to Zora. But the motherlode is in the Akkala Region. You can find them north of the Spring of Power, west and northwest of East Akkala Stable, and around Katosa Aug shrine. (And yes, I personally would consider going to Akkala to get the zapshrooms before heading to Zora’s Domain. But that’s me.) Electric safflina and warm safflina can be found in the ruins just north of Gerudo Town. There are also some nice chests around those ruins. The area is crawling with lizalfos, including red and yellow ones, though, so be careful. Electric, warm, and cool safflina (along with endura carrots) can all be found by the great fairy fountain in the Gerudo Desert, but that’s a much longer trek. Voltfruit can be found scattered around the Gerudo Desert growing on cacti. Cooking five warm safflina gives you 12:30 of low-level cold resistance—but warm safflina really come to play when you get the snowquill set from Rito Village. The second upgrade on the snowquill set requires warm safflina, and the set bonus on that upgrade is to be unfreezable. A wizzrobe with an ice rod will chitter and hurl ice balls at you to no effect. An icy lizalfo can spit ice at you all it wants and you won’t freeze. Ice arrows won’t freeze you (though they’re still arrows, so watch out.) The snowquill set is not cheap and it doesn’t protect you from much other than cold, but it makes it possible to explore all the coldest parts of Hyrule. Save your warm safflina for that and use other cold resistance foods for actual eating. When you get to the Gerudo Desert, you’re likely to need some heat resistance. Cooking five chillshrooms gives you 12:30 of mid-level heat resistance. Chillshrooms show up in cold areas, naturally, and you’ll find some at the end of the Secret of the Cedars shrine quest. You’ll also find them around the Naydra Snowfield and scattered through the Gerudo Highlands and Hebra region. Cooking five cool safflina, which you’ll find scattered around the cold regions, gives you 12:30 of low-level heat resistance. Five hydromelons, which can be purchased at Kara Kara Bazaar, gives you 12:30 of low-level heat resistance. Also, if you kill an animal in a cold area and leave the meat it drops on the snow, it’s likely to freeze, which can give you cold resistance for a while. On the flip side, if you don’t want your meat frozen, be ready to sprint over and pick it up when the meat drops. Then there are defense buffs. Armoranth is pretty useless, though since you’ll find it a lot of places (and particularly around Mija’s great fairy fountain (near Tarrey Town and Dah Hesho shrine), you don’t need to be particularly thrifty about using it. Ironshrooms are much better, though. They can be reliably farmed in Ginner Woods outside Hateno Village and outside Kakariko Village where Lakna Rokee shrine appears at the end of the Stolen Heirloom shrine quest. If you’re going to fight, say, a lynel, it’s extremely useful to have some cooked ironshrooms. There are also armored fish and ironshell crabs—crabs in particular are easy to grab up along the beaches of southeastern Hyrule. Your mileage may vary, but those are the special foods I personally use regularly. It’s good to have one or two stealthy foods on hand, but silent shrooms are so ubiquitous it’s not worth talking about where to find them, and blue nightshade is found in abundance around the Great Fairy Cotera. Mighty foods, which increase attack power, are another option—for those you’ll use razorshrooms, mighty bananas (found in large quantities in the Faron region and also dropped by Yiga Clan members if you defeat them), some mighty fish, and razorclaw crabs. 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