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Golden Appleare somewhat rare consumable items in theLegend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. They can be found growing on some apple trees spread across Hyrule, and they have a special effect when cooked.
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Using just one Golden Apple in a meal will enhance it considerably, giving you more hearts restored in anything you cook it with. This is a hidden feature in Tears of the Kingdom known as Critical Cooking. Typically, you need to cook at a certain time and in a certain way to get the effects of this, but Golden Apples always guarantee a critical.
Golden Apple Uses
While you might want to chow down on them to restore more hearts than a regular apple, cooking them as part of other meals will give you more bang for your buck.
Cooking any meal, such as a single mushroom of any kind and a single Golden Apple in the same recipe, will reward you with a meal thatrestores more heartsthan a normal dish like this cooked with a normal apple.
When a meal gives you more hearts than it should.
This effect is known asCritical Cookingin Tears of the Kingdom.
Depending on the meal, you will get 20 hearts instead of five and any duration will last much longer.
Due to this, you should considermixing them into any meals you create.
This will ensure you get more hearts restored whileusing fewer ingredientsoverall.
That’s not to say you should always use your Golden Apples. There is aquestlater in the game that requires you to haveat least five Golden Apples.
So keeping anymore than fivewill be a great idea.
Besides, you only need one to get a huge benefit to your dishes, but obviously adding more will makesignificantly healthy dishes.
Three mushrooms + twoGolden Apple
Fruit and Mushroom Mix- ten Heart restoration.
Three meat +Rock Salt+ oneGolden Apple
One meat + oneSpicy Pepper+ oneHylian Tomato+Golden Apple
Simmered Fruit- 15 Heart restoration and 4:50Cold Resistance.
Throwing in aGolden Appleto any cookable dish will enhance it greatly. These are great to use in Gloom-resistance dishes.
How To Farm Golden Apples
Golden Apples seem to randomly grow onapple trees dotted around Hyrule. As you adventure, you might not have gathered as much as you want, and this is because they can bescarce in supply,
They can be hard to spot if you don’t know they’re there, so if you see an apple tree you shouldgive it a proper once overto see if you may spot any Golden Apples.
Either chop the tree down, climb up it, or shoot them off with arrows. With that in mind, there are a few places you can frequent togather plenty of Golden Apples.
Sonapan Shrine
Part of the eastern side of Satori Mountain is asmall orchard filled with apple trees. This patch of trees can be accessed directly outside ofSonapan Shrine, in the eastern section of Hyrule Field.
Directly outside the shrine, you should be able toimmediately spot Golden Applesgrowing on the trees.
This patch of trees also hastwo Evermeans, and they will ambush you as you explore.
Make sure you have anaxe or a slashing weaponto deal with them quickly.
Everything in the overworld, including previously acquiredmaterialsandweaponslying on the ground or elsewhere,will respawn after every Blood Moon.
You can gather a total ofnine Golden Appleseach moon cycle from this location.
The Lost Woods
To reach the Lost Woods and get through to the home of the Koroks, you need toenter from underground. You can do this by jumping into Minshi Woods Chasm, which is slightlysouthwest of the entranceto the Lost Woods.
When you enter the cave, travel roughlynorthwest to a large pillaryou can use Ascend to travel through.
When you reach the Lost Woods, you need tohelp the Deku Treeto remove the Gloom over the forest.
After doing this, you can explore the Korok Forest properly. To theeast of the Great Deku Tree, you can find Mido Swamp.
On the other side of Mido Swamp, you’ll findanother supply of Golden Apples.
This whole swamp iscrawling with enemies, but if you follow the littleplant lights, you can get to the other side.
You will find two trees, both of which have onlyGolden Apples growing on them. Gather them amm for atotal of six apples.
Since the home of the Koroks is rather difficult to get to without travelling far and into the Depths, your best bet might be better off farming them from the first location we recommend - outside of Sonapan Shrine.
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