The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdommeets the exceptionally high standards of its predecessor and continues the legacy of the combine-and-cook crafting system. In a world where Hyrule’s most dangerous monsters are out to play, you’ll need many meals to stay healthy, even ifeating to recover flesh wounds still doesn’t make a ton of sense.

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Meat Skewer and other Ingredients in the menu screen.

Whether you prefer HP-restoring meals made from delicious vegetables or are more into heinous concoctions that function better than they taste, you’ll be able to craft them. There are numerous important effects to discover, such asCold Resistance, enhanced attack in certain temperatures, and stamina recovery, just to name a few.

This is a work-in-progress guide and it will be updated as we explore and learn more about the crafting system in the game.

The wide open fields of Hyrule with trees and mountains in the distance.

What Is Crafting?

Crafting, alsoknown as cooking,is the process that allows you to combine animal parts, fruits, vegetables, oil, and more into meals and elixirs that will help yourecover hearts and gain powerful secondary effects.

Cooking several itemsthat go well together – like peppers and mushrooms –will create meals that restore larger amounts of heartsor have longer-lasting effects.

Link standing beside a campfire with his companion.

Where Do You Find Ingredients?

Ingredients are the most important tools in crafting, and you’ll need tocollect dozens of different kinds to create a variety of meals and elixirs.

There arethree major ways to collect ingredients, though you may also receive them as miscellaneous rewards.

The Meaty Rice Balls recipe discovered while cooking.

Ingredients likemushrooms are often found growing at the base of treesor in caves. There are alsonumerous berry and pepper bushes scattered along the roadsand forests.

While it’s certainly an option to buy your ingredients,foraging and hunting will save you a ton of Rupees, especially in the early game when money is in short supply.

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How To Craft Meals And Elixirs

The first thing you need to do after you’ve gathered your ingredients is to find a spot to get cooking.

There arethree ways you can begin cooking.

Once you set up your fire, you’ll need tonavigate into your menu and select an item you want to start cooking.

Then,choose the ingredient and press “Hold"to start gathering ingredients in your arms to combine.

You canselect up to five total ingredientsin your armsto combine into a meal or elixir.

You do not have to select five ingredients, but doing so will yield increased benefits.

Once you choose your ingredients,exit the menu and approach the flaming pot.

Select the “Cook” prompt as you approachand watch as your individual items combine to form an excellent creation thatyou can use or sell for a fair sum of Rupees.

Alternatively, if you are only using a campfire, you must drop your ingredients on the fire for them to cook.

Cooking items ona campfire without a pot will not produce combined meals or elixirs, so you must locate a pot and fire combination for advanced cooking.

Recipe Tips

The best way to unlock more recipes is byexperimenting with various combinationsof foods and Monster Parts,especially using ingredients that share the same secondary effect.

If youcombine two or more of the same item, you will increase the efficacyof its healing or secondary properties the more you add.

For example,five Spicy Peppers will provide longer cold resistance than three.

Whatever you do,do not combine Monster Parts with any form of foodas it will yield a disastrous result known as"Dubious Food”

Occasionally, characters in the world – like Misa in Rito Village – will give you recipes to follow as well, so pay attention.

Once you create a recipe it will be remembered forever, and you can select that pre-made recipe by navigating over to one of the ingredients andchoosing “Select for recipe"from the item menu.

As a rule,meals made from food focus primarily on restoring hearts,whileelixirs are more geared to attaining secondary effectssuch as temperature resistance or attack boosts.

Here are some essential recipes you’ll need as you start your journey:

Restores five hearts and 12:30 ofCold Resistance

Restores five hearts and 12:30 ofHeat Resistance

Energizing Elixir

OneRestless Cricket, Four Monster Parts

Restores Stamina proportional to the quality and quantity of Monster Parts.

OneCourser Bee Honey, OneGolden Apple, and ThreeApple.

Restores ten hearts and about half your Stamina.

Crafting is essential to your journey, and these are just some of the recipes that will keep you alive.

Whether you needhealth, protection from the elements, or just want to make Rupees, there are plenty of benefits to mastering craftingas early as possible.

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