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There are several features from Breath of the Wild that make a return in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and one of the most immediate ones when you first take on Great Sky Island is that you’ll need protection against the elements for Link from time to time. Whether it’s the sub-zero freeze of the Rito Village or the brutal desert sun in Gerudo Town, you’ll be facing tജhe elements time and again.
But you won’t have 🃏to do it unprepared,🌠 though, with our guide to elemental resistances, so find a cooking pot and get to cooking!
As we venture to differꦫen💜t regions in this non-linear game, this guide contains spoilers for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
Why Does Link's Temperature Matter?
While it's little more than a nuisance in real life, not handling temperature changes in Tears of the Kingdom can be the difference between life and death as you traverse th꧃e massive overworld map of Hyrule.
There will be times when Link is exposed to cold or heat so extreme that he takes damage. You'll notice yourself losing heart container pieces each moment you stay unprotected from the extreme elements, so always be sure to keep an eye on your temperature gauge, the little circle with light blue and orange meters💞 directly beside your mini-map.
This will let you know Link's current temperature, and if he sways too far in either extreme direction, he'll immediately begin to take damage. This will continue until you dress appropriately for the conditions, eat a meal or drink an elixir that grant better immunity to the elements, or, if you're not ready to handle it yet, leave the area for a more suitable climate.
However, plenty of critical story points happen in regions with extreme temps, so you'll need to brave the elements sooner than later in order to prꦑoceed through the game.
The only time this doesn't always apply is in freezing water or lava. Falling into a pool of one of these are almost always certain death regardless of your resistances!
Using Food And Elixirs To Combat Temperature
Whether you choose to handle things by keeping a constant supply of weather-resistant elixirs, local armor sets once you arrive to the city with the extreme climate, it's ultimately up to you. Many players find that a combination of armor and food/elixirs to work the best.
When making food at one of the many cooking pots around Hyrule, you'll have a handful of different ingredients - primarily mushrooms and fish - that grant Link elemental resistance☂ for a set time limit.
The more ingredients in the recipe that carry the effect, the longer the duration of the effect will last.
Elixirs act much like food, but use bug and monster parts instead of cooking ingredients.
Elixirs require general monster parts in addition to the resistance-specific bugs you're using, but food can be made with just the ingredient alone.
How To Handle Extreme Cold
One of the first elemental hazards you're introduced to in Tears of the Kingdom, you'll need to find a way to deal with the cold before you've even finished the game's tutorial - 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gutanbac Shrine is so high up that you'll find Link ꦰshivering trying to reach it.
Once you've 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:unlocked Ascend at the Gutanbac Shrine, check the oversized tree trunk nearby for a piece of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Archaic Armor Set to afford yourself a bit of cold resistance when collecting the .
When you venture out into Hebra - to Rito Village specifically - or to certain places in the sky, you'll experience a flash chill. Link will begin to shiver and chatter his teeth, so warm him up quickly to prevent👍 freezing to death.
Cold Resistant Foods
The ingredients below will offer Link a period of time in which he has resistance to the cold. This is not a complete immunity, buℱt it will cover you in most situations in coldඣer regions.
For a fuller guide to cooking in Tears of the Kingdom, check out our 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Crafting Guide.
Typically, cooked meals offering cold resistance are labeled as "spicy" variants of standard dishes.
Where To Find Cold-Resistant Ingredients In Tears Of The Kingdom
Item Name |
Locations |
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Food Ingredients |
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Gerudo Desert |
Great Sky Island |
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Hyrule Field |
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Hebra Mountains |
Eldin Canyon |
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Eldin Canyon |
Gerudo Highlands |
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Eldin Canyon |
Gerudo Highlands |
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Elixir Ingredients |
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Eldin Canyon |
Gerudo Highlands |
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Akkala Highlands |
Faron Grasslands |
Basic Cold-Resistant Recipes
Recipe |
Ingredients |
Effect |
|
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Meals |
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Spicy Fruit and Mushroom Mix |
2 |
Cold Resistance: |
6 minutes, 30 seconds |
3 Fruits or other Mushrooms |
Hearts Restored |
Five |
|
Spicy Meat and Seafood Fry |
1 |
Cold Resistance |
3 minutes, 30 seconds |
1 |
Hearts Restored |
Five |
|
1 |
|||
Spicy Meaty Rice Balls |
1 |
Cold Resistance |
6 minutes, 40 seconds |
1 |
|||
1 |
Hearts Restored |
Six |
|
1 |
|||
1 |
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Spicy Mushroom Skewer |
5 |
Cold Resistance |
|
Hearts Restored |
|||
Spicy Pepper Seafood |
1 |
Cold Resistance |
3 minutes |
1 |
Hearts Restored |
Three |
|
Spicy Pepper Steak |
3 |
Cold Resistance |
8 minutes, 30 seconds |
2 Steaks |
Hearts Restored |
Seven |
|
Spicy Sauteed Peppers |
5 |
Cold Resistance |
12 minutes, 30 seconds |
Hearts Restored |
Five |
||
Elixir |
|||
Spicy Elixir |
1 or 1 |
Cold Resistance |
Dependent (the more monster parts you use, the more resistance you'll have) |
1 Monster Part (any) |
Hearts Restored |
None |
Each of these recipes may be impacted if you add additional ingredients, typically adding more time to your resistance for each ingredient you use that has elementally-resistant properties.
Warming Armor And Where To Find It
Item |
Location |
Price (Rupees) |
---|---|---|
|
Outside Gutanbac Shrine on Great Sky Island |
- |
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Gerudo Village |
1,300 |
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Rito Village |
650 |
|
500 |
|
|
1,000 |
With armors, you'll need to survive the elements on your own first before the armor will be available, so keep yourself toasty with spicy foods un💃til then.
How To Handle Extreme Heat And Fireproofing
In the exact opposite vein, you'll find yourself contending with sweltering temperatures just as often as frigid ones as you venture thro🥀ugh, over, and under Hyrule in order to locate Zelda.
The Goron areas of Death Mountain will require fire resistance instead of heat re⛎sistance, which we'll elaborate on down below.
Heat Resistance Ingredients And Recipes
Be sure to stay on the lookout for while you're trekking around the colder areas of the map.
These often grow at the bases of trees, like the rest of the mushrooms tend to, and they're one of the most readily-available heat-resistant ingredients that you'll be able to find.
Additionally, you'll occasionally find swimming in the near-frozen lakes in the Hebra Mountains, especially inside of caves around the area.
The game all but directs you to Rito Village once you arrive in Hyrule to begin the game, so be sure to stock up while you're up in the Hebra Mountains. and are both plentiful in the icy mountain region.
You'll find that meals labeled either as "chilly" or "scorching" variants of regular dishes to have heat resist🔯ance.
Where To Find Heat-Resistant Ingredients In Tears Of The Kingdom
Item Name |
Locations |
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Food Ingredients |
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Hebra Mountains |
Lanayru Great Springs |
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Gerudo Highlands |
Hebra Mountains |
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Hebra Mountains |
Tabantha Frontier |
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Gerudo Desert |
Elixir Ingredients |
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Gerudo Highlands |
Mount Lanayru |
Basic Cooling Recipes
Recipe |
Ingredients |
Effect |
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Meals |
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Chilly Fish Skewer |
5 |
Heat Resistance |
12 minutes, 30 seconds |
Hearts Restored |
Five |
||
Chilly Meat And Seafood Fry |
1 or 1 |
Heat Resistance |
|
11 |
Hearts Restored |
||
Chilly Mushroom Rice Balls |
1 |
Heat Resistance |
3 minutes, 30 seconds |
1 |
Hearts Restored |
Three |
|
Chilly Mushroom Skewer |
5 |
Heat Resistance |
12 minutes, 30 seconds |
Hearts Restored |
Five |
||
Chilly Simmered Fruit |
5 |
Heat Resistance |
12 minutes, 30 seconds |
Hearts Restored |
Five |
||
Elixir |
|||
Chilly Elixir |
1 or 1 |
Heat Resistance |
Dependent (the more monster parts you use, the more resistance you'll have) |
1 Monster Part (any) |
Hearts Restored |
None |
Cooling Armor And Where To Find It
Items |
Location |
Price (Rupees) |
---|---|---|
|
Kara Kara Bazaar |
450 |
|
Gerudo Secret Club |
1,300 |
|
650 |
|
|
Gerudo Town Shelter |
1,400 |
You'll need to go into the well outside the Gerudo Secret Club and use Ascend to get into the shop for the first time, as the door is initially locked.
How To Fireproof Link
Finally, when you go to Death Mountain, the heat there is so extreme that Link won't just sweat if he's unprotected - if left in this heat for too long, he'll literally burst into flame, which is a quick way to get a Game Over.
To do this, you'll need to rely either on or the Flamebreaker Armor Set to prevent Link from catching fire. There are no meals that make Link fireproof that we could find.
Normal heat-resistance items do not work on Death Mountain.
Where To Find Fireproof Ingredients In Tears Of The Kingdom
Item Name |
Locations |
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Eldin Canyon |
Eldin Mountains |
|
|
Eldin Canyon |
Gerudo Highlands |
Fireproof Armor Location
Item Name |
Location |
Price (Rupees) |
---|---|---|
|
Goron City |
700 |
|
1,200 |
|
|
1,400 |
Regardless, remember that your shields and weapons are still flammable, so while you're scaling Death Mountain, don't use wooden tools, lest they ignite.