In Breath of the Wild They don't aim to explain the cooking system to the player, which is strange considering how important it is.
At first, the old man can help you by telling you a little about cooking, or you can skip this interaction and figure it out yourself after playing for a few hours. Don't do the latter; start cooking as soon as possible.
What can you cook?
There are two large categories of items in Breath of the Wild, food and elixirs. No matter what you do, everything works in the same way.
How to cook?
Approach the metal bowl. Light a fire underneath if necessary. Press + to enter the inventory screen and select up to five ingredients to use. Approach the bowl and when prompted, press A to prepare the required potion or food.
Cooking.
Apples are the simplest example for cooking. Cooking an apple turns it into a baked apple, which restores a whole heart (a unit of life). Cooking two apples together over low heat produces a fruit that can restore two hearts, but only takes up one inventory slot. The herb Hyrule works on the same principle. If you eat it raw, it will restore one heart. Once cooked, it will turn into roasted wild greens, which restores two hearts.
This is the main benefit: cooking creates better, more powerful, and more efficient items.
Cooking becomes more complex and this is where experimentation comes into play. Most of what you take can be used for cooking and eating. Raw meat also restores hearts, and when combined with herbs, it can restore your stamina, provide additional protection, or even grant invisibility.
Preparation of elixirs.
Elixirs work like food, except they are liquid and have effect statuses. To prepare, you need to make two things to create the elixir: a critter and a monster part.
Get the monster parts simply because they are everywhere. Every time you kill a monster, it drops a horn or a tooth or some other body part. Mix them with critter—one of Breath of the Wild's terms for small creatures like frogs, fireflies, and lizards—and you create an elixir.
Cooking is an experiment. Don't be afraid to throw a bunch of things into a bowl and see what happens. It can be a disaster, but you can always find the meat and apples you need.
That said, here are some general tips for cooking in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild:
- No matter what you're preparing, be sure to read the item descriptions when preparing your mixture. This way you'll know if what you throw into the thicket will increase your stealth, stamina or defense.
- The components of products and monsters do not mix.
- Don't mix status effects. No matter what you do, you will only receive one status effect, so subsequent ones will be lost.
- If you're cooking something you like (or get that item as a reward), go to an item in your menu and click on it to see a list of ingredients. Take one and refer to it if you want to make that item again.
- You can prepare your way out of a difficult battle. You may not need better armor or more hearts (lives), since these can be replaced by dishes that increase your defense.
- Cook on ferries, they provide a decent boost to your food.
In Breath of the Wild, you can create an incredibly large number of culinary masterpieces that will help you make life easier on your difficult journey. But creating truly the most healthy culinary recipes can take a lot of time and effort, since rare ingredients are not easy to find. However, do not be sad, because we have carefully studied the cuisine of Hyrule and prepared for you the top best and healthy recipes in Game.
10. Baked fruits are an easy way to heal.
Probably one of the easiest ways to improve the medicinal properties of foods is to bake them. Fruits are very common during the game, and they can be easily baked using a fire or on the ground in locations with very high temperatures, such as in the Eldin Mountains, where is Gorongrad. When baked, their medicinal properties increase 1.5 times. Another advantage of this recipe is that one type of baked dish takes up one slot in the food section, which has a limit on the number of preparations you can carry.
9. Spicy juicy mushrooms - an easy way to stay warm
Spicy juicy mushrooms- a fairly simple mushroom dish called Zharomor. Thanks to five of these mushrooms cooked in a cauldron, you can not only replenish five hearts of health, but also protect yourself for 12 and a half minutes from quite severe frost, thanks to the effect of the second level of protection from cold. These mushrooms are most often found in Eldin Gorge and Gerudo Highlands. After eating this dish, you will be able to run in your underpants in the coldest locations, but swim in cold water still not recommended.
8. Ice-cold, juicy mushrooms are an easy way to beat the sweltering heat.
Ice juicy mushrooms- the exact opposite dish to spicy juicy mushrooms. Unlike the previous one, the recipe perfectly protects from heat for 12 and a half minutes, and also replenishes five health units. To prepare you will need five mushrooms Podmorozovikov . These mushrooms most often grow in cold soils, such as Eber Mountains and Mount Laneiro.
7. Steamed fruits - increase speed
Thanks to the dish “ quick steamed fruit” you can increase your running and climbing speed by 3 levels for a full five minutes. The dish is prepared from two agility-lotus and three agility-violets , and together they form a fairly healthy dish for traveling. As a bonus, it also restores two health points. Agile Lotus can be found easily V swamps of Laneiro, and here violet agility you'll have to look in the cold ones Eber Mountains or Gerudo Highlands.
6. Steamed thief fish - quieter than water...
If you can’t sneak up on your victim because you make a lot of noise, then a dish will come to your aid “ steamed thief fish" To prepare it you will need two mushrooms Hidden hedgehogs, two flowers Princess of Silence and one fish Quiet trout . Thanks to this dish, you will be able to move very quietly for 10 minutes (stealth level 3), and also restore 8 health units. Quiet trout can be caught in the waters around Korokov Forest, Princess of Silence grows at Springs of Big Fairies, A Hidden hedgehogs most often found at the source of Laneiro and in Western Néclude.
5. Wonderful juicy mushrooms - take your health to the limit
There are dishes in the game that not only completely heal you, but also give you extra hearts. One of these recipes is “ Wonderful juicy mushrooms”, which are prepared from super truffles. Cook in a cauldron five super truffles , and you will receive not only full healing, but also an additional 20 hearts. However, there is also bad news. Super truffles very rare.
4. Protective steamed fish - armored body
On the way to save Hyrule, you will meet quite a few dangerous opponents who will destroy the lion's share of your health with one blow. To prevent this, you should prepare “ Steamed protective fish”, giving protection from third level physical attacks for 250 seconds. To prepare this dish, useful in battles, you will need three flowers Plateflower and two fish Plate Pagr . The first ingredient you can collect in Akkala Highlands and Khairul Uval, and the fish can be caught from shores sea of Laneiro and the Nekludy Sea.
3. Combat fruit mix - on the offensive with triple force
If you don’t want to defend yourself, but go on the offensive against the enemy, then the dish will help you with this “ Fighting fruit mix”, which will grant you three additional attack levels for 250 seconds. A dish is being prepared from five bladed bananas , most often found in tropical forests of the Faron region, as well as drops when killing clan members Iga.
2. Life-giving juicy mushrooms - quick replenishment of stamina with minimal costs
If you were climbing a mountain and suddenly ran out of stamina, then a dish called “ Living juicy mushrooms”, which not only instantly fully restores your stamina, but also adds a little extra stamina. The amazing thing is that it can be made from just about anything. one mushroom Lively . This makes it one of the easiest and most useful recipes in the game. These mushrooms are most often found on Khairulian ridge and plain.
1. Wonderful salad - quick health replenishment at minimal cost
We decided to award the award for the best dish in the game Wonderful salad which is prepared in a cauldron from everything one miracle radish . The dish turned out to be very healing, and not only completely heals Link, but also gives three additional hearts. Even shish kebabs made from several raw shanks and rumps turn out to be less healthy than one radish. Miracle radish most often found on Khairulian vale and in Eastern Neclude.
The best recipes in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will keep you alive and able to handle any situation.
If you're like me, you may have initially ignored cooking in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild because, well, let’s face it, it’s not in the old games and new things suck. But undeniably they offer some perks that are just too good to ignore. With elixirs and meals you can combat stamina depletion, speed up Link’s movements, and add heart containers as a damage buffer. You can also use them to combat heat and cold, among the most dangerous enemies in Hyrule. It’s worth it to stop for a few seconds and throw a few ingredients together, especially if it means exploring an area long before you have the proper gear to do so.
First things first: gathering ingredients. For the most part you can find them out in the wild by spamming the A button while you roam the fields. Some items can be purchased, like milk and rice, and used for a complete meal. Others, like most fruits, can be cooked alone to achieve their maximum benefit. Meals are made of combinations of food, while elixirs are made with a combination of one monster part to up to four critters (which include frogs, bugs, and lizards, but not snails). Items are often found in areas that reflect their effect; for example, butterflies that can be used in warming elixirs can be found on Death Mountain, and dragonflies that can help cool Link off are in snowy areas, like on Lanayru Mountain. Some can only be found under certain conditions, the Hot Footed Frog, which only comes out in the rain. Fish can be a little tricky to catch, since they have an easy escape route, but if you throw bait into the water, it should help. Try matching the effect of the bait with the effect of the fish: a Mighty Bass, for instance, can be lured with Mighty Bananas. Select them from your menu, press Hold, exit the menu, then drop into the water. The fish will come nearer. Early on in the game you will get an upgrade to your Sheikah Slate that will also allow you to build the Hyrule Compendium, a library of photo captures that can be used to identify and track almost any item in the game, including ingredients. This will help immensely.
Each ingredient will list its basic effect. Stacking them with other items with the same effect will increase the modifier boost, but if you combine foods with different effects, they’ll cancel each other out. And if you mix food with monster parts, the result will be “dubious”, inert and practically inedible, so be sure to read the labels carefully. Some will have similar wording but still count as a separate effect, resulting in a nasty surprise if you should mix the two. You can, however, have extra Heart Containers and Stamina Wheels while another effect, like Fireproof or Electricity Resistance are in place, so use that to your advantage.
For meal recipes, talk to NPCs, complete sidequests, and also look at the walls of stables and inside homes, where posters will reveal the ingredients for certain dishes.
Cooking does not work as it might in other games; you don’t approach the pot and enter a menu to pull ingredients and cook from. Instead, you must go into your inventory, select an item, scroll down to “Hold,” and grab up to five items to carry. Exit the menu, then stand near a cooking pot. The option to Cook should appear. In a pinch, you can throw items on the ground near a fire to “bake” them but be aware that you cannot cook meals this way.
There are a few ways to get one last final bonus on your meals and elixirs. Cooking during a Blood Moon will help, as will using a Fairy in your recipe (don’t worry, the Fairy doesn’t actually cook and die). Dragon parts and star fragments also enhance elixirs and meals, though admittedly those are harder to obtain. The more rare and expensive the monster part in your elixir, the longer the effect, so keep that in mind as you mix.
Sometimes the best way to get a strong elixir or meal is to use as much of the same ingredient as you can, but mixing and matching is fine too. Here are ten recipes you can use while out in the fields of Hyrule, each with a different effect.
Fireproof
This will be one of the most valuable potions you can make early on in the game because it allows you to travel around Death Mountain without literally burning to death. It requires Fireproof Lizards, which can be found on rocks in warmer areas (move quietly and sneak up on them, as they spook and scatter easily). Death Mountain is home to the Red Chuchus needed for the rest of the elixir, but you can also use a Fire Arrow or Fire Rod to strike a regular Chuchu, and it will absorb the effect (or, to save use of a breakable weapon, drop them on lava or a campfire. Red Chuchus can also start a campfire when you're in a jam!)
Electricity Resistance
Electricity damage is one of the biggest pains in the ass in all of Breath of the Wild. Not only does it deplete your heart containers, it also causes Link to drop and sometimes lose his items forever. Electric Keese and lightening are huge hazards and there are few things as deadly as an electric weapon used during a rainstorm, so arm yourself with several of these elixirs to help in a sudden jam. Zapshrooms can usually be found under trees during electrical storms, while Voltfruit is out in the Gerudo Desert on top of the cacti.
Refill Stamina Wheel
There’s something to be said for having multiple Stamina wheels in Breath of the Wild, especially while scaling mountains and walls. Give yourself a mid-climb boost with this recipe, which uses Courser Bee Honey (found in trees, often near enemy camps), and the Staminoka Bass, which, when cooked alone, will fill an entire Stamina wheel by itself. Try cooking a dish with 5 Staminoka Bass to really get the maximum effect.
An even better Stamina related recipe may be this one made of Endura Carrot, which can be found in a ring around a tree at Great Fairy Fountain locations. Five cooked together will give you two full extra Stamina Wheels.
Attack Power Boost
As spinach is to Popeye, bananas are to Donkey Kong. And in Breath of the Wild, five bananas will net you one of the biggest boosts to attack power in the whole game. To find them, head to the Faron region and look among the tropical trees. For an even bigger boost, grab some Mighty Porgy and Razorclaw Crab, both of which can be found in abundance in Horon Lagoon, along with other rare fish and crab.
These pumpkins can be found in Kakariko Village and purchased for 20 rupees a piece, but if you’re in a jam, Ironshroom, which shows up on rocks in the mountains, can also be used.
Movement Speed
With literally miles of land to traverse and climb, a movement speed boost is a welcome gift in Hyrule. Fleet Lotus Seeds are out in the Gerudo Desert or in the rare pond or body of fresh water. Swift Carrots can be purchased in Kakariko Village.
Cold Resistance
Cold resistance is one of the first effects learned in Breath of the Wild, and luckily the peppers that serve as a base for many cold-resist recipes are found throughout the game. In this one, Sizzlefin Trout, a fish that prefers warm bodies of water, also helps out.
The great thing about stealth and sneaky items is that they give themselves away by name. You can find Blue Nightshade and Silent Princess at the Great Fairy Fountain above Kakariko Village.
Heat Resistance
This is another recipe built on items whose names hint to their greater purpose. Chillfin Trout, the opposite of the Sizzlefin, likes cold waters. Cool Safflina and Hydromelon, meanwhile, are out in the Gerudo Desert.
Increase Maximum Hearts
This recipe is probably the most valuable on the list, and with it, you can withstand almost any of the effects that the rest seek to eliminate. In general, Big Hearty Radishes and Durian are the best to cook with. Both dramatically increase the number of Link’s heart containers. If five Durian are cooked together, the player receives a whopping 20 extra hearts, which do not have a time limit and disappear only when Link is injured. Mixing Durian with other items typically diminishes the effect, but Big Hearty Radishes push it to its upper limits, going beyond even 20 extra hearts, depending on how you mix and match with Durian. Big Hearty Radishes are scarce, but if you can pull five together, you get 25 (!!!) extra heart containers. Head to Faron Tower in the south and look among the tropical trees on the red cliffs in Bronas Forest to find the Durian. Big Hearty Radishes, meanwhile, can be found in the Torin Wetland outside Lake Akkala.
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List of functions and features with which the last part Link's adventures will get even better.
We summarize the material briefly.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild can be completed in an hour, or in 150 hours. Or don’t finish at all and just run after horses across the endless meadows of post-apocalyptic Hyrule.
And yet the game seems to be missing something. DLC is on the way, but there are some things worth adding to the game right now.
Musical instruments
The developers of Breath of the Wild did not cling to the old canons of the series. In this game, all important game items appear in the player's inventory within the first hour of play, the Master Sword - the iconic weapon of the Zelda series - is optional, and dungeons can be completed in any order or not at all.
Breath of the Wild also lacks many well-known items from the game series - according to game designer Hidemaro Fujibayashi, they could distract players from the gameplay.
However, according to the author of Glixel, the game should have included some kind of musical instrument, like in the Zelda games from the Nintendo 64 era. In them, Link always had some kind of musical instrument, usually a magical one. Many puzzles in the games were tied to it. And the ocarina from Ocarina of Time was the best because you could play anything on it, such as Kakariko Village.
Fishing
In the first hour of playing Breath of the Wild, you can encounter a series of optional events, after which Link must find fish for one meal in order to obtain equipment. It may seem that this requires finding a fishing rod, undergoing a little training and fishing. Not really.
To catch fish in Breath of the Wild, you simply swim around a cluster of fish, hoping that one comes along. It’s easier to throw bait into the water and then stun the whole school of fish with a bomb.
Yes, when fishing in Ocarina of Time, the chances of catching something were about one in a million. But if Breath of the Wild had a fishing mini-game, it would probably be no worse than Sega Bass Fishing on the Dreamcast.
Possibility of sailing
During the first playthrough of Breath of the Wild, many people are not immediately aware of how to sail boats. The answer here is simple: you need to equip a Korok leaf as a weapon and wave it towards the sail.
However, most of the watercraft in Breath of the Wild can hardly be called boats; they are rather primitive rafts. But The Wind Waker of 2002 had a whole ocean and the best sailing opportunities besides Assassin's Creed: Black Flag.
Breath of the Wild is not needed more water, rather more than normal boats.
Home customization
After completing one optional quest, Link can have his own home in the Hateno village.
After this, a chain of quests appears, during which the player gradually improves the house: weapon mounts appear on the walls, and furniture and lighting appear in the rooms. However, you cannot choose any of this - the player can only hang bows, shields and swords on the walls.
But with customization it would be possible to make the home truly “their own” for the player. For example, add a merchant to the game like in Animal Crossing, who would sell different furniture, or diversify the assortment of a village store with wall paint.
Ability to repair weapons
When in the middle of some desert your favorite sword breaks into pieces and scatters in the wind, it is disappointing.
But this happens often in Breath of the Wild, and many have probably wondered why the game doesn’t have the ability to somehow repair a weapon before it completely breaks. It's full of new equipment, but you get attached to individual pieces, and you don't want them to gather dust without use.
Breath of the Wild needs a special blacksmith found in the final areas of the game - such as the Hyrule Castle dungeons - who can repair weapons at a very high cost. This way the game would immediately kill two birds with one stone: it would be impossible to carry every weapon to the blacksmith, but there would be a way to preserve the most favorite blades.
Horse racing
There is nothing to think about here. The mission with the horse races, after which the player receives Epona, is one of the most memorable moments of Ocarina of Time. And in Breath of the Wild you may not even get a horse at all. Link can climb any surface, so he doesn't need a horse to get over small walls on the way to secret areas.
However, horses are everywhere in the game, so why not have a horse race?
Enchanting Armor
Armor, unlike weapons, never breaks, so you don't need to worry about a change of clothes. “Serial” armor can be bought in stores, but unique ones must be looked for in chests scattered throughout Hyrule. It can be painted and improved, which requires grinding thousands of mushrooms.
However, this gaming system could be combined with another: enchantment. Nowadays, many players have countless bugs and monster limbs lying around idle in their backpacks, because food is easier to prepare than elixirs, because it also restores health.
What if you could take these same ingredients to some hidden shrine to enchant armor to, say, increase damage or resist cold. To balance the effects, they might fade over time. But this way it would be possible to combine different parts of the armor.
Book of recipes
Breath of the Wild's cooking system is convenient, varied, and simple at the same time. It allows you to try different combinations of ingredients, hoping that something edible will come out.
However, many who want to experiment are hampered by the lack of a recipe book where useful combinations of edible loot would be saved.
The developers were not shy about adding menus to their game. Breath of the Wild has an entire page that only shows what runes the player has collected in the first hour of the game - perhaps this could have been done without. Instead, an additional tab could be added to the inventory with recipes for food that the player has already prepared.
Weapon change button
It’s inconvenient to open the menu every time you need to eat an apple during a fight to restore health, or change a sword to a bow.
Perhaps a radial menu with weapons would work better than a linear one. It might be worth adding hotkeys for food and elixirs. However, there is a more fundamental problem: the lack of a weapon switch key.
When a player with a full inventory tries to pick up a weapon, he should be able to change the sword he is holding in his hands to the one lying on the ground with the press of a single key. Instead of scrolling through your inventory for the millionth time.
Really big secret
Someone will go through all the dungeons in sequence, defeat the last boss and turn off the game, filled with satisfaction. Others like to look for every little secret in the game.
Such players wander through labyrinths and ruins, collect 900 Korok seeds and explore all the nooks and crannies of the Hyrule Castle dungeons. It seems that all the game's secrets have been revealed. It's a pity that there were no truly exciting secrets among them.
But video games have been full of them since the times Super Mario Bros. and her rooms with teleporters. GTA V has aliens, Trials HD has aliens, and Spelunky has .
There may still be a big mystery in Breath of the Wild. There is an item in the game called a “classified envelope”, the purpose of which is still unknown to players. It could either be a potential start for a future expansion, or it could turn out to be a dud. If there's a big secret in Breath of the Wild right now, it's hidden too well.