BotW Ingredient Farming: Hearty Durian, Mighty Bananas, Shops
Breath of the Wild ingredient farming: Hearty Durians at Faron Tower, Mighty Bananas at Shai Utoh Shrine, Hearty Lizards, merchant prices and stock, respawn times.
The three dishes you cook most in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are hearty (full heal plus yellow hearts), mighty (attack up) and tough (defense up). This page covers where to collect a lot of their ingredients at once, which merchants sell them, and how long they take to grow back. For recipes and how the effect levels add up, see hearty food, mighty food and tough food.
Which ingredients to farm, and how many?
A dish takes up to 5 ingredients. The easy way to reach level 3 for mighty or tough food is 4 of one strength-2 ingredient. Hearty food is different: one Hearty Durian cooked alone already gives a full heal plus 4 yellow hearts, so there is no need to fill the pot.
| Dish | Ingredient to farm | Per dish | Best place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearty | Hearty Durian | 1 (full heal + 4 yellow hearts) | Below Faron Tower, Satori Mountain |
| Hearty | Hearty Lizard (elixir) | 1 + 1 monster part | Beedle at the stables, Satori Mountain |
| Mighty | Mighty Bananas | 4 (level 3) | Shai Utoh Shrine to Lakeside Stable |
| Mighty | Razorshroom | 4 (level 3) | Natie in Korok Forest |
| Tough | Fortified Pumpkin | 4 (level 3) | Olkin in Kakariko Village |
| Tough | Ironshroom | 4 (level 3) | Around Batrea Lake |
The Big Hearty Radish is the strongest (5 yellow hearts), but there are only 63 on the whole map and they are scattered. Pull them when you pass one; they are not worth a dedicated trip.
Where do you farm Hearty Durians?
First choice: Faron Tower. Warp to the tower and glide down to the northeast: the trees of this part of Bronas Forest carry 18 Hearty Durians (Show on map). The same forest has 25 Mighty Thistles (Show on map), 10 Bladed Rhino Beetles and 8 Rugged Rhino Beetles, so one trip restocks hearty, mighty and tough ingredients together.
Second choice: Satori Mountain. Warp to Mogg Latan Shrine; 10 Hearty Durians grow right beside it (Show on map), and 7 Hearty Truffles grow further up. It is close to the Great Plateau, so you can come here early.
One Hearty Durian is 4 yellow hearts, and five cooked together give a full heal plus 20. For easy healing food, carry about 10 and cook them one at a time.
Rather buy them? Who sells Hearty Durians
| Merchant | Where | Stock | Each |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chumin | On the road near Lurelin Village (Show on map) | 5 | 60 |
| Lorn | Fruit stand in Gerudo Town (Show on map) | 3 | 60 |
| Dillie | West Barrens (Show on map) | 3 | 60 |
60 rupees is four times the selling price (15 rupees), so picking them yourself is far cheaper. A Hinox also has a 10% chance per drop roll to drop one.
Where do you restock truffles, radishes and Hearty Lizards?
| Ingredient | Yellow hearts | Where they cluster | Who sells it (stock, price each) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearty Radish | 3 | 12 around Wetland Stable (Show on map), a walk from Kaya Wan Shrine | Beedle at East Akkala Stable (2), Daz in Korok Forest (1); 32 rupees |
| Hearty Truffle | 1 | 7 on Satori Mountain | Pruce in Hateno Village (2), Natie in Korok Forest (1), Cambo (2), Giro (2); 24 rupees |
| Big Hearty Truffle | 4 | 7 in S. Tabantha Snowfield | Only in the rain: Cambo, Giro and Kanny, 1 each; 60 rupees |
| Hearty Lizard | 4 (elixir) | 11 on Satori Mountain, only while the Lord of the Mountain is out | Beedle: Foothill Stable 5, Outskirt Stable 3, Gerudo Canyon Stable 2, South Akkala Stable 2, Woodland Stable 1, Highland Stable 1; 100 rupees |
A Hearty Lizard is cooked with one monster part into a hearty elixir, worth 4 yellow hearts like one Hearty Durian. The 11 on Satori Mountain are only placed while the Lord of the Mountain is out (a green pillar of light above the summit). Otherwise buy them: Beedle at Foothill Stable stocks the most, 5 at a time.
Where do you farm Mighty Bananas and other attack ingredients?
Mighty Bananas: Shai Utoh Shrine. Warp to Shai Utoh Shrine. Banana trees line the way from Ubota Point around the shrine west to Lakeside Stable, 54 bananas in all (Show on map). Four make a level 3 mighty dish.
Yiga Clan Hideout. 31 bananas are placed inside, and every Yiga Footsoldier and Yiga Blademaster drops Mighty Bananas when defeated. Bananas are also how you lure the Blademasters away while sneaking through; see the Yiga Clan Hideout walkthrough. The Yiga Clan come back after a Blood Moon, which makes them one of the few banana sources that do follow the Blood Moon.
To buy: Emri at Kara Kara Bazaar has 1 and Dillie stocks 3, at 20 rupees each.
| Other attack ingredients | Strength | Where they cluster | Who sells it (stock, 20 rupees each) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Razorshroom | 2 | Elma Knolls, Minshi Woods | Natie in Korok Forest (4), Ardin in Gerudo Town (1), Stamm (1, not in the rain), Kanny (3 in the rain) |
| Mighty Thistle | 1 | 25 in Bronas Forest (Faron Tower, above) | Sorelia (3) |
| Bladed Rhino Beetle | 1 | 10 in Bronas Forest | — |
Where do you farm Fortified Pumpkins and other defense ingredients?
Fortified Pumpkins are bought, not picked. The only grower in Hyrule is Olkin in Kakariko Village, who has 8 in his field at 20 rupees each (Show on map, just below Ta’loh Naeg Shrine). The traveling merchant Cambo sells another 3, and a Hinox can drop them.
| Other defense ingredients | Strength | Where they cluster | Who sells it (stock, price each) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ironshroom | 2 | 44 around Batrea Lake (Show on map), a walk from Riverside Stable or Wahgo Katta Shrine | Natie (4), Ardin (1), Meghyn (3), Stamm (2 in the rain), Kanny (3 in the rain); 20 rupees |
| Ironshell Crab | 2 | Horon Lagoon and the shore at Lurelin Village | Mubs in Lurelin Village (3); 32 rupees |
| Armoranth | 1 | 19 at the Great Fairy Fountain in Akkala (Show on map), from Dah Hesho Shrine in Tarrey Town | Sorelia (3); 20 rupees |
| Rugged Rhino Beetle | 1 | 8 in Bronas Forest | — |
Map: the spots on these routes
The map shows the 249 fixed placements along this page’s routes: Faron Tower, Satori Mountain, Shai Utoh Shrine, the Yiga Clan Hideout, Wetland Stable, Batrea Lake and the Great Fairy Fountain in Akkala. Shop stock is left out. Ticks only record where you have searched this round; they do not read your save and do not mean a spot has grown back.
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Every placement of an ingredient is on its material page, for example Hearty Durian and Mighty Bananas.
Where are the traveling merchants?
These merchants stand by the road or near a stable. Once their stock (the numbers below) sells out, you wait for a restock. A few turn up in more than one place, and every place is listed.
| Merchant | Where | Stock that matters here |
|---|---|---|
| Chumin | Near Lurelin Village (Show on map) | Hearty Durian 5 |
| Dillie | West Barrens (Show on map) | Hearty Durian 3, Mighty Bananas 3 |
| Cambo | Wetland Stable (Show on map) | Fortified Pumpkin 3, Hearty Truffle 2; plus Big Hearty Truffle 1 in the rain |
| Giro | Squabble River (Show on map) | Hearty Truffle 2; plus Big Hearty Truffle 1 in the rain |
| Kanny | Serenne Stable (Show on map) | Only in the rain: Razorshroom 3, Ironshroom 3, Hearty Truffle 2, Big Hearty Truffle 1 |
| Stamm | South Akkala Stable (Show on map) | Razorshroom 1; Ironshroom 2 instead in the rain |
| Sorelia | Finra Woods, around Wetland Stable, Ebara Forest | Armoranth 3, Mighty Thistle 3 |
| Meghyn | Floria River, Cephla Lake, Ginner Woods | Ironshroom 3 |
How long until ingredients grow back? Does the Blood Moon help?
Ingredients do not respawn with the Blood Moon. Fruit, mushrooms, plants and critters come back by their own rule:
- You have to leave the area. The game splits the map into squares about a kilometer across, and spots in the squares around you do not grow back while you are there.
- It runs on real play time, at random. Once you are away, every picked spot has a 1% chance to come back each minute: about half are back after an hour, and most after three. The clock stops in menus and cutscenes, so skipping game time at a campfire or bed does not speed it up.
- The Blood Moon only revives monsters. The Yiga Clan and Hinoxes that drop ingredients come back, but durians on trees and mushrooms on the ground do not; see Blood Moon.
Shops follow a different rule: they restock at midnight game time, as long as you are not near the shop at that moment. So once you buy a shop out, warp somewhere far away, skip past midnight at a campfire or bed, and come back to a full shelf. The details, including the 50-arrow limit, are in the shop restock section of the arrow farming page.
In practice, make a loop of Faron Tower, Shai Utoh Shrine and Kakariko Village. Clear one stop, go do something else at the next, and come back an hour or two later to find most of it grown back.
See also
- Hearty food, mighty food, tough food: every ingredient’s strength and the level 3 recipes.
- Best recipes: every dish cooked on a Blood Moon night is an incredible success.
- Recipe finder: find a recipe from what you are carrying.
- Rupee farming: where the money for ingredients comes from.
- For the sequel’s hearty routes, see TotK hearty ingredient farming.
Video walkthrough
FAQ
Where is the best Hearty Durian farm in Breath of the Wild?
Where do you farm Mighty Bananas fastest?
Does the Blood Moon respawn Hearty Durians?
How long do shops take to restock ingredients?
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