BotW Sneaky Food: Stealth Recipes and Ingredients

What does Sneaky food do in Breath of the Wild?

Sneaky food calms the nerves and silences footfalls, as the elixir’s description says, so monsters and animals notice you later. It has three levels and adds 2:00 per ingredient. It is handy for sneaking up on wildlife, stealing from a camp, and the Yiga Clan Hideout.

The game says: “Grants a low-level stealth boost.” The elixir’s description: “Grants a low-level stealth effect, which calms the nerves and silences footfalls. Allows you to move about undetected by monsters and animals.”

Which ingredients give Sneaky?

Six ingredients carry it. The strengths of the matching ingredients in one pot add up, and a total of 6 or more makes Lv2 and 9 or more Lv3; anything below 6 is Lv1. Duration adds up per piece: each effect ingredient adds 2:00, up to the 30:00 cap.

Ingredient	Type	Strength	Time each	Sells for
Silent Princess	Plant	3	2:00	10
Stealthfin Trout	Fish / seafood	2	2:00	10
Silent Shroom	Mushroom	2	2:00	3
Sneaky River Snail	Fish / seafood	1	2:00	6
Blue Nightshade	Plant	1	2:00	4
Sunset Firefly	Critter	1	2:00	2

Silent Princess is the only ingredient with strength 3. Silent Shroom and Stealthfin Trout have 2; Blue Nightshade, Sneaky River Snail and Sunset Firefly have 1. The firefly is the only critter, so it is the only way to a Sneaky Elixir.

What is the easiest way to cook a Sneaky dish?

Every row below was run through the cooking simulator built on the game’s data. “Lv” is the effect level and the time is how long it lasts.

What goes in the pot	Result	Effect	Restores
Silent Shroom ×3	Mushroom Skewer	Lv2 · 6:00	3 hearts
Silent Princess ×2	Fried Wild Greens	Lv2 · 4:00	4 hearts
Silent Princess ×3	Fried Wild Greens	Lv3 · 6:00	6 hearts
Silent Shroom ×5	Mushroom Skewer	Lv3 · 10:00	5 hearts
Blue Nightshade ×5	Fried Wild Greens	Lv1 · 10:00	0 hearts
Stealthfin Trout ×3	Fish Skewer	Lv2 · 6:00	6 hearts
Sunset Firefly ×4 + Bokoblin Horn ×1	Sneaky Elixir	Lv1 · 9:10	—
Silent Princess ×3 + Shard of Dinraal’s Horn ×1	Fried Wild Greens	Lv3 · 30:00	9.75 hearts

Lv3 needs 9, the highest bar of any effect, so plan on either three Silent Princesses or five Silent Shrooms. The shrooms are far easier to find and give a longer effect, 10:00 against 6:00. Blue Nightshade alone never gets past Lv1, even five of it.

Where do you find Sneaky ingredients?

The compendium column is what the Hyrule Compendium shows for each entry. The last column counts where the map data places plants and mushrooms; fish and critters mostly appear from area spawns, so they have no count.

Ingredient	Compendium: common locations	Fixed placements in the map data
Silent Princess	Hyrule Ridge, West Necluda	40; most near Great Fairy Fountain, Satori Mountain, Rutile Lake
Stealthfin Trout	Great Hyrule Forest, Eldin Mountains	—
Silent Shroom	Lanayru Great Spring, West Necluda	471; most near Hickaly Woods, Thyphlo Ruins, Ruto Mountain
Sneaky River Snail	West Necluda, Lanayru Great Spring	—
Blue Nightshade	West Necluda, Lanayru Great Spring	131; most near Great Fairy Fountain, Farosh Hills, Korok Forest
Sunset Firefly	West Necluda, Great Hyrule Forest	—

Silent Shrooms glow softly at night, the game says; the thickest clusters are in Hickaly Woods and around the Thyphlo Ruins. Blue Nightshade also glows; many grow around Great Fairy Fountains and Farosh Hills. There are only 40 placed Silent Princesses, spread over Hyrule Ridge, Satori Mountain and around the fountains. The game’s description says Stealthfin Trout glow in the dark; they are plentiful in Lake Mekar. Sunset Fireflies come out at night.

Which dishes ask for Sneaky ingredients by name?

Most meals in Breath of the Wild take “any mushroom” or “any fruit”, so any of them carries Sneaky when you use the ingredients above. The dishes below are the ones whose own recipe names one of those ingredients: only Seafood Skewer, through the river snail.

To see what your own pouch can make, open the recipe finder with Sneaky picked.

What should you read next?

• Recipe finder: tick what is in your pouch and see what you can cook
• All recipes: every meal and elixir with its recipe
• Best recipes: which effect to cook for, and the rupee recipes
• Great Fairy Fountains: where Silent Princesses and Blue Nightshade grow
• The other effects: Hearty, Energizing, Enduring, Hasty, Mighty, Tough, Chilly, Spicy, Electro, Fireproof