TotK Hearty Ingredient Farming: Radish, Truffle and Fish Routes

What should you prepare before collecting Hearty ingredients?

This guide covers where to gather, how to connect stops and what to reserve in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The Hearty cooking guide explains recipes and meal effects. Pick the ingredient you currently lack; you do not need to cross every region on one trip.

• Obtain the Paraglider and open useful shrine and Skyview Tower travel points. Bring cold protection and stamina recovery for Hebra and high islands.
• Unlock Sensor +, photograph your target and switch the tracked ingredient between stops. Regular and big radishes or truffles are distinct items.
• Bring light sources and a rock-breaking weapon for caves. Crouch near lizards. If fish swim away, approach again from shore instead of exhausting your stamina in pursuit.
• Leave room for meals and return to a lit cooking pot. Roasting ingredients on the ground is different from cooking them in a pot.

Which seven ingredients give the Hearty effect?

The table shows base bonus hearts per ingredient in a valid meal or elixir, before Critical Success. These are not raw-food recovery values. More permanent hearts leave less room for temporary hearts, so a maximum-strength meal is not always useful.

How do you run the sky-island radish route?

Start with North Necluda, then visit South Hyrule if you want more regular radishes. Coordinates are approximate X, Y, displayed in-game height for the plants, not shrine entrances. Check the island’s level before choosing a landing point.

These stops list four plants: one big radish and three regular radishes. If all are present, separate pots provide four full heals. Combining them gives only one healing use, which makes sense when you specifically want more temporary hearts. On your first visit, open travel points and learn the platform connections instead of trying to glide uphill.

How do you gather truffles in caves?

Byroad to Lanayru Wetlands offers both ordinary and Big Hearty Truffles. Use the cave map to locate its south entrance near 1617, -1260, or the north entrance near 1588, -812. Search northward through the following points, switching Sensor + between the two truffles. These are underground positions: standing above them on the surface will not help.

This is a suggested search order, not a straight corridor connecting all four points. Follow the cave’s passages around walls. Ordinary truffles already provide full recovery when cooked, so do not overlook them while hunting the larger ones.

If you often visit Gerudo Canyon, try Gerudo Canyon Mine as an alternative. Its entrances are near -2611, -2605 and -2677, -2403. Search inside for Big Hearty Truffles around -2660, -2477, 72 and -2603, -2495, 84. Find the entrance before following the underground coordinates.

Where can you gather Hearty Bass and Hearty Salmon?

These fish have different names, bonus-heart values and upgrade uses. Prioritize sky-island pools for bass and cold waters for salmon. Neither is interchangeable with ordinary Hyrule Bass.

Fish move: the coordinates identify placement areas, not motionless targets. Identify the species from shore before approaching. Avoid lingering in freezing water; cold protection does not allow unlimited swimming there. The Hebra island positions include two water levels, so check above or below when the sensor sounds without a visible fish.

How does the canyon Hearty Lizard route work?

From Gerudo Canyon Pass, explore southwest and check the outdoor, cave and well stops separately:

1. Approach the outdoor placement near -1625, -2070 quietly. Confirm that the animal is a Hearty Lizard.
2. Enter Stalry Plateau Cave near -1528, -2223, then search inside around -1514, -2240.
3. Continue to Mount Nabooru Well, whose entrance is near -1720, -2238. After descending, search west around -1770, -2243. Use the well map to find the entrance.

These are three places to check, not a guaranteed three-lizard harvest. Lizards can flee, and fixed placements do not describe every wildlife spawn. Stop sprinting and crouch when you spot one. Hightail Lizards and Fireproof Lizards do not produce the same effect.

How should you use the map and plan return visits?

The map contains 19 selected material placements from the main routes. Alternative caves, pools and entrance coordinates are listed separately above. Checking a marker records your visit; it does not read your save or detect respawns.

Do not expect a freshly harvested spot to refill just because you sleep or travel back. Mark empty stops, explore elsewhere and return later. This route does not promise a fixed respawn interval or a guaranteed refill on every Blood Moon. First check the map layer, ingredient and whether you recently collected it.

How should you cook the harvest?

A valid Hearty meal or elixir includes full recovery. Every four effect points equal one bonus heart: a Big Hearty Radish contributes 20 points for ＋5; an ordinary truffle contributes four for ＋1. The truffle’s raw recovery is not its bonus-heart value.

Radishes can make Hearty Fried Wild Greens and truffles can make a Hearty Mushroom Skewer. Hearty Lizards need an elixir combination. Avoid ingredients with a different effect, which cancel the Hearty bonus. For five-ingredient combinations, Critical Success and dish lists, use the Hearty cooking guide. Everyday recovery does not require filling every pot with rare ingredients.

How much should you reserve for armor and meals?

Five heals is an example trip budget, not a game-imposed stock requirement. Three meals need three edible ingredients; eight need eight. Subtract upgrade stages you have already completed. Check the Zora set, all armor and upgrade materials before dividing the remaining harvest into meals.