TotK Fortified Pumpkin: Locations, Drops, and Cooking Effect

Fortified Pumpkin is a plant or vegetable in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game describes it this way: “An extremely tough pumpkin raised for food. When cooked, that toughness manifests itself by considerably upping defense.” This page shows where it is placed, lists the monsters that drop it, and explains what it does in a dish.

Where do you find Fortified Pumpkin?

The map shows all 13 places the game’s world data puts Fortified Pumpkin: 7 on the surface and 6 in caves. Zoom in, and tick the ones you have picked up.

The same places summed by nearest landmark, largest group first. “Show on map” moves the map above to one of them.

These are the fixed placements only. What you pick grows back after a while, so one or two reliable spots are enough.

Which monsters drop Fortified Pumpkin?

Best chance first. The chance is for this material on one roll of that monster’s drop table; a monster can roll more than once.

What does Fortified Pumpkin do in a dish?

Cooked into a dish it gives Defense Up (Tough recipes). In the game’s cooking data its value for this effect is 2; the strongest ingredient with this effect has 3. To plan a dish from what you carry, use the recipe finder.

7 recipes in the recipe book name Fortified Pumpkin outright (number in the book, then the dish):

• 54 Veggie Cream Soup
• 65 Vegetable Curry
• 75 Pumpkin Stew
• 79 Meat-Stuffed Pumpkin
• 80 Vegetable Risotto
• 128 Pumpkin Pie
• 161 Baked Fortified Pumpkin

What else is Fortified Pumpkin for?

• Selling: 5 rupees each.
• Fuse: it adds 1 attack power to a weapon.

See also

• All materials
• Recipe finder
• Tough recipes
• TotK Hinox Locations: All 69, HP, Drops and Medal
• Interactive map