TotK Sun Pumpkin: Where to Buy and Cooking Effect

Sun Pumpkin is a plant or vegetable in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The game describes it this way: “A new variety of pumpkin that soaks up the sunshine in Hateno Village. Baked into a dish, it can help heal the effects of exposure to gloom.”

Where can you buy Sun Pumpkin?

In the game’s shop data 1 merchant sells Sun Pumpkin; buying one costs 20 rupees. A merchant who sets up in more than one place has a row for each; “Show on map” opens the spot on the interactive map.

Some merchants only appear once the story has moved on, and a sold-out item comes back when the shop restocks.

What does Sun Pumpkin do in a dish?

Cooked into a dish it gives Gloom Recovery (Sunny recipes). In the game’s cooking data its value for this effect is 4; the strongest ingredient with this effect has 12. To plan a dish from what you carry, use the recipe finder.

7 recipes in the recipe book name Sun 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
• 162 Baked Sun Pumpkin

What else is Sun Pumpkin for?

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

See also

• All materials
• Recipe finder
• Sunny recipes
• Interactive map