TotK Bright Recipes: Ingredients, Bright Elixir and More
Bright food and the Bright Elixir in Tears of the Kingdom: every ingredient that carries Glow, how strong each is and the dishes using them.
What does Bright do?
Bright food makes Link glow, lighting up the ground right around you. The elixir’s description calls that faint light a boon in dark places.
Which ingredients give Bright?
Three ingredients carry it: Deep Firefly and Glowing Cave Fish (2 in the cooking data) and Brightcap (1). The game describes three levels.
- Effect
- Glow
- Dish name prefix
- Bright
- Elixir
- Bright Elixir
- Levels
- Lv1–Lv3
The game says“Grants a low-level glow effect, illuminating your immediate surroundings.”
The elixir's description“Grants a low-level glow effect, illuminating your immediate surroundings. This faint luminescence is a boon in dark places.”
Ingredients with this effect
| Ingredient | Type | Strength¹ | Sells for | Where it's placed² |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glowing Cave Fish | fish or seafood | 2 | 6 | — |
| Deep Firefly | critter | 2 | 2 | the Depths 388 |
| Brightcap | mushroom | 1 | 4 | caves 667 · Hyrule Field 5 · Lanayru 1 |
¹ The number the game's cooking data gives each ingredient for this effect: higher is stronger, and a pot adds them up. Levels follow set thresholds on the total; the “easiest way” section below lists the combinations that reach them.
² How many times the game's world data places the ingredient at a fixed spot, and the three areas with the most (a region is the one of the nearest shrine). Ingredients from animals, monsters, ore deposits, shops or random spawns are not counted, and those listed can also turn up elsewhere.
Bright Elixir: Cook one or more of the critters above with one or more monster parts.
Dishes that ask for one of these ingredients by name
- 175 Toasty Brightcap
- 190 Roasted Cave Fish
- 210 Frozen Cave Fish
Any other dish whose recipe takes an ingredient of the same type ("any mushroom", "any fish") also carries the effect when you use one of these.
How do you make level 3 Bright food?
Bright has three levels; the game’s cooking parameters put level 2 at 5 points and level 3 at 7. The three ingredients split into two routes that cannot be mixed:
| Pot | Points | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Deep Firefly ×4 + monster part (elixir) | 8 | 3 |
| Glowing Cave Fish ×4 | 8 | 3 |
| Glowing Cave Fish ×3 + Brightcap ×1 | 7 | 3 |
| Brightcap ×5 | 5 | 2 |
Brightcaps are the ones you collect in bulk, and five of them only reach level 2. The Deep Firefly is a critter, so it goes into an elixir with a monster part; drop one into a pot of Brightcaps and the result is Dubious Food, because a critter without a monster part spoils the dish. So choose: fireflies and a monster part, or fish and mushrooms. Each Bright ingredient adds 2 minutes.
Where do you find Bright ingredients?
Each of the three comes from a different kind of dark place. Counts are fixed placements in the game’s world data.
| Ingredient | Where most are placed |
|---|---|
| Deep Firefly | 388, every one of them in the Depths — reach them through a chasm |
| Brightcap | 680, of which 667 are in caves: 22 in Ancient Tree Stump Cave, 16 in the aptly named Brightcap Cave, 15 in Lindor’s Brow Cave |
| Glowing Cave Fish | 74 fixed spots, 65 in caves and wells; the biggest schools are 12 in Elma Knolls Well, 7 in Hills of Baumer Well, 5 in Lakeside Stable Well, 5 in Hyrule Castle Town Ruins Well |
The caves and wells pages have the entrances. A trip to the Depths for fireflies pays twice, since the level 3 elixir is what you want down there anyway; the Miner set, found in Depths mines, glows without food.
Related
- Recipe finder — tick what is in your pouch, or pick Bright and see every dish that can carry it
- All recipes — the whole recipe book in the game’s order
- Best recipes — the 15 effects side by side, incredible success and the Horse God
- Sunny, Warding, Sneaky — related effects
FAQ
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