This is a revised video and the original is removed. I strive for accurate info at the cost of views for my videos. Changes: Added unachievable levels of buffs Added notes for when ciritcal cooks exceed natural max buffs Added a section to explain ingredient quantity adds to buff duration in addition to bonus duration Changed on-screen popups to emphasize critical cooks having a chance at outcomes Fixed Gramatical Errors
An extremely admirable move. I wouldn't have batted an eye if you'd left the other one with just an updated title stating it was outdated, but once again, you went above and beyond for the community. Extremely well researched, great visual aids, wonderful audio quality. All standard for your vids, but still impressive every time. Thanks for being such an amazing content creator!
@@PatSmith-k5n fr, he just goes crazy when a game that interests him come out than content is slow. This was at a period when he made a crazy amount of TOTK videos
One really good detail when roasting ingredients in fire I just found out recently. Roastable ingredients like apples and raw meats will steam. Non-roastable ingredients like herbs and flowers will smoke. This is a good way to help complete the roasted items in the recipe book.
Austin, this actually helped me a lot in figuring out "optimal" food and how to make it. Something I figured out is that foods with only a level 2 buff at max can in fact achieve a level 2 30 minute buff while also having "full recovery" in terms of hearts. basically if they have a 3 point food you use 1 of that, 1 dragon horn, and 3 fairies (I'm still playing Patch 1.1.1). It may take few tries, but the dragon horn guarantees a critical cook as you mentioned, which can sometimes push a level 1 buff up to level 2. This works for heat/cold resistance, swimming speed, and all elemental weather attack buffs. For attack, defense and stealth you can maximize hearts restore at something like 26 and 3/4 hearts by using the 2 porgies/Silent Princess + 2 fairies + 1 dragon horn. Elixirs become useless if you use a fairy so raw gourmet meat/whole bird can add extra healing. If you use Gleeok or Lynel guts they sell for more. I'm pretty sure the best fireproof elixir is 1 smoldering butterfly + 1 Gleeok or Lynel guts + 2 raw gourmet meat or whole bird + 1 dragon horn. My final note is that sadly speed can only get away with 1 fairy if you want a level 3 buff. Fleet-lotus seeds are better than swift violets because they add hearts to a meal, and since violets can't be eaten you don't get any bonus hearts from using them.
Keep in mind early game, you may want to stack Hearty foods, especially Big Hearty Radishes (doubly so if you dupe them lol), as you can get much more survivability with the +25 hearts. Just stay away from Gloom, as the first thing to go WILL be ALL your Temp HP.
Amazing video. Can't tell you what a relief it was to find this after skimming a dozen useless articles. Knowing that cooking just doubles the hearts recovered will make getting any specific number of target hearts soooo much easier.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this video! Cooking was a really daunting task for me in both BOTW and TOTK, but with this guide it makes sense. I keep going back to the 5:35 mark with the buff durations per effects, then 6:52 for the chart about adding duration with monster parts, then I find my part about the effect I want, like 11:20 for the flame guard for instance. This is really useful! I also learned that the big hearty radishes are better than the big hearty truffles, which is weird to me as I find a lot more of these big radishes! What recipes do recommend for the gloom recovery? I kind of cooked them one by one but they take a lot of space then in the limited 60 cooked meal tab. I wonder if I could do better than that. Also when master mode drops and all dupe glitches are fixed, I think a video on some early recipes might be useful then! Thanks for your content!
My recipe for gloom recovery, if I recall correctly, is one sun pumpkin (You must have completed the Homegrown in Hateno quest to get it.) and 4 sundelions. It restores 15 broken hearts, which is actually a lot for this type of food. I think... it's been a minute.
As far as early game recipes, a golden apple and one any other fruit will give you a very significant healing food and are really easy to acquire. Worked for me. (Need golden apples? Go to Sonapan Shrine that's just a bit west from Lookout Landing. There's a whole apple orchard with several golden apples and it is very easy to get to super early in the game) Late game, I just do one radish or truffle and literally anything else. Usually a regular meat. Full restore.
I had the lady in Hateno plant Big Hearty Radishes for me You only get 2 at a time, but I don’t go through them that quickly, and I come back to visit every time I have a breaking point in my quests
I got the game late so I'm just now getting into your videos and I just wanted to say thank you. Yours is the most helpful gaming channel I've ever come across and your videos are always high quality and accurate which is really valuable when most other channels I watch are entertainment only. So seriously, thanks for these!
Austin thank you from britain bud. In a game where the exact mechanics arent abundsntly clear your videos have given me much needed guidance. I wouldve thought the pristine weapons were usless had i not watched your video. All the ones ive found were travellers or knights and pretty much wrote off going near them
Even though for me who has played breath of wild breath of the wild feels like a demo I still recommend it because it either way both of these games are amazing
You left out the food items that increase buff time, you only included what works for elixirs. For food bird eggs and Goron spice are best at 1:30, but duplicate ingredients are nerfed to 30 seconds. Oil, cheese, butter, milk, and sugar are next at 1:20. Also adding Monster Extract to any food dish will randomly change the buff time to 1, 10, or 30 minutes. So you can save, use monster extract, and then reload if you didn't get the 30-minute buff.
Schema stones are easy to find because you just go to the abandoned mines which are underneath the towns and villages. The yiga bases however can be harder to find.
You skipped the ingredients used to extend the duration of normal food items - nuts; eggs; butter; milk; spices etc add bonus time. So if you made a dish (mighty porgy; 2 bananas; 2 eggs) its going to last much longer than that same attack up food made with just attack up items.
Heyo. I generally don't comment, but I haven't seen anyone mention this as this is generally useless outside of self-imposed challenge runs: While adding a critter and a food together will usually result in Dubious Food, you can freely add food ingredients to a potion base (Monster Part + Critter) as long as the food ingredients have the same effect as the critter or have no effect besides heart recovery/extra time/critchance. The math works out as per usual I.e: 1. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Mighty Banana = Dubious Food 2. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn (any monster part) = Attack Up potion potency 1 3. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn + Mighty Banana + Mighty Banana = Attack Up potion potency 2 4. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn + Gourmet Raw Meat = Attack Up potion potency 1 with some serious heart recovery. 5. Finally, Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn + Swift Carrot = Dubious Food I personally found this out as i formulated a run where I would only be using potions instead of food. Besides this restriction I could see this seeing some use due to the monster parts generally giving better critchance/duration boost compared to regular food additives.
Thank you !!! I have NEVER used any of the guts, fins, etc before and hardly ever used animal parts except for their meat. I only just started using the elemental eyeballs. I knew about some of the bugs. This goes across the board for botw as well. I've been waiting for a video like this.
I have a few questions after watching the video. 1, are you able to mix in heart ingredients to elixers to improve the buff the elixer adds? 2, what happens if you add ingredients with multiple buffs? 3 Other than the dark clump, what do addative ingredients do? Like salt, oil, etc, what do these items add?
12:51 "... so if you wanted to make a meal to recover three full rings of stamina, which I'm not sure why you would, ..." That tone took me by surprise, because I only cooked meals that gave three full rings. I started wondering what was wrong with that. It slowly dawned on me that I was 'wasting' stamina by eating a 3-ring meal, before the last little bit drained. Not being wasteful mode activated and now I only make meals that give 2 full and 3/5ths of a ring. Thanks!
Austin, could you please make a video about bows, and especially bow range? I can’t seem to find good material online about this, which is weird considering damage and durability are easy to find. While the best bow damage-wise most likely is the savage lynel bow with 5 shots, the best bow range wise seems to be a tie between the dusk bow and the great eagle bow (since dusk bow was nerfed). Also, it would be nice to have some information about how much the wings-fused arrows boost range.
I don't know how I could show a picture of it here but I got a critical cook on a five big hearty radish dish and had an additional 26 hearts as opposed to the regular additional 25, I thought I misread it for a second with the way the menu is translucent so I made another one and then zoomed in on that first one and like triple checked to make sure that I had indeed gotten like 26 additional hearts
Knew I had to click on this video as the last one was one of my favorites just because of how important it was and how much I was struggling to figure it out myself. Thanks for your hard work Austin!
You're better off save scumming with Monster Extract over farming dragon horns. Takes a minute on average for a Speed 3 meal to come out as 30m. Farming 40+ Lotuses takes less than 5m. Buying all the Monster Extract also takes 5-10 minutes (I usually make 12 speed meals at once). You waste 20-30 minutes of time but you net 5 and a half hours of Speed 3.
Yep! That would be it He doesn’t mention this in the video, but apparently critical cooks only give 1 extra yellow heart (as opposed to 3 extra hearts for normal healing) I’ve had the same happen when cooking a single big hearty radish (6 vs 5 yellow hearts)
Just a heads up, when you walk into certain stables and npc homes/dwelling, you may notice recipe posters hanging on some of the walls... although the writing is illegible, you can make out the ingredients to use for the recipes by the ingredient pictures. Has anyone else noticed these recipe posters hanging around?
The hardest part about these videos is watching them at work and wanting to play NOW!!! it makes my gaming plans so much easier though with knowing what and where stuff is when I do get to game!!!
Not sure if it’s been mentioned anywhere yet, but critical cooks can give you Rank 2 Weather Attack buffs. I got one for Stormy weather rank 2 during my last Blood Moon cookout.
Just like in BOTW, its disappointing that there's no reason to actually make dishes (Curries, cakes, pies, etc.) In mid to late game, just cook one hearty truffle or a hearty lizard with a boko horn and you get a full heal.
Thanks again. I'm still deciding which buffs to transfer to stackable cooked ingredients (like seared stake, roasted bananas, etc), and this is helpful for deciding which foods to make and how to get them right. As for transferring buffs... cook and eat a meal, then buy a food item you don't have, like seared steak. The item should acquire the buff from the meal you just made, and the buff applies to every item of that type as long as you don't let the inventory drop to zero. So you could, for example, have 999 roasted bananas with a 30-minute level 2 heat resistance buff... or 999 seared steaks which grant +25 yellow hearts... or whatever. It mostly just requires finding vendors who sell cooked foods which can be stacked into a single inventory slot. The easiest place to get started is in Gerudo town where 3 tiers of cooked meat are sold. This grants 3 meal types which can have buffs transferred to them.
I go another way, I mine 500bapples at Satori Mountain * eat them raw for top-ups stamina, light & gloom cures, 20 life with hearty salmon. I opened the first fairy fountain, and it closed again as I couldn't find the drummer for the second fairy fountain. I have Tullen & I've cleared most of the depths. Thank you for helping.
Is there a combined chart for all of this? Like an excel spreadsheet, where it’s divided by ingredients points, buff lvl requirements, and etc… Thanks.
I wonder if they will give us more New Materials as both Upgrades for existing Armour Sets that can't currently be upgraded both for DLC and because a decent amount of these lack 3 Point Buffs. The Weather Attack Bonus ones are where it is most noticeable. Still don't get why there is a single Armour Set locked behind Story Progression and it is such a random one too. 9:49 So possibly DLC then?
I believe I have discovered my new favorite content creator. My God, the dedication to meticulous research is just... Holy hell man. I'm truly appreciative. If it's you alone or a team working together (which is most likely with a channel of this size) you all are killing it. 👏👏👏👏 Great work. Subscribed.
For 3 stamina wheels, you can also do 4 + 3*2 + 1 = 11 That is, just 1 staminoka bass, 3 items worth 2 points, and 1 item worth 1 point It does use 5 materials (rather than 4), but it uses fewer of the highest level item Ultimately it depends on your inventory, and where your limiting reagant (or bottle neck) would be
very helpful, now I don't need to cook 5 mighty porgy but instead, just 3 and the other 2 should be a duration extender. One thing I would like to add on extra yellow hearts is on endgame, you can't exceed 2 rows so some extra yellow hearts can be wasted
Thanks for the last bit! His comment in the video had me wondering… I’ve got 31 hearts now, but I’ve never bothered going for more than 3-5 yellow hearts at any time (not that I ever knew how to make more, or that we could make so many!) Looks like the large 10-25 heart buffs are just for early game (if necessary)
I think this is only an okay guide because it doesn't tell you how to make stuff that gives you strong, long lasting buffs that also give you lots of hearts. Sure you could just aim for getting the max effects and ignore how many hearts it heals you, but you end up saving on ingredients if you make stuff that heals you. You only have a limited amount of food you can cook, so I'd rather have a meal I can use to heal hearts and give an effect over a more powerful effect because I only have to consume 1 thing instead of two. I'm still looking for the recipe that gives you the most filled hearts when recovering from gloom because that would be far more effective than restoring your hearts and then having to fill them.
You described the timing that you can cook during blood moons kind of confusingly so just a clarification for anyone on the night of a blood moon you can begin critical cooks at 11:30 PM as long as you start then or soon after and pause the game you’ll have plenty of time to cook everything you wish. But the effect does continue for a bit after midnight, I would say assume by 12:15 AM it’ll be gone but idk if it’s random or what. It does seem to wear off quite shortly after you get the blood moon cut scene so keep a lookout for blood moons or time them because it can be difficult working out that exact timing to be near a pot. Easily worth using up a couple portable pots if you aren’t though as all the other way to force crits use up a food slot
On a cursory web search, I see sources variously quoting 12:00, 12:15, and 12:30 as the supposed end time… I’ll be back if I find the answer via personal testing
Does Monster Extract just influence the buff duration of foods it's added to at random? I noticed the duration would be as low as one minute or as long as 30 minutes regardless of what other ingredients were involved in the recipe, so it seems like it can be a cheaper way of getting long buffs then dragon horns if you don't mind save-scumming for the optimal outcome.
Yes, Monster Extract will randomize the buff duration of any food to which it's added. There's also a chance that the Monster Extract will change the food's potency by one level (i.e. turning a double attack-up into a triple or single attack-up, or not changing it at all) So Monster Extract has the potential to make really great or really bad food
One thing I would really like to know: How is the selling price of cooked food or elexirs calculated? It's really important info for rupee farming, but I can't find the info anywhere
All I can say for sure is, it definitely sells for more when cooked! Usually I just cook 5 of the same item together. Most of the time, the sale price goes up by 80% For instance, brightbloom seeds normally sell for 2 rupees each (so 5 would sell for 10 rupees), but when I cook 5 together they sell for 18 rupees I do the same when I have extra meats/fruits/etc… The gourmet meat and prime meat skewers fetch some good prices, as do my extra dragon spikes (though I don’t cook these… I wonder if they could be added to a meal/elixir profitably?)
I say this with love, but out of curiousity... Is Austin saying "doesn't supposed to" a long running meme, or does he not know that it's "isn't supposed to?" I *genuinely* don't care about grammar stuff, but I'll admit that my brain gets scared and confused whenever I hear him say that, lol.
finally what I was looking for as I was searching for cooking stuff in Zelda totk. Thank you so much for the video and dont worry. i was busy taking screenshots, so i didnt fall asleep :,D
Super High Quality Video with all the info you could ask for and Segmented for easy skipping to the part you want to know. Really good job keep it up Liked and subscribe for that.
It's convenient that the cooking works basically the same as in BotW, but I still wish they had fixed how broken "hearty" meals are instead of always giving them full recovery. Also wish the sell value was actually based on the effectiveness of your meal/elixir instead of just the base value of the ingredients.
I mean, it does exist, just not with food. The Zora Armor set gives Level 3 Swim Speed, and it’s actually really nice (feels like normal walking speed, instead of the usual sluggish swimming where the water is always slowing you down)
With out Austin. I would be stuck. 😭 Sometimes you gotta figure it out yourself. Yes. But that's why I love some of the help with situations like this. Though trying to avoid spoilers. Thanks Austin!!! Appreciate the help for over the years! :) Huge fan. Planning on becoming a member. Love your videos! :) Helped me allot when Sword and Shield came out. ^_^ Austin is go to when you have problems! :) Wish some videos were spoiler free tho. XD. Love the videos man. Keep em coming! :)
There also a lot of scrolls on the walls of places in town when you go inside. You can go to hyrule castle dinning room and there are some there too. Just check the walls in doors. Also when you start the game on sky island there is a construct there that tells you how to cook so if you pay attention in the games there are tons of people who give you cooking tips but videos like this and Google is amazing for learning all the hacks quickly.
The only issue I see here is that you only showed the chart for Monster Part duration. What if we want to cook a food item? Would have been good to see a chart showing the more notable food items & the time they add. Otherwise, amazing video! Will be referencing it often!
Awesome video. Exactly what I was looking for with this search. Noob question here : for elemental attack fruits it is said that since there are only ingredients of value 1 it is impossible to achieve a level 2 potion, but it i also said that you need a valur of 5 to get level 2. How is it not possible then ?
I just bought the book and the book says when you get to the master sword and the final, your progression notes that you should be at 40 hearts, three full rings of stamina so we are missing some big if no one is getting all hearts and stamina
That elixir part helped. Game never explains what each monster part does fully. Though I did notice that like like stones were not included. Do those do something different or do they act like a weaker dragon horn?
3:35 Does anyone know the actual odds of a critical cook specifically amplifying the buff level? I’ve been trying over and over with guaranteed critical cook ingredients and the buff level up seems pretty rare
Summarized for best items but keep in mind dumping your best ingredients all at once is usually not the ideal solution unless you're duping. CRIT: +3hp or +buff duration or +buff level CRIT Chance (base 10%): Cane Sugar 30%, Lizalfos Tails 30%, Most Guts 30% (boko, mob, horr, boss boko, lynel, gleeok, frok, mold, hinox), gibdo guts 100%, Dragon horn/fang/scale 100%, light drag talon 100%, star fragment 100%, golden apple 100%, 11:30pm-12:30am blood moon 100% TIME: +30s per additional ingredient (0,30,60,90,120); and various smaller additions by ingredient TIME +1:20: boko/mob/bboko fang, gib gut, liz talon, horr claw, any eyeball, lynel hoof, any chuchu jelly, any like like stone, frox fingernail, octorok tentacle, molduga jaw/fin, any dragon spike, hinox toenail/tooth TIME +2:40: boko/mob/horr/bboko/lynel/gleeok/frox/molduga/hinox guts, lizalfos tail TIME dragon: claw +3:00, fang +10:00, horn +30:00 TIME is capped at 30 minutes! (BUFF, Time add per buff ingredient, point thresholds Best meal item Best elixir item) Attack 0:50 1/5/7 Mighty Porgy 3 Bladed Rhino Beetle 1 Defense 0:50 1/5/7 Armored Porgy 3 Rugged Rhino Beetle 1 Speed 1:00 1/5/7 Fleet-lotus Seed, Swift Violet 2 Hot-Footed Frog 2 Glow 2:00 1/5/7 Glowing cave 2 Deep Firefly 2 Slip 2:30 1/5/7 NONE Sticky Frog 2 Weather Attack 1:00 1/CRIT(6)/impossible(9) Ice/Fire/Shock Fruit 1 NONE Swim Speed 2:00 1/CRIT(6)/impossible(9) Splash Fruit 1 NONE Shock Res 2:30 1/4/6 Voltfin Trout 3 Electric Darner 2 Stealth 2:00 1/6/9 Silent Princess 3 Sunset Firefly 1 Cold/Heat Res 2:30 1/6/NONE Sizzlefin/Chillfin Trout 3 Warm/Cold Darner 2 Flame Guard 2:30 1/7/NONE NONE Smotherwing Butterfly 2 Gloom Res 2:30 1/2/3 Dark Clump 1 (CAN'T COOK SOLO, MEAL, MAX 3) NONE Stam Recovery 1/2/4/5/7/8/9/11/12/14/15 * 0.2 recovery (1 to 11 points) Staminoka Bass 4 Energetic Rhino Beetle 6 Bonus Stamina (but only 1 at a time, recovers FULL stamina) 1/4/6/8/10/12/14/16/18/20 points (1*0.2 to 10*0.2 recovery) Endura Carrot 4 (Endura Shroom 1) Tireless Frog 2 Gloom Recovery (can crit) Sundelion 3 recovery, Sun Pumpkin 1 recovery NONE Extra Hearts (only 1 at a time, recovers FULL health) 1 to 1 Big Hearty Radish 5, Hearty anything Hearty Lizard 4
You could absolutely turn this video is hundreds of math problems for elementary and middle school students and it would have held my attention much better than the word problems I got in school about.
This is a revised video and the original is removed. I strive for accurate info at the cost of views for my videos.
Changes:
Added unachievable levels of buffs
Added notes for when ciritcal cooks exceed natural max buffs
Added a section to explain ingredient quantity adds to buff duration in addition to bonus duration
Changed on-screen popups to emphasize critical cooks having a chance at outcomes
Fixed Gramatical Errors
Thank you austin!
this is one of the reasons we love your content!
@Tressah even the grammatical errors got love
This is an example of what it means to be one of the best (if not the best) content creator, thanks for corrections!
I love patch notes for vids, haha. Keep pumping out content, King!
An extremely admirable move.
I wouldn't have batted an eye if you'd left the other one with just an updated title stating it was outdated, but once again, you went above and beyond for the community.
Extremely well researched, great visual aids, wonderful audio quality. All standard for your vids, but still impressive every time.
Thanks for being such an amazing content creator!
Austin should win an award for the best consistent videos 😅
Not JUST consistency.
...Best content and information too.
And accuracy. He’s has insight and attention to detail. That’s splendid.
He’s top shelf can’t be beat and has a great voice for it
Best consistent, or consistently is the best?
@@PatSmith-k5n fr, he just goes crazy when a game that interests him come out than content is slow. This was at a period when he made a crazy amount of TOTK videos
One really good detail when roasting ingredients in fire I just found out recently. Roastable ingredients like apples and raw meats will steam. Non-roastable ingredients like herbs and flowers will smoke. This is a good way to help complete the roasted items in the recipe book.
I also like to think that the monsters know what's roastable. Basing off what they eat and their little camps
Austin, this actually helped me a lot in figuring out "optimal" food and how to make it.
Something I figured out is that foods with only a level 2 buff at max can in fact achieve a level 2 30 minute buff while also having "full recovery" in terms of hearts. basically if they have a 3 point food you use 1 of that, 1 dragon horn, and 3 fairies (I'm still playing Patch 1.1.1). It may take few tries, but the dragon horn guarantees a critical cook as you mentioned, which can sometimes push a level 1 buff up to level 2.
This works for heat/cold resistance, swimming speed, and all elemental weather attack buffs.
For attack, defense and stealth you can maximize hearts restore at something like 26 and 3/4 hearts by using the 2 porgies/Silent Princess + 2 fairies + 1 dragon horn.
Elixirs become useless if you use a fairy so raw gourmet meat/whole bird can add extra healing. If you use Gleeok or Lynel guts they sell for more. I'm pretty sure the best fireproof elixir is 1 smoldering butterfly + 1 Gleeok or Lynel guts + 2 raw gourmet meat or whole bird + 1 dragon horn.
My final note is that sadly speed can only get away with 1 fairy if you want a level 3 buff. Fleet-lotus seeds are better than swift violets because they add hearts to a meal, and since violets can't be eaten you don't get any bonus hearts from using them.
Hearing the hyrule field and gerudo valley themes making me remember how much I miss the older style of Zelda music 😢
Keep in mind early game, you may want to stack Hearty foods, especially Big Hearty Radishes (doubly so if you dupe them lol), as you can get much more survivability with the +25 hearts. Just stay away from Gloom, as the first thing to go WILL be ALL your Temp HP.
now im gonna be duping dragon horns and gibdo guts all day long lol
Your attention to detail and the information you give is mwah (chefs kiss) amazing. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to your channel.
Dude I read the chef kiss part and unconsciously I did it with my hand hahahahahaha wtf
Chef's kiss.
On a cooking video.
That blood moon tip is invaluable. I have no idea why it was done this way, but I'll be saving my cook time for that, thanks!
Amazing video. Can't tell you what a relief it was to find this after skimming a dozen useless articles.
Knowing that cooking just doubles the hearts recovered will make getting any specific number of target hearts soooo much easier.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this video! Cooking was a really daunting task for me in both BOTW and TOTK, but with this guide it makes sense.
I keep going back to the 5:35 mark with the buff durations per effects,
then 6:52 for the chart about adding duration with monster parts,
then I find my part about the effect I want, like 11:20 for the flame guard for instance. This is really useful!
I also learned that the big hearty radishes are better than the big hearty truffles, which is weird to me as I find a lot more of these big radishes!
What recipes do recommend for the gloom recovery? I kind of cooked them one by one but they take a lot of space then in the limited 60 cooked meal tab. I wonder if I could do better than that.
Also when master mode drops and all dupe glitches are fixed, I think a video on some early recipes might be useful then! Thanks for your content!
My recipe for gloom recovery, if I recall correctly, is one sun pumpkin (You must have completed the Homegrown in Hateno quest to get it.) and 4 sundelions.
It restores 15 broken hearts, which is actually a lot for this type of food. I think... it's been a minute.
As far as early game recipes, a golden apple and one any other fruit will give you a very significant healing food and are really easy to acquire. Worked for me.
(Need golden apples? Go to Sonapan Shrine that's just a bit west from Lookout Landing. There's a whole apple orchard with several golden apples and it is very easy to get to super early in the game)
Late game, I just do one radish or truffle and literally anything else. Usually a regular meat. Full restore.
I had the lady in Hateno plant Big Hearty Radishes for me
You only get 2 at a time, but I don’t go through them that quickly, and I come back to visit every time I have a breaking point in my quests
I got the game late so I'm just now getting into your videos and I just wanted to say thank you. Yours is the most helpful gaming channel I've ever come across and your videos are always high quality and accurate which is really valuable when most other channels I watch are entertainment only. So seriously, thanks for these!
Austin thank you from britain bud. In a game where the exact mechanics arent abundsntly clear your videos have given me much needed guidance. I wouldve thought the pristine weapons were usless had i not watched your video. All the ones ive found were travellers or knights and pretty much wrote off going near them
2:05 there is an NPC that hints that you should try adding a nut to recipes for extra effect. I wish I remembered which npc it was
Round 2. Let's go!
Your videos inspired me to get this game a few days ago. I can honestly say I never owned a Zelda game before, and this game frickin rocks!
Even though for me who has played breath of wild breath of the wild feels like a demo I still recommend it because it either way both of these games are amazing
Woah. Wow.
What a good title to start with.
Welcome to Zelda games, bro.
Can’t go wrong starting here. Give the older ones a try too after 👍 series really doesn’t ever miss
These videos have all been amazing, the quality is top notch and packed with useful information. Thank you and keep it up the great videos.
You left out the food items that increase buff time, you only included what works for elixirs. For food bird eggs and Goron spice are best at 1:30, but duplicate ingredients are nerfed to 30 seconds. Oil, cheese, butter, milk, and sugar are next at 1:20. Also adding Monster Extract to any food dish will randomly change the buff time to 1, 10, or 30 minutes. So you can save, use monster extract, and then reload if you didn't get the 30-minute buff.
Hey Austin absolutely loving the TOTK content!! But I was wondering if you could make a video on how to get all the schema stones and yiga schematics.
Schema stones are easy to find because you just go to the abandoned mines which are underneath the towns and villages. The yiga bases however can be harder to find.
This was a well put together guide. Very much appreciated the clear concise way you broke it down into simple math.
You skipped the ingredients used to extend the duration of normal food items - nuts; eggs; butter; milk; spices etc add bonus time. So if you made a dish (mighty porgy; 2 bananas; 2 eggs) its going to last much longer than that same attack up food made with just attack up items.
Thank you for the update! Those sections are a lot clearer now.
Heyo. I generally don't comment, but I haven't seen anyone mention this as this is generally useless outside of self-imposed challenge runs:
While adding a critter and a food together will usually result in Dubious Food, you can freely add food ingredients to a potion base (Monster Part + Critter) as long as the food ingredients have the same effect as the critter or have no effect besides heart recovery/extra time/critchance. The math works out as per usual I.e:
1. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Mighty Banana = Dubious Food
2. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn (any monster part) = Attack Up potion potency 1
3. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn + Mighty Banana + Mighty Banana = Attack Up potion potency 2
4. Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn + Gourmet Raw Meat = Attack Up potion potency 1 with some serious heart recovery.
5. Finally, Bladed Rhino Beetle + Bokoblin Horn + Swift Carrot = Dubious Food
I personally found this out as i formulated a run where I would only be using potions instead of food. Besides this restriction I could see this seeing some use due to the monster parts generally giving better critchance/duration boost compared to regular food additives.
Dude this is the exact video and info I have been looking far and wide for, and nobody seemed to have it but you. Thanks!
I have also found that silent princesses increase chances for critical cooks!
Great video! As always. I'd recommend to attach a picture or a document with all the information to make it easier when we want to cook properly.
Thank you !!! I have NEVER used any of the guts, fins, etc before and hardly ever used animal parts except for their meat. I only just started using the elemental eyeballs. I knew about some of the bugs. This goes across the board for botw as well. I've been waiting for a video like this.
I have a few questions after watching the video. 1, are you able to mix in heart ingredients to elixers to improve the buff the elixer adds? 2, what happens if you add ingredients with multiple buffs? 3 Other than the dark clump, what do addative ingredients do? Like salt, oil, etc, what do these items add?
12:51 "... so if you wanted to make a meal to recover three full rings of stamina, which I'm not sure why you would, ..." That tone took me by surprise, because I only cooked meals that gave three full rings. I started wondering what was wrong with that. It slowly dawned on me that I was 'wasting' stamina by eating a 3-ring meal, before the last little bit drained. Not being wasteful mode activated and now I only make meals that give 2 full and 3/5ths of a ring. Thanks!
Austin, could you please make a video about bows, and especially bow range? I can’t seem to find good material online about this, which is weird considering damage and durability are easy to find. While the best bow damage-wise most likely is the savage lynel bow with 5 shots, the best bow range wise seems to be a tie between the dusk bow and the great eagle bow (since dusk bow was nerfed). Also, it would be nice to have some information about how much the wings-fused arrows boost range.
im going to be doing a deep dive into weapons this week/weekend
@@AustinJohnPlays Don't forget to mention your Zonai Devices can be attached to arrows. Rocket arrows, stake arrows, hover stone arrows, etc.
How do the "flavor" ingredients like oil, wheat, cheese, salt, goron spice, etc affect meal duration time?
I don't know how I could show a picture of it here but I got a critical cook on a five big hearty radish dish and had an additional 26 hearts as opposed to the regular additional 25, I thought I misread it for a second with the way the menu is translucent so I made another one and then zoomed in on that first one and like triple checked to make sure that I had indeed gotten like 26 additional hearts
Knew I had to click on this video as the last one was one of my favorites just because of how important it was and how much I was struggling to figure it out myself. Thanks for your hard work Austin!
You're better off save scumming with Monster Extract over farming dragon horns. Takes a minute on average for a Speed 3 meal to come out as 30m. Farming 40+ Lotuses takes less than 5m. Buying all the Monster Extract also takes 5-10 minutes (I usually make 12 speed meals at once). You waste 20-30 minutes of time but you net 5 and a half hours of Speed 3.
Critical cook, perhaps that is why I occasionally get 26 additional hearts when cooking 5 big hearty radishes instead of the usual 25.
Yep! That would be it
He doesn’t mention this in the video, but apparently critical cooks only give 1 extra yellow heart (as opposed to 3 extra hearts for normal healing)
I’ve had the same happen when cooking a single big hearty radish (6 vs 5 yellow hearts)
Just a heads up, when you walk into certain stables and npc homes/dwelling, you may notice recipe posters hanging on some of the walls... although the writing is illegible, you can make out the ingredients to use for the recipes by the ingredient pictures. Has anyone else noticed these recipe posters hanging around?
Yup!
The amount of information in this is just... wow. Thank you!
You didn't mention the Monster Potion, fairies, and that you can add apples to elixirs to get some heart recovery.
The hardest part about these videos is watching them at work and wanting to play NOW!!! it makes my gaming plans so much easier though with knowing what and where stuff is when I do get to game!!!
Not sure if it’s been mentioned anywhere yet, but critical cooks can give you Rank 2 Weather Attack buffs. I got one for Stormy weather rank 2 during my last Blood Moon cookout.
It is mentioned in the video.
This is the data Ive been waiting for and you laid it out excellently
thanks for the explanation! I always just cooked 4 Mighty Bananas to give me 3x atk up food (from experimenting) but never knew /why/
Same (though I thought I needed all 5 bananas lol)
Just like in BOTW, its disappointing that there's no reason to actually make dishes (Curries, cakes, pies, etc.) In mid to late game, just cook one hearty truffle or a hearty lizard with a boko horn and you get a full heal.
Thanks again. I'm still deciding which buffs to transfer to stackable cooked ingredients (like seared stake, roasted bananas, etc), and this is helpful for deciding which foods to make and how to get them right.
As for transferring buffs... cook and eat a meal, then buy a food item you don't have, like seared steak. The item should acquire the buff from the meal you just made, and the buff applies to every item of that type as long as you don't let the inventory drop to zero. So you could, for example, have 999 roasted bananas with a 30-minute level 2 heat resistance buff... or 999 seared steaks which grant +25 yellow hearts... or whatever. It mostly just requires finding vendors who sell cooked foods which can be stacked into a single inventory slot. The easiest place to get started is in Gerudo town where 3 tiers of cooked meat are sold. This grants 3 meal types which can have buffs transferred to them.
I go another way, I mine 500bapples at Satori Mountain * eat them raw for top-ups stamina, light & gloom cures, 20 life with hearty salmon.
I opened the first fairy fountain, and it closed again as I couldn't find the drummer for the second fairy fountain.
I have Tullen & I've cleared most of the depths. Thank you for helping.
Is there a combined chart for all of this? Like an excel spreadsheet, where it’s divided by ingredients points, buff lvl requirements, and etc… Thanks.
This was incredibly helpful, I searched and couldn’t find this information anywhere else.
best source for how to cook in totk so far. nobody else broke it down like this
I wonder if they will give us more New Materials as both Upgrades for existing Armour Sets that can't currently be upgraded both for DLC and because a decent amount of these lack 3 Point Buffs. The Weather Attack Bonus ones are where it is most noticeable. Still don't get why there is a single Armour Set locked behind Story Progression and it is such a random one too. 9:49 So possibly DLC then?
I believe I have discovered my new favorite content creator. My God, the dedication to meticulous research is just... Holy hell man. I'm truly appreciative. If it's you alone or a team working together (which is most likely with a channel of this size) you all are killing it. 👏👏👏👏 Great work. Subscribed.
Man I wish I knew what version of Kass' Theme @ 8:26 and Gerudo Valley theme @ 11:36 are in the background, those are banging songs.
For 3 stamina wheels, you can also do 4 + 3*2 + 1 = 11
That is, just 1 staminoka bass, 3 items worth 2 points, and 1 item worth 1 point
It does use 5 materials (rather than 4), but it uses fewer of the highest level item
Ultimately it depends on your inventory, and where your limiting reagant (or bottle neck) would be
very helpful, now I don't need to cook 5 mighty porgy but instead, just 3 and the other 2 should be a duration extender. One thing I would like to add on extra yellow hearts is on endgame, you can't exceed 2 rows so some extra yellow hearts can be wasted
Thanks for the last bit! His comment in the video had me wondering…
I’ve got 31 hearts now, but I’ve never bothered going for more than 3-5 yellow hearts at any time (not that I ever knew how to make more, or that we could make so many!)
Looks like the large 10-25 heart buffs are just for early game (if necessary)
I think this is only an okay guide because it doesn't tell you how to make stuff that gives you strong, long lasting buffs that also give you lots of hearts. Sure you could just aim for getting the max effects and ignore how many hearts it heals you, but you end up saving on ingredients if you make stuff that heals you. You only have a limited amount of food you can cook, so I'd rather have a meal I can use to heal hearts and give an effect over a more powerful effect because I only have to consume 1 thing instead of two. I'm still looking for the recipe that gives you the most filled hearts when recovering from gloom because that would be far more effective than restoring your hearts and then having to fill them.
You described the timing that you can cook during blood moons kind of confusingly so just a clarification for anyone on the night of a blood moon you can begin critical cooks at 11:30 PM as long as you start then or soon after and pause the game you’ll have plenty of time to cook everything you wish. But the effect does continue for a bit after midnight, I would say assume by 12:15 AM it’ll be gone but idk if it’s random or what. It does seem to wear off quite shortly after you get the blood moon cut scene so keep a lookout for blood moons or time them because it can be difficult working out that exact timing to be near a pot. Easily worth using up a couple portable pots if you aren’t though as all the other way to force crits use up a food slot
From what I’ve heard it’s basically midnight +/- 30 minutes on both sides (though I’ve never personally confirmed that 12:30 is the correct end time)
On a cursory web search, I see sources variously quoting 12:00, 12:15, and 12:30 as the supposed end time…
I’ll be back if I find the answer via personal testing
I wonder if getting critical cook speed meals will become part of the any%
Austin the goat. I'mma have to go back to this video so much it's gonna be bookmarked.
Does Monster Extract just influence the buff duration of foods it's added to at random?
I noticed the duration would be as low as one minute or as long as 30 minutes regardless of what other ingredients were involved in the recipe, so it seems like it can be a cheaper way of getting long buffs then dragon horns if you don't mind save-scumming for the optimal outcome.
Yes, Monster Extract will randomize the buff duration of any food to which it's added. There's also a chance that the Monster Extract will change the food's potency by one level (i.e. turning a double attack-up into a triple or single attack-up, or not changing it at all)
So Monster Extract has the potential to make really great or really bad food
One thing I would really like to know: How is the selling price of cooked food or elexirs calculated? It's really important info for rupee farming, but I can't find the info anywhere
All I can say for sure is, it definitely sells for more when cooked!
Usually I just cook 5 of the same item together. Most of the time, the sale price goes up by 80%
For instance, brightbloom seeds normally sell for 2 rupees each (so 5 would sell for 10 rupees), but when I cook 5 together they sell for 18 rupees
I do the same when I have extra meats/fruits/etc… The gourmet meat and prime meat skewers fetch some good prices, as do my extra dragon spikes (though I don’t cook these… I wonder if they could be added to a meal/elixir profitably?)
This is the most useful TOTK video I've seen since the game was released. Nice job!!
I say this with love, but out of curiousity...
Is Austin saying "doesn't supposed to" a long running meme, or does he not know that it's "isn't supposed to?" I *genuinely* don't care about grammar stuff, but I'll admit that my brain gets scared and confused whenever I hear him say that, lol.
finally what I was looking for as I was searching for cooking stuff in Zelda totk. Thank you so much for the video and dont worry. i was busy taking screenshots, so i didnt fall asleep :,D
Was just watching the older one your timing is amazing austin
Thank you for taking the time to improve an already amazing video, the little things you do help so much!
Thanks a lot, finally someone explains exactly how it works, really appreciated dude.
Austin updating for our sake. Thank you so much
Super High Quality Video with all the info you could ask for and Segmented for easy skipping to the part you want to know. Really good job keep it up Liked and subscribe for that.
I clicked on the video to hear Austin John's smooth voice. Cooking mechanics were a nice bonus
Probably BEST video for the whole game! Consistency on making the most of what you’ve got!!!❤ (I’m 68!) New follower!
I was there for Pong. Taught kids to use DOS to play games. Then was using Easter Eggs to help out! Three favorites-Mario, Zelda, Metroid!
I don't think you mentioned that elixirs can be supplemented with food items of the same effect (provided you still have a critter and monster part)
It's convenient that the cooking works basically the same as in BotW, but I still wish they had fixed how broken "hearty" meals are instead of always giving them full recovery. Also wish the sell value was actually based on the effectiveness of your meal/elixir instead of just the base value of the ingredients.
can’t wait for Austin John’s irl cooking guide. thanks for all the hard work man!
You're right, the food pics and numbers are exactly what we came for ❤
Incredibly helpful. Thank you!!
This video is better than a google search
Big ups my man
It's kinda funny how there's no higher Swim Speed Effect since with all the means of transportation, who would swim in this game? 😂
I mean, it does exist, just not with food. The Zora Armor set gives Level 3 Swim Speed, and it’s actually really nice (feels like normal walking speed, instead of the usual sluggish swimming where the water is always slowing you down)
With out Austin. I would be stuck. 😭 Sometimes you gotta figure it out yourself. Yes. But that's why I love some of the help with situations like this. Though trying to avoid spoilers. Thanks Austin!!! Appreciate the help for over the years! :) Huge fan. Planning on becoming a member. Love your videos! :) Helped me allot when Sword and Shield came out. ^_^ Austin is go to when you have problems! :) Wish some videos were spoiler free tho. XD. Love the videos man. Keep em coming! :)
Can you go over ways to make dishes that heal lots of hearts and have a powerful effect?
There also a lot of scrolls on the walls of places in town when you go inside. You can go to hyrule castle dinning room and there are some there too. Just check the walls in doors. Also when you start the game on sky island there is a construct there that tells you how to cook so if you pay attention in the games there are tons of people who give you cooking tips but videos like this and Google is amazing for learning all the hacks quickly.
The only issue I see here is that you only showed the chart for Monster Part duration. What if we want to cook a food item? Would have been good to see a chart showing the more notable food items & the time they add.
Otherwise, amazing video! Will be referencing it often!
Awesome video. Exactly what I was looking for with this search.
Noob question here : for elemental attack fruits it is said that since there are only ingredients of value 1 it is impossible to achieve a level 2 potion, but it i also said that you need a valur of 5 to get level 2. How is it not possible then ?
I’ve never been this early, EVER! Thank you for all of the info! I follow this daily! 🙌🏻
I go to that river by where flower blight ganon was, get 15 bright-eyed crabs, then cook 5 for full stamina recovery. Easiest way I've found.
I just bought the book and the book says when you get to the master sword and the final, your progression notes that you should be at 40 hearts, three full rings of stamina so we are missing some big if no one is getting all hearts and stamina
That elixir part helped. Game never explains what each monster part does fully. Though I did notice that like like stones were not included. Do those do something different or do they act like a weaker dragon horn?
Thanks this is so useful! Are these infographics posted anywhere for quick reference?
The video game teacher is here
Would love to see you post the ingredient value and buff threshold images somewhere as a reference!
Great video. Is this information written down anywhere for future reference?
GREAT video... loved all the numbers, lol.
Great job, like always, Austin John. I can't find the google sheet with the info, can you shared here again please?
Good job bud. 🙌👌 appreciate it and happy holidays!
GREAT WORK MAN!!! Big thanks!
Long video, but super useful thanks!
3:35 Does anyone know the actual odds of a critical cook specifically amplifying the buff level? I’ve been trying over and over with guaranteed critical cook ingredients and the buff level up seems pretty rare
Summarized for best items but keep in mind dumping your best ingredients all at once is usually not the ideal solution unless you're duping.
CRIT: +3hp or +buff duration or +buff level
CRIT Chance (base 10%): Cane Sugar 30%, Lizalfos Tails 30%, Most Guts 30% (boko, mob, horr, boss boko, lynel, gleeok, frok, mold, hinox), gibdo guts 100%, Dragon horn/fang/scale 100%, light drag talon 100%, star fragment 100%, golden apple 100%, 11:30pm-12:30am blood moon 100%
TIME: +30s per additional ingredient (0,30,60,90,120); and various smaller additions by ingredient
TIME +1:20: boko/mob/bboko fang, gib gut, liz talon, horr claw, any eyeball, lynel hoof, any chuchu jelly, any like like stone, frox fingernail, octorok tentacle, molduga jaw/fin, any dragon spike, hinox toenail/tooth
TIME +2:40: boko/mob/horr/bboko/lynel/gleeok/frox/molduga/hinox guts, lizalfos tail
TIME dragon: claw +3:00, fang +10:00, horn +30:00
TIME is capped at 30 minutes!
(BUFF, Time add per buff ingredient, point thresholds
Best meal item
Best elixir item)
Attack 0:50 1/5/7
Mighty Porgy 3
Bladed Rhino Beetle 1
Defense 0:50 1/5/7
Armored Porgy 3
Rugged Rhino Beetle 1
Speed 1:00 1/5/7
Fleet-lotus Seed, Swift Violet 2
Hot-Footed Frog 2
Glow 2:00 1/5/7
Glowing cave 2
Deep Firefly 2
Slip 2:30 1/5/7
NONE
Sticky Frog 2
Weather Attack 1:00 1/CRIT(6)/impossible(9)
Ice/Fire/Shock Fruit 1
NONE
Swim Speed 2:00 1/CRIT(6)/impossible(9)
Splash Fruit 1
NONE
Shock Res 2:30 1/4/6
Voltfin Trout 3
Electric Darner 2
Stealth 2:00 1/6/9
Silent Princess 3
Sunset Firefly 1
Cold/Heat Res 2:30 1/6/NONE
Sizzlefin/Chillfin Trout 3
Warm/Cold Darner 2
Flame Guard 2:30 1/7/NONE
NONE
Smotherwing Butterfly 2
Gloom Res 2:30 1/2/3
Dark Clump 1 (CAN'T COOK SOLO, MEAL, MAX 3)
NONE
Stam Recovery
1/2/4/5/7/8/9/11/12/14/15 * 0.2 recovery (1 to 11 points)
Staminoka Bass 4
Energetic Rhino Beetle 6
Bonus Stamina (but only 1 at a time, recovers FULL stamina)
1/4/6/8/10/12/14/16/18/20 points (1*0.2 to 10*0.2 recovery)
Endura Carrot 4 (Endura Shroom 1)
Tireless Frog 2
Gloom Recovery (can crit)
Sundelion 3 recovery, Sun Pumpkin 1 recovery
NONE
Extra Hearts (only 1 at a time, recovers FULL health) 1 to 1
Big Hearty Radish 5, Hearty anything
Hearty Lizard 4
Such a cooking overguide 🙌
insane vid, so detailed yet easy to understand
You could absolutely turn this video is hundreds of math problems for elementary and middle school students and it would have held my attention much better than the word problems I got in school about.
My single favorite meal is 1 hearty item and nothing else. Just keep a full page of hearty meals ready at all times to stay immortal
Same lol
Though I’ve been messing around with 5 Hyrule Herbs/Eggs/etc. just to have smaller heals for 10 hearts (or 13 if critical)