While The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom often features the sky, I’m more drawn to the Depths. I dived into this underworld and went crazy with exploration. But I needed a way to deal with the darkness and gloom that prevails in this area. This prompted me to cook dishes in order to gain resistance to the darkness and restore my hearts damaged by the darkness. Here are the best ones.
Best Darkness Resistance and Healing Recipes in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom (TotK)
I’m still experimenting with cooking and learning the best gloom-tolerant recipes in Tears of the Kingdom. The depths took me a lot of time, so I needed a lot of darkness resistance and recovery. I highly recommend taking the Depth Armor Set from the merchant’s statues to further increase the darkness resistance.
- Sundelion + Meat/Fruits/Mushrooms/Fish/Hyrule Herbs (Restoration of hearts of darkness)
- Gloomball + Meat/Fruit/Mushrooms/Fish/Hyrule Herbs (Protection)
All recipes seem to give the same amount of darkness resistance or restore hearts depleted by darkness, no matter what type of base you use. But increasing the number of Solar Lyons or Gloomy Clusters will increase the benefits these items provide when cooking. I combined four Sundelions or Dark Clumps with one base item to get the best recipe.
All Shadow Resistance and Healing Items — Tears of the Kingdom
The Sundelion is a healing item that restores hearts lost to the gloom that normal healing cannot restore. Bulb of Darkness is used to gain Gloom Resistance, preventing you from losing hearts when you enter the Gloom or take damage from Gloom attacks. Both ingredients must be cooked before they will work. Here is a list of recipes you can cook with Sundelion or Dark Clump.
Related: How to get to the Great Abandoned Central Mine in TotK (Zelda Tears of the Kingdom)
List of solar lyon recipes
| Recipe | Ingredients | Consequences |
| Steamed sun mushrooms | Sunflower + mushrooms | Restores Hearts of Darkness 3+ |
| Steamed sun meat | Sunny Cucumber + Meat | Restores Hearts of Darkness 3+ |
| steamed sun fish | Sunflower + Fish | Restores Hearts of Darkness 3+ |
| Sunny Roasted Wild Greens | Sundelion + Hyrule Herbs | Restores Hearts of Darkness 3+ |
| steamed fruits in the sun | Solar Plant + Fruit | Restores Hearts of Darkness 3+ |
Gloom Recipe List
| Recipe | Ingredients | Consequences |
| Protective mushroom skewers | Dark lump + mushrooms | Darkness Resistance 3:00+ |
| Protective meat skewers | Dark lump + meat | Darkness Resistance 3:00+ |
| Protective fish kebab | Dark Clot + Fish | Darkness Resistance 3:00+ |
| Protecting Roasted Wild Greens | Dark Lump + Hyrule Herbs | Darkness Resistance 3:00+ |
| Cooked fruit protection | Dark lump + fruit | Darkness Resistance 3:00+ |
For more information about The Legend of Zelda, check out all the Hinox locations (map) in TotK (Zelda Tears of the Kingdom) and all the Amiibo armor you can get without Amiibo in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom in the Pro game guides.
