I Got a Switch 2 and Finally Started Breath of the Wild

2026/08/03#

Full price for a year-old game?! That’s expensive!

2026/08/04#

A recipe I found in Hateno Village, at the orphanage? village chief’s house

• Fortified Pumpkin
• Tabantha Wheat
• Fresh Milk
• Goat Butter
• → Pumpkin Stew

Same place, 2F of the inn

• Goron City is in the Eldin region to the north
  • Do I need heat protection?
• Gerudo Town is in the desert to the west
  • You have to cross-dress

2026/08/05#

• Upgraded my Sheikah Slate and can now take photos
• Remember to give the Traveler’s Sword to the kid in Hateno Village once I get one
• About cooking
  • Are the ingredients that work for elixirs and the ones that work for meals clearly separated? Mixing them seems to give you Dubious Food
  • Does adding more fangs to the ingredients make the effect last longer?
  • Stamina-restoring meals and elixirs seem handy, so I should stock up
  • I’d like to crack the rules, but it’d be inefficient until I’ve collected a decent range of ingredients
• A fairy from a fountain works like a Totem of Undying just by sitting in your inventory. I should restock them regularly
• About combat
  • A sneak attack is not an instant kill. With a crappy weapon, there are cases where you can’t finish the enemy off
  • I’m starting to feel that three hearts really is too tight. I want to add hearts at the next level-up, but I don’t know how many I get per upgrade, and I also kind of want to do a self-imposed challenge run where I never add hearts
  • Can’t you add weapon slots or repair weapons?
    • Is the right move to throw a weapon that’s about to break and use it for a critical hit?
• About making money
  • Is selling amber picked up from treasure chests the standard play?
  • Ancient parts seem better brought to the lab to upgrade the Sheikah Slate than sold

2026/08/07#

• I want to crack the cooking rules
  • Less an experiment than a list of everything I’ve cooked so far (H = hearts recovered)
    • Hylian Shroom + Rushroom + Hyrule Bass → Hasty Mushroom Skewer H7 + Hasty L1:2m
    • Hylian Shroom + Stamella Shroom + Hyrule Bass → Energizing Mushroom Skewer H7 + Energizing 20%
    • Stamella Shroom + Raw Bird Drumstick + Rock Salt + Hyrule Bass → Energizing Salt-Grilled Meat H5 + Energizing 20%
    • Stamella Shroom → Energizing Mushroom Skewer H1 + Energizing 20%
    • Stamella Shroom + Apple → Energizing Fruit and Mushroom Mix H2 + Energizing 20%
    • Stamella Shroom + Hyrule Bass → Energizing Fish and Mushroom Skewer H3 + Energizing 20%
    • Silent Shroom + Apple → Sneaky Fruit and Mushroom Mix H2 + Sneaky L1:2m30s
    • Raw Bird Drumstick + Courser Bee Honey → Sweet-Flower-Marinated Grilled Chicken Energizing Glazed Meat H6 + Energizing 40%
    • Stamella Shroom + Courser Bee Honey → Energizing Glazed Mushrooms H5 + Energizing 80%
    • Raw Bird Drumstick + Stamella Shroom + Courser Bee Honey → Energizing Glazed Meat H10 + Energizing 80%
  • Thoughts
    • Each ingredient has a base property, and cooking brings it out
    • If you throw in different ingredients with the same property, do the effects stack?
    • Do certain ingredients have combos with each other?
      • Stamella Shroom gives Energizing 20% and the honey gives Energizing 40%?
      • But combining them gets you Energizing 80%
      • What I can’t tell is whether that’s a combo or some kind of multiplication of the effects
    • With only three hearts right now, Energizing Glazed Mushrooms looks like the best bang for the buck
      • Even so, it overshoots my max health, so maybe I should get a few more hearts
• Kilton, the monster-shop guy, is at the skull-shaped pond in the Akkala region
  • Could he be a source for Monster Extract to cook with?
  • It was right nearby
    • A skull-shaped rock inside the Valley of the End (that’s my translation of the Japanese name, and I think it’s Tempest Gulch)
• From Ridgeland Tower you can take on the gliding distance challenge
  • 20 rupees per attempt
  • 632 m earned me 100 rupees
• The giant rock monster has good ore in its belly
  • Is that the boss I ran into at the Dueling Peaks?
• Reached Serenne Stable (Maritta Stable in the Japanese version)
• Cooking might be a money-maker?
  • Raw Bird Drumstick + Stamella Shroom + Courser Bee Honey → Energizing Glazed Meat
    • 8 + 5 + 10 = 23 → 50 rupees
  • Stamella Shroom + Apple → Energizing Fruit and Mushroom Mix H2 + Energizing 20%
    • 5 + 3 = 8 → 20 rupees
• Cleared Ketoh Wawai Shrine
  • Died about 12 times
• Reached the northern edge of the map and burned to death on a volcano
  • There was nothing there, but I found the whale fossil I’d heard about at the stable (the Eldin Great Skeleton, I think)
• I finally reached a shrine, or so I thought, and then a cliff-climbing grit-or-die challenge started
  • And in the middle of it, a Blood Moon rose, I fell off the cliff right before the finish, and I lost it
• Cooking
  • Stamella Shroom + Staminoka Bass → Energizing Fish and Mushroom Skewer H3 + Energizing 140% (!)
  • Stamella Shroom + Staminoka Bass + Apple → Energizing Fish and Mushroom Skewer H4 + Energizing 140%
  • Endura Shroom + Endura Carrot → Enduring Steamed Mushrooms H7 + Endura cap 40%

2026/08/08#

• Arrived at Zora’s Domain
  • Electric Darner x2 + Lizalfos Horn → Electro Elixir Electro L2:6m10s
  • Does the level go up when you stack duplicate ingredients in an elixir? Do things like horns affect the duration?
• Cleared the Divine Beast after dying around 10 times total
  • I have to admit this contraption is genius
  • The story’s good too
• If you give Ledo in Zora’s Domain 10 Luminous Stones, he gives you 1 diamond
• Captured Memories info
  • There’s a gate west of Mount Lanayru and of the snowfield at its foot (Nerdora Snowfield, going by the Japanese name)
  • Pin already set
• Mipha’s Grace is a real Totem of Undying
  • You get something like 5 extra hearts
  • It takes 24 minutes to recharge
• The golf trial took 30 minutes
  • I don’t know the intended solution. Is hitting the pillar of the gate the answer?
• Made it through the Lost Woods
  • Again, I don’t know the intended solution. Was just repeating “turn back when the mist is about to swallow me” the right way through?
• Master Sword
  • You can’t pull it unless your max hearts are above a certain number!

2026/08/10#

• Unlocked Death Mountain and the tower east of it
  • I barely managed to climb the tower by stacking blocks on top of the Malice
• The bridge into Goron City(?) is unusable
  • When I try to glide, the wind blows me back
• Apparently there’s another Ancient Tech Lab to the northeast