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Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BotW)

Fairy Tonic Recipe and Effects

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This page is about the Fairy Tonic recipe in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (BotW). Here you can find the ingredients needed for this recipe, and learn more about its possible effects.

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Fairy Tonic Recipe and Effects

Fairy Tonic Basic Info

Fairy Tonic
Breath of the Wild - Fairy Tonic
Type of Food Elixir

Fairy Tonic Recipe

Here are the base recipes for Fairy Tonics. You only need a single Fairy to get started, and then you can add Creatures, Gemstones or Monster Parts to increase the efficiency.

Note: The creatures mentioned here are all the creatures that don't count as "Food ingredients", such as bugs, lizards and frogs. Basically, all the Creatures that come after Fairies when you sort your inventory are safe to use, and the ones before are not!

Basic Fairy Tonic Recipe

1st Ingredient
・Fairy

Basic Fairy Tonic Recipe 2

1st Ingredient
・Fairy
2nd Ingredient One of:
・Creature
・Gemstone
・Monster Part

Basic Fairy Tonic Recipe 3

1st Ingredient
・Fairy
2nd Ingredient
・Creature
3rd Ingredient
・Monster Part

Basic Fairy Tonic Recipe 4

1st Ingredient
・Fairy
2nd Ingredient
・Creature
3rd Ingredient
・Gemstone
4th Ingredient
・Monster Part

The order of the ingredients doesn't matter, as you dump everything into the cooking pot at once!

Using Normal Ingredients Results in Food

If you add normal cooking ingredients, it will result in a different dish with +10 Heart recovery instead of a Fairy Tonic. For example:

Dish Recovery
Fish Skewer:
・1x Hyrule Bass		 2 Hearts
Fish Skewer:
・1x Hyrule Bass
・1x Fairy		 12 Hearts

Fairy Tonic Effects

The only real effect the Fairy Tonic has is to heal a lot of hearts. Unlike the Fairies used for ingredients, it cannot activate on its own to revive you if you die.

However, while Fairies "only" heal you 5 hearts after reviving you, a basic Fairy Tonic heals 12 hearts, so pausing just before you die and drinking one is highly recommended. Of course, keeping both on you will cover all your bases!

How to Get a Fairy Tonic

How to Make Fairy Tonic

Breath of the Wild - Get Materials

The easiest way to come by Elixirs, by far, is to make them yourself. The other elixirs can also be traded from Beedle at random, but the only way to get Fairy Tonics is to make them yourself!

A sure way to catch fairies is to go to the Great Fairy Springs and sneak up on the fairies there to catch them. However, some fairies may also be hiding in the bushes and can come out when you cut them down.
How to Make Elixirs

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BotW - Elixirs

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1 Anonymous Anonymous almost 2 years

Fairy Tonic Effects The only real effect the Fairy Tonic has is to heal a lot of hearts. Unlike the Fairies used for ingredients, it cannot activate on its own to revivie you if you die. However, while Fairies "only" heal you 5 hearts after reviving you, a basic Fairy Tonic heals 12 hearts, so pausing just before you die and drinking one is highly recommended. Of course, keeping both on your will cover all bases! At the bottom it says your instead of you

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