How to Light Up Dark Areas

Throw Brightbloom Seeds to light up dark areas in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). Read on to learn how to light up dark areas and see all the other methods you can try to brighten up places.

How to Light Up Dark Areas

How to Brighten Up Dark Areas
Plant or throw Brightbloom Seeds Light a Torch Fuse Weapons with Glowing Items Wear the Miner's Set Make Bright Elixir

Plant Brightbloom Seeds

You can use Brightbloom Seeds or Giant Brightbloom Seeds to light up any dark areas you want to illuminate. There are two methods to activate the seed.

You can throw the seed by holding the R button, then holding the up button on the D-pad to select the seed, before letting go of the R button to trigger the throw. Alternatively, you can also drop the seed on the ground and hit it with your weapon or an arrow.

Doing either method will cause it to sprout a bright flower that will illuminate the area. Afterward, you will not be able to pick it up anymore, so make sure you carefully plan where you want to plant these seeds.

How to Throw Items and Materials

Brightbloom Seeds are Easily Available

Brightbloom Seeds can be found in almost every cave of the game. Enemies in these caves will also casually drop them, so use them as much as possible, especially when exploring dark places.

Light a Torch

You can also use torches to light up dark areas. However, using a torch can slow down your progress, as dashing will force the fire to go out. So, as much as possible, walk or run normally when using one. You can get torches randomly on stables.

Stables Map and All Stable Locations

Fuse Weapons with Glowing Items

You can use Fuse to add lighting effects on your weapon or shield. It is more practical to use this on shields, however, as they will retain the illuminating effect even when stowed. You can use Star Fragments, for example, to add the effect on your shield or weapon of choice.

Fuse Guide

Wear the Miner's Set

Having a Miner's Set equipped can also help illuminate dark areas. Although it only lets you light up a small radius of the area, it will not restrict you from using weapons and shields fused with glowing materials, making this a highly recommended armor set to wear when venturing over dark areas.

How to Get the Miner's Top

Make Bright Elixir

You can make Bright Elixir by combining critters with glowing effects, such as Deep Fireflies, with monster parts. This allows Link to glow immensely, which also helps in illuminating dark areas during explorations.
How to Cook Bright Elixir Recipe

Lighting Up Dark Areas Tips

Radiant Set Does Not Light Up Dark Areas

Despite having the word Radiant in its name, the set does not actually exude any sort of radiance in the dark. Wearing the set will not illuminate anything, so make sure you skip on this set when exploring dark places.
How to Get the Radiant Set

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