How to Heal

Eat cooked food and consume materials to restore your health in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TotK). Read on to learn other ways to heal and restore hearts!

How to Heal

How to Restore Health
Eat Food Cooked with Recovery Ingredients Consume Materials Clear a Shrine Rest in Bed Fairies Save Link from Death Lightroots Heal Gloom Status Condition Stay at the Hot Springs in Goron City to Restore Hearts Passing Time at a Campire Does Not Heal

Eat Food Cooked with Recovery Ingredients

Each cooked dish provides a base recovery to your health by default. When cooking these dishes, you can add an extra ingredient to get an additional status buff out of the dish. Getting the Hearty status out of an extra ingredient will restore all your hearts and grant extra, temporal hearts.

Eating food restores more health than eating the ingredients as they are.

Cooking Guide: List of Food and Dishes

Consume Materials

Consuming Fruits, Vegetables, Fish, and Meat will also recover a bit of your health. They heal less than a cooked dish, but can be used in emergencies as you're likely to have them on the fly.

List of All Materials

Clear a Shrine

Every time you clear a shrine, your health will be fully restored, so it's recommended to not use your healing items when finishing up a shrine (unless you desperately need them).

Successfully clearing the shrine will also reward you with a Light of Blessing, which you can spend to get more health or stamina.

Shrines Map and All Shrine Locations

Rest in Bed

Sleeping on a bed fully restores your health. Taking the chance to heal every time you encounter a bed will help you conserve recovery items, but it will cost you rupees.

How to Get Rupees Fast

Fairies Save Link from Death

Fairies auto-revive you and fully restore your health upon death. Having a fairy in your pocket could save you from accidental deaths.

You can find Fairies floating around Hyrule. Make sure to approach them while crouched in order to catch them.

Fairy Farming Guide

Lightroots Heal Gloom Status Condition

Aside from acting as fast travel points within the Depths, Lightroots also heal the Gloom status condition when activated. When you're affected with Gloom, your maximum health is depleted.

All Lightroot Locations and Maps

Stay at the Hot Springs in Goron City to Restore Hearts

The hot springs at Goron City and in other areas in the Eldin region will slowly restore your hearts if you stand or swim in it. This comes in handy especially if you need to heal when you take damage from the unbearable heat in this region.

Passing Time at a Campfire Does Not Heal

When sitting at a campfire, you can pass the time and change the time of day. However, unlike sleeping, this won't affect your health in any way.

How to Pass Time

What Happens When You Run Out of Hearts?

Game Over if You Run Out of Hearts

The number of hearts in the upper right corner of the game screen represents your health. If all of these hearts are gone, you die and will get the Game Over screen. Afterward, you will be returned to the place where you last auto-saved.

Death Penalty: What Happens When You Die?

Conditions and Actions That Reduce Health

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Related Guides

Tips and Tricks
A Beginner's Guide to Tears of the Kingdom

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