To survive in the treacherous lands of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you'll need to rely on more than just your weapons. Just like finding better armor sets and gathering food, fire is an important aspect of the game that you'll need to utilize to cook food and keep yourself warm.
Knowing how to build a fire in Tears of the Kingdom will help you in many situations, especially when you're in colder regions. Additionally, knowing how to build a fire will allow you to carry essential items in your inventory and save you time from going around looking for resources.
How To Build A Fire
While there are a few different ways to build a fire or alight foliage in Tears of the Kingdom, this guide will focus on the basic method that involves the usage of flint and wood. Early on in the story, you'll come across a Ranger Construct at Great Sky Island who will bring you up to speed on building fires and cooking food.
To build a fire in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you'll need some wood, which can be collected by chopping down trees using an axe. Next, you'll need some flint, which you can collect by mining for stones. With wood and flint collected, you'll need to place them next to each other and strike the items with either a stone weapon or a metallic weapon to start a fire.
If you have acquired the Fuse ability, you can use it to combine wood and rock to craft yourself a stony hammer. Later on, you can also light a fire by using fire arrows, making it much easier to build campfires.
What You Can Do At Campfires
Having built your campfire, you now have the ability to spend time at them and pass the day to meet quest objectives. You can also cook food at campfires and roast monster parts to create special elixirs.
Additionally, you can build fires in cold regions to keep yourself warm if you do not have cold resistance armor.