The Legend Of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom offers a massive map for players to explore and search through during their journey. The lands are littered with different items that can be used to assist Link, with many being food items that can restore lost health.
A few of these items can also be used to power up your armor using the Great Fairies. With each level, you'll need different specific items to power up your armor pieces to the next level, with a few of the armors in the game requiring you to find Hearty Bass.
Updated on June 14, 2023, by Joshua Leeds: Getting a hearty bass can be more helpful than just upgrading your Zora armor or cooking by fire. Taking these fish and adding them into a recipe can lead to incredibly useful food items to heal you and buff you in different ways.
Where To Find Heart Bass
Hearty Bass can be found in two locations in Hyrule, both being sky islands. The first and easier Island to reach is located in the West Hebra Sky and can be reached by launching yourself using the Skyview Tower and paragliding over to the nearby Island. The coordinates to the Island are -3880, 2786, 0711. This Island will be a part of a small chain of islands and has two ponds where Hearty Bass can be farmed.
There is one other sky island where players can find Heart Bass, and it's located in the Necluda Sky. This Island is a bit more difficult to reach and does require players to have the Zora Armor to swim up the waterfall to reach the Island. This armor piece is found after reaching the Zora domain and helping repair to armor before continuing the Zora's main questline. The coordinates to the Island are 2109, -2621, 1263. While this Island takes an extra step to reach, it has no enemies and multiple items to farm beyond just the fish, making any trip here worthwhile.
Using Hearty Bass
Hearty Bass can first be used as a food item. They can be eaten raw for just a couple of hearts or cooked near a fire to increase the total number of hearts recovered when eating them. Finding and keeping these fish is also crucial for those wanting to further upgrade their Zora armor pieces to level 3. Each armor piece will require three Hearty Bass to upgrade, requiring a total of nine for those looking to upgrade the entire armor set. After the level three upgrade for each armor piece, Hearty Bass are no longer used but are still a great source of hearts once cooked for those looking for easy fishing spots.
Best Recipes To Use Hearty Bass In
While all food give you additional hearts back, cooking in Tears Of The Kingdom will give unique foods that restore you hearts and more. For those looking for Cold Resistance, mix your Hearty Bass with Spicy Peppers to make Spicy Pepper Seafood. Cook a Hearty Bass with Courser Bee Honey to make Glazed Seafood, which additionally restores a stamina wheel. For those exploring the depths, cook a Hearty Bass, any meat, and a Dark Clump to make Dark Stew, which gives Gloom resistance. Hearty Fish can also be used in any other basic recipe that requires fish.