Dark Clump (2025)

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Are dark clumps for food or elixirs? ›

Like others have already said, it's strictly used in preparing food. As long as there's room for a dark clump or two in the recipe, you can make just about anything into a gloom resistant meal.

Dark Clump can be obtained by defeating Gloom Spawn or Phantom Ganon. It can also be bought from Bargainer Statues for 10 Poes each. When used in cooking with other food ingredients, it grants the Gloom Resistance effect. The level of resistance is determined by the amount of Dark Clump in the recipe.

Link can use Dark Clumps in cooking for a Gloom Resistance effect, although cooking them alone results in Dubious Food. Recipes which include Dark Clumps include Dark Stew, Dark Soup, Dark Curry, Dark Rice Ball and Dark Cake; as well as the Warding variants thereof.

Cooking the Dark Rice Ball recipe in Tears of the Kingdom will provide Link with some high-level Gloom Resistance. This recipe is relatively simple and requires some Rock Salt, Hylian Rice, and one to three Dark Clumps. Players looking for a bigger Gloom Resistance buff should add as many Dark Clumps as they can.

Buy Dark Clumps from Bargainer Statues

There's a Bargainer Statue at Lookout Landing, but there are six Bargainer Statues in The Depths. Dark Clumps are available as soon as Link speaks to his first Bargainer Statue. He can farm Poes from The Depths.

In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, you can gain lots of gloom resistance thanks to the Depths Armor.

There are several things you need to do before you get the Master Sword in TOTK. You're going to need two full stamina wheels in order to pull out the sword from the dragon's head, so you'll need to find at least 20 Light of Blessings from Shrines -- which are traded in to a Goddess Statue to expand your Stamina wheel.

Simply put, stepping foot beneath a Lightroot –the Depth's fast travel points– will recover your maximum health. The other easy, free method is to fast travel back to the surface.

The Dark Tunic, alongside the Dark Hood and Dark Trousers, compose the Dark Series. When the full set is worn, it provides a Night Speed Up bonus. Also, characters get scared when they see Link wearing it. The Dark Tunic design is a straight color-swap of the Tunic of Time.

If you cook Sundelions into a meal, the food won't just heal you; it will also clear corruption away from your heart containers. You can also load up on foods that resist gloom, though it won't work against Ganondorf's attacks, only the effect of standing in the gloom on the arena floor.

What ingredient fights off Gloom? ›

To cure Gloom Borne Illness in TOTK, make Sunny Veggie Porridge using Sundelion, milk, and Hylian rice.

There are two ways to acquire Gloom Resistance: by wearing the Armor of the Depths (in which case the Resistance is active so long as you wear the armor) or by eating food made with Dark Clumps (in which case the Resistance is temporary).

An elixir is a beverage that contains ingredients meant to support various bodily functions via herbs and superfoods. Many contain adaptogens which are plants and mushrooms that are commonly used to help the body respond to stress, anxiety and fatigue.

An elixir is a sweet herbal preparation, typically made with alcohol and a sweetener (generally honey).

Elixirs are sweetened hydro-alcoholic (water and alcohol) liquids for oral use. Typically, alcohol and water are used as solvents when the drug will not dissolve in water alone. In addition to active drug, they usually contain flavouring and colouring agents to improve patient acceptance.

The best recipe for Gloom Recovery in Tears of the Kingdom is Sunny Fried Wild Greens. For this dish, players can simply combine their Sunny ingredients - Sun Pumpkins and Sundelions. Any amount and combination will work for this dish and will recover up to 15 Hearts from Gloom.