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Fortified Pumpkin
Fortified Pumpkin is an uncommon material that you can add to your pumpkin-related cooking recipes to give them the helpful effect of, when consumed, significantly increasing your defense in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Fortified Pumpkins, which grow from green-leafed vines in gardens, can be purchased in Kakariko Village and Hateno Village, grown and harvested at Uma's garden, or dropped by defeated Hinox. Learn more about how to get Fortified Pumpkins and their other uses with this handy TotK material guide.
Official Description: "An extremely tough pumpkin raised for food. When cooked, that toughness manifests itself by considerably upping defense."
Compendium Number: 242
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Where to Find Fortified Pumpkin in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Fortified Pumpkins are a rare sight in the wilds of Hyrule. More specifically, there are only a few places you can get them—but once you have at least one of these pumpkins, you can start growing them as crops in Uma's Garden in Hateno Village after completing the Teach Me a Lesson II side quest.
If you'd like to earn a Fortified Pumpkin, you can get some from Carok Bridge Well, or you can defeat a Hinox for a chance drop. Outside of that, your best bet is to purchase these helpful pumpkins from the High Spirits Produce General Store in Kakariko Village or the East Wind General Goods shop in Hateno Village. Below, you'll find more information on where to find Fortified Pumpkins, including their locations, shop prices, uses, and how to grow them as crops.
Common Locations:
- Kakariko Village
- Hateno Village
Fortified Pumpkin Location - Carok Well
You can get up to three Fortified Pumpkins from the Carok Bridge Well in northwest Hyrule Field. To reach this well location, marked by the yellow arrow icon on the map above, follow the west road from Lookout Landing until you reach a four-way fork in the road. From the fork, take the road that leads northwest toward Carok Bridge. Once in that area, be sure to interact with the nearby Ishodag Shrine to unlock it as a fast travel point for quick return visits to get more Fortified Pumpkins when they respawn.
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Coordinates: -1038, 0406, 0019
Once you reach Carok Bridge, look for the Well with a broken cover near three leafless trees. Enter the Well, and you'll drop safely inside.
Inside the well, you'll find a small underground chamber with a small garden of three Fortified Pumpkins next to potted Brightbloom Seeds. Pick up the Fortified Pumpkins, and you're all set!
Fortified Pumpkin Shop - High Spirits Produce
You can buy Fortified Pumpkin from the High Spirits Produce General Store in Kakariko Village. To reach this shop location, marked by the yellow arrow icon on the map above, you can launch yourself from the Sahasra Slope Skyview Tower and paraglide northeast toward the large white Ring Ruins that overlook Kakariko Village, and with a quick interaction at the nearby Makasura Shrine, you can unlock a fast-travel point for quick return visits.
When you first arrive at the High Spirits Produce store and speak with the shopkeeper, Trissa, she will reveal that the store currently has no stock and will start you on a side quest, Codgers' Quarrel—which you'll need to complete to unlock the shop inventory, including the Fortified Pumpkins.
Coordinates: 1794, -1029, 0115
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After completing Codgers' Quarrel, you can visit the High Spirits Produce General Store and purchase up to three Fortified Pumpkins at a time whenever they are restocked. Each Fortified Pumpkin will cost twenty Rupees.
For details on how to complete the Codgers' Quarrel side quest, be sure to check out our helpful guide link below.
Fortified Pumpkin Shop - East Wind General Goods
Fortified Pumpkins can be purchased at the East Wind General Goods Shop in Hateno Village. To reach this shop location, marked by the yellow arrow icon on the map above, you can launch yourself from the Rabella Wetlands Skyview Tower and paraglide northeast, and with a quick interaction at the nearby Zanmik Shrine, you can unlock a fast travel point for quick return visits to Hateno Village.
Coordinates: 3357, -2167, 0120
For details on how to reach Zanmik Shrine, which overlooks Hateno Village, be sure to check out our helpful guide link below.
Inside the East Wind General Store, you'll find two Fortified Pumpkins on display. You can purchase them for twenty Rupees each anytime they are restocked. The shop will restock once per in-game day but may require Saving and Reloading your game to make the stock reappear.
Fortified Pumpkin Drop - Hinox
You can get Fortified Pumpkins by defeating Hinox, a giant-sized miniboss you can find napping on bridges or in the open grass fields of Central Hyrule. While not guaranteed to drop every time, you have an excellent chance to get a Fortified Pumpkin from these monsters—and once you have one pumpkin, you can safely grow more at Uma's Garden in Hateno Village.
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Common Locations:
- Hyrule Ridge
- West Necluda
For details on how to find and defeat Hinox, be sure to check out our helpful guide link below.
Tips for Finding Fortified Pumpkin
- Unlock Uma's Garden in Hateno Village by completing the Teach Me a Lesson II side quest. Once you've done that, you can grow and harvest Fortified Pumpkins in the garden between your adventures.
- Snap a photo of a Hinox with the Purah Pad Camera to add it to your Hyrule Compendium and then track it with Sensor+ to improve your chances of getting more Fortified Pumpkins to drop.
- Unlock the Camera and Sensor+ upgrades for your Purah Pad so you can snap a photo of Fortified Pumpkin to add them to your Hyrule Compendium. Once you've done that, you can target Fortified Pumpkin with the Purah Pad sensor, which will ping you as you close in on their locations.
Fortified Pumpkin Uses
Fortified Pumpkins are incredibly useful for cooking defense-boosting dish recipes that will grant you physical attack resistance when consumed. You can achieve higher ranks of defense boost by increasing the number of Fortified Pumpkins you cook together. One pumpkin will give you a slight defense boost, three will provide a moderate boost, and four or five Fortified Pumpkins will grant a significant defense boost. You can also cook Fortified Pumpkins into a few horse upgrade recipes that can be given to the Horse God at the Horse God Fountain in exchange for increasing the stats of your faithful steeds.
Other uses for Fortified Pumpkin include growing even more of them in Uma's Garden or using them as an ingredient to dye your armor orange at the Kochi Dye Shop in Hateno Village.
Fuse Attack Power: 1
Hearts Recovered: 1/2
Unique Cooking Effect: Defense Up
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Armor Dye Color: Orange
Sell Price: 5 Rupees
Growing Fortified Pumpkin Crops in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
An extremely helpful use for Fortified Pumpkin is to grow more of them in Uma's Garden at Hateno Village. With Uma's help, you can get nine Fortified Pumpkins per harvest. All you need to get started is at least one Fortified Pumpkin in your inventory and to have completed the Teach Me a Lesson II side quest.
You can find Uma's Garden just down the hill to the south of Hateno School, near the Hateno Village West Well.
Speak with Uma and let her know what you'd like to plant in the garden to get started growing your very own Fortified Pumpkin between your adventures across Hyrule.
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