Bomb Flowers can turn a tricky fight or puzzle into an explosive advantage-but finding them isn’t always easy. Here’s where these rare plants hide across Hyrule and how to stock up fast before your next battle.
While similar to Breath of the Wild in many ways, one of the biggest changes to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the removal of the Remote Bomb ability, which previously granted you an infinite supply of explosives. As such, you’ll instead need to spend time procuring bomb flowers, an item introduced in Tears of the Kingdom that’s often in short supply due to its usefulness as both a weapon and excavation tool.
Bomb flowers are just what they sound like: flowers that act like bombs. Attach one to an arrow with Fuse and let it fly to soften monster camps before engaging in close quarters combat, or toss a few down a tunnel to clear a cave of rocky obstacles as you search for treasure.
The catch? It can be hard to build your bomb flower reserves if you don’t know where to look. Here are a few tips for gathering this explosive fauna that may not be immediately obvious even several hours into your Tears of the Kingdom adventure.
Bomb flower locations
Bomb flowers grow throughout Hyrule, especially in caves, wells, and along cliff walls where glowing ores appear. They can be gathered in regions such as the Eldin Mountains, Death Mountain caves, and near the Goron City area. Depths also contain plenty of these explosive plants, often found near mining zones or enemy camps. Players can gather them manually or fuse them with arrows for ranged explosions.
Bomb flower grow in only two locations: surface caves and the Depths. Chances are you’ve encountered a bunch of bomb flowers during random excursions. For the most part, that’s also how you’ll collect them on purpose.
It’s hard to pinpoint one or two places where bomb flowers grow in abundance because, well, there aren’t any. Sure, you can explore the Royal Hidden Passage behind the Emergency Shelter wall underneath Lookout Landing and grab a couple dozen, but that’s mostly because the cave is so big, and you’ll have to contend with maze-like passages and enemies along the way. Not fun or efficient!
No, if you’re going to go the “look at the ground for hours” method of bomb flower gathering, I suggest heading to the Depths. While still not a hotbed of growth, you’ll find far more bomb flowers in the same amount of time, especially if you pinpoint forests like the Grove of Time near Nuzimak Lighroot (geographically located under the Kamizun Shrine).
You’re going to want to check the base of a specific kind of gigantic, bud-topped tree scattered throughout the depths, where you’ll find as many as five or six bomb flowers scattered around one trunk. You’re looking for this:
Where to buy bomb flowers
Bomb flowers appear in caves across Hyrule, such as the one beneath Hyrule Castle or those near the Great Sky Island. Check enemy camps and mining spots in the Depths for clusters. Purchase them from Hudson Construction in Tarrey Town after expanding their stock, or trade with traveling merchants like the one at Woodland Stable. Sky Islands also yield them from bomb flower plants ready to harvest.
I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a lot of hard work. Isn’t there anywhere for Tears of the Kingdom players to, I don’t know, buy bomb flowers without the hassle of spelunking into confusing caves and the dangerous underground depths? Luckily for me and all the other Zelda fans out there who hate busywork, the answer to that question is a resounding “yes.”
First off, decide what you’re willing to spend. If you’re okay spending with your hard-earned Rupees, look no further than Tarrey Town in the Akkala Highlands near the eastern edge of the map (there isn’t a fast travel location in the city limits, so teleport to Rasitakiwak Shrine to the southeast and glide over).
Tarrey Town is home to several unique individuals, but the person you’re looking for is a blue-feathered Rito merchant named Fyson, who sells bomb glower at 40 rupees apiece.
Bomb flowers also become available for purchase from Gerudo Town arrow vendor Danda – after you complete the Lightning Temple.
Should you be low on hard currency, maybe think about parting with some of the poe spirits you’ve gathered in the depths. The glowing orbs litter Tears of the Kingdom‘s massive underground realm and can be exchanged for various hard-to-find items at bargainer statues.
The earliest and most obvious of these four-eyed effigies is located in Lookout Landing. A single bomb flowers will run you 16 poes, and it’ll even do you the solid of pinpointing additional bargainer statues on your depths map if you hand over 100 of the ghostly sprites.
Both options have their positives and negatives depending on how you play Tears of the Kingdom. I’m absolutely lousy with poes, so I’m happy to spend them, especially on something so useful. Either way, I think purchasing bomb flowers with your extra dough should combine nicely with any random gathering you do in the normal course of your adventuring to provide a decent hoard of explosives.
Best Depths spots for bomb flowers farming
In the Depths, the most efficient Bomb Flower farming spots are around certain Lightroots and the big “bud-topped” trees you see scattered in the gloom.
High-yield Depths locations
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Netamnet Lightroot area (Hyrule Ridge region): Around Netamnet Lightroot there are roughly 30 Bomb Flowers clustered near the big tree by the Lightroot, plus another 10-15 following a trail to the north, giving you about 40-45 per run.
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Nisoij Lightroot / northwest of Hyrule Field Chasm: Just northwest of the Hyrule Field Chasm, near Nisoij Lightroot, you can find up to 11 Bomb Flowers around trees in the gloom, making it a quick early-mid game farm.
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Nuzimak Lightroot / Grove of Time (beneath Kamizun Shrine): Near the Grove of Time below Kamizun Shrine, around Nuzimak Lightroot, there are multiple big trees with 5-6 Bomb Flowers each at their bases, so circling several trees here gives a large haul fast.
General Depths farming tips
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Bomb Flowers usually grow at the base of large, bulb-topped trees in the Depths; do a full circle around each tree you pass.
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Flowers respawn after a few in-game days, so set a route between a few Lightroots (for example Netamnet → Nisoij → Nuzimak) and rotate through them instead of camping one spot.
Show fastest route between Nisoij Lightroot and Hyrule Field Chasm
The fastest “route” between Nisoij Lightroot and Hyrule Field Chasm is effectively a straight line through the same tunnel you used during “Camera Work in the Depths,” following Robbie’s torch trail between the chasm and the Lightroot.
Key locations and orientation
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Hyrule Field Chasm (surface) is just south of Lookout Landing, right beside Jiosin Shrine, at roughly -,-,-0253, -0300, 0018-,-,.
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Nisoij Lightroot (Depths) is the Lightroot directly beneath that chasm, reached during the Camera Work in the Depths quest when you follow the lit path and activate the root near Robbie’s camp.
Fastest Depths path
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From Nisoij Lightroot, face back toward the torch-lit trail you originally followed; this is the most direct and safest path back to the base of Hyrule Field Chasm in the Depths.
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Sprint or ride a vehicle along the line of torches until you reach the large column of gloom and light coming down from the surface, which marks the bottom of Hyrule Field Chasm; from there you can Ascend (if you find a ceiling or nearby structure) or simply fast-travel to Jiosin Shrine/Lookout Landing for the surface side.
