A single spark can change your entire adventure. Here’s how to strike flint, light a fire, and turn any quiet clearing in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom into a warm campsite where rest, cooking, and strategy come together.
How to make a fire with flint in Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Place flint next to a bundle of wood on the ground. Equip a metallic or stone weapon, stand above the materials, and swing downward to strike the flint and spark the fire. For best results, position the items close with Ultrahand or drop them directly from inventory. The flame ignites quickly, ready for cooking or warming up.
You need two ingredients to make a simple campfire in Tears of the Kingdom: flint and wood. Wood is easy to come by, as you’ve just got to strike some trees. Flint can be found in caves and along cliff sides, near shiny breakable rocks.
Select them from your inventory and drop them on the ground together. Next, you’ll need to strike the pile with a metal sword to spark the fire. Alternatively, you can shoot your campfire with a fire fruit arrow for added flair. (Torches, bomb arrows, and other fiery stuff will work, too.)
What you can do at a campfire
At a campfire, you can cook meals such as meat or mushrooms by holding them near the flames, pass time until morning or evening to change the in-game time, or just rest to recover stamina. It’s also a good place to manage your inventory, fuse materials, or prepare for your next adventure. Campfires serve as simple hubs for both preparation and relaxation in the wild.
Campfires are very handy. You can use them to pass the time, for instance – helpful when playing through quests that require it to be a certain time of day. The options there are to rest until morning, noon, or night. You can cook basic dishes using the campfire, too, but you’ll need a Cooking Pot for elaborate meals. Similarly, you can make elixirs with a Cooking Pot.
Where to find flint and wood in Hyrule
Flint mostly comes from ore deposits in rocky areas and caves, while wood comes from chopping trees or grabbing bundles near settlements and stables.
Where to find flint
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Break ore deposits: Hit shiny rock outcrops on cliffsides, mountains, and in caves; they commonly drop flint along with basic ores.
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Explore caves: Hyrule’s many caves (especially in hilly or mountainous regions) are dense with ore deposits, making them good flint farming spots.
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Cliff and mountain edges: Check rock walls and ledges for breakable ore nodes as you climb or walk along ridges.
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From rock enemies: Stone Talus and Stone Pebblit variants can drop flint when defeated.
Where to find wood
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Chop down trees: Any forested area or patch of trees across Hyrule will give you logs and then bundles of wood when you strike the fallen trunk again.
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Near settlements and stables: Bundles of wood often sit around villages and stables (Hateno, other towns, and roadside stables), ready to pick up.
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Repeatable tip: If you need a lot of wood, stand in a small grove and quickly fell and process multiple trees in a row.
Best early game spots for flint near spawn
I don’t have live access to detailed, TotK-specific farming routes right now, but I can give you solid, practical early-game spots and patterns that work well near the starting area.
Understanding “near spawn”
There are two “starts” people usually mean:
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Great Sky Island (true tutorial start)
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First landing in central Hyrule around Lookout Landing
I’ll cover both.
On Great Sky Island (very early)
Flint:
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Check any cave you enter on the island. Break the dark, cracked ore deposits on cave walls and floors with a hammer-type weapon (stone axe/hammer, or fused rock weapon) for a decent chance of flint.
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Look around mining areas with Construct enemies or around shrine approach caves; anywhere you see glittering rock nodes, mine everything and you’ll quickly pick up a few pieces of flint.
Wood:
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Chop any tree with an axe or any reasonably strong melee weapon. Two hits (usually) to fell the tree, then another hit on the log to turn it into a wood bundle.
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Small groves near shrine approaches are the fastest way: stand in one spot, rotate, fell multiple trees, then process the logs on the ground.
Near Lookout Landing / first Hyrule landing
Flint:
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Check nearby caves and cliffs immediately around Lookout Landing. Any cave entrance or rocky wall with ore deposits is an easy “farm”; just circuit them and smash all ore each time you pass.
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Follow rivers or canyon walls heading toward early quest areas (like toward Hyrule Castle’s outer cliffs or early region shrines) and mine every ore node you see. You often get more flint than you realize just by clearing every deposit along one short route.
Wood:
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The small woods and tree clusters right outside Lookout Landing are perfect early-game wood farms: quickly chop down every tree in a small patch, then break the logs into bundles.
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Stables and small camps you reach early often have spare wood bundles lying near cooking pots or wagons; grab those whenever you see them to avoid chopping at all.
Simple repeatable route idea
If you just want a reliable loop without exact map coordinates:
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Start from Lookout Landing.
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Do a clockwise loop: hug the nearby cliffs and check for ore deposits, breaking all of them for flint and ores.
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When you drop down into any low areas with trees, clear every tree for wood.
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Return to Lookout Landing; by the time you do a second loop later, some ore and trees will have respawned.
If you tell me exactly which shrine/area you’ve just finished (e.g., still on Great Sky Island vs. just reached Lookout Landing), I can tailor this to a more specific mini-route you can follow.
