Tears of the Kingdom: How to Get Warm Clothes Early 

The Great Sky Island is where you’ll spend the first hour or three of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, learning the ropes in a format that’s fairly similar to Breath of the Wild’s Great Plateau — but here, and in the first area of Tears of the Kingdom’s main quests point you to, you will require a way to stay warm in cold weather environments, or risk losing hearts fast.

How to Stay Warm and Not Take Damage

Aside from eating cooked peppers and sunshrooms added to your food recipes or making elixirs from warm darner dragonflies, the best way to stay warm is to find warming Armor, and one piece of armor on the Great Sky Island just happens to fill that role: The Archaic Warm Greaves.

Cooking is great, but the limited time warm effects have are not great. You need warm pants!

Once you’ve survived the cold trek up the snowy eastern part of the island to the Gutanbac Shrine and gained the ability to Ascend, check out our full walkthrough for Gutanbac shrine and how to reach it here, you can use Ascend right outside the Shrine on the wooden ledge coming from a HUGE hollow tree trunk at the top of the mountain.

How to Get Warm Clothes on the Great Sky Island

This is the location of Gutanbac Shrine and the warm pants in a chest.

Use Ascend to get up to the giant trunk by standing under the overhang.

Look inside the trunk to find a small recess in the corner that holds a green Zonaite chest, and open it to reveal the Archaic Warm Greaves. This item will negate any freezing effects in basic cold temperature zones, and when combined with some cooked Spicy Peppers or applicable food, will fully negate even the most frigid environments you’ll find. If you go to colder temperatures you will need more warm clothing (you can purchase more warm clothing in Rito Village). But the Archaic Warm Greaves will get you through the necessary early warm areas.

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