when i played breath of the wild not too long ago one of my go-to foodstuffs in the mid to late game was the hearty durian. in an experiment i did at one point i figured out that by putting some hearty durians together with milk in a pot i could get hearty milk (which confused me because at that point it was more durian than milk) i could easily get like at least 10 temporary hearts which i loved. i was a good little milk chugging boy, i would always chug a durian milk before battling silver lynels.
so you could imagine that when i went back to the faron region in tears of the kingdom i was distraught to see a complete absence of durian trees. i had remembered the groves i frequented in botw and i looked everywhere i could. after scouring the whole rainforest i was thinking to myself, maybe they changed the location to be in the sky islands like they did with a few other materials. but before i began to think about how i would do that i had a hunch that told me to check the hyrule compendium in totk and compare it to the botw version.
in botw, the hearty durian is between the wildberry and hydromelon in the materials section.
in totk, the numbering is one off due to the addition of golden apples but otherwise the location that should take up the durian slot was filled by the newly-added hylian tomato. i was familiar with the compendium order and it looks like there are no more spaces for fruit in this game.
so tl;dr
rip hearty durians. so good at adding temporary hearts that the devs decided that fun was no longer allowed. i will miss seeing the smooth, bulbous durian trees and plucking the delectable spiky fruits off their branches. stealing them from the lizalfos next to the faron tower. marking all the places i could find them and going back after a few ingame days to get my fix. but most importantly, making delicious durian milk. which is still hilarious to me seeing how much more durian it is than milk when it's in the pot.
the tomato is a good addition, don't get me wrong, but was it really worth it? my hearty milk chugging days are gone, and now all i have left is a non-hearty hylian pizza.