Items and Equipment

Ravio loans you the Bow free of charge the first time, so you can take it into the Eastern Palace. After that it costs 10 rupees to rent until you clear that dungeon and 50 afterwards, or 800 to own. It fires an arrow in the direction you face and lets you keep walking while you aim. There is no ammunition to buy: arrows are unlimited and only use your energy gauge. Buying it also makes it eligible for an upgrade from Mother Maiamai.

Bombs can be thrown or set on the ground, and they open cracked walls and hurt enemies. Like every tool they run on the energy gauge, so you never run out of them. Rent them early: many caves, Heart Pieces and shortcuts sit behind weak walls.

A thrown Boomerang stuns enemies, snags loose rupees and trips distant switches before it flies back to your hand.

The Hookshot sinks into a distant object and pulls you across gaps. A number of Heart Pieces and Maiamai can only be reached with it.

The Fire Rod sends out a pillar of flame that lights torches, burns webs and wooden barriers, and damages most enemies. It is one of the two rods that cost double.

The Ice Rod freezes even tough enemies and drops an ice block in front of you. Turtle Rock cannot be finished without it, so rent it before you go.

The Tornado Rod whips up a whirlwind that lifts you into the air for a few seconds and tosses nearby pots, stone tiles and other objects. Enemies caught in it are left dizzy. You need it to enter the House of Gales. Ravio now and then runs a half-price special on it.

The Hammer pounds stakes into the ground, flips armoured enemies over and smashes hard blocks. It draws on the energy gauge, so swing it in short bursts.

Osfala rented the Sand Rod from Ravio before you did. Once you rescue him from the Thieves’ Hideout, Sheerow returns it to the shop, and from then on you can rent or buy it there. It raises a wall of sand in a straight line ahead of you, and only works on sandy ground. The Desert Palace cannot be done without it.

Each batch of 10 lost Maiamai lets Mother Maiamai upgrade one tool you have bought from Ravio. The Nice Bow fires three arrows at once. All nine upgrades are explained on the Maiamai Locations page.

The Nice Bomb has a bigger blast and does more damage.

The Nice Boomerang is faster and flies farther.

The Nice Hookshot travels faster and now injures what it hits.

Lets the Fire Rod throw a bigger flame.

Drops four ice blocks in one shot, where the basic rod makes just one.

A more powerful Tornado Rod. As with every upgrade, only a rod you have bought can be improved, never a rental.

Hits harder and sends out a shockwave that stuns nearby enemies.

The sand pillars it raises no longer fade over time; they stay until you use the rod again to collapse them.

Your first blade is the sword the Captain forgot at the Blacksmith’s Forge. The Blacksmith sends you after him with it, and you end up keeping it. It is weak, but it handles grass and the early enemies.

Collect the Pendants of Courage, Power and Wisdom, then walk to the pedestal deep in the Lost Woods and draw the blade. It fires a beam when your hearts are full and breaks the barrier around Hyrule Castle. The Master Sword chapter shows the way.

Take two chunks of Master Ore to the Blacksmith in Hyrule and he tempers the blade into the red Master Sword Lv2, which hits much harder than before. Its sword beam does the same damage as the plain Master Sword.

The last two chunks go to the Blacksmith’s counterpart in Lorule, who turns the blade gold. It is the strongest weapon you can have.

There are four chunks in all: one each in the Thieves’ Hideout, Skull Woods and the Dark Palace, and a fourth in a cave in the Lorule Graveyard that needs the Titan’s Mitt. A single chunk only earns a comment from the Blacksmith, so wait until you hold two. The Master Ore page has every route.

The basic Shield blocks arrows and most melee attacks. A Like Like can swallow it, and then you must buy a new one.

This shield replaces the basic one. It also blocks magic such as Beamos beams and Lynel fire.

Link’s normal outfit gives no protection bonus. The mails replace it as you find them.

Halves the damage you take. Whichever of the two big chests you open first holds the Blue Mail, and the other then holds the Red Mail, so opening the Swamp Palace chest first gives you the better early armour.

Halves the damage again, so you take a quarter of normal. On the fourth floor of Lorule Castle the chest sits on an invisible platform that appears once you douse the torches.

Ravio hands over the bracelet as payment for staying in your house. It stays dull until Yuga turns you into a painting, and then it lets you merge into flat walls at will. The scene is in the Eastern Palace chapter.

Rosso gives you the Power Glove when you show interest in his rocks. It lifts small rocks, and if you clear all the stones around his house he leaves a chest with 50 rupees.

The Mitt lifts the large dark rocks. You need it to reach Zaganaga, the Desert Palace boss, and it opens many Maiamai and Heart Pieces.

The Shady Guy has stolen Queen Oren’s gem. Merge into a wall where he cannot see you, then step out behind him. He apologises and gives you his boots. Once you have them you can dash at will, and the dash knocks Maiamai and other goodies out of trees.

Return the Smooth Gem to Queen Oren in Zora’s Domain and she gives you the Flippers, which let you swim and dive in deep water.

You find the Lamp in a chest under the Sanctuary. It lights dark areas and torches, melts ice and can burn enemies, using the energy gauge.

An upgraded Lamp that deals eight times the damage, given for your first Advanced win. See the Treacherous Tower page.

The Bee Guy gives you the Net. It catches bees, fairies, apples and hearts, which you can keep in an empty bottle.

The second Advanced prize is the Super Net, which hits enemies for eight times the damage.

The glasses reveal invisible Hint Ghosts. Each hint costs one Play Coin.

Irene gives you a bell that calls her to fly you to any Weather Vane you have already activated in the world you are in. It does not work indoors or under cover.

Gulley wanted you to have it, and his mother made it. It lies on a tree stump in the Haunted Grove and lets you assign a second item to the X button.

Enlarges your energy gauge by half, so you can merge and use tools for longer. One silver rupee chest in the Ice Ruins can only be reached with the longer gauge.

Zelda gives you the Bow of Light during the last fight. When Yuga Ganon hides in the wall, shoot light arrows into his back to knock him out.

There are five bottles in total, and every location is listed on the Bottle Locations page. The Street Merchant in Kakariko sells the first for 100 rupees.

Milk restores five hearts. After you deliver the Premium Milk it costs 10. The Milk Bar in Lorule sells none.

A quest item, not a drink. The Milk Bar Owner hands it to you to take to the sick man near Rosso’s Ore Mine.

This starts the Premium Milk errand. Once you deliver the milk you keep the empty bottle.

Restores eight hearts.

Fully restores your hearts.

Makes you invincible while the energy gauge drains.

Damages enemies close to you.

One ingredient for the Purple Potion.

The ingredient for the Yellow Potion.

The ingredient for the Blue Potion.

A fairy kept in a bottle revives you when you fall. Catch one with the Net.

Use it in a dungeon to be whisked back to the entrance. It costs 50 rupees and is used up each time.

Eat it and your squeal stuns every nearby enemy for a moment, though bosses shrug it off. It costs 30 rupees.

With the badge, bees and Golden Bees no longer bother you when you cut grass in Hyrule or Lorule.

Zelda hands it to you as a charm after you warn her about Yuga, and Sahasrahla later tells you it is the Pendant of Courage.

Reward for the House of Gales.

Reward for the Tower of Hera.

Queen Oren’s stolen gem. The Shady Guy sold it to the Street Merchant, who offers it for 200 rupees; take it back to Oren.

Marks the regions where lost Maiamai remain. See the Maiamai page.

Each of the ten dungeon bosses leaves one Heart Container. With 28 Heart Pieces making seven more, and the three you start with, you reach the maximum of 20 hearts.

Four pieces make a container. All 28 are on the Heart Piece Locations page.

Green rupees are worth 1, Blue 5, Red 20, Purple 50, Silver 100 and Gold 300. The wallet holds up to 9,999.

Seres is rescued in the Skull Woods.

Osfala is rescued in the Thieves’ Hideout.

Gulley is rescued in the Dark Palace.

Rosso is rescued in the Ice Ruins.

Oren is rescued in the Swamp Palace.

Impa is rescued in Turtle Rock.

Irene is rescued in the Desert Palace.