| Region | Jabul Waters |
|---|---|
| Location | Sea Zora Village, under the fish-tail statue island in Zora Cove: the collector stands on the sandy floor to the left of the entrance pool |
| Quest giver | A Sea Zora collector (no name tag is shown) |
| Available | On a return visit to Sea Zora Village after the Jabul Waters story (Jabul Ruins) |
| You’ll need | Bind, to tow a real treasure chest through the water |
| Reward | 3 Monster Stones (Dampé accepts them instead of rupees for automaton repairs) |
A Sea Zora has collected so many shells and rocks that she needs a proper container for them, one that stays shut even underwater. The answer is a real treasure chest: there is one sunk beside the pilings of the Seesyde Village dock, and you Bind it and tow it all the way across Zora Cove to her. It’s a short swim that pays 3 Monster Stones, and it chains neatly with Big Shot, which ends on that same dock.
Table of Contents
How to Start
Dive in at the fish-tail statue island in the middle of Zora Cove to enter Sea Zora Village. Right where you surface from the entrance pool, a Sea Zora stands on the sandy floor to the left, beside a dark purple rock, muttering to herself: “Monsters around the sea… The people of Seesyde Village… Hmm…” and “But the real difficulty…is finding just the right thing to put my treasure in.” Talk to her and she fills you in: it’s just a collection of shells and rocks she found while swimming, “but it’s treasure to me,” and she’s quite proud of it. She doesn’t have room for it all, so she needs something she can store it in.
Walkthrough
Step 1: Agree to help
She admits she’s had no luck so far, because it has to be just right for her storing needs. Answer “I’ll find something.” (the other choice is “Sounds difficult.”). “Really? Fantastic!” Her request is short but specific: she has to be able to store her collection securely inside it, and “that means even underwater. I don’t want the contents to just spill out.” She doesn’t want the other Zora to know about her treasure, so she’ll wait for you outside the village. The screen fades and the Precious Treasure side quest banner appears.
Step 2: Find the chest at the Seesyde Village dock
A watertight box with a lid is a treasure chest, and you need a real one, not an echo. Swim to the wooden dock of Seesyde Village on the cove’s shore. Look into the water right beside the dock’s pilings: a treasure chest sits in the shallows there, visible from the surface. Swim up to it and use Bind; the green tether locks on and the “Release” and “Follow” prompts appear.
Step 3: Tow it to the collector
Swim out into Zora Cove with the chest in tow; it floats along behind you on the tether, so just keep heading toward the fish-tail statue island in the middle of the cove. The collector is now standing on the grassy path that rings the base of the statue, right above Sea Zora Village, with “How to store it…” over her head. Swim up to the edge of the path and drag the chest onto the grass next to her.
Step 4: Hand it over
She’s thrilled: “This is perfect! It will keep my treasure safe, and it’s simply beautiful too.” She explains why she was so anxious: she recently found a pretty rock, only to have an Albatrawl steal it from her, and that made her really fuss over this storage question. The chest will let her rest easy.
Reward
“Thanks again! I’ve got something I’d like you to have.” It’s some unusual stones she found while swimming in the sea: “You got 3 monster stones!” She then decides the chest is so nice that she feels awkward putting her things inside, and that she’ll polish her shells and rocks first. The Side Quest Complete banner appears with your Monster Stone count. Back down in Sea Zora Village the chest now sits beside her, and if you step up to it she calls out “Ah! Hey!”: “please…don’t go opening it without my OK!” Monster Stones aren’t a smoothie ingredient; their main use is paying Dampé for repairs to broken automatons instead of rupees, and they sell for 5 rupees each.
Tips
- Do Big Shot first if you haven’t: its rescue ends with you standing on the Seesyde Village dock, a few strokes from this chest.
- There’s no chest to copy as an echo here: Bind the real chest by the dock and tow it the whole way.
- Rogma, who starts Secret Chief Talks, stands on a small grassy islet just outside Sea Zora Village, so you can pick that quest up as soon as you swim out.
