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Hyrule Castle: Still Missing – The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Walkthrough

Echoes of Wisdom 100% Completion Walkthrough16 chapters
Walkthrough overview
  • Prologueplaying as Link, escaping the castle jail, and the waterways to Suthorn Beach.
  • Suthorn ForestSuthorn Beach and Village, meeting Tri, the first echoes, and mending the Suthorn Forest rift.
  • Suthorn Ruinsthe first dungeon, the Shadow Link fight, and the Seismic Talus boss.
  • Jabul Watersthe River and Sea Zora feud, Lord Jabu-Jabu, and Stilled Jabul Waters.
  • Jabul Ruinsthe whirlpool chase, the five colored switches, and the Vocavor boss.
  • Gerudo Desertthe Oasis, Gerudo Town, the desert rifts, and Cryptic Cavern.
  • Gerudo Sanctumthe tribute puzzle, the Bow of Might, and the Mogryph boss.
  • Hyrule Castlethe Hyrule Castle well rift, Stilled Castle Town, and the Ganon boss.
  • Eldin VolcanoKakariko Village, the Eldin Volcano Trail, and saving Goron City.
  • Eldin Templethe Bombs of Might, the lava hall, and the Volvagia boss.
  • Faron WetlandsScrubton, Blossu’s House, and escaping the Deku Scrub Lockup.
  • Faron Templethe small keys, the plant mini-boss, and the Gohma boss.
  • Hebra Mountainmeeting Condé, the climb through the snow, and the Stilled Hebra Mountain rift.
  • Lanayru Templefire orbs, fans and lasers, the slime mini-boss, and the Skorchill boss.
  • Eternal Forestthe six Ancient Orb pedestals, the Deku Tree, and freeing Link in the Stilled Ancient Ruins.
  • Null’s Bodythe final dungeon and the multi-phase fight against Null.

With Gerudo and Jabul mended, the main quest Still Missing sends you back to Lueburry’s house in Suthorn Forest. General Wright and Minister Lefte are already there with Lueburry: there’s still no sign of the king or Link, and Lefte points out that only one large rift remains, the one at Hyrule Castle. Wright vows to expose the impostors in the castle and charges out, with Lefte chasing after him. Before you follow, Lueburry can enhance your gear if you have Might Crystals to spare.

The "Still Missing" Main Quest banner appears on the Jabul Waters beach, starting the trip back to Lueburry's house.
In Lueburry's house, Minister Lefte says the one large rift left is the one in Hyrule Castle.
General Wright vows to expose the impostors in the castle before charging out of Lueburry's house.

Follow them north to the gate of Hyrule Castle. The guards take Wright and Lefte for the impostors and demand the king’s password, and while they argue, a huge rift tears open and swallows much of Hyrule Castle Town, with shadow monsters spilling into the streets. Wright orders the soldiers to lead the townsfolk to safety and goes looking for anyone left behind, while Lefte asks you to mend the rift and rescue those who were taken. Head into town and deal with the monsters around the rift’s edge.

At the Hyrule Castle gate, soldiers take Wright and Lefte for impostors and demand the king's password.
Cutscene: a huge rift tears open across Hyrule Castle Town, swallowing the fountain plaza.
At the castle gate, Minister Lefte asks Zelda to mend the rift and rescue those who were taken.
Shadow monsters roam the rift-torn streets of Hyrule Castle Town as Zelda heads into town.

The way in is underground. In one of the rift-cut houses you’ll find Lefte looking after a child who was left behind; he recalls an underground passage at the bottom of the well near the house. The well sits behind a stone wall, so place a Water Block against the wall, swim up it, and drop over the other side to the well. At the Bottom of the Well a man explains he was napping down there when the monsters showed up; step past him and Tri opens a rift entrance at the bottom.

Inside a rift-cut house, Lefte recalls an underground passage at the bottom of the well nearby.
Zelda places a Water Block against the stone wall in Hyrule Castle Town to swim up and over it.
On top of the wall, Zelda stands above the old well she needs to drop down.
At the Bottom of the Well, a man explains he was napping when the monsters appeared.
Tri opens a rift entrance beside the wall at the Bottom of the Well, a beam of light marking it.

Stilled Hyrule Castle Town

Inside the rift you arrive at the bottom of the well; climb the stairs into the guardhouse barracks and leave through its south door to see what the Still World did to Castle Town: the guardhouse sits on its own floating island, and the streets around it hang in broken pieces over a purple void.

Zelda climbs out of the stairwell into the stilled guardhouse barracks, the first room inside the Hyrule Castle Town rift.
Leaving the guardhouse on its floating island as the Stilled Hyrule Castle Town title appears over the purple void.
Broken chunks of Castle Town street float in the void west of the guardhouse, with the item shop roof beyond.

Rift monsters patrol the islands west of the guardhouse. Follow the broken street west to the item shop, clearing the axe-wielding shadows outside, then step inside: the shop itself is packed with enemies. Swordfighter Form makes short work of them.

Zelda in Swordfighter Form fights axe-wielding rift monsters on the street outside the stilled item shop.
Inside the stilled item shop, Zelda battles the shadowy rift creatures that fill the room.
Swordfighter Zelda clears the last enemies along the counter of the stilled item shop.

Back outside, place a Water Block against the town wall beside the shop and swim up onto it. Follow the wall north past a couple of stilled houses, cross the toppled stone tower lying over the void, and use Old Beds to bridge the string of floating shrubs that leads to the old fountain.

Zelda swims up a Water Block placed against the Castle Town wall to get onto the rooftops.
Zelda crosses a toppled stone tower lying over the void in Stilled Hyrule Castle Town.
Floating shrub platforms drift over the void beyond the tower in the stilled town.
Zelda lays Old Bed echoes as bridges between the floating shrubs to reach the far side.

From the fountain, swim north up the water channel. A chest sits on a ledge across the water: Bind it and drag it over to get 7 Radiant Butter. The stone beside it is a Waypoint; touch it so you can warp back. Then Water Block up onto the wall to the west and lay Old Beds out to a round floating platform, where a chest holds 20 rupees.

Zelda reaches the stilled Hyrule-crest fountain plaza at the center of the rift town.
North of the fountain, Zelda uses Bind to drag a chest across the water channel to her island.
Zelda holds up the chest's prize: "You got 7 portions of radiant butter!"
The Waypoint stone beside the opened butter chest, now recorded so Zelda can warp back here.
Old Beds bridge from the wall top west to a round floating platform holding a chest.
Zelda raises a red rupee from the round platform's chest: "You got 20 rupees!"

From there it’s a climb: swim up stacked Water Blocks between the floating ponds and ledges east of the Waypoint. If you want the 5 Monster Fangs, double back south past the fountain to the toppled tower and stack Old Beds up to the chest on a stone pillar. To finish, swim north through the ponds again, ride a column of Water Blocks up to the castle grounds, stack Old Beds onto the ramparts, and follow them round to the front steps and the castle door.

Zelda swims up through Water Blocks stacked between the floating ponds and ledges east of the waypoint.
On a pillar near the toppled tower, Zelda opens a chest: "You got 5 monster fangs!"
A column of Water Blocks lets Zelda swim up to the castle grounds below the front steps.
Zelda stacks Old Beds to climb onto the stilled Hyrule Castle ramparts.
Zelda walks up the steps to the front door of Stilled Hyrule Castle to enter the dungeon.

Stilled Hyrule Castle: Throne Room to Impa’s Cell

The entrance hall is the same one Zelda walked in the prologue, now dark and drifting with rift monsters. Head up the red-carpeted stairs and through the arched back door. The flower-lined hall beyond holds a Darknut Lv. 2; Swordfighter Form makes short work of him, and beating him teaches you the Darknut Lv. 2 echo, one of the best melee pickups in the dungeon.

Zelda enters the warped entrance hall of Stilled Hyrule Castle, with rift monsters drifting across the floor.
Zelda climbs the red-carpeted stairs of the entrance hall toward the arched back door.
In Swordfighter Form, Zelda squares up to the axe-wielding Darknut Lv. 2 in the flower-lined hall.
Zelda holds up the Darknut Lv. 2 echo with the "You learned the Darknut Lv. 2 echo!" message.

A door off the flower hall leads to a side room sliced in half by the rift; grab the Refreshing Grapes by the sofa, then head back and continue to the throne room. Your father, the king, stands stilled in front of the throne (“So your father was here all along”), and Tri promises he’ll go back to normal once the rift is mended. Bind the throne itself and drag it off the platform to uncover the opening hidden underneath.

A side room half-swallowed by the rift, where Zelda picks up Refreshing Grapes.
The stilled king stands before the throne as Tri says "So your father was here all along."
Zelda uses Bind on the throne to drag it off its platform in the throne room.
With the throne moved, an opening in the floor of the throne platform leads down.

Drop through and climb down the ladders of the short side-view passage into B1. Touch the Waypoint statue in the first room, then Bind the stone block wedged in the doorway on the right and pull it out to open the way into a dark storeroom.

Zelda climbs down a short side-view passage of ladders and ledges below the throne room.
Zelda touches the Waypoint statue in the first B1 room of Hyrule Castle.
Zelda Binds the stone block wedged in the B1 doorway to pull it out of the way.
The stone block sits pulled clear of the doorway, opening the way into the B1 storeroom.

The storeroom floor is patrolled by shadowy spear-carrying guards, and they turn with a “?” when you make noise nearby, so the route runs over their heads. Stay on top of the crates, cabinets and shelves, and bridge each gap with a Water Block echo you can swim straight through, hopping from one piece of furniture to the next.

Zelda steps into the dark B1 storeroom, where shadowy spear guards patrol between the crates.
Zelda swims through a Water Block bridging two cabinets, staying above the patrolling shadow guards.
Zelda walks along the tops of the storeroom cabinets while shadow guards wander the floor below.
Two shadow guards show "?" marks as they react to noise near Zelda in the storeroom.

Keep working across the room the same way: lift and toss crates off the sheet-covered tables to clear your footing, and pick up the Electro Apple along the way. Near the far end, switch to the Ignizol echo and drop it on the guards below to clear the last stretch, then head out the exit at the back of the storeroom.

Zelda stands on a sheet-covered table and lifts a crate blocking her path in the storeroom.
An Electro Apple pickup pops up as Zelda clambers over the crates and cabinets of the B1 storeroom.
A chain of Water Blocks links the cabinets as Zelda works across the far side of the storeroom.
Zelda holds an Ignizol echo on top of a cabinet, ready to toss it at the shadow guards below.
Zelda's tossed Ignizol bursts on a shadow guard on the storeroom floor below her cabinet.

The next room has been cut open by the rift. Place a Water Block to get over the broken wall, and you’ll find Impa stilled in a cell; Tri recognizes her as the one who helped you escape from the dungeon. The note beside her is worth a read: after the princess escaped, she was captured and thrown into this cell, and she was desperate to find a way out and warn you. Leave through the next room, touch the Waypoint beside the hatch, and drop down to B2.

Zelda uses a Water Block to get over a broken wall into a rift-cut cell.
Tri recognizes the stilled woman in the cell as the one who helped Zelda escape the dungeon.
Zelda reads the note in the cell: its writer was captured after the princess escaped.
The note's last line reads "I must find a way out of here so I can warn the princess!"
Zelda touches the Waypoint next to the hatch that leads down to B2.

Torch Rooms and Gustmasters

The ladder descent is a side-view combat stairwell. Climb down landing by landing and deal with the Darknuts waiting on the ledges, then the floating ghosts further down. A Darknut echo of your own or Swordfighter Form handles them well.

Zelda climbs a ladder in Hyrule Castle B2's side-view stairwell while a Darknut waits on the floor below.
A summoned Darknut echo duels a Darknut on a lower landing of the side-view ladder stairwell in Stilled Hyrule Castle.
Zelda in Swordfighter Form strikes a ghost enemy on a ledge in the side-view ladder area of Hyrule Castle B2.

Check the chests on the way down. One on an upper ledge holds a Monster Stone, and a lower ledge has two chests side by side with 5 jars of Floral Nectar and 3 Twisted Pumpkins, both smoothie ingredients. Then keep heading down to the exit.

Zelda holds up a Monster Stone from the chest on the upper ledge of the side-view ladder area.
Zelda holds up 5 jars of Floral Nectar from the left chest on the lower two-chest ledge in Hyrule Castle B2.
Zelda holds up 3 Twisted Pumpkins from the right chest beside the opened Floral Nectar chest.

The next room is the four-torch puzzle, the dungeon’s one real brain-teaser. Tri points out the torch behind the grate straight ahead, but start with the two raised platforms. Climb the ladder on the right, clear the Darknut up there, then summon an Ignizol and Bind it into the torch. The left platform has no ladder, so lay a Water Block across from the right one, swim over, and light its torch with another Ignizol.

Tri points out the torch behind the grate on entering the four-torch room in Hyrule Castle B2.
On the right-hand platform Zelda Binds an Ignizol echo into the unlit torch to light it.
Zelda swims through a Water Block bridging from the lit right platform to the left platform's torch.
Both raised-platform torches burn in the four-torch room while Zelda heads back to the floor.

For the torch behind the grate, set a Table against the bars and put an Ignizol on top; its flame reaches through and lights it. The last torch sits in a fenced-off pit on the right side of the room. Bind an Ignizol at the fence, then climb back onto the right platform and steer it down into the pit to the torch. All four lit opens the door between the platforms.

Zelda sets an Ignizol on a Table pushed against the grate to reach the hidden torch in Hyrule Castle B2.
The Ignizol's flame has lit the torch behind the grate while Zelda stands by in Swordfighter Form.
From the right platform Zelda steers a Bound Ignizol down into the fenced pit holding the fourth torch.
With all four torches lit, the door between the two raised platforms stands open.

Beyond are narrow walkways over a void, guarded by Gustmasters on pedestals whose gusts push you around. Bind the first one and finish it off to learn its echo. Take the rest out with a Spear Moblin echo, and lay Water Blocks to bridge the gaps until you reach a square room with Ignizols and a pack of enemies.

Zelda Binds a Gustmaster on its pedestal over the void walkways of Hyrule Castle B2.
Zelda raises the newly learned Gustmaster echo on the void walkways.
A Spear Moblin echo attacks a wind-blowing Gustmaster on a void walkway platform.
Zelda swims across a Water Block bridge spanning a gap between void walkways.

Through the right-hand door is a half-sand room. Summon a Wind Cannon and let it blow the sand piles away, uncovering a chest with the Dungeon Map. Head back out and north, then use another Water Block to cross the void to a pot room and the next chamber.

A Wind Cannon echo blows the sand piles away in the sand room east of the walkways.
Zelda holds up the Hyrule Castle Dungeon Map uncovered under the sand.
Zelda places a Water Block to cross the void to the pot room on the way to the boss door.

You’re now in the main room facing the big boss door at the top of the stairs. Activate the Waypoint to the left of the stairs, because both wings branch off from here. The right door leads to a sand room with boulders. A Bombfish echo blows open the cracked wall on its north side, and the chest in the alcove behind it holds a Purple Rupee (50).

Zelda activates the Waypoint left of the stairs below Stilled Hyrule Castle's boss door.
A Bombfish echo explodes against the cracked north wall of the boulder sand room.
The cracked wall in the boulder sand room is blown open, revealing a passage north.
Zelda holds up a purple 50-rupee from the chest in the alcove behind the cracked wall.

The West Rooms: Small Key and Underwater Maze

Take the left (west) door into a flooded room, where fast-moving water fills most of the floor around a raised block with a hatch in it. Deal with the enemies in the water, then lay a row of Old Bed echoes across to the block if you want a dry route. Ignore the hatch for now and take the west door to the next room.

Zelda fights enemies in the flooded west room of Stilled Hyrule Castle B2, beside the raised block with a hatch.
Zelda swims across the fast water of the flooded room toward the central raised block.
A row of Old Bed echoes bridges the water from the west ledge to the hatch block in the flooded room.

The next room has shadowy guards patrolling a floor of tall pillars, with a switch on top of one of them. Place an Old Bed beside that pillar, climb onto it, and stand on the switch. A chest appears in the sunken square between the two braziers. Use more beds as steps back down, avoid the patrols, and open the chest for the Small Key. Then drop through the hatch in the floor at the west side of the room.

The west key room, with a floor switch on top of a tall pillar and shadowy guards patrolling below.
Zelda stands on the pillar-top switch after climbing an Old Bed, with the revealed chest in the sunken square.
Zelda crosses back from the pillar on Old Beds and heads for the Small Key chest while guards patrol.
Zelda holds up the Small Key in the sunken square of the key room, with its "You got a small key!" text box.

The hatch leads down into a dark underwater maze. Glowing green crystals light patches of it, and spiny fish and Bio Deku Babas lurk in the dark. Swordfighter Form cuts through the purple goo walls. One chest just past a goo wall holds 20 rupees, and a deeper one holds 100 rupees. At the end, climb the ladder and you come out of the hatch on the flooded room’s central block.

Zelda walks to the floor hatch in the key room that drops into the underwater maze.
In Swordfighter Form, Zelda slashes through a purple goo wall in the dark underwater maze.
Zelda holds up a red rupee from the underwater chest, with the "You got 20 rupees!" text box.
Zelda holds up a silver rupee from the deeper underwater chest, with the "You got 100 rupees!" text box.
Bio Deku Babas and spiny fish lurk in the underwater maze, lit by glowing green crystals.
Zelda climbs out of the hatch onto the central block of the flooded room after finishing the maze.

The East Rooms: Big Key

Swim to the east shore and head back to the Waypoint room. Take the right (east) door into the sand room and cross it to the south exit. The locked door there takes your Small Key and opens onto a ladder down.

Back in the main stair room by the Waypoint, Zelda heads for the east door.
Zelda crosses the east sand room, past the boulders, toward its south exit.
Zelda stands at the locked door south of the sand room, ready to open it with the Small Key.

Below are side-view rooms guarded by Gustmasters, whose wind pushes you off the ledges. Drop an attacking echo next to the first one and finish it in Swordfighter Form. Get past the next one by stacking Old Beds into steps up to the ladder. Farther along, summon a Water Block against a high ledge and swim up it. Then clear the last Gustmaster by the ladder and climb out to the next room.

The first Gustmaster blows wind across the side-view room as Zelda drops an echo beside it.
Zelda stacks Old Beds into steps past the second Gustmaster's wind to reach the ladder.
Zelda works through the side-view rooms on narrow ledges below the studded rock walls.
Zelda summons a Water Block against the ledge and swims up it to the higher platform.
Zelda climbs the last ladder out of the side-view rooms toward the Ball-and-Chain room.

The doors lock when you enter. Inside are a Ball-and-Chain Trooper and two Darknuts. Summon Darknut Lv. 2 echoes to fight them, keep clear of the trooper’s swinging mace, and hit it while it recovers. When it falls, you learn the Ball-and-Chain Trooper echo.

Zelda enters the room holding a Ball-and-Chain Trooper and two Darknuts.
Zelda summons a Darknut Lv. 2 echo to fight the Ball-and-Chain Trooper and its Darknut escorts.
The Ball-and-Chain Trooper swings its mace as Zelda's Darknut echo closes in.
Zelda learns the Ball-and-Chain Trooper echo, shown with its "You learned" text box.

The treasure room to the north holds three chests. The left one has the Frog Ring, an accessory that lets you jump higher. The right one has a Golden Egg, and the big center chest holds the Big Key. Leave through the Ball-and-Chain room’s west door, which brings you back into the sand room. Your new Ball-and-Chain Trooper echo handles the enemies there. Then return to the Waypoint room and climb the stairs to the big boss door.

The treasure room north of the Ball-and-Chain room holds a big chest flanked by two small ones.
Zelda holds up the Frog Ring from the left chest, with its "You got a frog ring!" text box.
Zelda holds up the Golden Egg from the right-hand chest of the treasure room.
Zelda holds up the Big Key from the center chest: "Now you can open the big door!"
Back in the sand room, Zelda's Ball-and-Chain Trooper echo fights the enemies on the way west.
Zelda climbs the stairs in the main room toward the big boss door with the Big Key.

Boss: Ganon

The “King of Hyrule” waiting in the octagonal chamber at the bottom of the castle drops the act and transforms into Ganon, and Tri realizes this blue monster is an echo made with the same power she uses. He hurls his trident like a spinning ring that sweeps across the arena, charges from wall to wall, and slashes trails of fire along the floor, so keep moving and stay out of his line. His key attack is a glowing energy ball: switch into Swordfighter Form and swing to bat it straight back at him, then rush in and punish while he’s reeling. Smoothies are worth having on hand, since he hits hard. Beat him and Tri’s power increases, giving you 5 Might Crystals, and a Heart Container appears in the arena.

The boss title card names the fake king's true form simply "Ganon" in the Stilled Hyrule Castle arena.
Ganon hurls his trident as a spinning purple ring across the arena while Zelda keeps her distance.
Ganon slashes his trident to send a trail of fire racing across the floor toward Zelda.
In Swordfighter Form, Zelda bats Ganon's glowing energy ball back toward him across the boss arena.
Zelda holds up the reward after the fight: "You got 5 might crystals from Tri!"
Zelda raises the Heart Container left in the arena after beating Ganon, with its "You got" text box.

The fight isn’t the end. When you tell Tri you want to return to your world, the north wall of the arena bursts open, dark claws reach out of the rift, and Link finally reappears, shoving Zelda into the warp just before he’s sealed in a purple crystal and vanishes. Back home the real king wakes on his throne, and after Zelda rests in her room, Impa sends her to a council with the king, Minister Lefte, General Wright, and Lueburry. New rifts have opened in Eldin Volcano, Faron Wetlands, and Holy Mount Lanayru; the king hands Zelda her ancestral vestments and asks her to mend all three and find Link. Still Missing completes, and two main quests begin: Lands of the Goddesses and Rescuing the Hero Link.

Link bursts in through the broken north wall of the arena as dark claws reach out of the rift behind him.
Link is sealed in a purple crystal as Zelda, carried by Tri's light, warps out of the Still World.
The real King of Hyrule wakes on his throne asking where he is, freed once the castle rift is mended.
In the throne-room council, the new rifts are named: Eldin Volcano, Faron Wetlands and Holy Mount Lanayru.
The "Lands of the Goddesses" main quest banner appears in the throne room after Still Missing ends.
A second main quest banner, "Rescuing the Hero Link", starts alongside Lands of the Goddesses.

Castle Town and Castle Outskirts Collectibles

Hyrule Field and Castle Town are packed with collectibles: Pieces of Heart, Stamp Stands and Might Crystals turn up all over the field. The full list lives on the heart pieces page, but these four are close to the castle. Two of them you can grab on the walk to the castle during Still Missing, one sits right by Castle Town’s walls, and one is in the woods near Kakariko Village.

Piece of Heart: the castle moat ledge

Just outside Castle Town’s outer wall, a Piece of Heart sits on a strip of grass between the wall and the moat. Summon a Water Block against the wall to climb onto the wall walk, follow the wall around the corner tower, and drop down onto the grassy ledge to grab it. To get back out, stack another Water Block and swim up it onto the wall.

Zelda summons a Water Block against Castle Town's outer wall to climb up onto the wall walk.
Zelda follows the top of Castle Town's outer wall around a tower toward the moat side.
A Piece of Heart sits on the grassy ledge between Castle Town's outer wall and the moat, seen from the wall top.
Zelda holds up the Piece of Heart on the grassy moat ledge outside Castle Town's wall, with its "You got" text.

Piece of Heart: the tree stump

Past Kakariko Village (home of the Slumber Dojo), follow the path out into the Hyrule Field woods. Deep in the trees, a Piece of Heart sits on top of a low tree stump with a Deku Baba growing right beside it. Mind the Deku Baba and climb onto the stump to take the piece.

Zelda heads out of Kakariko Village into Hyrule Field on the path toward the nearby woods.
In the woods outside Kakariko, a Piece of Heart sits on a tree stump with a Deku Baba growing beside it.
Zelda walks up to the low tree stump holding the Piece of Heart in the Hyrule Field woods.
Zelda stands on the tree stump holding the Piece of Heart that completes a new Heart Container.

Piece of Heart: the ruins pillar by the rift

Beside a purple rift in Hyrule Field there’s a patch of crumbling stone ruins. The piece sits on top of the tallest carved stone pillar. Place a Water Block right next to the pillar, swim up it, and step across onto the top.

Crumbling stone ruins and carved pillars beside a purple rift in Hyrule Field.
A Piece of Heart rests on top of a tall carved stone pillar in the Hyrule Field ruins.
Zelda places a Water Block beside the carved pillar to climb up to the Piece of Heart.
Zelda holds up the Piece of Heart on top of the ruins pillar, with its "You got a piece of heart" text.

Piece of Heart: the pond pillars

A Hyrule Field pond holds a cluster of stone pillars, with Octoroks perched on the shorter ones spitting rocks at you. The piece is on top of the tallest pillar. Swim out, drop Water Blocks into the pond and stack one against the tallest pillar, then swim up it and climb onto the top.

A Hyrule Field pond with stone pillars, Octoroks on the shorter ones and a Piece of Heart atop the tallest.
Zelda drops a Water Block into the pond to start climbing toward the pillars.
Zelda swims up a Water Block stacked against the tallest pillar in the pond.
Zelda holds the Piece of Heart on top of the pond pillar; the text says four pieces raised her max hearts.

The nearby Stamp Stands

One stands just outside the wooden archway gate at Hyrule Ranch. In this run it was the fifth stand Zelda found, so the Stamp Guy popped up to hand over the first-card reward, 10 containers of fresh milk. Another sits on a small grassy island in a narrow river gorge in Hyrule Field, below a waterfall; this is where the run finished its fourth card and received the final stamp card, autographed by the Stamp Guy. A third is in a grassy canyon pocket in Western Hyrule Field. The rewards depend on how many stamps you’ve collected, not on the stand itself, so yours may come at a different stand.

Zelda approaches the stamp stand beside the wooden archway gate at Hyrule Ranch in Hyrule Field.
Zelda holds up 10 containers of fresh milk, the Stamp Guy reward for her first full stamp card at the ranch stand.
Zelda at the stamp stand in a grassy canyon pocket of Western Hyrule Field, with the Check prompt showing.
A stamp stand on a small grassy island in a narrow river gorge in Hyrule Field, seen from the bank.
On the river-island stand Zelda holds up the final stamp card the Stamp Guy gives for a fourth filled card.

Worth doing while you’re here

Once Still Missing is done, Impa starts Impa’s Gift in the throne room. She has raised a steed for Zelda at Hyrule Ranch. Before heading out, climb the castle roofs with Water Blocks for a Might Crystal. In Castle Town, the Zol-obsessed child starts A Curious Child by asking for a Zol that grows when it gets wet. Summon a Hydrozol and soak it until it’s huge to earn another Might Crystal. The shop sells the Stone Anklet (Knockback Reduced) for 400 rupees, and Beecher at the castle gate starts One Soldier Too Many, a hunt for an echo hiding among the town’s soldiers. Much later, after Dampé builds the Gizmol in Performance Artist!, come back for An Out-There Zol. Show the same child the Gizmol and you’ll get a Piece of Heart.

Zelda holds up a Might Crystal found on the Hyrule Castle rooftops, reached by climbing with Water Blocks.
Beside a giant Hydrozol, Zelda holds up the Might Crystal the Zol-loving child gives for A Curious Child.
Zelda holds up the Stone Anklet bought for 400 rupees at the Hyrule Castle Town shop.
Soldier Beecher at the castle gate tells Zelda there is one extra soldier in Castle Town, starting One Soldier Too Many.
Zelda brings the pink Gizmol automaton to the Zol-loving child in Castle Town for An Out-There Zol.
Zelda holds up the Piece of Heart the child gives as the reward for An Out-There Zol.

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